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Eddie Kal
Eddie Kal
00:21
It sounds fine to me. The participial modifying NP "the labor force" sounds natural and the only likely option here. I can't explain why the other option (modifying "27 percent of the labor force") doesn't sound likely.
 
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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
03:38
@AIQ Oh, I'm not very skilled in theory, but even a 1-kilometer jog is great if done regularly
 
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Anonymous
08:18
Happy New Year!!
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ColleenV parted ways
ColleenV parted ways
12:07
Happy New Year! I should have celebrated New Years with the Aussies lol. I can't stay up late any more.
Anonymous
I slept for several hours beforehand, woke up because the fireworks were loud, stayed up because the fireworks were loud, then slept a few more hours.
userr2684291
userr2684291
14:20
Yay, fireworks! I like it when they light up the night sky.
They have some really loud firecrackers here, though. I've never understood them. Everyone who sets them off (?) runs away and closes their ears. So why do it? Haha.
@M.A.R. Yes, and make them Community Wiki.
userr2684291
userr2684291
15:03
I like watching the Sydney fireworks show. In New York they kinda dropped the ball.
Next year the hindsight will be 2020.
Just got these out of the way.
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
15:33
@AIQ Tip 1. Run more than 1 km
Whoa @Cowp do you do a Marathon every day/week?
And I should do some jogging now myself. Though indoors
@userr2684291 We'll have our illegal firec . . . firecrackerers in two months
userr2684291
userr2684291
16:02
@M.A.R. It's illegal to do that there?
Anonymous
Setting off your own fireworks was illegal where I grew up, but that didn’t seem to stop anyone.
userr2684291
userr2684291
It's illegal for minors to buy and let off firecrackers here, but luckily their parents will buy it for them anyway. When it comes to fireworks (or "public fireworks", as they call it), you need to have a permit.
But yeah, most people (kids) set off their fireworks anyway.
My neighbor started when he was 14.
And every year you read stories of blown-up hands and lost fingers.
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
16:24
@snailcar which is kinda a problem here
@userr2684291 Well yeah, that.
Anonymous
It can be kind of scary wondering if your neighbors are going to start a fire.
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
Well, we're the fifth floor, and all the other neighbors are educated families or couples, except maybe the fourth one.
And that fourth one has cardiovascular disease
Anonymous
Well, I’m not especially worried where I live these days.
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
These years people are either too depressed or too wary to let their children go crazy with the firecrackers much anymore.
Maybe both.
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
17:00
@M.A.R. Ive never run a marathon
I only ran a half-marathon once
The music in the player gets too annoying
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My maximum regular run is 15 kilometers ))
And the median run I guess is 7 kilometers ))
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
That's still quite something, even if it was jogging.
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
With the whole enchilada of distances in between 5 and 15 kilometers. I try to run at least 5 ))
It only looks like something hard. People in their 50s are running marathons, but I lack that competitive spirit, I only like to run now and then ))
Today I ran two ParkRuns in Moscow
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Its very warm here in Moscow
It was from +2 to minus 4 today ))
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Anonymous
@CowperKettle What do your parentheses mean?
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
@snailcar Russian smileys
Anonymous
That's what I thought, but I wasn't entirely sure.
Anonymous
17:07
Back in the 90s, when Latvia was connected to the internet with a single HDSL line, I used to chat with some people in Latvia. They'd smile like this :)))))))))
Anonymous
One person just smiled like this ))))))))))
Anonymous
And one time I asked where all her eyes went, and she smiled like this ::::::::::::::)
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
Now whenever I see chat Russian anywhere on the internet it contains )))))))) right after the letters
It's so messy and neat at the same time
@snailcar OK that's
Anonymous
That's when I learned she had the ability to save up all her eyes and use them at once.
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
@CowperKettle That you))))))
@snailcar It's like a death gaze
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
17:18
@M.A.R. a boy who overtook me the first half of hte run, but I managed to overtake him about 3km into the race))
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
18:06
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A t-shirt I gave my friend as a gift. Hand-painted by another friend I have in Yekaterinburg, a girl
@EddieKal Looks delicious
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
18:25
@CowperKettle God why can't I ever get myself to write a diary or something
It sounds like it'd be so relieving
Also if Reg was here he would have told you that great scientists are actually great because they had more of those rough weeks
@CowperKettle That guy's had one of the saddest lives I can recall in my mind
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
@M.A.R. Try to disconnect from all Internet-based personal communication, that might free up some time. )))
I never tried though
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
19:24
@CowperKettle It's not about time . . . I'm either a good organizer, a good doer or simply that I'm not that busy yet.
It's just that I can't habituate it.
 
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M.A.R.
M.A.R.
20:51
Word of the day: Pontificate
I've been pontificating about a lot of things on- and offline, but I can't seem to get my ego in check.
Or maybe it already is.
This stuff is so weird and complicated.
Am I pontificating right now, I'm pontificating, aren't I
 
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AIQ
AIQ
22:54
@M.A.R. That's soooo 19th century. We record ourselves these days!!! Video tapes is the wayyy to gooo! =) :P
Looks like everyone had a great time
AIQ
AIQ
23:21
@M.A.R. Well, I get bored and mentally exhausted when I run like that. I used to be able to play up to 5 full-court basketball games - each 48 mins - one after another. I think that would be more than 1 km. But if you tell me to run more than a km straight you will find me dead on the side of the street
AIQ
AIQ
23:49
Now that is some pontificating I did right there - with the video tape thingy

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