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@Mitch yes. I was trying to establish a baseline for correctness so that we could figure out what was trying to be said. It is grammatically correct, but unlikely, and, it turns out, not what Hanaa wanted to say

KitFox

cough, cough, cough

Mitch

but "to change with a person" doesn't sound right.

KitFox

wheeze

Good morning.

cough

Mitch

2:35 PM

@KitFox offers cough drops

tchrist

> Which Country has the most earthquakes?
The answer to this question is not as straightforward as it may seem. In order to most accurately answer it, we will rephrase the question four different ways:

1) For which country do we locate the most earthquakes? Japan. The whole country is in a very active seismic area, and they have the densest seismic network in the world, so they are able to record many earthquakes.

2) Which country actually has the most earthquakes? Indonesia is in a very active seismic zone, also, but by virtue of its larger size than Japan, it has more total earthquakes.

Mitch

tea with honey

infinitesimal

@Hanaa have you ever used the phrase "comes my way"?

Matt E. Эллен

@KitFox hi @Kit! how is the cough? sounds like you got some good medicinal advice yesterday?

KitFox

@Mitch I have an inhaler, thanks. Be right as rain in a moment.

Hanaa

2:35 PM

@Mitch I corrected it in this way: Who does not change no matter what happens

KitFox

@MattE.Эллен What did you do to your name?

Mitch

@tchrist Fine... use facts to try to dispel me of my opinions.

Matt E. Эллен

@KitFox made it look more intelligent

11 hours ago, by Cerberus

Hanaa

No @infinitesimal

Mitch

America has worse natural disasters than Europe. repositions goal posts

tchrist

2:36 PM

> Indonesia has the most volcanoes, by far. It is really a special place because there seem to be volcanoes all around, in all directions. Merapi (which means "mountain of fire") erupted in January 1994 and killed a few hundred people.

Mitch

@KitFox He put eyeglasses on it.

infinitesimal

@Hanaa It means whatever happens to you.

Hanaa

yes

KitFox

@MattE.Эллен I think it looks more pro, not more smart.

But I don't think you could look more smart.

Mitch

@Hanaa what does your name mean?

Matt E. Эллен

2:37 PM

awwwww thanks :D

Mitch

@KitFox as in good dresser?

tchrist

infinitesimal

@Hanaa Whatever life sends your way.

KitFox

@Mitch snappy

Hanaa

Hanaa= happiness and joy@infinitesimal

Mitch

2:38 PM

@KitFox sharp

tchrist

@Mitch Basically, the Ring of Fire is the main problem: just ask the Man in Black. Or Frodo.

KitFox

@Mitch dapper

Mitch

@KitFox a fop?

KitFox

I had no idea I was in danger of a tsunami.

Mitch

fops are necessarily dapper, but not the other way around.

KitFox

2:39 PM

You're thinking dandy.

Not dapper.

tchrist

@KitFox You are at "Low Risk" in the map.

Mitch

@KitFox didn't you see the movie?

KitFox

@Mitch No.

tchrist

@KitFox Better thinking dandy than crappy.

KitFox

@tchrist Still a risk.

Mitch

2:39 PM

@KitFox OK then. Don't watch the movie.

Matt E. Эллен

Northern Ireland is at less risk than the rest of the British Isles!

Mitch

moves to greenland

KitFox

I've never heard of a tsunami in those places.

Mitch

ignores backdoor when icesheet starts slipping off greenland

Hanaa

@Mitch

Mitch

2:41 PM

questions moving to Northern Ireland

Hanaa

Can we replace "slipp off " by melt?

tchrist

@KitFox Your main(e) risk is from the mega-tsunami that happens under the Canary Landslide scenario.

KitFox

There's a Canary Landslide scenario?

tchrist

Now I feel bad.

KitFox

Never mind.

Matt E. Эллен

2:42 PM

so. many. canaries

KitFox

I don't want to know.

Mitch

@Hanaa grammatically, you'd say "When Greenland's icesheet melts" (not "melt off Greenland")

but that's also not what I meant.

Hanaa

yes

tchrist

It's like you telling me about the Yellowstone Super-Volcano Scenario if I didn’t already know about it.

lalalalalala

2:43 PM

@tchrist Yellowstone? Canary Islands? New Madrid?

curls up in ball

tchrist

►

The second video is way better.

