@Spevacus heh, I'd actually be happy to write up a meta post about the markdown disparity, just a matter of whether its something the company would work on

.....

I am brainfarting over what

is called

editor!

Thanks all!

@M.A.R. I posted two answers to a question. This was not specifically to annoy you, unlike this :D

@JourneymanGeek You're welcome. I take cash, checks, and money orders.

@JourneymanGeek oh why the heck not. It's already unofficially your diary anyway

Or if you spill milk on it, your dairy

@Spevacus I am not even disagreeing :D

Or if you feel very attached to it, your dearie

Or if you drink the milk and you're lactose intolerant, I don't wanna continue this thought

my dunny?

Derrière

Also, I'd really like Pizza :D

and a dog. Someone bought that adorable westie soooo

On the one hand, meta's crowd is a bit myopic and dogheaded these days. On the other hand, I don't know what input I want to gain from a guy that frequents Worldbuilding or Biblical Hermeneutics

I mean democracy's all cozy and nice but really

Well, in theory I'd want 'more' people engaged enough to ask for things

I think what I'm really wondering is what they could possibly do with an answer to the post.

Back in the days of yore it would have been the archetype of 'too broad'.

We definitely closed broad questions for a reason

The answer doesn't usually help anyone all that much

In a slightly perfect world?

Slate brings it to Phillipe or Prasanth, cause management is sneaky, and it gets converted to something actionable

I don't have faith in the sneaky-competence factor of the people at the wheel tho

hence slightly

in a very perfect world, we don't need to tell people what they need cause they already know

Either way that's very, very, very very very optimistic and I know you know that

Worst case scenarios?

Status quo

@JourneymanGeek I guess what I'm saying is, unless I'm missing something, and someone comes along with a surprisingly popular idea that no one has articulated before, everyone, including staff more involved with the community (i.e. Slate et al.), already know what to expect from the answers, and are also privy to why these discussions haven't borne fruit yet.

@M.A.R. Very practically though

What's the opportunity cost of me... doing it again when asked?

Worst case, I waste 10 minutes to 30 minutes

Best case... actual change

So is it like a social call, or something on a calendar, like an "Ask the community every quarter to rant profusely like in a therapy session, maybe it'll make them feel better" sort of thing?

That's worth an answer :D

"What's the point of this? Ye'alls keep asking yet nothing happens"

@JourneymanGeek you sound like you're defending praying to some religion's god because what if the god is real and would punish you?

hah

I mostly yell at god for being useless these days

"At least there is symmetry" :D

Pascal would have been happy to hear about @Journeyman's wager

Though back then um

My knowledge of singaporean history is lacking. Who was colonizing Singapore back in the 17th century?

Apparently we were boring enough no one even cared

Possibly the portugese

@M.A.R. No spice

Neither baby, nor scary, nor posh

@ShadowWizard This question reminds me of your avatar from 2013

@starball lol

I kinda am trying to sneak in another 2 into other folks posts >_>

Also, see here chat.meta.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/…

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog how you remember my avatar from 2013? I don't even remember my previous avatar.... lol.

So what avatar did I have in 2013? @Sonic

I thought a lot during the night about that question though, and sadly came up with too many conflicts, trying to sort things out internally inside my mind. /cc @Journeyman

@ShadowWizard "What's on your mind?"?

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog I don't understand

I had avatar saying this??

Screenshot?

I honestly don't remember.

web.archive.org/web/20140624171822/http://…

@AndreascondemnsIsrael For crawls before April 2014, you have to change meta.stackexchange.com to meta.stackoverflow.com.

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog Right.

@AndreascondemnsIsrael my baby son eating unicoin, nice. But how is it related to "What's on your mind?"?

I couldn't find the exact avatar (yet), but I did find this bio which referenced it.

@ShadowWizard I don't know.

@AndreascondemnsIsrael ah ;)

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog ohhhh

I remember.... I think...

I had links in the About Me where people could vote what avatar to choose or something like that.

But I remember wizard avatar with several different hats, each in different color.

Anyway @Sonic it's really impressive you remembered, your memory is great! :-D

Where's the integrated GIF getter when I need one...

Took some digging, but found the actual avatar:

@ShadowWizard Heh, I think I may have voted in that poll?

