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The Ten Commandments must be displayed in Louisiana classrooms under requirement signed into law
  • It really is absurd. I want someone to create a trend of how many homeless does your church house? Kind of like a competition... in reality some large churches could support 100 and other very small rural ones might struggle to support one.

  • How the Recycling Symbol Duped People into Buying More Plastic
  • They also love slapping it on plastic waste for reuse, but people just assume the whole thing means recycle now

    Well that and we have been told that the plastic chemicals leach into the water after reuse.

  • Telehealth Company Accused of Being Pill Mill for Adderall Says It Will Continue Treating Patients
  • It's not complicated to me, just make more. We should have a government funded drug producer for all the generics that the big companies don't think are profitable enough.

    We shouldn't punish a population because a minority abuse something, that really only affects themselves.

  • A supermarket trip may soon look different, thanks to electronic shelf labels
  • I mean there are clear savings advantages to switching to electronic tags. It takes like 30 to 100 man hours every week to swap out labels depending on store size. Thats like 20 to 50k a year you can save on labor by just having them automatically update each week.

    Plus the tags/price strips right now aren't free. Probably another 5k you save a year

  • Scientists enlist AI to interpret meaning of barks
  • I am sure its vastly different than other dog's barks, just like the body language is.

    But why would they use the bark as communication, if they communicate fine with body language? It's pretty obvious my dog is aloof to other dogs when we are at outings, she wants to join in but can't figure out how to act more often than not.

    Then there are the other dog's who do seem to communicate, verbally and else wise.

  • Coke—and Dozens of Others—Pledged to Quit Russia. They’re Still There.
  • No. I expect them to stop shipping their syrup to them... It's not like people are mixing up soda recipes at bottling plants.

    A Coca Cola bottler is just a franchise, you could open your own wherever you are and try to compete with the other bottlers in your area. But Coca Cola won't be sending you any recipes.

  • Scientists enlist AI to interpret meaning of barks
  • Because that's how a lone dog learns to communicate with you. That doesn't mean that their bark doesn't communicate things you cannot understand..

    I would imagine this will eventually show the socialization of dogs. I can't imagine my dog, who was rescued from Hurricane Harvey in some woods in Oklahoma has many distinctive features in her barks. She would have only briefly knew her mother, otherwise she has only grown up around humans and cats.

  • GPL + butt hole?
  • But you can write whatever crap you want, it can't just be the basis of the entire contract.

    Let's say I write a contract for you to supply me bricks for 10 years at a firm fixed price cost of $1 a brick, with an order limit of 100 million bricks. I could then add in elsewhere "if more than 5% of the bricks are damaged, you must supply me with one living unicorn."

    That whole contract doesn't become void because unicorns do not exist. In fact, if it went to court a lawyer might even argue with a straight face that the supplier must provide something of equal value to a unicorn.

  • GPL + butt hole?
  • You can write almost any bull crap you want, as long as it obviously doesn't go up against some law and has the main contract elements.

    An unenforceable aspect of a contract, won't void the entire contract if it goes to court, unless it's the main aspect of the contract.

  • What happens if I never activate Windows?

    I am going to eventually use Linux (although need help with a good option for gaming and video library use), but I was curious how long I could use Windows unregistered for? What are the limitations of it not registered?

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    What do I need to trouble shoot second hand desktop computer? And how?

    [Resolved!]

    I traded my cousin some really expensive RAM that I happened accross for his old desktop, that he put his graphics card into that he swapped from his newer computer. If I plug the desktop into the wall and try to turn it on nothing happens. If I open it up I can see that the where the wire from the power supply plugs into the graphics card there Is a little light on. So clearly some power is getting somewhere...

    How do I go about trouble shooting this, and what tools do I need? I assume at minimum a multi meter? Not really sure what to do, it's been decades the last time I built a computer.

    Board says "Asrock H110M-HDS"

    Edit: Attached a Pic and noticed the light is actually on the graphics card, not motherboard. Added addtl info.

    Update: So now all of the sudden the fan spins. I am at a loss as to why it spins now, as I haven't actually really done anything. I ordered a speaker for the mobo, so waiting for that.

    Final update: It works! I apparently had either a bad monitor or bad display port cable. But using another monitor with DVI I was able to finally get it to fully boot!

    I am not sure what got the fans to eventually work, maybe just a cable was jostled.

    I really appreciate all the advice! I definitely know a lot more and feel better equipped to do things with it now.

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    Looking for friends to play with

    Looking for friends to add who use a mic. Sick of playing solo or getting teamed up with people who can't or won't talk.

    If this belongs elsewhere, let me know where to post.

