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@FaheemMitha I appreciate the question, or I appreciated your line of inquiry. Interesting. Good to think about.

I wonder, if in some way, how many global names you know, might be as important as how many languages you speak, in terms of being well-rounded, or whatever that level means. Another level of vocabulary, I do not know though.

I will stop my Stream-of-Consciousness nationalities identification then. I know who run the tech companies, I will do better with that list, I promise.

Oh okay, I got that Gandi then, I thought SA visit maybe, good. Next on my list is Akon the rapper starting a Bitcoin city in Africa but that's giving away how I read. I remember reading about Obama going to Africa before and after presidency, but I'm with you, it's not in my news feed as much as Musk and Zuck, not because I necessarily try but, that's the feed...

@FaheemMitha I wish the US actually integrated with the International Criminal Court and United Nations, funding instead of competing. I mean I appreciate US law being a basis for int law, but I believe America is fallible, even we need the ICC... I am better talking about Ubuntu though, maybe.

Gandhi is great, if only my mind recognized which continent first.

Definitely why I judged myself, there has to be a better example in mind. Terrible would be admitting I thought Gandhi next, sigh.

@FaheemMitha Lord, good point, I could have said Jacob Zuma before Kofi Annan but I judged myself first.

@FaheemMitha I hope Ghana is in Africa but my American education...

UN Kofi en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kofi_Annan

@FaheemMitha "Ubuntu"? O:)

Well, I can name African-Americans but not Africans so I'm stuck there partially too, American education, still very nationalistic not internationalistic role models. :∫

I only remember names when they're screen names, so I have another problem...

@FaheemMitha Informal analogy, please forgive the stretch of logic, just trying to place markers on the idea. They're really their own "universes", I agree, if only there were Q&A spec templates from W3.org... sorry, dreaming again.

@FaheemMitha Ubuntu vs Slackware, is StackExchange versus Quora, in my reference point. But that's not the best analogy, I wanted to just express the paradigm.

@FaheemMitha Born in US, American schools, raised by text chatting.

@FaheemMitha Sorry, I was biased there. I actually agree, the hegemonic polarization is inculcating into (un)just pejorativization. I'm giving away I'm an American citizen, and I'm not even trying. I meant to stay neutral with the Ubuntu vs. Slackware continuum, again, sorry, that variable was too political.

@FaheemMitha Oh, I agree, SE and Quora are their own countries. SE is a democrac.... well almost... Quora is Russia maybe, but I'm biased...

@FaheemMitha Stupid me, reading names for identity markers, stupidly thinking your names sounded the same, my slip only, not related to you. >:(

@FaheemMitha I want to use Ubuntu and Red Hat or SUSE, not Gentoo and Slackware for my questions and answers ...or I mean, SE/Quora are the FB of Q&A, nothing can compete (well, maybe regulation can compete, in 100 years...).

Oh my, I am confusing you with Vikas and I am only reading your names and typing text. Lord, forgive me. Your text does not sound or look the same, so something psychological for me maybe, eek.

I read you (among others) in the English room (the most active room on SE) we're around the same hours sometimes, I just can't go fast enough for the English room, Mitch types so well I can not compete. :)

Funny maybe but as an aside, I almost never say the word in my name "c__text" it's just in my name... <3

@FaheemMitha Strikethrough syntax to symbolically not show the sound effect for the reply notification?

~~:60858398~~ (Me strikethroughing the reply function string, in your honor :) Yet SE is lightyears ahead of the chat specifications of FB. Web feature/regulation discussion is in its infancy so far, we don't even agree on basic terminology yet, literacy to even know what's an Edit Time. (If only SE was as open source as RMS tho, hmm... I wish SE had more representation, seriously, more editors, more coders, an open source community to help grow SE leadership as a non-profit... Sorry, dreaming.)

@FaheemMitha That's all I'd ask for. Not to digress, but I wonder ("theoretically") if longer talk times (I mean, like, Reddit has only 6 month thread time limit, how is that enough time for world peace?) would help some topics of conversation.

@FaheemMitha @FaheemMitha Oh (darn again, why did I not use the reply_arrow), that was just a reply to chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/60857306#60857306 ...that's why in my writing for that part, I changed to parenthesis, as you said parenthetically too, in said chat entry. I mean, you were talking about missing the duplicate entry, correct, when you wrote "(Sorry,"? I think you were apologizing for your grammar in a sense, missing the repeat links/repeat words in first proof.

@FaheemMitha you and I need longer edit times. Why "All edits under 5 min", sheesh... I want technology regulations of/for edit_time_limit. 0:) Advocacy from time.com/6164702/twitter-edit-button-elon-musk is too late, I mean why are govs/laws not just coding Specifications? (Well, I should have "Replied.." function in the chat to at that other user, instead of just @ sign, otherwise not all users can see what is replied to. Just realized, for the record, I did not edit that formally.)

