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Bloody Hedgehog posted:I wonder if there's a single neighborhood/building website out there that hasn't almost immediately been taken over by the local scum who drive normal people away. I live in a now-being-gentrified city and Nextdoor is a blast. White women saying, "There is a black man shouting in the street at midnight!" "A young black youth sped past me on his scooter and almost knocked me over!" "People need to STOP setting off fireworks" are met with choruses of "lol" "shut the gently caress up" and "go away idiot bitch"  You also get heads-ups when the police are ticketing people on the Light Rail.
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Apr 3, 2019 16:56
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uber_stoat posted:I read a scifi book once where the concept was they would induce autistic obsession in people to turn them into hyper efficient workers who never wanted to quit working at the job they were assigned. I expect there's some startup working on making that happen in reality as we speak. was it autonomous? they hooked the brain up to release dopamine when you were productive. then when it went wrong people got hyper ocd and kept doing their job to the point of starving themselves to death in addition to violating osha
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Apr 3, 2019 17:07
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Rhesus Pieces posted:you don’t need dumb nerd bullshit like “peer review” and “evidence-based medicine” to get VC funding for poo poo like this "its the internet of juicing machines" "here's 100 million dollars. go nuts" RaySmuckles has issued a correction as of 17:27 on Apr 3, 2019 |
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Apr 3, 2019 17:15
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Dude seems cool
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Apr 3, 2019 17:18
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Perry Mason Jar posted:I live in a now-being-gentrified city and Nextdoor is a blast. White women saying, "There is a black man shouting in the street at midnight!" "A young black youth sped past me on his scooter and almost knocked me over!" "People need to STOP setting off fireworks" are met with choruses of "lol" "shut the gently caress up" and "go away idiot bitch" seriously tho gently caress people setting off fireworks, that poo poo scares dogs and i need my sleep because i work 2 jobs
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Apr 3, 2019 17:25
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I've never been woken up by one or struggled to fall asleep because of people setting them off.  This state just legalized lower-grade fireworks and you can't buy the big dangerous finger-blasters unless you feel like driving an hour and fifteen minutes West, which no one's doing cause we don't live in bumfuck where there's nothing to do except shoving fireworks into animals and plumbing or whatever. We just want a light show while we smoke weed.Mostly I agree, but it's largely a non-problem except for the very thin-skinned.
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Apr 3, 2019 17:32
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i lived on an air force base for two years and let me tell you NOTHING is more annoying than a heavily loaded c5 flying over your apartment building and rumbling it like an earth quake for 10 minutes
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Apr 3, 2019 17:35
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how loving often are people setting off firecrackers where you people live jfc
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Apr 3, 2019 17:37
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any time sport team x wins a Big Game any major holiday whenever they have some left over from any major holiday or Big Game Win by sport team x to be clear i only mind in summer time when it is extremely dry and one errant spark could send the whole neighborhood up (hour south of sonoma county) also it scares my cats Food Boner has issued a correction as of 17:51 on Apr 3, 2019 |
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Apr 3, 2019 17:49
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Perry Mason Jar posted:I've never been woken up by one or struggled to fall asleep because of people setting them off. grats on being deaf i guess i have to put an earbud in and listen to enya for the entire week around 4th of july to get any sleep, and sleeping with an earbud in isnt great for your ears
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Apr 3, 2019 17:55
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Old Man Yells At Smokecloud
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Apr 3, 2019 18:00
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I used to live in the island nation of Malta, where they set off gently caress off fireworks almost every day for 6 months. They do it as a 'catholic celebration', and they specifically choose them for sound, not pretty lights. Since they do it in the day you cant see them anyway. The island is mostly city and mostly built out of stone, so the explosions echo like a warzone. I used to work nights.
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Apr 3, 2019 18:04
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:I used to live in the island nation of Malta, where they set off gently caress off fireworks almost every day for 6 months. They do it as a 'catholic celebration', and they specifically choose them for sound, not pretty lights. Since they do it in the day you cant see them anyway. The island is mostly city and mostly built out of stone, so the explosions echo like a warzone. yeah but at least you got to hang out with Goosio
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Apr 3, 2019 18:06
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:I used to live in the island nation of Malta, where they set off gently caress off fireworks almost every day for 6 months. They do it as a 'catholic celebration', and they specifically choose them for sound, not pretty lights. Since they do it in the day you cant see them anyway. The island is mostly city and mostly built out of stone, so the explosions echo like a warzone. you think the knights of malta had an easy time sleeping through the ottoman bombardment? man up
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Apr 3, 2019 18:21
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Fireworks produce absolutely spectacular amounts of fine particulate too.
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Apr 3, 2019 18:31
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Larry Parrish posted:you think the knights of malta had an easy time sleeping through the ottoman bombardment? man up Yea but -they- deserved it. Bomb the elites 
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Apr 3, 2019 18:35
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hospitals are increasingly becoming targets of ransomware attacks because they're so lucrative (they'll almost surely pay the ransom), this research only emphasizes how important it is for hospitals to get their poo poo together and of course these researchers are Israeli, they've got the best talent for this sort of thing whether they're civilian or working for u.8200, but that's a subject best relegated to another thread
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Apr 3, 2019 18:54
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quote:The pilots of Ethiopia Airlines Flight 302 apparently followed the proper steps to shut down an errant flight control system as they struggled to regain control of the 737 MAX aircraft shortly after takeoff. But according to multiple reports, data from the ill-fated aircraft’s flight recorder revealed that the anti-stall feature of the aircraft’s Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) was triggered at least three times—and at least one time after the pilots followed the correct steps to shut it down. there’s always more and it’s always worse!
