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      dafyre @DustinB3403
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      @DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:

      @travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:

      @DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:

      @mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

      Washington Governor signs bill to allow composting human bodies

      Recompose is spearheading a greener green burial.
      This week, Washington Governor Jay Inslee signed a bill to allow the composting of human remains within the state.

      While I don't disagree with this, the entire idea of burials is also just weird, at least from a modern perspective of pumping people full of chemicals to preserve the body and then putting a really expensive box in the ground inside of another larger concrete box.

      Screw all of that, just burn me after I'm gone. Not that that's better, it's just done with quicker.

      At least with a cremation, assuming the ashes aren't stored in an urn everything "goes back to nature".

      We'll all be plant food anyway... bury me, burn me... It's not like I'll be needing my body after I'm dead.

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      • travisdh1T
        travisdh1 @dafyre
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        @dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:

        @DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:

        @travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:

        @DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:

        @mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

        Washington Governor signs bill to allow composting human bodies

        Recompose is spearheading a greener green burial.
        This week, Washington Governor Jay Inslee signed a bill to allow the composting of human remains within the state.

        While I don't disagree with this, the entire idea of burials is also just weird, at least from a modern perspective of pumping people full of chemicals to preserve the body and then putting a really expensive box in the ground inside of another larger concrete box.

        Screw all of that, just burn me after I'm gone. Not that that's better, it's just done with quicker.

        At least with a cremation, assuming the ashes aren't stored in an urn everything "goes back to nature".

        We'll all be plant food anyway... bury me, burn me... It's not like I'll be needing my body after I'm dead.

        All the legal rigamarole with being buried means your body is around a long time. Even without reading the article that started us down this conversation, it can only be an improvement.

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        • mlnewsM
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          Ohio's Dayton rocked by storms and tornadoes

          Millions of people have been left without power in the US state of Ohio after severe storms and tornadoes hit the region.

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          • travisdh1T
            travisdh1 @mlnews
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            @mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

            Ohio's Dayton rocked by storms and tornadoes

            Millions of people have been left without power in the US state of Ohio after severe storms and tornadoes hit the region.

            Glad we got back before the storms hit. That's just a mess!

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            • dafyreD
              dafyre @travisdh1
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              @travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:

              @mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

              Ohio's Dayton rocked by storms and tornadoes

              Millions of people have been left without power in the US state of Ohio after severe storms and tornadoes hit the region.

              Glad we got back before the storms hit. That's just a mess!

              I got some friends who may be close to that. Getting wifey to check on them now. I don't know how close they were to it.

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                Leech smuggling: Canada fines man after 4,700 carried on plane

                A man has been fined C$15,000 ($11,000; £8,800) for trying to smuggle thousands of leeches in his carry-on luggage on a flight from Russia to Canada.
                Ippolit Bodounov was detained at Toronto's Pearson International Airport last October.

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                • DustinB3403D
                  DustinB3403 @mlnews
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                  @mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

                  Leech smuggling: Canada fines man after 4,700 carried on plane

                  A man has been fined C$15,000 ($11,000; £8,800) for trying to smuggle thousands of leeches in his carry-on luggage on a flight from Russia to Canada.
                  Ippolit Bodounov was detained at Toronto's Pearson International Airport last October.

                  Fun. . . now let me go and throw up my lunch . .

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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller @mlnews
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                    @mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

                    Leech smuggling: Canada fines man after 4,700 carried on plane

                    A man has been fined C$15,000 ($11,000; £8,800) for trying to smuggle thousands of leeches in his carry-on luggage on a flight from Russia to Canada.
                    Ippolit Bodounov was detained at Toronto's Pearson International Airport last October.

                    Bound for the US for the latest in high tech medicine.

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                      Nusrat Jahan Rafi: 16 charged in Bangladesh for burning girl alive

                      Sixteen people have been charged in Bangladesh over the shocking murder of a teenager who was burned to death after reporting sexual harassment.

                      Nusrat Jahan Rafi, 19, was doused with kerosene and set on fire on the roof of her Islamic school on 6 April, days after filing a complaint.

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                        Robert Mueller: Charging Trump was not an option

                        US Special Counsel Robert Mueller has said charging President Donald Trump with a crime was not an option, in his first comments on the Russia inquiry.

                        He reiterated that his report did not exonerate the president and that legal guidelines prevent the indictment of a sitting president.

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                          The 2019 Roomba gets an all-new design, companion mop-bot

                          Roomba gets a D-shaped design, and iRobot finally makes a modern mopping robot.
                          Robot recently announced its yearly cleaning robot upgrades, and as usual, there is a new Roomba robo-vac, the Roomba S9+.

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                            US Department of Energy is now referring to fossil fuels as “freedom gas”

                            The Department of Energy is on its path to "energy dominance" with bizarre re-branding.
                            In a press release published on Tuesday, two Department of Energy officials used the term "freedom gas" to replace your average, everyday term "natural gas."

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                            • DustinB3403D
                              DustinB3403 @mlnews
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                              @mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

                              US Department of Energy is now referring to fossil fuels as “freedom gas”

                              The Department of Energy is on its path to "energy dominance" with bizarre re-branding.
                              In a press release published on Tuesday, two Department of Energy officials used the term "freedom gas" to replace your average, everyday term "natural gas."

                              This has to be another Space Force initiative. . .

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                                Trump assails 'totally conflicted' Robert Mueller

                                US President Donald Trump has launched a fierce personal attack on former special counsel Robert Mueller, describing him as "totally conflicted".

                                He said the man who led the inquiry into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 US election had "wanted to be the FBI director, and I said 'no'".

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                                  Trump defends request to hide ship named John McCain

                                  US President Donald Trump has defended a reported White House request to hide a warship named for his late critic, John McCain, during his trip to Japan.

                                  At the White House, Mr Trump denied having prior knowledge of the request, but said whoever did it was "well meaning" in their intention.

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                                    Boeing admits it 'fell short' on safety alert for 737

                                    Boeing has admitted it "fell short" when it failed to implement a safety alert system on the 737 Max.

                                    The aircraft was grounded globally in March after two crashes within months.

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                                      Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg 'survives' leadership vote

                                      An attempt to make Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg step down as the company's chairman has failed.

                                      At the company's annual general meeting on Thursday, shareholders had the opportunity to vote on Mr Zuckerberg's leadership.

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                                        China prepares to strike back at US as Huawei suffers another loss

                                        SoftBank snubs Huawei for 5G equipment while China mulls rare earths embargo
                                        The trade tension between the United States and China looks set to intensify soon, as the latter country is taking steps to respond to the American ban on doing business with Huawei.

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                                          black3dynamite
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                                          Robert Pattinson is officially the next Batman
                                          https://nypost.com/2019/05/31/robert-pattinson-is-officially-the-next-batman/

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                                            DustinB3403 @black3dynamite
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                                            @black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                            Robert Pattinson is officially the next Batman
                                            https://nypost.com/2019/05/31/robert-pattinson-is-officially-the-next-batman/

                                            Okay. . . enough of this guy already.

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