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posted by martyb on Friday May 24 2019, @04:14PM   Printer-friendly
from the SoylentNews-is-[composted]-people? dept.

Washington becomes first US state to legalise human composting

Washington has become the first state in the US to legalise human composting.

Under the new law, people there can now choose to have their body turned into soil after their death.

The process is seen as an alternative to cremations and burials, and as a practical option in cities where land for graveyards is scarce.

At the end of the composting, loved ones are given the soil, which they can use in planting flowers, vegetables or trees.

Grow vegetables using human compost from loved one, despair as pests eat all of it.

Previously: 'Urban Death Project' Proposes to Compost the Dead
Washington Could Become the First State to Compost the Dead


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by janrinok on Friday May 24 2019, @06:52PM (13 children)

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Friday May 24 2019, @06:52PM (#847285) Journal

    It didn't interest me, so I didn't pick it up. I cannot speak for the other editors. However, your quoted source was FoxNews, yet the story originated from https://people.com/tv/luke-perry-buried-special-eco-friendly-mushroom-suit/ [people.com], which Fox acknowledged. The submission guidelines state that the original source should be used. Fox gave you the link but you simply failed to use it. That is also true of your other submissions waiting in the queue. The editors will have to rewrite them before we can use them.

    When we are looking for a story to run, we usually take the path of least resistance - just like everyone else. Good submissions are chosen before poor submissions. Submissions requiring rewriting usually come last.

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  • (Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Friday May 24 2019, @07:50PM (12 children)

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Friday May 24 2019, @07:50PM (#847317) Homepage Journal

    Bullshit. Total, total bullshit. 100%. Can we grow Mushrooms in it? Fox News has some original stories. And, some they get from other places. They always tell us where they come from. But, I've never seen an original story "on" Phys.Org. So many times, the stories with a Link to Phys.Org sail right through. The latest being, the one about China and the Rare Earths. And, Phys.Org didn't say that article came from somewhere else. But, the exact story is on many many Web sights.

    Another one. And that one, I think is the last you -- Janrinok -- did from Phys.Org. Look at the one about the Elusive Molecule in Space(also known as HeH+). Submitted by Chief Editor Marty B's Sock Puppet. And he put many Links, just like you say you like. Not just to Phys.Org but to the original article. You "edited." And when that one went on the Front, or Main "Page" -- bye bye Links! You took out so many Links. And only left the ones to Phys.Org. Including some that are total bullshit and have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the story. Like a Link about animals. Unbelievable!!!

    • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday May 24 2019, @08:01PM (1 child)

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday May 24 2019, @08:01PM (#847326) Journal

      Maybe bullshit - - - but you don't see a lot of Foxnews stories around here. The community has a resistance against Fox, and surely you realize that by now. And, I'll remind you that it isn't just the radical lefties who dislike Fox. Fox has lost any coolness value they may have ever had long ago. They aren't as bad as CNN, but damned close to it.

      • (Score: 2, Disagree) by realDonaldTrump on Friday May 24 2019, @08:25PM

        by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Friday May 24 2019, @08:25PM (#847335) Homepage Journal

        I hear that many smart people from both sides are resisting, very strongly, Phys.Org.

        Fox News, sadly is moving more and more to the losing (wrong) side in covering the Dems. After getting dumped from the boring Dem debates. They forgot the people who got them there. And they're wasting airtime on Mayor Pete, as Chris Wallace likes to call him -- incredible.

        They're not always great. But, I think they're one of the best we have in this Age of Fake News. And by the way, Rupert Murdoch. People don't know this, the same guy that owns Fox News also owns News.Com.Au. The Soylent News Editors, very rarely "run" the story from Fox News. And so many dummies say, "oh, Faux News." Which is the Politically Correct way to say, Fake News. But News.Com.Au, those sail right on through. With ZERO complaints. Because, "oh, it's Foreign, we love Foreign!" They hate America. But Austria, they love. So dumb. Because it's the SAME GUY!!!!

    • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Friday May 24 2019, @09:26PM

      by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Friday May 24 2019, @09:26PM (#847366) Journal
      Which story are you referring to?
    • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Friday May 24 2019, @09:41PM (4 children)

      by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Friday May 24 2019, @09:41PM (#847369) Journal

      You plonker!

