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12:11 AM
@Robusto Understandable.
 
12:22 AM
@Lambie If you haven't seen this video yet: youtube.com/watch?v=HyOVlp_6L-I
@Lambie So they're telling you to starve us?
@Lambie Eh, often it's better to ignore the skewer-ers. Trying to win them over rarely succeeds. Worst thing that happens, people keep on believing somewhat incorrect things.
 
1:14 AM
@Mitch non-olive veggie oil. Often sunflower? I know it's not as healthy as super extra double virgin olive oil but I can stand it at least
Though we're not very picky in general. Foods with lots of eggs taste more delicious cooked with butter
@Mitch um, everyone thinks they're right. Why would they insist on something if they knew it was definitely wrong?
I have missed the past dozen or so solar eclipses. During most of them I was taking a nap
While people are busy staring at the moon's shadow you think ahead and take a power nap. The world wouldn't see what hit them, a power-napped M.A.R. ready to go
 
Cryptic clues are a madness for a non-native like me.
 
2:19 AM
This channel of parody pronunciation videos is precious.
 
2:37 AM
Korean idiom of the day: Doesn't care whether it's water or fire — means that it works in every situation.
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4:15 AM
The most common Farsi idiom that comes to mind involving fire and water is (sb) is delving into water and fire (to get sth done). Means they're trying very hard, obviously
 
4:52 AM
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Q: Container without order

Dannyu NDos You try to see doubly well But I'm not for locations You try to slither in through But I'm not for foreign words Don't worry, I'm here to store You just need a key to find The time admits it's no chore The log; from how I'm designed What am I?

Critiques on the poem?
 
 
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9:39 AM
A bank quotes a rates of 5.89 percent with an effective annual rate of 6.05. -- What does it mean exactly when we say a bank QUOTES a rate of... ?
 
10:13 AM
A neural network mis-identified a hydrologist by processing an airport security photo as a person who committed a murder 20 years ago. He spent 10 months in pre-trial jail, and it took a lot of hue and cry for his relatives and all his native village to get him out e1.ru/text/criminal/2024/03/28/73391207
Only when they managed somehow to reach the attention of Vladimir Putin was the guy released
Imagine a hobo in a situation like this. No relatives, no colleagues, no friendly locals. Often, no proper ID papers either
Welcome to the brave new world
 
 
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12:20 PM
> A beguiling, nacreous opalescence that looks like one of the very hallucinations which intense absinthe intoxication is rumoured to produce.
 
@MichaelRybkin It's a special sense of the verb quote; Cambridge defines it as "to tell a customer how much a job, service, or product will cost:."
 
12:31 PM
Indianism (Portuguese: Indianismo) is a Brazilian literary and artistic movement that reached its peak during the first stages of Romanticism in the country, though it had been present in Brazilian literature since the Baroque period. In Romantic contexts, it is called "the first generation of Brazilian Romanticism", being succeeded by the "Ultra-Romanticism" and the "Condorism". == Historical context == After the independence of Brazil from Portugal in 1822, a heavy wave of nationalism spread through the Brazilian people. Inspired by this, poets and writers began to search for an entity that could...
Antônio Gonçalves Dias (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɐ̃ˈtonju ɡõˈsawviz ˈdʒiɐs]; August 10, 1823 – November 3, 1864) was a Brazilian Romantic poet, playwright, ethnographer, lawyer and linguist. A major exponent of Brazilian Romanticism and of the literary tradition known as "Indianism", he is famous for writing "Canção do exílio" (arguably the most well-known poem of Brazilian literature), the short narrative poem I-Juca-Pirama, the unfinished epic Os Timbiras, and many other nationalist and patriotic poems that would award him posthumously with the title of national poet of Brazil. He was also...
> Gonçalves Dias foi o primeiro poeta romântico a se identificar
com o sentimento de seu povo. Contemplação panteísta e sentimento
religioso (associação de Deus à natureza). Evocou em sua poética
a natureza exótica do trópico luxuriante. Ele expressava um ideal
de homem brasileiro num conteúdo moral, ético no ideário do ÍNDIO
não contaminado pela civilização. A grandeza da natureza ao lado
do ÍNDIO que se avantaja e domina. O ideal é trabalhado pela imaginação,
fantasia e sentimentalidade. O ÍNDIO é inverossímil. Cria o mito.
Indigofera tinctoria, also called true indigo, is a species of plant from the bean family that was one of the original sources of indigo dye. == Description == True indigo is a shrub 1–2 metres (3 ft 3 in – 6 ft 7 in) high. It may be an annual, biennial, or perennial, depending on the climate in which it is grown. It has light green pinnate leaves and sheafs of pink or violet flowers. The rotenoids deguelin, dehydrodeguelin, rotenol, rotenone, tephrosin and sumatrol can be found in I. tinctoria. === Distribution and habitat === It has been naturalized to tropical and temperate Asia, as ...
 
