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12:12 AM
Weirdly enough, the thing I miss most about living in Reno is the standing lenticulars. I miss those so much.
I never knew I needed this, but putting everything into alphabetical order just... feels right:
 
12:40 AM
This is a better thing to do with that song.
 
1:15 AM
He said "I''ll be Bach" but in reality went Haydn
 
You mean he went into Hayden. Which is weird.
 
I expected the joke to give you lower Bach pain
Russian of the day: luvers - from Dutch leuvers
In English, it's grommet or eyelet
..or cringle
 
1:31 AM
@CowperKettle You need to get a better Handel on it.
 
@CowperKettle What is установленный?
 
@CowperKettle Danish kringle is the best!
 
@XanderHenderson "Installed"
 
Ah. Thanks.
Well, now I know how to say "installed grommet" in Russian.
Huzzah.
 
@CowperKettle speed reading courses are uncannily like weight loss regimens. Tricking insecure people into thinking there's more to them than there is.
 
1:34 AM
@CowperKettle Heh. It took me a semester to read that damned book.
 
@CowperKettle cringe
 
@XanderHenderson I bet 90% of Russians will not understand the word "люверс" anyway. I never heard it before yesterday.
 
@CowperKettle I would be willing to bet that 65% of English speakers won't know what a "grommet" is, either.
 
@XanderHenderson I read it in the summer of 1992, and liked it
 
I am like 90% of Russians
 
1:35 AM
Maybe more.
 
@XanderHenderson Ah!
 
@CowperKettle I read it in a Russian class, and I did not like it. I just wanted Pierre to die already, so that the book could be over.
 
@XanderHenderson There's a nice cartoon titled Wallace and Grommet, that's how I learned the word
@XanderHenderson LOL
 
@CowperKettle Aardman. Those are fun.
 
Wallace and Gromit is a British stop-motion animated comedy franchise created by Nick Park and produced by Aardman Animations. The main film series consists of four short films and one feature-length film, and has spawned numerous spin-offs and TV adaptations. The series centres on Wallace, a good-natured, eccentric, cheese-loving inventor, and Gromit, his loyal and intelligent anthropomorphic beagle. The first short film, A Grand Day Out, was finished and made public in 1989. Wallace was voiced by actor Peter Sallis until 2010 when he was succeeded by Ben Whitehead. Gromit is largely silent and...
 
1:37 AM
@XanderHenderson that quite checks out about Russia
 
Soviet Realism was more my pace. Katayev, in particular, was quite funny (though I don't think he thought he was writing satire).
And for poetry, Pushkin can suck it. Lermontov for the win.
 
No Hafez?
 
My favorite poets irritatingly composed in Farsi.
 
@M.A.R. I was a Russian studies major when I started as an undergrad. I read Russian poetry and literature, and not much else. And I was mostly interested in the Soviet era, so I am much better versed on stuff written between about 1920 and 1990.
 
1:39 AM
Can't internationalize them
 
@CowperKettle So. True.
 
Wallace and Gromit is a British stop-motion animated comedy franchise created by Nick Park and produced by Aardman Animations. The main film series consists of four short films and one feature-length film, and has spawned numerous spin-offs and TV adaptations. The series centres on Wallace, a good-natured, eccentric, cheese-loving inventor, and Gromit, his loyal and intelligent anthropomorphic beagle. The first short film, A Grand Day Out, was finished and made public in 1989. Wallace was voiced by actor Peter Sallis until 2010 when he was succeeded by Ben Whitehead. Gromit is largely silent and...
 
> Haydn's grave was ransacked only a few days after the funeral and his skull was snatched.
WTF
 
@tchrist You are the second person to note that. And I am aware of Aardman. :)
 
Wallace and Gromit is a British stop-motion animated comedy franchise created by Nick Park and produced by Aardman Animations. The main film series consists of four short films and one feature-length film, and has spawned numerous spin-offs and TV adaptations. The series centres on Wallace, a good-natured, eccentric, cheese-loving inventor, and Gromit, his loyal and intelligent anthropomorphic beagle. The first short film, A Grand Day Out, was finished and made public in 1989. Wallace was voiced by actor Peter Sallis until 2010 when he was succeeded by Ben Whitehead. Gromit is largely silent and...
 
