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nasredin··on A Major Industry-Funded Alcohol Study Was Compromised
Poe's Law?

Unrelated:

I can't even tell what is real anymore. Lots of stupid people out there so using sarcasm marks is more important than ever now.

nasredin··on A Tiny Village in Vermont Was the Perfect Spot to Hide Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Yes,"the wild 90s" vs Putin's Russia ("stability") is often brought up by people for AND against Putin.

WRT to Putin's popularity, Kasparov said ~"if there's one restaurant in town, is it popular?"

nasredin··on A Tiny Village in Vermont Was the Perfect Spot to Hide Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Why do you hate beer?

;)

Breweries are God's/Cosmos' gift to us mortal, fallible, sinful men.

nasredin··on A Tiny Village in Vermont Was the Perfect Spot to Hide Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Thought experiment. Would S. be supportive of Russia and Putin in 2018?
nasredin··on The San Franciso Fire Department makes its own wooden ladders by hand
Every time I see them I still think being the rear driver of a ladder truck is the best job ever.

You have your own cabin, you wear a headset. And you only work when making a turn.

nasredin··on Sapper – Progressive web apps powered by Svelte
That ought to be easy to find on Google!

New fancy TLD, the most generic name you can think off... so this is probably gonna get bought pretty fast!

nasredin··on Patreon Is Suspending Adult Content Creators Because of Its Payment Partners
Almost all "mainstream" porn studios are owned by one company. And they own all the "tube" sites too BTW.

Just a FYI.

nasredin··on Patreon Is Suspending Adult Content Creators Because of Its Payment Partners
The 2257 is the law requiring proof of age paperwork be kept for adult performers IIRC.

It's the "custodian of record" you MAY see at the beginning of a FakeTaxi or Hospital.

nasredin··on Google Downranks 65,000 Pirate Sites in Search Results
Until they lock your account even if you know the password...

Some people are OK with giving their PII like phone numbers to them, then Google is a good choice for them.

For me, it is not. Their schizophrenic registration system that SOMETIMES demands your phone number was the last straw.

nasredin··on AntiPolygraph.org appears to have been “de-listed” from Google on key searches
Quotes or pluses stopped working a while ago.

Even "Verbatim" isn't actually verbatim.

I am amused that people are only now realizing just how awful Google has got compared to 2000s.

nasredin··on E-Cigarette Maker Juul Labs Is Raising $1.2B
AFAIK any MD can write a script for methadone.
nasredin··on Google Downranks 65,000 Pirate Sites in Search Results
RARBG

It's Romanian IIRC.

nasredin··on IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival
Yo XKCD Sucks, I'm really happy for you, I'm gonna let you finish but IRC did not have the best UI of all time!
nasredin··on The Enduring Enigma of Costco's $1.50 Hot Dog and Soda Combo
The kids here use the same cup for soda refills for years or until it disintigrates, or the faded colors or outdated color scheme gives the little punks away.
nasredin··on Seymour Hersh on spies, state secrets, and the stories he doesn’t tell
A more apt comparison would be the Guantanomo Bay military base.

You can't compare upstate New York with military objects in third-world nuclear-armed countries.

nasredin··on A Brief History of America’s Appetite for Macaroni and Cheese
Eh, the writing is not that good.

Not a lot of history either.

Reads like a column in your local paper.

nasredin··on Leaked Emails Show Google Expected Military Drone AI Work to Grow Exponentially
The least fallacious fallacy next to the Slippery Slope fallacy.

If it's not US, Russia or China on top, then it is somebody else.

What had the Romans ever done for us?!

nasredin··on Completely Silent Computer
Yes.

Smallest ammount of TIM spread all over. NO "PEA" METHOD! All over!

The Cool Laboratory Liquid Metal stuff is the best but hard to work with.

nasredin··on Has wine gone bad?
A lot of people in USA may confuse BATF with a civilian commercial store that is the missing void in their existance.
nasredin··on Has wine gone bad?
FYI

Night Train is a "bum wine" and is infamous among the less fortunate and more adventurous among us.

nasredin··on Has wine gone bad?
E.g. Three - formerly Two - Buck Chuck, in Trader Joes in USA.
nasredin··on Has wine gone bad?
Maybe alcohol companies used the same ad men and lobbyists as the tobacco ones?
nasredin··on Has wine gone bad?
The Sour Grapes (surprised it isn't mentioned; best wine movie ever!) guy is here! Glad you are out!

It was so amusing you almost got away with it untill you conned one of the Koch brothers!

nasredin··on Google YOLO clickjacking
"Annoyances" type adblock lists work too.
nasredin··on Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back, and Ubuntu has never been better
And ActiveX was basically Electron!
nasredin··on The Brotherhood of the Ad Blockers
Using DNS blocking with Pixelserv on DD-WRT, 300 MHz single-core IIRC, there is no noticable performance hit.
nasredin··on “The Idiot” Savant: On Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Idiot
WRT gambling he was a fiend for the roulette wheel IIRC.
nasredin··on List of screw drives
Hot Tip

A foot long flat bread is actually longer than 12in.

Read that somewhere.

nasredin··on The baby formula crime ring
Just a few manufacturers, consumers that don't have choices, astronomical prices...

Where have I seen this before?!

I wish a proper writer wrote about this. The Times one is terrible.

nasredin··on NSA collected 500M U.S. call records in 2017, a sharp rise: official report
IIRC it's 3 Kevin Bacons (degree of seperation), so almost everybody.

See the research on Six Degrees...

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