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RegDwigнt

00:00

But from what I've read, up to 80% of people can go through it very mildly bothered at all.

It's the other 20% that's the issue.

Færd

@tchrist My viral infections always make my throat swollen and inflamed and lead to bacterial infections, which in turn respond to antibiotics.

@RegDwigнt Right

tchrist

@Færd True.

RegDwigнt

I try to avoid antibiotics at all costs. Well, that makes it sound like it's somehow hard but it's really easy.

tchrist

I hate to say this, I really do, but it looks like China will be getting off easy compared to the fates of the rest of us.

Færd

@RegDwigнt Congratulations on a strong constitution. I can't do that.

tchrist

00:03

Færd

What is ROW?

tchrist

Rest of World.

RegDwigнt

@Færd but that's the thing. That's why the constitution is strong. Constantly taking antibiotics, especially starting at a young age, makes you weaker not stronger.

tchrist

Look at what China's two curves looked like when they were at our numbers.

Færd

@tchrist Remarkable differences there.

RegDwigнt

00:05

Remember Newton's Second Law. Antibiotics make you resistant to germs exactly as much as they make germs resistant to you.

tchrist

Then remind yourself that the Y-axis is logarithmic.

Færd

Right

@RegDwigнt The damage was probably done when neither me nor my guardians knew any better.

tchrist

The ROW has super-scarier curves.

Færd

At a very young age. Or that I'm just susceptible to bacterial infection and my immune system can't match up.

@tchrist Well China's response was a lot more organized and harsh.

tchrist

I get these damned sinus infections much too often. I know what this is.

Færd

00:07

After the first lapse. That fatal lapse.

@tchrist I didn't know I would ever be happy to hear about someone's sickness, but that's reassuring.

tchrist

@Færd You have to be. It makes all the difference in the world. Play with these interactive graphics charts to see exactly why: nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/13/opinion/…

RegDwigнt

@Færd possibly so. And nowadays we're all getting antibiotics through the food chain. There's traces of them in our water, our fish, the eggs, the milk.

tchrist

@RegDwigнt It's the factory farms.

RegDwigнt

Yes, any chicken you buy in a supermarket is 50% meat and 50% antibiotics.

tchrist

Don't get me started, I'm too queasy for that.

RegDwigнt

00:13

@tchrist too bad none of them charts are even displayed on this 32-bit system.

tchrist

Only by going full-on dragon now do we have any hope.

RegDwigнt

What happened to the Internet. We can still play Flash games from the 90s. But I can't view half the sites from 2020, in 2020.

tchrist

@RegDwigнt Really??

I rather doubt the width of your hardware registers in bits is really what's at fault here. But I may be wrong.

Færd

@tchrist I'm going to share that.

RegDwigнt

tchrist

00:15

@Færd Eye-opening, isn't it?

Færd

@RegDwigнt I'm almost vegan.

RegDwigнt

Good for you.

tchrist

@RegDwigнt So scrolling down does nothing?

Færd

@tchrist Indeed. Maybe too late for Iran, but still I'm going to share it.

RegDwigнt

@tchrist nope. First thing I tried.

tchrist

00:16

I haven't bought a chicken in like 35 years. At least not to eat.

RegDwigнt

Just the other paragraphs come into view describing the other charts that are also absent.

tchrist

That's terrible.

RegDwigнt

I'll check it out at work. 64-bit Linux there. Will work fine.

Færd

@RegDwigнt How old is your system.

RegDwigнt

Not sure when I'll get to work again though. Maybe they'll close down everything in the next two days.

@Færd Windows Vista. Last 32-bit Chrome build ever released. Has been displaying the message "this browser is out of date" for six years now.

tchrist

00:18

It mostly is here. At least, anybody who can work from home does so.

Schools are shut down.

Apple, Twitter, Google etc are all working from home here.

Where here=Boulder.

Færd

@RegDwigнt Keep your cool you've got 6 more years to go.

RegDwigнt

I've got many more years to go. Not so sure about the machine though.

Færd

@tchrist We are teaching our students thru Telegram channels and video calls.

tchrist

Is it working?

Robusto

Just got off the phone with my son, the one who got married last fall. They were going to take their delayed honeymoon in two weeks to ... guess where?

tchrist

00:19

JAPAN!

RegDwigнt

Italy.

