The Awkward Silence

@avazula So far, I don't really know yet. I like the looks of a Renault Captur, but it might be too big :/ The only thing that I'm really sure about is that I need an automatic transmission.

A J

@avazula A steering wheel, four tyres, a fuel pump, an IC engine, seats. :P

Magisch

why not a tiny smart

you can park anywhere

JAD

@Tinkeringbell probably hiking

avazula

@Tinkeringbell If I may recommend you a Renault Clio 4, their automatic transmission is great along with, well, everything else (IMO)

JAD

@AJ windshield

Tinkeringbell

7:15 AM

@Magisch I'm going to try and lease a car, and as far as I know the company doesn't allow anything smaller than 5 doors ;)

A J

@JAD sure

JAD

@Tinkeringbell lolwhat

Tinkeringbell

@JAD wipers, for when it's raining :P

avazula

Back when I was looking for a new car I did some research about that one (that's my mother's car actually) and even though I sticked with my old card because it stopped needing to go to the garage every other morning, I really like this one!

Tinkeringbell

@JAD It has to be a 5-doors... I dunno why XD

JAD

7:15 AM

@Tinkeringbell just don't drive when it's raining

Tinkeringbell

@avazula Perhaps, though I really like the Captur as well, it looks pretty :D

JAD

but that's a good point. Eliminating the windshield also removed the need for wipers

avazula

@Tinkeringbell I guess they have the same transmission model :D I suggested the Clio because it's smaller :)

and very manageable (I used to struggle a lot with parking, this one was easy to park)

JAD

I personally am a fan of Skoda. Really like the fabia and octavia models

Tinkeringbell

@avazula Yeah, that's what I'm worrying about a little: That the car is going to be quite big with parking (and on narrow roads)

avazula

7:18 AM

@JAD I love Skodas too, plus they're way cheaper in my counry

JAD

but I have no experience with their automatics

@avazula I currently got a Skoda Fabia. It has nothing it doesn't need :P

avazula

@Tinkeringbell I actually have a "big" car (if you can picture a Renault Megane from the 2000s) but I think one gets used to it

A J

What about Skoda Laura?

avazula

@JAD I think I'll get one of these when I change cars

JAD

@AJ never seen those before

Magisch

7:20 AM

personally really glad I dont need a car

sounds expensive and annoying

JAD

@avazula those are the ones you can put an entire football team in right?

@Magisch mostly expensive

but annoyingly convenient

@AJ one of the things I like about the Fabia and Octavia is the big space in the back. Those don't seem to have that

A J

@JAD It looks a good choice for family outing.

I don't need a sports kinda one.

Tinkeringbell

@Magisch Well, I just found an updated price list.. Perhaps I shouldn't try and lease a car after all, they indeed have gotten a lot more expensive.

Time to postpone that phone call even further and start rethinking :/

avazula

@JAD yeah, it's quite big :p

Magisch

some of my colleagues straight up pay more for their car then for rent

madness, I tell ya

Tinkeringbell

7:29 AM

@Magisch Yeah, I don't think I'm willing to spend that much on a car ;)

JAD

@Tinkeringbell I took a look at it recently. If you make a lot of kilometers, private lease is pretty costly

Only good reason I found to lease a car if you cannot pay the purchasing costs upfront

avazula

Idk in the NL but in France new Skodas prices are starting at 8 or 9k I think

JAD

but then again, there are occasions that are much cheaper

avazula

But maybe you don't make a loan to buy a car over here

JAD

I bought mine for 3.5k. Used, 10 years old with 110k km

avazula

7:34 AM

@JAD of course :)

I think if I'd sell my car today I wouldn't get more than one grant

it's so old and not so much in a good shape haha

JAD

@avazula A quick google here shows that a new skoda fabia would be starting at 16k

avazula

@JAD o_o

maybe our wages are quite different then

JAD

could also be a difference in puchasing taxes

Magisch

so if I were to get one of those I would spend the majority of my current savings just getting a car

no thanks

Tinkeringbell

@JAD This would be company lease... but from the whole list of cars there's only 4 that fall within the travel budget I get, three of them are electric (which is a no-go for me), and the fourth one is plain ugly.

Magisch

7:37 AM

I bought my bycicle 4 years ago for 300€ and it's had maybe 50€ in replacement parts since then

JAD

@Tinkeringbell why is electric a nogo?

