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12:44 AM

undo's minirant of the day: Any freeway that is capable of an 80mph speed limit, but doesn't have it, is totally doing it wrong.

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In my experience, 80mph (~130km/h) greatly reduces the number of people speeding, makes people more patient, and generally makes traffic flow smoother.

People don't tend to want to exceed an 80mph speed limit, because... most non-fancy cars get kinda scary above about 85

Some are better than others, but IME most start floating a bit

Fabby

Come to Germany: there is no upper speed limit on the Autobahn.

Undo

1:01 AM

@Fabby Apparently the highest speed limit on the Autobahn (outside of the anything-goes sections) is 81mph

Fabby

@Undo It depends on the hour of day and what condition the road is in and whether you're close to a town.

anything else has no limit.

(obviously you cannot drive at 150mph next to a town in the middle of the night when everyone is sleeping)

Anyway, I think the mosquito is dead... Good night again.

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

4:59 AM

@Undo Texas has a toll road with an 85 mph speed limit, the highest speed limit anywhere in the U.S.

Journeyman Geek

Then there's germany...

the speed limits on some roads are on cars, not roads ;)

Shadow Wizard

6:35 AM

@JourneymanGeek hehe, didn't you discuss is just few days ago?

Journeyman Geek

Did I?

cause dude, I already deja vued once today ;)

Shadow Wizard

Jun 21 at 21:42, by πάντα ῥεῖ

Unless there's a speed limit, you can go at any (Ludicrous) speed at German freeways:

not you... others.. :D

Journeyman Geek

NOT ME ;p

and he's german, so he knows ;)

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek well at this point... most of the things we say have already been said... ;)

πάντα ῥεῖ

I did that of course :D

Journeyman Geek

6:37 AM

true of much of chat

might as well shut it down ;)

Shadow Wizard

frue!

:P

Mithrandir

6:59 AM

@JourneymanGeek noooo

Journeyman Geek

@Mithrandir I think y'all know how I feel about chat

If SE closes chat I'll be the first one pointing people towards alternatives, cause it would be a waste of a perfectly good community :)

Mithrandir

I like the system... alternatives aren't really good. I don't like IRC, or Slack, or Discord...

Journeyman Geek

Quite

We run matrix, and there's a few things missing (starwalls and proper replies)

Miaou comes close - but its a bit of a pain to set up, and has no easy way to manage your own logins.

github.com/Canop/miaou (Miaou)

Shadow Wizard

9:15 AM

heh, just read today that WhatsApp will allow group admin to put the group in "gallery mode" so that only admins can write, and other group members will be able only to read. Wonder of they copied the idea from SE.... ;)

Journeyman Geek

lol

Somewhat Memorable Name

9:37 AM

mor

ning

πάντα ῥεῖ

Yawn

Journeyman Geek

10:50 AM

hmm

babaji returns

Shadow Wizard

ewwww

baba, we did not miss you! Go away!

plz-delete bob strikes again meta.stackexchange.com/questions/311893/… @Bart @rene @JourneymanGeek @TravisJ

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard wait, did he ask that again?

Cause that feels like a valid question to answer no to

Shadow Wizard

OK, sock suspicion is cleared, it's just some clueless user.

@JourneymanGeek no no... he asked some useless stuff before.

Journeyman Geek

ah

Shadow Wizard

Jun 14 at 1:39, by Catija

Second post from this user that's just junk... Seems suspicious. https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/311278/why-am-i-even-asking-this-rhetor‌ical-question

Journeyman Geek

11:05 AM

ah

OH

Shadow Wizard

you need a doc? you "ah" a lot

:D

Journeyman Geek

I now know who you thought that was a sock of

and I felt he didn't sound/smell the same.

Shadow Wizard

I did... but now not. :)

Journeyman Geek

.... now I wonder if he's a sock of someone else...

Shadow Wizard

He's still around?

Journeyman Geek

11:07 AM

oh well, if its who I think it is, he will out himself

Shadow Wizard

Mr. X is fine, all good.

Hopefully it's behind him.

