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00:10
Do you ever read back what you posted in the past, and find that it seems more mellow and reasonable than you remember it?
00:29
Yeah, I do.
Nice, huh.
When I was working, sometimes I would be a little hazy on something or other and, because I could, I would look it up on Stack Overflow. I remember once I was thinking what a good, well-written and correct answer I had stumbled on, only to see my name at the bottom of the answer. I'd forgotten all about it.
Hah.
 
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02:36
In fact, it was you who created Stack Overflow in the first place. We've got tired of reminding you, because you keep forgetting.
I'm sure Putin knows the opposite would happen.
Yes, it's just a TV show for the zombified.
To keep them cozily zombified.
Heh.
I heard that some people on Russian television have been advocating negotiations?
03:08
@Cerberus Maybe yes. I rarely turn it on ))
@CowperKettle You are wise not to.
03:21
@CowperKettle I get so busy, it's hard to remember everything ...
 
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07:30
> On one occasion, young Oscar Wilde attended one of Whistler's dinners, and hearing his host make some brilliant remark, apparently said, "I wish I'd said that", to which Whistler riposted, "You will, Oscar, you will!"
 
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Napoleon Louis Josef Jérôme Bonaparte (16 July 1864 – 14 October 1932) was a member of the Bonaparte family, a lieutenant-general in the Russian Army and governor of the province of Yerevan in 1905. == Early life == Louis Bonaparte, as he was known, was born in Meudon, France. He was the second son of Prince Napoléon Bonaparte, who was the son of Napoleon's brother Jérôme Bonaparte and of Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy, daughter of Victor Emmanuel II of Italy. == Life == He was educated with his older brother Victor, Prince Napoléon, then lived a quiet life in Paris at the home of his...
A distant relative of Napoleon Bonaparte suppressed Russian revolutionaries in the Caucasus in 1905
> Growing a kg of tomatoes in the Netherlands uses 9.1 liters of water. The global average is over 210 liters of water per kg.
09:26
Military drafting office torched this night. More than fifty torched since Feb 24.
Although most of them remained largely unscathed.
45 yo woman teacher in Chelyabinsk fined 40 thousand rubles for a pro-peace sign on the pavement 74.ru/text/gorod/2022/10/15/71738945
10:15
TIL that the Kashmiri put baking soda in their tea.
Word of the day: a crocodile (a procession of people)
> Sometimes the kids from the slap-up boys' schools in Eastbourne used to be led round in crocodiles to hand out fags and peppermint creams to the 'wounded Tommies', as they called us.
10:39
The Washington Times writes that Iran may supply Russia with rockets that have a range of up to 300 km.
 
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12:21
Mar 29 at 15:51, by M.A.R.
@Mitch see, everything is haram for a reason!
12:39
The police is running after a young man in the yard of high-rise, trying to issue a draft notice twitter.com/adagamov/status/1581617163986771968
12:51
@M.A.R. That's why I think that this will go on, and on, and on for years.
Russia has oil and gas, and will outrource what it needs.
13:31
> Watcharapong Hongjamrassilp
Lol
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@CowperKettle Why are you reading the Washington Times?
#Worldle #268 1/6 (100%)
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#Worldle #268 1/6 (100%)
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Didn't guess the flag. Oh well ...
@CGCampbell Genitive means possessive. In English, that’s usually just add ’s to a name (except when it’s just alone), but in other languages, the changes to a word to form the genitive/possessive can be more elaborate. In Icelandic, there are a few different forms for names, and they have corresponding (different) forms for the genitive. Since there isn’t one “universal” (ish) form for genitives like English has with ’s, if the form of a name isn’t properly formed, there isn’t a corresponding genitive form, which causes a problem with the formation of the patronymic system. — KRyan yesterday
@Robusto what are these stars? Worldle has changed?
@M.A.R. Bonus rounds.
Pick the neighboring countries for one star, capital for two, and flag for three.
Huh.
@Robusto No, I only saw a mention of it
13:43
Well, identifying Botswana and Angola may incite riots so Worldle is naturally blocked.
Hell, sometimes Google has been blocked too.
Sheesh.
Though never for more than half a day during the recent riots.
@M.A.R. Did you try the Tor Browser?
It works here.
Nothing works (consistently) because they have done some SSL thing that slows all VPNs to a halt
It's much more strict than the average censorship mechanisms
Sometimes Tor does not work, but when I change the "chain of bridges" (I'm not sure it's called that in English), it works.
There are "connections" settings in the Tor, and if you play with them a little, it starts working.
13:45
And news gets out anyway. There's some rumors that intelligence agents stormed a school and beat up young girls.
And the recent waves of censorship and riots are due to that.
@CowperKettle I tried Tor several years ago, haven't since. It was painfully slow then
Thus far, Tor has not been necessary often, because VPNs somehow start working after being blocked. The Russian governmetn is not very diligent.
@M.A.R. Ah!
And painfully slow is PAINfully slow with Iranian internet speeds. I'm talking several kb/s speed.
🌎 Oct 16, 2022 🌍
🔥 46 | Avg. Guesses: 5.84
🟧🟧🟧🟩 = 4

