I should've taken all that money and built a dyke out of it instead.

Alas.

Lesson learned: never try and cheat at video games.

Only cheat at actual stock exchanges. Much safer.

Sleep well.

@RegDwigнt Is that the game that has just been outlawed in China?

@Cerberus huh wha? I don't know. This is the first game in the franchise that I try. Never paid any attention to it before. And good thing I didn't, there's a lot of spoilers.

The last one is Rotterdam.

That's quite a trend already.

Funny that everyone picks the same two pieces.

Though why you'd pick Boléro only to cut it down to three minutes, I'm not sure.

The NY performance is actually quite nice, that one's 7 minutes.

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in answer, shortened url in answer (141): Opposite of a diet by shaon on english.SE

Hello.

The view of EL&U SE has changed out of nowhere in my mobile phone. It wasn't like this before. It was like how it looks on PC. How do I revert it? I don't know where should I ask this question. Does anyone know how to revert it? If not, can you tell me where should I ask this, please?

Also, there are many options missing in this view. The old version was way better than this one and had many options. :(

Please ping me if anyone knows.

It probably caught updatovirus

polygon.com/2020/4/11/21217542/…

> Location of the original copy: Company office 033

> Location of the original: Company office 033

Can I omit copy when I describe the location of the original document?

@Cerberus hey no spoilers. I haven't unlocked the Free Hong Kong rug yet.

@CowperKettle I think original is better, because a copy is not an original.

@RegDwigнt Do you at least have the Taiwan, Tibet, and Xinjiang ones?

@DecapitatedSoul you can take that question to the meta Meta.

@Cerberus no, so far I only unlocked the "The Ukraine sucks and is very bad" poster.

I might need to switch my console's time zone.

Though the last time I did that, I lost half a million of the in-game currency. As I complained last night.

Why would that user create their custom rug in English anyway. Absolutely nobody cares for free Hong Kong outside of China.

And those who do, don't need for it to be pointed out to them that they do.

@Cerberus Thank you!

Nice

@RegDwigнt, Thank you.

Ha, misspelled was in my pre-coffee haze. But seriously, why do I even bother? Try to help someone out, get blasted for it.

@Cerberus Why are they bothering with trivialities like that. Don't they know that Monica is the real cause?

Also, what happened to your to the Monica appendage on your name?

Wait, what I meant to say is: "Also, what happened to the Monica appendage on your name?" Seems I can't type worth a shit this morning.

BTW, "Monica is the real cause* means cause in the sense of "a goal or principle served with dedication and zeal" not "the producer of an effect, result, or consequence."

@Færd Nice.

> The idea, Nord, is to sell pianos. Not make everyone give up and go do something less interesting.

Hahaha.

Yeah.

About sums it up. On the other hand, I'm liking that piano sound.

Makes me want to get a Nord.

I'd want to see if the touch is as awesome as the sound.

I am in the market for another digital piano, so ...

@RegDwigнt All very good, and I get it, but it just makes me sad. Because music is a coming together in person, in the moment. This is, ultimately, an orgy where people masturbate in separate rooms.

They they do the "togetherness" in post.

Yes but given the situation this is at least better than not coming together at all.

Like, we could be saying all this in a nice cafe on Park Avenue, except we couldn't, so this is the next best thing really.

Yes. The next best thing.

The next best thing to making love is ... masturbation? Hmm.

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the sentiment and the effort. I just miss "real" music.

In a way, it's like a thought experiment. If we're all ultimately isolated in our own egos, can we ever really communicate?

Yes but that is not a new thing for you, you've been missing music for quite some time now and not because of the corona.

I'm not sure if that's a plus or a minus.

> Does anyone know how to make the sound of wingbeats, the ocean, or swimming in any way?

That's called foley and foley artists don't use MuseScore for their work.

@RegDwigнt True. It just makes my nostalgia more penetrating.

Damn, I never knew those were the criteria for a masterpiece.

