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15:17
@Derpy hmm?
@Catija any total stranger is a potential spouse.... no?
I mean... one can't know who their spouse will be...
Yeah, but that's even more true in arranged marriages.
So until they meet, they're total strangers. :D
I met Andy online.
We have bunch of reality TV shows lately where people get married after a single date. o_o
15:18
@ShadowWizard that's just dumb
Totally.
But people love it and watch it.
There's a very narrow situation where matchmaking works
Obviously, the production pays the "couple", both for marriage and "bonus" so they'll agree to do it.
15:19
You're part of a small community, which is at least slightly insular, and you need to find a match within it
even then
@JourneymanGeek define "works".
its closer to internet dating (done 90s style) than well, old school parental things
@ShadowWizard where its even necessary
@JourneymanGeek meaning?
and its certainly not a immediate "I like this person" thing
@ShadowWizard for most people, I'd find the concept, the way we do it silly
I mean "Oh! I have this friend and you guys should meet" is also matchmaking
Almost any two people can be forced to like each other, to some extent.
In our Orthodox society, matchmaking is the one and only way to marry. They have no such term as "date". Since they're born into it and that's the only thing they know, the couple believe they love each other and that it's the correct thing to do.
15:22
"forced to like each other" ._.
And I'm talking about hundreds of thousands of people, living in several closed communities.
@ShadowWizard its kinda roughly the same idea
but but
we actually have a short period where people talk so...
well hopefully you can find obvious problems
@JourneymanGeek forced as with social pressure, yeah.
@ShadowWizard heh, actually...
Not physically.
15:24
@ShadowWizard maybe I really don't want you to check, maybe it is a trap to trick you into watching the episode. You will never know.
We're a small community in a community. Sometimes people hate us cause some of us are really smart and under the british, we kind of helped run the civil service and many of us are/were sucessful...
sound familar? ;p
yeah lol
> In our Orthodox society, matchmaking is the one and only way to marry. They have no such term as "date". Since they're born into it and that's the only thing they know, the couple believe they love each other and that it's the correct thing to do.
Almost how it works
to the point where early contact is always between parents.
I mean, I'd so not bother with getting my folks involved if I could email that girl directly
15:27
And the family of the woman pays the family of the man.
lol
We kinda have that, though its illegal...
so its a dollar
lol
Think here it's for covering the marriage, etc. Not actual money transfer.
and no sheeps.
oh
I think the bride's side handles it here
though we handled a lot of our costs, and some of theirs for my brother's wedding.
also our weddings are 3 days
(I mean, some folk cut it down to half a day, but a proper wedding's 3 days)
but ya, need to get someone to agree first ;)
and I'm aware it might not be my first, or second or third choice I'd end up with. Or if the person I think's the best choice might not be, or I find someone who's more OOOH, or... ;p
@YvetteColomb @Catija Managed to capture the two children of the mother moose
BABY MEECE!
15:40
@JourneymanGeek What's the current status of your matchmaking?
@Catija The plural of "moose" is "moose".
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog not really going anywhere yet
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog And?
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog emailed a few people, still trying to nail down the process...
no replies yet, positive or negative
The singular of singular is singular
Jack and the Five Legged Horse My uncle once said, "Boy, do you see that horse?" Yessir. "How many legs does that horse have?" Four. "Now what if I say that a horse's tail is a leg, too?" Uh... "If I call a horse's tail a leg, how many legs does that horse have?" Five? "Boy, will you never learn? It doesn't matter what you call something. That horse still has four legs." Sometimes when confronted with a difficult challenge we reply, That's not true! We say, That's not a (vanity page)/(rant)/(personal attack)/(tail); that's a (noteworthy article)/(discussion)/(polite comment)/(leg). But this changes...
16:00
@Derpy Interestingly, a judge in a court case cited that as part of the background behind his decision
The Righthaven case
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog Yea, but meeces sounds better, though it should be 'mooses' since 'meeces' is already taken, (Mr. Jinks: 'I hates those meeces to pieces!':).
16:16
I remember that
@SmokeDetector Is there smoke again??
@SomewhatMemorableName It's somewhat's fault.
Huh, I found an... interesting bug? The profile picture on chat's desktop notification shows the editor, not the original poster ._.