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@M.A.R. There was a news in the morning that some major prison was burning and being stormed.
Haven't heard that one, but I don't really keep track. Further pieces of news won't change my mind about what's going on, so I don't bother much
13:50
@M.A.R. Asserting their manhood by beating up defenseless girls. How masculine.
It's not about that. I don't even know what it's about. Do they really think these kids are foreign agents? I have no idea. Nothing in their ideology justifies this barbarism
@M.A.R. I'm being ironical.
Wordle 484 3/6

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Hundreds of university students are being anonymously treated for their wounds in hospitals. I dunno if they genuinely think all these people are CIA agents or what
They think that "they have been brainwashed by Washington"
"The Western propaganda seeks to dismantle our country by invading the youth's minds"
Yes, because that's what CIA agents attend to first: brainwashing the minds of young girls, because that's where the power is.
13:55
The Dulles' plan or the Dulles Doctrine (Russian: План Даллеса or Доктрина Даллеса) is the central document of a conspiracy theory, according to which the CIA chief Allen Dulles had developed a plan for the United States to destroy the Soviet Union during the Cold War by secretly corrupting the cultural heritage and moral values of the Soviet nation. The plan was first published in Russia shortly after the dissolution of the USSR and was often quoted by prominent Russian politicians, journalists, and writers. The text originates from a work of fiction, a 1971 novel The Eternal Call (Russian: Вечный...
People here believe that there's a Dulles Plan to corrupt the USSR, and subsequently Russia.
@CowperKettle The official story is "these are a bunch of emotional youngsters", the ones that are not foreign agents. Just dismissive. But you can't ask them why it should necessary to beat up and kill emotional youngsters. Just gotta drop your head and nod resentfully.
Oh well. Can't wait for them to die off.
@CowperKettle Well, the conspiracy theories in the US are no less laughable, and probably more so.
Won't fix anything, but dead thugs are infinitely more peaceful.
@CowperKettle well, at least they call it a name to make it sound smart
And "color revolutions" are orchestrated by Washington to turn us all into a mindless consumer societies subservient to the Golden Billion (the top layer of Western people who will use our resources)
The golden billion (Russian: золотой миллиард, tr. zolotoy milliard) is a conspiracy theory that indefinite (undefined) elites pull strings to amass wealth and destroy regular people’s lives. It is popular in the Russian-speaking world. == Explanation == According to Sergey Kara-Murza, the golden billion (population of developed countries) consumes the lion's share of all resources on the planet. If at least half of the global population begins to consume resources to the same extent, these resources wouldn't be sufficient. This is partly based on the ideas of Thomas Malthus, in that emphasis...
@CowperKettle yeah that's popular here too, because we can't do our own homework
14:05
> For one thing, “very” is a fraud, masquerading as a strengthener when it merely wheedles and pleads. To call someone “brilliant” is to make a bold assertion; to call someone “very brilliant” attempts to persuade others of something one appears not to truly believe. Moreover, it’s a dull adverb and encourages duller adjectives. What, after all, is “very hungry” compared with “ravenous”? What’s “very sad” up against “despondent”? Who’d want to be “very strong” when you might be “herculean”?
@CowperKettle Is that a reliable publication?
> Inside Hunter Biden’s cash ties to communist China’s ‘political warfare’ machine
The first heading I see.
No, it's a right-wing propaganda machine. Like the New York Post and Faux News.
I figured.
So I shouldn't be surprised if they made up those Iranian rockets.
And you shouldn't be surprised if they didn't. Iran is already supplying Russia with drones.
@user4539917 Very true. Data is plural, though, if you want to write nicely.
I could edit it for you.
14:13
It's a quotation, so it should stand as is.
@Robusto Even so, that title means little to me.
@Robusto A good journalist corrects soloecisms in quotations.
It is not evidence in a lawsuit.
Nor a source of linguistic research into that specific phaenomenon.
@Cerberus We are of two minds about that.
I have three.
@Robusto This is actually standing practice.
More recently violated by some who are lured astray by some superficial idea that exact renderings somehow make them more true or something.
Jan 16, 2021 at 17:57, by tchrist
@Robusto You want your Times from New York and your Post from Washington, never the other way around.
14:17
Yeah I figured the name was not right.
@Cerberus The trouble comes when some believe that quotes can be improved in other ways, meaning embellished.
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Q: Is there a term that means "oft-used misquotation"?

RobustoThere are some quotations that people always seem to get wrong: Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him well. [Real quote from Hamlet: "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio."] I have nothing to offer but blood, sweat and tears. [Real quote from Churchill: "I have nothing to offer but blood, toi...

@Robusto This is usually simply done by taking them out of context and adding two quotations together with text removed in between.
Correcting spelling and syntax is not needed to that end, nor does it work well.
14:34
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No flag either.
🌎 Oct 16, 2022 🌍
🔥 2 | Avg. Guesses: 7.12
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15:06
La palabra del día #283 3/6

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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #280 3/6

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“The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.” – Will Rogers
@Cerberus Yes, it's not a reliable paper
 
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20:57
2
Q: When was the last time that the Cabinet Secretary was a Privy Counsellor?

tellSimon Case, the British Cabinet Secretary (most senior civil servant) was appointed to the Privy Council on 13 September 2022. Has it ever happened before that a serving cabinet secretary was a member of the privy council? If so, when was the last time?

strained snorting
"Privy counselor"
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