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But how did sewage water get in there?
Re:Timeline of the far future on Thursday July 19, 2018 @01:42AM (#17564147)
I've never figured out why people think technological growth would be exponential indefinitely.
Re:How to Read the JFK Assassination Files on Friday October 27, 2017 @12:07AM (#15565648)
Theories don't all implicate the US government. There are notions of Russian/Cuban involvement, for example.
I used to live in Las Vegas, and before that SF. Downtown Las Vegas (not the strip) looks a lot like SF's bar rows. Once it became a tiny tech hub the usual culture was imported, grafted onto the surrounding Las Vegas milieu.
Re:Cassini's “Grand Finale” Will Be a Blaze of Glory on Thursday September 14, 2017 @10:41AM (#15248482)
It can't take pictures in Jupiter's atmosphere?
Re:Delete Facebook Account on Sunday September 03, 2017 @01:44AM (#15159885)
Does this delete private messages? Or can recipients still see your messages and name.
Sometimes a bad location really can sink you. A new restaurant with great food at reasonable prices also may not catch on soon enough for a number of reasons and get dealt a kill date.
Re:Liamneesons.family on Sunday August 13, 2017 @08:31AM (#15002652)
Took me a minute.
Re:Flies see the world in slow motion, say scientists on Sunday August 13, 2017 @08:29AM (#15002649)
My mother told me this when I was a kid.
I apologize for being semantic, but I think that would answer the 'how' rather than the 'why.' I understand what you're saying though. As for the religious, well... I believe they will absolutely find a way for there not to be any major implications. New findings will be absorbed into the obfuscatory practice of apologetics.
>Why are we here?

What do you mean by this?

Why would Bezos care either way? Seems like he has more to win by not being seen as a tyrant and letting his paper publish whatever he wants about him. It's not like a critical article about Amazon is going to sink or have any effect on that Titanic.
Re:Why I deleted my Facebook account on Friday July 07, 2017 @03:44AM (#14716776)
I deleted my Facebook, created a new one with 0 friends and now only use the messenger as a second email to communicate with my actual friends if I have a message that's too long for text. And I'm so glad to not care anymore what ____ who I met at a St. Patrick's day party five years ago is doing on vacation in ____. I also enjoy not seeing my good friends falsely display their lives. There's been so many times where I was with _____ for some outing and the next day saw a different, composed representation on Facebook. Facebook is an extension of the obscurantism of photo albums of the past. It used to be that photo albums were these things that you looked into and got a sort of false narrative where in every picture everyone is smiling and you can't see the metastasizing cancer in grandpa's lungs as he stands next to Niagara falls in 1978 months shy of his divorce from grandma. Now you're not looking at a photo album's exclusion of life's complexities once in a blue moon when someone's grandmother pulls it out you're looking at it every day, several times a day, in 2d, 3d, 4d, 5d, with footnotes and notifications in an endless feed. Not to mention it's created a culture of poisoned narcissists.
Re:A man who went on a hike and never stopped on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @05:00PM (#14698249)
"He also held a dogged belief in personal freedom, including the freedom to pollute the atmosphere with fossil fuels."

Didn't see that coming.

Re:Why Not Have a Randomly Selected Congress? on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @11:58AM (#14655251)
The girl is dumb for playing loose with American legislation for fucking chocolates.
Re:Why Not Have a Randomly Selected Congress? on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @11:09AM (#14654773)
I'd say them not being aware makes them dumb. Like how can you not have a clue in that position and chase chocolates. You're mid-twenties, fully grown, and dumb.
Re:Why Not Have a Randomly Selected Congress? on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @10:47AM (#14654577)
I didn't say all girls in their mid 20's are dumb. It's been suggested in the post above that scheduling is where the power lies.
Re:Why Not Have a Randomly Selected Congress? on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @10:20AM (#14654326)
Why would a representative leave so much influence in the hands of a girl in her middle twenties who's dumb enough to doll out influence to bringers of chocolate?
Re:The Benefits of Talking to Yourself on Friday June 09, 2017 @01:08PM (#14522716)
Sounds like a sad world.
Re:Silk Road founder loses appeal on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @11:18PM (#14457739)
I thought they couldn't even prove that the people to be murdered even existed.
Re:Fifty Years of Minimalism (2015) on Monday May 29, 2017 @04:53PM (#14441374)
I would like to point out that lowercase music exists.
Anecdotal:

http://imgur.com/a/tS1E0

I was robbed within the red circle two years ago. A car full of what looked like high school kids wearing blue bandannas over their faces pulled up and they got out. One had a taser and one I think had a gun or a fake gun (it was dark). Anyways, map checks out for me personally.

Re:The Right to Attention in an Age of Distraction on Friday May 26, 2017 @04:55PM (#14427105)
To be fair some people are literally almost never without these things. I think the blank screen idea could be somewhat worthwhile. There is a tiny app in the play store:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.googlecode...

>MindBell rings periodically during the day as a mindfulness bell, to give you the opportunity to hold on for a moment and consider what you are currently doing, and in what state of mind you are while you are doing it.

It is actually quite effective for me in halting briefly my careening thoughts. May seem silly to some.

Re:The Right to Attention in an Age of Distraction on Friday May 26, 2017 @04:39PM (#14426991)
Interesting. Wouldn't work for me. I simply wouldn't use it because I know that every time I did and wanted to bypass it to use my phone I would. I would like to be able to use that same impulsivity that causes me to be glue to screens to impulsively block those screens for a long time. So if I wake up and decide in a moment that today is an analog day I make that decision and I am locked in. Having to reinstall an OS and lose data is the only deterrent that will work. One android app I used mentioned the "guilt" of having to reboot one's phone to use it again. No guilt here. I need to put myself in jail and throw away the key for a set time.
Re:The Right to Attention in an Age of Distraction on Friday May 26, 2017 @03:11PM (#14426436)
I wish there was a tool that would turn my smartphone into a dumbphone (only capable of texting and calling) for a period of time and the only way to unlock it would be a factory reset. I would like this for my PC as well. That would be some deep space.
Re:At The Dawn Of Recorded Sound, No One Cared on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @04:22PM (#14404967)
Some things seem so obvious. How can those old people not immediately realize the implications of recorded and proliferated sound? How could Charlie Chaplin possibly think that talkies were a passing fad? How can people today think that our media isn't heading towards the virtual, our computation towards brain interfacing?
And imagine if it did scale. What an eyesore that would be. Would we count them in the census?

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