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Comment I can't wait (Score 1) 44

I regularly hit 200 - 300 tabs in a day. And that's not an exaggeration or joke. I have to toss entire sections into OneTab but it only saves a windows worth, you can't just go "save all my work for later". Sometimes it's easier to simply reboot and "crash" chrome and then hit Alt-Shift-T over and over to bring back all the tabs--which becomes kinda crazy when every YouTube video and news article with a video starts playing at the same time.

Comment Re:Silly (Score 1) 390

Think about this: It's more acceptable to praise a literal Nazi general Rommel... than a confederate general.

Which is also funny, because tons of generals are praised throughout history even if they massacred tens of thousands, or were in support of "literally Hitler". Just make sure you don't mention a confederate general because... slaves.. or something.

Comment Remember when... (Score 5, Insightful) 404

Remember when CNN et al cut the footage of Trump's visit to Japan to make him seem like a baffoon? The video cuts all the sections where he feeds the fish, and then only shows the Japanese PM gentlely feeding the fish, then a cut to Trump dumping the box in (it was only the remains of the box, following exactly what the PM did).

So clearly, Facebook, Twitter, et al, are going to ban that video for being directly manipulated. right? ...RIGHT?

And clearly CNN et al apologized for directly editing footage to smear a president. Right? ...RIIGHT?

Hate Trump's policies all you want. But nobody can even remotely, objectively, suggest that the media has been playing fair in its portrayal of the current president. How many body-shaming cycles of "small hands, he wears a wig, he paints his face"? Because everyone who is moderate can hear the screaming hypocrisy even with noise cancelling headphones and earplugs jammed into our heads.

Remember when they openly debated whether his child had AUTISM? That kid had to go to school after the entire nation (and world) publicly debated whether he was retarded. Imagine the kind of bullying that kid got. A child whose only crime was being born to someone the world hates.

Comment Re:How is the number of kickstarters dropping? (Score 5, Insightful) 55

The last thing most people do, when they get "free time" from being laid off, is start working on their own because they get depressed. Because men find most of their self-worth from their work (including having a boss / paycheck / etc as proof of your talents/hardwork). Which is also, fun fact, why retired men either get part-time jobs or just die. Their testosterone goes to zero and they just rot away because, in their minds, they're not needed anymore.

Comment The bias is real (Score 0) 151

It's SUPER convenient that this post makes ZERO mention of the fact that Trump __forced__ GM to make these ventilators after they refused to.

https://www.usnews.com/news/na...

>"Our negotiations with GM regarding its ability to supply ventilators have been productive, but our fight against the virus is too urgent to allow the give-and-take of the contracting process to continue to run its normal course," Trump said in a statement. "GM was wasting time. Today's action will help ensure the quick production of ventilators that will save American lives."

>Trump in the tweets said GM was not making ventilators quickly enough and would produce far fewer than originally agreed upon.

So I think I've got it figured out. Blame Trump if he does something wrong (good), and then shove our thumbs up our asses and forget whenever he does something we _do_ want. I'll be sure to adjust my posting to submit to Slashdot implied terms of service.

Also, while we're at it. I believe the New Rules also include somehow pretending we can trust China's official COVID-19 numbers as "much lower than the terrible USA". It's not like a month ago we were all "supporting" Hong Kong protesters against China (fun fact: They're still out there protesting after everyone forgot about them), or that China kicked all the foreign journalists out of the country to prevent "biased" reporting, or that there are videos of people being denied access to hospitals. Nah, we can trust them.

Comment Re:What about the existing ones? (Score 5, Interesting) 229

Fun fact: It's a HUGE business to restore old helicopters (and I imagine planes). It'll cost like, half the price of a new helicopter to restore a 60s era helicopter. But half the price of a new helicopter, is still half the price.

I got to tour one of the plants they do the work in. They tear them completely apart, sandblast them down to the bare metal, fix any cracks and dents, repaint, etc. Likewise they remove and tear apart the turbine engines down to nothing and back. Who would have thought in 1960 "someone is going to be rebuilding this 60 years later for active service." They sell them to news stations, police, fire, EMS, etc.

I mean, people rebuild '53 Chevys right... but those Chevy's aren't flying thousands of feet in the air, and they typically aren't putting thousands of hours on those motors. Imagine being able to certify to someone, this old plane/helicopter is going to be reliable enough _to fly_. I'm sure it all resolves down to a checklist of proper tests, but it's still impressive to think about.

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