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Shmuel Brill

4:00 AM

I think that this question is the first to need protection.

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Q: Is one allowed to smoke Marijuana?

Not taking into account Dina D'malchusa, what are the Halachic problems with smoking marijuana? Is it allowed?

Anyone disagrees?

HodofHod

4:14 AM

@ShmuelBrill I agree.

@ShmuelBrill so how are you celebrating? (hey teives, obviously)

Shmuel Brill

4:26 AM

@HodofHod missed a 770 farbrengen.

they just put up a farbrengen in Beis Rivka

HodofHod

@ShmuelBrill. 770 is finished already?? Weird. So I'm currently playing on Moshe Yess' guitar. Probably go to tomchei for Farbrengen soon.

Shmuel Brill

sorry R' Braun is speaking now.

I looked earlier but there was nothing there. I guess they start Chabad time :)

Hacham Gabriel

5:20 AM

@ShmuelBrill did that guy just announce the rebbe as moshiach?

msh210

6:20 AM

@HodofHod How did you get hold of Moshe Yess's guitar?!?

msh210

6:33 AM

@HachamGabriel I wasn't listening to the speech, but if he did in fact so announce, then don't be surprised: many Lubavitchers believe their last rebbe to be mashiach. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chabad_messianism may be of interest, though, N.B., I have no idea how accurate it is.

HodofHod

6:45 AM

@msh210 connections ;-)

@msh210 I'm good friends with his son, so I was just playing guitar with him. His aveilus just ended, so he was eager to play a little

msh210

@HodofHod I'm impressed.

@HodofHod Oh, was MY niftar (eleven months ago)? I hadn't heard.

HodofHod

@msh210 Yeah. Sad. And the worst of it is, no one appreciates his music these days. Ok, maybe not the worst of it, but still a tragedy in its own right.

msh210

@msh210 Ah, apparently so. :-( Baruch dayan haemes. I knew little about MY, but liked his music.

@HodofHod Yeah, we had a bunch of his music on vinyl when I was growing up... I liked it a lot. Haven't heard it in years, though.

HodofHod

@msh210 Yeah, amazing musician. His son is trying to get his music back out there, but unfortunately, he doesnt have access to the masters. so all he has are the vinyls and cassettes, so the quality is not very good. Whatevers available is at mosheyess.ca

msh210

@HodofHod Oh, cool, thanks for the pointer.

I should hit the sack, though; good night, and a happy didchon netzach to you!

HodofHod

6:57 AM

@msh210 why, thank you =). good night!

msh210

7:38 AM

Okay, so much for hitting the sack. But now I really will bl"n. But before I do, one little note: is judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/5991 closable as a poll question (faq: "avoid asking subjective questions where every answer is equally valid: 'What’s your favorite ______?'")? I mean, I'm fond of it, I asked it, and I really don't wish to see it closed, but were I not biased toward it I'd probably say it's closureworthy. Thoughts?

Shmuel Brill

6:48 PM

@msh210 I think I flagged it once.

btw, did all the answers become CW automatically?

msh210

7:11 PM

@ShmuelBrill It's not flagged for closure now. I suppose that, like other flags, closure flags expire. (I'm not sure, though.) By all means flag it again if you wish.

@ShmuelBrill It seems I designated the question as CW when I asked it; in that case, answers are CW automatically, yes.

Shmuel Brill

@msh210 I flagged it for mods on Aug 25

msh210

@ShmuelBrill Ah, so I see. And your flag was deemed "helpful" if that's any consolation :-)

Shmuel Brill

8:24 PM

@msh210 actually "Post Made Community Wiki by question having more than 30 answers"

judaism.stackexchange.com/posts/12827/revisions

msh210

9:14 PM

@ShmuelBrill If I'm correct that a CW question automatically has CW answers, then there are two reasons a new answer would be CW: that there are many answers and that the question is CW. Apparently, the software chooses one of those to display as the reason.

HodofHod

9:54 PM

@msh210 any idea why Dori deleted here answer here

?

HodofHod

10:13 PM

and didnt she use to be an se employee?

msh210

@HodofHod No.

@HodofHod Yes. I don't know what happened to that, either.

HodofHod

@msh210 touchy topic? I was just thinking about that last suggestion in that answer and was wondering if the devs were planning on implementing it.

msh210

@HodofHod Not a touchy subject that I know of, and not a touchy subject for me. I simply don't know what happened to her. (Not that there's any reason for me to.) AFAIK nothing's happened to that suggestion since that post.

HodofHod

@msh210 Shucks. It was a good one.

Stack Exchange

10:57 PM

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Q: Feature Request: Indication of Former Mod Status on Answers and Comments

Answers and comments submitted by moderators are given more weight in users eyes, and well they should. A mod's answer is many times the final say on an issue especially if that mod is also an SE employee. Many times I have seen an answer or a comment and not really understood the dynamic of the...

discussion feature-request moderation

msh210

@HodofHod, what does "As both @ShmuelBrill and myself have found out, Stack Exchange discriminates against people born before 1920." refer to (if you don't mind explaining)?

Shmuel Brill

@msh210 where?

oh.

HodofHod, עולם הזה הגשמי

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HodofHod

@msh210 It means you cant enter a birthdate prior to 1920

msh210

@ShmuelBrill Yeah, there.

