"acceptable in indoor living"

Which does logically allow what I expect for dogs or cats (you take the pet outside to poop, or they have a litter box inside)

I don't know where the text you had comes from, but the definition entries at M-W are human written. Sometimes Google will give an AI produced entry first above the actual website contents found, and the AI content can certainly have random errors (because of the statistical production of the text)

@Robusto when my question about strap-ons became HNQ and visible to non-space folks it created some PC backlash.

@uhoh I didn't see any 'backlash' in the comments. Was it deleted or some place else?

@Criggie I believe it only allows polygyny; apparently an attempt to also legalize polyandry stirred up controversy. So I think multiple husbands is actually outlawed regardless of gender.

@Mitch yes, a moderator found the situation funny after I replied to the complaint ("some SE users are women, we have to be careful" or similar exclamation) with the Wikiepdia blurb en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booster_(rocketry)#Strap-on

Second word (term? concept?) of the day: partible paternity.

> Partible paternity or shared paternity is a cultural conceptualization of paternity according to which a child is understood to have more than one father; for example, because of an ideology that sees pregnancy as the cumulative result of multiple acts of sexual intercourse. In societies with the concept of partible paternity this often results in the nurture of a child being shared by multiple fathers in a form of polyandric relation to the mother, although this is not always the case.

@uhoh Why are you telling me this?

@Robusto risqué jokes on "thruster" and specifically that they might backfire

@Criggie That was for chatroom consumption only, not for the public at large, and especially not the HNQ parlour.

Soo how are things here.

@uhoh I didn't see the backlash either.

@Cerberus You sound better. Good!

Oh, do I?

A bit. Are you?

I suppose so!

Just some mucous glands that are still a little bit over active.

I went to Haarlem today with a friend.

Even better.

How is your Tuesday?

OK I will play Tuesday's game.

@Robusto it's tangentially related to "I got sidetracked trying to think of risqué jokes on "thruster" but couldn't come up with anything that pleased me. and the room's introduction about those not easily triggered by things in the raw. Please disregard if you find it irrelevant.

@uhoh No, it's OK. I get it now. I was just puzzled because I'm engaged in something else at the moment and didn't get the connection.

@Cerberus Good!

1.

Not so good!

@uhoh Maybe it was something about 'booster'?

@Cerberus it may have been in a concurrent discussion in The Pod Bay rather than a (now deleted) comment on the post itself. Since I have time now (I'm pretty much useless until my morning coffee kics in) I'll go look.

Ah, I see.

No need to go look!

2.

I have lost my feelers for this game...

And being hasty.

3.

This one I don't understand: the location I can't explain.

4.

Good enough.

5.

This one I recognise by now.

@Cerberus Good job. You did better than I did.

Oh, huh.

My first two were pretty bad.

Do you use Google?

I used it for flags.

@Mitch no it was the use of "strap-on" which is an additional solid propellant rocket that is attached to a main first stage rocket to give it more thrust, and then disconnects and falls away after it is "spent", and is also a kind of sex toy. The complainant didn't know that the first definition was in common usage in spaceflight.

serious question - were they ever simple straps? I'd expect explosive bolts.

Sounds painful.

<nasa> do NOT insert space-ready hardware into the human body!

@Cerberus French speaking Africa. Malian flags on the military uniforms and on the Sécurité necklace pass along with the Indian one. An official visit so likely the capital city airport: Bamako.

github.com/Igglybuff/awesome-piracy

Found another repository for educational purposes.

But it's archived.

This is why I say change the topic.

@Cerberus No Google. Some flags I know, some I don't. One of the flags in yesterday's puzzle was pretty obvious for someone in the Western Hemisphere.

America Must Free Itself from the Tyranny of the Penny

> I was disappointed to learn, recently, that the United States has created for itself a logistical problem so stupendously stupid, one cannot help wondering if it is wise to continue to allow this nation to supervise the design of its own holiday postage stamps, let alone preside over the administration of an extensive Interstate highway system or nuclear arsenal. It’s the dumbest thing I ever heard. I have come to think of it as the Perpetual Penny Paradox.

That's behind a firewall...

@Lambie More likely a paywall.

@jlliagre Oh, huh, I Googled the name and the flag and got Guinea.

So I Googled Indian state visit Guinea.

Maybe the flags are very similar.

Or I mislooked.

@Cerberus So Google misled you.

Yeah, well, otherwise I wouldn't have known which country it was anyway.

There are lots of francophone countries in Africa.

@Cerberus The order of the colors is reversed.

Then that was it.

@jlliagre Yes, a paywall. See what happens when you don't reread yourself?

@Lambie I told you.

And I am saying I didn't reread myself and Yes, you told me. So what? It's no big deal.

@Lambie No big deal indeed.

I need big deal.

On Amazon.

@Robusto hey I have an idea! Use those pennies to pay the US national debt

"If anyone at my funeral has a long face, I'll never speak to him again." ---Stan Laurel

Clearly a paywall.

Word of the day: salience network. "Here, using precision functional mapping and several samples of deeply sampled individuals, we found that the frontostriatal salience network is expanded nearly twofold in the cortex of most individuals with depression. "

@Lambie I rarely read myself the first time.

I'm surprised just as much as you.

@Vikas Deny a big needle and dine on a big bagel.

@M.A.R. Plethora of pennies though it may be, it alone will not serve in that capacity.,

@Robusto Thank you for using that word plethora. It means a lot to me.

@Mitch snark

@Mitch Starred so nobody else will feel obligated to star your silliness today.

@Mitch Guess what.

@Vikas No, what?

If you say 'chicken butt' I'm gonna by really miffed.

Why does Collins Dictionary claim that, in British English, the second syllable of paywall has a different vowel sound from the word wall on its own?

They list them as /ˈpeɪˌwɑːl/ and /wɔːl/.

They don't do this in the American English definitions, where both have /ɔ/.

Does anyone in Britain say it that way? Should we change the spelling to paywarl to simplify things?

@alphabet I wouldn't be surprised if the Brits pronounce it pail (pay'l).

@Lambie What is chat for, if not starting petty fights about minor mistakes? (Sarcasm.)

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