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@quid Can you reopen our private chat, so I can speak more about a flag I cast concerning two downvoted posts in one hour, one post from 2013, one from 2014?

@amWhy done

Word search challenge! Find words from the English Language, with four or more letters, can be formed from the letters in NOVEMBER... e.g., EMBER, MERE and BEER

BORN

may I join?

Sure

OVER

The tradition is to use allcaps and bold

MOVE MOVER OVEN maybe also MOVEN

REBORN

RENO

REMOVE

REMOVER

@Make_Stackexchange_Great_Again there aren't two r in novemeber

Same for reborn

:(

@Make_Stackexchange_Great_Again don't worry. One could also interpret the rule differently.

I was using the closure property for sets rule.

{N,O,V,E,M,B,E,R}

Closed under words of the English language.

@quid will NEVER, EVER beat me in these games :D

are place names allowed?

@Make_Stackexchange_Great_Again You're a natural!

I'll throw you a BONE every once in a while, though, @quid :P

@Make_Stackexchange_Great_Again Sure, why not, like ROME?

how about people's names?

@Make_Stackexchange_Great_Again Sure, today I'm feeling generous! ;D

you must be good at crossword puzzles

BORE

MORE

BEEN (As in "how have you been"?)

ORBE

And how about ROBE

@Make_Stackexchange_Great_Again BUZZZZZZZZZZ Already spoken for: chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/56017353#56017353

I'd prefer, as a motto, @Make_Stackexchange_Great_Again: "Make Stackexchange Sane Again!"

20 words from an 8 letter word is pretty good

@Make_Stackexchange_Great_Again I agree! Thanks for participating!

Thanks for letting me participate @quid and @amWhy

cya

@Make_Stackexchange_Great_Again Cya: Just Know you're welcome to participate any time in this chat!

Hello, @ArnaudD. !

Hello !

@ArnaudD. How's it going?!

Not too bad

Except my home country currently has the highest rate of Covid infection in Europe, closely followed by the country I live in, so I feel a bit cursed :/

But I'm OK myself :)

@ArnaudD. Do you live in Spain? I haven't kept up with current rates of infection in Europe, but I know Spain has been hit hard. My state in the US is close to leading the nation in per capita infection rates. So I feel your pain :( But I remain healthy thus far :)

@amWhy No, in the Czech republic.

The current rate (per capita) is about three times higher than that of Spain...

@ArnaudD. Oh, no! I love the Czech republic, but admittedly, I spent my entire month in the Czech republic in Prague. Wonderful city!

Well, I've been here for 4 months and I have only left Prague for 2 days :)

Wonderful city indeed, but right now there isn't much to do, it's basically locked down again.

@ArnaudD. How's the weather there, at this time of the year. I visited during the month of July (not this year).

Right now, it's a bit rainy and cloudy.

@ArnaudD. Temperature?

Not too cold for now, between 10 and 15 degrees Celsius

But it might get a bit colder this week

This summer was nice :)

@ArnaudD. That's pretty nice. We've been between 2 and 4 degrees Celsius, but they are predicting this next week will range between 10 and 15 degrees Celsius: I live in SE Wisconsin, US.

@Arnaud I see you are on the precipice of reaching 20K! Congrats.

@amWhy I've been there for some time I think :p I don't answer a lot of questions these days.

@ArnaudD. I hear you. I don't answer too much anymore either. Most of the rep I gain is on answers to answers I posted years ago.

@amWhy It's essentially the same for me, but I don't have so many answers so it's not so effective :p

Though I do get some votes every now and then.

@ArnaudD. Yeah and then you've got users like Brian M. Scott, who was earning substantial rep, even after disappearing for quite a long time.

It's kind of like "interest" on investments ... it takes rep to easily earn rep, even in absentee.

For these things I guess it helps to have been around at the beginnings of the site, to be able to post answers on questions that people see often. Nowadays a lot of things have been said already

@ArnaudD. Dat true! And as with most SE sites, the volume of questions early on was far less, and even lower were the number of regular answerers, and they were eager to build a repertoire of an answer bank, so questions closed almost instantaneously now, were seen as legit, then, and standards for questions were lower early on. It creates issues, at times, when folks now try to apply current standards to questions asked in 2010, 2011, e.g.

@Arnaud How close is Prague to Krakow Poland? If things calm down wrt Covid-19, is a fascinating, and charming city to visit when on break. There's literally an underground night life (not in the sense of illegal or shady), just that the city for centuries had underground tunnels from building to building; now there is a network of music venues, clubs, restaurants literally underground!

@Arnaud, if you have things you need to attend, I totally understand. But I've really enjoyed chatting with you.

@Xander, oh @Xander, Where art thou?? ;D

@XanderHenderson Did you make it to the Petrified Forest??

@amWhy I did not. I made it to the grocery store, and decided to make soup today.

So I have a chicken and some veggies simmering in my 5 gallon stock pot. In another couple of hours, I will filter out all of the mushy boiled stuff and then reduce the stock down to a concentrate for freezing (I typically get about a gallon on concentrate, which makes something on the order of four gallons of stock).

@XanderHenderson Ooh, that can be an adventure, too! What soup ya' cookin'

Once the stock is done, I am making a pumpkin soup.

Kind of in the style of a tomato bisque, but with pumpkin, instead.

I plan to season it with sage, coriander, and some cumin.

@XanderHenderson Ooh! Yumm... Perfect seasoning. I love sage and coriander, and the cumin will complement those!

I also descaled the coffee maker. That took more time than I expected.

@XanderHenderson Oh, I hear you. Where I live, the water is very hard, and I have to regularly descale the coffee maker, my tea pot, and my cat's water bowl, not to mention the sink and bathtub >:[

@Xander I appoint you Cook and entertainer for the first annual convention of devoted math.se users and hardworking mods!!

Next year, @quid can host, and then @AlexanderGruber after that!!

@DanielFischer would need to host, at some point as well, as we'd like to make this an international bonding! But @Xander, feel free to recruit @robjohn for our first annual convention in the South West! And I'll volunteer to help @AlexanderGruber in Great Lakes region of the US.

@amWhy Ooh that sounds cool :)

@ArnaudD. I know, doesn't it! ;D

@amWhy :D

@amWhy I'm gonna go to bed now, but I enjoyed the chat too. Have a good day/evening/night :)

Also, I've always wanted to visit England, so @Asaf is going to have to step up and host us there ... Maybe @Pedro arrive early to England to help @Asaf.

@ArnaudD. Sleep well! See you!

See you !

@Xander, closer even yet to @Asaf is @davidlowryduda ! And when it's winter in the Northern Hemisphere, who wouldn't be up to meeting up with host @AloizioMacedo!

@Xander Maybe we need to rewrite the "Theory of Moderation" to include the stipulation that "site moderators may be called upon to host, an occasional annual convention" ;D

@amWhy I'm happy to meet up for drinks at any JMM. ;)

Oh, man... Sean Connery died.

@amWhy do you think I'll be hardworking next year? ;-)