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Comment Re:Helium jokes with a giraffe, chicken, and octop (Score 1) 34

Chuck Norris enters the room designated for the fight. It is filled with his opponent, element number 2, competing under the name Helium honoring its Greek roots. After a few minutes of stretching and warming up, it gradually came to Norris that he was in fact an 83-year-old man breathing an inert atmosphere. He sagged to the floor. Neither Jesus nor any of Norris' fascist friends came to his aid, and he took a final oxygen-free breath. When he hit the earth, it did not, as one might have believed from many references found on the internet, get knocked out.

Comment Two thoughts (Score 3, Insightful) 76

One: the story implies that a crewed flight is a "life and death" situation every time whereas a programmed flight is apparently a guarantee of safety and success. This seems like bullshit.

Two: when your warning system is so bad that a yellow warning light comes on which seemingly only warns you that the red light is about to follow and red lights doom you to death, your warning system sucks. It is the equivalent of having a fuel gauge which has no needle but only three lights: green for not emply no worries, yellow for a few drops left too late to reach the next station, and red for bone dry pull to the side of the road.

Comment Re:It would have to be one hell of a story (Score 2) 86

It turned out that the idea was completely unworkable and impossible,

The idea is completely workable and possible, just not yet. Companies like Abbott and Siemens are invested heavily in improving point of care patient testing using rapid testing on miniature devices of small amounts of blood.. A lot of their goals for the future sound like what Theranos was claiming to be able to do today.

Comment HolUp (Score 2, Insightful) 73

He puts frigging swatikas on 50,000 pages and gets an indefinite ban?

"This is your only warning; if you vandalize Wikipedia again, as you did at Template:Wbr, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Kleuske (talk) 13:57, 16 August 2021 (UTC)"

What the fuck do you have to do to get banned?

"This is your only warning; if you sodomize Jimmy Wales' mother again, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Kleuske (talk) 13:57, 16 August 2021 (UTC)"

Comment Re:Bullshit. (Score 4, Informative) 189

Having been thru two layoffs- there *is* no family- that's a fiction they burn to the ground when it suits them.

Reminds me of the management mania to "work like the Japanese" back in the '80s. Loyalty, sing the company song, calisthenics in the parking lot. But when I said, "Cool - so lifetime employment with no layoffs?" the tune changed quickly.

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