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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
03:17
Kramatorsk radiological accident
The Kramatorsk radiological accident was a radiation accident that happened in Kramatorsk, Ukrainian SSR from 1980 to 1989. In 1989, a small capsule containing highly radioactive caesium-137 was found inside the concrete wall of an apartment building, with a surface gamma radiation exposure dose rate of 1800 R/year.It is believed that the source, originally a part of a measurement device (most likely a level meter), was lost in the late 1970s and ended up mixed with material used to construct the building in 1980.Over 9 years, two families lived in the apartment. By the time the capsule was...
A radiographic capsule, 4 by 8 mm, killed 6 people and caused disability in a further 17.
 
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M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ
M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ
07:58
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Q: Am I a Rude Number?

GryphonFor a while now, I've been running into a problem when counting on my fingers, specifically, that I can only count to ten. My solution to that problem has been to count in binary on my fingers, putting up my thumb for one, my forefinger for two, both thumb and forefinger for three, etc. However...

code-golf number decision-problem
 
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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
09:28
Word of the day: Crew Dragon
Good day, Muhammad!
 
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M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ
M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ
13:12
@userr2684291 Oh I find patterns like those similar to Warcraft junkies running on pizza as fuel and making a statue of their butt by sitting still for days
userr2684291
userr2684291
13:48
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Except I find myself pacing around nervously every 40 minutes or so for a few minutes, looking at the countdown timer (with timer to 5 am typed into Google Search), and then deciding I need to make another cup of tea. I've probably paced a couple kilometers just in my room and from my room to the kitchen (and bathroom, eventually, lol).
I haven't played any serious games in... 5 years or so, I think (and the same with pizza – haven't had it in years). These days I occasionally (= right before my exams) play a browser-based game for a few minutes, but that's it. I do sometimes watch streams, especially if my uni friends are also doing that.
Not saying pizza's bad, just that it's too expensive, I think. It's around 8 USD, and for that I can buy 8 normal meals in our student restaurants.
Fancy word of the day: inauspicious
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(I know it's just the opposite of auspicious, but still.)
 
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Jasper
Jasper
15:50
@userr2684291 A student meal for 1 USD is cheap.
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
In the concrete jungle, pizzas are cheap.
Jasper
Jasper
Not this word again, concrete jungle. =)
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
I'm so sorry I made that comment to that girl. I now realize that such a comment felt quite offensive to a girl. I was sure that was a boy, and to a boy in Russia such a comment would have sounded nice.
Cultural abyss.
Jasper
Jasper
16:45
@CowperKettle Not so much culture of different countries, but just culture of different people. Every country has all kinds of people with all kinds of thinking.
 
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userr2684291
userr2684291
18:25
@Jasper It is indeed. It's subsidized, that's why it's cheap.
Most meals are around 70–80% subsidized, but it varies.
userr2684291
userr2684291
18:37
An 8-dollar pizza is however a little too high a price in my opinion. The average (or median, I don't remember anymore) salary is around 800 USD a month here, while in Germany it's around 2,600 USD, and their pizzas are around 10–12 dollars.
 
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M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ
M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ
19:37
@userr2684291 especially as a workaround non-food food
Well, here the prices soar so fast I can't be bothered to compare salaries to pizza prices
But when the median salary was around 500 bucks here, a pizza cost from 5 to 10 dollars
 
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SamBC
SamBC
21:30
Lambie has now decided he knows better than the dictionary...
userr2684291
userr2684291
21:49
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Yeah, and it's not incredibly filling either.
@SamBC Lambie's a she, by the way.
SamBC
SamBC
22:09
Please wait while I smack myself with my own cluebat.
@userr2684291 I'm usually so finicky about not presuming gender. Can't think why I did this time. Thank you.
userr2684291
userr2684291
No worries.
userr2684291
userr2684291
23:14
ell.stackexchange.com/questions/198816/… Hm... LDOCE says "Don’t say ‘on one hand’. Say on the one hand."
I feel like they're being overly prescriptive there. To me, on one hand sounds fine, if somewhat informal.
But on the one hand sounds better, mos def.
Google Books Ngram Viewer suggests the arthrous version is very much preferred, and the lexicographers for LDOCE may have based their advice on similar data.

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