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Tuvan?
The Fourth Reich?
The Fourth Reich (German: Viertes Reich) is a hypothetical Nazi Reich that is the successor to Adolf Hitler's Third Reich (1933–1945). The term has also been used to refer to the possible resurgence of Nazi ideas, as well as pejoratively of political opponents. == Origin == The term "Third Reich" was coined by Arthur Moeller van den Bruck in his 1923 book Das Dritte Reich. He defined the Holy Roman Empire (800–1806) as the "First Reich", the German Empire (1871–1918) as the "Second Reich", while the "Third Reich" was a postulated ideal state including all German people, including Austria. In the...
@CowperKettle Well, Prigz wasn't the first guy to turn on Russia, attempt an invasion, then end up losing everything.
00:26
^ This map surprised me. I'm in the red area, and I'm rather surprised to learn that I'm the weird one.
Mid 20th century?
Idk how accurate it is, it's from reddit somewhere
I do think that Canadian raising may not be as ubiquitous as I kind of assumed it was.
It seems to be spreading southward, and intersecting with places where Southerners have basically the opposite pattern.
(The opposite in that /aɪ/ gets monophthongized before voiced consonants, instead of getting raised before voiceless ones.)
> The skull is the Totenkopf, used by the Waffen-SS, mostly responsible for the murder of millions of Jews.
The year is 2050. In the South, all vowels are now [a ~ æ].
00:36
@user223626865 It does look awfully similar.
Wagner will soon be the new Waffen once they find an ethnicity to persecute.
Is pronuncing roof like ruff the same phenomenon?
i.e. Canadian raising.
Heard that this year, was surprised.
That'd be a linguistic judgement.
@s.H.a.R.p.R.i.F.t No, I'm pretty sure you did not.
Did not hear it?
00:40
Yep.
Here comes the judge.
Because you're missing too many phonemes to distinguish some of them.
But it wasn't a strong oo like in ooze.
Of course not.
It was the vowel from PUT, HOOF, HOOK, SHOULD, WOULD, COULD.
That's not the same vowel as you find in the homophones ruff and rough.
We use the FOOT vowel in roof.
I can give you IPA if that would help.
00:43
please
[ɻʊf]
So I guess then some people pronounce it "higher" than that.
It's not [ɻəf] or [ɻʌf] the way ruff and rough are.
/ɹuf/ vs. /ɹʊf/
Noun: roof (plural roofs or rooves)
  1. (architecture) The external covering at the top of a building.
  2. The top external level of a building.
  3. The upper part of a cavity.
  4. (mining) The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein.
  5. (climbing) An overhanging rock wall.
Verb: roof (third-person singular simple present roofs, present participle roofing, simple past and past participle roofed)
  1. (transitive) To cover or furnish with a roof.
  2. To traverse buildings by walking or climbing across their roofs.
  3. (transitive, slang) To put into prison, to bird.
  4. (transitive...
I hear a great difference between the 1st and 2nd
00:45
@alphabet language maps are... Difficult to get right
I'm not sure what you're trying to show me with that link.
Greek-derived single word: "a derivative object that retains ornamental design cues (attributes) from structures that were necessary in the original"
Which is to say they may be correct by squinting in all directions but wrong in many details
City vs country is probably more important than areas
So I guess the one I thought was unusual is the baseline and the other one is the one which is less so.
It's a "checked/open/lax/short" vowel in [ɻʊf], the same one as in foot. You're thinking of the "close/tense/long" vowel [u] as in toot and hoot.
@CowperKettle We're quite familiar with this phaenomenon.
@s.H.a.R.p.R.i.F.t That's a minority pronunciation that comes off as somebody thinking they're better than you are.
Tuva (; Russian: Тува́) or Tyva (Tuvan: Тыва, romanized: Tıva), officially the Republic of Tuva, is a republic of Russia. Tuva lies at the geographical center of Asia, in southern Siberia. The republic borders the Altai Republic, Khakassia, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Irkutsk Oblast, and Buryatia in Russia, and shares an international border with Mongolia to the south. Tuva has a population of 336,651 (2021 census). Its capital is the city of Kyzyl. Historically part of Outer Mongolia as Tannu Uriankhai during the Qing dynasty, the last imperial dynasty of China, Tuva broke away in 1911 as the Uryankhay...
Cf. the triglyphs in Greek temples.
Which were originally the ends of wooden beams.
@tchrist Got it. I thought it was the norm. Good to know.
