youtube videos are already pissing me off with their mid-video, mid-word adverts. But it's free.

Netflix doing that - on a paid service - would get me cancelling in seconds

100% chance they would lose mine.

The whole fucking point of Netflix was to get away from ads on cable. Ads on Netflix would remove pretty much the only reason people use it.

It would lead us back to torrenting, and now a few TB drives doesn't break the bank.

The headline refers to ‘herd immunity’. What is herd immunity?

When a high percentage of the population is vaccinated, it is difficult for infectious diseases to spread, because there are not many people who can be infected. For example, if someone with measles is surrounded by people who are vaccinated against measles, the disease cannot easily be passed on to anyone, and it will quickly disappear again. This is called ‘herd immunity’, 'community immunity' or 'herd protection', and it gives protection to vulnerable people such as newborn babies, elderly people and those who are too sick to be vaccinated.

Herd immunity does not protect against all vaccine-preventable diseases. The best example of this is tetanus, which is caught from bacteria in the environment, not from other people who have the disease. No matter how many people around you are vaccinated against tetanus, it will not protect you from tetanus.

Unlike vaccination, herd immunity does not give a high level of individual protection, and so it is not a good alternative to getting vaccinated.

Vaccine Knowledge Project Link: http://vk.ovg.ox.ac.uk/herd-immunity

The list of things Dyson executives said about motivations for moving:

• “future-proofing”
• “the evolution” of the company
• not for tax reasons

The list of meaningful things Dyson executives said about motivations for moving:

Is thisnthe same Dyson that makes those awful urinals that spray piss all over the place?

I wonder why though

Dyson’s announcement comes shortly after Singapore and the EU agreed a landmark free trade agreement.

The good ole Uber wealthy bait and switch... like the sounds of slogans like these:

“We’ll leave the EU and add $350M pounds to healthcare”

Or

“This tax cut is for the “middle class”, we swear”

OR

“I’ve been really tough on Russia!!!”

Sounds like he convinced everyone to vote Brexit and then got outta Dodge... how savage!

Rats chew holes in the ship and then flee, while claiming they had nothing to do with the ship sinking, and had always planned to leave..

I don’t see why you’re all worried about Brexit! Just jump on the private jet, take your business to another country and wait for it to all blow over. I don’t get why everyone just doesn’t do it.

The region is heading towards its 13th day in a row above 42C

Yeah, fuck that. Struggling enough with 3 days of mid 30°s.

Just a few days ago a third of the australian fruit bat population collapsed. Absolutely shocking. What have we done to this planet.

In 50 years Climate Change is gonna make everything like Mad Max. As things get worse, government and civilization will fall apart and it will be time to break out the feathers and football gear.

This heat isn't just in the desert, either.

I'm from Canberra, and we've had multiple days over 40 this summer, including a whole week of 39-42 degrees that was, frankly, quite shitful - and it's predicted to hit the 40s again, or very close, this weekend. I've never experienced so many hot days in a row - it's relentless. Twenty years ago you'd get maybe 1 or 2 days over 35 a year.

There's been hardly a day below 33 all of January, which is nearly 5 degrees above average.

Just to be clear on this, the plan is to nudge an asteroid that has no chance of striking Earth into a slightly different orbit that also has no chance of striking Earth. Space is so huge that it's impossible to fuck this up the way you're probably thinking.

While I understand this is harmless as well as necessary for future missions. Part of me is expecting this to cause a domino effect that ends us all.

Is this for practice for an asteroid that theoretically could strike us maybe sometime in the future?