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Tsundoku

00:03

@verbose I think that was before certain incidents...

OK, I found one example from February.

But before that, you need to go back to August 2020.

Tsundoku

00:17

@bobble There are all sorts of conventions for citations. Recent literature often uses a short from such as 1.3.21 (after quotations). Long forms vary, e.g. Act 1, Scene 5 in the Cambridge Shakespeare and Act 1, scene i in the New Penguin Shakespeare. Based on that, trying to standardise act and scene references in questions and answers seems a bit over the top.

bobble

So. My English teachers may have lied.

Tsundoku

How?

bobble

By saying that their methods of citation where the only ones. Which was accurate in their classroom but not outside.

Tsundoku

That reminds me of one of the things we were told at university: don't come to us with the interpretations they taught you at school ...

bobble

How about the math they taught me at school?

Tsundoku

00:23

Many things we are taught at school don't represent the best available knowledge or universal conventions etc but are just stepping stones.

@bobble I don't know. I haven't learnt any math for decades.

bobble

What is 1 tsundoku + 1 tsundoku?

Tsundoku

Is that still a thing? As opposed to literature?

@bobble Just a bigger tsundoku.

bobble

1 tsundoku - 1 tsundoku?

@Tsundoku triple integrals of spherical coordinates are in my textbook, so yes, math exists

Tsundoku

@bobble Actually, I don't know whether you can actually quantify tsundoku in that way. You can measure the height of a stack or count the number of books in it, but tsundoku is not measured in that way.

bobble

How many books are in you, Tsundoku?

The bobble will leave for biking now. Farewell, good friends.

Tsundoku

00:30

Happy bike-doku-ing ;-)

Alex

00:42

29

Q: Can we enable tracking a badge statistic even if you already have the badge?

There is a page in the user profile where you can choose which badge to track next. This page shows your current progress towards the badge: I am often interested in seeing my statistics even when I already have the relevant badge. For example, I already have the Sportsmanship badge, but I wou...

Bookworm

00:58

0

Q: Petrarcha and Boccacio

What is courtly love and how does Petrarca break this literary genre? Please cite at least 2 examples from the readings How does Boccacio change the role of women in his writings compared to Petrarca? Please give 2 examples from each author

history-of-literature italian-literature love francesco-petrarca giovanni-boccaccio

Tsundoku

@Alex So that feature request has not been implemented (yet?).

@Bookworm Homework.

Alex

I גםמ,א איןמל דםץ

Sorry, that should say I don't think so.

Forgot to change the language on my keyboard.

Tsundoku

Ah.

Bobble's bike ride didn't last very long.

bobble

01:28

I had to come home in time for dinner, and I check my sites for new moderation stuff to do. Often. Probably more than is necessary or healthy.

Soyuz42

You bobbled off your bike again didn't you?

bobble

Back and forth the path goes

I didn't have much time so I just went to the nearby church and dallied 'round the parking lot

Soyuz42

Well, it's about 5:30 here, and I haven't had an ounce of sleep on account of a physics test this morning

bobble

6:30 PM here. After dinner and before Family TV Time

My sister complained about her tests tomorrow. Seems she manages a test a day somehow

Soyuz42

My complaint is that I 'accidentally' studied projectile motion for a wave phenomena test.

bobble

01:35

oof

Soyuz42

Oh, and I meant 5:30 AM, as in the test is roughly 90 mins later.

(I'm still studying, which is why I haven't slept)

bobble

I've never pulled an all-nighter, for some reason. Usually I finish homework before dinner.

This may be because I'm terrible at studying and tend to not do it

Soyuz42

Are you acquainted perchance with the IB diploma programme?

bobble

I'm aware of it and the general requirements. Required classes and clubs and such.

