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12:02 AM
I'm deleting them right now.
I think that's got them all.
 
@Robusto Never knew you were a RO.
 
If any genuine stars were up there, please let me know. But it looks like someone just spent all their stars and vanished.
@DannyuNDos Click the info button above the starboard for a complete list of room owners.
 
In future, make sure to leave 2 for investigation purposes
 
@lyxal Ah. Nobody said that the last two times this happened.
But thanks, we will.
 
nw. Another room got hit top so I kept a few messages there as evidence
 
12:10 AM
@lyxal Prolly the same culprit.
 
Probably so indeed
 
12:48 AM
@XanderHenderson Good! What way do you use to block the Javascript per site? I use Ublock Origin + Umatrix.
 
Oh, I don't allow javascript to run at all in my default browser.
For things which need javascript, I use a different browser entirely.
And only navigate to sites I trust.
 
Though I do have ublock installed for ads.
 
Ah, OK.
 
More trouble, eh? Awful lot of red and blue flags.
 
12:53 AM
@tchrist The star spammer is back.
I've already made a report and pinged Bella.
 
@MichaelRybkin Did you reach a conclusion?
 
@XanderHenderson Thanks. There were four "blue" flags when I appeared, the "Offensive" ones that 10k users see. But I couldn't find them in our recent-flags log, so I dunno.
@Robusto Because we didn't immediately understand what signal that staff need to find these malefactors.
Oh now I remember, the recent-flags log isn't sorted like you think it is.
 
1:22 AM
@Robusto Yes, I know :)
 
1:46 AM
@alphabet I came across the verb "to quarterback" in this article
> The video belongs to an enduring social media genre quarterbacked largely by muscular fellows who claim that a meat-heavy diet is the key to mental and physical well-being.
My mother arrived from St Pete, and I'm feeling anxiety
 
Hmm why is that?
Are you worried for her? Is she difficult?
 
@CowperKettle My mother? Let me tell you about my mother
 
2:06 AM
@Cerberus Whiskey stones are a thing
 
@Criggie Are they like the stone cubes to put in the freezer to add to drinks?
Does whiskey taste better cooled?
 
Yeah - stone, or sometimes various inert metals, or sometimes glass. Anything with thermal mass that won't affect the taste
I'm no connoisseur generally but the warmer a drink, the stronger the flavours
so frosty cold beer is nice, warm beer is pungent
whiskey is just concentrated beer :)
 
@Criggie They are! And I even have a few sets.
Because I live in Arizona, and room temperature is 80--85 degrees freedom in the summer.
 
yeah that sounds no fun at all.
Arizona is all cactus and sage brush, no ?
 
@Criggie It's mostly down to me not wanting to spend the money on the AC.
@Criggie Where I live, it is sage. The cactus are at lower elevation.
 
2:14 AM
All I know about Arizona is from backgrounds of Ian Maccullom's videos.
 
@Criggie I don't even know who that is.
 
Its like saying "I know about the ocean" because I watched Spongebob Squarepants
and the ocean is in the background
 
@Criggie Does glass have enough thermal capacity (that's what we called it in school)?
 
@Cerberus Based on experience, it doesn't cool like ice. But that is fine---I don't want it that cold.
 
How cold do you want it?
 
2:18 AM
yes. I have a fairly thick-walled glass that sometimes I put in the freezer overnight. It works well to cool a drink.
 
In Celsius haha.
 
@Cerberus 65--70 degrees freedom.
 
@Criggie Oh that is kind of smart.
 
single digits degrees C is fine
 
But your hands will be cold?
 
2:19 AM
@Criggie I keep about six pint glasses in the freezer for beer.
 
If its a hot day, that's good
 
@Criggie Yeah I agree depending on the beverage.
 
If you're having a chilled drink on a cold day, perhaps you're not thinking very well.
 
@XanderHenderson Ohh very warm.
 
@Cerberus For whiskey? Yes. It is not meant to be cold.
 
2:20 AM
@Criggie No beer for you on a cold day?
 
No not really - I'd have a mulled wine.
 
@XanderHenderson Right, I have never drunk it cold.
 
@Criggie Hot cocoa with a shot of bourbon.
 