@forest Yo, I remember you, we talked b4:), you might remember from chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/784?m=57204812#57204812 in Crypto room. You asked me a question, but gave me the silent treatment;), did I stun you? There are so many empty rooms, by joining lots I can at least try to be sociable. (I mean, listen/read=quiet/shy behavior. If I'm too talkative, mod judgements get mean, so some self-censorship helps I guess.) Requires eery skill to just find/remember our past chats...

With a bit of imagination, I was powering the Manhattan Project. At least we were not having real learning shocks and fires like our parents.

Today there are better options for interacting with actual programming code, but lord those learning kits were tough. Actual puzzles (like building Toys R' Us lego skyscrapers) I could build well, but Radioshack circuitboards haunt me. A cheap Rasberry Pi would have been good instead, would have taught me actual computer code along with the freaky jarring kit buzzing sounds. :/

Is it okay if I tell you I think Radioshack's $20 Learning Kit Lab Circuit Boards reddit.com/r/electronics/comments/nnlih/… are "Code Golf" && if I do not really have a supercomputer? :∫

@GingerIndustries Supercomputer, plus being a en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mentat mentat. (And chat experience. Sadly though, so many quiet/empty/silent chat rooms...)

@GingerIndustries IF NOT ur mom = THEN ur dad actually, mate.

@S.M.T Well, a 'minimum degree of knowledge about who is to become president', hopefully not a "voting literacy test" which has a terrible meaning in USA, versus the www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965 before, so better as a 'standardized democratic press score system' (I'm making up a term for it, what political scoring systems do/would CNN and Fox ever be able to agree? Can we agree that tax records should be a "yes"/"no" question maybe?) for said electability/ability?

@Robusto +1 Thank you @Robusto for bringing back yesterday's topic (maybe because I publicly Starred that entry, that worked, woo hoo :) :]

@Cerberus chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/60528302#60528302 ...Good, so I finally know democracy is not demon+crazy, was my first thought when reading your Greek fact "A demos is a people". I wondered if the word inventor meant that, but I guess they did not account for Greek being transformed by English later in language. (I was too scared to type that in yesterday, how stupid does that sound, but I can not be the only one who ever asked.)

@S.M.T Some form of ~Democratic_Intelligence, er, ~Intelligent_Democracy, would help. (I mean, that might just mean internet access, or public tax records, maybe asking for greater/deeper disclosures in general. Even autocrats use/abuse some democratic tools oddly, some better/worse than we do in the USA ourselves. Record-keeping makes democracy-keeping, but the press is not required to report all conflicting interests in elections information, background checks are not standardized vetting.)

Hmm. :}

@tchrist I said "comment", I did not say give me an "answer". And now I might have questions too. Now what do i do. O:)

@tchrist chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/60528304#60528304 would be a good question comment for english.stackexchange.com/questions/585188/…? Or I may quote your permalink.

Between Axios's "algorithmic news", and Google News putting Snopes.com at the top of every page, I thought programmatic A.I. analysis would lead to these differentials being clear. But we do not even have linguistic nuance standards.

Well all the pings sound the same, the least S.E. could do is custom ringtones. Maybe after SE goes open source. :P

And sorry for the unruly ping, but I wish 538 and that NYT column had a ruled chart of said positions of great powers. Sometimes there are such diagrams (if not, shown comically), but it is not a method of expression (or what do you call such chart/diagram/tree?) sotospeak.

@Cerberus "specifically says", "refuses to say", are some of the good/better expressions, which can be (beyond the Security Council resolutions) difficult to summarize. :/

@Cerberus fivethirtyeight.com / freakonomics.com should have a chart with your summarized lingual/legalist voting angles. ...what are our keywords, "specifically says", "refuses to say", "but"... is that a Decision Tree or Theoretical Linguistics (does "but" cause buffer overflows in Law, at "but specifically says", with error msg E_Difficult_to_Summarize)? :∫

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/24/… from Ignatius on CNN TV yesterday, talks about how it's the (psychological?) end of one war, if not the start of another. Good they/we've waited for President Biden first, at least: "When Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his all-out invasion of Ukraine on Thursday, he effectively ended the post-Cold War era. A new architecture for global relations must be built, and its shape will depend[]"

I just found about the room here from chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/60513627#60513627 where we're also talking about WWIII in the chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/95/… English Language room. I guess we're all speaking the same language, & on th same page, ...We want to know if its WWIII yet, and can not fit that into a proper StackExchange question format. O:) Wait, there must be a Poli q about if it's WWIII yet somewhere.