charonn0

joined 1 year ago
[–] charonn0@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

Chemically assisted vision quest.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 71 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The Streisand Effect in action.

Before reading this article I had never heard that Mao Zedong's son got himself killed over some fried rice.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“It’s also created the paradox that under Iowa law, a 16-year-old student is old enough to consent to sex but not old enough to read about it in school,” Novack said.

Zing

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 8 points 1 year ago

"We asked former White House press secretary Sean Spicer for comment, but he ran away and hid in the bushes."

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 124 points 1 year ago (140 children)

Part of my job is to review security footage for reported incidents.

If there is a long-lasting visual cue that the event has or has not happened yet (e.g. a window is either broken or not), then a binary search is very useful.

If the event lasts only a moment and leaves no visual cue (e.g. an assault), then binary search is practically useless.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So apparently this woman works for a competing (fringe right wing) book publisher. In which case Scholastic might have grounds to sue.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago

"There's no such thing as an innocent billionaire."

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 7 points 1 year ago

This, but replace "DeNiro" with "Trump".

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