Mod parent more Funny. Best of 3 currently modded Funny, but my feelings are mixed.

On the one hand I think the story is a rich target for dark humor. (Even though your joke wasn't so bleak.)

On the other hand, I just wrote "A Farewell to Voting" about why I gave up. Short summary is that Franklin's republic didn't die with a flash-bang of orange BS. Rather it was with whimpers (from Democrats begging for more donations), cowardice (of the fake Republicans), and burps (from the super-greedy who still desperately "need" more imaginary money).

No, he was from <cue the eerie music> Spaaaaace Fooooorce.

s/weight/weigh/

But I tried the same joke and still no Funny around here.

Sock puppet's Subject was propagated about 80% of the way down a fairly active discussion--but still no Funny.

But don't be rude and ask the new astronauts how much they weigh.

However if you have to feed the sock puppet, do you also have to propagate the troll's irrelevant Subject?

Wrong and rather vacuous. Perhaps you are projecting?

But still not deserving of the censorship moderation, hence the quote of your content.

My new theory is that mod points are only given to AI-driven sock puppets. Part of how Slashdot is keeping up with the times. Though the website lacks the resources to resolve any of the major (and ancient) problems, they have managed to implement a behavior-based anti-CAPTCHA test. So now the mod points are only given to accounts that have proven that they are not human beings.

(I keep hoping that I'll grow a sense of humor one of these years. And I even dare to hope the story has a funny comment or two. Such a rich target.)

From context and common (but increasingly rare) sense I think you meant the defense attorney, not the prosecutor.

And you sound like a typical puppet dancing to your strings. Don't you ever wonder who is jerking you around?

But it definitely doesn't seem like we have anything to discuss here.

there are lots of those, often with their own "store." I find batteries like that a lot.

But this was explicitly a Walmart listing, by Walmart, rather than a 3d party listing.

Are you sure that you actually cancelled your Prime account? How long until you are sure that you really did it?

I think this is a sort of joke, but my guess is that you only got far enough to convince yourself that you could cancel it, but somewhere along the way you changed your mind and decided not to. Sort of like "I can quit gambling/drinking/gaming whenever I feel like it, so I'm not addicted." If you had gotten too close to actually cancelling your membership, then they would have pulled out the big psycho-weapons until you backed down.

In general I think psychology and psychiatry are full of BS, but the applied psychologists have gotten too good at pulling people's strings for the sake of selling deodorant, laundry soap, and politicians who really stink to high heaven notwithstanding any amount of deodorant and soap. The applied psychologists have an enormous advantage. They are basically behaviorists and they don't worry about the value of the human soul, the nature of evil, or collateral damage. None of that trivial stuff matters when you have widgets and snake oil to sell.

Disclaimer needed: I haven't had any direct contact with Amazon in decades. My second and final Amazon purchase was that long ago. I evaluated what Amazon was doing with my personal information and decided that I wanted no part of it. Nothing that I have seen in the years since has improved my opinion of the cancer.

Even though you're apparently feeding a troll, I think there is a more substantive answer involving a solution approach that would involve 'light AI' technology. It's actually a topic I've been researching for some years, even though the doctors have never really convinced me I need to worry about my blood pressure.

So the fundamental problem is that most direct (external) measurements of blood pressure involve comparing the blood pressure to air pressure, so they take a substantial amount of power to pressurize some kind of balloon. Major problem for small battery devices like watches.

An alternative approach would involve timing, based on the variation in pulse timing, though maybe the approach flopped. Key term is HRV (Heart Rate Variability), which allows you to track and time individual pulses as they reach different parts of the body. Last research I read was a couple of years ago and I still don't haven't seen any products on the market. However the basic idea would be to take timing data from different locations and use it to calculate the blood pressure. You would need a couple of separate pulse detectors with stable locations, but the real problem is that the arteries are not uniform, either over distance or time. That means that you would need to train a fairly sophisticated model to figure out what blood pressures really correspond to what timing differences. Probably need to train it for each person, too.

Ouch, ouch, ouch.

Okay, you got your funny mod points, but did you have to propagate the vacuous Subject, too? On the grounds of your Funny, I forgive you for getting me to look at AC's tripe, though I didn't actually try to read it. Enough to know he was too ashamed to even attach a handle to the tripe...

(Now if I was an actual humorist I would have figured out a way to work a wind turbine into my joke, but that was just a replacement/filler joke because I couldn't figure out how to create a Subject full of punctuation in response to your joke. (And my replacement joke is really due to a similar joke I saw on another website.)

What?

It's not just amazon.

I ordered a thermostat for my mustang last week. It was described as "sold and shipped by Walmart."

A couple of days later, I found an Autozone box on my porch. And not just the box, but the shipping return address was to auto zone!

??

the real tragedy of Viet Nam was that the US achieved *exactly* what it set out to do--which was a really stupid thing to do and waste lives upon.

The mission was *not* to defeat the north Vietnamese, but to keep them on their side of an imaginary line. US troops that went over the line got called back.

When the US finally decided it wanted to stop playing, the north wouldn't let them simply leave. To get them to talk, the US bombed them into submission, for crying out loud.

By any *military* standard, Viet nam was an overwhelming success for the US. US troops controlled whatever ground they chose, and won all of the battles.

But "resist aggression and stay on your side of the line" is a *stupid*, even criminal, thing to ask of a military. As is the lives it through away for idiocy.

Mostly the ACK and concurrence, though I noticed and regret my typo of "there" where I meant "their".