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Old news but worth it..
Rocco The Cheeky Parrot Keeps Using Amazon’s Alexa To Order Snacks
The African grey interacts with the virtual assistant up to 40 times a day, asking it to tell him jokes and play his favorite music.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
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@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller TL:DR Mrs May is the Donald Trump of the UK.
Is all I needed.
That's kinda how it is, yeah.
Okay so she's just as bat-shit crazy as the Don, and wants Mexico (Italy) to pay for it?
(that's a pun)
But what did the people think they would get when they voted to leave the EU? If Mrs May is fired, doesn't the Brexit vote still proceed, but with someone else who is going to be stuck in this shit-sandwich situation?
Also, from my meager understanding of the issue, May was initially against Brexit but has inherited the problem.... so imagine that the next time around Don Don is booted out, replaced with someone like Mrs Obama and she now has to figure out how to make his Mexico wall happen.... I'd go batshit crazy in that situation too
Yeah, that's a bit weird. I believe she was against it, but now is insane and seems to have lost all sense of reality and is "Brexit in name, at any cost", which is never good.
But she has had awesome options at her disposal all alone and refused to take them. She made something bad into something much much worse.
What I find interesting about this whole thing. The crown has basically unlimited veto power. The Queen could easily prevent Brexit from happening. Although maybe there is a significant political issue there.
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Psychologists defend claim of “destructive aspects” to masculinity
Critics argue new psychology guidance pathologizes being male.
The American Psychological Association is on the defensive over its newly released clinical guidance (PDF) for treating boys and men, which links traditional masculinity ideology to a range of harms, including sexism, violence, mental health issues, suicide, and homophobia. Critics contend that the guidelines attack traditional values and innate characteristics of males.
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Psychologists defend claim of “destructive aspects” to masculinity
Critics argue new psychology guidance pathologizes being male.
The American Psychological Association is on the defensive over its newly released clinical guidance (PDF) for treating boys and men, which links traditional masculinity ideology to a range of harms, including sexism, violence, mental health issues, suicide, and homophobia. Critics contend that the guidelines attack traditional values and innate characteristics of males.
Were they taking notes from @RojoLoco? (Keep it up, we like you how you are!)
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Psychologists defend claim of “destructive aspects” to masculinity
Critics argue new psychology guidance pathologizes being male.
The American Psychological Association is on the defensive over its newly released clinical guidance (PDF) for treating boys and men, which links traditional masculinity ideology to a range of harms, including sexism, violence, mental health issues, suicide, and homophobia. Critics contend that the guidelines attack traditional values and innate characteristics of males.
LOL - traits that help the gender in pretty much every other species.
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Someone needs to do a study on the dangers of the traits of psychologists. It is commonly understood that a large percentage of people find the field interesting due to a history of their own mental struggles. One could pathologize psychologists pretty easily.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Someone needs to do a study on the dangers of the traits of psychologists. It is commonly understood that a large percentage of people find the field interesting due to a history of their own mental struggles. One could pathologize psychologists pretty easily.
That could potentially be true for many professions.
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@Obsolesce said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Someone needs to do a study on the dangers of the traits of psychologists. It is commonly understood that a large percentage of people find the field interesting due to a history of their own mental struggles. One could pathologize psychologists pretty easily.
That could potentially be true for many professions.
But "most" aren't "mental health issues." That's the key. Like going into sport medicine because you played sports and pulled a muscle and found the treatment interesting is very different.
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Tesla accuses engineer of plotting secret project, she denies it and sues
Cristina Balan raised concerns, Tesla dismissed them publicly as "nonsensical."
The lawsuit (and pages of exhibits) were filed Wednesday by Cristina Balan in federal court in Seattle. Balan says she was forced out of Tesla in 2014 and has been tangling with the company for years, both in arbitration and in the press.
According to Balan’s lawsuit, the alleged defamatory statements include that she spent company money without approval, booked an unapproved trip to New York, produced a secret project for windshields for her own benefit, and conducted illegal audio recordings of coworkers.
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Anti-vaccine nonsense spurred NY’s largest outbreak in decades
Health officials went to community doctors and rabbis to thwart disease spread.
Since last fall, New York has tallied 177 confirmed cases of measles, the largest outbreak the state has seen in decades. It began with infected travelers, arriving from parts of Israel and Europe where the highly contagious disease was spreading. In New York, that spread has largely been confined to ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities.
