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Ready, Set, Baby

Marriage often ends in divorce, why not start the kids off with separated parents. There are now dating sites that cut to the chase and get right to the baby part. Perfect for those people who want children without all that loving the other partner baggage.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/oct/31/i-wanted-to-meet-a-mate-and-have-a-baby-without-wasting-time-the-rise-of-platonic-co-parenting?utm_source=pocket-newtab#comment-144914024

Song cue – What’s Love Got to Do With It

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But hey there’s no C02

Not a big enough fan of toxic waste to get behind Nuclear Power. Especially when hearing about how the waste water is going to be handled at Fukushima, the biggest reactor disaster since Chernobyl.

Not sure the criteria for best, but apparently a, “a controlled environmental release is said to be the best way to treat low-tritium-concentration water.”

The strategy of using “controlled environmental releases” worked great for plastics in the ocean.

Diesel trucks are also pretty good at “controlled environmental release”

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Have your people call my people.

Google is adding the ability for pixel phones to handle being on hold and give you a notification when someone comes on the line.

Google Hold For Me

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The real meaning of pirate radio stations.

All this time I thought the name was because they were not licensed, turns out the original pirate radio stations broadcast from ships.

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8,000 images a day

1,000 images an hour. That’s a lot of color choices for remodeling or art and crafts projects. But nobody is getting paid to look at good images. As moderators, these employees were looking at content that possibly violated policies for nudity or violence.

https://onezero.medium.com/a-permanent-nightmare-pinterest-moderators-fight-to-keep-horrifying-content-off-the-platform-4d8e7ec822fe

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Maybe we don’t need to recycle everything.

No, just no. Used condoms washed and sold as new.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/24/asia/vietnam-condom-sold-new-scli-intl/index.html

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Won’t someone think of the children

China has returned fire for the Tik Tok sanction talk by blocking access to MIT’s Scratch learning language. The claim is “humiliation” for the appearance of these items in country drop down boxes.

  • Hong Kong
  • Taiwan
  • Macau

And of course there is a Chinese clone of Scratch (kitten) available.

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This is why we used to hire humans

I’m watching a youtube video from the Washington Post about a hotel of last resort in Florida and an ad comes up for VRBO. Hotels, motels, and other lodging are a usually a good match for VRBO ads, but not a good match for news about a motel with no power and a broken sewage pipe.

This match is with Youtube keeping track of what I watch. This doesn’t seem any better than guessing despite all the panic about Apple’s announcement of ad blocking control in iOS 14.

Read more at https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/kissimmee-star-motel/