Færd

@tchrist It's certainly better than nothing.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Oooh, that's a bingo!

RegDwigнt

Thank you, Hans.

tchrist

@Robusto Is that the one at the scary bioconf?

Robusto

00:21

@tchrist No, it's the gambler who married a doctor.

So I don't feel too worried about his health at this point.

RegDwigнt

Well that's a good gamble in this day and age.

Jinx.

tchrist

Prescient, wasn't he.

jinx

Robusto

Double jinxes cancel each other out.

RegDwigнt

Maybe that will be Trump's strategy against the corona.

It sure has been so far.

Robusto

Fuck that bloated idiot.

RegDwigнt

00:22

No thanks, I'm more into Russian chicks, personally.

tchrist

@RegDwigнt He's never had a beer in his life. "It's my only redeeming quality," he actually said.

Færd

I bet even that is a lie.

RegDwigнt

I tried to watch the idiot's speech earlier. And complained at length to tchrist that I just couldn't manage.

Robusto

Here's where we need Peter Lorre back.

You imbecile, you idiot.

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Færd

He's so contemptible you might feel pity for him if he wasn't at the helm.

RegDwigнt

00:25

I didn't want for him to be at the helm. He did.

Robusto

He used up all the feelings we could have had for him by being utterly contemptible of the feelings of others.

RegDwigнt

That's like, when they count being drunk or stoned as mitigating circumstances.

Nonono that's not how it works. That's not mitigating at all.

Robusto

Jimmy Cliff - The Harder They Come

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Færd

I don't know. I'd be more angry at a system that produces such a leader.

RegDwigнt

I know that face. Who's that again.

Oh, the you can get it if you really want it guy.

Færd

00:28

@RegDwigнt Thanks we have our own monsters.

Robusto

@Færd Name a system that doesn't risk a shit-smeared dog's ass of a leader?

Færd

@Robusto America for a couple hundred years before 2016.

RegDwigнt

Jul 29 '14 at 0:12, by RegDwigнt

Every country has the government it deserves.

Robusto

@Færd Agreed. We thought we were immune, that reason would prevail. It was even written into our Constitution. Then we got Fox News and the worst president EVER.

Færd

@RegDwigнt Nah that ain't true.

Robusto

00:29

@RegDwigнt Not true. We didn't deserve this.

Russians don't deserve Putin.

Brits don't deserve Boris Johnson.

Etc., etc., etc.,

Now everything is tilted toward the moneyed interests.

But you have to agree, we have the best government money can buy.

Færd

@Robusto It's not like you were flawless before that, but wahtever was simmering down there reached a cusp in 2016.

Robusto

@Færd It had been coming for a long time. A nip here, a tuck there, and the only thing remaining is for a Republican coup de main and then it really is toilet-time for this country.

RegDwigнt

@Færd it is only once we recognize that it is true that things can change at all.

Saying "it is not true" is the very thing this statement tries to address and combat.

Færd

@Robusto I hope you can remove him soon.

Robusto

@Færd For all our sakes. Yours included.

David Fincher's FIGHT CLUB (1999) - Only After We've Lost Everything Are We Free To Do Anything

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RegDwigнt

00:33

Biden won't be any better. Just look at what his son did to the Ukraine in just a year. What do you think the dad will do to the US in four.

Oh, right "I can see clearly now" is also Jimmy Cliff's.

Well that's one prophetic song title after another, how about that. The harder they come, you can get it if you really want, I can see clearly now.

Færd

@RegDwigнt You know how hard we've been trying to change our own? In February alone, 3 times more people (protesters) were killed on the streets than have died from coronavirus so far. So I doubt that we deserve this.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Fuck that, you couldn't be more wrong. I can't believe you are spouting Republican conspiracy theories. Have you been watching Putin's ads on Facebook again?

Færd

@Robusto Amen

RegDwigнt

@Robusto it's not a conspiracy theory, it's a fact about the Ukrainian legal system. I have friends there. My ex-wife is half-Ukrainian.

Færd

Biden has serious flaws. But he's still infinitely better than Trump.

RegDwigнt

00:36

That's how we got Trump. By a whole lot of people going "Hillary is even worse".

Robusto

In any case, he only has to be NOT TRUMP and he'll already be better. And I don't need you to what-about-Hunter-Biden me. All I have to do is turn on Fox News and it'll be all over the place.