00:49
The Tuvans or Tyvans (Tuvan: Тывалар, romanized: Tıvalar) are a Turkic ethnic group indigenous to Siberia who live in Russia (Tuva), Mongolia, and China. They speak Tuvan, a Siberian Turkic language. In Mongolia they are regarded as one of the Uriankhai peoples.Tuvans have historically been livestock-herding nomads, tending to herds of goats, sheep, camels, reindeer, cattle and yaks for the past thousands of years. They have traditionally lived in yurts covered by felt or chums, layered with birch bark or hide that they relocate seasonally as they move to newer pastures. Traditionally, the Tuvans...
Shoigu is a Tuvan.
@CowperKettle Is that where he is from?
@s.H.a.R.p.R.i.F.t And that would isn't as rounded as it should be. I predict a future w-vs-h merger in those who can't put their lips together.
> Shoigu was born on 21 May 1955 in Chadan, Tuvan Autonomous Oblast, to an ethnic Tuvan father, newspaper editor Kuzhuget Shoigu [ru][c] (1921–2010) and a Ukrainian-born Russian mother, Alexandra Yakovlevna Shoigu (1924–2011).
I predict the coming of Augustus and half a millennium of peace.
@CowperKettle His mother was born in Ukraine!
Tuvans do the darndest things.
@alphabet also as @Cerberus points out, what does 'mid 20th c' mean? Is that -birn- then or adult then?
00:51
@Mitch No clue
@s.H.a.R.p.R.i.F.t My recollection is that you're a native French speaker from the northeastern part of North America. Easterners tend to have the British sound, but the rest of us find it a bit too precious.
@Cerberus Pax ... Russo?
Notice that Wikipedia marks it as "Inland North America". When you're too close to the sea, your rooves get all soggy.
You'll find such people also pronounce hoof with that same vowel.
@Mitch Perhaps Ruthenia?
And its plural, hooves.
00:53
that behooves me
@Mitch It says "born white".
@Cerberus oh. I shoulda seen that
We're the same folks who rhyme route with shout, not with boot.
I'd also like examples with the legend
could one of your avatar heads be a different color @Cerberus
00:56
@Cerberus I wonder what born white can possibly mean!
@tchrist Before surgery, probably.
vs born black
@Cerberus That's what I was thinking.
@tchrist Yes, I'm French-Canadian....
A full-skin transplant isn't cheap, though.
00:57
WTF is this born binniss?
Most people have just their faces done and simply wear gloves.
No sex on the beach.
@tchrist (In case you're serious, it's "mid-20th-century(-)born, white".)
@tchrist But I'm confused, are you saying the Inland Northern is not standard? Because that's the one that sounds unusual to me.
@s.H.a.R.p.R.i.F.t It's certainly standard for non-coastal speakers.
And Inland Northern is a very, very common dialect.
It used to be the standard, once upon a time.
My white is high as a kite.
If it's a Canadian kite.
01:01
@tchrist Ok. Possibly because I'm not a native speaker and it's known French-Canadians pronounce th in the and law in lawyer in a weak lax way, I add extra emphasis on words which made me think roof should sound like ooze etc. Hypercorrection and expecting it too, hence my reaction.
i.e. my lawyer sounds like liar.
@s.H.a.R.p.R.i.F.t There are people from the south of the United States who rhyme lawyer and buyer. It's a very strange thing.
Yes, that's just crazy talk.
Most of us rhyme lawyer with boy-er.
We have an O sound there not an A sound.
But in Tennessee, they do not.
that is your proclamation sir
If say law then pause then say -yer, I'm clearer. That's my trick.
@user223626865 Dint know you were Appaloochin.
@tchrist thanks for the explanation!
01:07
@s.H.a.R.p.R.i.F.t They also say Tom Sigher there, not Tom Sawyer.
Like Sire I guess.
Yes.
A bit more drawn out, perhaps.
The faster I speak, the more I'll sound like that.
I've given up on sounding like a native speaker a long time ago. It's a lost cause.
Fluency has its benefits.
I've known many French Canadians whose English is easy and perhaps even fluent, but who retain a French lilt.
01:12
In my world my English is outstanding compared with the norm. But that doesn't mean much.
By easy, I mean it is easy for them to speak it.
I find it easy since I'm 14. But sounding right is another matter altogether.
Oh, then you'll do fine!
You still have enough plasticity.
That was many decades ago. Verbs.
Keep practicing.
