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Re:911 call centers down in Washington state on Friday December 28, 2018 @09:07AM (#18776754)
>unexplained crashes were normal for the system

this only makes me more concerned

Re:Bastard Tetris on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @09:22AM (#18706525)
I cleared a line and got 50 points

I am declaring myself victorious

I remember that pictionary type game they had. I would play with a friend in the schools computer lab. when it was our turn to draw, we would share the answer with the other person, then draw the most outlandish thing. of course when my friend typed in the correct answer everyone else was like, WTF.

good times

Re:Creating Windows XP Icons (2001) on Thursday December 13, 2018 @09:09AM (#18672368)
this image brings a wistful tear to my eye
Re:Quora User Data Compromised on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @09:21AM (#18599582)
Nice try, HAL9000 - you cant fool me

starts removing module cards

Re:Revealed: the first ever picture of the sun's north pole on Monday December 03, 2018 @09:52AM (#18589171)
Praise the Sun!
Re:Strange earthquake waves rippled around Earth on Thursday November 29, 2018 @01:38PM (#18562579)
"For human ingestion, we'd need a little more details for a user story there. :-)"

well, I was attempting to route some potato data to my food decompounder for processing and it was mistakenly sent to the air intake vent. suffice to say this disruption of the norm caused a break in workflow.

Re:Strange earthquake waves rippled around Earth on Thursday November 29, 2018 @11:20AM (#18561314)
I have some requests I'd like to see in the next update:

1. nerf mosquitoes 2. are hemorrhoids even necessary? I think we can just trash that feature. 3. human ingestion is quite buggy. often times nutritional data gets routed incorrectly. plz fix

Re:U.S. Life Expectancy Falls Further on Thursday November 29, 2018 @10:51AM (#18561033)
I suspect that if a different country started producing fentanyl on the scale that China does, but offered it at a 10% reduced price, we would purchase the drug from that country instead.

then the blame would shift from China to the new country.

maybe instead of blaming others, we should fix ourselves. stop buying cheap dangerous drugs and decriminalize the drugs we do have

Re:U.S. Life Expectancy Falls Further on Thursday November 29, 2018 @10:33AM (#18560909)
Should euthanasia be included in suicide rates though?

Honest question, I really dont know.

Having a terminal illness at age 90 and being clinically depressed at age 18 are very different things (obviously).

Re:U.S. Life Expectancy Falls Further on Thursday November 29, 2018 @10:27AM (#18560863)
I suspect it's because we hate poor people and think any form of welfare is "Russian Communist Socialism"

When it comes to spending on social welfare, the U.S. is at the low end of the spectrum relative to Western Europe. For example, only 18.8 percent of the U.S. GDP is spent on social welfare, while most of the OECD nations spend at least 25 percent of their GDP. Our rates of suicide are increasing while their rates fall.

of course it's way more complicated and nuanced than my one example.

edit - no? is this wrong?

Re:U.S. Life Expectancy Falls Further on Thursday November 29, 2018 @10:15AM (#18560754)
as someone who often feels useless (more like impotent rage most times) I can totally see why some people chose the path they chose.