Matt E. Эллен

new Madrid sounds suspiciously like Númenor

KitFox

Boys and their puppies. I swear. Stupid beer commercials. sniffles, surreptitiously wiping tears

tchrist

@MattE.Эллен Tall ships and tall kings, three times three, What brought they from the foundered land Over the flowing sea? Seven stars and seven stones. And one white tree.

Mitch

2:45 PM

@MattE.Эллен suspices

@KitFox Are you watching TV?

KitFox

YouTube

@tchrist The waves in the immediate vicinity don't look very large. Is that expected? I don't know much about tsunamis.

Mitch

@tchrist Yep, Missouri, Numenor. same thing.

tchrist

@KitFox You mean the ones that will biff Europe?

Mitch

@KitFox don't look at youtube japan then

So that was a cute beer commercial with puppies? seems the wrong target audience.

Matt E. Эллен

puppies don't buy beer

KitFox

2:49 PM

@Mitch Well, it's aimed at 20-something male beer drinkers. They respond to puppies and dogs more than anything else.

Have you seen the ones about not drinking and driving?

Holy crap, it's so sad.

tchrist

@KitFox Funny, never worked on me.

KitFox

Because your friend is waiting for you to come home.

Hanaa

Hey Everyone

KitFox

Not your girlfriend or mom or anything. It's the dog waiting for you and relying on you that's going to keep you from doing stupid things. That's your manly responsibility.

Hanaa

Could you give the meanings of your names

?

KitFox

2:51 PM

@tchrist You're a different breed. Not a Bud drinker.

Hanaa

I like to know the meaning of peoples' names

KitFox

Kit Fox is a kind of fox.

tchrist

There is that. I have cats and drink singe malt and microbrewery strong ales, not Bud.

Hanaa

Thx@KitFox

tchrist

Have I told you that I once saw a wild kit fox?

I was too fascinated to take a picture, plus it was far too dark for reasonable photography, especially back then.

KitFox

2:53 PM

I had no idea.

tchrist

They are very rarely seen even in places that they live.

Hanaa

Yes

KitFox

What ought my middle initial be? Kit V. Fox?

That sounds combatant.

Kit M. Fox?

Hanaa

yes@KitFox

KitFox

Not T or E.

Or D.

tchrist

2:55 PM

V. might confuse it with the swift fox.

Matt E. Эллен

N?

tchrist

The kit fox has very big ears.

KitFox

F?

Not N. I don't want cat names.

Matt E. Эллен

:D

KitFox

OK. Help me think something through.

tchrist

2:57 PM

KF's Vulpes macrotis means big/long-eared foxie.

KitFox

I've got this dosing scheme that I lost track of. I think I'm supposed to take 4 today. So I dumped out the pills and count them backward, and theoretically, I should have 4 left.

It's a 5,5,4,4,3,3,2,2,1,1 scheme. They gave me (theoretically) 30 pills. So I count back 1,1,2,2,3,3,4...and have nine left?

tchrist

Sure hope those aren’t oral steroids.

yep

@tchrist yoink

2:59 PM

@KitFox That’s what I was afraid of. The emotional lability is terrible.

KitFox

@tchrist I'll trade for ability to breathe.

tchrist

Yes, that is the choice.

KitFox

It looks like I must have taken four when I should have taken five.

Hanaa

Firefox

hhh

tchrist

I really need not to talk to humans during such courses.

Hanaa

3:02 PM

@tchrist

How about your name meaning?

Allo

Matt E. Эллен

It's possible your question will go unanswered

although a little research will give you the answer you seek

the meaning of a name is easy to Google

usually yielding sites that cater to naming babies

KitFox

Still counting.

Matt E. Эллен

it's safer to maybe skip one and take at your next usual point than to take maybe double

KitFox

Seriously. Why is this math all wrong? I keep ending up with five left over.

They must have given me too many,

Matt E. Эллен

free drugs!

KitFox

3:10 PM

Kit VM Fox?

I have a double middle in real life.

Matt E. Эллен

Kit XX Fox — for the whiskey

Hello @kit @matt.

@Kit Please see.

Hi @ABeautifulMind

Aren’t we supposed to not tag questions with the answer?

