Odd Stuff (Part 2)

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Itā€™s a shame that his parents canā€™t talk to him.

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Just in case anyone wonders: the Tierzucht-Instrumente on the leaflet means it is a catalogue of tools/instruments meant to be used in animal husbandry.
Questions?

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Is it just me, or does it look like they were using an app for monitoring/tracking, too? Iā€™ve heard bad things about helicopter parenting, but using a robot to act as your childā€™s goal-setting, educational, and socialization buddy sounds like a nightmare (or an updated Twilight Zone episode) waiting to happenā€¦ :grimacing:

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We have the technology.

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Is it just me, or does it look like they were using an app for monitoring/tracking, too?

Every consumer-grade ā€œappā€ exists only to add monitoring and tracking to stuff that could otherwise be delivered with better privacy and security via a web page viewed in Firefox. The only question is ever: ā€œwho does the monitoring?ā€

My challenge last week was explaining to my son why he was not allowed to get the Facebook/Meta Oculus VR headset, which they are selling at 1/3 the price of comparable models not marketed by the Borg, and sold for that predatory price with the sole aim of locking you into the collective.

Aproposā€¦

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Itā€™s some sort of introductory text, or ā€œprimerā€, but inherently illustrated. Specifically for young people.

A Young Personā€™s Illustrated Primer, if you will.

What an age of diamonds we live in now.

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from the tongue to the testes

Sarah Silverman Eww GIF by HULU

Iā€™ll keep my tongue elsewhere, thanks.

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Sitting on food to taste it would be problematic.

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Who knew that teabagging Jesus could taste like anything?

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Supposedly, they are dropping this requirement but the warning remains that they cannot be trusted because they promised not to make it mandatory in the first place and can just as quickly go back on that promise or add it again at a later date. Of course, they are still getting a metric ton of personal data just by using the thing. Break them up.

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ā€œ Baleen whales such as blue, fin, minke and humpback whales consume, on average, around three times more each year than previous estimates suggested, researchers report in Nature . A blue whale in the eastern North Pacific, for example, might eat between 10 and 20 tons of food a day.

ā€œThat amount of food is somewhere in the range of 20 to 50 million calories,ā€ says Matthew Savoca, a researcher at Stanford University and the lead author of the new study. ā€œThat is about 70- to 80-thousand Big Macs. Probably decades of our eating is one day for them. So itā€™s pretty remarkable.ā€

Iā€™m not feeling as bad about my Thanksgiving plans now.

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They never should have killed his dog.

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named Doug

Tee hee!

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/NerdCrime/MustHaveAllTheGraphics

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I get the feeling this should get crossposted to the Cryptocurrency (and related fuckery) channelā€¦

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