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Robusto
Robusto
00:53
@CowperKettle What happens when you play a country song backwards? Your pickup gets fixed, your dog comes back to life, and your woman hasn't left you ... yet.
 
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SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
02:24
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in answer, bad keyword with email in answer, email in answer, pattern-matching email in answer, potentially bad keyword in answer (349): bank cards: the same as debit card, or catch-all for debit and credit card by patricia cox on english.SE
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
03:01
@Mitch ... were heavily involved in the Russian Civil War fighting Bolsheviks, at times controlling the entire Trans-Siberian railway and several major cities in Siberia.
Czechoslovak Legion
The Czechoslovak Legion (Czech: Československé legie; Slovak: Československé légie) were volunteer armed forces composed predominantly of Czechs with a small number of Slovaks (approximately 8 percent) fighting on the side of the Entente powers during World War I. Their goal was to win the support of the Allied Powers for the independence of Bohemia and Moravia from the Austrian Empire and of Slovak territories from the Kingdom of Hungary, which were then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. With the help of émigré intellectuals and politicians such as the Czech Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and the Slovak...
Radola Gajda
Radola Gajda, born as Rudolf Geidl (14 February 1892, Kotor, Kingdom of Dalmatia, Austria-Hungary – 15 April 1948, Prague, Czechoslovakia), was a Czech military commander and politician. == Early years == Geidl's father was an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army based in Kotor. His mother was a poor Montenegrin noblewoman. Later, the family moved to Kyjov, Moravia, where Geidl studied at a secondary grammar school. In 1910 he went through one year of compulsory military service in Mostar. Afterwards Geidl left for the Balkans and likely took part in the Balkan Wars (1912–13). At the start of World...
> Gajda commanded the area from Novonikolayevsk (Novosibirsk) north to Irkutsk. Aggressive tactics, sometimes against the orders of his superiors, helped to defeat the Bolshevik forces and connect all units of the Legion.
> After the capture of Yekaterinburg by the Legion and the White Army in July 1918, he set up his headquarters in the city, establishing his office at the Ipatiev House, incidentally where the imprisoned Romanovs has been murdered by the Bolsheviks less than a week prior to the capture of the city. The most successful operation was the capture of Perm (24 December 1918) where the Legion took 20,000 prisoners
 
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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
04:34
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They should have violated the official rules a little and transliterated it as gaidook instead. That would be closer to the true pronunciation to boot.
 
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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
07:54
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Moskva = Moscow, Rossiya = Russia
 
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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
12:31
"pathophysiological mechanism" or "pathophysiologic mechanism"?
Mitch
Mitch
13:05
@CowperKettle Not knowing what researchers actually say, but my preference by far is '-ical'
@CowperKettle "His mother was a poor Montenegrin noblewoman." is the shortest rollercoaster ride ever
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
13:17
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Hah! They detained a CNN correspondent. A sure way to get more publicity for Navalny and his movement.
Putin's poisoning already increased his support from 5% to 10%. Had he just left him alone, but for some moronic reason he must pursue any opposition.
@Mitch Thank you!
@Mitch Is that a joke? I don't understand..
Mitch
Mitch
14:24
@CowperKettle not a joke, but an attempt at a witty remark: "mother was a poor..." oh so sad "...Montenegrin..." complicated Slavic home life... "noblewoman" whoa! I did not see -that- coming! what backstory brought her to that?
 
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M.A.R.
M.A.R.
15:46
@CowperKettle He might perversely like the bad press. Treating foreign press like garbage is a good way to reinforce the us vs. them mentality
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
16:18
@CowperKettle when they call words or sentences rollercoasters they usually mean they're in such stark constrast with each other that it's like riding down- and up-hill in a rollercoaster
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
16:43
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Study links prenatal phthalate exposure to altered information processing in infants
Plastic bottles are evil.
When I was a small kid, there were no plastic bottles, and guess what. People did not die.
Maybe we should just ban them.
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
16:55
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Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
17:14
y'all'd've'nt
Robusto
Robusto
17:25
Question for the day: Why do people say they could "visibly see" something?
Cerberus
Cerberus
17:57
As opposed to figurative seeing?
I saw what she meant.
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
18:33
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Cerberus
Cerberus
Hmm odd numbers.
I would not have expected Congo-Brazzaville to have 72% versus Congo-Kinshasa 9%.
And what's that 92% country, Equatorial Guinea or something?
Oh, it's Gabon.
I used to know all African countries...
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
I always have to look up African countries
I remember that Liberia is somewhere in the "bend"
Oops. I was wrong
Liberia somewhy has a very low level of electricity availability
> At approximately 12%, Liberia has one of the lowest electricity access rates in the world. In the capital city of Monrovia, less than 20% of the population has access to electricity.
Installed capacity 126 MW
That's much less than the capacity around Yekaterinburg. We are awash in electricity.
Beloyarsk Nuclear Power Station
The Beloyarsk Nuclear Power Station (NPS; Russian: Белоярская атомная электростанция им. И. В. Курчатова [pronunciation ]) was the third of the Soviet Union's nuclear plants. It is situated by Zarechny in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia. Zarechny township was created to service the station, which is named after the Beloyarsky District. The closest city is Yekaterinburg. == Early reactors == Two earlier reactors were constructed at Beloyarsk: an AMB-100 reactor (operational 1964–1983) and an AMB-200 reactor (operational 1967–1989). Both were supercritical water reactors; the first unit used 67 tons of...
1485 MW -- we have 10 times the capacity of the whole Liberia.
Cerberus
Cerberus
Yeah, Russia is a world apart from Africa.
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
We have a breeder reactor there (a nuclear reactor that generates more fissile material than it consumes)
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A: Meaning of "may do and doat" in a poem by Elizabeth Browning

PoezymandiasJust a brief note to what Jeff Morrow and Tᴚoɯɐuo wrote above -- It's possible that "May do" in the final line of the sonnet is intended to remind readers/listeners of the wedding vow "I do." If so, then this would support Jeff's claim that "do" means "love seriously." The larger sonnet sequence ...

Like a bolt from the blue, an answer to a question I asked eons ago
Robusto
Robusto
18:56
@CowperKettle: In my dilatory listening to Travels in Siberia I've just come across where he's talking about the Czech soldiers you mentioned who killed your great uncle (?) or whatever relative. They had apparently been prisoners of war, and were 50,000 of them and they were fighting their way to Vladivostok, with the intention of boarding ships and joining the war on the Western Front. I never knew about that.
Ah, here is the reference. I couldn't find it before:
yesterday, by CowperKettle
And died in the Urals, fighting against Czechs
yesterday, by CowperKettle
The brother of my grand-grandfather was also named Lazar
Not necessarily in that order.
BTW, the father of your grandfather is your great-grandfather.
His father is your great-great-grandfather. And so on.
 
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Mitch
Mitch
20:31
@Robusto Aren't they taking the long way round? Going as far east as possible to get back west? Why not split the difference and just help out at the Eastern front?
 
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Robusto
Robusto
22:07
@Mitch Hey, don't ask me. Maybe they thought it easier to fight their way through Siberia and sail around the world than to fight the Germans from behind with no Russian support.
 
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RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
23:42
@Mitch well, I did say "and". What is your question?
@Robusto here's something right up your alley:
Bach, Mendelssohn and the Saint Matthew Passion
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With no warning at all, in the first fifteen seconds alone they switch from English to German to Japanese.
And it goes on like that for twenty minutes.

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