I don't know why I enjoy some drinks at only certain temperatures.
 
cos cold coffee is awful ?
but drinking plain warm water is also awful
 
2:21 AM
And why is white wine drunk cold, a beverage with fairly little flavour, while red is drunk at room temperature?
@Criggie Yeah but I wonder why!
 
wine? that's another kettle of weirdness
I blame the French for anything to do with wine
 
I try to vary my diet by consuming both cold milk and warm milk.
 
what, no chilled milk? ice cream
what, no curdled milk? yoghourt
what, no aged milk? cheese
damnit I'm hungry now. BBS
 
Ice cream contains many dangerous non-milk ingredients
I assume you're already familiar with the dangers of NMFs, or Non-Milk Foods
 
Like ice.
 
2:29 AM
If you drink water, your brain will respond as though you're consuming milk from a neglectful mother who failed to include the necessary nutrients in your beverage.
This causes invisible psychological trauma.
Which causes syphilis.
Simple.
 
That makes sense phonologically.
 
2:43 AM
Remove the "phono" and you'll have it right.
 
you need a phono-preamp then, boost the signal not remove it.
 
@alphabet You're so strict on my use of words.
@Criggie Is that something which phones have inside?
 
3:02 AM
> Lomikovska said she had survived the second world war. “I had to go through this war too, and in the end, I am left with nothing,” she said. “That war wasn’t like this one. I saw that war. Not a single house burned down. But now, everything is on fire,” she said to her rescuer.
Whoa.
 
Word of the day: pibroch -- 1719, from Gaelic piobaireachd, literally "piper's art," from piobair "a piper" (from piob "pipe," an English loan word; see pipe (n. 1)) + -achd, suffix denoting function.
 
Poor woman.
I hope she can move to a nice place.
 
@alphabet My grandma gave birth to my maternal uncle in a bomb shell hole right after a bombing raid
 
Lovely décor.
 
3:20 AM
then someone has to bring a screaming baby into it and lower the tone even further sigh
 
Babies. Less my thing.
 
@Cerberus Its a thing you might have between a record player (or phonograph) and an amplifier to pre-amplify the signal. Some turntables have preamps in them, some amplifiiers have dedicated ports for phono-in so they have two amps in series on that port.
 
I see.
 
(insert) Yo dawg I hear you like amps so I put an amp in your amp
 
Yeah that's a lot of amplification.
 
3:23 AM
you know it doesn't have to be electrical?
One can get the same in pill form
AMPhetamines
 
Wholesome.
 
well - back in ww2 such things were even standard-issue to soldiers.
Benzedrine etc, not preamps for their turntables
(imagines solder crawling through mud with a phonograph on his back)
OH WHERE CAN I PLUG THIS IN ?!
 
They had electric equipment with them in WWII.
My father has one of those field phones.
 
totally, but unlikely to be a record player
 
We used them to electrocute ourselves as children.
The power generation was built into the phone.
But I bet they also had separate hand-driven power generators.
 
3:27 AM
Oh yeah the generator crank
 
Yes.
 
Those were to generate the Ring noise
and normal use was sound powered
 
Yes, it rang!
 
so you just talked and that was all the energy needed to make the other speaker work
 
Oh, is sound really powerful enough for that?
 
3:28 AM
yeo
 
At what distance?
 
its just the same as two tin cans and string, totally sound powered.
 
I was thinking of that.
But how far can it go?
 
Not sure - enough for the length of a ship, or an artillery battery dispersion. They'd need powered phones to talk further than a mile or so
 
Right.
 
3:30 AM
Or motorcycle couriers carrying a dispatch
 
I prefer phone.
Also because cycling doesn't work on rough terrain.
 
Recently I learned that in WW1 there were even temporary narrow-gauge railway lines laid out toward the trenches.
They worked better than roads which got mucky. They used little steam engines or horses for doing the pulling.
Less so in WW2 because it was a more mobile war
 
3:50 AM
Hmm.
They can lay tracks fast.
I bet they still lay temporary tracks to battlefields?
 
4:04 AM
> - Hey mom, I'm going to live by myself
- Great!
- Your bags are in the driveway
@Criggie There was a specialized railroad from the shore to the frontlines built by the European forces in Crimea during the Crimean war
The Grand Crimean Central Railway was a military railway built in 1855 during the Crimean War by the United Kingdom. Its purpose was to supply ammunition and provisions to Allied soldiers engaged in the Siege of Sevastopol who were stationed on a plateau between Balaklava and Sevastopol. It also carried the world's first hospital train. The railway was built at cost and without any contract by Peto, Brassey and Betts, a partnership of English railway contractors led by Samuel Morton Peto. Within three weeks of the arrival of the fleet carrying materials and men the railway had started to run...
 
