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@Robusto that's tragic
@Mitch sniffs It was.
@Conrado that's a pretty complex metaphor for me.
I'm more of a sour grapes kind of guy
@Robusto snirkle
01:02
I think Mitch’s meta post is having a some effect.
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Q: Hey! People who like to close questions! Hey!

Mitchpeople who like to close questions! Yeah you. Please. Please stop closing so many questions Just... cut it out. I mean yeah sure if you have enough rep you got all these buttons to press. Button activated? Yeah press the shit out of that button! Every time! As often as possible. It feels great! S...

01:12
a salutory effect, that is
A good effect
Oh well, I should do some desk work.
Just saw it. Did my +1
 
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05:11
@MetaEd Politicians don't lie actually. It's just that they don't know truth.
05:27
@Vikas No, sometimes they just blatantly lie.
> I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.
I think he later "clarified" that he had an extremely narrow definition of what constitutes "sexual relations."
Then there's one Richard Nixon.
And George Santos, though I'm not sure he really counts as a "politician" and the word "lie" seems like an understatement.
06:13
@Vikas so Trump has not known a single thing all his life for all the non-lies he's been spewing ever since someone raised him from a grave in celebrity cemetery
@Xanne wow, @Mitch must have been pent-up.
@M.A.R. I do think that, for the most part, he believes his own BS.
Anyway, my plan is to hoard Plan B and resell it on the black market in a few years. It should mean I can afford a new iPhone after the 1000% tariff kicks in.
@M.A.R. I’m surprised that you’re surprised about the VTC behavior and the concern it has caused among long-time users and moderators. @Mitch finally posted something that has gotten attention and, I think, made some of the VTCers think again. There have been lots of conversations here in chat, but they are amongst many other topics, so you might well have missed them.
Also gonna open a gun store outside a Whole Foods to recruit people to fight back when the militias take over.
I don't get it..
08:18
I'd guess Sherlock Holmes was too intelligent to beat Watson at a mindless Mario game.
 
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@CowperKettle "You or your recipient might have disabled read receipts in the privacy settings."
 
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@Xanne @Mitch I enjoyed your post.
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“Pixar this”
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"Agentic"
Please.
I feel like a rant is coming up my throat.
I will, however, contain it (for a time at least).
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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in link text in body, potentially bad asn for hostname in body, potentially bad keyword in body (76): Diazepam vs Lorazepam: Which is Better for Anxiety?‭ by UK Zopiclone Online‭ on english.SE
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“Pixar this”
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@Araucaria-Him What to you call it when you splice up your poor hapless constituent and reassemble its fragments to either side of a different one? a number easy to remember > an easy number to remember? Why can we do this here?
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#travle #770 +0 (Perfect)
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14:54
#WhenTaken #330 (22.01.2025)

I scored 875/1000🏆

1️⃣📍47.3 m - 🗓️5 yrs - 🥇195/200
2️⃣📍178 km - 🗓️0 yrs - 🥇193/200
3️⃣📍17.2 km - 🗓️9 yrs - 🥇186/200
4️⃣📍2.0 km - 🗓️1 yrs - 🥇199/200
5️⃣📍844 km - 🗓️27 yrs - 🥉102/200

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@Xanne thanks. Of course inspired by yours. But triggered by one too many unnecessary reopenings. And lots of frustration.
@M.A.R. haha yes. I really should have put the entire thing in all caps and titled it 'STOP PRESSING THE BUTTON JUST BECAUSE YOU CAN'
@Xanne Three down votes. That's fair.
@Vikas 🤸🏽
@alphabet I dunno. Who has any money left for fun things after coming out of Whole foods?
@Conrado indulge your inner ranter. I know I do.
I know exactly what you mean though. It is a word that has a definite useful meaning but people use it for anything now. My thermostat is agentic.
I mean it technically is. But still not the first thing you are thinking of.
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@Mitch It's not too late for that.
@Mitch - I think Meta is for kissing @ss to get a real answer, usually in vain, or for telling people with 2 1/2 great interests and 1 1/2 great skills, on average, to kiss off.
I thought I would try to have the lowest Meta score in history…
And then I thought I'd bake a birthday cake…after my baking cabinet was rearranged.
Some things are just not worth the effort.
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@HippoSawrUs Baking is nice, but buying a cake is real nice.
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@HippoSawrUs which meta? The main meta?
#WhenTaken #330 (22.01.2025)