01:14
Oh, that will have been I've found it easy since I was 14.
Hahaha that was funny.
I'm almost 50.
Oh haha I thought you are 14
Hence the lost cause.
Practice can regain the cause.
Yes, you're mentally translating Je trouve ça facile depuis que j’ai quatorze ans and that ends up with weird tenses in English.
Something like that.
01:17
Most likely. I speak better when I'm less tired.
At work I speak more and more with Americans. There is hope. Maybe.
Anyways, Bonne Saint-Jean!
The cause is never completely lost.
cya
@tchrist That threw me for a second. Do we have minors in this chatroom?
I've seen a few 14 year-olds in chat.
01:36
@alphabet The minimum age for using SE is 13, but mods have to escalate to staff if anyone admits to being under 16, since GDPR crap means that some areas have a higher minimum age
@Laurel Ok. I won't tell anyone I'm a fourth-grader /s
what does GDPR stand for?
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@s.H.a.R.p.R.i.F.t Almost had a pretty big uh oh here lol
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robertcdayMy profile (user31385) has been deleted because someone has got the impression that I am under 13. I was born in 1964 and so however much I wish I was younger, I'm not underage for this community. How can I get that profile re-enabled please? If not, perhaps the questions, answers and reputation...

Like that ^
01:50
@Laurel It's not doubt not GDPR crap that causes this issue, but rather SE's harvesting of everyone's data / passing them on to advertisers?
They're looking for a harvest moon.
Jk I'm actually 97. Chillin in my assisted living facility
/s
> We can at this point only speculate about why Prigozhin undertook this putsch, and why it all failed so quickly. One possibility is that Prigozhin had allies in Moscow who promised to support him, and somehow that support fell through: Perhaps his friends in the Kremlin got cold feet, or were less numerous than Prigozhin realized, or never existed at all. Prigozhin, after all, is not exactly a military genius or a diplomat
@Cerberus I don't think so. Well, I don't know what they're selling, but even if it's nothing, they can't keep PII from underaged users. GDPR is just what caused the inconsistent age requirements (though there may be equivalents outside of Europe that do the same)
> Bringing in President Alexander Lukashenko as a broker at first seemed an odd choice on Putin’s part, but it makes a bit more sense in light of the supposed deal
02:02
Personally identifiable information (PII) is information that, when used alone or with other relevant data, can identify an individual.
02:50
@Laurel As long as they don't have any of that, beyond like an e-mail address, and don't collect/sell any user data, I'm sure they will be fine within the GDPR.
I still think they are harvesting. @Cerberus
Oh. Kagoshima is indeed almost on the same latitude with San Diego.
So the map is correct also latitudewise
huge difference in GDP/capita
03:05
Research: curly hair provide the best solar heat protection to the head smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/…
@user223626865 Probably.
@CowperKettle That explains why Africans are curly...
03:24
But then apes would have curly...
03:34
ISW is very confident that this wasn't staged. I'm now leaning towards the theory that this was all a massive miscalculation on Prigz's part, or an act of desperation.
@user223626865 Humans walk long distances in the sun. Apes do not.
@alphabet I still wonder why Putin accepts a deal with him.
20 hours ago, by Vikas
@CowperKettle Either Wagner boss would be ordered to be arrested or there will be negotiations with him meeting his demands or whatever he wants.
Can we all agree my prediction was right?
03:50
clap clap
Surprisingly, both of your scenarios came true.
@Cerberus It stops the revolt completely. No other option to avoid a civil war.
@Vikas Yep!
I don't know.
> I suggested yesterday that Shoigu’s attempt to seize Wagner’s men and dissolve the force might be one of the reasons Prigozhin went on the march. This outcome is a defeat of the first order for Prigozhin, who has now lost everything except his life.
Nonetheless, this bizarre episode is not a win for Putin. The Russian dictator has been visibly wounded, and he will now bear the permanent scar of political vulnerability. Instead of looking like a decisive autocrat (or even just a mob boss in command of his crew), Putin left Moscow after issuing a short video in which he was visibly angry an
Indeed. Not a good look.
Probably not staged, but it did make for good TV.
I still think Prigz might fall out a window at some point.
04:12
He very well may, unless he can take warriors with him to Belarus.
> Prigozhin gets to stay alive, at least for the moment, but his life as he knew it (and maybe in any sense) is over.
