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SmokeDetector

02:17

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in link text in body, blacklisted website in body, potentially bad ip for hostname in body, potentially bad ns for domain in body (170): Definitely, I am not the master at this by far by Dingbest on english.SE

CowperKettle

02:58

A new journalist investigation discovered that back in 2013 the newly-minted husband of Putin's daughter "purchased" 3.8% of shares in an oil corporation for USD100, making him multi-millionaire.

He became the youngest USD billionaire in Russia very quickly.

I think that in a Western country this investigation would have led to the fall of the president, the government, just to start with.

Robusto

Queen - Dont Stop Me Now (Lyrics).

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@CowperKettle Not in the US. Not with Trump still in office. He's our mini-Putin.

Maybe in Canada.

CowperKettle

03:19

Blame Canada - South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut (3/9) Movie CLIP (1999) HD

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They're not even a real country anyway

Robusto

@CowperKettle Ah, yes. I forgot about the Prince of Canada. ^_^

South Park: Stan vs. The Canadian Devil

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Satan Explaines Naturalism

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skillpatrol

@Robusto that's a highly debated topic in physics

The founder of string theory says it is unlikely.

Robusto

03:34

@skillpatrol Yeah yeah yeah, Hawking radiation and all that. Has anyone ever seen Hawking radiation?

skillpatrol

No.

Robusto

@skillpatrol Well, I got your string theory right here:

Biggest ball of twine

There are multiple claims to the world's biggest ball of twine record in the United States. As of 2014, the ball of twine with the largest circumference is located in Cawker City, Kansas. == Largest ball of sisal twine built by a community == In Cawker City, Kansas, Frank Stoeber created a ball that had 1.6 million feet (490,000 m) of twine and 11-foot-diameter (3.4 m) when he died in 1974. Cawker City built an open-air gazebo over Stoeber's ball where every August a "Twine-a-thon" is held and more twine is added to the ball. By 2006, the twine ball had reached 17,886 pounds (8,111 kg, 8.9 US...

skillpatrol

lol

Robusto

@skillpatrol I rest my case.

skillpatrol

Robusto

03:37

And now I must leave. I have to shut down my computer because for some reason it refuses to go to sleep all by itself. Like a bratty little baby, it wants to stay up all night. Geezis.

Ta for now.

skillpatrol

cya

in This Is Fine, 2 mins ago, by Tim Stone

Chuck Yeager has died, RIP

CowperKettle

04:02

> Speaking in an interview to Yediot Aharonot, Eshed – who served as the head of Israel's space security program for nearly 30 years and is a three-time recipient of the Israel Security Award – explained that Israel and the US have both been dealing with aliens for years.

> The Jerusalem Post was unable to reach out to this supposed Galactic Federation for comment.

jpost.com/omg/…

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M.A.R.

08:14

@CowperKettle yes but to what extent? A couple of bearded lymphocyte rednecks saying "naw naw, if it ain't good ol' 'rona" doesn't cut it

@CowperKettle War makes people superstitious. Weren't Israeli officers vocal, firm believers in the China-created-Covid camp early this year?

@Robusto mine does that too often

Sometimes even in the middle of the night it wakes up from sleep for no reason

ALieNs!!!1

All-powerful beings that travelled thousands of light years with unfathomably advanced technology to vaguely prank me by turning on my computer

Sounds like a life goal :thumbs-up:

CowperKettle

@M.A.R. He is 87 years old. Maybe it's the age. People's cognition declines with age.

I don't know about Israeli officers. There are too many of them. Israelis seem very politicized and there are many different opinions there.

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SmokeDetector

09:47

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, link at beginning of body, pattern-matching product name in body, pattern-matching website in body, +3 more (531): What Are The Timeless Keto Boost Ingredients? by MeganaJoy on english.SE

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M.A.R.

13:03

Mar 4 at 14:57, by Mitch

@tchrist You're raisin a good point.

skullpatrol

13:17

punny

CowperKettle

13:59

The first man who received the covid vaccine in the UK was William Shakespeare, aged 91

Matt E. Эллен

14:26

that's a fun coincidence :D

CowperKettle

> between 2009-2017, there has been an average of 120,232 firearm injuries in the USA each year, or 329 per day, with cases of nonfatal injury twice as prevalent as deaths from firearms

medicalxpress.com/news/…

CowperKettle

14:53

Tis not enough that through the skin thou prick
And in a fortnight booster shot apply
For no man well of such a salve can speak
That drives not antibody count up high

Nor can a mask give physic to my grief;
A virus still can aerosolize
This textile hurdle gives but weak relief,
When you are forced to over-socialize.

Faheem Mitha

@CowperKettle 81.

@CowperKettle I assume that's a parody of something. But Alas! in my ignorance I know not what.

CowperKettle

15:09

@FaheemMitha shakespeares-sonnets.com/sonnet/34

> 'Tis not enough that through the cloud thou break,
To dry the rain on my storm-beaten face,
For no man well of such a salve can speak,
That heals the wound, and cures not the disgrace:
Nor can thy shame give physic to my grief;
Though thou repent, yet I have still the loss:
The offender's sorrow lends but weak relief
To him that bears the strong offence's cross.

Faheem Mitha

@CowperKettle Thank you. I think I may have read that one once.

CowperKettle

I vaguely recalled that it used the word salve and decided to parody it a little ))

Robusto

@CowperKettle You're missing an iamb in line 6. You wouldn't pronounce aerosolize with three stresses.

CowperKettle

@Robusto OOps! In Russian it has three stresses. Thanks!

Robusto

No problema.

@CowperKettle I thought Russian words all had single stresses.

CowperKettle