The Factory Floor

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Monica Cellio

02:54

@Secespitus nice story that other people here might want to read too. :-)

HDE 226868

03:29

If anyone's interested, I came across a semi-relevant New York Times article on orbits and habitability: nytimes.com/2019/01/02/science/….

(No, we're not mentioned in this article. :-( )

@MonicaCellio Ooooh, nice!

@Secespitus I like the use of the present tense in Heaven's Fall. It adds to the action.

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Worldbuilding Meta

13:39

Q: Should we have science fiction?

I just noticed the science-fiction tag. https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/science-fiction This tag feels meaningless to me, it should possibly be a synonym to science-based but even that feels week. Should we delete it? Synonym it? Have I missed something that means it i...

AndyD273

14:28

@Green Congrats! Where are you teaching?

HDE 226868

15:25

Happy Thursday, people!

Gryphon

16:24

Happy Thursday to you, HDE!

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James

17:43

@AndyD273 @Green Wait...he's going to be a teacher? Gods help us all.

@HDE226868 So I understood all the words in that article you shared on twitter re: dark matter, but my voluminous vocabulary aside I have no idea what it means.

AndyD273

17:59

@James I think the quote was "glorified computer teacher", but that might not mean an actual teacher. Kinda like describing a boot camp sergeant as a glorified babysitter. A boot camp sergeant would probably do great as a babysitter, so long as you could teach the kids what words not to say in polite company later...

HDE 226868

@James Let me maybe phrase it differently - and please interrupt me if I'm being unclear on anything.

So, dark matter interacts with regular matter only through gravity, right?

Green

18:29

@James tremble!

@AndyD273 the title is Cloud Governance Architect. But, since I'm just helping other people do their implementations, not doing it for them... My position is that of teacher where I help them learn as quickly as possible how to use my company's product.

@AndyD273 corporate offices all over the US.

AndyD273

18:42

@Green Ah, so you'll still be US work based, and just travel down from Canada to do the training?

James

19:15

@HDE226868 If you say so.

dot_Sp0T

holla

Can I briefly hijack for a word/phrasing question?

Gryphon

Sure, dot.

dot_Sp0T

Can I use the phrase: "Industriousness lies in the air" ?

or is that truly an only German thing?

AndyD273

It makes sense in english

Even if it is a little strange in it's phrasing

Gryphon

It does make sense, but it sounds a little awkward to me.

dot_Sp0T

19:19

the awkwardness is what has me coming here

AndyD273

Maybe "The air hummed with the sound of industry"?

hmm

dot_Sp0T

maybe the adjective doesn't work as intended :/ > business, people scurrying around, preparing, being about <

AndyD273

for "lies" in german, is that similar to sound, or is it more anticipation?

James

...thrummed in the air?

AndyD273

If that make sense :)

"the air was full of the sound of work"

dot_Sp0T

19:22

@AndyD273 the latter. E.g. Love lies in the air (to germanize)

AndyD273

so more of a feeling

dot_Sp0T

yeah, though hearing is a feeling as well in some definitions ;)

AndyD273

YOu could say "A feeling of anticipation filled the air", so you could almost use "a feeling of industry filled the air", but industry is a weird word to use... production might be better...

"Love lies in the air" works in english too

Gryphon

Perhaps "A feeling of busyness lies in the air"?

dot_Sp0T

fills the air <- THAT'S IT

@AndyD273 but it more usually is "Love is in the air", not?

AndyD273

19:28

Yeah, that too

Fills is a better word than lies. Except when talking about love... /feigned bitterness

sorry, dumb joke

Gryphon

I laughed, so it wasn't a bad joke.

AndyD273

I wonder if I should have used cake instead of love...

Gryphon

The one you went with was darker, but that's not necessarily a problem.

AndyD273

I guess it could have been worse. Could have gone really dark and used "potato" instead of "love'...

Gryphon

...I don't get it.

dot_Sp0T

19:33

@AndyD273 don't go there

AndyD273

@Gryphon few years ago there was a Latvian joke phase that went through, of very dark humor, often dealing with potatoes, or the lack there of

Gryphon

Please excuse my ignorance of Lativan humor trends.

AndyD273

Two Latvian Look at Clouds
One see potato.
Other see impossible dream.
Is same cloud.

Gryphon

That's... depressing.

AndyD273

Latvian Girl Say, “I Want Go America One Day.”
Father say, “I send you America.”
Daughter is thank father. Make tears of happy. Father use to salt potato.
Father think moment, say, “Daughter, I no send you America.”
Potato needed more salt.

I think it's commonly referred to as black humor. One of the chief exports of soviet countries. They were too poor to export anything else.

Gryphon

19:42

Slow clap in appreciation of the dark humour in that explanation of dark humour

AndyD273

hehe

dot_Sp0T

oh boy these are great

Gryphon

These are quite amusing, yes.

Green

@AndyD273 Affirmative

Nex Terren

20:14

GUYS

My literal shared-a-wall-with-him next door neighbor was picked up by the DOJ for attempting to take over $1,400,000,000 worth of data back to China. A data thief living next door to a cybersecurity guy.

Gryphon

That number has a lot of zeroes.

Nex Terren

1.4 - 1.7 billion is the charge.

Gryphon

Do you know where the data was from?

Nex Terren

The Phillips 66 research center here in Bartlesville, OK. Petroleum engineering.

justice.gov/opa/pr/…

AndyD273

20:32

@NexTerren Man, just think what that would have been like if you had been the one to catch him...

Nex Terren

@AndyD273 Haha, they're the other big company in town, so I had no insight into their affairs. But yes! That would have been a feather in my cap!

AndyD273

@NexTerren This is why you need to hack all your neighbors. For <strike>science!</strike> security!

Nex Terren

I think the DOJ would have picked up two guys if that had been the case.

AndyD273

probably. Unless they are leaving the one that didn't have access to the data in the wind so they can track him back to his handlers, and blow the whole ring open

Gryphon

Just hack the DOJ and erase your name from the list. Problem solved.

Nex Terren

20:37

"Guys! I just heard I'm getting free new housing! It's bay-area! I think the men with guns mentioned something about guacamole? Guacamole Bay or something like that...?"

Gryphon

Congratulations, Nex!

I hope your new home is comfortable!

Nex Terren

Yeah! They have awesome activities like waterboarding! Which I hear is something like surfing!

AndyD273

I love Cuban food!
Hopefully you get a nice roommate. Offer him your bacon as a show friendship

James

20:54

@NexTerren Jeez you need to improve your situational awareness. Didn't you cydie-sense tingle?!?

Nex Terren

@James His mother cooked me food. My defenses were down. :(