Right now, peach. I'm dying for some fruit.

From web.archive.org/web/20131006101747/http://…

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog yay!

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog probably, sadly the server holding the votes is long lost.

(it was either a free host I long abandoned, or a dedicated "side server" which is gone by now)

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog hehe, think I should suggest @Slate to add that to the MSE question? :-D

@ShadowWizard You could if you like

Well, just did. ;)

Not my best mspaint creation, but not so bad. lol

Or was it with paint.net? Think I needed some transparency tool, which mspaint doesn't have.

@Sonic but I do remember our little game where you sent me encoded message inside a picture. :)

@ShadowWizard That's on Puzzling

And, of course, your adopting the username "Shadow the Hedgehog Wizard" after I made an off-hand comment of how your name reminded me of the Sega character, which in turn inspired me to adopt my current username

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog ah, yup. :)

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog yeah, I keep changing though. Always on the look for the next name... ;)

@ShadowWizard Its a complicated topic

@JourneymanGeek indeed it is.

@Slate ah, that one is kind of traumatic for me, and big nail in the coffin where my trust in management is buried.

I might even mention this in the answer I plan to post on your recent MSE question.

Spend some time with your kids instead.

huh? why on Earth it's flagged?? lol

?

@AndreascondemnsIsrael my kids are usually busy with other things. ;)

phone, computer, friends, etc.

@ShadowWizard Unbusify them! :D

@AndreascondemnsIsrael your message was flagged

wow

I did not flag anything.

@ShadowWizard Get them a good old-fashioned board game?

@AndreascondemnsIsrael we have lots

@ShadowWizard Huh? :P Who would do that? :D

@ShadowWizard Chess?!

I do have two chess boards here, but I don't really use them.

I have one.

King to B3

Invalid move :P

Pffffff

Queen to board-swipe

@PetəíŕdtheWizard King issues a decree to make it a valid move.

LOL

The enemy king refuses it and orders an arrow bombardment

The real winner is the board.

grabs popcorn @Sha

!!/coffee kings

@PetəíŕdtheWizard brews a cup of jQuery for @kings

Now that is over the line!

I'm waiting for the new version of chess where they finally fix a lot of bugs.

Lassos @Sha out of @Pet's hands

jumps voluntarily into @Andreas's lasso

I have failed.

@VLAZ I'm going for the Giga-King.

@Spevacus I've seen it myself. It's not quite surprising with the added latency because chat runs in GCP but the database is still in the datacenter. That adds an extra 30ms to every SQL query.

We had hoped to only be in that state for a few days, but we hit a snag setting up the infrastructure.

(cc @JourneymanGeek @AndreascondemnsIsrael)

It got abandoned?

What did?

(btw I don't know for a fact that that latency is the main culprit, but I assume it's at least part of it)

Ah, so it's not abandoned.

!!/blame

@PetəíŕdtheWizard It's SmokeDetector's fault.

lol

@balpha if I was on my PC I would be sending a we got our top men meme 😁

lived for 2 hours

@SmokeDetector trust nobody

Picturing @Journeyman sitting on top of his computer

picturing @Andreas picturing @Journeyman

It's not a pretty sight.

lol

@starball without Smokey that would probably be a good time for ordinary site users to nuke spam on SO. Looks like you finally caught spam that wasn't reported before. ;)

@PetəíŕdtheWizard no it's spam seed and spam post, quite common.

Flagged both.

yay

just imagine that being a PC :D

Omega Series Gaming PC

Nevermind, that looks really bad.

duckduckgo.com/…

lol

(Its a chair box. Ash used to 'assist' us assembling them)

My sister's dog tends to assist her in writing papers.

Always loves giving a helping hand on the keyboard.

@VLAZ Those research papers turn out sooooo cuuuteee, though!

....... hohoho passing through hohoho.....

Merry Crimmus?

oh no wait... Happy Holidays :P

You always learn something new at SE - can't help but McLovin' it....

Soon it'll McAIGenerate an answer for you, too.

You know... all this talk about Mc makes me think I might not even cook dinner tonight.

Though I have ingredients at home and Mc is expensive ... Hmmm.

McSushi?

