@Robusto Air in Boulder is hazardous now. Damn it. I was supposed to start back tomorrow.

It turns out that the majority of German porn movies are based on real events.

An 18-year old Chechen beheaded a history teacher in France for displaying caricatures of prophet Mohammed. Tell me about peaceful religions.

> When a Pelican Overheats it Pulls its Spine Out of its Mouth

Ah, no. iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/…

@CowperKettle well the religious people that haven't beheaded anyone and are not planning to are not necessarily less religious. If we're to label extremism as religiousness, then sure, tautologically, religious is dangerous because dangerous is religious.

@CowperKettle I managed to decrease my mins per km to 6:30

I feel like I could go further but I'm trying not to burn out myself because last time overenthusiasm cost me

@CowperKettle Mitch beat you to it

Huh, Mitch beat himself to it too. Twice.

chat.stackexchange.com/search?q=raises+an+eyebrow&room=95

@M.A.R. Well done! My average is 05:40! The Strava stats are a bit too flattering. I stop at traffic signs and sometimes go to a shop for a package of juice ))

Somewhy about 35 to 40 seconds/km gets lost in conversion from Endomondo to Strava

I've no idea.

The key is that virtually everyone merges the pronunciations of boarder–border these days, not to mention Hungary–hungry.

While it's not impossible to find those who do not, it's not easy to do so either.

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer (61): Question regarding comma vs. colon by Илья Ларин on english.SE

@tchrist Wow OK. I was gonna be a smartass about "Google suggests I send teens to Sweden" but this flew way over my head

@M.A.R. Part of it is knowing that smorgasbord is a Swedish loanword, and in fact having widespread smorgasbords advertised as such rather than as a buffet is far more likely in the U.S, states settled by Scandinavians, especially Minnesota and Wisconsin.

This is one of the more offensive things I've seen in a while.

I might have seen it before, and then mentally edited it out.

Why?

I haven't seen it.

(I realise this isn't on topic, but then again, much of what is posted here isn't.)

@Cerberus I don't really recommend it. Not even really sure why I posted it.

OK.

@Cerberus Why what? Why is it offensive?

Don't worry, I seldom click on videos.

I guess I just wanted to vent, perhaps.

@Cerberus Um, it's Colbert making fun of Assange.

OK.

Under the circumstances, that's the last thing he should be doing. But I guess the only thing he can really do is imitate Donald Trump.

Anyway, it's outrageous.

I guess maybe I just wanted to vent?

I mean, really, it's in appallingly bad taste.

@FaheemMitha Venting is on-topic

@M.A.R. Good to know.

@FaheemMitha And why should he not? If you think Assange is a force for good, you are in the minority. He's an arrogant jerk. That doesn't mean the trumped up charges of rape against him aren't bogus, mind you.

@tchrist I'm not here to defend Assange, because he doesn't need to be defended.

I just wanted to comment on how awful the video was, I guess.

Pointless though that may be.

Remember too that Trump offered Assange a full pardon if only he would proclaim he got nothing from Russia.

Or so it has been reported. That's likely a simplification of reality, perhaps a figmentation.

Since Assange was leaking Russian-supplied materials, this was itself problematic.

Also, Assange is pretty weird. Easily mocked.

Have you read that the Chinese president has told the military to prepare for war?

@skullpatrol eh, what else was he supposed to say?

Get well soon trump :P

This stuff is almost always just political trolling/baiting. They have to throw a tantrum every once in a while in case people start doubting their insanity.

@tchrist Wait, why isn't he a force for . . . well, not good per se, but a force for revealing some of the bad shit politicians do? He could be an arrogant jerk and perform those duties well, right?

I mean, I have no idea about Assange's personality. I wasn't ever following the news about him before this. I dunno why he's an arrogant jerk, but from the one article I've read about him, he didn't seem to be the humblest of people either.

@M.A.R. Publishing mundane but very slightly embarrassing troves of email illegally obtained by Russian intelligence operatives for the express purpose of furthering the likelihood that Putin’s managed asset would prevail in the U.S. election rather than his foe is not a force for anyone’s good beyond that of Russia. Yes, I will call that wrong.

It was an act of war.

Hence Trump's offer of a pardon in return for covering up Russia's illegal involvement.

@tchrist Oh! That case is closed then.

@Robusto A brand new fire (CalWood Fire) has sprung up very close to my house this afternoon, and mandatory evacuations are now up to first major road about a mile and a half to my north. And I'm still in Lake Geneva a 15-hour drive away because Boulder had AQI up above 500 yesterday due to the East Troublesome fire so I didn't already start back this morning. Really aweful.

"Very close" by fire standards, not by on-foot standards.

Correction, two major roads to my north, not just one. That's much farther, so like maybe 4 miles north of me not 1.5 miles north of me.

Live blog on all this from Channel 7. I can only watch and worry.

Oh, dear.

How terrible.

Any prognosis?

Way too soon,

And.... it's just crossed the highway coming east down out of the mountains. If it keeps moving due east and doesn't duck any south, I should be ok. Just poisoned.

Does this often happen so late in the year?