@Magisch well yeah, that's why you don't buy a new car

Tinkeringbell

@JAD There's no good way to charge the car at home here, and I'm also planning to move out some time and I don't want to have to make adaptations again just because of the car.

avazula

They're also not so good for the environment because of the making process and the materials of the batteries

My mother studied the hybrid cars and discovered that a hybrid already released at km 0 as much CO2 as a 15 y.o. gasoline car

Tinkeringbell

I'm not sure if a regular gas car is any better XD

Magisch

@Tinkeringbell Currently, they are. The problem is the disastrous mining and processing of the rare metals needed to make batteries

turns out making heaps of Lithium Ion batteries is bad for the environment

Tinkeringbell

7:41 AM

Hmmm. Today I learned then :)

avazula

Well idk but my master's memoir was about the sanitary, ecological and social impacts of electronic devices and it made me discover the atrocities done against some African populations. They make them live in terror so they have cheap workforce to extract the rare earths and minerals

Tinkeringbell

I guess I'll just stick with the public transport subscription.

JAD

yeah, but without wanting to be selfish, that is environment there vs environment here.

avazula

The democratic republic of Congo has been in a civil war for 13 years now and it highly benefits the rare earths market

Magisch

The problem is climate change is sorta global

avazula

7:42 AM

@Tinkeringbell I have a car yet I take the bus to commute to work so I5 here :D

Magisch

meaning if you produce 100t CO2 someplace in afriaca vs 80t here, you're still up down

avazula

Fedora is on my knees asking for cuddles again

JAD

@Magisch CO2 isn't the only consideration here

NOx emissions from combustion engines in the middle of cities is also relevant

Magisch

Well obviously, but it's a large one

Sure, you save some fine dust and harmful gases here though

Not sure how well that holds up considering rare earth mining is literally fouling the land and salting the earth in large swathes of africa, though

avazula

(Cuteness overload in 3 ... 2... )

yay

JAD

7:44 AM

@Magisch me neither, haven't studied that

Ælis

8:57 AM

@avazula Every time I see your cat, I hear purring in my head ^^

Magisch

@Ælis a catalyst for autonomous purring sounds, you could say

A J

9:17 AM

@avazula Is that SO watch?

Ælis

I was sad to not have question ideas these days. But, at least, I got a meta question idea today:

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Q: Improving the Help center

Recently, someone pointed out that the Help Center wasn't precise enough regarding what is and what isn't on-topic. It was about the first version of this question and here is what the comments said: I have been active on other StackExchange sites but I'm new to this one. From my POV the pag...

Tinkeringbell

9:29 AM

@Ælis :) Nice to see that one :)

avazula

@AJ Nah, I don't have that privilege :) it's a smart watch that I bought a year ago for monitoring my health

Ælis

@avazula I'm pretty sure the mod have the power to edit the help center (and the Tour) without the help of a CM, but lets wait for one of them to comfirm

avazula

@Ælis yea I wanted the confirmation ;)

Tinkeringbell

@Ælis Only certain pages, but yeah, we can do edits to /on-topic :)

Ælis

@Tinkeringbell Now I'm curious to know what are the one you can't edit? ^^

Tinkeringbell

9:38 AM

@Ælis /dont-ask for example XD

Very frustrating :P

Ælis

@Tinkeringbell Wow, serious? Oo That won't make things easier to improve your help center :/

Introverted Meta Man.

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Q: Improving the Help center

Recently, someone pointed out that the Help Center wasn't precise enough regarding what is and what isn't on-topic. It was about the first version of this question and here is what the comments said: I have been active on other StackExchange sites but I'm new to this one. From my POV the pag...

discussion help-center

Tinkeringbell

@Ælis Wait, I got that wrong, we can edit /dont-ask

Ælis

Ouf, that seems more logical this way

Tinkeringbell

10:09 AM

@Ælis I'm going to say it isn't editable XD I confused some icons ;)

Ælis

Next time I have a question about the help center, I will definitively not ask you. I'm more confuse now than before your "clarifications" :p

Tinkeringbell

@Ælis XD

We can't edit help/dont-ask.

That's the part you need to remember XD

Ælis

Haha, I will try to remember that (but I might discreetly ask someone else to back-up your claim :p)

Mithrandir

help/dont-ask is not editable by mods.