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Anti-vaccine nonsense spurred NY’s largest outbreak in decades
Health officials went to community doctors and rabbis to thwart disease spread.
Since last fall, New York has tallied 177 confirmed cases of measles, the largest outbreak the state has seen in decades. It began with infected travelers, arriving from parts of Israel and Europe where the highly contagious disease was spreading. In New York, that spread has largely been confined to ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities.
I know this is going to be crass, but why do we even give people the choice?
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@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Anti-vaccine nonsense spurred NY’s largest outbreak in decades
Health officials went to community doctors and rabbis to thwart disease spread.
Since last fall, New York has tallied 177 confirmed cases of measles, the largest outbreak the state has seen in decades. It began with infected travelers, arriving from parts of Israel and Europe where the highly contagious disease was spreading. In New York, that spread has largely been confined to ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities.
I know this is going to be crass, but why do we even give people the choice?
Have you seen and understood the ingredients lables on the cheap ones? I'm not an anti-vaxer, but if you're going to put mercury in my system every year from things like the cheap flu shots, that's a big old nope. Just pay for the ones that don't have **** added in.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Someone needs to do a study on the dangers of the traits of psychologists. It is commonly understood that a large percentage of people find the field interesting due to a history of their own mental struggles. One could pathologize psychologists pretty easily.
Yeah. I know several people that started in the psychology area because of their own mental health issues. I am skeptical of much of what is considered fact when it comes to psychology.
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Star Trek: Discovery’s second season may boldly go where the first did not
"I suggest that you focus on the problem in front of you, rather than what is behind."
In many ways, this season felt very much like a much-needed reset from the previous one. The Klingon war is over, and the Federation is consumed by a new scientific pursuit: mysterious red bursts of light that have appeared across 30,000 light years.
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Star Trek: Discovery’s second season may boldly go where the first did not
"I suggest that you focus on the problem in front of you, rather than what is behind."
In many ways, this season felt very much like a much-needed reset from the previous one. The Klingon war is over, and the Federation is consumed by a new scientific pursuit: mysterious red bursts of light that have appeared across 30,000 light years.
I'm looking forward to seeing it
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@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Star Trek: Discovery’s second season may boldly go where the first did not
"I suggest that you focus on the problem in front of you, rather than what is behind."
In many ways, this season felt very much like a much-needed reset from the previous one. The Klingon war is over, and the Federation is consumed by a new scientific pursuit: mysterious red bursts of light that have appeared across 30,000 light years.
I'm looking forward to seeing it
I’m looking forward to see how they square this entire series with cannon. Season one was good. I hope season two is also.
By itself it is a solid Star Trek show. But they have stated publicly that it will square to cannon.
Being only 10 years ahead of TOS, there are some big ass issues to be matched up.
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@JaredBusch said in Non-IT News Thread:
@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Star Trek: Discovery’s second season may boldly go where the first did not
"I suggest that you focus on the problem in front of you, rather than what is behind."
In many ways, this season felt very much like a much-needed reset from the previous one. The Klingon war is over, and the Federation is consumed by a new scientific pursuit: mysterious red bursts of light that have appeared across 30,000 light years.
I'm looking forward to seeing it
I’m looking forward to see how they square this entire series with cannon. Season one was good. I hope season two is also.
By itself it is a solid Star Trek show. But they have stated publicly that it will square to cannon.
Being only 10 years ahead of TOS, there are some big ass issues to be matched up.
LOL - canon, like Star Wars, is just screwed.
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@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@JaredBusch said in Non-IT News Thread:
@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Star Trek: Discovery’s second season may boldly go where the first did not
"I suggest that you focus on the problem in front of you, rather than what is behind."
In many ways, this season felt very much like a much-needed reset from the previous one. The Klingon war is over, and the Federation is consumed by a new scientific pursuit: mysterious red bursts of light that have appeared across 30,000 light years.
I'm looking forward to seeing it
I’m looking forward to see how they square this entire series with cannon. Season one was good. I hope season two is also.
By itself it is a solid Star Trek show. But they have stated publicly that it will square to cannon.
Being only 10 years ahead of TOS, there are some big ass issues to be matched up.
LOL - canon, like Star Wars, is just screwed.
Maybe. It will depend on what they do. Either way season 1 was good as a Star Trek show itself, just not sure how they think they could possibly square this to canon.
