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Journeyman Geek

16:00

but outside religion - many of the choices I made - say vegetarianism are informed by, but not totally tied into it

Shog9

80

Q: Brothers, we are not Christians‼

I am a Christian. You say you are. But we are not.1 It seems that a lot of folks are having a hard time wrapping their heads around the scope of this site. While I respect the SE staff2 and have been impressed with the effort they have taken (and judgement they have shown) in nurturing this site...

Journeyman Geek

and Bramins being purely vegetarian is historically recent

Shog9

Still my favorite statement of purpose for religion sites on SE

Journeyman Geek

(and I respect folks have other paths, religious or otherwise)

user5389107

see I respect religious people I don't necessarily respect religions

Journeyman Geek

16:03

which is also fine

user5389107

regardless of their ideology everyone is their own person and their actions define them more

Journeyman Geek

But the way I profess my faith, would be very different to how my grandfather would, and my great grandfather would...

;p

but but. that's historical context ;p

user5389107

As long as you don't tell me I need to profess your faith too I don't think we'd have any issues

Journeyman Geek

oh hell no

user5389107

outside of common courtesy like not eating meat right in front of you if I can help it for instance

Journeyman Geek

16:05

lol

I'm cool with that.

(actually I'm firmly against trying to convert people to hinduism. If they want to... ugh, go find an actual priest, not some computer geek ;p)

Anonymous

lol

Journeyman Geek

"-3"

user5389107

"-3" "answered with a cold detached reference to scriptures"

Journeyman Geek

and ok, at this point I think I'm going to have to do what's right, and deal with the annoyed CMs if I'm not....

user5389107

pls go ahead

this discussion isn't for this room I think

Jhoverit

16:09

@user1114 @user1114 @JeremyBanks @ReadandSee why so many names

hey

well, on the other hand, I'm cool with religious SE sites, but I can't stand any topics on Philosophy.SE... (I'm not that religious either)

Jhoverit

HOW so many names in such short time?

Journeyman Geek

@hey not all of SE is for everyone ;p

(like say... some folk never go on SO)

Anonymous

@Jhoverit I was a moderator. Now I am not, so my name will not be changing again soon.

user5389107

@user1114 did you resign?

Jhoverit

16:13

Lmao making a good comeback eh?

hey

@JourneymanGeek definitely, but that's what I experience as a HNQ hopper... I hate my curiosity to always open Philosophy HNQ then get triggered silently... :(

Anonymous

No, I did not resign.

Anonymous

But my actions weren't exactly consistent with someone who was trying to avoid this, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

hey

well, it's almost midnight here, better sleep to refresh the mind...

Undo

undo's minirant of the day: I'm encouraged by SE staff's apparent channeling of this energy into solid, useful improvements to the Q&A platform.

2

maybe not a rant, but gotta use the label

Journeyman Geek

16:16

-1 not a rant ;p

hey

I.. failed to see the rant ._.

Taryn

@Undo rantfail

Undo

real minirant of the day: I have a sore throat and it's terrible, why have we not solved this yet? Like, we can send stuff to Mars and cure a decent amount of cancer, can't we make a spray or something that fixes this?

Journeyman Geek

lol

@Undo I had one the other day

Undo

hydrogen peroxide spray is awesome, but temporary

Journeyman Geek

16:18

basically curbstomped them with dequadin and eumenthol jujubes.

Shog9

@Undo whisky

HDE 226868

@Undo Hydrogen peroxide also helps send stuff to Mars. :P

Shog9

but yes, gargling with a weak hydrogen peroxide solution is pretty effective and cheaper than whisky

Taryn

@Shog9 he's not of age though, so you're a bad influence

Undo

technically legal as long as I'm not getting my medicine from a bar

Shog9

16:20

still?

Undo

lol. I was 14 when I started on SR. Time flies, but not that fast :P

Journeyman Geek

lol

not that long ago

3 years?

Undo

ish

Journeyman Geek

Pretty sure I was at dneg at the time

user5389107

everytime I get a sore throat its tonsilitis

Journeyman Geek

16:22

and heh, I've been a mod longer than I've worked in any one place :)

user5389107

wtb removed tonsils

Anonymous

Take a bus up to Quebec, Alberta, or Manitoba (drinking age 18) and I'll buy the first round.

Sterling Archer

16:40

@Taryn update: lunch was spectacular

Jhoverit

@Undo As counter-intuitive as it sounds.. Warm salt water lol

Taryn

@SterlingArcher nice!!

Journeyman Geek

I've heard that one

Jhoverit

@user1114 I thought it was just a short fluke but apparently meta.stackexchange.com/users/134300/user1114 (your profile page) is inaccessible, infinite loading state. Kind of weird

Anyone else?

Works in incognito. Weird af.

Nope, it crashes the page in incognito

rene

@Jhoverit they now know where you live ...

Jhoverit

16:44

Huh?