My school offers only AP, however

Soyuz42

Which is still difficult. I think.

bobble

01:41

Some classes easier than others, but yes, harder than regular classes

I gather your physics class is for IB

Soyuz42

Yes. And I particularly like it when the textbook eschews an important explanation and then mutters something about Ockham's razor.

bobble

I see you, and raise you physics homework that is one-try-only and grades on correctness

My main complaint with that being it's a stupid online platform where the buttons move and I miss and boom! C score on the homework

Soyuz42

At least it's multiple choice. But nevertheless, I concede.

bobble

This is true. Though I'm worried for my ability to answer free-response questions; all our tests are multiple-choice

bobble

02:42

please excuse the bobble, they will make a short rant

My edit got "Reject and Edit"; the over-edit is in the revision history

Oh really, one of my tags was incorrect, you say. Then why did you add both as well? The only other tag edit you made was to add alias, which was covered just fine by tag-synonyms

Suggested edits must make "all" improvements, you say. The only things you added as non-tag-edits are purely stylistic - a linebreak here, a removed comma there. All my non-tag edits (with the exception of a slight rewording) were made

You "would have rejected an edit on an 8 year old post as unnecessary". Guess what, you did reject the edit. Also, I was fixing up the tags, very important for meta especially as users need to find if someone asked their question before.

</rant>

bobble

03:27

spam

verbose

@bobble they never taught me math at school. They did, however, teach me maths.

bobble

27

Q: Which is correct: "math" or "maths"?

Which one is considered correct? I say "math", however I believe I heard somewhere that "maths" is correct. Also, should it (and "mathematics") be capitalized or not?

word-choice

44

Q: "Maths" for "Mathematics"; where does the S come from?

So in US English we shorten mathematics to math, and in the UK they say maths. Where does the 'S' come from in the UK version? For some reason I had it in my head that this was just because it's plural so you add the 's'; referring to multiple types of mathematics. But a question on another SE si...

etymology british-english abbreviations

verbose

03:42

@Soyuz42 oh 5:30 AM. I was like, dude's in Alaska?

@bobble illustrative story: The first Java class I took had an instructor who was great, but very strict in her grading. I stayed up all night studying before the two tests she had during the term. I did well. But the class as a whole had a really poor average going into the final, like around 60%. So I thought, I bet the final will be easy, prof Connolly will want the class to do well so that multiple people don't fail

So I slept the night before the final

and the final ended up being REALLY HARD

like, I had classmates CALL me after the exam to ask, "was it just me or was that final really brutal". It was indeed.

Yet when Prof Connolly posted the results it turned out I had done better on the final than I had on either of the two midterms ... just because I was more mentally alert I guess?

@bobble Isn't there an option to "improve this edit"? Why didn't the dude just use that instead of rejecting?

bobble

I think he meant to, but clicked the wrong button

The coding classes I've taken in school (our equivalent to Comp Sci 101, and AP Comp Sci A) were really darn easy, because I had so much coding experience outside school that the low-level concepts were like breathing. I expect that won't hold in university.

verbose

@bobble I really think it's just prof-dependent. I found Intro to C the appropriate level of difficulty. Then I found Intermediate C super easy. Then when I took data structures and advanced C (two different classes that had intermediate C as a prerequisite), I was aghast at how unprepared I was for them ... because the intermediate C prof just had watered down the material to the point where the class was super easy but useless

I had to drop Advanced C and take it a different semester.

Coz I didn't have the chops to survive both Advanced C and data structures / algorithm the same term, given how little I actually understood things like pointers.

bobble

hey, I know pointers!

verbose

Luckily, that is no longer true of my understanding of pointers

@bobble wow I didn't think people studied C any more

in what context did you learn about pointers?

bobble

Took a C++ course over the summer.

verbose

03:57

oh yeah

I don't think C++ uses pointers nearly as much as C does. C++ has pass by reference, C doesn't

bobble

It was a data structures class, and the instructor really liked linked lists

So pointers

verbose

ah

well, the instructor is correct; blockchain is basically linked lists, I understand, so they're very in right now

bobble

Anyways, that added C++ to the list of languages I call myself "Stack Overflow proficient" in - I understand the syntax and how it works enough, to figure out how to program most things if given enough time and SO

verbose

wait I just realized I pasted in the wrong SO link above. I meant to point to the answers I have on pointers (I have a tag badge for pointers on SO)

apologies

How odd I seem unable to even delete that message

bobble

You have a 2-minute grace period to edit or delete your stuff; beyond that mod intervention is required