RegDwigнt

A false dichotomy is a false dichotomy.

I'm sure Mussollini wasn't as bad as Hitler. But these must not be your only options.

Robusto

Fuck, Biden isn't Mussolini. Ain't even close.

RegDwigнt

In a country of 300 million people, you have literally millions of really decent honest smart folk.

Robusto

Best case, he picks Amy Klobuchar as his running mate, then gets the coronavirus and she's our president.

@RegDwigнt We're playing way past that. In a very real sense, we're playing for the species this time.

RegDwigнt

00:38

@Robusto Better already. So how about he then picks Neil deGrasse Tyson instead,

Imagine the running mate Neil would pick after that.

Robusto

NdeG has his own closet full of skeletons.

Færd

There are some forms if corruption that don't exactly offend the law. Like money in election campaigns, funding and buying politicians, and yes nepotism, could be technically legal to some countries including the US.

Biden may very well fall under that.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto that is a very funny thing to say in the context of "who'd be better than Trump".

Færd

But Trump is too corrupt even against those weak standards.

Robusto

Politics is still the art of the possible. So let's not get all dewy about electing philosopher kings and all that.

@RegDwigнt Same for your what-aboutism regarding Hunter Biden vs. Trump's family.

RegDwigнt

00:40

Politics has long become the opposite of art.

Diplomacy yes. But there's none of that left in politics.

@Robusto I never said "what about".

I pointed out a simple truth.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Said like a Fox News announcer.

RegDwigнt

Sticks and stones, Rob.

Robusto

Now you're just drunk enough not to recognize the depth of my feeling about this.

RegDwigнt

Your feelings are too deep to recognize the obvious.

The lesser of two evils is not a way to win at anything.

You should not be choosing between evils to begin with.

Robusto

So your suggestion is that we just say fuck it, let's reelect the bloated idiot?

RegDwigнt

00:42

As you said, you just don't deserve that shit.

Færd

Choosing the lesser of two evils is called rationalism.

Robusto

Fuck that, I say.

IMO, Biden is vastly the lesser of two evils.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto My suggestion is you say fuck it and not elect any of the bloated idiots on display.

Robusto

In which case Trump gets reelected. Don't be fatuous, Jeffrey.

Færd

I'm going to bed. Peace out.

flies out of the crossfire

RegDwigнt

00:44

@Færd always only having two evils to choose from is not rationalism.

@Robusto well I already mentioned to tchrist how that's going to happen anyway.

All of this conversation is purely hypothetical.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Fuck that. If I really believed that I'd kill myself. So, here I am, standing on a chair with a noose around my neck and you're telling me it's hopeless anyway so just give in to the void. Thanks, friend.

RegDwigнt

There are many wonderful places in this world. And you've been to a great many of them.

You of all people know for a fact that you don't have to put up with this.

Robusto

Wow, you really are trying to talk me into suicide.

RegDwigнt

Come on now.

Færd

peeks in

Sorry for jumping in the conversation but you could agree to disagree.

RegDwigнt

00:50

One's homeland is never the be-all and end-all. You never had a say in where you get born. But you always have a say in where you stay.

Færd

If only that was true.

@RegDwigнt That's just the world being fucked up. Nothing to do with my rationalism.

RegDwigнt

You can do nothing about the situation in DC. Just like I can do nothing about the situation in the Kremlin. But I can do something about my situation. Just like you can do about yours.

Don't ask what you can do for your country. Ask what your country can do for you.

Mitch

@RegDwigнt For the great majority of people, changing where you live is also difficult.

RegDwigнt

I am not talking to the great majority of people.

I am trying to get a friend off a chair.

If your country shows you the middle finger, show it both yours. Preferably from Norway. Or Switzerland.

I could be sitting in the Kremlin right now. But they don't want me in the Kremlin. So I say shrug and go somewhere else where I'm needed.

Mitch

@Robusto That guy is going to get us all killed.

RegDwigнt

01:02

Guess what tho. He'll survive.

tchrist

@RegDwigнt Oh, does it have a Tower like London?

RegDwigнt

I have enough LEGO to build my own Tower of London any place I choose.

Doesn't help with the moving, but does help with shelter.