I should just add 24 more instruments, and make 20 of them play the exact same thing at the unison.

I'm so stupid. Could have written a hundred masterpieces by now.

@RegDwigнt Or even a thousand.

@Robusto I still have it.

@Robusto I figured as much.

The suffix doesn't show up everywhere.

I forgot why.

So you still have it, but maybe not in chat?

I think so.

Though I do have it in the moderators chat.

And in ELU, but not in Latin.SE.

That could be it.

Nobody will even remember Monica after the corona.

@RegDwigнt It all seems moot at this point.

I got an invitation to some Pro-Tempore Moderator Counsil yesterday. What's the deal with that, @Cerberus.

Also, what's a "Counsil"?

I no speaky English.

Either council or counsel. You can't have both.

I can, watch me.

Cheater.

Always.

COVID-19 Sudoku.

Meh. Sudoku.

Yeah I stopped solving sudokus after solving them all.

A finite solution set.

But this channel has many very interesting and very tough ones. As well as many other types of puzzles.

And you don't have to solve them themselves, you can just watch someone else do it.

Though they always provide a link in the description where you can play the exact same board online while watching the video.

I got to be able to solve them all, then lost interest. Now I've forgotten some of the tricks (Y-wing, etc.) and am too bored to go back and brush up.

Yeah well, the point of me posting this particular video is because apparently not just fashion designers and musicians but even puzzle setters use the virus for inspiration.

So many people seem to be bored at the moment, yet there's really no excuse for them to.

Write a book. Build a LEGO set. Learn ten new instruments.

This is no different from my normal life, except my normal life involves restaurants rather more.

Restaurants. Hm. I remember seeing the word before.

People seem to want their lives regulated. I always rebelled against that.

@RegDwigнt SE want to have a small number of moderators whom they can consult.

To put forward new plans, to gauge morale, etc.

@Robusto Well yes, children absolutely require that. And the problem is that every adult used to be a child.

You can vote for whoever isn't of the speech police.

@Cerberus sounds like work. What's the salary?

You only need to vote on candidates for this council!

Fine then. Where's the stupid mail.

@RegDwigнt Even as a child I rebelled against that.

Lol the unique code they gave me to cast my vote spells out JINX.

Jinx!

Meta-jinx!

@Robusto every child rebells against that, which is why the child requires it in the first place.

Jesus Christ, I literally know nobody on that list.

@RegDwigнt Well, the kids who acquiesced to regulation were the ones the teachers loved. I wasn't. I got good grades in spite of that.

I don't even recognize any names but two.

Cerberus, why you not on there? Why you no make things easy for me.

Bad doggie, bad.

I'll go watch the evening news, then see if I have better ideas after.

My favorite practice was, when how to do something, was to find a way of accomplishing the result without obeying the nominal order.

@Robusto I had excellent grades and teachers absolutely loved me. But I was always disrespectful and skipped school all the time and did all kinds of weird shit that wasn't even funny. I actually got thrown out of one school.

School is for people who can't learn on their own.

@RegDwigнt On where?

Oh, the candidates.

If you want anti-speech-police advice, I can give it.

Learning is about letting your curiosity loose, and figuring out how to do things. Which can both be done on your own.

In fact, teaching is really all about learning how to let kids learn for themselves.

Real teaching, that is.

Because you just can't teach anybody anything. You can only help them learn. So many teachers don't get that.

Indeed.

Though I think most professional teachers know this of necessity.

Does the word "ironically" even mean anything at all at this point.

It's degraded to little more than a discourse marker. Like saying "So".

@Cerberus thank you, but I just cast my vote while watching the news.

My personal anti-speech-police advice is to just say out loud whatever's on my mind.

It works really well.

I think you did. If I'm not mistaken it was 9 years and a week ago.

Possibly.

Any wonder I ain't religious?

I remember that story. Though I could have sworn it lay a mere five or six years back.

Time tends to telescope the farther back you go.

