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scunon Major ICQ security hole (1998)

like hamsters

scunon Woman arrested after blocking delivery robot in Center City Philadelphia

"disorderly conduct"

scunon Do dentists know what they're doing?

They should be trained to call for "medical professionals" or something.

Anyway in a pinch you can be fairly sure that any non-medical doctor is extremely (maybe narrowly) educated, whatever that's worth. A young MD might be less appropriate.

scunon Do dentists know what they're doing?

What is authority when it is not unquestioned?

scunon Cartographers of North Korea (2019)

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scunon The dawn of the age of the exoskeleton

Did we learn nothing from The Wrong Trousers?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipRslDOIG5g

scunon The dawn of the age of the exoskeleton

decent mecha-spider legs would kneel for easy mount/dismount

scunon Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days

The spookiest thing about the Nail Clipping Song is that you immediately forget singing it, or even knowing it.

scunon House with 15m underground tunnels for sale for 300k

Sealand? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand

scunon Beauty in DVD Menus

Who's ripping DVDs in 2026? Just print a photo of each frame and flick through.

scunon 'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth

Sure but biologists will talk to anything. You know what happened to the other tortoises? Bored to death.

scunon 'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth

> The results revealed that Jonathan has “unique gene variants in most aging pathways” including DNA repair, insulin regulation, mitochondrial function, and “low entropy” methylation, reports the study.

min-maxing longevity vs speed and charisma

scunon Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery

Then you are too invested for your own good.

Do Trekkies not crave novelty?

scunon Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery

Nothing on that list should have lived this long.

scunon I'm the AGI that's wiping out humanity

even priapism

scunon Martian chaos terrain

that key made me queasy

scunon Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too?

Transmitters on the bins seems cumbersome and expensive. I would use metal tape on the bin to complete a circuit on the fence.

Then I can overengineer the fensor circuit! Ultralow power, bin recognition, alarms, fox nerfs, auto-lids and so on.

scunon ADHD, autism or complex trauma? [pdf]

  They fuck you up, your mum and dad. 
  They may not mean to, but they do. 
  They fill you with the faults they had
  And add some extra, just for you.

-Philip Larkin

scunon What is going on with ceiling fans

Your shits are human sized? Ooft

scunon Nazi Germany had no hope of making an atomic bomb, uranium cubes reveal

Coincidentally TIL about a Namibian politician who decided to drop the "Hitler" from his name. I only mention it because his first name is also Adolf

scunon Butterflies use optical illusions to dodge predators

Sounds like the ol' razzle dazzle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage

scunon U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels

I miss the taste of the glue.

scunon America.gov

or a well-crafted static website