Make it a vegetable (must politics creep into every conversation?)

McVegetable

McPolitics?

I'm really wanting some poorly fried fries, lots of ketchup, and chicken nuggets with barbecue sauce now.

But like I said... it's expensive and I have vegetables (okay, mushrooms) at home already.

@Tinkeringbell Ew!

SuperSizeMeDat

@AndreascondemnsIsrael I know. Especially if you think about how expensive it is. But it's also one of the few things you can get around here that's 'fast' food :P

@BuckThorn Am already supersized, no worries on that front :P

Mushrooms on toast. Fried in lots of butter to make it if you don't care about health or carbon footprint. Add some herbs de provence on top. Yum.

@Tinkeringbell Get a falafel instead.

I was thinking of just cutting them up with the egg slicer and throwing them in a pan with some Chicken Tonight

@AndreascondemnsIsrael A falafel? I'm not driving all the way to Amsterdam for some fast food :P

There are McVegan burgers (?). Tried once and survived.

I live on the edge of a very white bible belt. Falafels are a multi-cultural city thing :P

@BuckThorn I've had a few vegan/vegetarian options. Some were okay (mushroom ragout in kroket/bitterbal is nice enough), some were horrible (like a kroket with a 'vegetable' ragout that had whole peas in them)

I also have a recipe for a dish with tempeh, that's nice enough

And of course lots of food where I can just leave out the meat, like the Chicken Tonight, which is just a jar of sauce and you can throw in everything you like :P

Kroket sounds dangerous. Yeah, avoid deep fried balls.

Croquette? :P

Deep fried balls are fiiiiine!

McSmalahove

@Tinkeringbell Sounds like you have too many choices!

Well I don't have fried balls (or unfried ones that I can fry) at home, so my choices are mushrooms + bell pepper + onion + jar of sauce (and some rice) or a McNugget menu :P

McVegoHaggis

Balls?

Fried balls?

Sounds painful.

Learned something more: recipes.howstuffworks.com/haggis.htm

"What's So 'Offal' About Haggis and Why's It Banned in the U.S.?"

@AndreascondemnsIsrael I'm pretty sure that's a thing in the OS

@BuckThorn Mushrooms in butter, done right is worth a little envirocide.

A few grams of CO2 can always be compensated by walking to the shop to buy the butter.

Or churning it yourself at home.

@BuckThorn Oh funny story that, I do actually do that

We have a specialist baking goods store about 20-30 minutes away on foot

+1 @JourneymanGeek

A bit tongue in cheek but really, +1. Good for you and minimize envirocide.

naw, I figure I might as well make up for actually eating the butter first :D

@Tinkeringbell .... I literally heard the jingle when I read Chicken Tonight

I'm pretty sure its been at least 30 years :D

@Tinkeringbell Hmm, this sounds good.

@AndreascondemnsIsrael travelfoodatlas.com/criadillas-bulls-testicles-fries-recipe The bull has passed by the time hot oil and testicle come in contact.

Steering away from vegetarian food (pun intended).

McCriadillas

Welcome to the jungle @Mithoron...

@BuckThorn Eyes are more my thing.

@BuckThorn welcome yourself, never seen you here before!

So delicious.

@AndreascondemnsIsrael That's fascinating. Yes, mutton head. What do eyes taste like?

@BuckThorn Mutton!

@Mithoron Yeah, true enough. I bow before your seniority sir.

Just take out the black pupil.

That doesn't taste good.

Nuts! I mean, that's crazy...

The pupil probably has all the vitamins...

and fiber...

@AndreascondemnsIsrael that's racist.

Hmm, yes, lets not eat pupils.

@JourneymanGeek It may be racist, but at least the black pupil gets spared from consumption!

@BuckThorn yes, the PTA would have issues hten

@BuckThorn You can eat it. It just doesn't taste great.

They are the vision of the future, or something.

I also cut away the ears, as they're not particularly good.

But hey, some people eat the ears.

Swallow whole? Without chewing?

@AndreascondemnsIsrael you hear some people eat the ears?

The eye? That's possible.

@JourneymanGeek It's an individual choice. The taste is uncomfortable enough that nobody will probably scold you for throwing it away.

Don't you give the ears etc to the dogs?

