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KitFox

19:00

I did great, btw. I know you were wondering.

RegDwighт

This bot is making me obsolete. Now all it has to learn is the /quote self command, and I can safely retire.

KitFox

Ooooh.

!!/define obsolete

Caprica Six

@KitFox obsolete (of words, equipment, etc.) no longer in use; gone into disuse; disused or neglected (often by preference for something newer, which replaces the subject). Also, RegDwighт.

RegDwighт

It used to be that you just needed to post some stupid word, and I'd immediately post the Wikipedia link for it. Now we have a bot for that.

KitFox

I don't post stupid words!

sulks

RegDwighт

19:03

Or you could post some other asinine request, like, I dunno

Mar 14 '12 at 15:00, by JSBᾶngs

what i want is a map that shows all of the landmasses that have a dry-land antipode

And guess what you'd get in return.

Mar 14 '12 at 15:00, by RegDwight Ѭſ道

Cerberus

Yay!

I remember that one.

KitFox

Orange stuff.

RegDwighт

Note how it's the same minute and all.

I suppose the bot can do that, too.

KitFox

Yes, yes, you're amazing and sexy.

Cerberus

I do wonder how @JSBձոգչ 's plan for world domination is going to use this knowledge.

RegDwighт

19:04

38 seconds, to be precise. See, I can even find that out!

KitFox

45 secs ago, by KitFox

Yes, yes, you're amazing and sexy.

Cerberus

11 secs ago, by Cerberus

yawn

RegDwighт

@KitFox Exactly. Now make the bot say that and my job here is done.

KitFox

!!/learn stroke '@$0 is amazing and sexy.'

Caprica Six

@KitFox Command stroke learned

KitFox

19:05

!!/stroke Reg

Caprica Six

@KitFox @Reg is amazing and sexy

Cerberus

Yuck.

RegDwighт

Apr 30 '11 at 14:10, by RegDwight

I... I quit.

KitFox

!!/forget stroke

Caprica Six

@KitFox Command stroke forgotten.

@KitFox Command stroke learned

KitFox

19:06

!!/stroke Cerb

Caprica Six

@KitFox @Cerb is amazing and sexy.

KitFox

Happy, now?

Amaan Cheval

!!/forget stroke
!!/learn stroke "is amazing"

RegDwighт

Haha. It learns as fast as it forgets. Better than Cerberus.

Cerberus

!!/learn yawn '*yawns at @$0*'

Caprica Six

19:06

@AmaanCheval Command stroke forgotten.
@AmaanCheval Command stroke learned
@Cerberus Command yawn learned

Amaan Cheval

!!/tell Cerb stroke

Caprica Six

@Cerb is amazing

Cerberus

Yay!

KitFox

Oi!

Teach her your own tricks!

Cerberus

!!/yawn Reg

Caprica Six

19:07

@Cerberus yawns at @Reg

Cerberus

I'm sorry, I'm just not good at stroking.

And I don't like treating you people like pets.

Underlings, rather.

RegDwighт

!!/teach Cerberus

Caprica Six

@RegDwighт Command teach does not exist.

RegDwighт

Well. Tough luck!

Cerberus

!!/spank Reg

Caprica Six

19:09

@Cerberus Command spank does not exist.

Cerberus

Danm. Kit, I would have expected you to have created that!

RegDwighт

!!who killed JFK?

Caprica Six

@RegDwighт Y U NO MAEK SENSE!? Could not understand who killed JFK?

RegDwighт

Yeah, right.

KitFox

!!what is mungpuff?

Caprica Six

19:09

@KitFox No definition found

KitFox

rolls eyes

RegDwighт

!!what is your definition of is?

Caprica Six

@RegDwighт No definition found

Cerberus

!!what have I just ordered?

KitFox

I guess we'll have to keep Reg around after all.

RegDwighт

19:10

!!are you Bill Clinton?

Caprica Six

@Cerberus No definition found
@RegDwighт No way

Cerberus

<metallic voice> Indian food!!