I move 600 miles in 1 week. They can log this address

rene

lol

@Jhoverit jeremy is in this list. I assume he is white-hat but he might have put some nice things for us in his profile page ....

TylerH

@Undo who was younger when they started moderatoring? You or Boltclock I wonder

Journeyman Geek

I hope boltclock

on the simple premise of being my countryman ;p

Undo

me by a long ways

TylerH

Apparently Boltclock was 19

For some reason I was thinking he started much younger

Journeyman Geek

16:48

lol

whippersnappers ;p

Undo

we had to evaluate the risks on him :P

TylerH

I guess I was thinking of his Flash days at Newgrounds

Jhoverit

@rene I find that... Alarming?

TylerH

@JourneymanGeek I have discovered the secret to keeping Stack Exchange successful... have someone from Singapore as a mod on every site

Jhoverit

Suddenly it is fixed.

rene

16:51

@Jhoverit sure!

Anonymous

I was just having a bit of fun with your browser. No worries.

Journeyman Geek

lol

rene

lol

Anonymous

It's just a silly resource-exhaustion bug that kills the tab, nothing actually risking your information.

hey

@user1114 something with uhoh and aws... >_>

Jhoverit

16:52

@user1114 Why isn't it reported and remedied yet?

rene

@Jhoverit it is on Chrome's bug list I assume?

Anonymous

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A: Allowing images from external sources opens doors to serious security exploits

I strongly recommend blocking non-Stack-hosted images in posts and messages going forward. The potential harm may not be severe, but it exists and there is no benefit to balance it out. Reasons to leave them: To avoid inconveniencing editors of old posts, as we already do for HTTP images. Noth...

Jhoverit

@rene It's not a Chrome bug

Or is it?

rene

it is

Anonymous

It's sort-of a Chrome bug, but Stack can avoid it by disallowing SVGs, by disallowing external images.

Jhoverit

16:54

That's dope

rene

it totally is

Sterling Archer

welcome to SO please show your code.... — לבני מלכה 1 min ago

> Welcome to Costco I love you

Jhoverit

@user1114 I just really like that image and feel that I need to include it in my About

Feeds

All services are microservices if you ignore most of their features.

Jhoverit

@user1114 @rene you guys know you can kill entire chat rooms for Chrome like that? Since we allow oneboxing svgs

I have to go fix the sandbox now lmao

I don't want anymore attention to come to that so Imma drop it lol...

Anonymous

17:01

uh I though I removed it from my profile but it looks like the network propagation failed

Anonymous

should be gone now

SmokeDetector

17:38

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer, username similar to website in answer: Touring with little kids? by kiddoyo on bicycles.SE

hichris123

17:52

@Andy Guess I know who's been handling flags I've raised. :)

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

18:17

OK, I hope the room is back to normal now

rene

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ define normal

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@rene The Tavern in, say, 2 weeks ago

SD K

Which I hope works

rene

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ can't promise anything. Results from the past are no guarantee for the future.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

I wouldn't trust your promise anyway

Sterling Archer

That's before me though

What are you trying to say

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

18:24

@SterlingArcher no it's not. Maybe

Sterling Archer

>:|

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

<:%

Sterling Archer

I'm not sure what that means but I'm going to take it as offensive

:P

rene

what ever we do: talk very carefully to desperate people

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@SterlingArcher >:&

Sterling Archer

18:27

LOL

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@rene Then what happens to renic comments?

Meanwhile, on Chem meta

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Q: Close Votes Aren't Super Downvotes

Unfortunately, we've had a problem for quite a while now. It basically boils down to close voting questions with reasons that don't fit. Essentially, the Homework off-topic close reason, "unclear what you're asking", and "too broad" reasons are sometimes used where they make no sense whatsoever. ...

discussion close-reasons vote-to-close

Sterling Archer

I got a D in chemistry

Félix Gagnon-Grenier

I guess a bad pun with D would be a bad idea?

user5389107

I barely passed chemistry in 10th grade and never took it again

organic chemistry and isomeres were too mind bending for me

and the teacher was bad

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

I see there's an astonishing amount of chem love

@user5389107 I find this usually stands for 80 percent of hating a lesson

At least in case of chem

rene

18:33

We're really bonding here

user5389107

Well yeah, but she was the only chemistry teacher teaching AP courses

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@rene I'm going to oxidize you

user5389107

so It was either take physics and biology instead or continue chemistry with her

rene

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ fine

user5389107

I would almost fall asleep in class and it was nearly impossible to listen without getting the boredom of a thousand idle hours inflicted on you

And I wasn't a very good student there and flunked all of the exams

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

18:38

@rene It's gonna sting a bit, but you'll never be the same

You'd also probably die, but that's favorable

Kinetically

rene

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ I've never felt the same after I had been in contact with you anyway

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@rene Awwww that's cute

rene

that depends on your point of view I guess ...

