Starred posts

skullpatrol

Apr 15 19:49

The terrible twos are on the horizon.

Mitch

Feb 13 22:29

That's what maturity really is, being able to express ones emotions with a larger vocabulary.

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alphabet

Dec 23, 2024 19:26

@Robusto Google "Facebook Apple Microsoft Amazon."

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Robusto

Dec 23, 2024 19:20

I will pin the first message that makes a sentence composed only of brand names. There has to be at least five words.

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Conrado

Apr 13 18:24

J. Masefield, The Everlasting Mercy

tchrist

Apr 13 14:09

> kirn Scottish and northern dialect 1. A feast or merry-making held on the completion of the harvest; a harvest-home or harvest-supper. (Thing and name are passing out of use.)

Robusto

Dec 18, 2024 02:19

@CowperKettle Please run that by @M.A.R. before you do anything so dangerous as taking mifepristone.

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MetaEd

Oct 29, 2024 22:12

Happy birthday to me. To celebrate, I'm releasing a simple Literate Programming tutorial based on the classic C "hello, world" program. metaed.com/papers/hello This is in the nature of a draft. Suggestions welcomed.

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Conrado

Apr 10 13:27

R. Daumal, Mount Analogue

CowperKettle

Apr 9 01:57

Mindscape Ask Me Anything, Sean Carroll | April 2025

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Laurel

Apr 9 00:05

@Lambie I'd really like to help you understand, but (against my best efforts at persuasion) you've given me the impression you're not going to change your behavior in response to what I say. It's not enough to have a point; you need to not only literally speak someone's language (as a translator might) but also figuratively (for an extreme example, compare the difference in response you'd get yelling at someone vs not). You're not yelling, but your actions, how you talk do have an effect on people

Dannyu NDos

Feb 3 08:20

Chinese idiom of the day: Ghosts and goblins are the easiest to draw — Because they don't exist.

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Robusto

Apr 8 13:20

You can click on Smokey's gravatar on top of the starboard and choose "Ignore this user everywhere."

Cerberus

Feb 3 03:34

E.g. cats seem smarter than they are.

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tchrist

Feb 1 22:54

SURVEY: Todos North Americans from anywhere north of the Darién Gap should por favor take Dr Geoff Lindsey’s North American English Survey, especially if you’re a ɴᴀᴛɪᴠᴇ English speaker. He’s trying to tease out our ᴘʜᴏɴᴇᴍɪᴄ inventories for a new edition of his team’s highly configurable free online pronouncing dictionary to cover cis-Atlantic dialects. ¡Miles gracias!

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tchrist

Dec 7, 2024 21:05

Ten years ago we were getting ten times the weekly questions that we're getting today.

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tchrist

Jan 31 11:34

> 1 Ideology produces disagreement, but stupidity produces befuddlement.
2 Stupidity often inheres in organizations, not individuals.
3 People who behave stupidly are more dangerous than people who behave maliciously.
4 People who behave stupidly are unaware of the stupidity of their actions.
5 Stupidity is nearly impossible to oppose.
6 The opposite of stupidity is not intelligence, it’s rationality.

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CowperKettle

Jan 28 12:40

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Robusto

Aug 29, 2024 19:14

@user20458579510081670432 Stop starring Mitch's silliness.

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Mitch

Jan 27 22:11

If only we could convince China and Japan to start using 'ciao' as a gretting/farewell, then we could have a real United Nations.

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Robusto

Oct 10, 2024 20:02

'Swarm of raccoons': Poulsbo woman startled after over 100 raccoons surround her home

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Cerberus

Jan 25 03:43

And I have a fever of 39.1 degrees.

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GratefulDisciple

Apr 2 13:46

@CowperKettle I didn't realize it's a term. Learn new things every day!

HippoSawrUs

Apr 2 08:17

Word of My Day: overintellectualizing

Robusto

Apr 2 02:33

@Mitch Call it "Mitch plays a prank on a Polar Bear: Part One" ... which will be funny because everyone will still be expecting a Part Two but it will never come.

Mitch

Apr 2 02:31

@skullpatrol polar bear fur pudding? That's the kind of proof up with which I shall not put

Robusto

Apr 2 02:21

@Mitch That doesn't rhyme. What good is a life-saving instruction if it doesn't rhyme? Pfft.

tchrist

Apr 1 01:56

I wonder whether our user Hot Licks has died.

alphabet

Jan 21 19:55

Word of the day: broligarch. "A politically influential younger male tycoon, particularly one involved in technology. Seemingly derived from tech bro."

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jlliagre

Aug 15, 2024 23:38

@Lambie In chat, unless you're a mod, typos, blunders, and blasphemes are final.

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CowperKettle

Oct 1, 2024 01:10

That's just a Special Military Operation

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Robusto

Jan 18 20:05

In the Realm of the Senses

In the Realm of the Senses (French: L'Empire des sens, Japanese: 愛のコリーダ, Ai no Korīda, "Bullfight of Love") is a 1976 erotic art film written and directed by Nagisa Ōshima. It is a fictionalised and sexually explicit treatment of a 1936 murder committed by Sada Abe. An international coproduction of France and Japan, the film generated great controversy at the time of its release. The film had the involvement of pink film luminary Kōji Wakamatsu as co-screenwriter and assistant producer. While intended for mainstream wide release, the film contains scenes of unsimulated sexual activity between the...

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Robusto

Mar 29 15:06

“You’re Here Because of Your Tattoos”

tchrist

Nov 20, 2024 01:23

"The boy who cried nuke."

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CowperKettle

Mar 29 04:33

I have a pet tree. It's a lot like having a pet dog but the bark is much quieter.

jlliagre

Nov 19, 2024 10:54

@tchrist Let's promote desenshittificationism!

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Robusto

Jan 15 19:01

BTW, the WWW above has an extension: "Those who can, do; those who can't, teach; and those who can't teach, teach gym."

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M.A.R.

Nov 16, 2024 08:49

@DannyuNDos The Farsi equivalent is "there is many a hand above every hand."

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Robusto

Jan 13 20:46

New House Rules for Trump Voters, From Your Local Bartender

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Araucaria - Him

Jan 13 20:17

@Xanne I think ChatGPT etc can only hallucinate! It's just that sometimes the hallucination's very convincing ;-)

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tchrist

Mar 26 03:01

> There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile,
He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile;
He bought a crooked cat which caught a crooked mouse,
And they all lived together in a little crooked house.

Robusto

Mar 26 01:57

Do three-headed dogs only ride three-headed horses? Discuss.

Robusto

Mar 25 15:06

I wish I could still laugh.

jlliagre

Nov 12, 2024 01:12

Unix guys are often climates.

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CowperKettle

Sep 18, 2024 01:14

@tchrist Hesbollah got pagers

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CowperKettle

Mar 24 12:01

Social media may be trapping us in a cycle of loneliness, new study suggests

alphabet

Jan 10 05:53

Phrase of the day: to be away with the fairies. (UK, humorous) "to behave in a way that is slightly strange."

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M.A.R.

Sep 15, 2024 09:34

We should, in the meanwhile, probably just stop worrying and love the bomb

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Robusto

Jan 8 14:56

@GratefulDisciple I'm going to coin a phrase here to describe Connections categories that are NWT3K: "Not Worth the Trouble to Know." That certainly describes today's purple.

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Cerberus

Sep 13, 2024 03:53

By house I mean any place where someone lives permanently and which is meant for that purpose, not being an hotel.

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