There, backed up :P

Ælis

Ahah, thank you :D

JAD

10:42 AM

@Tinkeringbell this is an emotional rollercoaster

Mithrandir

...this question has a lot to unpack. First off is the comment section. The answers aren't very well backed up. And I think the question itself might be close worthy. o_o

How to react when someone rudely rejects your advice at the gym when they clearly need it

Ælis

@Mithrandir The question is definitively closed worthy as a "What should I do" (IMO). Wich mean that the answers don't need to be moderate \o/

Mithrandir

...the comments can still go though :P

Ælis

Yeap but, with the comments, you just need to click "delete". For the answers, you also need to leave nice, well explained comments which is much harder to do

avazula

11:07 AM

@Ælis I have a question: is this cultural appropriation to wear, say, a traditional Indian sari to a European celebration when you have no Indian roots?

Mithrandir

...that sounds like it could possibly be an IPS question, if phrased right...

avazula

@Mithrandir I'm not sure I could face the "cultural appropriation doesn't exist" reactions :p

Mithrandir

...in any case, leaving appropriation aside, you'd probably get some weird looks, especially if you don't "look Indian"...

@avazula :|

avazula

@Mithrandir I'm actually asking for me and I'm quite medium-toned especially in Summer. I could actually look Indian. But that's not why I'm asking

Mithrandir

Cool.

JAD

11:10 AM

@avazula relevant: interpersonal.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1320/…

avazula

I've been passioned about India since teenagehood and I have a sari but I learned afterwards about cult. approp. and I wouldn't want to offend anyone (even though chances are there'll be no people from Southern Asia there)

Mithrandir

(I look like dough, so...)

JAD

also relevant: interpersonal.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2183/…

avazula

@JAD Are you saying my chat question will be flagged as off topic? :p

JAD

no, but seeing as it was suggested to post on IPS...

maybe I should've tagged @Mithrandir

Mithrandir

11:12 AM

looks

Looks like "it's okay but be careful with the phrasing" is what I'm getting from that

avazula

I have two weddings coming up this summer and am looking for a dress but if I go to traditional outfits I should rather go to Algerian or Spanish so I wouldn't come across as rude (as they're my origins)

Tinkeringbell

11:33 AM

@avazula How well do you know the bride/groom, and do you think they'd appreciate you showing up in anything else than 'traditional European' wedding dress? :)

avazula

@Tinkeringbell They're my partner's best friends. I surely should ask the bride if she thinks it's "too much" but otherwise I think they wouldn't care

Ælis

12:14 PM

@avazula I'm far from being an expert on this subject. If you don't know anything about the sari and its place in the culture behind it, then it's appropriation. If you, or any person that isn't Indian, is gaining money thanks to you wearing the sari (and/or you buying it) it's cultural appropriation. If the sari has some spiritual/religious value and you are not part of this religion, then it's cultural appropriation. Otherwise, I don't know.

avazula

@Ælis you still know more than I do :) thanks for your insight

I'm still too scared of coming across as rude so I think I'll stitch something

Ælis

@avazula Good luck with your stitching then, I know it takes time and can be tiring

avazula

@Ælis what's most tiring for me is to go to the store, choose the model, choose the fabric and escape this overly crowded place :p

Ælis

@avazula Yeah, doing shopping is just awful. I never understood people who liked to do that

avazula

@Ælis well, I like having new clothes (because most of the time I wear them to the ground haha) but shopping is overwhelming to me. So much choice ... haaaaa!

Ælis

12:22 PM

Should I: 1) leave a poor comment "Hey, do you have any backup for this?" and vote to delete 2) not say anything and vote to delete (leaving a good comment isn't an option)

@avazula And pressure, and judgment, and people, and noise,...

Tinkeringbell

@Ælis 'Please take a look at our citation expectations < link to meta >. You're suggesting X, have you had any success with this personally or external sources that recommend this approach?'

Why isn't leaving a good comment an option?

avazula

@Tinkeringbell too tired I guess

Ælis

@Tinkeringbell I thought canned comments was bad?

avazula

@Ælis it's better than nothing I think

Ælis

And yeah, leaving good comments is really tiring

Tinkeringbell

12:25 PM

@Ælis It's not canned, you have to fill in X ;)

But it's a pattern that can help you write a good comment :)

Extroverted Main Man

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Q: How to cancel a nearing appointment with a friend that I forgot about?

About a month ago, a friend I haven't heard from in some years invited me for dinner. We decided on a date that worked for both of us but I forgot to add it to my personal calendar. I was not particularly excited for this dinner but since I had no other plans, I accepted the invitation. A few da...

friends awkward-situations politeness approach

Ælis

Oh, I didn't see this X ^^' But X is representing a lot of work. It's always easier when you don't need to think about the wording and can just say the same thing you already said a million time before.

