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Robusto

01:03

@Cerberus Yes, it's above somewhere.

#travle #794 +0 (Perfect)
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https://travle.earth

#WhenTaken #354 (15.02.2025)

I scored 776/1000🏅

1️⃣📍1.2K km - 🗓️1 yrs - 🥈165/200
2️⃣📍11.0 km - 🗓️15 yrs - 🥈169/200
3️⃣📍66.8 km - 🗓️18 yrs - 🥈158/200
4️⃣📍6.2K km - 🗓️7 yrs - 🥉106/200
5️⃣📍729 km - 🗓️0 yrs - 🥇178/200

https://whentaken.com

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Cerberus

@Robusto Ah, well done, we got similar scores.

You got much closer on many of your photos.

Robusto

@Cerberus I still missed #3 by a wide mark for the date.

Cerberus

Hmm which one was that again.

I forget which was which almost immediately after finishing.

Robusto

01:27

@Cerberus It was Saturday here when I did all my posted puzzles.

Cerberus

Same here.

But I don't remember which photo was no. 3.

CowperKettle

02:34

LITTLE BIG – SKIBIDI (official music video)

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Today I learned

CowperKettle

03:18

If you buy a bigger bed, you have more bed room but less bedroom

CowperKettle

04:01

> the world reached the stunning cumulative total of 2 terawatts (TW) of installed solar capacity in November last year – a milestone that came just two years after the first terawatt mark, which took 68 years to notch up.

reneweconomy.com.au/…

Robusto

04:20

@CowperKettle More like 6,000 years, I think.

Cerberus

05:14

More like however many years have passed since the thing that came before the Big Bang.

But, yeah, duplication in two years is great.

Solar is, I think, the only way besides nuclear to produce enough clean energy.

Connections
Puzzle #616
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I didn't really know blue.

I was a bit impatient with green.

I'm kind of happy I got purple, it is one of those.

MetaEd

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CowperKettle

Cerberus

I suppose 1946 was the Baby Boom.

MetaEd

05:31

Strands #349
“Ice packs”
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CowperKettle

Yes.

Le Baby Boom

alphabet

05:53

@CowperKettle Did you hear Elon Musk had his thirteenth kid? Apparently it has something to do with his obsession with declining birthrates.

SmokeDetector

08:00

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in answer, bad keyword with email in answer, email in answer, pattern-matching email in answer, potentially bad keyword in answer, +1 more (355): A word for a secret organisation that controls the government‭ by Andrew Ronald‭ on english.SE

SmokeDetector

08:20

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported question (93): Not allowed to play the computer‭ by Hair‭ on english.SE

CowperKettle

12:20

@alphabet Oh! No, I did not hear that. I have nothing to say against it. He has enough money to support a lot of kids.

Vikas

> Blessed by the god Shiva and the sage Vyasa, she bears one hundred sons through miraculous means, collectively known as the Kauravas, with her eldest, Duryodhana, becoming a key antagonist in the epic. Besides the hundred sons, she also has a daughter, Dushala.

Gandhari (Mahabharata)

Gandhari (Sanskrit: गान्धारी, lit. 'of Gandhara', IAST: Gāndhārī) is a prominent figure in the Hindu epic the Mahabharata. She is the daughter of King Subala, the ruler of Gandhara, and becomes the wife of Dhritarashtra, the blind king of Kuru Kingdom. In a remarkable act of solidarity, Gandhari blindfolds herself for life upon learning of her husband’s blindness, choosing to share his condition. Blessed by the god Shiva and the sage Vyasa, she bears one hundred sons through miraculous means, collectively known as the Kauravas, with her eldest, Duryodhana, becoming a key antagonist in the epic...

He should break this record.

Robusto

14:43

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Strands #350
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CowperKettle

> The rivalry between the Kauravas and their cousins, the Pandavas, culminates in the devastating Kurukshetra war, which results in the destruction of the Kuru dynasty.

We have enough wars by now

Vikas

15:03

@CowperKettle We couldn't learn from epics.

Robusto

15:35

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CowperKettle

@Vikas Yes, we can't have 100 Elonavas fight 100 Putinavas

Robusto

@CowperKettle They won't fight each other. Both just want to divide up the spoils, with Elon getting the bigger half.

@CowperKettle Do you remember a Russian magazine called Krokodil?