Mitch

@Færd There have been pictures of mass graves being created for the virus victims there...

tchrist

@RegDwigнt Maybe. Maybe not.

RegDwigнt

Cockroaches and rats always survive.

Especially when given all the amenities of the presidential office.

tchrist

01:06

Scattering during the pandemiconium?

RegDwigнt

Now I feel like reading not McCarthy but Poe.

tchrist

@RegDwigнt The one where Lavrov planted all those bugs?

RegDwigнt

The one where the Russians planted the biggest bug of them all, yes.

tchrist

It's awfully glitchy.

RegDwigнt

I do wonder how the next couple weeks will pan out for musicians in particular.

That's a lot of loss of revenue.

Mitch

01:09

any kind of entertainment

RegDwigнt

Like, I can just go on paid leave like most everyone in most every industry.

Mitch

live

RegDwigнt

Yeah that's the operative word.

Because when you're like a painter, you can just lock yourself up in your room and just work on your painting. Or when you're a writer you write your next book. Or when you're a composer, you compose.

But what if you're a performing artist.

Mitch

so are we offing ourselves now or what?

like dancing about architecture

construction can still go on

RegDwigнt

I imagine even McDonald's can.

All kinds of things.

But not live theatre or dance or music.

Mitch

01:11

or sports

tchrist

> “It’s only when the tide goes out that you learn who’s been swimming naked.”

Mitch

not that I would notice that gone

RegDwigнt

Well that's already happened. But there's so much money in sports they are vomiting it out of their ears.

No sympathy there.

tchrist

None.

There will be no losers.

RegDwigнt

I secretly hope that after a couple months without football everybody notices how nothing is missing and it'll just stay dead forever.

Mitch

01:13

notice what?

tchrist

It's been dead to me since I was ever.

RegDwigнt

Exactly. But now everyone else can get a taste of the liberation.

Imagine all that money poured into something sensible instead.

Like oh I dunno, healthcare.

tchrist

Lib lib lib.

Mitch

they can put the leisure energy towards home improvement or gardening

RegDwigнt

Yeah imagine all those sportsmen building houses not made out of paper. That don't fall over at the first gust of wind.

@Robusto all I'm saying is that "better than Trump" is not a standard. We can't set the bar that low. That right there is what gets us into the "every country has the government it deserves" situation. Anyone is better than Trump. The second-worst person in the country is better than Trump. But the country must not be run by the second-worst person. It must be run by the best person.

Mitch

01:28

@RegDwigнt Then what do you suggest?

RegDwigнt

What do you mean, what do I suggest?

What do you suggest?

I am not invested in any of this.

Mitch

Nope. You're the complainer, you need to offer the alternative.

RegDwigнt

I am not complaining. I am not ruled by Trump. Thank fuck.

Mitch

You lucky bastard.

RegDwigнt

Luck has very little to do with it. Is my whole point.

Mitch

01:30

When is Merkel going to hand things over to some one else?

RegDwigнt

Very soon. I don't remember the exact date.

She announced it at the beginning of this term that there'd be no next term.

Mitch

I thought the #2 lady with the long name pulled herself out.

RegDwigнt

Yeah that's a thing that happened recently.

Mitch

Things are happening that are not corona related

RegDwigнt

She's from this city here. Where I'm typing this. We don't think high of her at all.

Mitch

01:32

But who's the next in line?

RegDwigнt

Let's wait it out and see who's left after the corona. Them's politicians are all terribly old.

Mitch

all the one's who've been shaking hands with that guy

RegDwigнt

Yeah a friend of mine refused to shake my hand earlier today and I was like oh fuck you're right. Stupid me.

We bumped our shoes into one another.

Mitch

fist bumps, despite touching are way way less ... transferring

I saw a chart

it kind proves it.

I think a thoughtful nodding should be enough

RegDwigнt

That requires thoughts. I don't have any of those.

Mitch

01:35

I hate the handshake high five fist bump elbow jab stuff. It's really bizarre.

RegDwigнt

What about snogging?

Mitch

That transfers mono.

RegDwigнt

Ah. Not for me, then. I'm all into Dolby 7:3.

Mitch

SCIENCE!

RegDwigнt

Fucking magnets, how do they work...

Mitch

01:36

haha...

blankets... how do they work?

RegDwigнt

Well you put pox on them and then profit.

