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1,439 karma · joined August 11, 2014

The details of my life are quite inconsequential.. Very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Some times he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy, the sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical, summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds, pretty standard really. At the age of 12 I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen, a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum, it's breathtaking, I suggest you try it.
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basicplus2··on Self Hosting a Google Maps Alternative with OpenStreetMap
High Fidelity.. Pity their road names don't zoom up to some degree.. it is so hard to read the road names, that as an old bugger i need a magnifying glass..
basicplus2··on Crypto is the 'commoditisation of populist anger, gambling and crime'
It is absolutely correct to say reversing a transaction is a classic source of fraud.

Errors made should always be reversed by a separate transaction for an audit trail.

basicplus2··on Reconstructing images a person sees via non-invasive brain scans
looks more like images/ combined images from an AI data base of previously collected images rather than just "reading the brain" outright
basicplus2··on ‘Out of control’ Tesla Model Y crash in China leaves two dead
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DtWdE4ua9Q8
basicplus2··on PayPal inactivity fee
They may not be a bank but they get the earnings on all that money sitting there.. it is a source of funds for the business.
basicplus2··on Money Creation in the Modern Economy – Its a Wonderful Lie
Not so.. for example in Australia..

https://www.ato.gov.au/Business/GST/In-detail/Rules-for-spec...

basicplus2··on Baking bread with a hot car
There is a group of American Private pilots who go on regular trips in their aircrafts and cook lunch in their aircraft engine bays.

Sorry could not find a link..

basicplus2··on Fake account and $8 blue checkmark wipe $20B off Eli Lilly's market cap
I presume they are talking about Eli and who ever pranked them
basicplus2··on Save London's Gas Lamps: Campaign Grows to Keep Our Heritage Glowing
"They also burn a fossil fuel, which is more detrimental to the environment than low-power LEDs"

True however the true cleverness was that they burn the fumes coming off the sewerage system safely disposing of formally dangerous build ups of the gas while getting brighter at the same time.

So essentially fossil fuel is only a part of what they burn.

basicplus2··on Mysterious company with government ties plays key internet role
https://web.archive.org/web/20221109141256/https://www.washi...
basicplus2··on Research: Disconnection, not teens’ screen time, is the problem
Except the screen time is causing the disconnect..
basicplus2··on General Mills latest to halt Twitter ads as Musk takeover sparks brand exodus
More likely than anything all these companies will realise not advertising makes no difference anyway.
basicplus2··on United Airlines Blocking Seats Due to Passenger Weight
The logical thing to do is reduce seat numbers on planes and give everyone more room
basicplus2··on Ask HN: Have you set up a procedure to disclose your passwords in case of death?
Written down on paper in a safe
basicplus2··on Classic 50mm “Normal” Lens
"Human normal" is actually 47.5mm
basicplus2··on Musk fired Twitter execs in attempt to avoid payouts
and payback for not letting him reneg on buying twitter
basicplus2··on Pouring the 200 inch disk at Corning Glass Works
Story of Palomar - 1948

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4miVqgNSRVY

basicplus2··on Indonesia bans cough syrups as 100 children dead of kidney failure
TLDR Antifreeze in cough syrups kill
basicplus2··on Running rarely wrecks your knees, and often strengthens them
i have never heard of running hurting knees, but I have heard of jogging as hurting the knees which they do not address in the article.
basicplus2··on Gain of Function? Not So Fast
Main argument is it is less dangerous.. discovered AFTER creating it.
basicplus2··on Life expectancy changes since Covid-19
Surely it is a temporary life expectancy drop, as when survivors breed, their children will be more immune to Covid
basicplus2··on Ex-UK pilots lured to help Chinese military, MoD says
Should be considered treason
basicplus2··on NHS vendor won’t say if patient data was stolen during ransomware attack
If they won't say, then one can assume patient data was stolen
basicplus2··on Oura ring can't measure more than 65535 steps in a day
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/65,535
basicplus2··on Everyone going to World Cup must have this app, experts are sounding the alarm
Free countries should shut down all travel including airlines in and out of Qatar, and issue a travel warning.

In fact this should have happened years ago..

https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/10/27/women-reportedly-subject...

Otherwise, what do we believe in? what do we stand for? Do we truly only car about money?

basicplus2··on Britain's zombie economy is crumbling, real culprits are getting off scot-free
https://web.archive.org/web/20221014055238/https://www.teleg...
basicplus2··on The Rich Are Living in a Different Economic World
If rich person A sells $1,000,000 Boat to rich B, who intern sells rich guy A a $1,000,000 Car it has cost neither anything.
basicplus2··on California legalizes digital license plates for all vehicles
Just need to hack them to display a different number when the speed camera flash goes off
basicplus2··on Streamer Breaks Back in Two Places After TwitchCon Foam Pit Accident
Not even a "pit", its too few foam blocks on a floor.
basicplus2··on Microbes that cause cavities can form superorganisms able to ‘crawl’
Never use toothpaste that contains triclosan as it wipes out your gut bacteria if you swallow any and nobody can prevent swallowing any.
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