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Robusto

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#waffle558 4/5

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jlliagre

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#waffle558 3/5

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M.A.R.

Daily Quordle 555
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I am become death, destroyer of Quordles

Laurel

@Mitch Actually, I feel like fewer people downvote. Sometimes it's maddening because I'll see a completely off topic question (not about English even) that's at 0 but closed, which means that nobody can vote to delete it (except mods) unless several days pass or it gets the vote to -3

M.A.R.

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Robusto

02:53

@M.A.R. OK, Barbenheimer, when you gonna step up to the Octordle realm?

alphabet

03:33

@CowperKettle Thought you'd appreciate a pun I found:

> I felt really bad for sleeping with my third cousin so after that I quit counting.

CowperKettle

LOL

> Aromatherapy during sleep increases cognitive capacity by 226% in older adults, an effect thought to be mediated by improved integrity of the prefrontal cortex’s uncinate fasciculus, a pathway directly linked to memory. frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2023.1200448/full

That's why I keep one of my two cat litterboxes in my room.

CowperKettle

04:16

LK-99

LK-99 is a potential room-temperature superconductor with a gray‒black appearance.: 8 It has a hexagonal structure slightly modified from lead‒apatite, by introducing small amounts of copper. The material was first discovered and manufactured by a team of researchers including Sukbae Lee (이석배) and Ji-Hoon Kim (김지훈) from Korea University.: 1 The team claims it functions as a superconductor at ambient pressure and below 400 K (127 °C; 260 °F).: 1 As of 2 August 2023, the material has not been confirmed to be superconducting at any temperature. The synthesis of LK-99 and observation of its s...

A lot of news noise about this ↑

MetaEd

04:35

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CowperKettle

06:29

Etymology of the day: disticiasis - derived from "distrix," describing the splitting of the ends of hairs, originating from the Greek words dis (two) and thrix (hair).

Ambiguous phrase of the day: take a knee

user223626865

08:39

“All of us want to be completely alive, to live one hundred percent in the present moment. What prevents us? More urgently, how can we bring about such a state of mind?
The great American psychologist [William James] gives us a clue in a quotation I found in a most unexpected place, Vogue magazine. This is a direct quotation: ‘The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will. An education which should include this faculty would be the education par excellence.’

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Vikas

09:04

> Women devotees take a dip in the waters of Yamuna river brimming with toxic foam on Chhath in Delhi

(It's 2 years old photo)

CowperKettle

09:27

@Vikas Wow

I thought it was ice

Dog devotee takes a leak in the waters of the Peschanoye lake in the Urals

Vikas

@CowperKettle lol

@CowperKettle 🤣

CowperKettle

Oppenheimer / Barbie

Adventures of a Little Brownie (Domovyonok Kuzya) Eng subs

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It's a 1980s cartoon

About a household spirit (domovoy) called Kuzma (Kuzya)

Brownie (folklore)

A brownie or broonie (Scots), also known as a brùnaidh or gruagach (Scottish Gaelic), is a household spirit or Hobgoblin from Scottish folklore that is said to come out at night while the owners of the house are asleep and perform various chores and farming tasks. The human owners of the house must leave a bowl of milk or cream or some other offering for the brownie, usually by the hearth. Brownies are described as easily offended and will leave their homes forever if they feel they have been insulted or in any way taken advantage of. Brownies are characteristically mischievous and are often said...

Me, aged 10, looking at Lego sets that I can't afford to buy.

Me, aged 25, looking at Lego sets that I can't afford to buy.

Another nice Ukrainian song. I should decipher the lyrics though

Енджі Крейда - НЛО (Чернівці тур Нескорені 2023)

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Another nice Ukrainian song. I should decipher the lyrics though

> We expect women to work like they don't have children, raise children as if they don't work, and look stunningly beautiful at all times, as if they neither have children nor go to work

A Chukcha man (native people of Siberia) it thrown into jail. His neighbor in the jail cell asks him:

- What did they get you for?

- I killed a white bear. They gave me six years for that. And you?

- I killed my wife. Got eight years..

- Eight years? For a wife? She only has a handful of fur!

Robusto

12:05

#Worldle #558 1/6 (100%)
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https://worldle.teuteuf.fr

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globle-game.com
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jlliagre

12:36

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Robusto

12:58

Daily Quordle 555
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That's more like it.

jlliagre

Hmm...

CowperKettle

French linguistic term of the day: Ch'ti, a dialect spoken in the Northern France by 700 000 people.

Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis

Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis est un film français réalisé par Dany Boon, sorti le 20 février 2008 dans le Nord-Pas-de-Calais et dans quelques salles de la Somme, le 27 février dans le reste de la France, en Belgique et en Suisse, un jour après au Luxembourg, et le 25 juillet au Canada. Deuxième long métrage réalisé par l'humoriste français Dany Boon après La Maison du bonheur (2006), le film raconte les aventures de Philippe Abrams, directeur d'une agence de La Poste dans le Sud de la France qui, par mesure disciplinaire, est muté pour une durée de deux ans à Bergues, dans le Nord-Pas-de-Calais. Pour...

A friend said it's a good movie.

jlliagre

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Robusto

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With new seed words.

jlliagre

13:22

@CowperKettle Yes, the movie was a big hit in France. It plays on clichés of Southern and Northern France. A difficult job for the people responsible for dubbing or writing the subtitles.

jlliagre

13:33

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CowperKettle

13:56

@Vikas My sister visited Varanasi a decade ago, and it was a bit unsanitary there too..

The funerary rites on the shores

Michael Rybkin

Could you please tell me if this sentence sounds fine to you?

IR is also function to assess the impact of a company actions (e.g. acquisitions, change in dividend policy, introduction of new product) on the company's position in the capital markets (e.g. stock price, competitive position, public perception).

CowperKettle

> IR is also a function to assess the impact of a company's actions (e.g. acquisitions, change in dividend policy, introduction of new product) on the company's position in the capital markets (e.g. stock price, competitive position, public perception).

Or "IR also functions to ... "

Or "One other function of IR is assessing the impact of a company's actions ..."

Wikipedia editors can be sloppy.

@user223626865 I admire William James' clear writing. I was amazed to learn that his sister suffered from what might have been a mental condition her whole life.

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