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morning

morning

Hi Shadow, Israel made some great new yesterday....

You must be proud living there ;)

Anyone know if this thank you thing (meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/398909/…) has ever got an official conclusion?

@Luuklag umm... we did? lol

What's the great news?

@ShadowWizardisVaccinating nos.nl/artikel/…

What I see in the newspaper is: 1) new death record from COVID, 2) Total mess in politics, 3) People rant about being stuck abroad since our skies are closed

The image should speak for itself

@Luuklag the fact it's gone is all the proof we need that it was a failure. ;)

@Luuklag oh... I love sarcasm. :D

@ShadowWizardisVaccinating Would be good to get that in writing ;)

Yeah, that's what I was talking about people not caring about lockdown even a tiny bit.

@ShadowWizardisVaccinating Yeah, because it conveys so good over the internet ;)

@Luuklag yup, and personally it makes me hate them now, with all my heart.

@ShadowWizardisVaccinating yeah, and I read your PM is more worried about the upcoming elections then about upholding the laws

It's not just a few extremists, it's the whole ultra orthodox community, as whole.

They chose to ignore the government orders, in my opinion they're bad and I want nothing to do with them.

Israel should not give them anything. Not money, not water, not electricity.

@ShadowWizardisVaccinating Yeah that much I read

@ShadowWizardisVaccinating No new settlements ;)

Let them live in darkness, and raise sheep or whatever.

@ShadowWizardisVaccinating To be fair other religions have the same struggles ;) We have several churches here that are still having services on Sunday.

@Tinkeringbell that's still not thousands of people in a small room. (those people in the picture were inside a building before going out, trying to touch the coffin)

Ah, no, worst I heard was 600..

Does touching the coffin bring luck or something?!

Covid immunity? ;)

@Luuklag that's not related, lol

settlements aren't made by those people.

Those in settlements are fine.

I don't agree with their political opinions, but they do follow orders.

@Luuklag exactly

Well I see you can thank those extremist for a longer lockdown @Sha

@Luuklag TBF, our politicians are doing the same by reopening schools 'while it's still a risk it's one we can take' (silently: To please our voters, that all took on kids and now don't want to care for them)

@Tinkeringbell Maybe, but here it are all politicians AFAIK, not just those in charge. Also it's not "not wanting to care" it's just that looking after them, and making sure they do their schoolwork is a full-time job. And then there is also a full-time job that's called work that needs done.

So not something we can sustain for a very elongated period of time.

@Luuklag Aren't all politicians 'in charge' here? I mean even the 'opposition' parties are jumping on covid measures as a way to reap souls come next election....

The Guild of the Red Pencil

It's lovely when something that should probably not be handled by politics is a thing that can only be handled by politics.

@Luuklag Eh, I can agree that's true for people that really do have to combine a fulltime job with fulltime schoolwork. I am speaking from experience with having coworkers that don't need to do either, and they are definitely of the 'I don't want to care for my kids' kind. Kinda sad for those kids too.

It just came up in our stand-up, and some of them really are pleased schools are reopening so they don't have to care for their kids anymore.

@Tinkeringbell TBH there are times I feel like that too.

Luckily those are times are not in the majority

poor kids, or poor parent? ;)

both ;)

My daughter is now staying at her grandparents, and she told my wife in the car: At grandpa and grandma I'm a good girl, because they only have to look after me, at home I'm a naughty girl, cause I like the naughty girl more...

Ah cool, so she's already learned manipulation :P

@Tinkeringbell She's only 4, I wonder what she turns out as a teenager

Well a lot can happen in 6 years.

@Luuklag you'll be disappointed ;)

I have no kids, for context ;)

@rene That makes you perfectly capable of giving parenting advice, right ;)

Exactly.

@Luuklag "I like the naughty girl more" pretty much sums up kids, yeah

@Mithical Well yeah, she's the oldest, so she used to get all attention, but then her twin brothers were born. Those are real rascal's. So she's not getting the attention she was used to. Can't blame her for acting out in order to get some extra attention. Unfortunately it's not really the loving kind of attention she's going to get from it.

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@Luuklag Heh, that's kinda what happens when a new computer is inducted into your "family": the old one stops getting the attention it's used to, and so if you turn it on to do something quick (e.g. retrieve a file), it starts acting out to get attention, acting slower than it (apparently) used to, prompting you for updates, etc etc.

I distinctly remember back a few years ago, whenever I'd need to turn an old computer on in order to do a quick task on it, I'd need at least two hours of patience just to get it into a state when it's listening to me just as it used to. (SSDs have shortened that quite a bit, but still...)

