#NeedsMoreLikes

[davide405]

MIT students create and circulate open source, covert RFID rings to subvert campus tracking system

Mordor Institute of Technology

[anon61221983]

When your dental insurer sends you a "free" Internet of Shit toothbrush

I’m starting to think the Borg began with IoT devices.

Added to here @anothernewbbaccount

[anon34399329]

Same thread:

When your dental insurer sends you a "free" Internet of Shit toothbrush

Unfortunately, it takes only a limited excursion into lawful evil(when writing up the policies) and either neutral evil or chaotic (when interpreting them) to make health insurance pretty useless even then. I’ve certainly not seen the the worst of it(given that I’m neither dead nor bankrupt as yet); but there is…room for flexibility…when the game is “give your money to the guys who write and interpret the rules on when you are eligible to get money back; hope for the best”. (Naturally, Serious …

[davide405]

Bombing makes great propaganda, but not for the side that's doing the bombing

From Guatemala to Korea To the tunnels beneath Hanoi From Tulsa to El Chorillo Fat Man to Little Boy We fought them in Nicaragua And upon the Cuban shore We killed Khaddafi’s daughter See what the fatwa’s got in store We’re gonna bomb our way to freedom With the cruise missiles of justice And the spent shells of democracy Oh, say, can you see From Kabul to Khartoum Where Allah’s martyrs bled To the Iraqi desert Two hundred thousand people dead We’re gonna bomb our…

[Mister44]

Is this a tiny person in a glider being held by a woman in a bikini, or a giant woman in a bikini holding a man in a glider?

And I would be remiss if I did not post my revision of the lyrics to that most excellent song: All I want to do Is see you turn into A little kitten     A little kitten! All I want to be Is someone who gets to see A little kitten All I want to do Is help you turn into A little kitten     A little kitten! All I want to be Is someone who gets to see A little kitten Oh I know it’ ll be great and I just can’t wait to see you crawling up the curtains if you give it a go y…

This person took an already cute song and made it cuter and only has one like?

[Lexicat]

I got the ukulele tabs and started learning to play it last night…

Also: WTF?! “Kung Fu Grip” has more likes?!?!

[anon30760835]

Giuliani to join Trump's legal team

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[davide405]

Starbucks to close over 8,000 stores May 29 for racial bias education after 2 black men arrested

Earlier in the thread, you said: The incident isn’t just about the manager who called 911, it’s about that manager in a particular circumstance. If the person who was supposed to meet the two men who were kicked out was on time (or if the two men weren’t early) then the manager never would have done what they did. With a few managers per store, depending on their hours, and with 8000 stores, they may have 20k-30k employees who might have made that call. If the most racist 5% of those employee…

I translate that as “We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we should do this.”

That statement is a tool to ascribe negative qualities to people who say things that you disagree with. It’s contains no analysis of what is a good idea and what is not.

[Nightflyer]

Public ignorance about “drunk/drugged up losers” is expensive and deadly

I’m sitting here right now thinking about how awesome it would be to have a bottle of Vicodin and nobody to get on my back. To feel that glorious sensation of cares and pain washing away in a tide of peace and tranquility. To have the racing thoughts and emotional demons that bark and scream for attention fall silent again for a few blissful minutes, and feel the wave of ease flood over me again like God’s own mercy. God in heaven, what I wouldn’t give to have that feeling again – knowing down …

[davide405]

This one is too good to be buried down at reply number 9 in what’s otherwise going to be a map-geek thread.

Soviet spy maps of western cities

Out in the east Scottish town of Edinburgh, I fell in love with a MacIntosh girl. Nighttime would find me in Fergus’ cantina; Bagpipes would play and the tartans would whirl

Sung to the tune of El Paso, in case you need a hint.

Marty Robbins Sings 'El Paso.'

[Purplecat]

The French Republic claims France.com as its own

I mean, on one hand, “I called dibs in 1994” is a pretty good argument. Of course the counterargument of “Expropriation for no reason” is also a real winner.

[davide405]

I was lucky to have a friend like Lu

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2017/09/05/i-was-lucky-to-have-a-friend-l.html …

[TobinL]

Tough guy Brian Kemp thinks it's funny to point a gun at a teen in his Georgia governor campaign video

The only thing that will stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a vote.

[Snowlark]

Wil Wheaton's frank, brave speech about his depression and anxiety

I disagree. Sure, Wheaton and Lev Grossman and the other writers and artists/celebrities who have depression or other mental illnesses may not be crippled by it, (though I do not think anyone who isn’t very close to them is in a position to judge that), are able to be successful despite their illness. But they still have it. They still struggle. And like every artist, actor, or professional sports hero who comes out as gay, they normalize it. They get people to talk about mental illness, get it…

[Kimmo]

Torturer and coverup artist Gina Haspel tried to bow out of CIA Directorship to avoid Senate questioning

That depends on how you define “success”. https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list I found this interesting Truman quote recently, BTW: Excerpt from http://www.maebrussell.com/Prouty/Harry%20Truman's%20CIA%20article.html [image]

[kingannoy]

https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/when-trump-bullied-in-a-tweet-today-schumer-reminded-him-of-melanias-no-cyberbullying-campaign/120625/24

[DukeTrout]

Student debt crisis watch: pay $18,000 of your $24,000 loan, owe $24,000

With student loans you cannot declare bankruptcy, therefore they are 100% guaranteed loans and lenders should not be allowed to charge high rates. Much of the European union, university is free. For that matter as a foreign student you can even study in Germany for free, if you qualify and they put you in the Goethe institute to brush up your German. In the US this would be $60billion dollars, which is what they spend on Darpa or 5% of the military budget. It is the best bang for the buck as…

[MalevolentPixy]

How to play the saxophone, for people who already know

Careful what you wish for. Too much sax and violins can really mess you up.

[Nightflyer]

Student debt crisis watch: pay $18,000 of your $24,000 loan, owe $24,000

Such things require lots of money. That’s what makes this increasingly difficult for people to be expected to “pull themselves up by their own bootstraps” and other republicanesque logic that should be tossed into the dustbin of history. We’re approaching historic levels of income inequality that flip society into groups of people who have everything and people who have nothing i.e. the aforementioned genetic lottery. A college degree is what a high school degree used to be when my parents were …

[anon15383236]

Explaining marine invertebrate reproductive strategies to the lobster-obsessed Jordan Peterson

Yes, just not quite in the way you’ve become enamoured of. You’ve decided that certain types of hierarchical structures and dynamics are inescapable in human society, and that we must subsume ourselves to playing games on their terms. Quite why you’ve decided that, when it does not actually follow from any of this, is a question you should seek answers to. As I’ve said, these hierarchical tendencies are simply one set of ways that component-based systems can self-organise, and the way they d…