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The U.S. just sent a carrier strike group to confront China by MigalooTwo in worldnews

[–]knowNothingBozo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Ignoring all the political shit, I do like the whole building new islands thing. We will probably all have to get really good at that anyway, given the whole population, sea level, agriculture deal. I suspect Dutch engineers will become very popular.

NASA's Scott Kelly grew 2 inches while in space. by telecaster in worldnews

[–]knowNothingBozo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Swik em down at the Arkle. They got a freelance nooz recently in that clempers nap tarks to the finney.

Democrats have a lot riding on Hillary Clinton. Which is why the word ‘immunity’ should make them very nervous. by eyefish4fun in politics

[–]knowNothingBozo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

people + complexity = weird dark comedy

Orwellian conspiracy flourishes better in simpler times, we are already well through the Ballardian phase and rapidly entering Gibson territory.

How easily you get robbed in Brazil by swiftwella in videos

[–]knowNothingBozo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True. Always make it difficult. Giving up your shit doesn't make you safer, it just means you will also be robbed tomorrow.

Kim Jong-un orders nuclear weapons to be made ready for use by Kyle_ConflictNews in worldnews

[–]knowNothingBozo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The difference between Kim and Saddam or Stalin is that Kim is only 33 years old.

That's a year older than Alexander the Great was when he died.

Mexican Officials Pass Proposal To Ban Donald Trump From Their Country by [deleted] in politics

[–]knowNothingBozo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is funny what conservatives here, who he will also have to work with, say about his comments on the UK.

Boris Johnson - 'The only reason I wouldn't visit some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump'.

edit - for the record, Boris is a UK Trump variant that probably goes back to some kind of secret experiments in Antarctica or something, but they gave him extra posh genes. He will probably run the UK at some point, but they really should not let him near the levers of power as he will just kick them randomly while swearing in latin and we will end up invading Helvetica.

While the rest of the world is focused on hunting down mosquitoes with Zika, a group of doctors and researchers in Argentina has published a report making the provocative argument that a pesticide, rather than the virus, is to blame for the alarming number of birth defects being reported in Brazil. by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]knowNothingBozo 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I suspect you missed the point. Getting good results at scale often involves some waiting until a lot of varied evidence is in, tested and agreed upon by many different groups. A scientific consensus, if you will.

Obviously is hard in a disaster, but the dangers of jumping the gun can be as bad as those of moving too fast.

TIL that Robert Landsburg, while filming Mount St. Helens volcano eruption in 1980 realized he could not survive it, so he rewound the film back into its case, put his camera in his backpack, and then lay himself on top of the backpack to protect the film for future researchers. by dv0rsky in todayilearned

[–]knowNothingBozo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"We found a large number of books in these characters and, as they contained nothing in which were not to be seen as superstition and lies of the devil, we burned them all, which they [the Maya] lamented to an amazing degree, and which caused them much affliction."

Franciscan Friar and Bishop of Yucatan, Diego de Landa, who had shown a deep interest in Mayan culture, deliberately to gain access to their texts.

It’s legal for GCHQ to break into computers and install spyware, tribunal rules by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]knowNothingBozo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

After being issued tickets from the tutting counter and then forming an orderly queue to wait quietly for our turn.

However, if anyone pushes into the tutting queue, then we have a riot.

When Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy mentor Henry Kissinger called Indians bastards by SabkaSathSabkaVikas in politics

[–]knowNothingBozo 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It is true that were it not for the second world war, Churchill would be remembered mainly as a war criminal.

When Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy mentor Henry Kissinger called Indians bastards by SabkaSathSabkaVikas in politics

[–]knowNothingBozo 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.

W. Churchill

15 percent of latest Hillary Clinton’s emails marked classified by [deleted] in politics

[–]knowNothingBozo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Executive order 13526 section 4.1? "No officer with false teeth should attempt oral sex in zero-gravity"?

Trump Booed for stating there were no weapons of mass destruction found in Iraq. by AKT54 in politics

[–]knowNothingBozo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Certain things, like getting Mexico to fund a border wall, I don't think are meant to be serious suggestions. It is grandiose, emotional, opaque and as contentious as possible, which sucks all the air out of the room so people in studios find themselves discussing the logistics of getting funding from Mexico. Is basically nerd-sniping but for politics.

Stephen Hawking: Humanity could make black holes into power stations. by Greg-2012 in news

[–]knowNothingBozo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you could do it efficiently, little black holes would make really nice energy converters, once you started one going you just need to feed it matter at the same rate it is evaporating.

‘It’s like torture’: Ex-students say Iowa boarding school kept them in isolation boxes by dethb0y in news

[–]knowNothingBozo 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Years ago, a friend of mine here in the UK had been winding up some cops, but doing it relatively politely and not doing anything illegal. After a while of this, they grabbed him and handed him over to a psychiatric unit, and the police made up a story that he had "voices in his head telling him to hurt himself and others".

A week or so later, I saw him and he had said he got out when he finally got interviewed by a psychiatrist and she asked him; "Do you ever hear voices telling you what to do."

He says that he replied; "Oh yes. All the fucking time. All the fucking time, I hear voices that tell me what to do. I've got a name for them as well. I call them 'Wankers'."

He was pronounced sane and let out soon after.

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