I personally eat until I cut far enough for it to start tasting like earwax.

I mean, I don't eat meat at all, so I wouldn't know :D

@BuckThorn I don't have dogs, and I don't think the amount of salt is healthy for them.

Ewww, what are you people talking about? I'm outta here ;)

Uhm, after cooking I suppose. Probably have to be left to dry. I believe I've seen them in pet shops.

@Mithoron I got expelled from cooking SE....

@Mithoron Food.

No, Indeed is expanding to more countries.

Stack Overflow Jobs, is dead.

Wow.

Ufff.... and with that uplifting seg, better get back to work ;) ....

Ciao.

Tf? It's just a useless set of links to Indeed.

@BuckThorn Why?

@AndreascondemnsIsrael T'was a joke. I dunno if a cook would get more queasy of mcbonalds of eating weird bits ;p

mhm

I don't think Indeed is expanding... There's already Indeed Indonesia, but SO Jobs doesn't support it

@Spevacus I'd like to check you out for a money order.

When can I expect your cash to be delivered?

When SmokeDetector beeps.

I blocked SD, I can't hear it beep. :(

!!/milk

@AndreascondemnsIsrael No such command 'milk'.

Damn, giving the bot the cold shoulder.

It was getting annoying. :P

Fair 'nuff.

It ain't giving me milk.

More precisely, they tweaked the filters indeed's set to for SO Jobs I'd say

Wonderful, let me buy some stocks in this amazingly innovative new thing.

@AndreascondemnsIsrael Indeed has been here for ages, why would it expand to here? XD

Point is that it's just another lazy sellout.

SE has no integrity left.

Except for chat. I'll give them that.

My monitor, however. That's full of soul.

Living its entire own life.

If you need a new computer Monitor, avoid Samsung's Tizen monitors at all costs. They're damn annoying.

lol

I've a offbrand pair of 4k monitors, and I think one of the panels is peeling off the case

but I've had em like 5-6 years and kinda work well enough

🚽

Well, 4K is why I have this monitor. It was the cheapest 4K one. :P

@KevinB 💩

uhhh

deffo can go cheaper

just need to go non traditional, like crossover or the one I got (prism+)

@JourneymanGeek It was the cheapest available here.

In all fairness, I don't think I looked at used.

also no smart stuff :D

@JourneymanGeek "Smart" is just another word for "I'm designed to make my user's life hell".

I need to plug in a HDMI or DP, and have it work

nothing more

USB C if I want to be fancy but... I don't need fancy

There's no USB-C on my GPU.

I have a bidirectional USB C / DP cable?

somewhere. ended up not needing it for what I bought it for

so in theory I can plug it into my third monitor for single cable usage

Get a brain implant instead, and plug it in there.

lol

I like disconnecting sometimes

Don't disconnect me.

in exactly 10 minutes, I will :D

>:O

(cause I need to go to sleep, and otherwise I'll be doomscrolling till 2 am)

Auch, my shoulder is disconnected.

@JourneymanGeek That sounds healthy.

naturally

I wanna order a burger, fries and milkshake.

SIR THIS IS A WEND... oh

And hey, I got my toilet back today. Yay!

Not that I can use it.

And it stinks...

0_0

WHERE ARE THOU POOING?

Outside.

Like a bear?

Certainly!

@ShadowWizard I respect that

curious to see what you write

@Slate rest assured, if I end up writing, it would be in big part thanks to you, normally I wouldn't bother. I mean, that with you I finally know someone will read what I write and treat it, one way or another.

I'm honored, and I hope that it will be worth your time :)

And with that, I got supper to go treat to, it's 9:20pm here already. ;)

lol too hungry

also after gym

Got to Eat!

Food is a critical part of life, yes

Also, supper is such a weird word.

Breakfast makes most sense.

It's just incomplete. One sup per what? Per day?

lol

Break fast

I bought new bread, Russian. Small and compact slices.

There Is Something On Your Mind, from Samantha Fish. Her guitar playing is a bit tighter these days, but I love the raw emotion of this clip.

@ShadowWizard Do you like Latvian black bread? It's made from rye, and is usually quite dense. It often contains caraway seeds. I love it with avocado, or cream cheese.