1:45 AM
How can you pitch a tent without knowing what grommets are?
 
@XanderHenderson Did you read Ilf and Petrov?
 
Oh that's what those small small hula hoops are called
 
> Additional sense (1993)
1986–
A young surfer or skateboarder. colloquial (chiefly Australian).
> 1986 He took out the Wavelength-Quiksilver summer surf classic against a field of Australia's hottest grommets, in what was a victory for the world's veteran surfers. — Sun (Melbourne) 10 January 47/3
 
I woke up from a great dream, it was full-color. In the end, a colored tiny bird bit me. It turns out the bird was composed of a kind of plastic, and I started turning into plastic, but did not die, because it only transformed you into a live person made out of this kind of plastic.
 
@CowperKettle it's a sign
 
1:49 AM
All my dreams are colored ones.
 
Not long after Beethoven was buried, they dug him up. He was lying in his coffin, desperately erasing old scores. Someone asked zombie Beethoven what he was doing. He replied, "Decomposing."
 
Maybe Cowp means it was like one of those Dreamworks color barfs
 
And there was some holiday outside, in an earlier episode of the dream, and they decorated the grass lines along the streets with reproduction of many buildings made of Lego, and with tiny edible buildings and tiny edible elements, so all kids went out to look and marvel. I clumsily got into one of these lines and wrecked some Lego buildings and stepped on some edible elements.
 
Life is a series of clumsy steppings on Lego buildings and some edible elements
@XanderHenderson I wondered why I've heard that before, given I'm a very joke-deficient person. Turns out @Mitch has made that joke four times.
That I can count
This chat is just a rearrangement of what has been said before. Every possible utterance already exists in the transcript, meaningful or otherwise.
 
2:06 AM
@CowperKettle Ilf, a bit. I don't know Petrov off the top of my head.
@M.A.R. Nothing new under the sun.
@CowperKettle Life was plastic?
Was it fantastic?
 
I came across this mural yesterday
And this cute building
The Vysotsky skyscraper is visible in the background
 
@CowperKettle What makes it cute to you?
 
@tchrist I don't know, it kind of looks good for some movie decoration, and is located right across a small yard to the entrance of the Yekaterinburg Movie Studio
Sverdlovsk Film Studio (Russian: Свердловская Киностудия) is a Russian film studio based in Yekaterinburg (formerly Sverdlovsk). It is a regional studio, that was established on 9 February 1943 in the midst of World War II. In 1944 the studio produced its first film, Silva, a musical comedy based on the Austrian operetta Sylva. In 1998, Sverdlovsk Film Studio almost went bankrupt. This was resolved with help from the state, a new management team and independent producers. Between 2003 and 2008, aerial cinematography was used to create projects such as First on the Moon. Other projects were The...
 
It must be tricky making films there now.
 
"How about a cuppa coffee?"
 
2:23 AM
@CowperKettle Oh, I've been to Yekaterinburg!
 
2:45 AM
Dec 21, 2023 at 15:15, by Mitch
It's new under the sun that you've said there's nothing new under the sun
Ironic
 
 
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3:51 AM
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A: Possible grammar error in textbook by National Geographic?

alphabetDepending on how much you trust a quick Ngram search, sang is about 30 times more common than sung as the simple past form. But sung is very much still valid; all three definitions of sing given by TFD list it as an alternative form. This usage isn't informal or uneducated, as some commenters hav...

I have a feeling this answer is going to attract certain disputatious types, but this is a hill I will die on.
 
@XanderHenderson Did you like it?
 
