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Trump and Duterte's Drug War Bromance
Duterte: During phone call, Trump praised my drug war as the ‘right way’
Duterte Says Trump Wished His Drug Crackdown 'Success'
Duterte says felt rapport with Trump, assures U.S.-Philippines ties intact
Philippines President Says Trump Congratulated Him on Violent Anti-Drug Crackdown
Duterte Call With Trump Seen Warming U.S. Ties After China Tilt
Rebooting our relations with the US
Trump lauds Du30 grisly drug drive?
Duterte invites Trump to the Philippines
He's just tailoring his message to his audience! There's no way he actually believes that! He's for individual liberties!!!11
Abbreviated Arguments
I know a lot of you are disappointed I didn't go ahead and finish the debate on the MIT petition story. Tough.
Most days it's fun smacking down the willfully ignorant but sometimes outside forces conspire to make me too tired to bother. I just delete all the messages, pop open a beer, and watch some TV.
This was one of those times and you're just going to have to live with it.
Ah, Japanese TV programs... gotta love 'em!
You gotta love Japanese television for their originality:
have you ever wondered what you could do with a tire and an olympic ski jump?
Check it out! :)
Web sites i use for getting articles for submissions
Maybe a list for submitters of sites used to collect stories
I use (and ever expanding):
BBC
theverge.com
neweurope.eu (different perspective)
politico.com
washingtonpost.com (has an article limit per month)
reddit
cbc (canadian news plus a sort of unbiased news site)
Aljazeera
Can't think anymore. Vodka.
Maybe should set up a news source area? To help get submissions?
My mealworm farm
My mealworm farm has produced it's first babies: little mealworms about less than a baby finger width in length (no i am not about to try to measure them.
Hopefully i will get a good 'crop' and the cycle will go on with an increased 'harvest' of beetles (i already have more than my turtle can eat).
It's kind of cool: if you get close to the beetle 'farm' (a plastic bin filled with oatmeal and a water source (something like a pickle jar cap with carrot/celery/potato slices in it)) you can hear something like the rice crispies 'snap crackle pop' sound.
It's like a constant clicking sound. Fascinating, Captain.
I've heard you shouldn't eat the mealworms you buy from the pet store, but the next generation should be fine: whatever... it will be this batch or the next that i will be sampling.
Kind of doubting my wife and daughter will try them, but maybe my son-in-law?
Or they will all try it if i feel the need to be mean and MAKE them try it, lol.
When "computers" were the people who sat at "calculators"
THIS is the kind of thing I find interesting:
For an interesting wikipedia article on the history of computers/hardware, the link below will lead you to as many links as you may want to follow.
I remember my dad talking about punching cards to Program the huge computer at Queens university. In high school, I was filling in the cards with a pencil.
My young (at the time) brother-in-law won a vic-20 and was typing his commands.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computing_hardware
My first personal computer was an Acorn Atom... I could only dream of the 64k that Bill Gates said was enough for anyone. I could never get the cassette tape to record my carefully typed and debugged programs.
Moderation Today
So, I've been sitting here watching the Spam moderations page and the mod-bombs page post-election thinking someone's gonna get butthurt and abuse moderation. It has yet to happen. Kudos to everyone for managing to restrain themselves. You guys make me fucking proud, so I'll leave you with this little bit of humor on an otherwise tense day:
Britain: Brexit is the most shocking thing a country will do this year.
America: Hold my beer...
Some BBC Election Stories
Bailed out banks still getting bailed out!!!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/11/07/taxpayers-are-still-bailing-out-wall-street-eight-years-later/
Banks still getting paid to bail out homeownders are not bailing out some homeowners?!?!?!
Velly intelesting!
Use this as a post if you want.
Oculus VR vs ZeniMax
Oculus VR made "factually inaccurate" statements in ZeniMax lawsuit, forensic analyst says
A recently-granted motion in the lawsuit between ZeniMax Media and Oculus VR suggests that the case could be about to get very interesting, and not in a way that's good for Oculus. The motion to "permit disclosure of any 'demonstrably inaccurate' representations made to court," as reported by Polygon, indicates that an independent expert investigating the case found sworn statements that are "factually incorrect," and that "critical log files" on one of John Carmack's hard drives were deleted prior to its collection as evidence.
I'm too lazy to give this one the research needed to produce a coherent submission, since I haven't been following the case.