Mods, naturally, have unlimited edit powers on everyone's old stuff, except in certain situations (such as the special mod-only room; they can't edit each others chat messages)

didja flag the spam I linked up there ^ ?

verbose

04:08

@bobble yup

also, here is a pointer for you

bobble

Here is a rug-missing-bunny for you

verbose

ah

bobble

You know, our Unanswered rate would decrease if people didn't post questions :P

Soyuz42

@verbose I have a sneaking suspicion it did not go well, and now I'm left with a buzz at the back of my head.

verbose

@Soyuz42 sorry to hear that. Let's hope it went better than you think.

twitter.com/CleoLoughlin/status/1371525456470679553?s=20

Soyuz42

04:22

Et tu Knifé? no, no.. that's not funny - Et tu ...?

It seems I'm not very good at punning

verbose

Well, you said you speak Malayalam, not Punjabi

I mean, having to speak in palindromes is difficult enough, imagine if those palindromes had to be polysemic as well

Soyuz42

@verbose It took a record 5s for that to click. All-nighters take their toll.

verbose

Speaking of jabs, I got two notices today, one saying that I now qualify for the COVID-19 vaccine and another saying "our county is currently experiencing a supply crunch and so we're not making any new appointments for vaccinations"

bobble

... I got banned from edits again ;-;

verbose

@bobble why?

Like, how does that even work

bobble

04:27

There was an HNQ that had a picture of a letter. I transcribed the letter as text, for screen reader accessibility. It tripped a spam filter for "adding too much text to a post" and now the whole network thinks my IP is spam. Again.

verbose

that's really annoying

bobble

Luckily the most-affected site this time is the space exploration one. I'll get edit rights back there much later than other places, but I can do editing in a week or two elsewhere.

I don't care about the space exploration one; it's more annoying when it happens on meta-meta or RPG.SE

verbose

it takes that long? Can't a mod take a look at your edit and immediately restore your rights?

bobble

My edit disappears into the ether. I have two mods' confirmations that even they can't see an edit was attempted at all; tripping the filter means no one will see the edit ever. Reasonable if they can be absolutely sure that it's spam - no one has to deal with rejecting it.

verbose

that's ... dumb.

bobble

04:31

There are several meta posts (on meta-meta and other metas) about posts that were repeatedly attacked by spam edits. The advice given is always to expand the answer/question so that it is long enough for the auto-spam-filter to catch edits.

Spammers will set up an automated attack that keeps submitting edits to, say, a high-traffic question with thousands upon thousands of views

I'm pretty sure there wouldn't be any problem if I just created accounts everywhere for the sole purpose of editing. At least all my other good edits would convince the system I'm not a spammer. But here I am, stubbornly keeping to just my two accounts.

I really do have an editing problem. Can't seem to help myself; sometimes I think the bans are for my own good, to prevent me from editing everything in sight

Case in point: I'll probably hit 1k edits on Puzzling this week

verbose

One thing I do wonder about is just whether the number of edits that we seem to make to old posts ("we" being mainly you, Tsundoku, and in distant third, me) crowds out new questions and answers from our home page in a detrimental way

Like, at one point earlier today I was looking at the home page and didn't notice any new questions

bobble

I try to bump at most 3 a day, and I don't do so if too many of the most-recent activity is by me

Tsundoku seems to have a higher tolerance for overflow edits

verbose

then I came over to chat and saw that there were, in fact, three (one has since been closed) but they were just below where I'd have seen them in my window)

@bobble yeah that seems like a good guideline

bobble

Though, I consider anything that's already been bumped "free" - whether that's by a "legitimate" bump (good new answer, significant edit) or by Community, or a bad new answer, or someone else's edit. Editing a "free" thing doesn't count towards my 3-a-day limit.

verbose

@bobble makes sense

bobble

04:43

Sometimes you may see something that looks like I bumped it, but in actuality it was Community and I just edited it once it was Active. Etc.

verbose

I'm not saying we should stop editing posts or anything, I'm just wondering.

bobble

SciFi.SE has a policy where only 5 of the top 15 Active posts can be edited by the same person

Obviously we don't have such a policy here; you could try suggesting on our meta if you think something similar would be useful

I think I may use semicolons too often; nevertheless, I like having clear guidelines for how a sentence should be parsed, and they seem to be useful.