HodofHod

@msh210 or one after 1999

msh210

11:02 PM

@HodofHod Oh. That's odd.

HodofHod

all those poor 12 year olds dying to get in =)

msh210

@HodofHod Well, that's probably to keep to some U.S. law about data collection from people under 13 or other.

HodofHod

and 92 year olds =)

msh210

@HodofHod What did you try, 57something?

HodofHod

@msh210 actually, yes

msh210

11:03 PM

Good guess. :-)

HodofHod

@msh210 yep

msh210

@HodofHod But if you tried 57something, then you're less than 92!

:-)

HodofHod

@msh210 busted!

Wait, what? somebody misrepresented themselves on the internet?! No way!

msh210

:-) Reminds me of the cartoon (searching)....

HodofHod

@msh210 what the xkcd one?

msh210

11:06 PM

@HodofHod Which is that?

On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog

"On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog" is an adage which began as the caption of a cartoon by Peter Steiner published by The New Yorker on July 5, 1993. The cartoon features two dogs: one sitting on a chair in front of a computer, speaking the caption to a second dog sitting on the floor. , the panel was the most reproduced cartoon from The New Yorker, and Steiner has earned over US$50,000 from its reprinting. History Peter Steiner, a cartoonist and contributor to The New Yorker since 1980, said the cartoon initially did not get a lot of attention, but later took on a life of its ow...

HodofHod

msh210

@HodofHod Ah, no, not that one.

HodofHod

dont forget to rollover

msh210

Heh, dog, roll over.

HodofHod

@msh210 no, i meant mouse-over on my comic

read the alt-text

msh210

11:09 PM

@HodofHod Yes, I knew what you had meant.

HodofHod

@msh210 oh, sorry =). also, im confused as to your comments on my feature request. though, they did help me realize im causing more problems than i realized. My request deals only with those mod posts where the mod is no longer a mod, but the post was posted while he still was. if he posts after he lost mod status, of course there would be no such indicator. but what about those posts from before he was a mod, hmmmm im not sure....

Shmuel Brill

@HodofHod at the time of the discussion he wasn't a mod.

HodofHod

@ShmuelBrill ?

Shmuel Brill

comment to your difficulty

msh210

@HodofHod I think the simplest feature would be that any post (or comment) made while a mod has an indicator; any post/comment not while a mod (whether before or after) doesn't have the indicator. But it's your request: request whatever feature you'd like, obviously.

HodofHod

11:20 PM

@msh210 I agree, and ive edited that in

I think the indicator will have to be independant from the username/flair

Shmuel Brill

@HodofHod collive.com/…

HodofHod

@ShmuelBrill Thanks! My pictures didn't come out half bad, I see.

msh210

@HachamGabriel, the yashan question contained the germ of a (IMO) good question: I wish you'd have improved it, or will ask another in its stead, rather than merely deleted it.

HodofHod

I didnt have much to work with, so for what I had, anyway

msh210

@HodofHod Are you "Borsht", then?

HodofHod

11:27 PM

@msh210 Actually, no. This is a combination of pictures from multiple cameras. I have no affiliation with col, I just happened to snap some photos for the organizers.

msh210

@HodofHod Oh, got it. You live in Montreal?

HodofHod

@msh210 Nope. I am a wandering Jew =). I am currently visiting in Montreal but I'm heading out later this week.

msh210

@HodofHod Oh, I see. I was curious, because you used both while and whilst (the latter is chiefly British but I seem to recall that my advisor used it, and she's Newfoundlander or something).

HodofHod

@msh210 I wonder who borsht is, though. I dont know anyone of that nickname and I though I knew who was taking pictures.

@msh210 yeah, i do weird things like that sometimes. I'm relatively sure I've used both spellings for "gray" as well. For some reason, it seemed more appropriate in that sentence to use "whilst".

@msh210 Before you ask, no, I'm not english.

Although I do seem to borrow their spellings and words, sometimes. I learned there for a year, so perhaps I picked up some habits. Idk.

msh210

@HodofHod :-)

@HodofHod I spell 'grey' 'grey', myself. For no apparent reason.

HodofHod

11:41 PM

@msh210 ever use "amongst"?

msh210

@HodofHod No. My dad does, though. (He's no Brit, either. He is a lawyer, though: maybe that's why he talks funny.)

He also occasionally pronounces 'again' so it rhymes with 'rain'.

HodofHod

@msh210 heh =). I know you like to say "an" before an "h" which is more common for the english.

@msh210 now thats funny!

msh210

@HodofHod Is it? Yes, I do.

@HodofHod Yeah.

It might (in my case) be simple akshanus. I recall that in 1st grade (6 years old), my rebbe told use you can write a ende-fe (fe sofis, fe at the end of a word) either like so or like so <strike>(I'm not drawing them for you)</strike>, and he proceeded to always do it one way, and I did it the other way. (And it was downhill from there.)

HodofHod

@msh210 oh, a davkanik?

=)

msh210

@HodofHod Yep. I guess that's a better word than akshan. :-)

Very rough sketches both, but the one on the right is very roughly what the rebbe used and the one on the left is very roughly what I used. (I now use something very roughly like the one on the right, though.)

@DoubleAA, hi!

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