Comment Anecdotes != "increasingly" (Score 1) 46
n/t
Comment Oh no! (Score 0) 204
"Privileged"! "Rich"!
The number of people who are powered by sheer envy is just depressing. Envy isn't a good thing, folks.
Comment Re:Time to invent (Score 1) 143
Never saw the movie; I'll have to see it!
I just remember having my mind blown by the novel
Comment Time to invent (Score 1) 143
A real scramble suit. If we're going to be filmed at all times ...
Comment Re:So someone may have been recording on the subwa (Score 1) 143
and if you take offense to that you're entitled to destroy their property?
Well, it is New York City.
At least she didn't set him on fire I guess
Comment The cognitive dissonance is so funny (Score -1, Troll) 199
You guys would normally love this, but ... lol
Comment Re:Huh? (Score 0, Troll) 199
I would say it would be nice if they could get their stories straight, but when you're dealing with someone with dementia, that's not a reality.
I think you are confused. The corpse of Biden has shuffled off the stage.
Comment Re:DEI hires (Score 1) 52
Yeah, it's almost as though you should hire actual Americans, as actual employees.
Comment Re:Next test should be (Score 2) 63
To see if people will be more devious and evil if the joker is present
They tried to do Jesus, but passengers kept calling security about a hippy boarding the plane.
Submission + - Be nice - Batman is watching! (sciencealert.com)
Black Parrot writes: From ScienceAlert:
A new study has found that people are more likely to act kind towards others when Batman is present â" and not for the reasons you might assume.
[...]
Psychologists from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Italy conducted experiments on the Milan metro to see who, if anyone, might offer their seat to a pregnant passenger.
The kicker? Sometimes Batman was there â" or at least, another experimenter dressed as him. The researchers were checking if people were more likely to give up their seat in the presence of the caped crusader.
And sure enough, there did seem to be a correlation. In 138 different experiments, somebody offered their seat to an experimenter wearing a hidden prosthetic belly 67.21 percent of the time in the presence of Batman.
That's a lot more often than times the superhero wasn't around â" in those cases, a passenger offered a seat just 37.66 percent of the time.
[...]
"Interestingly, among those who left their spot in the experimental condition, nobody directly associated their gesture with the presence of Batman, and 14 (43.75 percent) reported that they did not see Batman at all."
The article goes on to speculate about what is causing people to be more generous.
Comment Let me guess ... (Score 0) 59
The Israeli military destroyed more than 30 wells in Rafah and Khan Yunis, and there were numerous reports of settlers destroying pipelines and tanks in the West Bank
Let me guess
Comment Re:Par for the course (Score 1) 71
Free rein. As in the thing used to control a horse.
Well gee; that just totally obviates my point, lol
Comment Re:In ur radar, hacking ur storm cloudz (Score 4, Informative) 71
The muppet in the hot seat, Bureau CEO Stuart Minchin, cited switching from HTTP to HTTPS as one of the main points during one of the regular grillings he has been getting from the media over the past few weeks, because apparently the data of Australians was on the line.
On a decent web host, that's a single click to install a free Let's Encrypt certificate, lol.
Comment Par for the course (Score 1) 71
"Redesigns" often make things worse. Designers are given free reign, users come in a distant last.
Incremental improvements are more likely to make things better.
Comment Re:A FedEx truck... (Score 1) 59
I had a FedEx truck clip a support wire for an electric pole in front of my house. It pulled on the pole so much that it and 2 poles in each direction were all wobbling. The lines where swaying so much that the lines must have arced, and caused power to go out at my house and several of my neighbors. The damage that this drone did was very mundane in comparison. Why would this require an FAA investigation?
Because Amazon! Because capitalism! Heck, probably because Trump somehow!
Sheesh, get with the program!
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