RegDwighт

Indians in the Netherlands are robots?

!!are Indians in the Netherlands robots?

KitFox

I wonder if he could make it so we could just address the bot.

Caprica Six

@RegDwighт Indubitably

KitFox

19:11

@Caprica, what am I wearing?

RegDwighт

Jun 20 '11 at 15:00, by RegDwight

Wait, what? You are clothed?

KitFox

Reg! It was a trick question!

Cerberus

Haha.

RegDwighт

And it was a trick rhetorical question.

Cerberus

Always tricks, tricks.

Matt Эллен

19:18

you people are hobbitteses

Cerberus

!

Tom W

that's racist

KitFox

Hello, Matthew.

Cerberus

@TomW He didn't say he didn't like us...

Matt Эллен

Hello, KitFox.

Cerberus

19:21

Hello.

Matt Эллен

@TomW everyone's a little bit racist

Cerberus

Yeah.

Us hairy-feetses as well.

KitFox

Proudfeet

Matt Эллен

That's me!

oh, wait, not

I borrowed Mardoc Proudneck for my Guild Wars 2 character name

KitFox

makes notes

Oh my fucking word. The big ex- just requested to join my LinkedIn network. You have got to be kidding.

Matt Эллен

19:27

:O

Johan Larsson

big ex like in Sex and the city?

KitFox

Big ex like the worst boyfriend I've ever had.

He's got a lot of nerve. I could have written a "recommendation" that included how willing he was to fuck his married students.

Cerberus

Oh, dear.

KitFox

Well, he was married when we got together. I probably should have expected that he'd cheat on me, but with his student was just too much.

RegDwighт

> I can't make heads or tails out of this paragraph.

Out?

KitFox

19:34

And then to ask me to lie for him about it.

@RegDwighт It's OK there.

RegDwighт

No it's not okay. Because he goes on to say

> I can't make a heads or tails out of it.

KitFox

And then ten years later, he sends me an email to tell me that it was all for the best.

RegDwighт

He just has no idea and is covering all bases.

KitFox

Now he wants me to join his network.

@RegDwighт Didn't someone edit that?

Johan Larsson

@KitFox why lie? Risk of losing job or worse?

RegDwighт

19:36

@KitFox I did. Only just now.

KitFox

@JohanLarsson Yes, because her husband reported it to the chair and the chair was investigating the allegation.

So his career would have been marked for death.

And despite what he said at the time, I'm pretty sure that was the only reason he told me about it in the first place.

Man, that guy was a piece of work.

Good to know he hasn't learned a thing.

Cerberus

Just ignore his request.

KitFox

I did.

First thing I done did do.

Tom W

You hooked up with a cheater and expected that for you it'd be different?

Johan Larsson

Agree that it is strange he wants to be career-e-friend given that.

KitFox

19:41

@TomW I was 18. He told me he was separated from his wife and the divorce was pending, which was why he hadn't said anything before. I didn't find out the truth until years later.

And yeah, of course I thought it would be different for me.

And screwing your undergrad students is lower than cheating imo.

Zirak

@KitFox Sorry, I just looked at the bot's screen and saw the slew of errors

KitFox

But whatever. That was ancient history.

@Zirak Oh. What was happening?

Zirak

Urban dictionary's API is acting up, returning internal server errors

KitFox

Oh, I see.

Zirak

I'll see if I can do anything

KitFox

19:46

kthx

Cerberus

> Some Alaskan permafrost tumbles into the ocean.

Nor so "perma" after all!

arstechnica.com/science/2013/05/…

KitFox

Another good reason why we need alternative schools.

Tom W

Turns out that warming in the next few decades might not be as extreme as previously expected

Johan Larsson

@Cerberus I like that photo

Tom W

bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22567023

Cerberus

19:53

It does look rather impressive, yes.

Tom W

"Does this mean that climate change is less certain?"
"No"

Cerberus

One hears news items arguing either way every week...

Tom W

The solution is 100% to reduce the human population

Cerberus

As in better/worse.

