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Vitaly

19:00

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 I have upticked it before even getting back to the chat. Now post your cookies.

user19161

@Vitaly Look in your browser.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

user19161

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Delicious! They also look a little like poo though.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

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Q: Spelling: vacuum and vacumn

My brain and fingers are convinced the correct spelling of vacuum is actually vacumn. Not trusting MS-Word's or Firefox's suggestion of the former I looked around the net for validation of my default, and found none. Indeed, I only find common use of my preferred spelling in classified ads and eb...

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Цфы шые вфы,

Um. I mean,

Was ist das?

user19161

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 NC

user19161

19:02

Poor spelling is poor spelling. There is no reason for it.

Vitaly

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 No, no, the ones that start with se-usr, seuser and so on.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

SE-USSR?

South-Eastern USSR?

Vitaly

Ecce USSR.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

So when you're near me, darling can't you hear me, Esso-ass?

user19161

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Ah, we have Esso here too. It's the gas!

user19161

19:06

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 No darlings in chat.

Vitaly

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Esso-asozialität?

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

@JasperLoy yeah I looked around and noticed.

Gigili

Uh, people are so blind and silly. I wrote a very nice and complete and whatnot answer, only one plus one (=two)?

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

@Vitaly Hermann Esse.

I mean, sorry, Germann Esse.

Gigili

Let's cry.

What the hell Esse?

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

19:08

Ich esse.

user19161

@Vitaly I watched the movie Siddhartha.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

@Vitaly nonono, that's the wrong Hesse.

Gigili

Oh, that.

I know him in person.

Not now that you edited him.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

It's still the same Hesse.

Vitaly

making everyone else on EL&U make no sense since 2011

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

19:10

Hesse denn, Hesse denn, zum Städtele hinaus?

Gigili

rausgehen?

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

►

Gigili

@Vitaly I guess you meant till 2011? Or what?

user19161

Does anyone here think that fonts look nicer in Chrome than FF?

Gigili

Everything looks nicer on Chrome.

user19161

19:12

Of course, one needs to have the same font settings to make a fair comparison.

Gigili

HEY! I deserve more upvotes.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

Everything looks nicer on drugs.

user19161

I am not on drugs.

Gigili

You $##@!$$^%$# users.

user19161

Now I need to flag Gigili.

Vitaly

19:13

Chroming fonts is old. Gold-plated fonts are all the rage these days.

user19161

She just wrote an extremely vulgar sentence.

Gigili

Interestingly enough, that nonsense got four upvotes.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

@Vit BTW now using Duncan + Artemis Tank and 2 Rally Flags. Still only 43 points each time.

Gigili

I guess they've lost their mind.

Robusto

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 You are the kind of bee who hangs out around filling stations. An Esso bee.

Vitaly

19:14

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Have you seen my Orbo screenshot?

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

Oh. No.

I thought about Orbo.

Vitaly

15 hours ago, by Vitaly

@Reg While playing in a standard tournament against a WB-heavy Sycophant deck: http://i.imgur.com/UAJpO.png (I got 13 points outta it.)

user19161

@Vitaly I think gold is very ugly. Those gold watches look terrible. Only people with poor taste wear them.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

@Vitaly lulz

I sure hope he'll remember it for at least as long as you.

Robusto

@RegDwightB8, @Vitaly: I hereby resign from Phantom Commando. I can't muster the interest to even look at the game again. Sorry. Good luck.

user19161

19:15

I think the difference in font appearance might be due to font hinting and antialiasing.

Vitaly

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 :D

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

@Robusto yeah I'm on my way out as well.

Got to level 150 yesterday. Another pointless card.

user19161

Good. Why play games when ELU is the greatest game?

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

Now playing Paladog.

Vitaly

I thought I'd bring that up. Got Heracles yesterday, I could as well have some fun mercing.

But…

10K LP in a Level-12 faction makes the Artemis drop rate equivalent to that of a Level-15 faction.

IIRC.

Robusto

19:17

I tried to click on the link to go there several times in the past couple of weeks at home when I had nothing to do, and I just couldn't do it. Actually, I did click once, but then I cancelled.

@JasperLoy What, you can hunt human beings in ELU now? Awesome!

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

I thought about joining The Retirement Home, as you will remember, but I think I'm even past that point now. Might as well just go cold turkey.