4:21 AM
yep same kind of thing
I can imagine Indiana Jones barreling along these things in a mine cart.
Which is the same basic technology.
 
4:52 AM
 
WVO Quine was definitely male.
 
> It was McCormick's team that pinpointed volcanic eruptions in Iceland in 536, 540, and again in 547 as the cause of the darkness. Economic activity all but stopped from 540 to 640 AD. Then it started up again. That's how long it took the world to get back on its feet. okdoomer.io/the-worst-time-to-be-alive
 
5:11 AM
They say CHOCOLaTe is very harmful because of its chemical structure.
 
> Summer temperatures in 536 fell by as much as 2.5 °C (4.5 °F) below normal in Europe. The lingering impact of the volcanic winter of 536 was augmented in 539–540, when another volcanic eruption caused summer temperatures to decline as much as 2.7 °C (4.9 °F) below normal in Europe.[2] There is evidence of still another volcanic eruption in 547 which would have extended the cool period.

The volcanic eruptions caused crop failures, and were accompanied by the Plague of Justinian, famine, and millions of deaths and initiated the Late Antique Little Ice Age, which lasted from 536 to 560.
Economic activity all but stopped from 540 to 640 AD. → This sounds like an exaggeration.
Lots of things happened in those years. Bread was still sold in shops.
An example of an economic activity.
 
Yes
And Mohammed still led his caravans along the Silk Way
> he financial security Muhammad enjoyed from Khadija, his wealthy wife, gave him plenty of free time to spend in solitude in the cave of Hira.[75][76] According to Islamic tradition, one day in 610 CE, when he was 40 years old, the angel Gabriel appeared to him during his visit to the cave.
So there was some financial security in 610
> Khadija did not travel with her trade caravans; instead, she employed others to trade on her behalf for a commission. In 595 Khadija needed a co-worker for a transaction in Syria. She hired Muhammad ibn Abdullah, then 25 years old, for the trade in Syria, sending word that she would pay to double her usual commission.[
 
6:03 AM
 
 
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7:31 AM
> Renewable energy facilities generated about 75.9 billion kWh of electricity in Germany in the first three months of 2024 (up by 9% y/y), covering about 56% of power consumption in the country, according to preliminary estimates.
 
8:05 AM
> Considering that both insulin mRNA and insulin were detected in the central nervous system (CNS), it is now known that this hormone is also synthesized in several brain regions, including the hypothalamus, hippocampus, cerebral and cerebellar cortex, and olfactory bulb. mdpi.com/1422-0067/24/7/6586
The brain produces insulin.
 
8:17 AM
Star spam again, @XanderHenderson
 
 
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10:02 AM
Filaggrin (filament aggregating protein) is a filament-associated protein that binds to keratin fibers in epithelial cells. Ten to twelve filaggrin units are post-translationally hydrolyzed from a large profilaggrin precursor protein during terminal differentiation of epidermal cells. In humans, profilaggrin is encoded by the FLG gene, which is part of the S100 fused-type protein (SFTP) family within the epidermal differentiation complex on chromosome 1q21. In cetaceans and sirenians, the FLG family has lost its function, with the curious exception of manatees in the latter clade: manatees still...
Associated with asmtha and keratoconus and eczema. My grandma had asthma, I have keratoconus and eczema. Hm.
 
10:16 AM
@Cerberus On the listening problem I had earlier? Not really.
 
The transcript says at 15:24 "an ENT" title
 
 
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11:42 AM
My coffee tastes like dirt.
It was ground before I made it.
 
12:10 PM
> Either this wallpaper goes or I do.
 
12:39 PM
More star spamming?
 
Yup, in many other chatrooms also.
 
Destellation completed.
 