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Apr 3, 2019 19:45
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When the computer wants to kill you, you can't shut it off. Great design, good job.
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Apr 3, 2019 21:39
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Al! posted:give people whatever recreational pills they want who gives a poo poo Don't tease me like that
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Apr 3, 2019 21:57
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Larry Parrish posted:i lived on an air force base for two years and let me tell you NOTHING is more annoying than a heavily loaded c5 flying over your apartment building and rumbling it like an earth quake for 10 minutes Ive lived next to a major base for 28 years and I dont really notice it anymore. I moved to newyork for a year and specifically took an apartment directly next to the LIRR because it was cheap and I was used to the noise lol
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Apr 3, 2019 22:00
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take the moon posted:was it autonomous? they hooked the brain up to release dopamine when you were productive. then when it went wrong people got hyper ocd and kept doing their job to the point of starving themselves to death in addition to violating osha I was thinking of A Deepness in the Sky, but that one looks interesting too. have to check that out.
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Apr 3, 2019 22:41
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/apr/02/revealed-amazon-employees-suffer-after-workplace-injuries Bones break like mechanical parts under strain, and joints between bones wear out like mechanical parts which break from grinding against one another. Luckily with 50% turnover, human resources can easily be replenished as they enter a state of disrepair.
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Apr 3, 2019 23:13
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Nothus posted:When the computer wants to kill you, you can't shut it off. Great design, good job. seems to me i saw that in a film once, i wonder why people didnt learn the lesson
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Apr 3, 2019 23:18
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https://youtu.be/rP6Flfu42Qk I saw this ad while drunk and had to make sure that it didn't just say phones are god at some the end Nah, it does.
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Apr 4, 2019 01:35
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https://twitter.com/Gizmodo/status/1113461468031266817 this owns lol
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Apr 4, 2019 01:53
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https://twitter.com/rysimmons/status/1113464764859068421
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Apr 4, 2019 05:19
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Taintrunner posted:this owns lol I knew there was a point to those tests. Ardennes has issued a correction as of 10:59 on Apr 4, 2019 |
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Apr 4, 2019 10:57
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What the actual literal gently caress was that?
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Apr 4, 2019 13:49
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SardonicTyrant posted:What the actual literal gently caress was that? BRANDS
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Apr 4, 2019 13:55
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i' ll defend it slightly just cause i do design work, and yeah that's corporatey as gently caress and corporations are just bad at forcing poo poo to be "cool" it doesn't need to be cool!! the new logo/visual identity isn't the worst though; the logo is pretty versatile for icons -- the lil hockey goal/desk/staple works well as a shape to base all their icons on. it's not the flashiest, slickest design, but it doesn't need to be. which is why that video dumb as hell more info on the identity update: https://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/new_logo_and_identity_for_staples.php also the "work is more than a job!!!" poo poo is barfy as hell also corporate nerds: https://mobile.twitter.com/MarkCautela/status/1111623398512357376
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Apr 4, 2019 14:47
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Gnossiennes posted:i' ll defend it slightly just cause i do design work, and yeah that's corporatey as gently caress and corporations are just bad at forcing poo poo to be "cool" it doesn't need to be cool!! The issue isn't the design (which is still bad) it's the celebratory rollout festival of lights for an office supply company's corporate rebrand
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Apr 4, 2019 16:58
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Gnossiennes posted:also corporate nerds: these people are why america is doomed as a nation
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Apr 4, 2019 17:11
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https://twitter.com/io9/status/1113610512204537861
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Apr 4, 2019 17:34
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That Staples trailer or whatever the gently caress I just watched was sure something alright.
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Apr 4, 2019 22:29
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Grimdude posted:That Staples trailer or whatever the gently caress I just watched was sure something alright. The screen layout was pretty cool though. I'd watch a movie made for that kind of setup.
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Apr 4, 2019 23:14
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net work error posted:The screen layout was pretty cool though. I'd watch a movie made for that kind of setup. The Thomas Crown Affair kind of does it. Roger Ebert posted:And now, at last, We have a whole movie devoted to photography, and the director is allowed a few minutes to show his tricks. Platystemon has issued a correction as of 23:47 on Apr 4, 2019 |
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Apr 4, 2019 23:44
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Since we're feeding literally every cultural product into Hollywood's human centipede these days, it was inevitable that Cats would turn up eventually.
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Apr 5, 2019 16:56
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Nothus posted:Since we're feeding literally every cultural product into Hollywood's human centipede these days, it was inevitable that Cats would turn up eventually. culture's dyin', cloud
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Apr 5, 2019 17:50
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Not only are they making a cats movie they're making it with uncanny valley furry cgi Where did that start? What successful film is responsible for the enormous wave of hideous talking animals now crashing into theaters? I laughed off Detective Pikachu as Legendary Entertainment being incredibly dumb again, but then there's Dumbo, Lion King, and Sonic? All the studios must have decided to start making the movies look this way years ago, right? Who's patient zero?
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