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1:51 AM

@M.A.R. Wow, somebody is really afraid of being unassed out of their palaces in Iran, since they introduce such silly filters.

In the northern part of their range snapping turtles do not breathe for more than six months because ice covers their hibernating site. These turtles can get oxygen by pushing their head out of the mud and allowing gas exchange to take place through the membranes of their mouth and throat. This is known as extrapulmonary respiration.

Common snapping turtle

The common snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina) is a species of large freshwater turtle in the family Chelydridae. Its natural range extends from southeastern Canada, southwest to the edge of the Rocky Mountains, as far east as Nova Scotia and Florida. The three species of Chelydra and the larger alligator snapping turtles (genus Macrochelys) are the only extant chelydrids, a family now restricted to the Americas. The common snapping turtle, as its name implies, is the most widespread.The common snapping turtle is noted for its combative disposition when out of the water with its powerful beak...

livescience.com/64215-earth-turtle-photo.html

I pirated a movie yesterday… I gave it 3.14 stars.

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Accent Expert Breaks Down Tongue Twisters in Different Accents | WIRED

3:23 AM

@Mitch not SE, duh. My messages sometimes never get sent, timeout no matter what, until I edit a word or two. A while ago it happened with I*rael

@Mitch what does that mean?

tchrist

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HippoSawrUs

4:22 AM

@tchrist I do think bedtime storytelling is still the key to that, and not having a cell phone till you're 13. But the only way I've been able to get a child to read now is to promise her an iPhone, really.

HippoSawrUs

4:33 AM

@tchrist My godson (20) will say "What's hurtin' you?" to his little sisters (9 and 5), 3 or 4 times in a row, so I thought he really wanted to get to the root of their problem, hahaha. So I asked him what he meant by that today, if he was telling them to hush, and he said: "OMG, they are fine! Ain't nothin' botherin' them." I see now, LOL, noted.

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Xanne

7:07 AM

Wordle 471 4/6

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8:27 AM

Belgorod, a nuclear weapon-equipped sub, has left its port

Sixteen year-old schoolgirl in Kazan detained for trying to torch a military draft station

She threw two Molotov cocktails, but missed both times, and only burned a patch of grass.

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9:52 AM

In Yekaterinburg, a man hacked a car's back window with an ax for sporting the Z symbol

The comments section about this news e1.ru/text/incidents/2022/10/03/71703242/comments

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11:08 AM

#Worldle #255 3/6 (100%)
🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜➡️
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟨⬆️
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉
https://worldle.teuteuf.fr

🌎 Oct 3, 2022 🌍
🔥 33 | Avg. Guesses: 6.1
🟧🟥🟥🟥🟩 = 5

#globle

Wordle 471 4/6

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@CowperKettle "Hmm, people are divided into two camps ---- on Zombie and Adequate!! from"

From what?! I'm on the edge of my seat here!

Literally

@M.A.R. Google Translate translated the Russian preposition na as "on", although in this case, it means "into"

A minor mistake.

Probably because the sentence is split by these dashes

So the popular sentiment is anti-war, or only in Yekaterinburg?

@M.A.R. It's hard to tell, because comments are infested by bots from both camps.

But I have the feeling that many here are against the Special Operation, indeed.

The word "adequate" has the ending nykh, which is a plural ending, because in Russian, adjectives can have plural and singular endings. Thus it means "adequate people"

LOL, it translated gruzd (milk mushroom) as "loader"

It's a Russian saying "if you have called yourself a milk mushroom, then get into the basket"

Назвался груздем - полезай в кузов

12:21 PM

Yeah, don't be a free milk mushroom, serve

@CowperKettle does it have to do with psilocybin?

I love that saying BTW

12:57 PM

@M.A.R. kind of a thing going around about what's happening there

برای زن، زندگی، آزادی
برای آزادی

@M.A.R. Don't buy the cow if you can get your milk mushrooms for free

si-LV-er_and_b-LA-ck

Did you check out discord yet @Mitch?

I was looking for linguistics also, but only found a bunch of philosophy channels with linguistics buried deep in the psychology channels.

tldr; too many rabbit holes

1:13 PM

@Mitch oh these make sense, that one doesn't make much sense to me. "For unrepeatable"? "For the unrepeated"?

Gheyr-e tekrari is an adjective. Azadi is a noun. "For freedom" makes sense, not so much "for unrepeatable"

And it's not the sort of modifier that would, what do they call it, fuse with the head, like "the poor"

@si-LV-er_and_b-LA-ck what are you doing looking for linguistics chats anyway?