Well, I finally left a mostly fine comment I guess: interpersonal.stackexchange.com/questions/21503/…

avazula

@Ælis your comment is good :)

Ælis

Yeah but it's not really personalized (but it does have a link, which my comments often don't have)

avazula

don't be too harsh on yourself. You did it, you did a pretty good job, and no one else left a comment. Thank you for taking hte time!

Ælis

12:43 PM

<3

avazula

<3

Rainbacon

1:33 PM

Oof, first pass through the LQP with delete privileges. It's a tad intimidating

Philbo

https://interpersonal.stackexchange.com/questions/21503/how-to-tell-a-person-i-feel-theyre-only-pretending-to-like-me-when-they-need-so

Now that it's been edited to have an actual question at the end, what can be done to move it back off "On Hold" status?

Alex

@Philbo Any of the following: Vote to reopen if you have the privilege, bring it up here, bring it up on Meta, flag the post, comment on the post.

Rainbacon

I'm taking a look at it now to see if it's ready

Tinkeringbell

@Philbo Wait until OP added the clarification I asked for, either in comments or an edit?

Rainbacon

Can I not retract a reopen vote?

Tinkeringbell

1:42 PM

That's kinda why I cast the last vote as unclear...

@Rainbacon I don't think so...

Rainbacon

Unfortunate, I didn't see your comment when I voted to reopen and now I can't undo it

Alex

175

Q: Ability to retract reopen/delete votes

It seems that now we can retract close votes but we cannot retract reopen votes or delete votes. I am trying to retract my reopen vote here but it does not allow me to. Can we have that ability?

feature-request vote-to-delete vote-to-reopen

avazula

@Alex seems to me like you're always here to provide us the useful links :D

Alex

@avazula I have to do something to allow me to stay here. After all I've never posted on the main site.

avazula

@Alex to me you'd always be welcomed no matter what :)

I can't count the number of chats I'm in but don't participate on the site haha

Alex

1:45 PM

@avazula Thanks.

@avazula Well I've posted three times on Meta, so I guess that counts as some participation.

Rainbacon

@Alex I don't think that's required. For example, @El'endiaStarman has only posted on main once (a very good post for what it's worth), and that was after hanging in chat for quite a while.

avazula

of course it does!

Alex

@Rainbacon Yeah. I wasn't quite being entirely serious.

TheTinyMan

2:08 PM

Yay, I've got a new joerb now! :-)

Rainbacon

@TheTinyMan Congrats!

avazula

@TheTinyMan yay!

TheTinyMan

Thanks guys! :-D How's your search going, @Rainbacon?

Rainbacon

@TheTinyMan It's been going well, I got several levels in with 3 different companies. 2 of them have since turned me down, but the third told me they want to bring me in for a final interview. Problem is, they haven't told me when that will be yet.

avazula

fingers crossed!

Rainbacon

2:18 PM

@avazula The recruiter told me they were interviewing for 5 different spots, so they're having some trouble working out time for all of the candidates to come in.

avazula

erh :/

Rainbacon

They did say that they were very impressed with my communication skills (yay for IPS)

Ooh, @AJ got a new picture

A J

Yep

TheTinyMan

@Rainbacon Nice! Fingers crossed indeed!

Rainbacon

@avazula @TheTinyMan Thanks!

avazula

2:33 PM

:)

Rainbacon

2:57 PM

Yesterday I reviewed a PR that had a hardcoded secret access token in the code. I marked it as "needs improvement" and left a comment that the token should be removed. My manager merged the PR anyway :(

Tinkeringbell

@Rainbacon Guess who just learned to never do their rework XD

Rainbacon

@Tinkeringbell I'm not sure exactly how that applies to my manager actively pushing a secret access token into our source control

Tinkeringbell

@Rainbacon Well, it sends the same message of 'don't worry about rework' :P

Rainbacon

Perhaps I should mention that the manager who merged the PR was also the author of the PR

Tinkeringbell

It reminded me a lot of co-worker ;)

@Rainbacon See... 'I'm not discussing this, but merging it my way' ;)

Rainbacon

3:04 PM

Ok, that makes sense

Tinkeringbell

@Rainbacon :) I'm sorry for not making sense immediately all the time :P

Rainbacon

Well now there's a new PR to move it from the dev branch to the staging branch. Time to be insane

@Tinkeringbell Not to worry, I rarely make sense immediately

HDE 226868

5:25 PM

Just found out about the pro-tem election. . . That should be fun. :-)

user15026

That does sound pretty exciting

Tinkeringbell

@HDE226868 Are you going to nominate? I think you should :)

HDE 226868

@Tinkeringbell Yes, guess I was just on vacation these five weeks. :P

Tinkeringbell

@HDE226868 \o/

HDE 226868

I shall definitely be watching this from the sidelines. I might submit proposed questions for the questionnaire, though.

