Nobel Prize in Being Literal
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The Nobel Prize for Killing a Social Media Site, Throwing 40 Billion in the Toilet, and promoting Nazi and Fascist Conspiracy Theories
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The Nobel Booby Prize
Goes to the winner of a bird contest similar to New Zealand's Bird of the Century but only Boobies can apply.
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The Nobel Lollipop Prize
For the sucker who spent the biggest bucks on some potion that supposedly makes eyes wider and brighter than the way they were when they were born.
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The Toenail Inspection Prize
It goes to the person who launched a big pharma race to cure an affliction that turned out to be lucrative only because he noticed that toenail fungus could become the latest medical fad after gout fizzled.
Nobel Prize for Snark
Nobel Prize for the Advancement of Home Owner Association Rules
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The Nobel Sweetiepoo Prize
...for the young girl who was most compelling at the #IgnobelPrize ceremony with her plaintive call to "Please stop! I'm BORED!"
This is an utter disgrace: About 200 members of Afghan special forces, trained and funded by the UK, face imminent deportation to their Taliban-controlled homeland, the BBC has learned.
Now it appears the economics have changed so that one can buy a generic circuit board that has multiple footprints for the CRT socket, and multiple taps to support different magnetics.
It’s probably an odd effect of the world being down to only a handful of CRT manufacturing plants and low demand for long enough that a degree of generic compatibility has come to a design space that lacked it previously.
The main thing that makes it so mind-blowing is that back in their heyday, these devices were sold in such high volumes that every model was like a special snowflake custom-engineered for a different CRT picture tube and yoke.
CRTs had 20 alphanumeric character model numbers and you never saw the same one twice, different voltages and pinouts, etc. The coils on the yokes had different inductances and energy requirements.
It’s hard to convey just how radical and mind blowing this board swap is to younger folks who never knew the joys* of repairing consumer CRT TV’s.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=MoqflFfvkR0
* By rights I should be thrice dead.
“We're seeing children directly suffering the consequences of this for the rest of their lives.” Dr Rebecca Inglis, an intensive care doctor and co-founder of Gaza Medic Voices, told the BBC that Gaza's hospital system is completely non-functional.
This limits their ability to treat injuries and amputate limbs that in normal circumstances could be saved. She said: "And the hospital system is completely non-functional, which is what it is at the moment.
https://www.tiktok.com/@middleeasteye/video/7311011705989975329
Holiday phishing scams in 2023 will come with a new twist: generative artificial intelligence. #cybersecurity #infosec #ITsecurity
https://www.scmagazine.com/news/ai-drives-holiday-phishing-scams-as-well-as-email-defenses
https://www.europesays.com/946508/ As COP28 talks wind down, sticking points remain on fossil fuels and climate adaptation #Climate
G+ refugee and simply want my instance to work reliably.