gasgiant

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

It's wasps all the way down...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I can 100% guarantee this is the UK comic magazine Viz.

It often has ridiculous made-up articles like this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I'm not sure exactly how this should be classed. According to the article it deactivates part of the cancer cells which then allows the patients own immune system to attack and destroy them.

So it isn't really a treatment as it doesn't destroy the cancer itself. The patient's own immune system does that.

However a vaccine technically works by providing the immune system with the "blueprint" of the disease so the immune system knows how to destroy it if infected. Which isn't what this is doing.

I suspect it probably has a long scientific name that average people won't understand and makes for a crap headline.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

With a non pc sound system this track could be used to crash nearby PCs.

The article says they implemented code to stop the PCs playing frequencies that could crash themselves or others nearby.

Also I can infer from this that there's a frequency for 7200 and 10000 rpm drives. I wonder what tracks would disrupt those ones?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

More and more I'm realising this is all just a massive house of cards.

We (the UK) hold a load of US debt and the US holds a load of our debt.

So the net value is zero.

It's like me lending my mate £20 and him lending me £20 and we claim we're each worth £40. It's so bonkers when I word it like that but that's how it seems to be.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

COVID knocked all global trade in that period.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The major issue I had with this is that it plays into the alpha male misogynistic ideal of strength.

Some of them will almost certainly see it as a badge of honour. That they are so dominant that some stupid women (their opinion) will misinterpret that and get into trouble with a bear.

I was trying to come up with a way to rephrase it.

Something like would you rather be alone with a man or separate but you both have to eat a bowl of dog shit.

If women choose the bowl there are nasty consequences for both and it's clearer they would rather deal with that than the man.

Nowhere near as catchy though...

[–] [email protected] 46 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Didn't he buy twitter with a loan backed by his Tesla stock?

If that's the case and the price is falling enough then the bank could/have called that in. Resulting in the forced sale of his stock.

Which would be very funny.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Snapping sounds like a real faff.

Keep them all in a special plastic box that is inside a powerful electromagnet.

Push button and a field that is strong enough to damage the cards almost instantly and over a short time would generate enough heat to physically damage the cards.

With enough power and time you could turn them into one hot blob that wouldn't even be recognisable.

So near instant data damage and then physical destruction probably before someone can work out what's going on.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I believe the correct answer is Saints.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

I thought this place was supposed to be dull.

The rare exciting news of a finished Chapstick (rather than lost, wrecked in the washing machine, etc ..) is certainly not dull!

I'm going to go and reorganise my screw boxes to calm down a bit.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 months ago

Can confirm.

Playing through again now. Was faithful last time so this time bring it on!

 
 

Must have been done before, right?

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