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IBM creates world’s first artificial phase-change neurons.

I felt compelled to both like and stinkeye this post. Dooo eeet, its pretty fun.

Ive never seen Lost Girl. Is android a former cast member? I dont know if I was impressed because she has some acting chops or if it was simply because she was so different from her android personality that it shocked me.

Obamacare plans seek premium hikes of up to 45 percent. Thank goodness we are spending 1 TRILLION dollars to keep health care and insurance costs down.

I'm liking the upgrade to

I wasn't giving you the business, just trying to be thorough. Interestingly enough, I figured the "Three Little Pigs" may be the reference you didn't get because you are born/live in Greece but I guess those types of stories are international. For some reason I assumed it was US origin or something.

Kool-Aid is a powder drink mix whose tagline back in the day was to break through a wall and say "Oh yeah!". The wolf and house full of pigs are from the childhood tale of "The Three Little Pigs". In this comic, the wolf being unable to blow down the Three Little Pigs brick house, is now employing the Kool-Aid man to break down the wall for him, so he can enter and eat the Three Little Pigs

Immigration.

Eh, if you want to review every random US shooting, I found the Gun Violence Archive. Seems to be current but I cant speak for its accuracy.

On the bright side, now Longknife is only banned on two forums.

Solar Capture Technique Turns CO2 Into Burnable Fuel.

Jamaica, mon? Ive never been there.

I don't vote, in this or any other election, because I cant be arsed. Our current political arena is a dumpster fire between two candidate that are ill qualified for the position of POTUS. Imo.

Wait a second...didn't the Obsidian think tank determine that PRISM is useless and you have a better chance getting hit by a booger flicked by a Bigfoot than you do catching a mook with PRISM?

You know, the same thing happened around here when we had to put one of our cats down. The other cat looked all over for him for days, meowing, checking his food bowl...it was kind of sad to watch.

Why is segregation a problem? During the American immigration heydey entire communities of Irish, Italian, Polish, Chinese, etc. sprang up. Like congregates with like, easy to understand. Its when the immigrants have no plans for assimilation due to incompatible lifestyles that you run into problems.

HUZZAH!

What Is the Biggest Thing in the Universe?

^Its good to be the king. /Louis XVI

Level of evil: over 9000

*cough* I may or may not (try) to discourage my kid from swimming in warm, still, fresh water.

While there are black and white situations where we show little to no latitude, generally speaking, I try to take the poster and their history into consideration when I am forming an opinion on a reported post. I do not know the details of your PM conversation but I would consider a PM to be a kind of informal conversation and wouldn't necessarily run it up the chain.

You are correct that PM's are only viewed and responded to by the recipient. Now if someone clicks the "report" link found beneath every single post its different. Then that post, and whatever grievance the "reporter" has, creates an independent thread that only we mods, globals, and Fionavar can see. All people who mod the forum where the report originated receive a bright orange notification on our UI and then we go read the complaint and all chit chat about it. Each of us give our .02 and then if it is deemed to require action, the moderator of that particular forum will contact the "offender". If it doesn't require action, we don't do anything. So, complaints are automatically routed to the appropriate people if you use the "report" button.

Per a Gizmodo article I read: "Behold the U.S.S. Discovery, designation NCC-1031. What’s really cool is that it’s based on concept art the legendary Ralph McQuarrie did for the first Trek motion picture."