Tinkeringbell

5:35 PM

I'm looking forward to seeing those. :)

Alex

How often do former moderators run again (and get elected)?

Tinkeringbell

@Alex I'm not sure, I don't think there's ever been a precedent...

On a graduated site, if you're elected you don't have to rerun

On a pro-tem, you'd have to, but the pro-tem elections are so new I'm confident to say 'never happened yet'

Also, pro-tem elected mods still have to re-run upon graduation, but that also hasn't happened yet as far as I'm aware.

Alex

@Tinkeringbell I know of at least one case where a moderator was originally appointed, then when the site graduated and had an election he became a regular citizen, and then at the next election a few years later he became a moderator again.

HDE 226868

It's definitely happened that pro-tem mods have run in elections (and in some cases I know, they lost the first election but won subsequent ones) and been reelected.

I doubt anyone's been a pro-tem mod twice for the same site, though.

Tinkeringbell

@HDE226868 It's not really re-elected then, as they were appointed the first time round.

HDE 226868

5:38 PM

@Tinkeringbell Oh, fair.

Tinkeringbell

@Alex So wait, with run again you didn't really mean 'do an election nomination for a second time'?

Then HDE is right... ;)

Alex

@Tinkeringbell I meant a case where someone was a moderator at one point, then stopped being a moderator, and then tried (and perhaps succeeded) to become a moderator again.

I.e. as would be the case here if HDE would run.

Tinkeringbell

Oh, then there should be a few. I still wouldn't count elected mods resigning and then being reappointed though, as being elected on a graduated site has (as far as I remember) always been 'for life' so there's not really any 'trying' involved in becoming a mod again :)

user15026

@HDE226868 I think I might have done that on Pets? I think I dropped it for a bit then picked it up again and then had to drop it but I don't recall for sure, and it wasn't ever an elected thing

Tinkeringbell

You were a Pets mod? Do you have pets?

El'endia Starman

5:49 PM

Probably does have pet peeves.

Tinkeringbell

@El'endiaStarman Never tell those to people on the internet though! The fall under everything you say can and WILL be used against you :P

Alex

@Tinkeringbell But they would still have to win the new election.

user15026

@Tinkeringbell I've one cat currently

Tinkeringbell

@Ash Oh duh! The one with diabetes... Sorry, I forgot! How's he? Norbert? doing?

@Alex Ehh, not really? If you were an elected moderator on a graduated site, you can resign then at any point in the future reclaim your diamond, as far as I know, without having to be elected again. It's one of those things that was up for discussion a while back on MSE

user15026

@Tinkeringbell Norbert's doing great, we found a insulin level he responds well to :)

user15026

5:58 PM

@Tinkeringbell Yeah, that's how I understand it

Tinkeringbell

@Ash Glad to hear that! Does that mean he can get that surgery anytime soon now?

(If I shouldn't be talking in here about stuff I remember from your Twitter, lemme know ;) )

Alex

@Tinkeringbell Really? In any case, in the case I was thinking of the guy was a pro tem moderator and then either didn’t run or didn’t win in the first election. He then had to be elected at the next election.

Tinkeringbell

@Alex Okay, so you've got your anecdata :P There have been cases of moderators running again and getting elected ;)

user15026

@Tinkeringbell We're still waiting on his surgery stuff, we want to make sure he's good and stable for a while before we mess with anything else. But I am thinking probably by the summer we will be able to do ti

avazula

I'm predicting at least half a dozen people nominating themselves for these elections :p

Tinkeringbell

6:00 PM

6? That's a lot!

@Ash Sounds good. Fingers crossed all keeps going well then! :)

avazula

@Tinkeringbell I could name them but I don't think that'd be in the spirit of TAS

we'll see :)

I guess you're looking for one new mod only?

Tinkeringbell

@avazula Nah, peer pressure isn't nice :P

user15026

@Tinkeringbell Yeah, I am pretty hopeful. He's been SO good about the twice a day shots.

