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Q: Can we flag users as deceased, and does it matter to the site?

So my wife and I were getting our wills done the other day and we were talking about password sharing. Obviously there are some mechanics when someone dies around shutting down email accounts, moving business and financial accounts into different names and the like. The one thing that I started ...

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3:29 PM

Happy Monday, people.

@HDE226868 Good morning.

3:46 PM

@HDE226868 Ugh.

@Cyn I spent some time with my Googlefu and found nothing. Sorry. Maybe if you could remember more solid facts about the post (in general, or from the user you're curious about)

@Cyn Keep in mind comments get deleted on occasion so its possible what you are looking for no longer exists.

@James I agree with this

@AndyD273 I am not super thrilled to be at work today.

I reinstalled the old republic MMO over the weekend...

I was in the mood to genocide with a lightsaber.

That game has held up surprisingly well...they are planning another expansion in September.

It has to have been out nearly a decade by now.

Anyway...I may or may not have stayed up entirely too late running around slashing dual sabers at anything that moves...

Huh, I'm mostly surprised that they haven't shuttered the system

3:56 PM

possibly...

@AndyD273 There are only two NA servers, and I think 8 servers in total left but they are still pretty well populated.

I also realized that what I really want is a star wars game made on the same engine as Assassins Creed Odyssey.

swtor is free to play...though there are decided benefits to a subscription.

Maybe if Ubisoft can somehow wrench the IP from the withered hands of Darth EA...

@AndyD273 Heh. Darth EA. A true sith lord.

Thank you @NexTerren for looking and @James as well. I'm pretty sure it was a high-rep user and I was hoping they might be on chat and recognize the reference. After posting I thought I remembered the user's name but I just checked and there's nothing. Of course, as James points out, it could have been removed.

It's not that important. I'm just writing a novel set in part at the Red Sea and have been having trouble finding climate information since it's generally only available for populated areas. I was hoping to pick the brain of this user who has been there multiple times.

@Cyn Could try the Travel.SE... Or just do a google about other peoples account of sailing on the red sea, if you're mostly just looking for what that's like.

@AndyD273 This is a good idea.

@Cyn you could just ask a question about what kind of clothing to pack and weather to expect in the region you are thinking about for a particular time of year...

I think someone found my profile and is looking at a bunch of my questions...I have +35 rep today on old questions...

4:12 PM

Did you ever hear the Tragedy of Darth EA the wise? I thought not. It's not a story the Jedi would tell you. It's a Sith legend. Darth EA was a Dark Lord of the Sith, so powerful and so wise he could use the Force to influence the players to purchase loot boxes... He had such a knowledge of the dark side that he could even milk the whales of everything.

The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. He became so powerful... the only thing he was afraid of was losing his power, which eventually, of course, he did. Unfortunately, he caught the attention of the government, then the government fined him to death in his sleep.

@AndyD273 ...I am still playing GOH...I have never spent money.

@James Mind tricks only work on the weak of mind.

@AndyD273 Its real tempting sometimes, but they charge such outrageous prices I never pull the trigger.

I was going to quit a while back but then they announced Revan and a bunch of old republic characters...aaaaand I was back in.

@Cyn I found a couple that might be what you want.

My brother played Clash of Clans for a while, and I got into it for a bit. He dropped the $5 to get enough gems for the repair shack, but I didn't. I saved and did the grind (ground?) for a good month to earn it. I bought that shack, then I quit the game forever.

4:18 PM

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A: Ultimate Australian Canal

A canal will not help Case in point: Here is map of a very large 'canal' in the middle of a desert: You may notice, that despite this 'canal' being up to 350 km wide, it doesn't actually bring a lot of rain to anywhere near it. In fact, having sailed through it at times, I can confidently inf...

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A: How can a desert have high humidity?

In addition to having this condition in a cool desert, you can have high humidity in a regular ol' desert too, as long as you have an ocean. The Red Sea is literally the worst place on Earth, as any sailor who has gone through it can tell you. Not only is it brutally hot all summer, it is ama...

