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6:54 AM
A chairde - Morning all!
> Elon Musk's Twitter poll yesterday...
I was pondering this Twitter poll - of no interest to me - I've never tweeted anything, "liked" anything on Facebook (or whatever it's called now), posted anything to Snapchat or Instagram - I'm not really a social media person -this is my primary "social" outlet - they appear to me to be nothing but timesinks and a way for teenagers to waste the best years of their lives...
but anyway (Jesus, I'm turning into an old curmudgeon), back to the poll! What sort of society/world are we living in/constructing when one man has almost 1/4 of a trillion dollars and there are people out there who are dying of starvation and readily curable diseases?
Oh, I do dip in and out of the Dublin Linux Community on Telegram from time to time...
 
 
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11:14 AM
I dislike social media as well, but I don't know any alternative how to reach a wide audience easily. How much of a timesink it is depends on your willpower.

It can range from fire and forget to doomscrolling for hours.
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11:58 AM
It's mostly anti-social media, but like most things, it is what you make it
You choose what you see and what you engage with
If it's a net negative, don't do it
 
I'm so glad to have ditched Twitter once Elon "I can solve world hunger with $5 Billion" Musk said he was taking it private. Luckily my company sqlserverscience.com doesn't rely on Social Media at all.
 
12:17 PM
idk if snopes is trustworthy or not, but there do seem to be multiple reports he donated $5.75B to charity in November 2022. May or may not be related I suppose.
 
12:49 PM
morning
 
morning
 
1:17 PM
First day of Winter today
 
Let it snow!
 
Brace yourself, Winter is coming
 
1:59 PM
Yeah it's my least favourite season. Hopefully it will continue the trend of recent years by being shorter and warmer than average.
 
 
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5:43 PM
@PaulWhite I thought the last season of games of thrones was universally chosen as the worst one
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6:41 PM
Morning
 
 
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8:21 PM
@Zikato The reason I frequent this forum is that there is more "wheat than chaff" - I'm still learning from posts here - and obviously on the main site! So, it's still a net positive for me. As long as that remains the case, I'll hang around...
 
8:35 PM
@Lamak Ha ha. But yeah that was disappointing
 
8:58 PM
Hello there
 
Wrong room
 
Wrong site lol
 
yeah what lmao
 
Shit let's get out of here quick
 
one of our admins misclicked and moved a story about lizards to your room
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please don't harm us
 
8:59 PM
That's Unrelated, Ginger
One of us
 
@PaulWhite Really sorry about that, can you move this to a room called Off-Topic TNB please
 
you forgot to say good morning
 
@RadvylfPrograms QUICK!!
 
hurry, we can't be seen in here!
 
Oh wait, Radvylf can't move these messages out
 
8:59 PM
I was about to click "off-topic tnb" then more rooms loaded in and what was under my cursor changed
 
which is why he pinged a mod here
 
accidental invasion of database administrators by code golfers threatens to start WWIII, more news at 6
 
shouldn't be too bad, both factions are great at writing unreadable code
 
It's winter where Paul White lives, he probably won't come out of hibernation until Christmas time. You guys might as well settle in here, start learning the language...
 
We can potentially dispatch an ambassador
 
9:15 PM
@Ginger Thing is, SQL is probably readable to those who are used to it, whereas golflangs are unreadable even to their most experienced users
 
Really? I'd imagine with some experience Jelly or Japt wouldn't be too bad
 
I made makina and find it hard to understand
it's probably a case-by-case thing
 
idk about Jelly but Japt can't be super readable even to Shaggy
 
(Also if we continue this discussion we should probably do it in TNB, instead of breaking in through someone's ceiling and then having a long chat in their living room while everyone stares at us like ghosts)
 
good point lol
 
9:23 PM
Quite tempted to leave it here tbh
 
wot
 
I was so lost for a while
 
oh hello natives of DBA, sorry for the accidental invasion, one of our ROs clicked the wrong button
 
Yep
 
and this is why confirmation dialogs exist
 
9:27 PM
I'll move the messages in a bit. On my phone at the moment and this is all quite funny to me
 
I'm on desktop if someone can point to a beginning and an end... 55 messages O_o
 
It's way more than 55 messages rn but give me a sec
 
@PaulWhite Moving messages with a phone... you're living on the edge!
 
@curious I do like a challenge
 
9:28 PM
There are some messages that shouldn't be moved within that block
Looks like it's only one actually
 
Perhaps the easiest solution would be to network chat ban all the rude interlopers
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Just putting that out there as an option
 
Honestly not a bad idea
 
I object to that
 
We discuss nothing important most of the time
 
😂
 
9:30 PM
Personally I think making code short and coming up with imaginary languages are both very important
 
but anyway sorry for the intrusion, we'll be going now and you'll probably never see us again
biya
 
Thanks for stopping by
 
Thank you for being such gracious hosts, we'll be sure to come by again
 
@user Hey! Not too often ^^
 
10:29 PM
That was fun. Like two parallel universes intersected temporarily
Some modest hilarity ensued, but no violence. If only real life was like that
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10:55 PM
@PaulWhite i hear red wine warms the belly
and face
and... nethers
 

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