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CowperKettle

03:13

Word of the day: edgelord

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M.A.R.

07:50

@userr2684291 I've been repeating it for myself two dozen times and I can't figure out its appeal

Not part of the club 😢

Although I think I've activated the "Why the heck am I supposed to like this?" part of the brain

My head hurts

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CowperKettle

09:21

> A 39-year-old woman experienced severe postherpetic itch, but no postherpetic neuralgia, after ophthalmic zoster. Within 1 year, she had painlessly scratched through her frontal skull into her brain.

Decapitated Soul

09:58

WOTD - embrocate: bathe (a diseased or painful part of the body) with liquid.

CowperKettle

10:38

A: Why is there one p in "hoping"?

Doubling final consonants: Consonants (often) get doubled in CVC combinations, where the vowels are represented with a single grapheme, not digraphs. The last C in CVC is the final consoant. Examples: Rob -> r-C o-V b-C -> robbed, robbing. mop -> m-C o-V p-C -> mopped, mopping. Pin -> p-C ...

Cool answer

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Decapitated Soul

12:48

...You give cool answers when you're extremely bored...

Anonymous

13:04

Not me. I give boring answers when I'm extremely cool.

CowperKettle

Q: A chart of daily cases of COVID-19 in a Russian region looks suspiciously level to me - is this so from the statistics viewpoint?

Below is a daily chart of newly-detected COVID cases in Krasnodar Krai, a region of Russia, from April 29 to May 19. The population of the region is 5.5 million people. I read about it and wondered - does this look okay from the statistical standpoint? Or does this look suspicious? In my home re...

epidemiology

Anonymous

@CowperKettle How many tests are done daily?

CowperKettle

13:31

@snailplane I tried to find that figure but I only got a couple of figures for different days. It looks like about 1500 - 2000 tests per day, but that may vary from day to day.

I found the total number of tests performed since the start of the pandemic, and added it to the question.

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userr2684291

14:39

There are two kinds of people: 1. those who can extrapolate from incomplete data sets.

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M.A.R.

16:21

@userr2684291 What is your opinion on the recent pandemic?

@CowperKettle wow what an answer

Q: If denied entry to EU, what US city do they send me to?

I have read many times that they send US citizens back to the US on the first flight that is available, but which city will they send me to? Flights to some cities can be very expensive. Could the flight cost over a thousand dollars?

uk customs-and-immigration passports airports eu

Detroit

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userr2684291

18:05

@M.A.R. Well, I don't think I'm fully aware of the gravity of the situation it has already, or will engender. Not that many people have died here, and no one close to me. Since we most likely can't go on effectively living much longer under severe lockdown measures, their relaxations are inevitable. On-and-off lockdown might be a good strategy until we develop a vaccine for the virus. In the meantime, we have to learn to live with the situation and change our lifestyle accordingly.

Eddie Kal

19:03

@M.A.R. What about this?

M.A.R.

@userr2684291 I was making a joke on your joke

@EddieKal Nothing, just saw it on HNQ and I had a witty thing to say about it

Read: spread my wisdom

Eddie Kal

lol

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Starred

And spanked

@CowperKettle My suggested edit has just been approved on the highest voted answer. hooray

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Q: Should I use "away" after "Farthest/Farther?"

I wish to know if it is okay to use "away" after the superlative/comparative forms of "Far" since I have come across this sentence: I am the farthest from the grace of my family members. Is this ungrammatical? Should I use "away" after it? I'm farther (away) from him than you. I'm...