Both by kingledion.

Both mention the red sea and its humidity.

The first has specifically this clause: In fact, having sailed through it at times, I can confidently inform you that in the summer, the Red Sea is the worst place on Earth; unbearably hot and unbearably humid.

@Hosch250 Good detective work

My SQL fu is strong today.

@Cyn it occurs to me I have been to the persian gulf. Kuwait and Qatar specifically.

Kuwait was generally hot dry and windy. Though on a pretty regular basis (maybe once a week) the wind would die down and the super warm, super moist air from the gulf would push onto land...it was disgustingly humid. Qatar on the other hand was hot and humid all the damn time cause its a little peninsula sticking out into the gulf.

@James As a logistics officer, did you mostly make sure that munitions and food where at the right places at the right times?

@Hosch250 Everything. Fuel, food, parts, people, vehicles, airplance, tanks, helos, whatever. We coordinated vehicle, air, boat and rail transportation

4:33 PM

Also, what would you say the best age range would be to join? I've got a German Shepherd who could have up to 7 years left, but after she dies, I might consider joining as an officer (I'd like to fly fighter jets--if they have an opening). I'd be about 30 at that point, though, would it be too old?

@Hosch250 Yeah 30 is too old. I think the cutoff to commission is 30, but generally they aren't going to take a 30 year old and let them get into flight training. When you commission and have a pilot slot you have a ten year commitment.

Yeah, I figured.

At least those were the rules when I was around.

Maybe I'll keep working on my programming skills and get a job with the cyber teams.

Now if you are a linguist or a particular flavor of engineer (generally EE or ME) they might take people later...the rules shift based on how much help they need in particular areas.

I think alot of cyber is contracted...but I didn't really get into that world much.

4:36 PM

I'm terrible with languages, and I didn't go to school for engineering (I wanted to, but it was too expensive for my parents, and they wouldn't co-sign a loan for me).

I think so too. I know Lockheed does a lot of it.

And Boeing.

Yeah engineering is nuts and generally 5 years minimum for your BSE

If I hadn't had my dog, odds are I would've done ROTC to get away from my family.

@Hosch250 You just described exactly what I did and why I joined.

Ha.

My sister went shopping for dogs a ton shortly after we got a computer, and got all my sisters and myself dogs.

Mine is 7 now, IIRC.

Or will be in about a month.

Talking about which, my brother and I went to see the Duluth airshow Saturday.

We saw the Blue Angels this time. Thunderbirds last year.

And the shockwave jet truck.

5:34 PM

@Hosch250 that is the one! And that's the user I thought it was (on my second guess) and I still didn't find it! Thank you!

:D

Glad to help.

Now I see why I missed it. I was looking for a post made in the last couple of months. But it's an old post on a question that was popped up in the active queue in the last couple of months (I thought I'd controlled for that in searches but obviously not). Gonna favorite it now (the desert high humidity answer).

@James My novel is where a bunch of kids from 1995 (from northern Arizona so not the desert but still hot and dry) time travel to the Exodus. I'm placing the crossing of the Red Sea at the southern end of the Eastern branch (Gulf of Aqaba), at the Straits of Tiran.

Looking for climate information for the Eastern Nile Delta, the Red Sea crossing, and a mountainous area NE of the crossing. Plus the areas in-between. The problem is that the Delta is super populated now and the river branches have completely changed. So climate is somewhat different too. And the Sinai and Arabia parts aren't very populated, nor are they tourist attractions, so it's also hard to find info.

And any info is for cities or large towns or tourist areas not near where my characters are going. I knew it was humid there; this part was easy to find out. And the heat is a given. But not having been there (and no means to go in the foreseeable future), I'm trying to get a better sense of what it's like without just guessing based on measurements.

5:56 PM

P.S. It's April/May, around 1350 B.C.E.