@SonictheCuriouserHedgehog yes please

@Luuklag I have no children either, unless you count some employers, court house staff, landlords and acquaintances. So, the trick is not to reward bad behaviour; since those people are adults and not your children the punishment comes easy enough and can be doled out early with little cause if necessary.

@Rob it's not all about punishment, e.g. you also need to feed the children, bath them, etc. :)

@SonictheCuriouserHedgehog now that's advanced AI... ;)

crap, not spam

had my jab

an hour later its a bit painful

@JourneymanGeek ?

@ShadowWizardisVaccinating oh, had the Pzifer covid vaccine

@JourneymanGeek ohhh.... nice! I should get one in couple of hours. :)

@ShadowWizardisVaccinating 👓 + ☕☕☕ + 📯🤯🎺 = Read that again.

:toilet:

@ShadowWizardisVaccinating You see, when you are feeding, bathing, dressing for school, the children you don't want to make it an ordeal; you need to make it as enjoyable as possible and include a benefit (even if it's only praise). If you make those things a nuisance that they are subjected to then you'll be the taskmaster.

@JourneymanGeek Congratulations! That means it's working ;)

🚽

i finally get to return to in-person work

@Rob noisy

@user400654 meaning?

@Rob in my case two out of the three can already do all of those tasks themselves. Mostly done without ranting, unless they have bad hair day (the girl) or pissed off due to something else (the boy) but yeah, I did try to not make it a nuisance in the past.

hmm.... I'm used to have coffee around this time every day, however vaccine is due in less than an hour. Should I have the coffee? @Journeyman what you think? :)

The vaccine might change the coffee in my bloodstream, make it into something.... else... no? :D

@user400654 stay safe!

@ShadowWizardisVaccinating i caught covid 3 weeks ago, so had to go to remote work, now i'm mostly recovered

ended up only missing 2 days of work

@user400654 oh, glad to hear! How was it for you? I keep seeing it's very different for every person.

It's like a "joker virus".

@user400654 when working from home I work less, so I report half hour as "missing" every day to be fair. So far it's fine as I make up for it when going to office, however lockdown mess this up. :/

for ~48 hours, it was awful

couldn't sleep, constant sinus pressure, aches, chills, fever

@user400654 and then your body won?

then all of a sudden i was fine

@user400654 ouch. Sounds like extreme case of flu, yeah.

now i cant smell anything at all

Had my share, but not that bad, probably.

but otherwise no symptoms

@user400654 yeah that's the most common symptom. So weird.

it's a weird sensation

Hope you don't have baby kids, @user400654

You can't know when they need to change a diaper......

it feels almost like allergies, without the sneezing/sinus issues

@user400654 and you also have no taste as result, that's the real bummer.

i actually haven't lost taste

O.o

@sha Uh, sha?

@user400654 thought taste is directly related to smell?? Well, need to read some stuff then, I guess. :D

@TechExpertWizard w00t

it's just really strange. you don't really notice the loss of smell unless you really pay attention to it

i started to realize i couldn't smell soap, for example

@sha X-D X-D X-D

then i managed to burn toast, and couldn't smell that

now that i've had it once though, i'll probably recognize the sensation i have in my sinuses along with it

Hi Jeremy

@user400654 huh, that's bad

@ShadowWizardisVaccinating [Writes down:] Another benefit of the virus.

@Rob lol

@JNat Cross-site spammer: stackexchange.com/users/20603607/md-sojib-akon-habil

And Meta spam account... maybe you could delete that please @Tinkeringbell?

@Ollie Eh, then JNat has almost nothing to do :P

@Tinkeringbell True enough ;)

Why does a single edit-reject vote from the author of a post override two approve votes?

Why isn't it the other way around?

So you want two approve votes of an author overriding a single rejection? ;)

You know you can override an accept too?

meta.stackexchange.com/a/295028/369802 ;)

@Ollie ␚ƨɘƚov ɘvoɿqqɒ owƚ ɘbiɿɿɘvo ƚƨoq ɒ ʇo ɿoʜƚuɒ ɘʜƚ moɿʇ ɘƚov ƚɔɘႱɘɿ-ƚibɘ ɘlǫniƨ ɒ ƨɘob yʜW

Because mirror text is harder to read?

🙄

250 comments on Reddit, asking the important question: "Would an orbiting Cheetoh Puff destroy the International Space Station if the two of them directly collided?"

@Rob For science, I propose we fire a cheeto at some space garbage, just to gather enough data to extrapolate :P

@Sha, ^ Look, it's a colon P

Hmm, did I miss something?

😁