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

I am in a superior position

Everyone is in a superior position to a flower. To smell them

Mithrandir

Do you really want to sniff rene, though?

rene

18:43

But you'll never know if I just farted or not ....

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@rene Are you one of those stinking huge flowers who only attract flies?

Probably marginalized too

rene

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ I might eat flies.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Now I get why you prefer to be blurry

Catija

Anyone know anything about the new user process for slack?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Linked punctuation in answer, mostly dots in answer, non-Latin link in answer: $\\cos z=\\cosh 2$ all solutions for z by Angie Viviana Rojas Urueña on math.SE

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

18:54

@SmokeDetector Is the image NSFW?

Journeyman Geek

no

they literally posted a screenshot of a question

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@SmokeDetector N

Flagging it without comment is sad

But I'm from Charcoal and I shouldn't comment :p

rene

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ oh, does that go for all cases?

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@rene shrug

I guess

At least Charcoal is forgotten and the rants are directed elsewhere

Mithrandir

@rene It's a "if you're not familiar with the site don't comment" that goes for most people, with common sense applied.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

18:59

We can continue taking over the system quietly

rene

@Mithrandir fair enough. If it comes to common sense I'm out.

Bart

^ can confirm

MikeTheLiar

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@Bart Can you confirm that he's out, or that you are as well? Or maybe acknowledge that Charcoal is taking over the system

Bart

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ not sure if I'm out ... heck, I don't know if I've ever been in.

rene

19:08

@Bart please take note of the pinned messages ... specially the 2nd one ... >:/

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Glasses are usually on. Unless you're eaten

Bart

I carefully considered it @rene. If I'm going down, I'm taking this chat with me

rene

lol

MikeTheLiar

oh for the love of markdown

Journeyman Geek

markdown has no love

markdown is fear. markdown is death

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

19:13

@MikeTheLiar pooping on your jokes since 1888

@JourneymanGeek Nah, just joke pooper

MikeTheLiar

Somebody once told me
That star was gonna bold me
It an't the clearest spec in the shed

Journeyman Geek

@MikeTheLiar markdown is so standard there's two different dialects in use on SE

MikeTheLiar

Three even

Post/comment/chat

AFAIK you can't strike in comments

And let's not even get started on MathJax

Journeyman Geek

very standard ;p

They were talking about commonmark for a bit but that never happened

MikeTheLiar

much spec

so consistency

wow

SmokeDetector

19:21

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Mostly non-Latin answer: Energy-momentum conservation by tahami on physics.SE

MikeTheLiar

"Mostly Greek Answer" FTFY

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

21:20

@MikeTheLiar no strikes. Just petitions

Sonic Wizard

@Shog9 Please update the underage FAQ, to reflect the recent ToS change that users must be at least 16 if they are in the EU

Sonic Wizard

22:12

That's it, I'm no longer a wizard.

John Dvorak

22:23

I'm still not of the opinion the situation as is requires nearly as much attention as it has received.

Journeyman Geek

@SonicWizard sure, shadow said some ill considered things - but saying stuff like that helps no one

Sonic Wizard

@JourneymanGeek You should probably wait for the cache to update

Journeyman Geek

@SonicWizard sure, shadow said some ill considered things - but saying stuff like that helps no one

Sonic Wizard

Why repeat?

Adam Lear

caching

Journeyman Geek

22:24

connection issues

that sometimes happens when your connection is really bad

Sterling Archer

shouldiblamecaching.com

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

And the cache is updated

Sterling Archer

Don't you think that's kind of in poor taste?

user315433

23:47

@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog You are the hero this ideology-driven company needs. Have a star.

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

@bro Please unstar that and star this one:

(Old username was showing.)

Journeyman Geek

....

@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog that's plain not nice

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

What is not nice?

Journeyman Geek

Its a personal attack on another user

more than once too

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

A personal attack is a baseless claim. The difference is, my claim has evidence. You're an RO, you can read the deleted messages posted by him.

Journeyman Geek

23:50

Thats actually kinda toxic, and the sort of environment we should be trying not to make. Yeah, someone messed up. Its been handled. How does bringing it up again (and again) make it any better?

I'm asking you not to do that.

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

Gee, I was just announcing the reasons for my username change.

Catija

@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog No. It's not. Being "true" is irrelevant. The Be Nice policy doesn't care whether what you say is accurate or not.

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

The second posting was solely for technical reasons (I posted the first before my chat profile updated to my new username, so in the starred messages it shows my old name, which as I said I no longer identify by.)

(I will admit that I've been not so nice towards suspended users, which is something that SE doesn't appreciate us doing.)

Journeyman Geek

@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog you want to be told when you're wrong. What you're doing is wrong.

Yup! And I'm going "this is not nice" so you can avoid doing this in the future.

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

Thanks for pointing this out to me quickly.

@JourneymanGeek If you could please use your RO powers to clear the stars on my message

Journeyman Geek

23:58

I'd actually like to remove those posts but ugh, I have no delete powers here.

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