@KitFox Don’t worry, once you’re feeling better you can work that off in no time.

If a question says "What do you call the verb form of written in ‘I have written a new book’?”, then should we really be tagging the question itself with past-participle?

Particularly since the OP did not, and that is the very answer sought.

Matt E. Эллен

3:23 PM

well... I don't know. I guess it makes sense to tag it with what it's about

tchrist

I just know that Reg tutted at me once for it, although not strongly enough to change what I’d done.

Mitch

@KitFox but puppies!

Matt E. Эллен

I see. I don't know then.

KitFox

@ABeautifulMind Hi.

Mitch

Anyway, the unspoken part of the dude code is the the women are taking care of you.

A Beautiful Mind

3:26 PM

I remember Vitaly used to come to this chat frequently. He's gone forever, it seems.

Mitch

@MattE.Эллен which might very well be the answer. so I don't see a big problem. even though it looks weird.

@ABeautifulMind people move on.

tchrist

@MattE.Эллен This is one recent example.

A Beautiful Mind

@Mitch I am the only one still stuck, sadly.

Matt E. Эллен

yeah. I don't have a problem with it.

tchrist

kk

A Beautiful Mind

3:27 PM

The past few days I have been thinking and napping intermittently, about 2 hours each round.

Mitch

@ABeautifulMind with the rest of us.

A Beautiful Mind

@Mitch Well, I mean in my sick mind. But I am still working on it.

Hanaa

What is that weird?

Mitch

have you tried different kinds of meditation (or really, just structured thinking)?

@ABeautifulMind everybody has their mental 'things'. just some don't realize it.

A Beautiful Mind

@Mitch It is difficult to think clearly when you are sick. Also, sometimes it is not about thinking but about feeling.

Mitch

3:30 PM

But that's why I suggest it. It's like exercise for the mind, doing something very structured to get habits.

yes, feelings are hard to structure.

A Beautiful Mind

@Hanaa What are you referring to? Use the arrow on the right of a line to reply to it. You see the arrow when you hover over with your mouse.

@hanaa Just click on the right arrow and then type into the box and press enter.

Hanaa

ok@ABeautifulMind

A Beautiful Mind

@Hanaa Do you see the right arrow now? It's on the extreme right of a line when you move your mouse over the line you want to reply to.

Hanaa

yes

A Beautiful Mind

Well done, that is chat lesson number one.

That would cost 1 million USD.

Hanaa

3:41 PM

:19786440

A Beautiful Mind

Maybe you are on mobile? Then you would see something else. And then my remarks don't apply.

Hanaa

);

No i'm using the computer

A Beautiful Mind

Do you have a mouse?

Just move your cursor over the line I just typed.

At the end of the line, do you see an arrow besides the star?

Now, click on that arrow.

Hanaa

@MattE.Эллен which might very well be the answer. so I don't see a big problem. even though it looks weird.

A Beautiful Mind

After that, type into the box at the bottom, and then press enter.

Hanaa

3:45 PM

I clicked but i did not find enter or a box

A Beautiful Mind

The box is the box you type into to talk.

KitFox

When you click the arrow, it will put some numbers in your chat box.

A Beautiful Mind

The enter is the enter on your keyboard.

KitFox

With a colon prefix.

When you type a message and hit enter, it will convert the number into a reply ping.

Hanaa

@Mitch what do u mean?

A Beautiful Mind

3:46 PM

@Hanaa Well done.

Hanaa

Finally

Thanks @ABeautifulMind

A Beautiful Mind

No problem, don't forget the 1 million dollars, lol.

KitFox

Stupid dog commercial. sniffles

I have got to skip this stupid thing.

A Beautiful Mind

You watch videos at work?

Hanaa

A Beautiful Mind

3:53 PM

Thanks. I really need it.

Hanaa

@ABeautifulMind wlcm

A Beautiful Mind

@Hanaa I just read your profile.

Hanaa

Yes, then?

A Beautiful Mind

Nothing.

KitFox

@ABeautifulMind I listen to ASMR videos to help me relax at work.

A Beautiful Mind

3:55 PM

Autonomous sensory meridian response

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Hanaa

Nothing! ok

A Beautiful Mind

@KitFox I watch this every day youtube.com/watch?v=GtkST5-ZFHw

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