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@HippoSawrUs Kids are so expensive these days. I'm this close to just getting one from the black market.

@Cerberus We had those kind of shelves in the library. What are they called? Open-book shelves…

@alphabet Actually, all you have to do is go to a Holiday Inn Express within 50 miles of your billing address. You can't stay. It's a rule. It automatically makes you a human trafficker. All traffickers have family property to maintain, in their names, the [Surname] Property, since the 1930s. They could've been hobos, but no, they're all staying put…at the local Holiday Inn Express. Because a credit card billing address trumps a valid driver's licence, with a 15-y/o photo, in a red state.

@CowperKettle I don't get it

Who knew? Welcome to America, all bona fide travelers and traffickers with out-of-state billing addresses.

> Paid homage to Mahatma Gandhi at his statue in Georgetown, Guyana. His timeless values give strength and hope to the entire humankind. His thoughts provide many solutions towards making our planet better and more sustainable.

They're just dumping sand in their pants. Not even wading in… I'll be watching Netflix for the next 4 years. Our Oceans…Aah-nemo-knee…nice. Pouguelandia…sweet.

@Cerberus Oh, good to know; thanks again.

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@Vikas I'm not sure to get it either. My best guest is that AS is not skilled in mathematics so unable to understand he is asked to provide a random natural number. Alternatively, he is just one of these natural numbers.

@jlliagre I'm not that good in math either. The notation says "Let n be a member of the set of Natural numbers". The ∈ is a set membership symbol, requiring n to be a singular. If we want plural membership, the right symbol is the subset symbol (⊂). So to be proper, "n:" means "any one of the Natural creatures in the picture."

I would guess the image wants to say that a human being belongs to the same set of Natural creatures (including animals, or maybe the trees in the background too?), maybe subtly promoting animal rights having the same natural rights?

Correction: ... having the same natural rights as human beings? Or it may say that human beings are just natural animals, period, thus reducing human being to be mere animal.

@GratefulDisciple Maybe you are overthinking it. Better to stay innocently clueless like Arnold ;-)

@jlliagre Yeah, I've been guilty of overthinking. Or maybe it's a message of peace: Arnold looking friendly and at home in Nature with animals surrounding him as to a friend, like St. Francis. One thing for sure: Context is Everything (for determining meaning). Would love to know the original context of that picture.

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Or simply that "Arnold has a soft spot for his furry friends -- meet all seven" and consider them his natural brothers & sisters (part of the American pet culture). I will stop here :-) @jlliagre

Sorry, one more about that picture. I posted a question on Movies.SE and 2 answers came fast: 1) it's based on a tweet of his promoting an event about clean energy jobs 2) a 2009 Intelligence in Lifestyle magazine cover. But no clue (yet) about the Natural numbers annotation.

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@HippoSawrUs "Hello, I'd like to book a room--we'll have three kids." "Ok, did you have any preferences?" "About the rooms?" "No, what kind of kids do you want?"

@jlliagre Now I vaguely remember we used to call that syntax something like n "belongs to" N.

"I don't think so," Descartes said, and vanished.

@Vikas Is that where he's on the salt march?

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@MetaEd I didn't get it. He = Gandhi? Also salt march was done in India but this statue is in other country Guyana.

@Vikas yes he = Gandhi. The statue looked marchey so I was guessing.

@Laurel I should have looked for that.

@Laurel related, on english.stackexchange.com/questions/517065/… -- because the body was never edited there's no "revisions" link on the page. I was able to compose one manually and see the non-edit "revisions".

@MetaEd There's no good reason to do that anymore. The timeline is linked to the left, under the downvote/save buttons

@Laurel oh, that's a much nicer timeline. thanks

Any chance of a reopen vote for this old question of mine?

@think_meaning_buildß Thanks. Starting to listen. Started with talking about his days at Princeton meeting the luminaries who developed Unix in Bell labs. Then about where Henry Kissinger got involved with his concern how technology threatens civilization. Stopped around 11:15 when he was asked about the idea of "A.I. being a polymath in your pocket" from his book Genesis which was published only yesterday. Will listen further later.

The math stuff is around 43:00

@Araucaria-Him A thought--could this be a remnant of the preference for the "passival" over the use of being to mark the passive? See languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2903

I have no evidence for this so I won't write it up as an answer.

But I wonder if there's a relationship between our use of "The fence needs painting" rather than "The fence needs being painted" and the much older, now obsolete preference for "The fence is painting" instead of "The fence is being painted."

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Few unique characters in answer, mostly punctuation marks in answer (125): Right to left and left to right in a sentence in from~to~ structure‭ by Mahmut‭ on english.SE

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