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ourmandaveon Study estimates 75% of NFL players who died over 15-year span had CTE

The average weight of the front line NFL player is over 310 lbs.

At that size ratio from kids to pro, they should be rivaling Dark Helmet from Space Balls.

ourmandaveon The U.S. Census Bureau and "Super Intelligence"

Well now you're just quoting Space Force doctrine.

(Esp. the second part.)

ourmandaveon Hackers expose the identities of more than 40k DHS employees

There was a guy from Japanese Unit 731 found working as a pharmacist many years after the war.

A monster hiding in plain sight.

ourmandaveon StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month

Some sort of version number would help. I use .NET and if the most current answer is on a question asked 15 years ago, I'll never see it.

ourmandaveon StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month

Oh no you don't! You're starting a "back in my day..." thread, that's like saying "Beetlejuice!" three times.

Z80 Assembly! Fortran! ENIAC cables!

And the ghost of Alan Turing shows up.

ourmandaveon Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements

When you have trouble meeting the daily quota set by the administration, I guess you wouldn't have time to ponder if the 73-year-old grandma who has been here 30 years is a threat to America.

And civil rights are merely a speed bump on the way to the detention center.

ourmandaveon Tesla Semi catches fire on I-880

Yeah, that's on Derek Lowe's list of things he won't work with.

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-tou...

ourmandaveon Barcelona unrest: how to fabricate a protest in the age of TikTok

Recent studies have shown that performing mental gymnastics could delay the onset of dementia.

ourmandaveon SS United States to be sunk as largest artificial reef

Ironically, Whirlpool.

ourmandaveon Birdwatching rewires the brain and slows cognitive decline

Does it count if I have a bird feeder with a movement detection camera that saves to the cloud 100's of terrible blurry images I look at once a never?

ourmandaveon Dutch government had hacked into Jared Kushner's phone

Countries don't have friends, they have interests. Spying on allies has always been a thing.

ourmandaveon Bonanza of new dates rewrites the history of the Inca

Does this mean we get a new season of Ancient Aliens on the Discovery Channel?

Ancient Astronaut theorists dressed like Indiana Jones pretending to be archaeologists.

ourmandaveon Tesla 'Cannot Guarantee' Roadster Reservation Holders Will Ever Get a Car

There's a website dedicated to Elon's predictions.

He tweeted back in 2019 there would be a flying roadster.

Promises made, promises kept?

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1083095876392964096

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1083128521801822213

Broken clock, etc.

https://elonmusk.today/#flying-roadster

ourmandaveon Tesla 'Cannot Guarantee' Roadster Reservation Holders Will Ever Get a Car

Sorry, I'd only heard a 0 to 60 mph in 1 second and assumed. =[

I suppose the Fast and Furious guys are work shopping a scene around this.

ourmandaveon Tesla 'Cannot Guarantee' Roadster Reservation Holders Will Ever Get a Car

Wasn't it purpose built for the Hot Wheels demo?

Insane acceleration to get up the ramp and enough fuel to land safely.

Unless you have a giant ramp or a penchant to drive off cliffs who is lining up for this?

ourmandaveon The Haunted Toys R Us

This is different than the "haunted" toy store that randomly appeared in an empty lot near my house.

They had super discounts on Chucky Dolls and sets of steak knives.

I guess all sales are final since it disappeared right after I walked out.

ourmandaveon Do dentists know what they're doing?

There was a horror story of scammers running a dentist office where they told parents they needed to extract all their child's teeth for some bogus reason.

They did it to several children before enough people caught on and shut it down.

Paid per child's tooth needlessly pulled is next level evil.

ourmandaveon ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program

And I upvoted and replied. Great.

ourmandaveon ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program

"Nightmare" program is right. When the wifey asks where I was last night and can check my story with the ICE app.

ourmandaveon ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program

The starting people will have top secret security clearance. =(

ourmandaveon ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program

The All-Russian Extraordinary Commission, abbreviated as VChK, and commonly known as the Cheka, was the first Soviet secret police organization.

ourmandaveon Who Is Planting Backdoors in Ledger Crypto Wallets?

... and smelt tin

I'll just order my crucible and tongs off Alibaba.

Wait a second...

ourmandaveon CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades

It really is mind boggling to watch a months long committee investigation of Jan 6th and then Merrick Garland just nopes out.

ourmandaveon Secret of Orange Cats Revealed After 60-Year Search

60 years of dissecting fluffy orange kittens is a lot of fluffy orange kittens. =(

ourmandaveon NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect

Why not the State of NY instead of just the city?

IL has had click-to-cancel since 2022. (Actually 2000, but updated in 2022, with continuous amendments being put forward all the time.)

ourmandaveon Why Texas Is Making Data Centers Wait

The tell is so obvious. All the GOP candidates distancing themselves from Trump and saying data centers are bad.

Normally that would earn you a 2AM all caps tweet labeling you a RINO or worse, and getting primaried. Instead, not a peep.

Which tells you its a ruse and he's in on it.

ourmandaveon Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem Pillay

Apropo to nothing, Jack Smith, who is teed up to try Trump for the Jan 6 insurrection, was an investigation coordinator for ICC.

Probably nothing to do with it.

ourmandaveon In Vienna and Beijing, the first (thorium) nuclear clocks begin to tick

To address some of the most pressing open questions in fundamental physics, such as the origin and properties of dark matter...

Owing to unknown nuclear parameters, precise values of these sensitivity factors cannot at present be calculated, but it is predicted that they will exceed those of the most sensitive atomic clock transitions by several orders of magnitude.

So when you achieve FTL, the Vulcans show up.

Who (or what) shows up when you solve the riddle of dark matter?

ourmandaveon ShinyHunters Extorted Boeing Spin-Off Prior to Arrests

The original group behind ShinyHunters went to prison and Rey took it over.

They're trolling him saying he's not nearly as good and tarnishing the ShinyHunters rep.

I have no idea what's true, but they can all go to hell.

ourmandaveon Borland Turbo Basic

There was some car show episode with an actual barn-find unmolested 70s Dodge Charger with matching numbers. The widow had no idea what it was worth so the guy showed her the assessment and paid her the fair market value.