@JosephCasey Okay relax, I understand what you said :D my point was more about saying "cr✱p" no matter the context, it just makes chat a bit dirty and unpleasant place, and it gives bad example: even if as little as just one person says "cr✱p" or other dirty words, then some of the witnesses will eventually start to assume it is okay to say "cr✱p" and other dirty words, and one day we will suddenly wake up and realize that all of us say "cr✱p" and other dirty words on regular basis.
Actually, it is 2 am in Poland! So, how's your night going? ;)
Get to sleep @lila.The National Sleep Foundation guidelines advises that healthy adults need between 7 and 9 hours of sleep per night. See you tommorow.
@JosephCasey Hahahaha no, nobody has even said anything like this, that is just your creative misinterpretation :D and no, posting the response to Henders's goodbye Q&A was not anything bad, but it annoyed Nai45 because it was a bit uncallibrated; in my opinion it was equivalent to something like this: one day you learn that passionate, charismatic and cool teacher used to teach in your school, but retired 10 years ago, before you ...
@JosephCasey ...even became the student of this school. And as he retired, there was a big "goodbye" party where all the students had the chance to give him gifts and express respect and gratitude. But that was 10 years ago. However, you want to express your respect for the teacher regardless, so just out of the blue, despite the fact that he has already been retired for 10 years, you go and give him a home visit: you knock on his door and, as he opens, you ...
@JosephCasey ...blow the party horn, throw confetti in the air and excitedly shout "happy retirement, wish all the best for you Sir!" :D
@Nai54 Haha sorry I was writing the essay for Joseph and I thought I would finish before you log out :D day way okay but nothing too fancy, just fine; as for night, oh just another beautifully boring night and yes I am going to sleep soon, and yes I actually get at least 7 hours of sleep, I just do not have any reason to wake up early (for now at least) and that is why I have been disrupting my circadian cycle.
@Nai54 And thanks for the stars, it means a lot to me!
@JosephCasey Which people did you like more, those on Arquade or those on Pets?
And about that Joseph's Meta post: actually, the more I think about it, the less inappropriate it seems to me and the more adorable it seems instead :D this Meta site of Pets is one lonely, quiet and sad place to be honest, some fresh activity will not hurt anything as long as it is reasonable; posts on Meta do not affect reputation so posting on Meta cannot raise any suspicions about reputation farming.
But please, please, pretty please with sugar on top, do not take this as invitation to answer all the other existing "moderator says goodbye" posts :D it was okay if you didn't know, but now you know it is unneeded and why it could be seen as nuisance; please focus on more recent activity than these, thanks; good night see you.
Or that - usually he just decides that there’s a super dangerous something exactly when I don’t have my microphone on mute. And he’s got quite the baritone for his age.
@SerenaT There are always 2 sides of a coin. I absolutely love my dog (well, my parents dog to be precisely), but sometimes I hate going on walks with him. I like the company of a cat in my improvised home office, but I hate cleaning out the litter box. I'm currently at my parents place a lot, but I guess once this whole situation is over, I'll stick to my pet rock ^^
I really did not mind the litter box that much back at home with my parents, I just really like the company of animals generally I know it is different to have your own but for me animals really give me a fuller life
@SerenaT I know what you mean. I thought a lot about getting a pet rat, but I had to admit to myself that I wouldn't be able to provide the little critter with enough entertainment and company. Even a small fish tank requires me to invest time and effort. So, still no pets at my own place. To be honest, it was also a relief that I could just abandon my place for a while and stay with my parents for moral support.
I am also waiting for the right time in my life. Right now I and my S.O. work full time and we live in a small flat. It just is not the right time. But I really see some pets in the future. Luckily I do not live alone because I am afraid of putting my parents at risk for just a small visit, and I am definitely not staying for longer hehe
@lila @lila Honestly i was a little less skilled in gaming even though i love roblox by heart, However i kind of like you guys more (Even though sometimes i hate your way of helping), the fact that you are helping makes a difference.
sorry for the double ping
And yes, i mean arquade didnt really help that much.
@SerenaT It's nice to hang out with my cats during the day, but they have a fantastic sense of when I'm in meetings and love to interrupt them by walking across my desk, jumping on my shoulders, etc.
@JourneymanGeek They're experts! Even when I was doing something that was being livestreamed out and made sure the two interruption culprits were out of range, the one who almost never interrupts found a way to get on camera :)
@SerenaT The one last night? I think it went okay :) I was pretty nervous for it, but I feel like I did okay with all the questions from the board, and there weren't any stream questions. Next candidate is tonight so I'll be watching hers, and then we have the candidate for president on Thursday.