@Robusto I dunno about that. Would you be religious now had the science teacher kicked you out instead?

The point is, the science teacher wouldn't have kicked me out. Unless he'd been a manifest idiot.

And your point is?

Trololol.

We were learning logic in one class and religion in another. They just don't go together.

Most people are stupid. And most teachers are people.

My parents thought they were doing me a favor by sending me to a Catholic school.

Well. I would say from your description, they did.

Your point being?

The one they did no favor was the Catholic church, but I don't know if that was part of the plan.

But hey, pfft, Catholics. As an orthodox myself I can tell you for a fact all Catholics are going to hell anyway.

For it is writ.

I have read three different Bibles in three different languages, and they all seemed to agree.

There ain't no hell, unless we're already in it.

There was that one line in What Dreams May Come, an otherwise largely unremarkable, albeit visually stunning, film.

Which one line?

I think Max von Sydow, RIP, says it to Robin Williams, RIP, when he enters hell and sees no suffering just some egregious imagery.

It was something along the lines, "what did you expect? What would be the point of physical pain once you're dead".

What is the point of a species that makes war on itself?

> Thought is real. Physical is the illusion. Ironic, huh?

> You were expecting physical danger? What could it do, kill ya, huh? No, in Hell there's real danger. Of losing your mind.

I always expect physical danger. That's why I'm careful when driving or cycling.

@RegDwigнt I've never heard of that movie. Ever.

It's like I was living in a parallel universe where that movie didn't exist. No one ever mentioned it because there was never anything there to mention.

But then you gave it away. Now I realize I'm in the other universe.

You guys have Nutella here still though right?

What is this Nutella?

@Mitch All the Nutella shops are closed, because the tourists are gone!

Yippee!

@Cerberus: From a book review: "Rome responded by sending reinforcements under the control of Gen. Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, who would go on to become Pompey the Great."

Umm, isn't Pompeius Magnus already Pompey the Great?

Pump up the jam, pump it up, while the jam is pumpin'.

sniff

Doesn't that look like a reporting aberration?

@Mitch I got news for ya Inception fanbois: Everybody dies alone, and it's better to do that as an old man than as a young one.

@Mitch In this universe, I have watched literally 1000+ movies whose titles you couldn't even spell.

Nutella is free, though. Two gallons per person per month.

@Robusto Most likely, yes.

@Robusto there's all kinds of lags and irregularities and they all compound and cancel each other out and run wild and do other things. Not to mention the popular approach of getting exactly 0 cases simply by not testing at all.

We have peaks on Tuesdays.

We will only see the full picture ten years from now. When you'll be able to look at the total number of deaths for the year, and compare it to the average of the ten years before and after.

Yes, well, we are already comparing monthly and weekly deaths.

Which show that lost of Corona deaths are not reported as such

Yes of course, but again, everyone does the comparing differently.

And mind you, those can be the exact same deaths, just two different experts looking at them.

Well, there's some kind of correlation that the Monday and Tuesday figures are significantly lower than the others.

I mean, that looks rather obvious.

So what is the reason?

Yes we have that here on weekends. Like Cerberus mentioned for his place.

The reason is obviously not that the corona takes a break and goes watch Netflix. The reason is that people are.

Well, but it's not weekends. It's the days after the weekends.

Well yes, for us here it's Monday, but for Cerberus it's Tuesday. You could ask the same question there. How come Tuesday. Don't they know that Monday is a work day, too.

Maybe whoever is doing it for your data is doing the opposite. Crunch time on weekends when you can work in peace.

I don't know. Maybe nobody knows.

Yeah. It can be really any number of reasons. The point is, at the end there's the gap and that's all that matters. So the next time it goes down on the same day, you know you can't trust that.

Probably.

It is very clear right now that absolutely nobody knows anything and absolutely everyone is just trying to run ahead of the train except it's a different train for everybody.

I feel fine because I don't have the virus ... yet.

I wouldn't know if I were in the 80% that had it but never noticed.