6:13 PM

@Cyn I am trying to recall the dates of the mini ice age...

"At the end of the Medieval Warm Period, ∼1300 AD, temperatures dropped dramatically and the cold period that followed is known as the Little Ice Age. The periods of colder climate that ensued for five centuries were devastating."

You know I wonder if sea levels were lower in any significant way during the mini-ice age

Maybe Moses just found a sand bar in the sea that allowed them to cross...

You know, I read somewhere that from approximately that time, we're missing the bodies of one of the pharoahs and there are mass graves of children.

Some people think it's the pharoah who drowned in the red sea and the kids struck down by the plague.

@Hosch250 I don't know anything about a missing Pharaoh body so don't ask.

6:33 PM

That's the problem of a place where you have to hide the tombs as good as possible to keep them from being robbed. Maybe the Pharaoh's tomb is still buried under the sand, maybe his body is on the bottom of the red sea... May never know

Yep.

@AndyD273 I know it is definitely not in my basement

@James That'll be the first place I check.

Ah, gross, a rogue black olive got into my sandwich...gag.

@James That is probably good. The humidity would not be a great way to preserve it...

Ah, Ninja Olive strikes again

6:36 PM

Black olives are super nasty...

@James A fellow olive-hater!

I love olive oil, use it all the time, but yeah, olives themselves are gross.

Same.

I think it's the way they preserve them.

The saltiness and other stuff they soak them in.

Wait, are you sure the mummy is not in your basement? It may be hiding, waiting for you to go to sleep, then it will pull itself, lurching, up the stairs, to your bedroom, and loom over you in the dark, hoping that you will open your eyes so it can drain your essence. And every night that you sleep soundly, is one more night that you get to live.

@AndyD273 It's probably fine, there's a door at the top of the stairs into the basement. Everyone knows mummy's can't use door knobs.

6:39 PM

@James Bandages are too slippery?

The hands are bound to its sides.

@Hosch250 If I had my way every jar of olive tapenade would be launched into the sun simultaneously...partly to get rid of them, but mainly because it would be fun to watch and I wouldn't miss it...

never heard of olive tapenade... I generally like olives, but olive tapenade doesn't sound all that great... though I'd probably at least taste it

I generally like trying foods from all over. An exchange student from Congo made me dinner as a thank you for teaching her to drive, so I got to try fufu... it was pretty good.

@AndyD273 It's basically finely diced up olives...and other stuff, I dunno. Its a spread for sandwiches.

@AndyD273 I've had a couple different african dishes, its a whole different flavor palate.

@James says anchovies and capers. I haven't had an opportunity to try anchovies either, so I don't know what that combination might taste like

6:47 PM

Capers I don't mind. Anchovies are pretty dang funky though

capers are related to onions, right?

If you try them, do it on a cesear salad (anchovies)

Not pizza?

@AndyD273 Not sure how they grow but they are kinda like...spicy peas

Apparently they are nothing like onions

Grow as a fruit on a bush, are usually pickled

Mithrandir24601

6:57 PM

Jerusalem artichoke, fresh avocado and sundried tomato is a pretty epic combo

@James This is exactly how I feel

2 hours later…

8:44 PM

@James Interesting. But hey, if the climate was in fact different 3000+ years ago, maybe I can ask it as a WB question...or not, I mean it's not alt earth. Oh well.

Artichoke tapenade is the bomb. Cara Mia...but when I went looking for a picture to link to, it seems Star bought them and the product no longer exists. It's in Grocery Outlet though (US chain), so time for another case or 3. :-)

@Cyn Doesn't have to be alt earth...but yeah not sure it works as a WB question.

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10:11 PM

hey there @Mithrandir24601

10:59 PM

Kind of rude of them to simultaneously issue an EVACUATION - IMMEDIATE alert, a SHELTER IN PLACE alert, and a 911 TELEPHONE OUTAGE alert.

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