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Comment Re:This is common sense, I've got no issues w/ it (Score 1) 130

Homeopathy is much more ingrained in German medical culture then in many other countries though. I only found my GP had prescribed homeopathic pills when I asked him directly - and then refused the prescription of course.And then there are things like this: https://10.en24.news/2019/muni...

Comment Re:FUD (Score 1) 1159

... We're also one of the very few species that can successfully survive on all continents of the planet, from coasts of Antarctica to equatorial regions, and thrive everywhere but Antarctica. That means that even worst warming scenarios are highly unlikely to produce environments we could not function in just because of temperature...

Such a shame that we rely on lots of these other, more fragile, less-adaptable species for sustenance...

Comment You can make synthetic diamonds more like the real (Score 1) 415

You just have to soak the lab-made diamonds for fifty years in a vat containing the blood sourced from hundreds of innocent victims to give them that internal shine and glow that you can only get from mass murder. And then polish them to a perfect shine with tears extracted from grieving loved-ones. After that, they become virtually indistinguishable...

Comment Next up in the Star Wars origins series (Score 5, Funny) 318

2 and a half hours of watching C3PO being put together on an assembly line...

Fans may also spot some cameo roles by other Star Wars characters - Darth Vader as factory owner, Luke Skywalker as the Union foreman who leads the strike , Princess Leia as the tea lady bringing relief to the workers, R2D2 as her tea-filled samovar ...biddly boo-boop... one lump or two... and Jabba the Hut as the unflushable thing left behind in the third toilet cubicle from the right.

Comment Alternatively... (Score 1) 39

...they could just stop collecting so much data in Whatsapp. I wonder how many of its users are actually under-16? My kids and lots of their school friends use it for school work as well as personal contact. Most of them don't have Facebook accounts. Seems like a bad decision to kick your future user-base out of your ecosystem.

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