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@jlliagre It was August 1's 2nd picture.
Switching timezone to Turk and Caicos to see what picture it was.
@Cerberus Right, There is definitely a modern trolleybus in it.
3rd.
Of course I vacillated between two places.
Picked the wrong one.
I was luckier.
How did you get this one?
For me it was 50/50/
I didn't hesitated. I was 99% sure about the country.
Funny we picked the same year, probably.
00:18
What made you so sure?
As to the 4th one, I am clueless.
4th.
Yes, that was my guess.
#4 Dead heat.
@jlliagre Spoiler
@jlliagre Are you guys doing tomorrow's?
@Robusto Spoiler
@Robusto No, yesterday's.
00:33
@Cerberus a trolley is a kiddie word for a street car that runs on rails in the street. It can be propelled by overhead electric lines or by some engine.
@Robusto Or today's, from a Turk and Caicos point of view.
@jlliagre Or New Mexican.
Something called a 'trolley bus' sounds like some newfangled chimera of a bus and a trolley, but I don't know what parts are new or shared.
A trolleybus (also known as trolley bus, trolley coach, trackless trolley, trackless tram – in the 1910s and 1920s – or trolley) is an electric bus that draws power from dual overhead wires (generally suspended from roadside posts) using spring-loaded trolley poles. Two wires, and two trolley poles, are required to complete the electrical circuit. This differs from a tram or streetcar, which normally uses the track as the return path, needing only one wire and one pole (or pantograph). They are also distinct from other kinds of electric buses, which usually rely on batteries. Power is most commonly...
@Mitch So you knew what it means? I am confused.
00:35
There's a bus and there's a trolley (but you'd call it a street car, I'm not 5 years old at some amusement park), but there's nothing that I would call a 'trolley bus'
(in US English)
OK.
@jlliagre Same.
@Cerberus no I don't know what it is exactly.
5th.
@Mitch OK now you do!
Sure it must be some sort of public trans like a bus.
#WhenTaken #156 (01.08.2024)

I scored 820/1000 🎉

1️⃣ 📍 1328 km - 🗓️ 5 yrs - ⚡ 158 / 200
2️⃣ 📍 518 km - 🗓️ 7 yrs - ⚡ 175 / 200
3️⃣ 📍 2070 km - 🗓️ 3 yrs - ⚡ 146 / 200
4️⃣ 📍 1583 km - 🗓️ 9 yrs - ⚡ 145 / 200
5️⃣ 📍 7.5 metres - 🗓️ 4 yrs - ⚡ 196 / 200

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00:37
I'd just call it a street car?
I never quite know what a street car is.
Isn't a car always on the street?
Touché
@Cerberus Good job!
Street car sounds like a 5 years old speak ;-)
But it's those things still in San Francisco.
00:38
@Robusto Thanks!
I'm not sure whether Google helped much.
A Streetcar Named Desire is a play written by Tennessee Williams and first performed on Broadway on December 3, 1947. The play dramatizes the experiences of Blanche DuBois, a former Southern belle who, after encountering a series of personal losses, leaves her once-prosperous situation to move into a shabby apartment in New Orleans rented by her younger sister Stella and brother-in-law Stanley. A Streetcar Named Desire is one of the most critically acclaimed plays of the 20th century and Williams's most popular work. It still ranks among his most performed plays, and has inspired many adaptations...
@jlliagre even moreso touché
I think probably not.
Yet that's how I call them
00:40
@Mitch The Green Line in Boston is a glorified streetcar.
@Robusto yes but I wouldn't call it a street car.
The Silver line (from the airport to downtown) actually fills all the boxes to be a 'bus/streetcar hodgepodge.
@jlliagre Near where I live is a long road that climbs to the tram that ascends to the peak of Sandia Mountain. Its name is Tramway.
@Mitch You're just trying to be polite.
#WhenTaken #156 (01.08.2024)

I scored 890/1000 🎉

1️⃣ 📍 290 km - 🗓️ 1 yrs - ⚡ 189 / 200
2️⃣ 📍 761 km - 🗓️ 11 yrs - ⚡ 159 / 200
3️⃣ 📍 16 km - 🗓️ 3 yrs - ⚡ 196 / 200
4️⃣ 📍 1803 km - 🗓️ 6 yrs - ⚡ 147 / 200
5️⃣ 📍 632.5 metres - 🗓️ 1 yrs - ⚡ 199 / 200

