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Journeyman Geek

1:00 PM

@Burgi @djsmiley2k apparently he worked as a fake review maker

boingboing.net/2017/12/06/wendyhouse-full-of-chickens.html was where I saw it

djsmiley2k

lol wtf

DavidPostill

lol

rahuldottech

Look at how long this Washington Post article is

Journeyman Geek

Is that.... Tweet length?

rahuldottech

@JourneymanGeek 19 words

WASHINGTON — Trump, in a series of tweets, attacks own FBI, says its reputation ‘in Tatters - worst in History!’ ^This sentence is an entire @washingtonpost article. Not Kidding. Just 19 words. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-in-a-series-of-tweets-attacks-own-fbi-says-its-reputation-in-tatters---worst-in-history/2017/12/03/64b21148-d82d-11e7-a241-0848315642d0_story.html

Tweeted by rahuldottech on December 7, 2017 at 1:15 PM

Journeyman Geek

1:25 PM

Yup it fits in a tweet

DavidPostill

But did the WP actually tweet that? I can't be bothered going back 4 days in the tweet history ...

rahuldottech

Oh lord

@DavidPostill @JourneymanGeek duckduckgo.com/…

Oh lord. It's not just @washingtonpost. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=WASHINGTON+%E2%80%94+Trump%2C+in+a+series+of+tweets%2C+attacks+own+FBI%2C+says+its+reputation+%E2%80%98in+Tatters+-+worst+in+History!%E2%80%99&atb=v89-6&ia=web

Tweeted by rahuldottech on December 7, 2017 at 1:28 PM

DavidPostill

@rahuldottech What is your point?

djsmiley2k

:O

Burgi

@rahuldottech Most news organisations are syndicated so they receive the basic article before getting one of their journalists to flesh it out

rahuldottech

1:32 PM

@DavidPostill everyone posted that

Burgi

see above

DavidPostill

@rahuldottech But does anybody actually care?

rahuldottech

But...

djsmiley2k

news just in: newspapers are dying, journalists blame shoddy reporting.

Burgi

@rahuldottech AP will have sent out the article to all the agencies in the syndicate

DavidPostill

1:34 PM

twitter.com/rahuldottech/status/938758783483895808 "Sorry that page does not exist"

Burgi

it is news worthy that the PotUSA is calling into question the reputation of the policing organisation that is investigating him

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djsmiley2k

@Burgi but, no one is listening to him, other than those who were already listening to him.

the great seperation is coming

the masses who follow blindly, and those who are educated and choose to question

similar to science/religion separations in the past.

Burgi

i'm still surprised that the republican party haven't removed him from power yet

djsmiley2k

@allquixotic turns out it was the traffic shaping

DavidPostill

Compared to the shitstorm happening over his tweets about Jerusalem the comments about the FBI are a gentle zephyr

djsmiley2k

1:37 PM

I'm partly surprised no ones shot him.

@DavidPostill I'm sure there is some powerful people shaking their heads.

Burgi

agreed

there is an emergency meeting with the security council to raise sanctions against the USA about it

DavidPostill

@Burgi Unfortunately sanctions ~~never~~ rarely have the intended effect :/

Burgi

did you see how his wife had decorated the white house for christmas?

it looked absolutely depressing

djsmiley2k

Do I want to? D:

Burgi

independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/…

djsmiley2k

1:45 PM

rahuldottech

Last Apollo mission to the moon was exactly 45 years ago. Experience in real time. This is amazing.

apollo17.org

reddit.com/r/space/comments/7i3276/…

DavidPostill

@Burgi His wife didn't do it.

> Harrisburg designer Debra Eberly -- who served as one of the 150 volunteers to help the decoration of the White House this year

Burgi

ah i think she had input though

rahuldottech

This website to so well built omg

djsmiley2k

> The White House said Mrs. Trump chose every detail of the decor and did a final check late Sunday after returning from the family's Thanksgiving at their estate in Palm Beach, Florida.

ho ho ho

fake news

DavidPostill

1:49 PM

Compare that to:

> "When you're dealing with a large concept or house such as the White House, obviously there is going to be a designer in charge," Eberly said. "They have so many rooms to oversee that they're pretty much, 'here are your supplies for this room,' and pretty much the design is your own. As long as I'm putting in what they want to see, you pretty much have almost free reign, to a point."

djsmiley2k

yeah

that's what I'd expect

it's just funny how the official statement isn't the same

Journeyman Geek

@DavidPostill probably precisely why he's making them

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek Could be, but I think that strategy may well backfire ...

Journeyman Geek

@DavidPostill funny thing is? It fits the narrative he wants perfectly

And more importantly, its a very good distraction - especially if congress is mostly republican

Burgi

arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/01/…

DavidPostill

1:55 PM

In other news "US House votes to expand concealed carry gun rights"

Journeyman Geek

hmm.

Cause I feel terrible about closing old old old questions ~~and want to blame someone else~~ superuser.com/questions/81563/… product rec?

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek You can now blame me. Closed as we don't want to have bad examples hanging around.