Mitch

ew

unless you have vaccines

RegDwigнt

Hard to get by pox these days. You have to go to Russia.

But most people elsewhere are actually no longer vaccinated against pox.

Mitch

it's coming out of the melting permafrost

or is that anthrax?

RegDwigнt

I still have that vaccination scar from my childhood. None of the people in this country have it. Easy game for me.

Mitch

01:38

or is it whatever they were testing on that island in the middle of the Aral Sea, which is no longer an island because there's no more sea.

@RegDwigнt That's an easy game to play, that's an easy thing to say.

RegDwigнt

Well nothing is an island really. It's all a single piece of rock.

Mitch

@RegDwigнt Let that be my epitaph

RegDwigнt

@Mitch yeah fair point, the blankets are all sold out here...

Mitch

@RegDwigнt Here it is rice and toilet paper

RegDwigнt

@Mitch I can write a better one. Specifically for you. Put it to music, too.

Mitch

01:40

wait... you've already been over that

@RegDwigнt I think you owe Rob one

RegDwigнt

Rice I didn't check actually. But I think I saw from the corner of my eye that that aisle was full to the brim as usual.

The spaghetti tho. Who the fuck can eat that much spaghetti.

Mitch

Oh man.

Spaghetti is the food of gods

RegDwigнt

I remember in the Soviet Union my grandma would buy all the noodles she could get, any chance she got.

Mitch

You should change the sauce though.

RegDwigнt

Put them in storage on our balcony.

It all sat there through wind and weather, year after year, summers as winters.

Then twenty years later we threw it all away.

Nobody can eat that much noodles.

Mitch

01:42

Here is a mixed crowd, so in the grocery store I went to today all the shelves were fine except for the empty tp, empty rice and pasta, and empty.... wait for it...

empty tortillas.

not tortilla chips

but the soft flat tortillas

RegDwigнt

Well you don't have bread in your country, so that is the next best thing.

Mitch

Oh. Hm... I didn't look down that aisle.

Bread in the US is not that good.

It's like why bother.

RegDwigнt

As I said, bread in the US is not a thing.

Just like cheese.

Mitch

Oh the cheese in the US is great.

If you like one kind of cheese

just different shades of orange

RegDwigнt

Well yeah. It's like you have soccer moms but no soccer.

Mitch

01:45

au contraire.. we totally have great soccer, but only for little kids.

but that helps us not have soccer for hooligans

which frankly is the evil you have to bear for getting reasonably priced health care.

RegDwigнt

Your soccer hooligans are just called football players.

And are paid much more generously.

Mitch

and are wimps.

because they wear pads.

RegDwigнt

But yeah, as we've established, let's just not have any sports for a year, and then we'll work from there.

Mitch

what are these sports oof which you speak?

RegDwigнt

Chess, mainly.

Darts and curling.

Math olympics. That kind of shit.

Mitch

01:47

It takes lots of stamina to last a professional chess tournament

Darts, not as much.

I'd love to be an announcer for math olympics.

RegDwigнt

@Mitch for the viewers, yes.

@Mitch bring it on.

Mitch

"Check out Miles Standoffish on the plate, rearranging his 'pocket protector', he's gotta prove 2+2=4 like he's got a bee up his butt."

That's all i got

RegDwigнt

Brilliant. You can do that after the year has passed. If anyone still remembers what math olympics is. Or wants to have it back.

Mitch

I think that's all we'll be doing because it barely needs pencil and paper, and that'll be all that is left if civilization.

which reminds me. TC is taking all this pretty hard.

I mean sure life is shit but he's taking it out on us.

RegDwigнt

Many people are.

As the German saying goes, Wait and drink tea.

Not sure how or why that'd be a German saying, but it is.

tchrist

01:54

@Mitch I beg your pardon?

RegDwigнt

Haha.

Fight.

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Q: I need a girl's opinion on this apology I wrote for a girl

Background: I finally caught feelings for this girl that had a crush on me for around three years and one day she started to act different around me (not the usual) and I got a little upset and my friend could tell so he decided to confront her about it and in that conversation at some point we s...

Jesus F. Christ what is this even.

The funniest part is how there is an SE site where it is on-topic.

Mitch

@tchrist It's all awful but I don't always want to be reminded of it.