 
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8:44 AM
Pholisma sonorae, commonly known as sandfood, is a rare and unusual species of flowering plant endemic to the Sonoran Deserts to the west of Yuma, Arizona in the California Yuha, Mojave Desert and Colorado Desert, and south in the Yuma Desert, where it is known from only a few locations. == Description == Pholisma sonorae is a perennial herb which grows in sand dunes, its fleshy stem extending up to two meters (six feet) below the surface and emerging above as a small rounded or ovate form. It may be somewhat mushroom-shaped if enough sand blows away to reveal the top of the stem. It is ...
 
9:37 AM
Korean idiom of the day: A mountain after a mountain — means there is a consecutive series of difficulties.
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2:09 PM
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Interesting second language for this country.
 
2:28 PM
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Q: Does the government of South Korea have any plans to address their fertility rate, which is currently the lowest in the world?

JonathanReezSouth Korea currently has a fertility rate of 0.84, which is the lowest in the world and significantly below the minimum required to sustain their population. Given this strong reduction, does their government have any plans on how to increase it in the future? 2024 update: the 2023 fertility rat...

1. Give alluring tax breaks only to those with children.
2. Make divorce extremely expensive and slow, if not illegal.
3. Mandatory state-arranged opp-sex marriages for anyone still unmarried by age 25.
4. Pluralize China's one-child policy in a new Korean many-children policy.
5. Reduce the marriage age substantially.
6. Free nannies.
7. Have the State pay for in-vitro fertilization so that multiple-birth pregnancies are the norm not the exception.
8. Allow cats to become citizens.
9. Encourage immigration of fertile mothers.
10. Make it illegal to die without issue.
11. Make contraception illegal.
12. Make Netflix subscriptions free.
13. Lace the water supply with microdoses of Viagra.
14. Fudge the full-moon dates on calendars.
15. Make all elevator music especially steamy.
16. Create quarterly fertility-oriented public holidays.
17. Develop robotic baby buggies.
18. Adopt mixed-sex bunk beds for campus housing.
19. Love Potion #9.
20. Kindergarten sex education.
21. Full-ride scholarships for OB-GYN doctors and nurses.
22. Revoke citizenship retroactively on anybody who dies so they don't count for the statistics.
23. Launch secret press-gangs into North Korea to kidnap babies and children to replenish the South Korean supply.
24. Change the Easter holiday into a Make More Babies holiday.
> There was an old woman who lived in a shoe.
She had so many children, she didn't know what to do.
She gave them some broth without any bread;
And whipped them all soundly and put them to bed.
 
3:37 PM
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5:20 PM
@tchrist you had me up until this one.
 
 
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7:21 PM
@DannyuNDos the Farsi version, if n(mountain) = 2, is "from a hole into a well"
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@tchrist bleurgh
Incredibly 90s
@tchrist yohimbine is probably more effective since it might have a dual action on libido
But has more side effects
 
7:54 PM
 
8:08 PM
#WhenTaken #33 (31.03.2024)

I scored 753/1000 🎉

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I saw a prophecy last night's dream.
It was how my fav novel ― Tondemo Skill de Isekai Hourou Meshi ― will end.
The prophecy goes like this: The protagonist, Mukoda Tsuyoshi, becomes a god, and gets a prompt message asking "Create a new world, or explore another world?"
If the prophecy would become true, that would be a satisfactory ending.
 
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I scored 690/1000 🎉

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2️⃣ 📍 2788 km - 🗓️ 3 yrs - ⚡ 132 / 200
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8:24 PM
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@tchrist Wouldn't banning sex ed do more to increase the fertility rate?
Or just teach them falsehoods. There are already people dumb enough to think that--yes, really--you can't get pregnant if you have sex while standing up.
 
@Robusto Picture #1 didn't look a real one to me, more like a drawing.
 
@jlliagre Is that the one of the stone building?
 
8:39 PM
@Robusto Yes.
 
It looked real enough to me, but I was way off on the location. There are many such buildings in the US, holdovers from the late 19th century. They're usually official buildings, collegiate structures, etc.
 