@alphabet Thank you.
 
12:46 PM
I always, always think not of Indigofera (true indigo) but of Baptisia (false indigo) whenever someone mentions indigo, because only the latter of the two genera occurs natively in these lands of mine.
It was always confusing because the normal varieties one comes upon are white or yellow, not blue or violet.
Baptisia alba, commonly called white wild indigo or white false indigo, is a herbaceous perennial plant in the bean family Fabaceae. It is native in central and eastern North America, and is typically found in open woodland areas and prairies with tall grasslands.The plant is typically 2 to 3 feet (0.61 to 0.91 m) tall, but can be taller, with white, pealike flowers.There are two varieties, Baptisia alba var. alba and Baptisia alba var. macrophylla. == Description == Leaves have alternate arrangement, and are trifoliate, narrow, and oblong. The leaves are compound and share a common stalk. White...
Baptisia sphaerocarpa (common names include yellow wild indigo) is a herbaceous perennial plant in the family Fabaceae. It is native to southern North America. == References ==
> The common name "blue false indigo" is derived from it being used as a substitute for the superior dye-producing plant Indigofera tinctoria.
Baptisia australis, commonly known as blue wild indigo or blue false indigo, is a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae (legumes). It is a perennial herb native to much of central and eastern North America and is particularly common in the Midwest, but it has also been introduced well beyond its natural range. Naturally it can be found growing wild at the borders of woods, along streams or in open meadows. It often has difficulty seeding itself in its native areas due to parasitic weevils that enter the seed pods, making the number of viable seeds very low. The plant has low toxicity levels for...
What all this has to do with o indianismo de Gonçalves Dias, I leave to your own fancies.
 
#WhenTaken #30

I scored 656/1000 🎉

1️⃣ 📍 758 km - 🗓️ 3 yrs - ⚡ 157 / 200
2️⃣ 📍 474 km - 🗓️ 4 yrs - ⚡ 167 / 200
3️⃣ 📍 207.3 metres - 🗓️ 4 yrs - ⚡ 196 / 200
4️⃣ 📍 628 km - 🗓️ 32 yrs - ⚡ 72 / 200
5️⃣ 📍 16105 km - 🗓️ 17 yrs - ⚡ 64 / 200

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> What Newton called "blue" was what is now called cyan or blue-green; and what Newton called "indigo" was what is now called blue.
> In the RGB model used to create colors on computer screens and televisions, teal is created by reducing the brightness of cyan to about one half. In North America, teal was a fad color during the 1990s, with, among others, many sports teams adopting the color for their uniforms.
> In the 1980s, programmers produced a somewhat arbitrary list of color names for the X Window computer operating system, resulting in the HTML and CSS specifications issued in the 1990s using the term "indigo" for a dark purple hue. This has resulted in violet and purple hues also being associated with the term "indigo" since that time.
@Robusto You know, I don't think that "the X Window computer operating system" is a thing. :(
 
1:08 PM
@Robusto Well, I happen to know that wonderful city and have a spouse that is dyed-in-the-wood Sevillano. Olé. It is amazing, and the Feria de Sevilla is coming up soon on April 14. A great thing if you know someone with a caseta where friends and family gather to drink and dance, flamenco, of course.
 