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 ::clap clap clap:: 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
 
12:56 PM
"Write a wise saying and your name will live forever." ---Anonymous
apparently I missed a star party
 
@DannyuNDos chocolate, certainly what you and I call chocolate, is made up of dozens of compounds at least.
The sugary product has a very high caloric content, that's why it's harmful.
Theobromine and other alkaloids in Theobroma cacao are not particularly toxic, but the dose makes the poison
 
1:20 PM
@M.A.R. I have a question. Why people usually say like "don't eat that product/food, it just contains sugar even if it contains healthy content". I mean suppose a guy like me who hardly eats any sugar stuff daily. And then I ask someone that I want to eat a new food/product daily which contains some sugar in it. Then they advise me to not to eat it. Why is it that? I have read that sugar doesn't cause diabetese. Or is there any other reason? Why would a limited amount of sugar hurt someone?
 
1:30 PM
@Vikas There isn't simple casuation at work here. "Consuming x amounts of sugar will lead to diabetes". There's no x here, and studies aren't designed in a way to determine x. What happens instead is we see so many patterns about sugar and diabetes that we theorize mechanisms of it happening. I can tell you what I know, and it's gonna be lifestyle recommendations that have been shown to work. They're not the only valid lifestyle and food choices, so it's important to remember that.
First, about diabetes. It's multifactorial. Genes play a huge role. But as in every illness, there are modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors. What you eat and how you live are not even the most important things that affect your chances of getting diabetes, but they're what you can change, and the rest you have to make your peace with.
 
In every healthy diet, with the exception of keto and related diets, a bit more than half of all your calories will be from carbohydrates (carbs). Carbs have a glycemic index (GI). It's a number from 0 to 100, 100 belonging to glucose, of the relative increase in blood glucose two hours after eating a certain carb. If potatoes have a GI of 20, it means that two hours after eating potatoes, they'll increase your blood glucose to 20% of if you ate pure glucose.
A sudden rise in blood glucose, associated with high GI foods, is seen in people whose cells are becoming resistant to insulin. Simple carbs, like sugary food, fruit, most of the sweet stuff you know, have high GI. More complex carbs, beginning from starch to fibers, have lower GI.
That's why fibers are good for you: They take up space in your stomach, preventing you from eating more, and inducing hormonal responses related to satiety that are caused by the stretching of the stomach walls.
(Among other health benefits)
In type 2 diabetes, the type that appears later on in life and is linked in many different ways to eating a lot of sugary and fatty food, your cells have become very resistant to insulin. The body produces insulin, even in greater amounts than before, but this insulin cannot make the cells absorb the glucose from the blood. So all in all, sugary food -> insulin resistance -> diabetes.
But how much? As I said in the beginning, this is a mechanism we propose to explain what we observe. It stands to reason that less consumption of sugary food is less likely to induce insulin resistance. But it's too complex and it's affected by too many variables for a simple easy defined range. You can't say "if you eat 300 to 500 calories of high GI foods, you're safe, and it becomes unsafe more than that". That's just not how biology works.
So apples and oranges can be pretty sweet, and they have high GI to be sure, so why aren't they as reviled as, say, chocolate products?
The answer is three-fold: 1) Sweet products like candies are addictively appealing. A medium-sized apple is around 100 Cal. A medium-sized snack of sweetstuff is roughly 500 Cal. You don't hear anyone having 5 whole apples for a snack, but a couple of biscuits? Sure.
2) They are very nutritious, unlike the so-called "empty calorie" foods. Vitamins, fiber, other good stuff, and no fat, unlike, say, chocolate bars.
3) You already knew this, they consist of a lot of fructose which is half as sweet as glucose, and is "healthier".
However, too much fructose isn't good for your body either. Excess fructose will be delivered to the liver to enter the TCA cycle, instead of the normal fuel, which is glucose and especially fats, thus slowing fat metabolism. IOW, you can get fat by consuming too much fruit.
So if you don't have a cutoff point for consuming sugary food, how much soda should you drink? My advice is to keep it simple: Make sure your daily meals are intact, and eat a diverse range of foods to ensure you get the nutrients your body needs. If you count the calories for your meals and they add up to less than 1800, filling the gaps by indugling yourself in some sweets is not not okay.
@Vik
 
2:27 PM
I've heard also that, if you consume a lot of sugar, you essentially get accustomed to food tasting sweet, to the point that less sweet foods start tasting worse. Which is why seemingly every food in the US has added sugar.
Try finding a brand of sliced bread that doesn't have added sugar. It's surprisingly difficult, and the whole wheat "healthy" bread usually has even more.
 