> Putin, however, is now politically weaker than ever. The once unchallengeable czar is no longer invincible. The master of the Kremlin had to make a deal with a convict—again, in Putin’s culture, among the lowest of the low—just to avert the shock and embarrassment of an armed march into the Russian capital while other Russians are fighting on the front lines in Ukraine.
> Prigozhin drew blood and then walked away from a man who never, ever lets such a personal offense go unavenged. Putin, however, may have had no choice, which is yet another sign of his precarious situation. All of the options were terrifying:
Ordering the Russian military to attack armed Russian men would have been a huge risk, especially because those men (and their hatred of the bureaucrats at the Defense Ministry) have at least some support among Russia’s officers and political elites. Killing Prigozhin outright was also a high-risk proposition; with their leader dead and the Russian m
Or he gets hit with a sledgehammer in an act of karmic retribution.
So ... is Prigz a latter-day Xenopohon, or merely an opportunist and perennial outsider who was doomed to fail?
04:32
> What did Mario say when he broke up with Princess Peach?
It’s-a not you, it’s-a me, Mario!
04:49
Daily Octordle #516
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I don't know. Putin knew 1 full day before P. acted that he would act. The guy behind the troll farm that possibly enabled Trump to win, the guy with 50 millions $ in spare change cash who runs Wagner worldwide and his responsible for many of the symbolic wins on the battlefield in Ukraine would have lost all currency in a fit of rage and would go into a peaceful forced retirement in Belarus because of this. And Putin would have allowed this to happen.
This would demonstrate a weakness in Putin's hold over the state and this and that.
The lesson would be that mercenaries need to be sober in life.
A great tale.
> Obama Calls Out Obsession With Titanic Sub While People Turn Blind Eye To Migrant Boat Tragedy
Yeah, I've heard so many people discussing the sub gimmick. Who cares. Now Canada and the U.S. will spend more millions investigating this. With our taxes.
05:08
Yes, there were about 400 people on the boat.
On 14 June 2023, a fishing boat smuggling migrants sank in international waters in the Ionian Sea off the coast of Pylos, Messenia, Greece. The boat, which left Tobruk, Libya, on 10 June, carried an estimated 400 to 750 migrants. The search and rescue effort by Greek authorities rescued 104 survivors including Egyptians, Syrians, Pakistanis, Afghans, and Palestinians, and recovered 82 bodies, with hundreds more missing and presumed dead. == Background == Libya's ongoing crisis, alongside instability in neighboring countries, has allowed a large people-smuggling business to develop, making Libya...
> Drowning is the 3rd leading cause of unintentional injury death worldwide, accounting for 7% of all injury-related deaths.

There are an estimated 236 000 annual drowning deaths worldwide.

Global estimates may significantly underestimate the actual public health problem related to drowning.
That's 647 known drowning deaths each day on average.
05:37
Ukrainian song with simple lyrics.
> Where are you, my dear kitty? Send me a picture of your titty!
Grope me under the mattress, grope me under the mattress.
This is all.
In a different arrangement, the same masterpiece.
 
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08:21
@CowperKettle I like the statement near the beginning, that having different opinions is so 20th century. In the 21st we have different facts.
08:43
I thought the arguments failed to develop logical conclusions.
It was all opinion.
 
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Daily Octordle #517
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Wordle 736 3/6

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12:57
Maybe the deal between Putin, Lukashenko and Prigz is that the latter goes to Belarus with his mercenaries and attack Ukraine/Kyiv from here.
#Worldle #520 1/6 (100%)
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globle-game.com
#globle
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Daily Quordle 517
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Daily Octordle #517
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@jlliagre Nice score. I think that's the best I've yet seen for Quordle. I think my personal best is 18.
@Robusto The best (and the worst) scores are often the result of a gamble (which I did for the fourth word).
Yeah. Win by the sword, die by the sword.
Luck seems to figure into most of my great scores too.
@Robusto Italian Chi di spada ferisce, di spada perisce stays close to the nice Latin turn Qui gladio ferit, gladio perit.
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13:53
@jlliagre Mine was a play in that, substituting win for live. ^_^
Kadyrov and his pals arrived too late, but they still decided to do a photoshoot: twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1672877247760408576
14:11
Anyway Girkin is using this opportunity to remind us about "an increase in crime, primarily from criminal ethnic groups among migrants"
14:36
Evenin'
What's shaking
1st exam down, time to slack off till the day before the second
@Robusto ah man! Leave it to me to miss out on all the fun
So Prigozhin joins the Röhms of the history huh
@Robusto I never realized Octordle was so serious
@M.A.R. Yep, except not gay and not dead.
