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SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
12:14 AM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive body detected, offensive title detected (101): (potentially offensive title -- see MS for details)‭ by the_fens‭ on english.SE
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
12:43 AM
 
 
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Vikas
Vikas
1:56 AM
@Cerberus I couldn't. You probably had some clue about it?
 
tchrist
tchrist
2:27 AM
This snowstorm is just terrible here.
 
Vikas
Vikas
2:45 AM
We have poor atmosphere here. Not so good for breathing outdoors. Probably due to work in fields.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
3:33 AM
@Vikas I just considered my options, and this seemed high in my list.
But I could just as well have picked five other places.
 
 
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Faheem Mitha
Faheem Mitha
6:46 AM
I don't often post links here, but see pionline.com/esg/…
Proof that international capitalism is run by lunatics. At least this one is being honest. Mostly they're not.
And it's true that international capitalists don't need to worry about a world on fire. They'll find new ways to profit from it. That's what capitalism does.
 
 
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Vikas
Vikas
9:24 AM
I saw a relevant promoted post came in font of me.
Quora/Google already knew I was doing research about this topic.
But I don't believe them comparing their brand with 'competitor' brands. That is purely marketing.
However the performance drop logic given by them is quite true.
 
 
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tchrist
tchrist
11:36 AM
Those figures are in inches of snow that have fallen so far.
Northwest of me near the Wyoming border, they got 4 feet, not inches.
All night long it sounded like cannonballs were falling on my house as huge piles of wet snow fell off the trees and hit my roof.
 
tchrist
tchrist
11:50 AM
It has only gotten down to 30 degrees here. It may get over 40 later today, then cold again overnight. The snow should stop by noon, so 6 hours from now.
I have been keeping the tropical birds fed.
Orioles, hummingbirds; one tanager.
The cats have been going out and hiding under the birdfeeders. But against the white snow they are too easy to see.
The robins are eating the grape jelly I put out for the orioles and tanagers. One really big woodpecker was trying to drink the hummingbird nectar.
People are shocked to see hummingbirds in the snow. But they are not butterflies. Hummingbirds are warm-blooded creatures. They just shed heat superfast because of the square-cube law relating surface area to volume.
The opposite of why giant bison can conserve heat.
These are wild birds whom I'm feeding, not captives.
Western tanager
The western tanager (Piranga ludoviciana), is a medium-sized American songbird. Formerly placed in the tanager family (Thraupidae), other members of its genus and it are classified in the cardinal family (Cardinalidae). The species's plumage and vocalizations are similar to other members of the cardinal family. == Taxonomy == The western tanager was illustrated and formally described by American ornithologist Alexander Wilson in 1811 under the binomial name Tanagra ludoviciana from a specimen collected on the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1803-1806). The type locality is Kamiah, Idaho. The specific...
It is. Very charismatic.
They moved its entire genus to join the cardinal family.
But the common names were never changed.
Bullock's oriole
Bullock's oriole (Icterus bullockii) is a small New World blackbird. At one time, this species and the Baltimore oriole were considered to be a single species, the northern oriole. This bird is named after William Bullock, an English amateur naturalist. == Description == Bullock's orioles are sexually dimorphic, with males being more brightly colored than females. In addition, adult males tend to be slightly larger and heavier than females. Measurements: Length: 6.7-7.5 in (17-19 cm) Weight: 1.0-1.5 oz (29-43 g) Wingspan: 12.2 in (31 cm)Adults have a pointed bill with a straight culmen. In adult...
Those are also here eating now.
The colors stand out in the snow.
That was a hummingbird last night when it was far too dark to see already.
@CowperKettle Oh good for you! I like European goldfinches.
That was an oriole last night.
That's from the upstairs deck this morning.
They do.
That's looking out back this morning.
You'd think!!
 
Robusto
Robusto
12:18 PM
@tchrist Pretty, but for a different season.
 
Vikas
Vikas
Sky on west
Sky on east
It's about to rain and maybe dusty storm before.
Good
But I really need it
Sure it will ruin my evening walk, but rain is more important
 
tchrist
tchrist
@CowperKettle Many, many, many birds I "spot" by their song before I see them. I might never see them, but I guarantee they're there.
 
Robusto
Robusto
@tchrist Is a late-spring snowstorm fatal to many of these birds?
 
tchrist
tchrist
Only if they can't eat, as always.
But people had their hummingbird feeders out already. They just have to remember to keep them snowfree.
I don't know that many people know (how) to feed the orioles, though.
The orioles will drink hummingbird nectar if they can find it. They just prefer grape jelly, even over mealworms.
The tanagers will eat suet.
Yesterday I also had orioles and robins eating suet!!
 
Robusto
Robusto
Birds' metabolisms are so high, they need to eat much and often.
 
tchrist
tchrist
12:28 PM
A hummingbird who goes to sleep on an empty stomach never wakes up.
 