@JosephCasey Are you? You haven't been willing to take more than a twelve hour break from answering questions, or to put in the effort to improve your answers.
@JosephCasey You're constantly complaining about being "suspended," asking if you can "please just post again," and trying to sneak in answers. You need to show some maturity and be serious about improving yourself. You haven't shown either of those yet, sorry. Think about yourself, not others.
@JosephCasey But you're doing it in a terribly selfish way. You are putting "I want to help others!" over other people telling you, repeatedly, "But you aren't helping." You're putting "I want to help!" over actually helping; your intentions don't make what you're doing helpful to either the site or the people coming here for help.
You've been given advice, repeatedly, endlessly, about what you need to do to actually help, and you've selfishly decided that you know better than everyone else here and are going to do it your way instead. Focus on improving yourself.
@JosephCasey I know I said I’d be silent. But let me suggest one extra step: when you are at your “crappy posts”, read them again and think carefully about why people downvoted them. This is not a site where user base is downvoting a lot, quite the opposite. On some of the higher traffic technical sites, some of them would have been downvoted to oblivion. And without comments.
Making mistakes is ok, not leaning from them is stupid.
First, write the text you want to be clickable. Then mark that text and click the icon on top of the text box that looks like a chain link. Enter the web address in the new tiny text window and click ok
@JosephCasey The one after the chain link is a quote mark. You should use this one when you copy paste text from a website into your answer to make it clear which text is yours and which is copied
Using quotation marks is good for small inline quotes, but if you're quoting a larger block of text, using the quote markup is the better option. It makes the quoted text more clearly quoted and improves the overall formatting of the answer.
Be sure you appropriately name your links, too. "Click here" hasn't been valid link text since the early 90s. ;)
Having an answer that's nothing but a quote and a citation for the quote doesn't really make a good answer, either. Particularly when it's repetition of information from a previous answer, or not appropriately connected to the question (which here is about an adult cat, but your answer is about training kittens).
Actually, yeah, on a second look, the source could explain 'why' the adult cat bites, and how to prevent it early on, but not how to stop it once it's a problem, which is what was asked.
@JosephCasey I just took a look at that answer; that's exactly what I would recommend to delete as a "link only answer." It's a short answer with no useful information directing the asker to follow a link.
and that's the thing. Its not 'just' about posting an answer. You need to have some original content, or pull together more than what something someone would find with a quick google
@AllisonC As always there are exceptions, though. Like if there's a single authoritative source, there is no answer more valid than just redirecting to it. e.g. pm.stackexchange.com/a/25442/25606
@Sarov True, with something detailed like that, though you still run the risk of link rot even with official documentation (and even moreso with the type of more blog-style sites that tend to get linked here).
And even with tech-type answers like that, it can be a big help to have at least some of the information in the question; there's an extension we use a lot here, but we use a very old version because the license to get the newer ones costs more than the higher-ups want to spend. Finding old Q&A posts is sometimes the only way we can figure out a solution to an issue. :)
Like I said, with the extension we use, I can't depend on "official documentation" because it's advanced several years beyond what we're using. :) So anything that just links me to "official documentation" isn't helping, but sites that tell me what to do and then link to (usually missing) documentation do help.
@JourneymanGeek Haha sweet, did you make this gif yourself? It immediately gives me vibes of 2009 youtube tutorial video where, instead of voiceover/embeeded captions, people were writing in real time in Notepad with some typos and then backspacing to fix those typos, all in real time :D
Fair point, but in this case there's really no way to summarize/excerpt. Putting the entire doc into my Answer would make it huge. I guess I could preemptively change the link to be WBM?
@Elmy Noooooooo, you just ruined my head canon! :D Anytime I was annoyed while doing any tedious maintenance tasks in my aquarium, I was thinking "oh come on, think about Elmy, having a problem dog is 678 times more demanding than having this aquarium and Elmy is surely more enthusiastic than you!" and I was immediately feeling better and more enthusiastic to do the cleaning. :D :D :D
@Elmy Haha "even a small fish tank requires me to invest time and effort" - I would say "especially a small fish tank" because the bigger the tank the more self-sustaining it is; most of the effort is during setting it up, but once it is established then you could leave it completely without your attention for at least a few days (assuming constant electricity supply to run the filtration all the time and auxiliary timers to periodically switch on/off the lights).
However, the huge problem is that once you set up an aquarium, it is basically "grounded", as if it was set in stone; relocating a cat or dog is trivial, relocating an aquarium is huge and disruptive nuisance because you literally have a heavy brick of water that could weigh several hundreds of kg or more.