By the looks of it they might start testing absolutely everyone quite soon, that's when I'll know for sure.

There is a possibility I might have had it already (though I doubt it). In the early part of March I got a dry cough that wouldn't go away. I'm still getting rid of it.

@RegDwigнt Yes, but you can just compare the number of deaths for this week with that of the same week last year and the previous, or an average over a decade.

@Robusto Yeah same here. No fever though. And if anything I should be in the 20%. I had pneumonia as a child, and then later a bronchitis that I only noticed two years later when an X-ray showed that it had left scars on the lung.

Yeah, no fever either.

Which, indeed, is no guarantee that those extra deaths aren't a mere statistic fluctuation; but it is once the number gets high enough.

I got a slight rise in temperature for a couple days, but it went away.

I got a mild case of hypochondria but nothing more.

@Cerberus No, but how you do yell about your imagined illnesses.

@RegDwigнt Yeah, I had bronchial pneumonia as a kid, also asthma. So if I did get it, you would think I'd know it.

I wouldn't know how it could possibly have gotten here at the time. This is the middle of nowhere. Basically Kansas. Frankfurt Airport is a hundred miles away.

Oh, I just visit the emergency department of a different hospital every day.

Then again, somehow the 700 people in this state that have it did get it. And the neighboring region of France, which is in the middle of nowhere in the middle of nowhere is one of the highest affected regions worldwide for some reason.

I don't know what those lavender farmers are doing. Flying to a different theme park every weekend?

It only takes one who did, and then everyone goes to the pub at night.

Right. But that's the thing I don't go to pubs. I use public transport twice a day and go to the local grocery. That's about it.

So far nobody in the office is ill, and nobody in the choir.

Public transport. Worse than pubs sometimes. Plus they don't serve drinks.

The choirmaster returned from Salt Lake City just two days before they shut down everything. But he was there with a different choir.

Also, one close friend of the choir, not a member, was stranded in South Africa for quite some time, only just got flown home last week.

They did that here on a very large scale. Getting two million citizens from abroad using commerical planes chartered by the Luftwaffe. Because no regular commercial flight would go.

Not sure if they do that in the US.

@Robusto yeah here the driver is properly walled off with cellophane and duct tape. You can't get in the front door. Only in the back. On the plus side that means you don't even need to buy a ticket.

@Robusto Hah, certainly. A third name is usually a cognomen. A kind of nickname.

From here to the town hall, it's just three stops, and it's usually quite crowded even these days. But then at the town hall everyone gets off, and I'm literally alone in the bus. Because the office is right next to the university, and that's just shut down completely so nobody has a reason to go in that direction.

I have considered walking to the town hall and getting on the bus there.

Now that the weather is nice I might actually start doing that.

I would say it means the same thing in this context as in any other context.

What "recieved" means, on the other hand, no idea. I see that word a lot but I've been unable to find it in any dictionary.

I find that whole question unsettling.

Thank you. We try our best to shake people from their boredom in these difficult times of universal boredom.

Every other community post on MuseScore these days is "I'm bored".

And every single time I'm like, well fuck you then. Your fault and your fault alone. I'm not bored. Why are you boring me by telling me that you are.

You could go and transcribe all of Beethoven's symphonies, for starters. That should keep you occupied for a couple hours.

Or just play all the video games for thirty days straight. You get that unique opportunity that no kid has ever had, and you're complaining.

Yeah or that. Transcribe all of Cake.

Or at least listen to all of Cake.

@Robusto There's so much out of the ordinary nowadays, that it's hard to know what's an actual pattern and what is reporting (in the graph they explicitly say that the last few days are because things so recent may not have had enough time to propagate up through the reporting chain to this spreadsheet).

That said, it could be a reporting anomaly or it could be that people on Mon/Tue are not showing up at the hospital, hypothetically because they're back at 'work' (WFH people still need to work, and there's still lots of necessary service workers still showing up.), and they ignore it for those first couple days til it's serious.