Damned the muggles, full speed ahead!
The X Window System (X11, or simply X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays, common on Unix-like operating systems. X provides the basic framework for a GUI environment: drawing and moving windows on the display device and interacting with a mouse and keyboard. X does not mandate the user interface – this is handled by individual programs. As such, the visual styling of X-based environments varies greatly; different programs may present radically different interfaces. X originated as part of Project Athena at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1984. The X protocol has been at version...
Not an "operating system", you idiots.
 
1:22 PM
@tchrist Neither "X Windows", as so often read/heard.
 
@jlliagre Indeed.
People have left out pleochroic in the question about the meta's "color".
> 1997 The mineral shows vivid-blue/lilac-rose/colourless pleochroism. — Oxoniensia vol. 61 179
> Crystallography and Mineralogy. 1854– The property of a crystal of absorbing different wavelengths of transmitted light differently depending on their direction of incidence or state of polarization, and thus to show different colours in different directions; the phenomenon of dichroism and trichroism. Also: an instance of this.
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Q: A word or phrase for this kind of metallic colouring?

tellWhat is a word or phrase for the kind of metallic colouring shown in the photo, which shows a sculpture in Hong Kong? This colouring is not uniform. It has a sort of dark gold base and in places, where you might imagine it has been rubbed or stressed, it has shiny blue and purple. I believe the s...

It's still a Hot Network Question, and nobody has gotten the answer right yet.
Also the now-rare polychroic, which is just glossed back to pleochroic.
 
@tchrist The 'X Window System' formerly known as the 'Twitter Window System'.
 
> Multicoloured; (in Crystallography and Mineralogy) = pleochroic adj.
Alas poor Tweety-Bird, I knew thee!
> versicolored: Changing or varying in colour; iridescent; also, of various colours, variegated.
> pavonated: Mineralogy. Characterized by an iridescent tarnish (cf. pavonine adj. A.1).
PEACOCK!
Pavon.
> < classical Latin pāvōn-, pāvō peacock (see pawn n.2) + ‑ated suffix, after German pfauenschweifig, literally ‘peacock-tailed’ (1798 in the passage translated in quot. 1798).
Chatoyant.
O ye of few words, avail yeselves.
 
@tchrist When I was in high school, teal was a popular, quite coveted color for Levi's jeans.
 
@Robusto Yep.
 
1:36 PM
@jlliagre wow... very difficult to read. Also I guess I'm super Eurocentric because I am really really surprised at how negligible the area is for olive oil.
But...
Isn't that map for cooking as in frying? As opposed to directly mixing it in the food?
I mean canola oil is great for frying but I don't mix it in my mashed potatoes.
@Robusto Everything I know about Seville I learned from Bugs Bunny cartoons.
 
@Mitch So ... nothing at all.
 
@Robusto What's the emoji for a ringing bell?
 
@Mitch You tell me.
 
🫑
 
Green pepper?
 