Journeyman Geek

;)

rene

Did a user had offspring ?

Journeyman Geek

erm...

Not heard anything about that?

Somewhat Memorable Name

bob2? until bob9?

rene

11:19 AM

that is how it works I think

Journeyman Geek

... who is bob?

Well

I know a lot of bobs

and they should be numbered

rene

I think user[number] is all we need

Somewhat Memorable Name

they are all socks

of user1

Shadow Wizard

nah just dupes

Let's close them!

rene

Your user account is closed as a duplicate of user1

Your question is closed while we wait for an answer to come in

Somewhat Memorable Name

11:26 AM

Not accepting any question until there are less than 1000 unanswered questions

rene

lol

Journeyman Geek

ooh

That's a whole new level of ~~soup naziism~~ question alt-rightiness

πάντα ῥεῖ

12:09 PM

It sounds like some Charcoal testing goes on?

Journeyman Geek

hm?

rene

I hope he got that ...

πάντα ῥεῖ

I was suspecting charcoal testing regarding that famous @WingDings username a while ago.

Journeyman Geek

Oooh

πάντα ῥεῖ

:-D

Journeyman Geek

12:14 PM

a he who shall not be named

or she, I suppose

πάντα ῥεῖ

That's how KI really works :3

Mithrandir

For your reading pleasure, here's a conversation with a spammer. What should I do better next time?

Somewhat Memorable Name

> Also, we need to talk about the ducks.

Journeyman Geek

Man, I wish my parents had had the talk about the ducks with me.

Mithrandir

(email gotten from this spam post)

Journeyman Geek

12:20 PM

bored? ;p

Mithrandir

It was... a long night

Journeyman Geek

lol

I am rarely that bored

Mithrandir

it's a fast day today, and the fast started at ~4AM. so I decided to just stay awake, eat before it started, and go to bed

so... i had some time on my hands, which was mostly spent combing through metasmoke looking for wordpress pharma sites to report and emails to troll

πάντα ῥεῖ

I'd suspect Ash just porters them ducks and fine ;)

Journeyman Geek

ah lol

Shadow Wizard

12:29 PM

For those who wonder...

Seventeenth of Tammuz

The Seventeenth of Tammuz (Hebrew: שבעה עשר בתמוז‎ Shiv'ah Asar b'Tammuz) is a Jewish fast day commemorating the breach of the walls of Jerusalem before the destruction of the Second Temple. It falls on the 17th day of the 4th Hebrew month of Tammuz and marks the beginning of the three-week mourning period leading up to Tisha B'Av. The day also traditionally commemorates the destruction of the two tablets of the Ten Commandments and other historical calamities that befell the Jewish people on the same date. == History == The fast of Tammuz, according to Rabbi Akiva's interpretation, is the fast...

(Personally not fasting, but....)

Mithrandir

it should be optional, technically

Shadow Wizard

Well... luckily religion itself is, i.e. anyone can choose to not be religious or not follow all the religious rules.

Journeyman Geek

True for most sensible religions ;)

After all, its between you and your deity of choice, not other people ;)

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek more like countries, some do force people to be religious.

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard those countries are... less sensible :)

πάντα ῥεῖ

12:44 PM

Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice,Beetlejuice

Journeyman Geek

> The paranormal entity you have attempted to summon is currently not available. Please try again later.

Shadow Wizard

submitting bug report to meta

Somewhat Memorable Name

submitting bug to a drink

Mithrandir

hmm, this passport guy just responded again, apparently not caring that i just said i'm 8 years old

Somewhat Memorable Name

> Special requirements apply for minors (under 18 years of age). -- Wikipedia

you still can get your Brazilian passport!

Mithrandir

12:54 PM

I'm trying to get a passport while becoming a vampire while hiring this guy to hack a spam site!

> Look at the pictures you sent . I don’t see any human picture or fingerprints in the attachment. I see totally different things

oh, so you noticed

Somewhat Memorable Name

looks like both of you are bored ;p

Mithrandir

no, he wants ~~$2700~~ $400 (I made a bargain)

πάντα ῥεῖ

Those to be unspoken names are chosen fairly good anyways :3

Journeyman Geek

Voldemort!