I scored 926/1000👑

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@Xanne I'm not surprised at all. My origin site, Chem.SE, also closes way too many questions. It's just that any long-term solution requires a lot of dedication by at least a handful of people, and no one feels like doing that, I think. It's great that it's at least had some short-term effects though.
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@M.A.R. I have thought of writing something for ELU’s meta called “Surviving in a Post-AI World” and might do so in a while.
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@Xanne go for it, it'll be great!
I was thinking of ways ELU could loosen up a bit to attract and keep more users.
I'm not trying to be a downer, just realistic. Any one post anyone in this chat composes would be great, but to effect any real change, a shift in moderation behavior across the site, it needs to be someone with a lot of patience who would lose some sleep over coming to a compromise with everyone.
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@M.A.R. without changing basic structure, there are individual actions thar can make a lot of difference, IMveryHO.
that/thar
Anyway, not for a while.
@HippoSawrUs it's a reasonable place to ask for a replay. You're not wrong though.
@Mitch arguably the entirety of human interaction is about kissing asses
@Xanne It's needed.
@M.A.R. Why can't we all just have the freedom to be grumpy?
Being grumpy is therfore rhetorically considered here the counterpart to ass-kissing.
18:00
We are free to be grumpy. Grumpy alone is not mean. But I could do a whole article on posts on the main site and meta that are put-downs, rude, nasty, undercutting, etc. We have a rep, even within the Stack Overflow setting.
And we have the skills to do it. We know the words and we know how to put them togrther.
Together, that is. When we can spell.
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@SmokeDetector a spam for a . . . Pharmacy?
Is 'spam' in the sense of 'spam post' countable? Probably not
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@M.A.R. Uncountable.
youtube.com/watch?v=Q0wDPx6EAEc#t=2m32s will LIGN along after the explorers have gone. (What is he saying?)
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@MichaelRybkin "linger"
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@Xanne Doing it now.
There are five things which fit purple.
So it took me two tries to get purple.
I'm surprised I got purple first.
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There is one blue item I don't understand, do you know which one I mean?
Ohh I see now that you were already doing Thursday's.
@Cerberus I generally consider it a perfect game when I get purple first.
@MetaEd I thought you might.
And blue second?
Same with Strands - it's a perfect game if the category answer comes first
Hmm what game was that again?
@Cerberus I try to guess them in that order yes, purple, blue, green, brown (yellow).
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And you can usually get purple?
@Cerberus Usually? Well, maybe as often as not.
OK I see.
Maybe I should make more puzzles.
Sometimes by seeing it, otherwise by process of elimination. I come up with a solution to the whole puzzle, all four categories. Then I enter my guess for the purple first.
Yeah.
That's the thorough way.
I'm afraid I'm a bit too lazy.
20:18
@Mitch People who regularly shop at Whole Foods. "But this AK-47 magazine, is it BPA-free?"
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@alphabet Flamin' Hot Cheetos don't have any BPAs in them.
Or cheese.
They only have one ingredient: interstellar quantum plasma distillate. A thousand suns had to supernova, coalesce, then supernova again, taking literally billions of years, and trillions of sentient souls lost to produce this delicacy.
Yes, I am making a case for Whole Foods to stock Flamin' Hot Cheetos.
Only then will I step in their door.
If they want my business they'll have to slash and burn the unive... what? They already stock them?
Well, now I'm not interested.
I go by Whole Foods every so often for like one thing (the bakery bread?) but I'm always shocked.
@Mitch - puffy, or crunchy?
@MetaEd Are you insane?
In case you are, it should be obvious that 'crunchy' is the only viable option.
If you're not insane, I don't know what to tell you.
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@Mitch They would rather stop gluten-free kale crackers.
21:37
@Mitch I feel like they sell not groceries but a lifestyle change in which groceries are peripherally involved.
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Q: Did Trump declare everyone female?

HobbamokAfter several Instagram reels I've now seen a more easily linkable Mashed post making the same claim: With how the Executive Order was worded, it technically classifies everyone as female because that's what everyone is at conception because any (definitely male) sex-charasteristics only develop...

This is going to get old really fast isn't it?
In fact it already feels middle-aged at least
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@M.A.R. Who could be more of an expert in biological sex than a man who grabs women by their genitals?
@Mitch Wikipedia tells me that's the original cheeto. Crunchy. But I grew up with puffy. I suppose that's what my mom liked.
@M.A.R. People in that question seem to think this is a biology question answerable by a biologist. When in fact it's a law question and will be answered by lawyers.
The order claims he's protecting "freedom of expression" because of course it does.
You know, sometimes I wonder if these people use "free speech" to mean "conservatives' right to never experience criticism or disagreement." Surely they wouldn't be that foolish, right? Right?
All those commentators in the persecution-industrial complex.
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@alphabet They construie "free speech" to mean any speech that does not tro8uble Republicans.
To them, "gay" means what it did in the "Gay Nineties" ... and no, not the 1990s, but the ones 100 years before, when Queen Victoria was still alive and kicking.
22:44
> .. they vectorized all texts in all languages as if they were just a single language and dumped them into one embedding space called SONAR (Sentence-level Multimodal and Language-Agnostic Representations)
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@Mitch Well, what I did was…dump cake would-be batter down a sink. I blame the extra large handle; it was just asking for it.
If one part of anything is missing, the whole thing goes in the trash. New resolution, 2025.
I said, 'Happy Birthday! I got you a whole can of icing; it's back in the cabinet.'
Surprise! Surprise!
That's a double surprise.
My stepdaughter said a while back, 'I lost respect for him when he pardoned his son.'
I replied, 'He didn't really have a choice. They would've crucified him.'
But what I should've said was, 'You know they still consider you a colored immigrant, right?'
I'm probably not in a great mood right now.
I could've caught something new recently but I'll never know now.
Oh well, no news is easy preparation…in a can. :-( Grumpy AF UFN. Sorry.
@M.A.R. No, not really

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