Mithical

@bobble what kind of bike do you have, incidentally?

bobble

blue girl's hybrid

Works well enough for commuting to and from school, handles short off-road detours, light enough to push or carry without too much hassel

Why?

Mithical

just curious

bobble

04:54

As for accessories, there is a small rack in the back to tie things to, a bell, a set of head/backlights, and a kickstand

Mithical

I take an interest in what bicycles people are riding >.>

bobble

I'm planning to take it to university, since walking is dreadfully slow

ugh, double-checking characters takes so long. 15 more in my list, then a final spruce-up and posting

however, the bobble must zzz

Mithical

\o

@Shokhet reminding me I can't spell to save my life :P

Bookworm

05:15

0

Q: A novel with a robot who isn't "human enough"

Thomas Jones, writing about the latest Kazuo Ishiguro novel, says: Ishiguro doesn’t get tangled up in the complexities of neural networks, machine learning, algorithms or the difficulties of getting computers to understand symbolic logic. But it doesn’t matter how Klara’s mind works, because she...

science-and-technology-studies kazuo-ishiguro artificial-intelligence

verbose

05:27

@bobble to which I say:

@Mithical mine was stolen a few months ago 😢 it was a nice road bike that I can't afford to replace rn

Mithical

:(

That's one reason I keep mine inside... especially since I don't actually own the road bike, it's on loan from my team.

Bookworm

0

Q: How does the trans community view Gore Vidal's *Myra Breckinridge*?

Gore Vidal's Myra Breckinridge (1968) was perhaps the first major novel in English to have a transgender protagonist. Myra, née Myron, undergoes gender confirmation surgery. In order to retain Myron's assets without being outed as trans, she pretends to be his widow. She lives a flamboyant life f...

sexuality reception gore-vidal myra-breckinridge

verbose

05:46

hey, no mayonnaise in Ireland got me my first nice-question badge!

On Lit SE anyway. I didn't think the questions I post here would ever have mustard enough votes to enable me to ketchup with the number of times I've gotten the badge on other sites. So I shall regard this achievement with relish.

Mithical

*shallt

verbose

I'm a bit surprised that given how often I've said "no mayonnaise in Ireland" here, nobody has pointed out that the Republic does in fact have a County Mayo.

@Mithical 'twould be a brave thief indeed who stole from the IDF

Mithical

06:04

Bwahahaha. Wrong team :P I keep it in my house, not the barracks on base - you're not even allowed to bring bicycles inside base.

verbose

@Mithical oh.

Rand al'Thor

07:30

@Tsundoku Gareth's managed it thrice so far.

Even with you and bobble editing lots of old posts so that his new answers don't stay at the top of the front page for long.

verbose

09:41

hey @Tsundoku did you sign up for that U of Basel course on reading in the digital age?

Tsundoku

@verbose Thanks for the reminder. I have signed up now.

verbose

@Tsundoku oh. I signed up because you told us about it! 🤡

Tsundoku

@Bookworm The BBC published Doctor Who: Adventures in Lockdown in November, but I can't check whether any of the stories are set during one of the COVID-19 lockdowns.

verbose

'sinteresting. Prof has a fun accent.

Tsundoku

Swinglish?

verbose

09:52

yeah. And he talks weirdly slowly.

Tsundoku

10:21

@verbose Tip for long comments on FutureLearn: there is 1200-character limit, but you can get around that by responding to your own comment and thereby create a thread.

Bookworm

0

Q: Is burning a theme in Jude the Obscure?

While researching to answer another Jude the Obscure question, I found a list of homework assignments related to this novel, in which the following one caught my eye: Three times objects are burned -- Jude’s portrait, his ecclesiastical books, and Sue’s embroidered nightgown. There are additiona...

thomas-hardy theme jude-the-obscure

verbose

10:37

@Tsundoku heh, I read your comment on the course site saying that. (I'm following you on there)

verbose

10:56

Why on earth does someone think this is a reading recommendation question?

verbose

11:26

How does area51 count the answer ratio? Does that include unaccepted answers with no upvotes? The unanswered questions tab on the main site shows all questions that have no accepted or upvoted answers even if there are actually answers provided.