Tinkeringbell

@avazula Yep

avazula

@Tinkeringbell I didn't want to do it, you were the one surprised haha

user15026

6:02 PM

(If I take too long, he meows and then stretches out on the floor in the position he likes for me to do it in and looks at me like "come on human do the stuff")

Tinkeringbell

@Ash Awww!

user15026

I think he's realized it makes him feel better.

avazula

@Ash aaaw

Tinkeringbell

@Ash Smart cat!

Rainbacon

@avazula After the election you'll have to tell us if you were right about all of the people you thought would run

avazula

6:05 PM

@Rainbacon I could actually after the nomination period ends :)

user15026

@Rainbacon Yeah, now I am curious! I am sure we will have a number of excellent candidates.

avazula

To me there's already at least 2 of them in here :p

maybe 3 but I'm less sure

Rainbacon

@avazula well HDE isn't in here at the moment ;)

avazula

@Rainbacon I know

Alex

Can I run if I’ve never posted?

avazula

6:09 PM

I don't think of anything that would prevent you lol

Tinkeringbell

@Alex I think you still need the minimum of 300 reputation for nominating yourself, so no :(

avazula

I don't think we'll get the badges recap like on the other sites though

@Tinkeringbell oh this I didn't know

Alex

@Tinkeringbell It's possible to earn reputation without posting. I'm already at 115.

Tinkeringbell

@Alex I forgot about edits. Okay, then you can, but hurry!

elementaryos.stackexchange.com/election is what a beta election looks like

artofcode.co.uk/elections is a good site to keep an eye on if you want to see more elections

avazula

@Tinkeringbell wooh, nice site!

AOC really is amazing haha

Alex

6:15 PM

@avazula en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez ?

Rainbacon

@avazula I haven't seen them around in a while

avazula

@Alex I meant the site's author Art of Code, I don't know enough about the news to say anything about American politicians

Rainbacon

@Alex Art of Code

avazula

no TV no news, no news ... less drama?

I know it may seem a bit coward, but I really can't stand watching the news

Alex

I know. It's just that Google apparently thinks that of people named AOC she's more famous than Art of Code.

avazula

6:16 PM

@Alex :O how dare they

Rainbacon

@avazula I get my news from Twitter

avazula

I get mine from Youtube and Facebook I guess

Alex

And I get mine here.

avazula

haha

Em C

7:35 PM

@Alex I have a couple math friends who've commented that they always read "AOC" as the axiom of choice :P

Alex

@EmC Wikipedia definition: In mathematics, the axiom of choice, or AC, is an axiom of set theory equivalent to the statement that the Cartesian product of a collection of non-empty sets is non-empty. And I still have no idea what it is.

Em C

yeah, I am definitely not a math person either :P

> Informally put, the axiom of choice says that given any collection of bins, each containing at least one object, it is possible to make a selection of exactly one object from each bin, even if the collection is infinite.

^ that explanation is more on my level, haha

Alex

Not much better...

El'endia Starman

Oooh. Axiom of Choice leads to some really funky results. For instance, the famous Banach-Tarski theorem that says you can decompose a ball into pieces and then reassemble them to make two whole balls. No gaps or anything.

Em C

even with the pretty picture? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_of_choice#/media/…

@El'endiaStarman yay, a math person :D

that just reminds me of the infinite chocolate bar gif

(but I know that one is wrong)

Alex

7:45 PM

@EmC Even.

Rainbacon

7:58 PM

@El'endiaStarman I looked up Banach-Tarski, that was... quite something

El'endia Starman

I concur!

Vsauce has a good video about it:

The Banach–Tarski Paradox

►

Rainbacon

9:16 PM

How should I comment to someone who is ignoring a culture tag? I found a fairly poor answer on a question that is tagged with a country, and the answer starts off with "From my [other country on a different continent] perspective"

I downvoted and flagged, but I'd like to leave a comment as well

Extroverted Main Man

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Q: Why choose "negotiate with your fears" instead of "eliminate your fears"?

Why do I see a significant number of questions (and not just on this site too!) about how people can GET ALONG & NEGOTIATE with their self-conscious fears rather than DEAL WITH & ELIMINATE their self-conscious fears? Several weeks ago I recall a question where a person was asking how to say no t...

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Em C

@Rainbacon we have this meta (I don't recall a more recent one?) suggesting answers should be allowed from other cultures, as long as they specify that

of course if it's poor for other reasons, totally fine to vote/flag on that ;)

also this one.. actually I like the answer there better, even though I was a duplicate voter there :P

Rainbacon

9:40 PM

@EmC Hmm, yeah, I might just leave the cultural context part of it alone

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