Journeyman Geek

;)

No offence but you haven't been around long enough to feel a twinge of guilt every time you delete one of molly's posts ;p

Yeah, I figured that probably should have been closed ;p

DavidPostill

2:15 PM

@JourneymanGeek I never feel guilty about closing/delete crap posts :)

rahuldottech

@ThatBrazilianGuy <3

It's no problem at all :D

DavidPostill

And I don't care who the OP is either :)

Journeyman Geek

lol

See! No respect for history ;p

(Old user from the beta, lots of her questions wouldn't meet modern quality guidelines - she quit cause she was unhappy with early quality standards, asked for a user deletion... but the posts her still in her name)

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek There were no Mollys harmed by closing that post (unless there was a name change I don't know about ...) ;)

Journeyman Geek

ya ;p

Buts its old

09? early post beta I think

DavidPostill

2:17 PM

I'm old as well. Does that mean I shouldn't be closed? :)

Burgi

julien == molly?

rahuldottech

@DavidPostill no, you must stay active :P

@Burgi from what I gather, molly was another old user

1 min ago, by Journeyman Geek

(Old user from the beta, lots of her questions wouldn't meet modern quality guidelines - she quit cause she was unhappy with early quality standards, asked for a user deletion... but the posts her still in her name)

Burgi

but there was no molly on the question...

rahuldottech

@Burgi Yeah, not that one

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi no ;p

But similar reasons

Burgi

2:21 PM

i am so confused

rahuldottech

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This one is by molly?

@Burgi Molly was old user. She ask question. Question ok den. Not ok by 2day standardz. So dear mod jmg must delet. but he feelz bad destroyin histori.

flagged...

@Burgi y boi

;)

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Q: Where did Molly go?

Being an irregular regular on Super User, I know most of the crew which are also usually the most knowledgeable ones, and the first on the scene, when it comes to answering questions. Lately, I haven't seen Molly answering any, and upon checking the user list I find her name missing. It isn't st...

discussion

Journeyman Geek

2:23 PM

@Burgi Mission Accomplished ;)

rahuldottech

Sep 3 '10 at 8:09, by Jeff Atwood

@sathya @random Molly felt s/he (don't know gender) was

1) S/he feels anonymous voting is counter productive.
2) S/he feels the moderators are not doing enough to keep the site classy.
3) S/he is tired of being down-voted without any reasons as to why.

THE JEFF SPEAKS

Well, spoke

Journeyman Geek

yup

Jeff's an awesome chap

rahuldottech

@JourneymanGeek EXCEPT THAT HE'S GONE

I MISSED HIM BY A GOOD COUPLE OF YEARS

HE SHOULD JOIN THIS ROOM AGAIN

Journeyman Geek

lol

djsmiley2k

#makeJeffGreatAgain ?

Journeyman Geek

2:33 PM

I actually kinda miss that from when the network was smaller ;)

Journeyman Geek

2:47 PM

Rather appropriately

Mar 13 '11 at 10:53, by The Journeyman geek

dear me...

is apparently the first thing I ever said in chat

(so I probably missed the bit where The Atwood was super active on chat)

djsmiley2k

@Burgi you're still HNQ.

Journeyman Geek

Yay?

djsmiley2k

woo.

This is most excellent.

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please check question after viewing answer xD

Burgi

3:06 PM

@djsmiley2k yeah but the upvotes have trailed off and i managed to get 2 downvotes.... shrugs

Journeyman Geek

lol

This is amusing. A question came up related to the thing I am currently futzing around with.

So I ended up 1) pointing him at the manual 2) geeking out mildly over LED packages ._.

@djsmiley2k that's just evil ;p

FML Cat

3:27 PM

Cedric Gervais - Molly (Official Music Video) [HD]

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@djsmiley2k lol

My toaster takes better photos than that. — Alexander yesterday

@Burgi oh God what did he do now?

Burgi

@FMLCat he has declared that the USA is officially recognising the disputed territory of Jerusalem as the capital of israel

the entire world has turned around and generally agreed that it is A Bad Move™

FML Cat

3:44 PM

@Burgi facepalm

Burgi

i think the EU are looking to bring sanctions against the USA

personally i think we should bulldozer the ENTIRE city so no-one can claim it

FML Cat

@Burgi bulldoze Trump

DavidPostill

4:48 PM

@Burgi Unfortunately Bob the Builder ™ has been officially retired (in other news).

djsmiley2k

lol

but scoop, muck and dizzy! rolly too!

DavidPostill

> CBeebies has launched a new cartoon with a female obsessed engineer as the star character to address 'gender imbalance' in children's animations. It will follow the adventures of eight-year-old engineer Bitz and her younger brother Bob (right), who make creations in her 'maker-space' tree house'. The move is part of a drive to diversify children's programming and scrap some male-led cartoons. Old favourites such as Bob the Builder (left) and Fireman Sam are no longer shown on CBeebies.

Bob waves goodbye for the last time :)

djsmiley2k

...

I don't even.

Why can't male characters lead?

Bob the builder stared Wendy, his wife.

so ... :/

Burgi

> with a female obsessed engineer

aren't all engineers female obsessed?

DavidPostill

lol

ToxicFrog

4:59 PM

@djsmiley2k it's not "male characters can't lead", it's "90% of leads are male, maybe we should put a bit of effort into moving the needle towards the middle"

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