Gigili

OMG, I've never seen too many stupid people at once.

Robusto

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Yeah. My stay in the hospital broke me of the habit. Now the thought of it makes me puke.

user19161

@Gigili Where? You should not call people stupid. They might flag you.

Vitaly

So while you two are in the middle of the Who-Hates-Tyrant-Most contest, I'm gonna get me some tea. BRB.

Robusto

19:19

@Gigili Where do you live that doesn't have too many stupid people at once?

Gigili

@JasperLoy Math.SE

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

@Robusto well it was fun back in the day. Thanks for playing, GG, etc.

Robusto

Ayup.

user19161

@Robusto Actually, humans are all stupid. QED.

Robusto

Besides, Diablo III is out and I can't even muster enough interest to play that. My character is stalled at level 25. Boring.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

19:20

@aedia @Kit Star Wars Escher Relativity diorama @RegDwightB8

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

I need a hi-res of that.

user19161

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Amazing! I happened to see that Escher pic before.

Robusto

You broke my brain.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Seriously they should make that a kit :)

user19161

@Robusto It was already broken when you spelled "disfunction".

Gigili

19:22

@Robusto I haven't had a night out for weeks, that's why.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Higher res: images.mocpages.com/user_images/54098/1338692141m_DISPLAY.jpg

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

I already have all the pieces that I can see. But not all minifigs.

Gigili

@JasperLoy I won't flag you, but please be more careful next time.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

I don't buy Star Wars sets. Well, not many anyway.

user19161

@Gigili Thanks, I grant you a night out as your reward.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

19:24

Oh yeah. A golden C3PO. Don't have that one.

Or do I?

Geez I have too much stuff.

Gigili

@JasperLoy That pleases you more than me.

user19161

I am now wondering about the relationship between gee, geez and geezis.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

Anyhow. Now we just need to make Kosmo a mod again, then I can take a break from ELU as well.

Robusto

Yeah, that'll happen.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

Going to Turkey soon anyway.

Gigili

19:26

@JasperLoy Stop wondering, you'll hurt yourself.

user19161

@Gigili I am already hurt beyond repair.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

@JasperLoy The relationship between gee, geez, and geezis is that between pee, peas, and pieces.

user19161

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Wow, this will be starred.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

Why?

user19161

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 It's awesome!

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

19:27

Better star this line here. It's just as crap as anything I produce.

user19161

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Sometimes I think whether I want to run for mod, but then I think better not.

Vitaly

@Reg I wouldn't mind 6 more Artemis Generators for Longshot, and then I guess we can disband.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

@JasperLoy then you'll have to change your gravatar into a viscacha, and watch shit hit the fan. There are better things to do with a Sunday morning.

Gigili

How many times can I upvote my own answers as a mod?

user19161

@Gigili Zero. Elementary.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

19:29

@Vitaly faced that thing yesterday. It was annoying.

user19161

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 But shouldn't we call for mod elections soon? It seems we need more mods.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

@JasperLoy you can ask on meta I guess.

Me, I have no idea.

user19161

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 We only have three, and we are quite big. I think we need two more to make it five.

user19161

That will help all mods have more time for themselves on Sunday mornings.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@JasperLoy we have 3 mods?

user19161

19:32

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Er, yes. Reg, waiwai and nohat.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

We have like two dozen mods.

Vitaly

@JasperLoy Don't forget the complacencies of the peignoir.

user19161

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 The rest lack superpowers.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@JasperLoy Well, I never see any activity from waiwai or nohat

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

Well perhaps not two dozen. One.

user19161

19:34

@MrShinyandNew安宇 You can't see them handling flags for example.

user19161

So we really should not judge a mod according to what we can see because there are many things we cannot see.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@JasperLoy No but shouldn't I see them closing or deleting questions?

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

You can't see them deleting comments, either.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Or commenting?

Gigili

Handling flags can be done by a two yo child.

user19161

19:35

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Well, maybe they don't want to cast a binding vote.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Gigili Hey, I have a two year old child

Maybe he can be a mod

Gigili

I'll vote for him.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

Blog - Stack Exchange: A Theory of Moderation

Jeff Atwood on May 17, 2009

We believe deeply in community moderation. That’s why we appoint Pro Tempore Moderators and, ideally, democratically elected community moderators for every site in our network. But what do community moderators do? The short answer is, as little as possible!

