Root Access

Bob

3:05 PM

needs one more migrate vote => superuser.com/questions/1317114/… (OP has acknowledged in comments)

djsmiley2k

Boom, HEADSHOT.

Bob

@JourneymanGeek anything interesting happening?

Journeyman Geek

Hmm

not much

Bob

@djsmiley2k thanks

djsmiley2k

You at work atm?

Journeyman Geek

3:06 PM

Parents got lost, and needed directions... ;p

Not today, ;p

djsmiley2k

Ah ok

gonna say, I wouldn't expect 3LA to let you online :P

Bob

@JourneymanGeek sooo, same old? :P

Journeyman Geek

free till friday

@Bob they're in india

my dad has track my location set to my phone so I used that to grab his rough location, his destination, and sent mom a link and a screenshot

I'd be worried but my dad's lack of sense of direction has been a thing for years

its impossible for him to get worse

Bob

@JourneymanGeek ...

they're asking you for directions ... from another country?

that's ... incredible

Journeyman Geek

here's the best part

I actually usually manage to get them there.

I'm like the male, walking version of oracle or overwatch ;p

also

probably no cool work stories ;p

tbh, I'm just gently spazzing over the other thing

bwDraco

3:22 PM

...and it looks like I've been approved for my first credit card!

That Brazilian Guy

@JourneymanGeek Is that your dad?

bwDraco

(Discover it Secured)

Journeyman Geek

I'm not familiar with the reference ;p

That Brazilian Guy

Ranma 1/2

bwDraco

Yes, it's a secured card, meaning there's a security deposit (and your credit limit is determined by the size of the security deposit), but that's exactly what I need to get started building credit.

Journeyman Geek

3:24 PM

@Bob it was actually more, I called my mom

That Brazilian Guy

The concept of "building credit" and "credit score" is weird. Well, I never tried to understand it.

Journeyman Geek

and my mom immediately started complaining about being lost

and I was like "ok, let me send you directions" based off a partial hotel name and the town they were in

That Brazilian Guy

I just was like "hey gimme a credit card" and the bank went "here's one".

In fact one of the problems we have here is banks sending customers unsolicited credit cards (and obvs. charging them monthly for it)

Journeyman Geek

@ThatBrazilianGuy apparently you need to owe money to be trusted to borrow more money

bwDraco

discover.com/credit-cards/secured

That Brazilian Guy

3:26 PM

Yes, lucky us banks are so friendly as to allow us the privilege of lending money for them (for a friendly small fee!). Gee, I love banks!

bwDraco

They're meant for those with poor credit or limited income.

lol

That Brazilian Guy

@JourneymanGeek This character is famous for lacking so much of a sense of direction as to trying to go to a city in the northern part of the country and arriving at the south.

Journeyman Geek

ah

my dad's famous for accidentall missing the right turn. 3 times

he was literally just down the road from the hotel

on the other hand, I just grab my phone or a map and can basically navigate places I have never been to before

That Brazilian Guy

I'm a disaster trying to locate myself geospatially.

Google Maps (with GPS on) is the most quintessential app ever.

Journeyman Geek

I navigate by landmarks not directions

@Bob can relate to my constant struggle and my inability to tell right from ~~wrong~~ left.

That Brazilian Guy

3:32 PM

I have a trick that saves me a lot of times when I'm lost (except when it doesn't).

When I'm lost I either keep going until I'm not lost anymore

When it fails, I ask someone for directions.

Journeyman Geek

so...

there's this feature called "share my location" in android

My dad has it turned on and shared with me and mom

That Brazilian Guy

Damn, I need more RAM. 8 GB is too damn low.

Journeyman Geek

in theory its cause he had a heart bypass and it keeps mom less woried

in practice its a handy way to give them directions cause they're typically so lost they don't know where they are ;p

That Brazilian Guy

@JourneymanGeek there's this feature called "share my location" on both WhatsApp and Telegram.

Apparently I'm the only one who even knows it exists

Journeyman Geek

eww

I use the google maps flavour

and you can leave it active for up to a year

That Brazilian Guy

3:35 PM

People: "Where are you?"
Me: *share location for N minutes*

Other people: "Where are you"
Their friends: "Oh I'm near a storefront besides a blue house in front of a street crossing beneath a bridge"

Journeyman Geek

hah

That Brazilian Guy

Or event better: loud party "hey where are you" "what?" "Wait, what?" "Can't hear you!" "What?"

Burgi

@ThatBrazilianGuy Brazilian bars have the weirdest names....

btw on an unrelated note i just opened a banana from the wrong end

not sure how i feel about it

That Brazilian Guy

If it works then it isn't wrong.

jokerdino

3:53 PM

@Burgi there's an xkcd for that

Burgi

@jokerdino thats why i tried it

That Brazilian Guy

You guys are weird.

Burgi

thats why you love us

That Brazilian Guy

@FMLCat You know, there might be other ways to die from nicotine other than overdosing.

@Burgi <3

FML Cat

@ThatBrazilianGuy Err... since it's non-toxic except in overdose, no not really. Unless you mean choking on pure nicotine solution, which wouldn't be much different from generic choking on any liquid

That Brazilian Guy

4:02 PM

Doesn't smoking give you cancer?

Burgi

not sure that the nicotine gives you cancer. i think it is the other shit that is in cigarettes that causes it

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek You can recover from 3 missed right turns by first turning left. That points you in the correct direction :)

Burgi

> Routes of administration: Inhalation; insufflation; oral – buccal, sublingual, and ingestion; transdermal; rectal

wtf?