To learn some linguistics one must partake of the lonesome if very occasionally pleasant action of opening a relevant book

And if it's to get to know them, why on Earth would you want to get to know linguistics?!

You're much better off getting to know pharmacists

sips an aqueous solution of tannins and polyphenols

si-LV-er_and_b-LA-ck

Just curious, I guess :-)

1:38 PM

@M.A.R. No, no, it's all in the context of normal mushroom hunting ))

2:11 PM

@Mitch Nice poem

@CowperKettle I'm more interested in mushroom hushing. The way they cavort around at night, it keeps me awake.

Make Russia Soviet Again

@si-LV-er_and_b-LA-ck I only looked at the math link. it looked well populated for algebraic topology and that area of math. Not my area so I'd have difficulty saying anything coherent there.

@si-LV-er_and_b-LA-ck But yeah that's the whole difficulty is choosing from the huge menu, where there might be exactly what you're looking for or there may be a lot of unsatisfying nearby things. There's never a signpost that says "Don't bother it doesn't exist" -or- "Exactly what you want totally exists, but only lasting for a couple of years ago in a technology that doesn't exist and you'd have to have been there at its inception to know about it (or haphazardly fall across it).

ie looking for things is futile

@M.A.R. Look man it's poetry

2:28 PM

@Mitch Two pangrams so far today in Spelling Bee. Still working at it.

jlliagre

2:42 PM

#Worldle #255 X/6 (95%)
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🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜➡️
🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜↖️
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟨↖️
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟨➡️
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟨⬆️
https://worldle.teuteuf.fr

I started by looking for some tiny island...

🌎 Oct 3, 2022 🌍
🔥 2 | Avg. Guesses: 7
🟥🟥🟩 = 3

#globle

Wordle 471 5/6

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@jlliagre Size can be misleading. I think @Cerb pointed that out a while back. When Russia and Martinique are rendered at roughly the same size, it's one more thing you have to fight.

Cerberus

#Worldle #255 1/6 (100%)
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https://worldle.teuteuf.fr

Yeah, this island is pretty tiny.

My problem was that there are multiple countries that "sorta look like that" ...

No utterly distinctive features.

Cerberus

I don't know, it looked familiar.

3:05 PM

It was not at all the shape I had in my head for that country

in my head there were none of the 'arms' that you see on the west

Dec 19, 2015 at 15:28, by Mitch

Oh. I've said too much.

@M.A.R. there are at this point 3 translations, and all seem to be adding more into it than is there.

But the chant at the end works well (زن، زندگی، آزادی)

4:06 PM

Ukrainians are pushing south along the river, covered some 20 km over the last day or two

Seem to have taken Havrilivka today google.com/maps/place/…

Havrilivka is the birthplace of this guy, strangely:

Eduard von Falz-Fein

Baron Eduard Oleg Alexandrowitsch von Falz-Fein (14 September 1912 – 17 November 2018) was a Russian-born Liechtensteiner businessman, journalist, and sportsman. He served as a "sports diplomat" who initiated the Olympic movement in Liechtenstein and was vice president of the Liechtenstein Olympic Committee in the mid-1930s. His Father Alexander Eduardovich is an agronomist, brother of the founder of the Askania-Nova biosphere reserve, Friedrich von Falz-Fein, mother Vera Nikolaevna is from a family of generals and admirals of the Russian fleet Yepanchins. == Biography == Von Falz-Fein was born...

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Q: Looking for help creating a pun

9:08 PM

I am not very knowledgeable in this area, but I think I am looking for help in creating a pun. Maybe a homophonic pun? The goal is to take two unrelated words and combine them in an ironic way. Together they will make a title/name of a location/building. Some examples I found used by restaurants:...

puns

Sorry, but that ain't what we do here. Well, except for @Mitch and his tidal wave of Dad jokes. ;)

9:33 PM

The Kremlin, after trumpeting annexation, admits it doesn’t know where the borders are

> A pun walks into a room and kills ten people.

Pun in, ten dead.

groans

look man I just copy paste them

Uh-huh.

> On the ground in eastern Ukraine, my colleague, Carlotta Gall, interviewed an American who commands a unit of international and Ukrainian volunteers. “The Russians have been retreating,” said the commander, Rob Roy, 26, who uses the code name Borys. “We broke their lines and have been pursuing them since.”

Roy said that many of the Russian conscripts were in poor shape.

“Lots of times they were wearing flip-flops, malnourished,” he said. “It does not scream of a well-mobilized army. My feeling is they don’t want to be here.”