Oh, never mind. The revision history also shows the editor's username
16:35
@Somewhat what is the bug?
@Somewhat Show me the image about the bug. I haven't had the bug.
I'm not sure if it's a bug now... probably .
@SmokeDetector Basically, I use desktop notification feature (below the star wall). When Taryn edited this message, the prof pic on the notification shown Taryn's instead of SmokeDetector's.
I thought it's a bug, but considering the revision history also shown that it's Taryn who edited the message, I doubt it's a bug now...
@JourneymanGeek You could bribe him with scooby snacks
he's not food motivated ._.
what does motivate him?
he's play oriented
16:50
@Somewhat It is not a bug. Probably .
My parents keep feeding him though, and he thinks its expected of him
so he gets fat
who gets fat
amusingly the one thing that seems to me usable to train him is... probiotic tablets
which he loves to bits, which is really strange
@user298438 Ash
17:09
An actual billboard ad for a dating service, in Austin: "Be the CEO your parents wanted you to marry. Then find someone you actually like." @JourneymanGeek
....
Not sure what the point of that is, lol
I don't want to be a CEO
and I actually have some agency over my choices here
@rene the really sad part is... op is aware its the wrong thing to do :(
17:25
yeah. I refrained from leaving any comments.
It is deleted without giving it too much attention
17:37
hi shadow
no one is here?
what happend?
ted on for your ease of use: jsfiddle.net/Ldvw
jsfiddle.net/Ldvwp8uv/12/embedded/result funny
18:15
@JourneymanGeek TBH I find the arranged marriage system convenient for ace people who are interested in reaping the legal benefits of marriage
._.
I actually find marriage as a legal concept a little odd
It's there for historical reasons
@JourneymanGeek I think an automatic moderator flag should be raised if a user hits the standard main site ban threshold on a meta site
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog well, on most metas Its not that much of an issue
I'm posting all of this from a bus headed south from Denali back to Anchorage
18:51
now please now it?
19:43
Well that was fun... just got golf ball size hail, hopefully shog is all right
Pictures? @Mgetz
Apparently Colorado.
Also, it's worth mentioning that the above shot of the three moose was taken at 10:30 PM
@Fabby I don't have any, I was mostly worried about my windows
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog entire front range in Colorado
19:46
@Mgetz I would take pictures just to prep for the insurance claim...
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog My favorite wildlife picture was of a 6 point buck standing in some poor sap's yard right off the highway in boulder
but I'm happy to hear your windows are fine! :-)
@Fabby not mine to file, I live in an apartment
Well, would still have helped your owner to file and you get windows back faster...
Why do you still have windows anyway???
@Fabby again not my responsibility here. They are legally required to deal with it
19:47
Also, I'm uploading pictures to Commons to bypass the 2MB limit for SE Imgur
You should have migrated to Linux a long time ago!
@Fabby because Windows does what I need it to
and linux doesn't
@Fabby Emirates (the airline) wants to get rid of windows on their planes
:D :D :D
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog smart: change them by OLED displays and give customers the choice of having a window if they want or fish if they don't!
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog so does boing and airbus, it significantly reduces strain on the airframe
19:49
I'm against it, because you can't see outside for fire or blockage in case of an evacuation involving a total electrical failure
If they want a window: camerafeed from the GoPro on top of the airplane, cockpit, tail, ...
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog I've flown on cargo planes, so...
A380 superjumbos are equipped with tail cams as standard equipment
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog The emergency exits should still have windows...
(thinking back 10 years)
Yeah, the emergency exits on cargo planes have windows!
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog and a good number of them are going into storage while 747s are getting converted for cargo
20:02
hello! Oighea!
Hola.
how's your time been?
Busy.
You?
Another rather busy day. Taking time to figure out a question title that isn't a duplicate.
And flagging negative posts in StackOverflow
20:22
hmm. this isn't going too badly lol
managing to keep up with eveything at work and power napping
(this is good ;) )
Did you have any thoughts on my comment @JourneymanGeek ? I'm trying to understand the dupe thing, too...
What is this about?
20:23
@Catija I don't think that's the right place for that
What, your answer? Nah, that's why I asked about it in here. I asked about it on the question, too but still don't have any clarity.