Tom W

1/10 as many humans would mean we could all live like a middle class American with no consequences

Cerberus

19:54

In that case, the problem will solve itself.

Yuck, middle class?

Johan Larsson

@TomW Peak oil might have happened already.

Tom W

You know, in terms of resource wastage, rather than ethics, child-rearing ability, and so on

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus why stick in the middle when you can be on top?

Zirak

@KitFox Sorry, I can't do anything

KitFox

@Zirak OK. Thanks for trying.

Matt Эллен

19:56

@Zirak try applying to your local government for funding. They're giving out funding for parent lead schools in the UK

KitFox

Parent lead? Won't that make them retarded?

Matt Эллен

depends on the parents

I mean, they'll be incharge of finding teachers and stuff

not that they'll necessarily be teachers

KitFox

I was joking. About plumbum. It was hysterical.

Matt Эллен

oh! hahaha. I'm slow. I must have been parent lead myself

skullpatrol

So, is Jasper Loy really gone this time?

KitFox

20:02

For now.

skullpatrol

How many times has he left?

KitFox

Two, I think. Three if you count that other time.

skullpatrol

Hmm...

Cerberus

@MattЭллен Exactly!

@TomW Yeah I know what you mean.

KitFox

@Cerberus I think of you as a bottom, truth be told.

Cerberus

20:08

Anything's better than middle class.

KitFox

Oh. Class. Right. Never mind.

Cerberus

Perv.

eating Indian food

KitFox

!!/define perv

Caprica Six

@KitFox perv (slang) Shortened term for pervert.

Cerberus

"Kit".

KitFox

20:11

!!/define pervert

Caprica Six

@KitFox pervert Cerberus.

Cerberus

Haha you changed her line?

shakes fist

KitFox

What? No. It's just true.

Cerberus

What was it again that they tell the computer in Start Trek? "Computer, delay that order"?

KitFox

belay.

rolls eyes Kids these days.

Cerberus

20:13

Belay?

KitFox

!!/tell Cerberus define belay

Caprica Six

@Cerberus belay (transitive, obsolete) To surround; environ; inclose.

KitFox

Oh. Not that one.

Cerberus

Ah, so it's nautical jargon, I see.

KitFox

It's a nautical term, yes.

To cancel an order.

Amaan Cheval

20:14

@KitFox Hahaha I was so confused as to how that happened

chat.stackexchange.com/messages/9519189/history

RegDwighт

@Cerberus some German non-permafrost tumbles into not the ocean.

Amaan Cheval

Then I found that

Cerberus

I never understood what it was they were saying, or rather, I just absorbed it as "normal", assuming it was "delay" they were saying.

RegDwighт

KitFox

@AmaanCheval looks innocent What do you mean?

Cerberus

20:14

@RegDwighт OMG!

What's going on there?

RegDwighт

Nachterstedt

Nachterstedt is a village and a former municipality in the district of Salzlandkreis, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Since 15 July 2009, it is part of the town Seeland. 2009 Landslide On July 18, 2009, a 350-meter long part of the embankment of the nearby Concordia lake slid into the lake. Two houses were located on the area which ended up in the lake. External links * (de) [http://www.nachterstedt.de/ Official website] * (en) [http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4508626,00.html Deutsche Welle article about the landslide]

Amaan Cheval

@KitFox I've been complaining about chat not having edit privileges for people who want to fix typos and the like. Now I know what I want to be!

Cerberus

@AmaanCheval Nothing is beyond her.

RegDwighт

Just image-search for "Nachterstedt".

KitFox

@Cerberus Oh stop. I have my limitations.

Cerberus

20:16

@AmaanCheval You do know you can edit your own lines within 2 minutes, don't you?

Press the Up arrow key.

Amaan Cheval

@Cerberus Pfft, not my typos

Cerberus

@RegDwighт That's quite an Unglück.

@AmaanCheval You can do it!!

Amaan Cheval

YEAH!

But then I'll have to be involved on the main site, right?