      You don't seem to have realised that the original submission you are referring to is collected by a bot. That is indicated by the header which states "This is a bot sub and needs many editing". It includes lots of text and links that are irrelevant because bots cannot tell good text from bad text. It is part of our job to remove them. All internal links to phys.org are removed - they put tags on every significant word or phrase, which have nothing to do with the content. The Explore Further is not a link to another source on the same subject, but is to a completely different story.

      • (Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Friday May 24 2019, @10:28PM (3 children)

        by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Friday May 24 2019, @10:28PM (#847384) Homepage Journal

        You're lieing again. Through your teeth. Because, you( Janrinok) kept the Tags. The Links to Tags. One of which has to do with Animals. And has NOTHING to do with Space Molecules. But, you erased the Links to the original article. EXACTLY as I said.

        And by the way, Bytram. People don't know this. It's Martyb -- written backwards. Obvious Sock Puppet!!

        • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Saturday May 25 2019, @04:16AM (1 child)

          by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Saturday May 25 2019, @04:16AM (#847493) Journal

          And by the way, Bytram. People don't know this. It's Martyb -- written backwards.

          If you have only just realised that, then I suspect that you are the only person that didn't know it! martyb is his SN username, and Bytram is his IRC nickname. So, not a sock puppet but 2 different usernames for 2 different places. If he submits a story via one of several bots that we maintain on IRC then his IRC nick will be used automatically.

        • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Saturday May 25 2019, @06:43AM

          by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Saturday May 25 2019, @06:43AM (#847527) Journal

          I'm not lying. However, I am guilty as charged on 2 earlier stories. One of the bots (Arthur the Bot) that we use is written by myself. In a recent update (from version 3 to 4) the automatic removal of local links on phys.org submissions had a bug and didn't complete the processing properly. This was not identified until after the earlier stories had been released. It was subsequently fixed and now functions as intended again (I hope!).

    • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Friday May 24 2019, @09:52PM (3 children)

      by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Friday May 24 2019, @09:52PM (#847372) Journal
      • Could there be life on Mars today? real source :https://www.space.com/could-mars-support-life-today.html
      • Monster Mars dust storms may have helped blow Red Planet's water away real source: https://www.space.com/mars-dust-storms-water-loss.html [space.com]
      • NASA creating world's first all-electric airplanes powered by frozen hydrogen fuel real source:https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/9071174/nasa-electric-airplanes-powered-by-hydrogen
      • 414 million pieces of trash found on remote islands near Australia, real source:https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-43375-4
      • Microsoft harnesses AI to make Word politically correct real source:https://blogs.microsoft.com/ai/microsoft-365-intelligent-workday-productivity
      • (Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Friday May 24 2019, @11:02PM (2 children)

        by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Friday May 24 2019, @11:02PM (#847404) Homepage Journal

        You looked for the Links. And, very quickly, found the Links. Great job, thank you! And, not a hard job -- because Fox, so many times they have the Link right there for us. For those of us that "open" the article on Fox News.

        And the one on the Elusive Molecule, I assume the original was "on" Nature.Com. Then it went through AFP -- the French AP. And finally it came to Phys.Org. Where they added the Tags. The useless Links to Tags. Which you say "have nothing to do with the content." You're so right about that. 100% right. And you say, it's part of the Editors' "job" to erase those. But, look at the story about U.S. Navy Room-Temperature Superconductor. Not the last one you put up from Phys.Org. But, the next to last. The Peni Ultimate. From February. Another Janrinok number and it has the Tags Links in it. Not erased, those went to Front( also known as Main) "page." You say it's you're job. But, you don't do it. Too bad!

        • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Saturday May 25 2019, @04:18AM (1 child)

          by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Saturday May 25 2019, @04:18AM (#847494) Journal
          So I've done the work for you, if you could just rewrite them so that you quote from the appropriate sources we can go ahead and use them. Thank you in advance.
          • (Score: 1) by Techlectica on Monday May 27 2019, @07:51AM

            by Techlectica (2126) on Monday May 27 2019, @07:51AM (#848128)

            He not only does not see it as necessary, but sees it as a drawback. To Fox News sycophants, news is only validated with the imprimatur of Fox News. All those other Phys.org articles could be fake news supporting quack theories like Climate Change, so why would you ever go back to that original source when only Fox News is sufficiently Truthy.