Nicotine

Nicotine is a potent parasympathomimetic stimulant and an alkaloid found in the nightshade family of plants. Nicotine acts as an agonist at most nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs), except at two nicotinic receptor subunits (nAChRα9 and nAChRα10) where it acts as a receptor antagonist. Nicotine is found in the leaves of Nicotiana rustica, in concentrations of 2–14%; in the tobacco plant, Nicotiana tabacum; in Duboisia hopwoodii; and in Asclepias syriaca. Nicotine constitutes approximately 0.6–3.0% of the dry weight of tobacco. It also occurs in edible plants, such as those in the Solanaceae...

XKCD

Hi, I'm your new meteorologist and a former software developer. Hey, when we say 12pm, does that mean the hour from 12pm to 1pm, or the hour centered on 12pm? Or is it a snapshot at 12:00 exactly? Because our 24-hour forecast has midnight at both ends, and I'm worried we have an off-by-one error.

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Burgi

not sure if i want to know who on earth consumes nicotine rectally

That Brazilian Guy

4:12 PM

@Burgi There's a... ahem, peculiar anecdote (as in it is said to actually having taken place) involving a former Brazilian president and a cocaine suppository.

Burgi

o.O

you south americans really know how to party...

DavidPostill

@ThatBrazilianGuy TMI

That Brazilian Guy

Brazil is a bizarre place.

jokerdino

@DavidPostill TradeMark Involved?

That Brazilian Guy

@XKCD Oh god, the mouseover text.

bertieb

4:28 PM

@Burgi As far as absorption goes, rectal is pretty similar to oral

I mean, there are sure some practical differences

Burgi

i won't ask how you know...

That Brazilian Guy

@bertieb You could really say that.

bertieb

@Burgi Simple pharmacology :)

Burgi

@bertieb it certainly makes going to the smoking shelter trickier

bertieb

You say 'trickier', I say 'unnecessary' :P

Rectal administration (not of nicotine) is really handy for certain circumstances, like say if you are vomiting

Hard to know how much you've absorbed if you're throwing up

Important for eg paracetamol

Of course, if you have the runs (which can go with vomiting) that's another, uh, practical issue

DavidPostill

4:33 PM

@jokerdino Too Much Information :)

18.04 tomorrow!

@Ave ?

ubuntu 18.04

@Ave Ah. I thought something momentous (like the end of the world) was due to happen shortly after 6pm tomorrow :)

djsmiley2k

:/

Ave

4:47 PM

We're not moving to it :)

@ThatBrazilianGuy lula?

djsmiley2k

Thursday Tomorrow!!

DavidPostill

5:13 PM

@djsmiley2k Thursday is $today for @JourneymanGeek ;)

almost thursday here

everytimezone.com

?

@Ave Not the charismatic populist leftist from the 80's. The charismatic "Amerycan Psycho"-like dandi from the 80's.

DavidPostill

@jokerdino ??

That Brazilian Guy

5:16 PM

Ave

who's the uh

aerotrem guy

That Brazilian Guy

@Ave Aerowhat?

Ave

let me see uh

That Brazilian Guy

Do you know some br thing better than me? 0.o

Ave

yeah aerotrem

@ThatBrazilianGuy yes

an amazing project by levy fidélix

he's running for pres this season I believe

also my partner got her voting card this monday

That Brazilian Guy

5:19 PM

@Ave I saw that. ;P

Ave

I DIDN'T SLEEP ALL DAY

That Brazilian Guy

Levy "rectums aren't reproductive systems" Fidelix. Such an amazing, nice guy.

Ave

I mean

they are not

you can definitely give them the same treatment

but they won't contribute to reproduction

DavidPostill

@ThatBrazilianGuy "rectums aren't reproductive systems" they are for tapeworms :)

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web.stanford.edu/class/humbio103/ParaSites2003/Dipylidiasis/…

That Brazilian Guy

@Ave And that's exactly the kind of thing you totally should say live on TV on a f@#$% presidential candidate debate, riiiight?

Ave

5:24 PM

@ThatBrazilianGuy nope

That Brazilian Guy

While saying GLBT people should have no rights or whatever ridiculous statement.

The only thing that prevents him from being the most abominable candidate is the mere existence of this person:

Jair Bolsonaro

Jair Messias Bolsonaro (born 21 March 1955) is a Brazilian politician and former military officer. He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies by the Progressive Party (PP), current member of the Social Liberal Party (PSL), and was the congressman who gained the most votes in the general election of the state of Rio de Janeiro in 2014. A controversial figure in Brazil, he has been known to advocate for far-right and populist political views. Bolsonaro is a preliminary candidate for the 2018 Brazilian presidential election. He has a large following on social media. He has been leading in election...

And his insane and evergrowing mass of followers.

Ave

@ThatBrazilianGuy what do you feel about marina silva

That Brazilian Guy

"A controversial figure in Brazil, he has been known to advocate for far-right and populist political views."

Ha! That's immenselly understating hte situation.

He's basically Hitler 2018. And he's 2nd in the surveys.

Ave

Who's first?

That Brazilian Guy

Lula was first with a margin of more than 40%, without even being an official candidate

Ave

5:28 PM

oh right

That Brazilian Guy

Then he was arrested in an immensely controversial process

Ave

i remember luna talking about that

That Brazilian Guy

@Ave Marina is (1) think of the most bland dessert you can imagine. Like a water popsicle. (2) a seasonal event that happens only ever 4 years then disappears (3) she supports whoever she sees fit regardless of the political stance (4) she uses a nonsense text generator to speak

Ave

Who's the best choice in your opinion

I mean, marina's better than lula and jair and fidelix

That Brazilian Guy

@Ave That's a really complex question. Brazilian politics is such a mess and it doesn't make any remote kind of sense at all.

Ave

5:39 PM

believe me, I know.

djsmiley2k

6:23 PM

Ok, now THAT's weird

I didn't click any of yo videos you guys shared earlier