Well, this sudden coup is crazy enough as it is, I can't think it's some elaborate soap opera
14:55
@alphabet Not yet.
15:20
> Нап.cал cooб///eние
If anyone knows, does it mean something?
Someone commented on my social media post. Could be spam.
Translate doesn't show any meaningful result.
@Cerberus Haha. The first reply seems intelligent. The second reply is what you typed 🤣
Google Translate showed it as Bulgarian.
@Vikas Maybe it is Bulgarian.
@Vikas The issue is that some of those are Latin characters that should have been the identical-looking Cyrillic ones; a corrected version is "Нап.сал сооб//ение"
Google Translate suggests Bulgarian for "message sent" or Russian for "Wrote a message," though it appears to have typos in either language so it could be some other similar language
Oh, how did you notice?
15:34
ChatGPT told me it had a "mixture of Russian and non-standard characters." Then I noticed that two two "c"s were different sizes in the font that ChatGPT uses. So I figured it was an encoding issue.
@alphabet I think he just posted a spam message asking me to "message him".
Like "write a message" to him.
Something like the common "DM me".
Aha! Sometimes spambots will replace Cyrillic characters with Latin ones that look identical, or (more commonly) vice-versa, so that their messages won't be detected as easily.
@alphabet Ah, it didn't tell me that.
This happens a lot in (say) spam emails. If you replace a random set of Latin "a"s in your email with Cyrillic "a"s each time you send it, you can send the same email a thousand times without technically being identical, so spam filters may not catch it as readily.
Classic tactic.
@alphabet Makes sense.
15:36
@Cerberus I was using ChatGPT, not Bing.
It means something similar to "send a message" in various Slavic languages; I'm not sure what the intended one was.
Well, I believe GPT in any form may very well give you a different response if you ask the same question again.
That's also the reason for the odd extraneous punctuation (and possibly the apparent typos); just more attempts to make it not-exactly-identical to other spam messages so that filters won't catch it as easily
You see this all the time in spam messages sent in English; I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that it also occurs in spam messages sent in other languages
Sometimes the bad language also helps to filter out people who have any level of awareness of the existence of spam; they only want messages from people who are too naive to recognize whatever scam they're trying to pull off
This almost broke the internet when they started allowing non-Latin characters in domain names, since you could register a version of "paypal.com" with the Cyrillic "a" and trick people into entering their passwords there.
Now web browsers have various ways of trying to expose this sort of thing so that you don't get tricked.
Humidity tonight is going up to 98%. Yuck.
16:29
@alphabet Too many digits!!! Last night we had 9% at 6:50pm.
@tchrist Wow.
There are many good reasons to live in Boston. (Ok, not many, but some.) The summer thunderstorms are not among them.
Give us this day our daily gullywasher, and lead us not into slot canyons but deliver us from drowning.
17:33
It's raining here after one week of intense heat.
It should cool my laptop.
17:44
No rain here!
The hea continues.
18:19
Here the rain makes things worse; it doesn't lower the temperature much, but it does make things incredibly humid for a few days.
I think we don't have humidity issue yet. When it's actually bothering, I will know as my air conditioner will start releasing at least one bucket of water overnight.
@Vikas Ouch. I should stop complaining.
@alphabet Why?
I would hate that time of the year more than now.
@Vikas I've never had my air conditioner release a bucket of water. (Granted, maybe my A/C just works differently and/or is much smaller.) So your weather is probably worse.
@alphabet Oh. But it doesn't happen right now. But it usually happens for few weeks after monsoon period.
Somewhere around August-September if I remember correctly.
18:32
@Vikas I'm glad we do not have monsoons here.
@alphabet And I guess it's necessity here.
Almost everyone waits for rain.
@Vikas Because it lowers the temperature?
Or because it's the only source of water?
@alphabet I think more than one reasons. Temperature, yes, sure. Also it helps farmers.
@Vikas Yeah, there aren't many farms around here.
And I'm pretty sure "source of water" is also somewhat true.
@alphabet USA?
18:37
@Vikas How do you deal with the water?
I have installed a hose from my A/C to outside the window.
@Vikas I'm in the US--specifically Boston, along the coast in the Northeast.
Water will drip on people's heads...
@Cerberus My mom likely washes the floor on roof. Or for similar usage.
Where is the water collected?
Oh
18:38
My unit normally has a reservoir.
But it gets full fast, and then it overflows, super annoying.