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@Mitch Streetcars have steps up to the standing/sitting area. So does the Green Line. The Red Line and the Orange Line are entered level.
It's a bus with rubber tire wheels, and overhead electrical connection, and it has a dedicated underground 'street' but then when it comes out into real city streets it detaches from the overhead electricity
An engineering nightmare.
00:45
@Mitch Sometimes, but not always. Real streetcars ride on rails on the street with overhead electrical connectors.
There's also a bus line from Cambridge to Watertown along Mt Auburn that is a bus with overhead electrical connection, but I call that ...
A 'bus with an electrical connection'
Or 'bus' for short
My son lives in Watertown. He rides an e-bike in to work most days.
@Robusto the thing you replied to was a continuation of my previous post, not a response to your immediately preceding post
@Robusto So the road to the tram (what is that tram?) is called Tramway?
@jlliagre Yup.
00:48
Is it recursive?
@Robusto an e-bike, contrary to what some might say, is not a bus or an electric bus or a street car.
Just to clarify
@jlliagre One hopes not, especially when climbing the six or seven miles on ever-increasing grades. 3% to 10%. I only do it when I'm feeling brave or foolish.
@Mitch Thank you for clearing that up.
No te preocupes!
Portuguese?
@Robusto So you call just tram what we call a tramway?
00:51
@jlliagre No, the tram here is what we would call a cable car system.
@Cerberus no, I barely knew her.
@Robusto Aerial or SF like?
@Mitch Apparently enough.
@jlliagre Aerial.
Ach, un téléphérique!
00:55
That's it, in the flesh.
I had a télépherique as a child.
I think my parents bought it for me as a souvenir when they were skiing in Switzerland.
I think it still hangs in my old room.
They haven't converted your childhood room into a guest room or 'the room that holds all the out of date computer equipment'?
It's 9PM in Turks & Caicos, time to go to bed!
@Mitch Nope!
My father put some of his clothes in my closet.
@Cerberus are you two the same clothes sizes? You could just walk away with some of his stuff
00:59
Bonne nuit.
@Mitch Nooo.
They just took out some of my clothes.
@jlliagre Slaap wel.
01:18
@jlliagre Buenas noches.
@Mitch We downsized and got rid of all the out-of-date computer equipment. Unfortunately, now we don't have enough room for that stuff, so we have to make decisions about obsolete stuff. Goodwill is great for that.
 
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11:07
@Robusto Goodwill (or other 2nd hand stores) will take old computer equipment? "Here let these guys figure out what cable goes with what."
 
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12:16
@Cerberus Spanish for 'no worries'.
12:30
Word of the day: poly bombing. Definition from Reddit: "Poly bombing" is when one partner of a monogamous relationship says to their partner, without much warning, "I'm poly and you need to be poly too or this relationship ends right now" (or some variation of the sort).
 
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13:33
Word that I just learned is in the CURE class of the day: neuron. Apparently for many (most?) American speakers that word doesn't rhyme with spur on, as it does for me.
@alphabet Sometimes I use a y-glide in it, sometimes not. Depends on how fast I'm talking.
@Robusto The absence of the [j] is only part of it; for some speakers there's a vowel like [u] or [ʊ] between the /n/ and the /r/.
The Great Divide: nuclear vs. nucular
That's an unrelated phenomenon.
@alphabet I never said it was related. It just popped into my head.
I reserve the right to post head-pops whenever they occur.
@jlliagre @Cerberus Spoiler
13:41
@Robusto Ah sorry for the confusion.
@Robusto How dare you! Grabs whac-a-mole mallet
@alphabet I only do them when they're least expected. Cf. the above
Wordle 1,140 6/6

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Wow.
 
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15:16
@Robusto Spoiler
 
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16:18
"No [one] in the world has more courage than the [one] who can stop after eating one peanut." ---Channing Pollock
 
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18:45
Wordle 1,141 5/6

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@MetaEd Plagiarized from Lay's?
19:08
Or vice versa. Probably makes more sense that way, since advertising is all about plagiarism.
Does the word "courage" really fit there?
Wordle 1,140 5/6

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Perhaps, "the courage to try and just eat one" is what is meant.
#WhenTaken #157 (02.08.2024)

I scored 848/1000 🎉

1️⃣ 📍 18352 km - 🗓️ 1 yrs - ⚡ 99 / 200
2️⃣ 📍 2 km - 🗓️ 5 yrs - ⚡ 195 / 200
3️⃣ 📍 598 km - 🗓️ 4 yrs - ⚡ 178 / 200
4️⃣ 📍 21 km - 🗓️ 0 yrs - ⚡ 199 / 200
5️⃣ 📍 461 km - 🗓️ 7 yrs - ⚡ 177 / 200

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Wordle 1,140 5/6

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19:26
Feeding on the lack courage is what the net does best.
#WhenTaken #157 (02.08.2024)

I scored 815/1000 🎉

1️⃣ 📍 18429 km - 🗓️ 1 yrs - ⚡ 99 / 200
2️⃣ 📍 6 km - 🗓️ 5 yrs - ⚡ 195 / 200
3️⃣ 📍 1949 km - 🗓️ 4 yrs - ⚡ 147 / 200
4️⃣ 📍 23 km - 🗓️ 0 yrs - ⚡ 199 / 200
5️⃣ 📍 712 km - 🗓️ 4 yrs - ⚡ 175 / 200

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@jlliagre We both had the same problem with #1
The courage to try and develop will power.
@Robusto Clairement.
@jlliagre And identical on #2.
And #4 as well.
19:31
@Robusto Four out our five dates are identical.
Weird.
But, is "will" the same as "will power"?
@Robusto or symmetrically false.
There's a meme going around about republicans being weird.
@user20458579510081670432 ^
19:38
Memes are a lot like "rumours" that change as they get passed on.
The snow ball effect is usually pretty strong with memes.
Especially for those on the net.
 
