Starker on 9/11/2022 at 03:45
Trevor Noah chimes in on Musk's Twitter woes:
[video=youtube;h1xG7dvT1LQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1xG7dvT1LQ[/video]
Azaran on 24/11/2022 at 23:20
In next level dumbassery news
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https://www.dailydot.com/irl/customer-throws-away-7-new-computers/) Woman throws away 7 computers, because she didn't know they needed to be charged, and thought they were broken
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“I had a woman transferred to me who was very upset because her refund was late,” @rubygirl_22 says in the video. “We had been on the phone for basically an hour, and she was very upset about this refund being late because she needed to buy a new computer. Totally understand, school is expensive. Because we're on the phone for over an hour, she's kind of telling me more things about her life story. She makes a passing comment that this is the seventh computer that she's gone through, and I'm thinking oh yeah, you're a PhD student, it's going to take you a lot of computers to get through your program, or multiple degrees, is what I was thinking. She clarified this was her seventh computer in three weeks.”
@rubygirl_22 says she found out the woman
went through that many computers because she simply did not know that they needed to be charged.“I asked if any charger came out of the box, and she goes,
‘There's no such thing as a charger,'” she says. “I asked her to go get the box from the computer, and I asked her to look inside of it, and she goes, ‘Oh yeah, I found a cord to something.' It takes another 15 minutes of convincing her to plug the computer in. When she plugged the computer in, pressed the button, and it turned on, she started screeching in my ear and started yelling at her husband who is sitting next to her. Apparently she threw seven brand new computers out because she didn't know how to charge them. This person was in a PhD program. Seven brand new computers in the dumpster that she can't ever get back.”Viewers were unsurprised that someone had made it so far in the education system without knowing that a computer must be charged in order to continue using it.
Starker on 25/11/2022 at 00:10
That sounds like a made up story if I ever heard one.
Cipheron on 25/11/2022 at 07:09
Quote Posted by Starker
That sounds like a made up story if I ever heard one.
While I'd believe someone is that dumb, it does seem unlikely for the sole fact that they used a phone to make the call. So this PhD student has never used a cell phone either?
Cipheron on 26/11/2022 at 11:25
Well not really news for most of you, but in Victoria Australia the Labor party and Greens completely crushed the right-wing parties in todays elections.
State-wide, Labor took 35 seats, and the Greens took 5. The Liberals + Nationals (our Republicans) got ... 21 seats.
For some highlights, they've got a huge Murdoch-media hate-boner for the Labor leader Dan Andrews, who is, and this will be a shock, simultaneously painted as more authoritarian than Stalin but also incompetent and weak.
To give you an idea on how little dirt they actually have on Andrews, these are the two big-gun stories they dredged up right before the election
1) Dan Andrews fell down once, and got hurt. It was on some stairs. What is he hiding? The stairs weren't even that high. "Stairgate":
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https://www.crikey.com.au/2022/11/07/daniel-andrews-stairgate-accident-conspiracy-theory/)
2) Once, about 10 years ago, before Dan Andrews was in power, his wife was driving a car (he was a passenger), and she was turning into a side street and a cyclist crashed into the side of the car (they cyclist got $90K compensation). Basically they constantly bring this up and Andrews is tired of answering Murdoch reporters who ask him about it, and they portray his frustration about the reporters bringing it up with a lack of compassion for the cyclist.
The success of their media strategy is that a lot of anti-Dan people seem to think the story involved Dan Andrews driving a car and hitting a cyclist, then there being a government cover-up about it. Despite the fact (1) he wasn't driving the car (2) the cyclist ran into the car and (3) he wasn't in power yet.
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Also the big one is that they hold Dan Andrews in contempt because he did the 2020 Mask Mandate and Covid Lockdowns, which enabled us in this city to walk around with NO MASKS and before vaccines were even available, for about 6 months from around Sept 2020-March 2021.
However, confusingly, a FEW cases got through the lockdown / quarantine system, causing an outbreak, and the also got upset at Dan Andrews for that. Think about that: guy locks down city, there are then zero cases, they get upset about the lockdown. Then, a few cases creep in and they get upset about the rate of infection NOT BEING ZERO, and blame the guy who got the rate to zero in the first place. Literally ONE infected person gets into the city and they're freaking out that Dan Andrews hasn't hermetically sealed the city ENOUGH.
Clearly, most voters weren't buying it.
EDIT: this guy is literally my local member, and I voted against him. So yeah, if this guy loses his seat I'll be pretty happy:
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https://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/politics/liberal-deputy-david-southwick-lashes-out-at-daniel-andrews-after-labors-win/news-story/1ae20db814a5aecb6802bfa6aaa21dfe)
Cipheron on 4/12/2022 at 00:35
I heard about the "Liver King" a while ago from someone who wanted info on eating raw liver. Supposedly, eating a ton of raw liver had given the "Liver King" this amazingly muscly physique.
I was skeptical, because I've read studies where subjects eating cooked eggs absorbed almost twice the amount of amino acids as those who ate raw eggs. Those who ate cooked eggs absorbed 90% of the egg's protein as opposed to the raw egg eater's 50%. This makes sense, since cooking breaks down the long protein chains, and it's the amino acids you actually need to create proteins in your body. So pro-tip: the classic raw eggs bodybuilding thing is bad science.
So it made almost zero sense that this "Liver King" got "extra" protein by not cooking his meat. It just doesn't work like that. In fact, it makes sense from a historical and evolutionary perspective, that nutrients being easier to digest was the advantage that fire bestowed on our ancestors vs other hominids who didn't use fire. If eating raw meat was so advantageous then fire-based cooking of meat just wouldn't have taken off, since those tribes who used it would have been smaller and weaker.
Anyway, today the news broke about the "Liver King's"
real secret sauce. Steroids. Fuckloads of steroids:
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https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/liver-king-influencer-stuns-followers-with-huge-admission/news-story/dc37c9e635b6b3e82da3a25050e00d69)
So he's a fake, and if anything, the raw meat aspect is counter-productive.
uncadonego on 4/12/2022 at 03:21
Eleven thousand dollars a month spent just on taking steroids. What an ass.
Hit Deity on 4/12/2022 at 05:07
Quote Posted by uncadonego
Eleven thousand dollars a month spent just on taking steroids. What an ass.
Yeah.. but I bet it was a muscly ass. :-D (sorry, couldn't resist)
How's it going, Old Fart?
I was gonna PM you, but hey, this works too. CommChat's middle name is 'derail' anyway.
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See? You just have to look closely. :-P
uncadonego on 4/12/2022 at 21:31
:laff::laff::laff::laff:
Doing good Godsmack. Nice to see you resurface once in a while.;)