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Comment Let me guess ... (Score 0) 47

by cascadingstylesheet on Friday November 28, 2025 @11:47AM (#65823159) Attached to: Violent Conflict Over Water Hit a Record Last Year

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 ... the wells were in "schools" and "hospitals" ... right under the rocket launchers, lol

Comment Re:Par for the course (Score 1) 70

by cascadingstylesheet on Friday November 28, 2025 @07:02AM (#65822743) Attached to: Australia Spent $62 Million To Update Its Weather Web Site and Made It Worse

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) 70

by cascadingstylesheet on Thursday November 27, 2025 @06:38PM (#65822053) Attached to: Australia Spent $62 Million To Update Its Weather Web Site and Made It Worse

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) 70

by cascadingstylesheet on Thursday November 27, 2025 @06:37PM (#65822049) Attached to: Australia Spent $62 Million To Update Its Weather Web Site and Made It Worse

"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) 56

by cascadingstylesheet on Thursday November 27, 2025 @06:51AM (#65821007) Attached to: Amazon Faces FAA Probe After Delivery Drone Snaps Internet Cable In Texas

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! ;)

Comment In tact (Score 1) 56

by cascadingstylesheet on Thursday November 27, 2025 @06:49AM (#65821005) Attached to: Amazon Faces FAA Probe After Delivery Drone Snaps Internet Cable In Texas

The drone appeared to remain in tact beyond some damage to one of its propellers.

Well, that's good - I hate a brash, rude, in your face drone ...

Comment You are so funny (Score -1, Troll) 102

by cascadingstylesheet on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @07:01AM (#65816779) Attached to: Trump Launches Genesis Mission, a Manhattan Project-Level AI Push

Y'all would LOVE this if it were set in motion by the autopen corpse of Biden ... and you do know that, deep down, when today's 2-minute hate* wears off. Part of you knows this, under the layer of black and white thinking.

(* Orwell was so prescient, but for the love of all that's holy, if it were only two-minutes ...)

Comment Science? (Score -1, Troll) 95

by cascadingstylesheet on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @06:53AM (#65816773) Attached to: EPA Approves New 'Forever Chemical' Pesticides For Use On Food

"It is important to differentiate between the highly toxic PFAS such as PFOA and PFOS for which the EPA has set drinking water standards, versus less toxic PFAS in pesticides that help maintain food security," notes Doug Van Hoewyk, a toxicologist at Maine's Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry. He added that concerns about food residue depend on the PFAS and the quantity.

Don't try to confuse us with your scientific mumbo jumbo about distinguishing different chemicals from each other! And your lying MAGA concepts like "quantity"! We know pure evil when we see it!

Comment Re:Great thinking... (Score 0) 113

by cascadingstylesheet on Sunday November 23, 2025 @04:23PM (#65813973) Attached to: One Company's Plan to Sink Nuclear Reactors Deep Underground

So... irreversibly irradiating our groundwater supply, but with more steps.

Do ... you have even the slightest idea what you mean by that, lol?

Comment Re:Well ... (Score 1) 116

by cascadingstylesheet on Sunday November 23, 2025 @06:49AM (#65813251) Attached to: 'The Strange and Totally Real Plan to Blot Out the Sun and Reverse Global Warming'

You have to admit; it's a fun thought experiment.

We don't know we will find such a method. But let's say we do. Just for the sake of the thought experiment. Imagine how different people will react. Some will have their favorite cause just plain ... taken away.

Comment Well ... (Score 1, Troll) 116

by cascadingstylesheet on Saturday November 22, 2025 @07:25PM (#65812725) Attached to: 'The Strange and Totally Real Plan to Blot Out the Sun and Reverse Global Warming'

... it would certainly put the hyperventilation industry out of business, to just ... you know ... cool things off a bit.

We can't have that!!

Comment "but our high standards for vendors" (Score 1) 7

by cascadingstylesheet on Friday November 21, 2025 @06:48AM (#65809335) Attached to: Mozilla Says It's Finally Done With Two-Faced Onerep

Mozilla? "high standards for vendors"?

(mike drop)

Comment Right choice then (Score 1) 56

by cascadingstylesheet on Friday November 21, 2025 @06:46AM (#65809327) Attached to: Fired Techie Admits Sabotaging Ex-Employer, Causing $862K In Damage

To fire him. I mean, thanks for confirming that, I guess!

Comment Re:Too Simplistic (Score 1) 84

by cascadingstylesheet on Thursday November 20, 2025 @05:38AM (#65806529) Attached to: Ultra-Processed Food is Global Health Threat, Researchers Warn

and it's not synthesized in a lab

Would ... that impart the dreaded "processed-ness"? A lab vs. a factory?

Comment Re:Too Simplistic (Score 1) 84

by cascadingstylesheet on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @07:51PM (#65806071) Attached to: Ultra-Processed Food is Global Health Threat, Researchers Warn

You ... do know that Karo corn syrup is not high-fructose corn syrup, right?

Oh no! By dismissing one example, you've devastated my ... oh wait, no you haven't.

What about the artificial vanilla flavor? Is Grandma the queen of processed-ness?

Is there some percentage of kitchens that something has to be found in, to be free of the "processed-ness" taint? Do they all have to be home kitchens? I mean, since we're being so scientific about all this ...

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