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Comment Re:Count me in (Score 1) 140

by 0xG (#65908059) Attached to: Many Schools Don't Think Students Can Read Full Novels Anymore

I have bought about 8 books in the past two years. I finished one. It was dreadful - I certainly chose the wrong one. But the others I've hardly started. There is no moment in a modern day that it the right moment to sit and read. The process of reading brings me no joy at all. No writer feels any urgency to get to the point.

Ah, so it's the fault of the authors?

Comment Stupid (Score 1) 36

by 0xG (#65905853) Attached to: Hyundai and Boston Dynamics Unveil Humanoid Robot Atlas At CES

I don't want a walking AI interface. That's completely pointless; who cares if it walks?

I want a robot that can go to the fridge, select the proper kind of beer, get a new glass from the cupboard, rinse it, and pour the beer without a head.

There's no way these robots can perform such an important task.

Submission + - US strikes Venezuela, says leader Maduro has been captured, flown out of country (apnews.com) 5

Submitted by divide overflow
divide overflow writes: CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The United States hit Venezuela with a “large-scale strike” early Saturday and said its president, Nicolás Maduro, had been captured and flown out of the country after months of stepped-up pressure by Washington — an extraordinary nighttime operation announced by President Donald Trump on social media hours after the attack.

Comment Meta-answer: (Score 1) 46

by 0xG (#65895049) Attached to: Slashdot Asks: Your Favorite 2025 Movies, TV Shows and Books?

Lists. This is the time of year where media and pundits swamp us with lists:
Ten best movies of 2025
20 Worst movies of 2025
12 Books you should have read
27 Worst gaffes by sports announcer
Seven new foods that I tried and loved
Best new sex positions of 2025
35 New albums that you should play
101 Lies by Trump in 2025

And so on. Here it comes....

Comment Re:send them all back (Score 1) 223

by 0xG (#65893103) Attached to: 'Foreign Tech Workers Are Avoiding Travel To the US'

yeah we don't need any foreigners, not a single one. we need to send our brightest to our best universities and ban all foreigners from american colleges. we need to develop our own talent instead of sidelining the descendants of people that built this country.

if third worlders can't even fix their own countries how are they going to improve ours? its nonsense. we should be sending out americans to foreign countries to help them improve, not the other way around. we are a nation, not a soulless economic zone. they ALL have to go back!

Says the (obviously) illiterate troll.

Comment Re:No one should be surprised (Score 1) 159

by 0xG (#65893037) Attached to: US Measles Cases Surpass 2,000, Highest in 30 Years: CDC

When you have Republicans saying they want things to be like their were in the 50s, then put an anti-vaxxer in charge of the nation's top health agency, what would you expect?

Whooping cough cases are also seeing a similar increase as well as deaths.

Let's bring back Thalidomide while we're on this nostalgia kick!

Comment Weekly Delivery (Score 1) 41

by 0xG (#65893017) Attached to: Denmark's Main Postal Carrier Ends Letter Delivery

I don't need mail to come every day.
Deliver it every second day, 1/2 the letter carriers required.

I understand that there are other costs: sorting equipment, etc. But it's all scalable.

As we have discovered in Canada, the biggest impediment to rationalizing the postal service is...the union.

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