Cerberus

> Am 15. Juli 2009 wurde Nachterstedt in die neue Gemeinde Seeland eingegliedert.[1]

Amaan Cheval

Can I be a chat mod? :P

Cerberus

20:18

@Reg ^ I don't know what to say (not "irony", but you know what I mean)...

@AmaanCheval *bot

Amaan Cheval

Hahaha

KitFox

Oi!

Cerberus

@AmaanCheval Hmm is that so? What happens when you press the Up arrow key?

Amaan Cheval

@Cerberus Uh, I edit my own message. What's your point?

KitFox

@Cerberus You can't edit other people's messages unless you are a mod.

Cerberus

20:19

@AmaanCheval So it works! I thought perhaps you couldn't.

Zirak

@Cerberus Your mind is corrupt with that power

Cerberus

@KitFox Really? But I edit your messages all the time. At least in my head, I make them all say "Cerberus! Cerberus! I love you! I love you! Here are some doggy treats!"

KitFox

I want to take a moment so the SOers can acknowledge that raiding our room resulted in them being trapped here.

Cerberus

@Zirak Yes. Isn't yours?

@KitFox MUWAHAHA

KitFox

@Cerberus Oh please. You don't want my love.

Amaan Cheval

20:21

@KitFox Hahaha, I decided I'd stay here before the raid

KitFox

The hunters become the hunted.

Etc, etc.

Cerberus

Oh, was there a raid? What did I miss?

KitFox

Not much. Just the usual invasion.

Cerberus

Ah, yes.

KitFox

They probably thought they were the first.

Cerberus

20:21

Buwhaaha.

KitFox

And that we weren't well-defended since we are language geeks.

rubs hands together

Amaan Cheval

Hahaha

Johan Larsson

but you had verbs

Cerberus

So far, their punctuation is not entirely on par, but we let it go because their capitalisation is sufficient. For now.

@KitFox displays two left paws

KitFox

And we were all like "oh look at this refreshing water in this pitcher" and they were all like "but the walls seem so slippery" and then splash! and slowly they are digested in our enzymatic pool.

Amaan Cheval

20:23

@Cerberus It's not? Well, correct me!

Cerberus

@KitFox Buwahaha!

KitFox

heeheeheeheehee

Cerberus

@AmaanCheval Some of your lines seemed to lack full stops at the end. Perhaps they were to small for my poor, old eyes?

KitFox

@JohanLarsson We had verbs, and we weren't afraid to use them.

Amaan Cheval

@Cerberus too*

Mwhahaha!

KitFox

20:24

Oh snap.

Schooled by a n00b.

Cerberus

@AmaanCheval Nooooo what have I done!!??

dies

Johan Larsson

I think I mix up to and too more than 60% of the time :D

KitFox

You're already dead.

Cerberus

I'm not editing that. I deserve the shame.

KitFox

Such drama.

shakes head

Cerberus

20:25

lies on back, paws up in the air

2

Meanwhile.

Zirak

Dibs on his ribs

KitFox

@Cerberus scratches tummy

Cerberus

Did you know this is where you are, the room viewed from the outside?

@KitFox woof!

KitFox

I knew you was fooling.

Cerberus

Shit.

Matt Эллен

20:26

@Cerberus are are?

Cerberus

I'm shameless.

3 mins ago, by KitFox

And we were all like "oh look at this refreshing water in this pitcher" and they were all like "but the walls seem so slippery" and then splash! and slowly they are digested in our enzymatic pool.

KitFox

We have some lovely pitcher plants in our bog. The boys are fascinated with how they work.

Cerberus

Is that what pitcher plants look like?

I adore carnivorous plants like the next dog.

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus "this is where are are"? did you mean "we are"?

KitFox

@Cerberus You posted the picture.

I thought you would know.

Except ours look a little different.

Cerberus

20:27

@MattЭллен Arg, *you! *you!

Matt Эллен

lol

Cerberus

@KitFox It was a guess.

Matt Эллен

@KitFox he posted the pitcher. Boom Boom!

KitFox

Cerberus

I don't know what I would call plants like that in any language, except now I do.