Rand al'Thor

@Bookworm Isn't that a recommendation question?

verbose

@Randal'Thor I didn't read it that way? It seemed more like "does X exist" rather than "please recommend instances of X to me."

Rand al'Thor

@verbose I'm tempted to ask a quote-source question asking where this thing about "no mayonnaise in Ireland" comes from. Googling it gave me a few results mentioning it as a funny mishearing, but the way you and Tsundoku talk about it suggests there's a single thing you're referring to there.

@verbose Practically, what's the differences? Any answer with an instance of X would still be valid, so both questions seem to have the same issue of potentially attracting multiple equally-correct answers.

verbose

Yep, it's a short piece by Wm Stirling, I believe. I can find it pretty easily I think ...

@Randal'Thor Fair

Rand al'Thor

(bbl)

verbose

11:59

@Randal'Thor I found it. I misremembered the author's name, it's Will Stanton (not Stirling). If you want to ask a quote-source question, I can answer it. Or I can share the link here.

Tsundoku

@Randal'Thor In that case, it is possible to get around the recommendation close reason by asking for the oldest known example. CC @verbose

@verbose We need a new tag for that: mondegreen-source :-P

Funny example of a French mondegreen: "le théorème d'Archimède" misheard as "Le Thé au harem d'Archi Ahmed" (inspiring the title of a film).

verbose

@Tsundoku I actually find the "what is the oldest X?" questions a bit problematic in that they are difficult to answer definitively. We could perhaps track down the oldest known or extant X, but that calls for a significant amount of research (or if the research has been done, tracking down the research and providing a summary thereof).

But we don't know for sure whether that oldest known X is itself the oldest, or if it was inspired by something older we have no access to at the present.

Tsundoku

@verbose I know. It's a hack. It can generate multiple answers, so you indirectly get a recommendation question.

Which is fine when recommendations is what the asker wanted in the first place ;-)

verbose

@Tsundoku Yep, and unless there's published research, it becomes a game of: "this is the oldest X I know" and then someone comes back with "I know of this one older" and ...

Tsundoku

Exactly.

verbose

12:14

@Tsundoku haha

Tsundoku

"I love every person's insides" -> Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides.

One that David Allen misheard as a child while attending a funeral: "In the name of the father, and the son, and into the hole he goes."

verbose

I went to a Catholic high school. Once I asked some friends if a particular classmate, whom I knew to be Christian, attended the same church they did. One replied, "No, she doesn't come to our church. She's a prostitute." I was taken aback and thought they were being unduly harsh just because someone had chosen to stop attending Mass.

Further conversation revealed that the girl in question was a Protestant.

Tsundoku

12:32

Interestingly, that story sounds vaguely familiar.

verbose

In hindsight, it's odd that most of the Christians I knew in India were Catholic. Given that India was largely British, one would have expected more Anglicans. It turns out that the British didn't really have an organized missionary program whereas the Portuguese did.

(Goa was Portuguese and there's a fair bit of Portuguese influence on India's west coast, where I grew up)

@Tsundoku the Unlimited access at U Basel isn't all that expensive, below $200. It seems kinda worth it? Do you have any experience with that? I'm just on the free track for now, but so far the course is pretty good.

Tsundoku

@verbose I have never bought it. I think one of the benefits is that you'll still be able to access the course after it ends. (Without paying for a course, access expires two weeks after the end of the course.)

verbose

@Tsundoku ah. Thanks! Also, one gets a certificate of completion, but I'm not sure whether that means anything. Like, would anybody care that I spent six weeks listening to some Swiss guy ramble on about the haptic dissonance of reading texts in digital form.

Tsundoku

@verbose I think for most courses the access is more valuable than the certificate. Unless the course is relevant enough to you work that it would be worth mentioning on a CV or your LinkedIn profile.

