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[Teneb]

RE: Pentecostals... hot damn. That is some seriously scary shit. Are any lawsuits getting filed against her for the attack? I mean, personal lawsuits, since the university didn't push charges.

Nope. The University isn't doing shit because there's the rector election going on. As for personal lawsuits, people don't got the money she has access to due to her political connections, so instead people are gathering evidence to fight her in social media and such.

[Reelya]

So far, the one (major) advantage the human brain has over machine processors afaik is that it takes absurd amounts of abuse and keeps functioning, just sort of sliding responsibilities to other parts of the brain, and no, I don't consider sapience/sentience one of the brain's advantage's because that's a matter of programming of the robot, not of the processor itself

Sure, a machine processor has many single points of failure, e.g. the CPU gets bunged up or the power goes off. But if we're counting those types of failure as being failures of the machine processor, then we also have to count that e.g. humans can get in car accidents or have heart attacks and die as being faults of the human equivalent. e.g. one aneurysm, and the brain-processor is kaput.

[hector13]

Riding to work with my wife, saw smoke in the distance. Is work on fire?

No, it’s a massive cloud of insects stretching for about a mile. Lovely.

What kind?

Lake flies.

[Greiger]

I have a bit of hair on the top of my feet.  It has been getting more and more annoying as pulling off socks is starting to pull on them and make the top of my feet sore.  I want to shave it but I'm worried that it will just grow back thicker.

WTF body I thought hobbits were a fictional race.

[Kagus]

I have a bit of hair on the top of my feet.  It has been getting more and more annoying as pulling off socks is starting to pull on them and make the top of my feet sore.  I want to shave it but I'm worried that it will just grow back thicker.

WTF body I thought hobbits were a fictional race.

Hehe, I've got that too. And my feet are super-wide, so I really look the part. ...well, except for being 6'3...

Shaving doesn't make hair grow back thicker, that's an old wives tale. However, stubble is generally a hell of a lot more irritating than full-grown hairs.

Try shampooing and conditioning your feet to make the hair softer, that should make them a bit more pliable.

[heydude6]

I'd recommend waxing. It hurts, but the hair doesn't grow back as stubble.

[BlackFlyme]

I always get yelled at to make small talk with my mom's boyfriend when we're at his place, but it's difficult.

He was watching some alien conspiracy stuff, and trying to talk to him about it ended with him telling me to 'shut the fuck up', because only he knows the truth. Nikola Tesla is an immortal extraterrestrial who came to this planet 15,000 years ago to place countless death rays in our atmosphere.

[Kagus]

I'd recommend waxing. It hurts, but the hair doesn't grow back as stubble.

Or that. If you really want to shirk your jewellery-related responsibilities.

[redwallzyl]

I always get yelled at to make small talk with my mom's boyfriend when we're at his place, but it's difficult.

He was watching some alien conspiracy stuff, and trying to talk to him about it ended with him telling me to 'shut the fuck up', because only he knows the truth. Nikola Tesla is an immortal extraterrestrial who came to this planet 15,000 years ago to place countless death rays in our atmosphere.

He sounds like a totally sane and reasonable person. Totally.

[Kagus]

I always get yelled at to make small talk with my mom's boyfriend when we're at his place, but it's difficult.

He was watching some alien conspiracy stuff, and trying to talk to him about it ended with him telling me to 'shut the fuck up', because only he knows the truth. Nikola Tesla is an immortal extraterrestrial who came to this planet 15,000 years ago to place countless death rays in our atmosphere.

He sounds like a totally sane and reasonable person. Totally.

Well, the man probably has a lot of interesting theories on probing, so there's that.

In other news, how the hell do you "lose" a plutonium sample? That shit's supposed to be kept locked up tighter than a nun's anus.

[hector13]

I challenge you to keep track of a gram of anything.

[Reelya]

That shit's supposed to be kept locked up tighter than a nun's anus.

It's not, never has been. The total amount of "misplaced" Plutonium/Enriched Uranium in the USA amounts to multiple tons. And that's just the stuff shipped overseas. (EDIT: on a doco I heard about quite a bit lost inside the USA's own network of processing etc)

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/09/usa-lost-tons-nuclear-weapon-uranium/

The United States cannot fully account for more than 16,000 kilograms of weapons-grade uranium and plutonium that it has shipped to 27 “friendly” countries in recent decades, and it lacks any coherent policy to track down the materials,

EDIT: Using google's date tool to look for old stories (to filter out the current news)
extras.denverpost.com/news/news0625a.htm

Finding 1100 pounds of plutonium that somehow became lost in ductwork, drums and industrial gloveboxes. The amount of missing plutonium at Rocky Flats is enough to build 150 Nagasakistrength bombs

^ And that's only at one plant in the USA. 500 kg of unaccountable plutonium that found its way into all sorts of places. A 1 gram sample of Plutonium that was mislabeled at a college is nothing compared to Rocky Flats where there was so much missing plutonium that piles of Plutonium dust were found in the air-conditioning system.

[deathpunch578]

cursed

[Kagus]

Welp, color me misinformed. Also the article said it was roughly the size of a quarter, but isn't Plutonium massively heavy? How small does a speck have to be to weigh a single gram?


My WTF: Tried Lifeweb for the first time today. That's enough of a WTF on its own, but after a couple mediocre rounds of dying very, very quickly (as is the routine, apparently), it was starting to get a little bit late. Buuut I figured "eh, one last round before I go", expecting the usual 45 minutes to an hour...

Four hours later, the round finally ends, and only after some incredibly confusing gameplay mechanics and a very large amount of just talking back and forth and taking showers.

It's five in the morning now. Fuck me and the sleep schedule I rode in on.

[Trekkin]

Welp, color me misinformed. Also the article said it was roughly the size of a quarter, but isn't Plutonium massively heavy? How small does a speck have to be to weigh a single gram?

Just over fifty cubic millimeters.