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21:01
@user20458579510081670432 Yeah that sounded weird to me. I was expecting 'will power'.
@Robusto I find that a perfectly normal meal. The fries are obviously to share.
@Robusto Don't make fun of a man whose couch just left him.
Chili-cheese dog and a coke.
@alphabet Uncool white trash joke.
Next!
I'm so white trash, I offered to give someone the shirt off my own back and they didn't want it.
@alphabet Couch?
@Mitch To share with whom? The photographer?
@Robusto He's known for having a 'potato-ish' bod.
@alphabet Oh cripes.
don't click on that.
21:10
If you think he gets freaky with couches: I guarantee you that the stool he's sitting on in that photo isn't right-side-up.
@alphabet Yeah, no. Hadn't heard that.
I'm so white trash I wonder how service stations keep their rest-rooms so clean.
@alphabet Now, now, no gay slurs about breeders who abhor "cat ladies" ...
@Mitch Oh, and a small Coke. Perfect meal for one.
@Robusto C'mon. Plenty of straight guys are into that sort of thing.
@Mitch Why don't you just admit it: You're so white trash you hunt raccoons to find the best dumpsters.
@alphabet It's possible, I suppose, but I doubt any would care to admit it.
21:17
Nov 2, 2023 at 4:02, by Cerberus
But I know that tons of straight men have their girlfriends peg them.
@alphabet Which brings up the question: How do you know this?
Stopping men on the street? Mall intercepts? Push polling?
@Robusto I mean, it's not like I have data on pegging prevalence, but it's certainly not unheard of. I find the idea odd myself.
I know the term "pegging" but I've never really heard any men talking about it. In fact, I haven't heard men talk about any kind of sex they enjoy. Such a thing would be unseemly.
Daily Octordle #921
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OK, there's one making a joke about it.
21:27
> If you told me the reason you find coins in between couch cushions is because J.D. Vance always leaves a tip, I’d be like, yeah, yeah, that sounds right.
> Oliver then said that his staff reached out to Vance’s campaign last week, asking point-blank if Vance “ever had sex with a couch.”
> “They — and this is true — hung up on us, which is, and this is critical, not a ‘no,’ is it?” he said.
The "casting couch of politics."
@alphabet See? Making a joke.
@Robusto He hasn't officially denied it, technically.
@Mitch thanks for confirming that.
@alphabet Yes, that's John Oliver's joke. He's a comedian, after all.
21:33
@Robusto ...I know.
I'm sure you've heard the expression, "I won't dignify that with an answer."
An application of "silence is golden."
@Robusto That's exactly the answer you'd give if you did engage in lewd acts with furniture, though.
I hear the couch was only 4 years old, and that Vance transported it across state lines.
21:38
@alphabet I'd probably just say, "Grow up." Make of that what you will.
Can we raise the age above 4 please.
Say, 13.999...
I just realized that SNL was trying to warn us:
@Cerberus I'm pretty sure you're happy with the explanations that people gave about 'non-real' numbers, but of course I can't stop poking the bear.

Most people think that all the numbers there are are in the continuum (informally distances that can be subdivided as much as you like).

But, in trying to formalize what a 'distance' might be, you could try to reduce it (explain it) in terms of things that are much easier t ounderstand,

I'll take it for granted that integers are 'accessible' (easily understood) and that ratios of integers are too then. We'll call the latter fractions or 'the
Holy shit, I just saw a video in my YouTube feed that had a woman raising her dress and revealing actual pubic hair down to the bottom of the vee. WTF? This was supposedly a live feed, women modeling underwear. Talk about clickbait. Talk about policy violation. I refreshed the page and it disappeared, but I'd like to know if others saw this as well.
Bizarre.
21:43
@alphabet In a sober age, this kind of thing wouldn't ever come up. But the whole world, from toddlers to retirees, is now in middle-school cyber-bully hell.
Yesterday I saw an IKEA ad that showed a couch fully exposed, cushions and all. Whatever happened to modesty?
@Robusto checking every video very intently
I'm so white trash when I take things to the dumpster to throw out, I come back with more.
21:45
Sounds circular.
@alphabet Couches, cover your pillows. Cats, avert your eyes.
@user20458579510081670432 It's worse.
@user20458579510081670432 Is your username converging on a special consonant?
@user20458579510081670432 The dumpster gets emptier and emptier til they ain't no mo
@user20458579510081670432 Shame.
21:50
All constants do not change
22:02
@Robusto Unfortunately I could not trace the Pollock quotation to a dated source.
Neither could I.
It did throw me down a bit of a rabbit hole...
OK @Cerberus you didn't ask for it. The proof that sqrt(2) is not rational (not a fraction):

We'll do it by contradiction, which means we'll assume that there is in fact a fraction, let it be a/b (we don't know yet what a and b are), and we'll show that this results in a falsehood (and therefore our assumption that there is asuch an a and b could not be the case).

We'll also assume that a and b do not have any common divisors. This seems like a weird extra thing but it's OK logically... you'll see.

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