KitFox

20:28

More like these.

Cerberus

Wow! Scary.

KitFox

@MattЭллен Argh. thwack

Matt Эллен

:D

KitFox

@Cerberus I think they are lovely.

Cerberus

But scary.

KitFox

20:29

Wow. Ours aren't that big.

Cerberus

KitFox

Ours are about the size of a fist.

@Cerberus Hahaha

Faker.

Cerberus

Yeah.

So many insects, slowly being digested.

Vaccinating.

Aww.

Tom W

@Cerberus the epic fuck

If that Venus is real, I'll eat my insect.

Cerberus

Is that what you call yours?

Amaan Cheval

20:33

Hahahaha

Cerberus

I think it's real, but it probably only eats insects...

This is for insects that need to go urgently.

KitFox

@Cerberus Now that looks like our chat room.

Cerberus

Haha.

KitFox

And on that note, I'm outie like Gaudi.

skullpatrol

later

Cerberus

20:34

Perhaps I mixed up the images. Being inside the matrix, I can't see the outside.

Bye.

So I wonder, is that leave hanging over the pitcher/pool slippery or intoxicating or something?

And why haven't insects learned to avoid those plants?

It's really vacillating.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

:(

!!/hang n's ceiling is 22

Caprica Six

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 I will only accept alpha characters

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

I will accept no substitutes

Tom W

@Cerberus insects don't learn. Loss of individuals isn't important

Matt Эллен

Cerberus

20:38

@TomW I meant learn in the metaphorical sense, the hard way, through natural selection.

@MattЭллен Really? And why bees specifically?

And what do bees do to them?

Tom W

@Cerberus well, I realise that - answer remains the same. It isn't important to the colony

They probably lose more from birds, spiders, falling in puddles, etc

Cerberus

@TomW Still, if they lose from those plants too, insects less likely to visit them would win out in the long run.

Tom W

I guess the obvious mechanism is to consider a population that's less interested in sweet-smelling stuff. Well, they can't tell the difference between that and fruit, dead catterpillars, etc - that's why the plant is so good

Cerberus

I don't know, can't they?

Apparently not.

But it might have been different.

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus I don't know, but apparently they use bees to keep elephants from destroying farmland

Cerberus

20:44

Hmm interesting.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Zirak so 22 is the hang n limit?

Cerberus

Perhaps they suck them up by accident?

Matt Эллен

eeeeew! yeah, that's sounds likely. I accidentally suck in flies when I'm cycling

Cerberus

Eww!

Matt Эллен

exactly

Cerberus

20:48

By the way, I wonder why we don't usually have tornadoes.

Not that I'm complaining.

Zirak

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 22 is

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Zirak okay

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus not enough open land? I'm not sure

Cerberus

@MattЭллен You think they lose force when over/near sea?

But then how about, say, Austria?

Matt Эллен

I think they need large flat areas.

Cerberus

20:51

Hmm. We can only offer small flat areas.

But...tornadoes don't travel that far, do they?

Maybe...tens of km?

Matt Эллен

yeah. they tend to be part of large thunderstorm clouds

I don't think you can fit such large weather systems over Europe

Johan Larsson

The Atlantic is large and flat though

Matt Эллен

weatherexplained.com/Vol-1/Tornadoes.html

@JohanLarsson it's constantly changing and quite cold

Cerberus

> Most tornadoes have wind speeds less than 110 miles per hour (177 km/h), are about 250 feet (76 m) across, and travel a few miles (several kilometers) before dissipating. The most extreme tornadoes can attain wind speeds of more than 300 miles per hour (483 km/h), stretch more than two miles (3.2 km) across, and stay on the ground for dozens of miles (more than 100 km).

Tom W

it's more to do with the coriolis effect

or maybe that's hurricanes

Cerberus

20:59

Is there a hard distinction between hurricanes and tornadoes?

Tom W

well they're orders of magnitude different in size

and afaik tornadoes form over land

hurricanes don't occur in europe because they'd have to move east

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