Robusto
Robusto
I used to put up seed/suet blocks in my Massachusetts yard.
 
tchrist
tchrist
I have lots of those out right now. And "peanut suet pellets".
Haven't seen any woodpeckers yet this morning, nor the little tiny birds that aren't hummers: bushtits, chickadees, nuthatches.
Those all eat suet.
I haven't seen bushtits eat anything but suet, but the others will eat sunflower seeds too.
Bushtits are the cutest little things you'll never have seen east of the Rockies.
They come in a blur, in flittering swarms.
They are maybe a third the size of a chickadee.
See how many can fit on a standard-sized suet feeder!?
They have no song because they're communal not territorial, and share child care etc. They of course have a voice, but it is not a song. It's low chatter amongst themselves.
Just like waxwings in this regard.
 
jlliagre
jlliagre
#Worldle #120 X/6 (97%)
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https://worldle.teuteuf.fr
Not me! I didn't even know it was a country.
 
tchrist
tchrist
Shelephant already.
"She'll've aunt".
Or have funt.
A shelephant is a font for a big woman.
 
Robusto
Robusto
1:04 PM
@tchrist That's the kind of feeder I put up in my maples back in MA.
#Worldle #120 2/6 (100%)
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https://worldle.teuteuf.fr
@Cerberus Yo.
I hate the ones that don't have distinctive shapes.
Wordle 336 5/6

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Cerberus
Cerberus
@Robusto Very quick!
 
Robusto
Robusto
Once I knew the general location I had a choice between two countries. Luckily I picked right.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Good.
 
Robusto
Robusto
@Cerberus But you must have studied the area before.
First try is as good as it gets!
And then there's this:
Wordle (ES) #135 X/6

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https://wordle.danielfrg.com/
Too many possibilities.
 
 
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Vikas
Vikas
2:32 PM
@CowperKettle It didn't rain. The clouds went away. But the weather wasn't very irritating today. I walked in cross wind.
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
3:08 PM
@Vikas when I take a picture like that it's because my finger is blocking the camera
 
Vikas
Vikas
3:38 PM
@M.A.R. Exactly :P I also doubted if my finger did that. So I again took this photo to confirm:
 
tchrist
tchrist
@Robusto I know you think "you've heard it all" with regard to this piece, but I tell you that if you haven't heard this Japanese lady's jazz take you haven't heard anything yet. You're going to get mind blown. It even comes with a transcription that will do the same.
She's just so happy!
It's kind of off beat. But that's the point.
 
 
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tchrist
tchrist
5:43 PM
That's awful.
> The Root of Haiti’s Misery:Reparations to Enslavers
(And it's not bisyllabic Hatey. It's trisyllabic ah-ee-TEE.)
Too hard for the English mouth, that.
 
 
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Robusto
Robusto
8:24 PM
@tchrist Nice.
I've always wondered why they call that piece a "canon" ... it's actually a chaconne.
Chaconne
A chaconne (; French: [ʃakɔn]; Spanish: chacona; Italian: ciaccona, pronounced [tʃakˈkoːna]; earlier English: chacony) is a type of musical composition often used as a vehicle for variation on a repeated short harmonic progression, often involving a fairly short repetitive bass-line (ground bass) which offers a compositional outline for variation, decoration, figuration and melodic invention. In this it closely resembles the passacaglia. It originates and was particularly popular in the Baroque era; a large number of Chaconnes exist from the 17th- and 18th- centuries. The ground bass, if there...
Or a passacaglia.
 
Robusto
Robusto
8:48 PM
 
Robusto
Robusto
8:58 PM
> We sort of assume that the Swedes went from, sort of, Vikings and then they became the IKEA people, and the bit in between is sort of a giant question mark.
That pithy remark aptly describes the scant kind of knowledge most people have about any nation's history, including their own.
@tchrist: BTW, Hiromi Uehara is a well-known prodigy. When Chick Corea heard her he immediately invited her to play with him. Two very inventive minds working together. Their musical conversations are legendary.
She definitely embodies the joy of music.
I linked one of their dialogues a couple of years ago. But link rot spoiled it.
Apr 14, 2020 at 21:03, by Robusto
Go ahead, run, you can't hide. 上原ひろみ will chase you down.
 
Robusto
Robusto
9:32 PM
Seriously, you are watching musical lovemaking on stage.
 
Robusto
Robusto
9:42 PM
Incidentally, the kanji for her given name, Hiromi, are 広美. The first character meaning great or wide or spacious and the second meaning beauty. Listening to her play, you have to acknowledge that she was aptly named.
 
 
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jlliagre
jlliagre
11:26 PM
Wordle (ES) #135 4/6

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https://wordle.danielfrg.com/
 

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