CowperKettle

@Robusto Yes, I loved it very much in my childhood, because of the funny toons

I mean caricatures

It was a kind of allowed critique of 'bad' bureaucrats

I came across a Soviet Ukrainian version of Krokodil, and wrote down a couple of funny verses in Ukrainian and learned a couple of Ukrainian words

A good way to learn vocabulary.

Light-hearted comical verses.

In one verse, a couple of hunters a walking with a ladder, and a babushka asks them why, and they tell her - we're going to hunt for wild boars. She says in wonder - I never knew that wild boars lived on trees.

As I understand, ladders were used to climb on trees and fire from trees at boars

Thus I memorized the word драбина (step ladder)

Nothing like children's songs and funny verses for memorizing new words

Фізкультхвилинка - СКІК ТА СКОК - Веселі Дитячі Пісні - RoNika і ютуб канал З Любов'ю до Дітей

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Ukrainian song about physical exercise for kids

Good for vocabulary. I listen to it while jogging, when it comes around on the player. There are hundreds of Ukrainian songs, so it comes around rarely now

Robusto

15:57

@CowperKettle Yeah, i remember we had copies of that in my Russian class. I couldn't read most of it, but some I could.

Cerberus

16:27

@CowperKettle Are you not afraid that some from from the (secret) police might search your phone and find it?

CowperKettle

17:08

@Cerberus I should install some "fake operating system" so that the phone appears innocuous to the police LOL

I mean a second OS on the phone, so that after a restart the innocuous OS loads up.

I should look for it.

> For example, combining white rice (AAS = 0.8 for lysine) with beans (AAS = 1.5 for lysine) will produce a meal complete in lysine and all other IAAs. Thus, vegans can consume adequate amounts of lysine and other IAAs with a properly selected meat-free diet.

Cerberus

@CowperKettle Yeah, or use the work profile in Android.

@CowperKettle secure-system.gitlab.io/Insular/faq.html

You might use Insular or Shelter.

> “Insular” is a sandbox environment to clone selected apps and isolate them from accessing your personal data outside the sandbox (including call logs, contacts, photos and etc) even if related permissions are granted. Device-bound data (SMS, IMEI and etc) is still accessible.

Isolated app can be frozen on demand, with launcher icon vanish and its background behaviors completely blocked.

CowperKettle

20:51

@Cerberus Thank you!

Indigenous man from an uncontacted tribe approached a tiny tribe in the Amazon and asked for some fire. They used a lighter to help him fire a piece of wood, and recorded this on a smartphone. apnews.com/article/…

It's cool that in 2025 there are still uncontacted tribes.

The modern civilization might vanish and they won't even notice that.

His hair is so nicely trimmed over his forehead.

I wonder how they do their hairdressing in the Amazon

@Robusto This is impressive, because some signs on the caricatures required some inside political and commonsense knowledge of the Soviet life to understand

The weather forecast after February 23 is wild gismeteo.ru/weather-yekaterinburg-4517/2-weeks

It's like the Spring arriving a full three weeks earlier

CowperKettle

21:19

The sentence "Are you as bored as I am?" can be said backwards and still make sense.

Robusto

@CowperKettle Well, I knew intrinsically that it was a Soviet-approved publication, which made me puzzle over the humor. At face value, it seemed subversive, and I wondered how to square that with where it came from.

Mitch

21:45

@CowperKettle I've always wondered that.i don't think they have metal knives and I can't imagine shaving or cutting hair with a stone no matter how sharpened.

As to shaving I'm pretty sure the men don't grow much facial hair.

In the back of my head I think they use bamboo. That is, it isn't too hard to split bamboo length-wise and the edge makes a usable blade for a couple is uses.

A quick Google search...everybody says they used stone tools.

But none of those sources sounds authoritative (ie by an anthropologist or archeologist) I don't believe anything on Reddit or Quora (or Wikipedia or Stack Overflow)

jlliagre

#WhenTaken #355 (16.02.2025)

I scored 773/1000🏅

1️⃣📍7.9K km - 🗓️4 yrs - 🥉105/200
2️⃣📍702 m - 🗓️21 yrs - 🥈151/200
3️⃣📍593 km - 🗓️5 yrs - 🥇177/200
4️⃣📍3.1 km - 🗓️10 yrs - 🥇185/200
5️⃣📍1.5K km - 🗓️5 yrs - 🥈155/200

https://whentaken.com

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Daily Octordle #1119
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jlliagre

23:10

Daily Sequence Octordle #1119
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Xanne

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Strands #351
“Sun shade”
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