Tsundoku

13:13

@Mithical Ooh, a new avatar!

How do you like The Left Hand of Darkness?

Mithical

13:31

@Tsundoku haven't gotten very far yet - haven't had time. I'm basically limited to reading on Saturdays at the moment

in TRPG General Chat, 8 hours ago, by Mithical

The writing so far is a bit... heavy, I suppose, but I'm finding it interesting.

Tsundoku

Heavy? I should check that text again.

bobble

14:15

Do we really need artificial-intelligence?

Also I don't think science-and-technology-studies is applicable to this question

(Which may need a work tag added)

bobble

14:38

Checking through old Unanswered questions, there's some guy who kept posting low-quality answers and then demanding bounties for being "correct". There a story there?

Mithical

15:15

Hahahaha yes.

You may have also noticed that all the "correct" answers are direct copypasts from somewhere.

bobble

see, that's how you know they're "correct"

Mithical

In any case, that was a longstanding troll known as "Anonymous Teacher", infamous for deleting their account immediately after posting so that they couldn't be suspended.

They were active for years.

bobble

... then why did they want bounties?

Mithical

Did I mention they were a troll?

bobble

So logic's out the window then

Mithical

15:20

In any case, I finally managed to suspend an account of theirs before they deleted it, which means that when they recreate the account the suspension is automatically reapplied. I haven't seen them since then.

Also infamous for posting this question verbatim again and again and again and again.

Bookworm

0

Q: Children/young adult book with abandoned house

This is a young adult/children's book read some time around 2004, in English. Unfortunately no recollection of the cover. Remembered details are: a boy is on vacation, or perhaps has moved, in a hot, dusty place there is abandoned house the boy befriends another child (could also have been an ol...

identification-request

bobble

FINALLY posted that Redwall death answer, dear goodness took longer than expected

Anyone have thoughts on the three tagging things I posted about this question up there ^ ?

Tsundoku

16:22

@bobble artificial-intelligence can be deleted. I wouldn't know what work tag to add since it's a recommendation question.

bobble

It's a recommendation question? I couldn't understand it. Recommendation enough to VTC? Also, I'm confused about the tag science-and-technology-studies but think it doesn't apply here

Tsundoku

"Is there a novel which ...?" counts as a recommendation question here.

To be honest, I can't think of any appropriate tag for that question, except perhaps for history-of-literature.

The question isn't looking for information about Ishiguro or any of his works, so even the author tag is irrelevant.

bobble

I don't feel comfortable putting history-of-literature since that seems to not exactly be what they're asking, until they edit in accordance with your comment, perhaps

Tsundoku

I think this discussion illustrates how off topic that question is.

@bobble I expected a wall of text but it turned out to be a quick read :-)

bobble

The double-checking was
- is this character a "good" character?
- is this character a "major" character?
- did this character die in the book I claimed they did?
- did I spell this character's name correctly?
- did I miss any "good", "major" characters from the book?

And of course all this information was scattered across many, many different pages and I had to go chasing down links

bobble

18:31

@Randal'Thor done. 41 links in one post ;D

Rand al'Thor

19:50

@verbose Will do. I already asked my question for today though, so maybe tomorrow.

I hope it turns out better than my last question inspired by someone's chat meme!

@Tsundoku People use that trick a lot on SFF too. It's vaguely resented by people who see it as a back door for recommendation questions, but not enough to close the loophole.

On the bright side, "first X" questions can end up teaching you a lot about the history of the genre/literature. Like, who'da thunk the first story set in the aftermath of a nuclear war was written in 1913?

bobble

AGH I want to edit the title into the question there

It irks me when the title contains the entire context needed to answer the question and then the body assumes you read the title

Rand al'Thor

@Tsundoku It's going to be a long read for me, because I want to click through and remember each of those characters, make sure the answer is correct (no offence to bobble's research skills, but she hasn't actually read as many of the books as I have) before accepting it.

bobble

Even the books you haven't read?

Rand al'Thor

That's only the last two or three, but yes, I won't be able to check them so well.

Last three, apparently. I looked up the plot of Doomwyte, but it's not ringing any bells for me.

bobble

What do your bells sound like when rung?