From the very first version of Stack Overflow faq way back in mid-2008, our goal has always been to give power back to the community:

Stack Overflow is run by you! If you want to help us run Stack Overflow, you’ll need reputation first. Reputation is a (very) rough measurement of how much the Stack Overflow community trusts you. R …

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@JasperLoy They are mods. They should not be afraid to act.

user19161

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Or worse, editing people's chat messages!

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

19:36

> But what do community moderators do? The short answer is, as little as possible!

user19161

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 From the horse's mouth.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Gigili problem is that you have to be 13 to be on this site, because of the COPPA law, which doesn't actually apply to my son since he's Canadian, and it's a bit of a dumb law, but TL;DR he'd get banned.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

In fact I ran on the promise of handing more and more stuff over to the community.

So far I have failed to deliver.

But I do plan to.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Well, there are many reasons why you are called to act as much as you are. However: the point is that day in and day out I see lots of actions from you and pretty much nothing from nohat or waiwai. Granted: waiwai was appointed during a "crisis". But I also don't see any blog wrangling and that's something else he volunteered for. The blog is defunct.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

Well first of all, he volunteered. He didn't sign a contract.

user19161

19:39

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Well, maybe there should not be a blog in the first place. What else is there to write?

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

Second of all, I never volunteered in the first place.

Vitaly

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Who is your Jaime Escalante?

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

@Vitaly pardon?

user19161

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 You did not volunteer to be mod?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Of course, he's a volunteer. Fine. But don't volunteer if you don't want to do it.

Gigili

19:40

@MrShinyandNew安宇 They won't notice him noticing you noticing me? They won't notice he's two unless they have age recognition system and whatnot.

Vitaly

Stand and Deliver

Stand and Deliver is a 1988 American drama film, based on the true story of high school math teacher, Jaime Escalante. Edward James Olmos portrayed Escalante in the film and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. The film was added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 2011. Plot In the area of East Los Angeles, California, in 1982, in an environment that values a quick fix over education and learning, Jaime Escalante is a new teacher at Garfield High School determined to change the system and challenge the students to a higher level of achievement. L...

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

Yeah I'm on that page already.

user19161

@Vitaly I think the teachers here suck.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

@JasperLoy I never volunteered to write blogs.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Like, the blog: I volunteered to write with the expectation of doing a few posts a year. Almost nobody else who volunteered even delivered one post. It's hard to stay motivated when Matt and I are the only ones writing.

user19161

19:42

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Luckily, I did not volunteer. Phew!

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

We can open a new meta post looking for new contributors.

I am sure many people are not even aware we have a blog.

user19161

And also one looking for new mods.

user19161

I am sure many people are not even aware of how many mods there are.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

@Vitaly so. Um. I still don't quite understand.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 At this point I've lost interest too much to open a meta post.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

19:43

Fair enough.

user19161

There was a mod on math who did not log in for months and months until people really wondered if he was dead.

Vitaly

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Never mind.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

@JasperLoy did he get to keep his privileges?

I'm not sure how quickly Kosmo lost his. Though I can look it up.

user19161

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 I just checked. He has no more diamond. I did not follow all the developments after that though.

Gigili

@JasperLoy Who? Qubic something or Mariano?

user19161

19:47

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Is there an automatic system to lose the diamond?

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

No idea. I doubt it.

user19161

@Gigili Robin Chapman. We even joked about his obituary.

aedia λ

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Wow, that's crazy awesome.

user19161

I just cast 14 delete votes, yay!

user19161

Yo @corn!

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

19:59

Tuskegee syphilis experiment

The Tuskegee syphilis experiment (also known as the Tuskegee syphilis study or Public Health Service syphilis study) was an infamous clinical study conducted between 1932 and 1972 in Tuskegee, Alabama by the U.S. Public Health Service to study the natural progression of untreated syphilis in poor, rural black men who thought they were receiving free health care from the U.S. government. The Public Health Service, working with the Tuskegee Institute, began the study in 1932. Investigators enrolled in the study a total of 600 impoverished, African-American sharecroppers from Macon County, ...

Wow never heard of this shit before.

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