@lila Gosh that's true :) My big tank holds itself pretty well (other than the rapid water loss, I'm overdue again on doing a water replacement, need to squeeze one in soon), the smaller one tends to get overrun by algae and is technically overstocked, so it takes a lot more attention
And soon I'll have to empty both to relocate them to a different house... I'm going to take that time to correct some problems with the planted one, it's never really gotten itself established so I'll effectively start it over, but it's going to be a pain to remove all the soil!
@JosephCasey About aquariums, next time please just read a few previous messages and you will know, it takes less effort for one person to read a few recent messages than for all the other people to write a compressed transcription of recent messages.
@JosephCasey I don't know, something about computers
@JosephCasey Oh okay I see, I have to say that it is actually a good idea, but it is in fact so good that someone had already come up with it and it exists (I suppose it is good, I don't use it).
@JosephCasey I don't know any details, I would need to know what benefits it could potentially create, and whether it could complicate things and create more problems than it solves; as for now it sounds interesting but has a little "solution in search for a problem" vibes.
@Sarov Hahahaha sorry I wasn't specific with my words, I knew relocation is bad word :D I meant "physically moving a cat from one apartment to another" :D
Cats would still disagree. :P "So what if you have to move a giant heavy brick Who cares about you? *I have to get used to an entirely new environment!!!*"
@lila I'll give you this one. I'm dreading trying to move a pile of platies far more than moving the cats. Two of them have already been through a few moves (original home to foster, foster to previous residence, previous residence to here), the third one far fewer (street to impound, impound to foster, adopted by one of the people living in the same house she was fostered in)
(I'd barely even count "street to impound" or "impound to foster" as a move, she didn't seem to spend much time in the former and was in the latter for maybe a week.)
My dog is almost five and a rescue.
I work from home so he spends all day with me; he's always been funny about going on walks without me if I am in the house. If I'm sick and want to stay in bed, he'll walk with my husband until he notices I'm not there, then run back to find me.
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@Sarov Haha okay, but in case of fish you already move their whole environment with them, if you want to be fair then move a cat together with all these city blocks it is patrolling :D
@Sarov Haha you know, I cannot even tell whether you are being Sarovesque or just implementing cat's mindset; it makes me realize that Sarovesque style is much much older that Sarov and has a rich heritage, and that cats have already been pioneers of Sarovesque style long before humans.
@Stephie I've once had the most docile and cuddly and lovely dog. After she died we saw an article in the newspper about a dog that was abandoned at the gate of a dog pension but the shelter was already full and the pension had no place to keep him, so they looked for someone to adopt him.
Turns out he was abused, never trained for the first 6 months of his life, probably never socialized properly and very aggressive towards men... Suffice to say I had to learn a lot and learn fast
Hahahaha this is not how it works! :D Caffeine in coffee and in soda is the same chemical substance, it is like saying "I have been abstaining from drinking alcohol for a month, not including beer".
@Sarov Yeah, same here. But I love tea (which also contains caffeine) and really rich hot chocolate (which is also kind of bitter like coffe, but I like it muuuuch more)
i honestly have thought about just going to the grocery store and buying a bunch of Hershey's cookiesncream and just melting them in one big glass bowl.
@JosephCasey haha no you wouldn't, it is not the same pleasant sensation as spicy food like chilli, it is a medical condition, it gives you rash, headache, itching, etc.
@Stephie I need a variety of at least 10 different teas, otherwise I'll be bored ^^'. But my first pot of the day is always either green or Earl Grey, the second one some fruit or herbal tea.
@JosephCasey yes. And to weird foods. She can eat young cheese like Mozzarella, but not old cheese. She cannot eat chilli. She can eat egg white but not egg yolk. And i forgot a thousand little details of what she can or cannot eat
@JosephCasey Histamine is involved in causing immune response, so you are right in terms of symptoms; but cause is different: histamine intolerance is if you are deficient in enzymes that break down histamine and you accumulate the histamine from the food; and food allergy is if some food proteins trigger your immune system as "foreign" and your body produces histamine causing allergic reaction.
@Sarov Oh you see, it causes pain but it is fake pain, it tricks your pain receptors into thinking your mouth is burning and your body responds with releasing natural endogenous pain relievers to help you cope with such a horrible thing as burns, but since it was fake all along it goes away sooner that the body expects so it leaves just pain-relievers in there, giving you a pleasant "high".
@Sarov But some people naturally produce more and some produce less of these pain relievers, I guess you just produce less and thus not enjoy the food.