Rand al'Thor

20:05

Like the Joseph Bell?

bobble

My family is rewatching Sherlock right now

Rand al'Thor

BBC Sherlock?

bobble

On Netflix, yes

Rand al'Thor

... I shall keep my opinions to myself this time.

bobble

How many opinions does the Rand al'Thor have?

Rand al'Thor

20:18

Many, on various issues.

Although not as many as this guy:

Wad Cheber Argues ... A Lot

Apr 19 '16 at 0:59, 4 minutes total – 7 messages, 2 users, 0 stars

Bookmarked Apr 19 '16 at 1:04 by Rand al'Thor

bobble

That's in Mos Eisley, isn't it

I'm afraid a lowly non-mod such as I cannot see it

Rand al'Thor

Oh sorry, I thought you have 10k rep in chat already.

in Poisoned room; it is defunct., Feb 26 '16 at 3:16, by Wad Cheber

I've participated in Mos Eisley arguments on so many topics I can't keep track of them all, but they include:

Whether a ship traveling through time, leaving a spot near a planet and traveling centuries into the future, would appear near that planet or in the middle of empty space

Fugu (blowfish) toxicity and regulations regarding the preparation of fugu

Abortion

Gun control

Love in an internet setting

The artistic merit of the Beatles

The origins of punk rock

The most common popular concepts of modern zombie fiction

bobble

oh, 10k rep works?

Rand al'Thor

in Poisoned room; it is defunct., Apr 19 '16 at 0:59, by Wad Cheber

Things I've argued about in Mos:

- The toxicity of Fugu, and the regulations surrounding its preparation
- The virtues of seals vs. recreational fishing
- Whether there is a standard modern conception of zombies
- Whether cats are awful
- The existence of Jesus
- Naked people in restaurants
- The legitimacy and effectiveness of violent protest
- Everything that isn't one of the above

in Poisoned room; it is defunct., Apr 19 '16 at 1:01, by Wad Cheber

My positions:

- It is toxic, and regulations exist
- Seals FTW
- There is, and Max Brooks stole the crown from George Romero
- They are
- He did
- They're gross
- It is legitimate and effective, in many cases
- Yes, no, and maybe.

bobble

My network rep is 9.5k

Rand al'Thor

20:21

@bobble prepares bounty launchers

bobble

If I had been going at my usual rate for Puzzling I would be well over 10k by now

But concentrating on here has a much lower rep-for-hours-invested rate of return

Rand al'Thor

Mmm, there's less voting here.

S'why I gently prod people like verbose to vote as much as they post.

On the other hand, there's also a few users who vote a lot but hardly post anything, but that goes for every site.

The top voter on Puzzling (and the SE network, probably) is a 101-repper with no posts.

bobble

I'm genuinely surprised that I'm 2nd in the monthly voting leagues.

Doesn't seem to me that I vote all that much

Tsundoku

20:56

@bobble There would be no point in repeating the same research for Shakepseare's plays, because there that theme has been done to death. Even to the level of pie charts.

One of the sections in the pie chart reads "Baked into a pie". Very topical. Or very meta.

bobble

You know, I could get 500 network rep easy - create 5 accounts

Not that I will

Tsundoku

Yes, but people may notice of someone's reps start increasing much more rapidly than their contributions.

bobble

21:57

Answer? If so, should the rant about movies (last sentence) be edited out?

Three bumps for the day done :D Will leave to tutor someone now.

Bookworm

22:44

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Q: Which passages in Manuel de Faria e Sousa's commentary on The Lusiad's caused his temporary incarceration by the Inquisition?

The Wikipedia article about The Lusiads tells us that Manuel de Faria e Sousa wrote a commentary about the work in the 17th century. Published after Sousa's death[a], the work was originally written in Spanish and eventually translated into Portuguese in the 19th century. The Wikipedia article ...

portuguese-literature the-lusiads luis-vaz-de-camoes manuel-de-faria-e-sousa

bobble

23:55

@Tsundoku the official Stack Overflow policy is to use Oxford commas :P

(For their official communications and UI)

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