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    LAPD fires riot munitions, makes mass arrests at USC pro-Palestine protest
    www.dailykos.com LAPD fires riot munitions, makes mass arrests at USC pro-Palestine protest

    As Israel’s genocide against Palestine continues to escalate, students from universities across the United States are leading campus protests en masse and demanding their respective schools divest from corporations and institutions linked to Israel’s...

    LAPD fires riot munitions, makes mass arrests at USC pro-Palestine protest
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    Emory community ‘ashamed’ after police detain students at pro-Palestine encampment | The Emory Wheel
    emorywheel.com Emory community ‘ashamed’ after police detain students at pro-Palestine encampment | The Emory Wheel

    A young woman cried into a cell phone camera as a police officer dragged her off of Emory University’s Quadrangle around 10:15 a.m. this morning, stating her birthday and her mother’s phone number. Ten minutes later, a young man yelled as another officer walked him off the Quad in handcuffs, shoutin...

    Emory community ‘ashamed’ after police detain students at pro-Palestine encampment | The Emory Wheel
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    Texas deploys mounted police as pro-Palestinian student protests spread
    sg.news.yahoo.com Texas deploys mounted police as pro-Palestinian student protests spread

    Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters at the University of Texas were in a tense standoff with mounted state troopers Wednesday, the latest in a series of confrontations rocking campuses across the United States.More than 130 people were arrested at a pro-Palestinian protest at New York University ...

    Texas deploys mounted police as pro-Palestinian student protests spread
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    Who decides when the US goes to "war"

    I know Congress needs to be involved to actually declare war, but there have been a number of times where something was kicked off by presidential authority alone.

    If Biden wanted to, could he start a conflict against Russia without congressional approval. If not, what approval would he need? If so, what would be the theoretical limitations to his power and military authority?

    I am already assuming people would want some definition of what "conflict" would mean in this hypothetical scenario. So let's say it means Biden authorized US troops at the Ukrainian border and had them launching shells into Russia.

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    What's the vaporization temperature of mouse urine?

    Let's say I hypothetically had some mice pee in some plastic components that cannot be properly cleaned in any realistic way. Is it possible to heat it up to "cook off" the mouse pee nastiness without actually melting the plastic?

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    Does mucus have calories?

    There must be some caloric input required to produce mucus, however my question is what happens when you swallow your own mucus vs spitting. Do you retain calories by swallowing mucus?

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    How fast can you theoretically run on the moon?

    How fast could the average person whose in peak physical shape run on the moon, without the limits of current technology? I mean suit, but like a wetsuit with only a small helmet, and athletic shoes.

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    how to find notes, Journals, spellbooks, Grimoires, etc. from those with mental issues

    I guess my title kind of puts it all out there. I am looking to collect spellbooks, Journals and the likes from those who are insane, or have mental health issues. What's the easiest way to purchase them, and how do you even find them?

    Fame or notoriety do not matter to me. I am just looking for scripts/texts written by neural atypical people that are related to the occult..

    At first I thought estate sales would be a good way to find this... but heirs tend to destroy/hide or sell that stuff on the secondary market as to not taint the value of the other property.

    Edit: I wondering if some internet archiving could help find threads to look for.

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    Why does juicy juice not have sediment, and exactly how do they do it?

    Juicy Juice among other brands touts "100% juice" however if you leave it undisturbed for months on the shelf it never seems to develop any sediment. How can they be 100% juice and not have any solids? What exact process are they using to remove all the sediment and or perfectly homogenize the liquid? You will notice other shelf stable 100% juice brands tend to have a sediment, how do the large brands get around that, while still being pure juice? Is there an FDA definition of "Juice"?

    Sorry, this seemed to turn into many questions.

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    how come links won't open in browser anymore

    For whatever reason about a week ago, the Jerboa app stopped opening links. It used to open up in Chrome, but now it just opens Chrome to the last page I was on and doesn't load the link.

    I am not sure what to do, I don't even want it to use Chrome as the default browser launcher, but I see no place to change it. Anyone know how I can fix this?

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    What's the thinnest E-ink screen that is closest to 3.5×2.5 inch?

    I am curious if one, something like this exists, and two what the cost might be? I am looking for a screen, I assume an e-ink is the best/cheapest option and I want it to be as close as possible to the size of a playing card, ideally not thicker than 2MM. But I think up to 5mm could work.

    Basically the idea is to use and or eventually create very thin cheap e-reader screens to make programmable playing card games. I have no idea if the screens are even that small, when I go to look for them I get results that are very far from what I am looking for.

    Anyone know if what I want exists, and if not, if it would even be possible to manufacture for cheap?

    Edit: I wonder how hard it would be to repurpose something like this?

    The idea is that all the "cards" would be inserted into a carring case that acts as a dock to update the cards. Once you pick your game, all of the cards refresh to whatever game you picked. I would want to make the games open so anyone can design a game for people to play.

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