@jlliagre The copper roof is the giveaway. Very popular in the late 1800s. Hell, look at the Statue of Liberty. Your country designed it, and we built it.
The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City, United States. The copper statue, a gift from the people of France, was designed by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and its metal framework was built by Gustave Eiffel. The statue was dedicated on October 28, 1886. The statue is a figure of Libertas, the Roman goddess of liberty. She holds a torch above her head with her right hand, and in her left hand carries a tabula ansata inscribed JULY IV MDCCLXXVI...
That's the color of oxidized copper.
 
@Robusto France built it too.
 
@jlliagre Yes. Eiffel built the iron framework.
 
8:54 PM
 
There's one in France too.
It was a very nice gift, btw. I hope you guys don't want it back.
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Q: What do you call a protective shade that funnels rainwater onto your head?
A: An UNbrella.
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@Robusto I don't think anyone here want it back. That wouldn't make sense. Paris already has the Eiffel Tower as a symbol, New York has the Statue of Liberty.
Donner c'est donner, reprendre c'est voler.
 
@jlliagre I wasn't seriously suggesting that. Just racketing along, as always.
 
9:09 PM
@Robusto We are more focused on retrieving the great Louisiana (New France) ;-)
 
@jlliagre Yeah, good luck with that. Check with M. Bonaparte and see if he invested those funds.
 
@Robusto The guy needed $15M to fight the British. I'm afraid he wasted all of it without succeeding.
 
@jlliagre This is the problem with dictators. (I'm looking at you, Mr. Putin.)
 
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9:46 PM
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@Robusto at least they mean well
@M.A.R. wait are you saying that's the real name of a medication?
It sounds awfully like a ninja
 
10:05 PM
Lynx rufus, and a big one.
Just a few minutes ago.
Probably 30 pounds or larger.
It's remarkably well fed on the local coons.
 
 
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11:45 PM
@tchrist Whoa, was that outside your house?
 
@Robusto No, not my own, but a house near my family's on the other side of town that I spotted as I was returning from Easter brunch there.
 
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@tchrist Good eyes.
 
Sometimes March goes out like a lionette.
 
Is that a kind of piano?
 
11:48 PM
Well, at 30 pounds, the red lynx seems like the size of a growing lion cub.
 
> Adult males typically weigh between 18 and 35 pounds and measure from 32 to 37 inches in length. Adult females typically weigh between 15 and 30 pounds and measure from 28 to 32 inches in length.
 
Is a bobcat the same as a lynx?
 
No, but they're like double first cousins.
The Lynx genus comprises four species, of which Lynx rufus is one, commonly called the bobcat or red lynx.
The Canada lynx is from a second migration. It's got bigger feet and usually a bigger body, and does better at higher elevations where 80% of its diet is snowshoe hare.
We have both in Colorado, but not in Boulder to date. This one did have ear tufts, because that happens with bobcats as well just not so prominently. But its tail was polka-dotted not solid black, which is dispositive.
It was also redder overall than its close cousin.
> The genus Lynx shares a clade with the genera Puma, Prionailurus and Felis dated to 7.15 million years ago; Lynx diverged approximately 3.24 million years ago.[16]

The bobcat is thought to have evolved from the Eurasian lynx (L. lynx), which crossed into North America by way of the Bering Land Bridge during the Pleistocene, with progenitors arriving as early as 2.6 million years ago.[17] It first appeared during the Irvingtonian stage around 1.8 million years ago. The first bobcat wave moved into the southern portion of North America, which was soon cut off from the north by glaciers; th
> The bobcat resembles other species of the midsize genus Lynx, but is on average the smallest of the four. Its coat is variable, though generally tan to grayish-brown, with black streaks on the body and dark bars on the forelegs and tail. Its spotted patterning acts as camouflage. The ears are black-tipped and pointed, with short, black tufts.
On average the smallest of the four. But they can be quite large in the extreme.
 

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