[–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Sadly I cannot, since the source is an ex-Googler I know in person who was there personally. While I fully believe the story, I'm just some rando on the Internet, so you're welcome to take it with the appropriate pile of salt.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    At which point you have to slurp down a few hundred terabytes from the other datacenters when the power turns back on.

    This is why Google datacenter managers hesitate to turn off the power even when an employee is in the process of getting electrocuted.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Ah yes, there should have been more "in the sense of fairness, let us talk about the pros of torturing your child into submission". What is journalism coming to these days, leaving out such important information?

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago

    All trans prisoners at the federal (not state) level were already kept in a single prison where the medical staff had specialized training in the medical needs of trans people. Unfortunately, that single prison is in Texas, a state that is eager to tow the Republican party line.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    My favorite is a major credit card company with case-insensitive passwords. They also only allow a small handful of special characters, so the total possible character space is roughly 42 characters. Needless to say, I chose to use a password that was the maximum allowed length (which was sadly also only 32 characters).

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  • [–] 101 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Researchers have done sonograms of women before and after arousal, with them having used the restroom immediately at the start of the process to control for initial urine levels. The bladder of a squirter fills rapidly with liquid prior to squirting, significantly faster than it does in similar non-arousal conditions. When you pee, you never void all of the urine in the bladder, so there is definitely pee in squirt, but the urea content was significantly lower than in the pre-arousal urine. IIRC, the researchers determined that the added liquid is mostly just water.

    So, squirt is pee, but if she's gone to the bathroom recently, it's very diluted pee.

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