1:44 PM
Bell pepper.
You see, it was what is called a pun. The green version of new world sweet pepper (which is the unripened version of the more colorful red, yellow, or orange ones) is called a 'bell' pepper because of its presumed shape like a large bell.
If you ask me it doesn't look much like such a bell.
But you didn't ask me, so there it is.
It is what it is.
I am what I am.
Whereof one cannot speak one must keep silent.
This all reminds me of the first time I went to Taco Bell.
There's a story about why it is named Taco 'Bell' but I'll let others tell that. I'm here to tell my own story.
In my story, I am a preteen, because that's the age I was when this story happened.
And as stories go, it's easier to lie when you keep closer to the truth.
So being a preteen and frankly McDonald's crazy, my eyes skipped past the scads of entirely new Spanish labels, tostada, taco, enchilada, enchirito, and landed on the 'Bell' Burger.
Because who wants all that weird stuff, I want a burger.
Of course, if you've ever worked behind the scenes at Taco Bell, and I certainly haven't, you'd be very aware that absolutely everything at Taco bell is made from a subset of ingredients. ground beef, cheese, lettuce, tomato, and some special prep or edible holder. A tostada with a flat hard corn meal shell, a taco with a bent hard corn meal shell, an enchilada with no shell and the cheese is melted, an enchirito the same but with a soft tortilla wrapping it.
And the 'Bell' burger the same as the taco ingredients but a bun instead of a taco shell.
How was it, you might ask.
It was OK I guess.
It was no McD's quarter pounder with cheese.
Which, at one point in my preteen life, I had everyday for lunch one summer vacation week. That's probably another story.
 
@Mitch The map says "use", so that includes everything like you daily shots of olive oil ;-)
 
2:00 PM
@jlliagre I like the taste of olive oil. But in great moderation.
Oh -two- table spoons. That's not that much.
@M.A.R. People who lie to themselves. Or actual liars.
 
#WhenTaken #30

I scored 741/1000 🎉

1️⃣ 📍 4 km - 🗓️ 3 yrs - ⚡ 197 / 200
2️⃣ 📍 3 km - 🗓️ 17 yrs - ⚡ 164 / 200
3️⃣ 📍 393 km - 🗓️ 10 yrs - ⚡ 160 / 200
4️⃣ 📍 852 km - 🗓️ 23 yrs - ⚡ 99 / 200
5️⃣ 📍 499 km - 🗓️ 21 yrs - ⚡ 121 / 200

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@jlliagre No mention of avocado oil. We only use that and olive oil.
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2:28 PM
@Robusto I almost only use olive oil except in the deep fryer (peanut or sunflower oil).
@Robusto Never heard of avocado oil before, nor abogado oil for that matter ;-) I eat aguacates though.
 
@jlliagre I didn't know you could make oil from lawyers, but now that you mention it ... what a great idea!
@jlliagre Avocado oil has a high smoke point, so it's better for serious frying. But olive oil is for everything else.
 
2:50 PM
@Robusto Indeed, I would advocate that!
 
3:26 PM
@Mitch Rrright. Dear diary, today I specifically went online to lie and manipulate my way in the comment section under an answer on English Language & Usage.
 
3:41 PM
 
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A: 'I know what [is] freedom [is]'. <-- Word order in WH-questions

Araucaria - HimShort answer (tl;dr) In I know [what freedom is], the interrogative phrase what occurs at the beginning of the subordinate clause because the grammar says the interrogative must be the first word (or phrase) in the clause. The word freedom is the Subject of the verb BE and therefore occurs direc...

 
@Araucaria-Him Is the man with the hat the same as the man in the hat?
 
4:10 PM
@jlliagre No, it's not. Thanks. I'd better get on it!
Done. Phew
 
 
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6:18 PM
> When synapses strengthen, they release a virus-like particle that weakens the surrounding cells’ connections, the new work shows.
 
6:44 PM
Wordle 1,013 3/6

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"There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full."
 
 
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9:32 PM
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Q: What do "virgin" and "extra virgin" mean in regards to olive oil?

e.JamesI have seen the terms "virgin" and "extra virgin" on bottles of olive oil. What do these terms mean, and how do they affect the flavor and cooking properties of the oil?

 
10:13 PM
@Robusto Of course, the highest grade of olive oil is "incel."
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10:41 PM
What's the difference between post hoc and a posteriori?
 
 
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11:51 PM
@alphabet rimshot
 
@M.A.R. oh. That's the context? Sure, I don't expect anybody to lie or even bullshit here. Just err.
 

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