RegDwigнt

I'm afraid for the next couple weeks we've entered the realm of not having a choice.

I used to mock Cerberus but now I find even myself participating.

tchrist

@Mitch If you think I'm "taking it out on you", then you can keep your fucking chatroom.

RegDwigнt

Now now.

Let's not get a virus between us.

Mitch

02:03

@tchrist my apologies.

RegDwigнt

I feel like everyone's got each other on the wrong foot today.

A horrible, terrible, no-good, very bad day.

Then again, better than spreading it all out thin.

We'll see what tomorrow brings.

Wait and drink tea.

Mitch

Aren't you composing an opera at the moment?

With Marvel characters?

Tristan und Isolde? Antman and the Wasp?

They're not an item but you think they'd make a nice couple.

skullpatrol

06:03

> coronavirus (by 1969) is so called for the spikes that protrude from its membranes and resemble the tines of a crown or the corona of the sun.

Færd

08:14

Guys if a topic or a member causes you discomfort, you have quite a few remedies at your disposal (eg, raising a new topic, coming back later, not paying attention, ignoring a person) other than resorting to policing the discourse and creating a climate of self-censorship.

Just saying.

CowperKettle

> Identification and authentication of users who are employees of the Operator

Are there alternatives to this phrasing?

> Creation of Active Directory accounts, as well as assignment of a basic set of rights to users are performed on the basis of requests received via the POP request processing system.

I'm editing an other's translation and it feels like I should replace are with is here.

Hm. Looks like I might be correct with this hunch.

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A: Subject Verb agreement with comma-aside of a different pluralization

For starters that bit of "additional information" which is included in your sentence is called a "non-restrictive clause," and you're right to call it an aside. Non-restrictive clauses are added to sentences to provide additional information/context to the sentence without changing the overall me...

skillpatrol

11:53

virus

Noun: virus (countable and uncountable, plural viruses or (proscribed) viri or (proscribed) virii)

Wikispecies
(archaic) Venom, as produced by a poisonous animal etc.
A submicroscopic, non-cellular structure consisting of a core of DNA or RNA surrounded by a protein coat, that requires a living host cell to replicate, and often causes disease in the host organism.
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Viruses are the smallest and most simplified forms of life.

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> 5. Viruses are the smallest and most simplified forms of life.

life

Noun: life (usually uncountable, plural lives)

(uncountable) The state of organisms preceding their death, characterized by biological processes such as metabolism and reproduction and distinguishing them from inanimate objects; the state of being alive and living.
(biology) The status possessed by any of a number of entities, including animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, and sometimes viruses, which have the properties of replication and metabolism.
The animating principle or force that keeps an inorganic thing or concept metaphorically...

Færd

> "If I were in heaven, Nelly, I should be extremely miserable…. I dreamt, once, that I was there…. Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out, into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights, where I woke sobbing for joy."
—Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

RegDwigнt

14:19

@Mitch no opera, no. Some SATB, yes. A string quartet. Fifty waltzes all at once. And a large autobiographical piece, but no idea what to even call that. Certainly not an opera. Maybe a symphonic poem or something.

And bits and pieces of a ballet for which I have no libretto. It just sounds like a ballet. Shrug.

Robusto

14:40

@RegDwigнt There are so many things wrong with that, but I'll just leave it at this analogy: It's like a person on a ship disdaining to throw a lifesaver to someone drowning because it's not of the finest quality. It's almost breathtakingly blasé.

Mitch

15:12

@Færd got it.

@tchrist I'm sorry, it was callous of me.

skullpatrol

yeah, you're a room owner

btw, where's Mr Shiney?

Gigili

16:07

@Færd How would that help? Sure everyone here, especially the frequent users, is perfectly aware of those options, sometimes they just want to communicate or let the other party know what they think.

You're not helping, you're just making it worse.

> If you haven’t lost track of how many languages you’ve learned, you haven’t learned enough of them yet.

That's truly inspiring.

SmokeDetector

17:45

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad ns for domain in answer, username similar to website in answer (62): What does it mean “Alight” here? by Ink Well on english.SE

M.A.R.

18:22

@Mitch 600 new messages and you wonder why it takes a toll?

It seems unavoidable. There is always friction when people talk too much too often in a chatroom

Well, write, not talk, which I think contributes to the whole thing

Gigili