There is a small pipe (guess it's called hose) which is put directly into a bucket. It's not ideal but it works.
Ah OK, I understand.
I suppose I could do that too.
But now it goes out the window...
That bucket sounds like a good way to attract insects.
Also the air conditioner wasn't installed when the home was built. So we had to do such adjustments/compromises.
Oh, yours is a whole-house one. That explains the full bucket of water.
18:40
@Cerberus Yeah sometimes it does.
Didn't even think about that. I live in a roughly 300-square-foot apartment.
@Cerberus Can it be used for watering plants? I'm not sure if it's considered polluted or bad water.
@alphabet Me? In my home my parents don't use AC yet. There's only one that I use. It's on top floor so it's more hot. Normal water coolers won't help much especially when it's humid.
@Vikas Ah, I thought you had one of those "central" units that cools down a whole house. Those are common in hotter regions of the US, at least in newer houses.
I take it those aren't common in India?
@alphabet I get it. But we have the other ones. Split AC. One AC per room.
(You're in India, right?)
18:44
@alphabet I guess most residential areas don't have those central AC. In offices, I've observed the same what you meant.
@alphabet Yes
@Vikas Here they're less common, partly because a lot of the houses are very old, and partly because we didn't use to have as many heat waves as we do now.
It doesn't work efficiently when it's too hot like the last few days. It struggled to lower room temperature below 30 degree C. I suspect it has technical issues. But today it worked better but again maybe because weather changed. I will observe it for a couple of days and then call technicians to see if it has issues.
@Vikas 30C is the outdoor temperature here.
If it lowers upto 25 C, that would be more than enough here.
@alphabet Yeah. I'll see. It looks a bit suspicious. Surely severe heat could be culprit but I suspect something may not be working as expected.
Granted, in the winter here -5C is not uncommon. At least you don't have that.
18:49
I guess we have around 3C minimum.
@Vikas Yes, sure.
The only pollution will be the fact that it touched the insides of your A/C unit.
Which I should think are not extremely polluting.
@Cerberus I'm asking this while I have actually observed farmers supplying stinking water in their one of fields around us.
Well, the water from your unit doesn't stink, does it?
Stinking like sewage LOL.
@Cerberus No. It seems good.
@Vikas Hey, sewage is decent fertilizer.
18:51
@Vikas You might also want to clean the filters.
@Cerberus Yeah I do it from time to time.
And make sure the air intakes aren't obstructed by objects next to the unit.
@Vikas Then it is probably sewage...
@s.H.a.R.p.R.i.F.t Wildfire smoke?
18:52
Nothing is obstructed. It suddenly behaved abnormally but it coincided with the hot week.
@alphabet Maybe. But it didn't feel good to me when I went for walk.
I guess it wouldn't make the crop worse.
@Vikas (I was being sarcastic, using sewage that way is surprisingly common but obviously not particularly safe.)
@alphabet I think so.
I would be surprised to see Canada in top of the list.
Only during wildfires. Delhi is still 5th.
@alphabet Funny story... when I was a kid we had central AX for our house. Some of the AC machinery was in the attic, and there was a heat exchange thing with a fan outside the house. I'm pretty sure all AC units have some water condensation situation because physics. So when they install the inside unit they do some weird routing of the water to the plumbing maybe?
Anyway, my grandmother was visiting us, and one time very early in the morning when no one was up yet, she yelled out a scream. The ceiling had collapsed right and was hanging inches from her face.
There must have been a leak in the AC water line and it had slowly saturated the plaster ceiling just in that room. Over time the weight built up and finally fell through. But my grandmother wasn't injured at all. Why not? It just so happens that the bed in that room was a 'four-poster' and had a decorative canopy over it. So the canopy caught all the ceiling debris, just inches above my grandmother's head.
@Mitch I assume it goes into the sewage lines normally?
18:56
Delhi is not good place to live IMO. Even if you're rich you won't want it.
@alphabet yeah, like all waste water
@Mitch Wow. That must have taken a while to repair.
Only if you're born there or you have memories associated with Delhi, then you would prefer it.
@Vikas Are there nice suburbs at least, outside of the city that aren't so dusty and where the air is fresher?
@alphabet I was a kid and so I didn't pay attention to that.
I don't remember my grandmother ever staying over at our place after that.
@Mitch I didn't explore it fully. It could be. But most cities around Delhi are polluted.
18:59
@Vikas Are there any good non-polluted cities?
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