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tchrist

03:03

> To describe the behavior, the scientists coined the term "kleptopharmacophagy," which means "consuming stolen chemicals."

"The alternative neologisms 'kairopharmacophagy' (feeding on defensive chemicals from wounded caterpillars detected via 'eavesdropping') or 'necropharmacophagy' (feeding on defensive chemicals from dead caterpillars) might also be appropriate," the researchers reported.

CowperKettle

03:44

> Cribriform Plate Injury After Nasal Swab Testing for COVID-19

A man was leaking cerebrospinal fluid after a COVID swab. OMG

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Andrew Leach

08:40

@tchrist Nah. An English accent is easy.

Andrew Leach

08:57

@CowperKettle That's one of the reasons swabs are not pushed very far into the noses of Health Service staff in England. Their guidance (PDF) says 1.5cm; the guidance notes for the public (PDF) say 2.5cm.

But that shouldn't be enough to do serious damage.

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CowperKettle

10:23

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CowperKettle

14:33

Researchers Generate an Entire Virtual Universe and Make it Available for Download (if you Have 100 Terabytes of Free Hard Drive Space)

The largest HDD drive sold in Yekaterinburg is only 12 TB

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Mitch

18:47

DON"T EFFING ANSWER "It depends" and then stop there. If you can say "It depends", then you obviously know more than the questioner, you know what contexts the answer depends on.

Cerberus

@Mitch I see your point, this may be true most of the time, but I do think it varies.

Mitch

19:07

@Cerberus Sure, sometimes an answerer knows that the answer is complicated, but more often they also should know that the questioner doesn't know enough to know how complicated it is.

It just seems there's a lot of demanding of the questioner to supply the context.

Now that I say it that way, yeah the questioner should supply the motivating phrase (of course I'm subtweeting current comments on current questions), the phrase or sentence they were reading when they thought up the question... yes, there is that responsibility.

But often enough, the questioner -doesn't- have a motivating phrase.

Even -if- the questioner responsibly supplies a motivating phrase, the questioner should point out the 'depends' situation, either for ELU scholarly interest, or for ELL rule complications for standard language.

I also mean this 'it depends' thing for other contexts.

Like science and stuff.

@Cerberus Inapropos question: does one tip in the Netherlands?

Hm... maybe that's entirely apropos... there are lots of different contexts where one could possibly tip and sometimes you do sometimes you don't.

Ut the question stands: tipping for restaurant servers? Cafe servers? Taxis? Uh... barbers?

And...do you find that tipping behavior is pretty different within Europe?

Cerberus

19:47

@Mitch Did you see what I did there?

@Mitch Basically only when you are being served at a table, and in certain rather specific situations (or whenever you feel like it). It's never compulsory.

Barbers, never.

Taxis, maybe. I think many people wouldn't.

Especially not now that you pay through a phone application.

I would normally leave some change on the bed after my stay at an hotel.

It is customary for the person who delivers your newspaper to ring your doorbell and wish you a happy New Year. Then you're supposed to tip him.

But...my doorbell is always off because of the tourists.

Mitch

20:47

@Cerberus haha now I do

\STOP MAKING ME THINK!

Node.JS

I need help with a simple citation question: english.stackexchange.com/questions/574810/…

Mitch

@Cerberus I think both uber and lyft have a tip mechanism...but.... I haven't used them for a couple years. not sure why

Robusto

Mitch

@Cerberus So essentially the default is 'don't tip'? unless you're feeling super generous?

Robusto

Road killed killer.

Mitch

20:50

An acme truck ran him over

Robusto

Not pictured: the roadrunner.

Queen - Another One Bites the Dust (Official Video)

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Mitch

@Node.JS probably best answered elsewhere. The locals here (either on ELU main or here in chat) aren't LaTeX familiar, much less mathematical publishing differences. In another decade I might have put something like "to appear" in one of the bibtex fields... you should google for "bibtex to appear" and look at LaTeX examples others have.

Or even better ask at TeX - LaTeX

@Robusto I feel bad for him though. probably hit by a car and them took a whole to expire, painfully. then a flash flood half buried him.

@Node.JS I'm pretty sure there's a URL tag that you can give in BiBTeX.

Robusto

@Mitch Mother Nature is a cruel bitch. Pretty much none of the ways animals die are all sweetness and light.

Mitch

@Robusto 😢

tchrist

22:00

@Robusto Nor Man.

Robusto

@tchrist Man is an animal too.