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jasong 2018-04-17 23:34

When websites ask you to reset your password,"no" needs to be accepted as a viable answer.

petrw1 2018-04-18 15:25

Human Prime Number Generator
 
[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHEaYbDWyQE[/url]

jasong 2018-04-24 01:46

[QUOTE=petrw1;485646][url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHEaYbDWyQE[/url][/QUOTE]
I don't see what the April Fool is.

The video title is accurate. And nobody is being forced to watch the whole video.

If he only said a few prime numbers and then looped them, then I could see the joke. But this is just a quirky video with an accurate title.

Edit: maybe the April Fool is that there isn't one?

retina 2018-04-24 02:17

[QUOTE=jasong;486050]I don't see what the April Fool is.

The video title is accurate. And nobody is being forced to watch the whole video.

If he only said a few prime numbers and then looped them, then I could see the joke. But this is just a quirky video with an accurate title.

Edit: maybe the April Fool is that there isn't one?[/QUOTE]Nobody said it was an April fool.

pinhodecarlos 2018-05-03 12:14

[url]https://www.thehopepage.org/[/url]

This website uses some of your computer's processing power to automatically generate funds for UNICEF Australia.

UNICEF works in some of the world's toughest places to save children, protect their rights, and help them fulfil their potential.

Source: [url]https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/unicef-cryptocurrency-fundraising-child-refugees-digital-bitcoin-monero-a8332726.html[/url]

jasong 2018-05-04 20:17

[QUOTE=retina;486054]Nobody said it was an April fool.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I guess that's the April Fool, that it'll start discussions like this, where people are confused about what's going on.

henryzz 2018-06-07 13:01

[url]https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/8p5xlj/hi_all_i_am_a_man_who_ate_a_portion_of_his_own/[/url]

Dr Sardonicus 2018-06-07 14:48

[QUOTE=retina;489353]A see a lot of USAans that mistake the USA as the only free country in the world. Which naturally leads to mistakenly assuming that anyone that disparages the USA is attacking "their" freedoms. There are 92 free countries on the planet, democratic free countries. USA is one of them.[/QUOTE]
The term "leader of the free world" doesn't make any claim of exclusivity. It merely bespeaks the obvious fact that the USA is the largest and most powerful free country in the world. With [i]Il Duce[/i] in the White House, and House and Senate Republicans unwilling to exercise their role as a check on him, though, the status of the USA as a free country is now very much in question.

It may reasonably be argued that the USA was the only free county at the time of its birth, but that status was sullied by the institution of slavery. It may be for that reason that Abraham Lincoln spoke of "a new birth of freedom" in his Gettysburg Address. He had already committed the Union to the abolition of slavery.

Some people [i]do[/i] disparage the US because they think our freedoms are bad (immoral, chaotic, or what have you).

Others have problems with US government policies, the pronouncements of our politicians, or the perceived boorishness, ignorance, violence, attachment to firearms etc of US-ers. Equating criticism or disparagement on that sort of grounds, with attacking our freedoms, is IMO mistaken.

retina 2018-06-07 15:52

[QUOTE=Dr Sardonicus;489357]The term "leader of the free world" doesn't make any claim of exclusivity.[/QUOTE]In a way it does. It suggests a single free world, and it's leader. If you want to remove the connotations then it can be reworded as "The leader of one of the 92 free countries".

I you want to assume that there is such a thing as "the free world", which I guess would be the collection of all 92 free countries, then there are at least 92 separate leaders, not one leader. So maybe it could be reworded as "the leaders of the free world".

Either way the original wording is, at best, confusing, and at worst insincere and condescending.

xilman 2018-06-07 17:42

:tu:

Batalov 2018-06-07 20:14

[url]https://imgur.com/gallery/MZMGceK[/url]


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