If its a flag on a "possible dupe of" comments... you're better off engaging the closevoter to uniquify the question
That's sort of the problem, though... Tim's post is somewhat unclear about what the result of such a flag would even be.
I'm feeling like Andy in the conversation between me and @Catija at the airport
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Q: Allow New Users To Flag Comments On Their Own Posts

Tim PostSomething that has always bothered us about the new user experience was the amount of guidance we've got out there telling folks to flag rude or abusive comments, but not allowing new users to do it, because .. it's complicated. Let's un-complicate it and let new users flag any comment on any po...

20:27
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog and this isn't even a conversation that's going on halfway in TL ;p
> @πάντα-ῥεῖ Do mot ping
@user298438 Huh??
They probably meant "more" :)
20:43
Does anyone know if it ever came up whether double Sig Runes in an avatar is allowed on the SE network?
(FYI: displaying that in Germany except for historical or educational purposes is illegal...)
flag a post, link the wikipedia page in the custom flag, let a mod deal with it
Thanks!
that sounds oddly familiar
ah, it wasn't avatar i was thinking, there's some characters that you can put in your username that will result in users viewing from certain countries getting locked out of SO
slightly different case
21:02
@πάνταῥεῖ just Ignore that user... Better for both sides.
@KevinB Wow! Didn't know that German censorship went that far!
The germans kinda... feel really bad about the whole genocide and trying to take over the world thing
It's illegal in Austria too
@KevinB there's a user whose username supposedly is designed to trip off the Great Chinese Firewall
21:17
@KevinB what like winny the pooh in china?
HAHAHA I just watched Last Week Tonight last night and they were talking about that.
yeah i was thinking of the user trying to trip off the great chinese firewall
21:42
@πάνταῥεῖ Didn't know that one, but it makes sense...
The bad thing is, that forbidden things sometimes attract some people even more
21:57
@ShadowWizard Were they suspended for that silly thing, or were there other reasons?
22:11
@πάνταῥεῖ I'am doing this just for fun.
22:43
@πάνταῥεῖ If you don't like fun, just don't join this room.
oh.
22:58
@πάνταῥεῖ nah... even Shog didn't bother to suspend/ban when being pinged several times for no reason by that user.
I hear
huh? No featured tab on MSE.... think no questions with bounty. That's rare!
I'm not gonna dig out @Shadow's grand joke again ;)
"Reqs" for "Feature Requests" really doesn't make sense to me... Everyone I've ever talked to about them calls them "FRs"...
23:05
Clearly they should be "Exqs"
Exqs?
@Shog9 ... since you're here, I don't suppose you have any sort of explanation regarding the proposed not a duplicate flag for <15 rep users?
Your Unicode Letter of the Day is: VULGAR FRACTION FOUR FIFTHS
I'll bet you didn't know that 80% was vulgar, did you. Probably tossed it out in polite company more'n once, oblivious to the stares...
@Shog9 What is the Unicode Letter of the Day for me?
...but now you know. Next time, use polite fractions like 1/3rd or 11/16ths
23:08
@Catija you & navta...
I have some thoughts, but I'll write 'em up later when I can organize 'em
@Shog9 Those are still vulgar fractions...
damn you, Unicode!
It's just confusing... and seems like it'd be sort of low-use-case... and what happens when something is flagged with that is really unclear... what is a mod going to do about it? It's not really up to us to judge whether something's a dupe or not.
@shog if you want to shortcut translate my nick to latin, you can use panta (makes more sense)
it's all Greek to me
23:11
Sorry for the multi ping.
Sure that's greek
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A: Why is a 'vulgar fraction' called 'vulgar'?

user66974The meaning of vulgar is that of "simple, common" not the original offensive one as suggested by World Wide Words: Over time, vulgar went down in the world. It moved from “in ordinary use”, and “relating to the ordinary people”, to “commonplace”; by the seventeenth century it had begun to ...

It's an ole' saying
Who knew... a Q&A site... how helpful.
what is a A site?
A is answer
Oh, hey... they do community ads way differently on SO... interesting.
23:20
@shog Let's say, I've been seeing a lot of water running down the stream :3
@Shog9 The revenge of the fifth (lispers edition) :D
@user298438 Totally depends on the question if it is
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23:37
@πάνταῥεῖ It doesn't depends on the question.
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