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[JDTAY]

Guys, it turns out, legalizing pot didn't make it safe.

America’s Pot Labs Have A THC Problem

Keegan Skeate was working the night shift when he first heard about the scam. The 26-year-old was only a few months into his new job at Praxis Laboratory, a Was…

fivethirtyeight.com

My entire worldview is shaken right now.

 

[levi]

More accurately, it seems to have been the unverified lab testing of samples that's the root of the problem. But if they didn't at least pretend to test them, they couldn't sell them marked with their 'tested' percentages, like it used to be back when it was all a bit more hush hush.

 

[pyrat]

No thanks I'm quite happy being a laboratory mouse.

I almost forgot the Hitchaker Guide to the Galaxy. So are you the one running the simulation ? Can you delete Elon Musk ? He's giving you away... Maybe just buy him a ticket in Jeff Bezos capsule (as the anonymous passenger) and have it crash or something ? I wouldn't do harm to any person, but as long as both are just bits in a simulation...

 

[ElPoco]

I almost forgot the Hitchaker Guide to the Galaxy. So are you the one running the simulation ? Can you delete Elon Musk ? He's giving you away... Maybe just buy him a ticket in Jeff Bezos capsule (as the anonymous passenger) and have it crash or something ? I wouldn't do harm to any person, but as long as both are just bits in a simulation...

I think Null was refering Pinky and the Brain

 

[pyrat]

Pinky and the Brain

Duh. Thanks, I didn't know that series.

 

[Null]

Duh. Thanks, I didn't know that series.

 

[λ the β-Redex Reducer]

Guys, it turns out, legalizing pot didn't make it safe.

America’s Pot Labs Have A THC Problem

Keegan Skeate was working the night shift when he first heard about the scam. The 26-year-old was only a few months into his new job at Praxis Laboratory, a Was…

fivethirtyeight.com

My entire worldview is shaken right now.

Smoking is not safe either, but that is allowed. Why ban the entire plant, despite the fact that it has many great uses that have nothing to do with drugs? That is like banning knifes because people can kill with them. If killing is the problem, then forbid killing, not the owning of knives.

 

[Null]

 

[Phlyra]

New LinkedIn data leak exposed details of more than 90% of users

Personal information from 700 million LinkedIn users has appeared in a data leak that contains phone numbers, email addresses, and more.

bgr.com

 

[Null]

Why some biologists and ecologists think social media is a risk to humanity

One challenge is how little we know about the dangers.

www.vox.com

 

[JDTAY]

There's a disturbance making its way across the Atlantic that has an 80% chance of becoming Tropical Storm Elsa. Worse, the path they have it taking right now puts it south of most of the Caribbean Islands, meaning it should have lots of opportunity to develop into something nasty.

 

[Phlyra]

There's a disturbance making its way across the Atlantic that has an 80% chance of becoming Tropical Storm Elsa. Worse, the path they have it taking right now puts it south of most of the Caribbean Islands, meaning it should have lots of opportunity to develop into something nasty.

Let it go. Let it go.

 

[levi]

The storm never bothered me anyway.

 

[Null]

There's a disturbance making its way across the Atlantic

 

[JDTAY]

Hmm, not only is that formation chance up to 90% now, it's 70% through 48 hours, but still not projected to make landfall anywhere in five days. That means Elsa could spend more than three days just building strength, before walloping Central America. This one feels like our first hurricane of the season for sure.

Atlantic 7-Day Graphical Tropical Weather Outlook

 

[netcat]

Smoking is not safe either

Wrong. It is completely beneficial.

Hmm, not only is that formation chance up to 90% now, it's 70% through 48 hours, but still not projected to make landfall anywhere in five days. That means Elsa could spend more than three days just building strength, before walloping Central America. This one feels like our first hurricane of the season for sure.

Do you live on the street? When it rains, go inside, and watch TV. Like proper American.

 

[Null]

Deaf man sleeps through Chicago tornado — The Daily Moth

A deaf man named Leonard Vaznonis slept through a tornado that destroyed his home in Woodridge, Illinois, which is near Chicago. He said in an interview that firefighters woke him up on Monday early morning to inform him that his roof was damaged and to evacuate him. Leonard Vaznonis: It was Fathe

www.dailymoth.com

 

[JDTAY]

Tropical Depression Five's latest path has it crossing Cuba and impacting Florida's west coast. There's still a lot of uncertainty this far out though.

 

[levi]

Interesting read from the software freedom conservancy guys:

It Matters Who Owns Your Copylefted Copyrights

Throughout the history of Free and Open Source software (FOSS), copyright assignment has simultaneously been controversial and accepted as the norm in our FOSS communities. This paradox, I believe, stems entirely from some key misunderstandings that perpetuate. This issue requires urgent...

sfconservancy.org

I was under the impression that given commercial companies often have the majority of copyright in the kernel monthly reports, those companies had had a change of heart due to making so much use these days of open source code for their business operations, and would defend the GPL if someone contravened it, but it seems I was mistaken in that assessment.

 

[λ the β-Redex Reducer]

AFAIK large companies never have a change of heart. They are just machines to generate profit for the shareholders.

The article is really interesting. I had already read it.