 
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4:55 PM
@alphabet I dunno. From personal experience, if you remember how a food tastes, you'll crave it more. I don't think other foodstuff would taste worse. And every food in America has sugar because every other food in America has sugar.
 
Someone needs to invent "diet bread" that has Stevia instead.
 
 
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6:08 PM
@M.A.R. I don't know. I can vividly remember the taste of liver and I do -not- want to ever have that again.
@alphabet Whole wheat with aspartame.
Or something like Narcan for donuts.
 
 
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7:35 PM
Biblical Hebrew of the day: to cover one's feet, an euphemism
> At 1 Samuel 24:3, The Living Bible has "Saul went into the cave to go to the bathroom", using a contemporary North American euphemism where the original Hebrew (also a euphemism) literally translates as "to cover his feet". In the British edition of The Living Bible, this wording was changed to "to relieve himself"
Verb: cover one's feet (third-person singular simple present covers one's feet, present participle covering one's feet, simple past and past participle covered one's feet)
  1. (euphemistic, biblical) To lower one’s garment, especially to urinate or defecate.
  2. When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlor were locked, they said, Surely he covers his feet in his summer chamber. (Judges 3:24)
  3. And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where was a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet: and David and his men remained in the sides of the cave. (1 Samuel 24:3)
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Q: What does the phrase "to cover his feet" refer to in 1 Samuel 24:3?

collen ndhlovu1 Samuel 24:3 KJV 3 And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where was a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet: and David and his men remained in the sides of the cave. Its not clear what this phrase refers to since one translation seems to refer to it as relieving oneself. 1 Samuel ...

 
#WhenTaken #64 (01.05.2024)

I scored 895/1000 🎉

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2️⃣ 📍 335.0 metres - 🗓️ 14 yrs - ⚡ 173 / 200
3️⃣ 📍 1640 km - 🗓️ 5 yrs - ⚡ 152 / 200
4️⃣ 📍 436.4 metres - 🗓️ 5 yrs - ⚡ 195 / 200
5️⃣ 📍 265.0 metres - 🗓️ 3 yrs - ⚡ 197 / 200

https://whentaken.com
 
8:07 PM
#WhenTaken #64 (01.05.2024)

I scored 863/1000 🎉

1️⃣ 📍 8 km - 🗓️ 18 yrs - ⚡ 161 / 200
2️⃣ 📍 1 km - 🗓️ 8 yrs - ⚡ 189 / 200
3️⃣ 📍 5945 km - 🗓️ 0 yrs - ⚡ 116 / 200
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I'm pretty sure that 3 is wrong. :/
Oh, no... it is about right. Darn. That flag threw me.
(I found it on street view, I think).
 
> Abu Halil calls his prison Abu Ghraib, evoking the notorious facility in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, and later used by the Allies following Saddam's overthrow.
America, always a wonderful source of inspiration.
 
 
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10:46 PM
South Korean government declared travel prohibition to Rakhine state of Myanmar, at the same time they prohibited travel to Haiti.
 
11:12 PM
@DannyuNDos Is it strictly forbidden or "just" strongly discouraged?
 
Strictly forbidden; if I went there and came back, I'd be arrested.
 
Ooo you got me - this is addictive !
> You were 9 years off and 7 km away from the correct location.
 
@Criggie Which one?
@DannyuNDos Sounds harsh.
 
It may sound harsh, but such law is present to protect people.
 
#WhenTaken #65 (02.05.2024)

I scored 833/1000 🎉

1️⃣ 📍 6 km - 🗓️ 42 yrs - ⚡ 100 / 200
2️⃣ 📍 7 km - 🗓️ 9 yrs - ⚡ 187 / 200
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@jlliagre
Not bad for a first go. Interesting how Digital photos and Film photos are obviously different
 
11:32 PM
@Criggie You played Thursday's game. I usually wait until the afternoon/evening here but here we go:
#WhenTaken #65 (02.05.2024)

I scored 841/1000 🎉

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Skite :-P
Its Thursday here for me - Thu 2 May 2024 11:33:13 NZST
 
It's Thursday here too. 8:33
 
Laggy-bois... you're all behind !
 
Thu May 2 01:34:39 CEST 2024
 
So its late-wednesday-night for @jlliagre
I remember going to work one morning, 4 AM start, and there were still people there from the previous day. That was an odd sensation.
OH that's right - it was daylight saving change day too
So it was their 3AM and my 4AM
 
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