E.... Naw I don't think I want to actually summon him

πάντα ῥεῖ

These were mentioned by U.K. Le Guin (RIP dear) decades earlier to me (Earthsea)

Journeyman Geek

1:03 PM

ah ;)

πάντα ῥεῖ

This sounds serious, you need to attend a Doc ;)

Journeyman Geek

Probably just dyslexia and filler words ;)

πάντα ῥεῖ

fyflexia

plf

John Dvorak

Please don't mention that POTUS guy.

πάντα ῥεῖ

He's a hard nut to bear in their life streams, but I am not likely to mention them here.

Shadow Wizard

1:09 PM

cheezburger.com/3309829/… @Mithrandir (contains NSFW language towards its end)

@JohnDvorak huh? Who? What?

Somewhat Memorable Name

2:17 PM

POTATUS

John Dvorak

This makes me think of a potato with a GladOS monocle and a Trump hair

Journeyman Geek

... glados has a monocle?

How does one have one eye and pull off a monocle?

John Dvorak

... GladOS eye, I mean

rene

2:54 PM

Is this rude: stackoverflow.com/a/51124290/578411 ?

Shadow Wizard

3:05 PM

@rene nah, just crap.

(doesn't deserve red flag)

@JohnDvorak must be one happy OS!

Martin James

@ShadowWizard It's not inaccurate, just not an answer.

@SomewhatMemorableName President Of The After-Trump United States? You sure there will be united states?

rene

@ShadowWizard ok

Shadow Wizard

3:22 PM

@MartinJames hmm? inaccurate? When did I mention anything about it? I just said "crap" as shortcut to "useless post that does not answer the question and is of very low quality". Both NAA and VLQ applies, but not spam/offensive.

Martin James

@ShadowWizard Agreed:)

Shadow Wizard

@MartinJames USA will be United Survivors of America

Somewhat Memorable Name

Union Soviet of America

Mithrandir

3:56 PM

If my country ever picks a new national flag, this is on my shortlist for designs to argue for, but I think in the end I'll go with the green puzzle piece or broken image thumbnail.

Anne Daunted

5:18 PM

Am I the only one who can't load their profile (on any page)? Neither here nor on other stacks. Internet works fine.

Somewhat Memorable Name

deja vu

Jun 27 at 16:52, by gnat

For last day or two I am getting "Oops! Something Bad Happened" when trying to get to my network rep graph and to my Stack Overflow activity tab. Wonder if it's just me or the issue is for real. Profile tab has no such problem

Anne Daunted

Now it works

Somewhat Memorable Name

Good for you ._.

Anne Daunted

Do you get the error message?

Shadow Wizard

6:19 PM

@AnneDaunted it's buggy for weeks, yeah. For me it's "only" slow, about 10-20 seconds. Lucky me! ;)

Shog said something about PostHistory table making trouble.

If anyone wants, easy 100 points waiting here: the "Questions that may already have your answer" that appear when asking is better method than my answer... :)

Tinkeringbell

@ShadowWizard better? or different? ;)

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

6:50 PM

chaos-emerald-pls meta.stackexchange.com/q/311946/377214 (@Shadow @rene)

rene

7:07 PM

@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog already hammered

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

@rene Wasn't at the time I posted the message; too late to self-delete

Mithrandir

trolling intensifies

Shadow Wizard

7:37 PM

@Tinkeringbell according to everyone... better.... :D

rene

Thanks .. sir ShadowWizard .... there should be a politeness limiter

Shadow Wizard

?

when flowers call me sir... I'm starting to worry...

;)

rene

Do worry

Shadow Wizard

worry level increased

Mithrandir

o_o

Shadow Wizard

7:44 PM

Tinkeringbell

@ShadowWizard Huh... okay. Guess I've been doing it wrong all along then ;)

Shadow Wizard

@Tinkeringbell not really, I rarely use it myself, just because I'm used to the "ordinary" search, but from the few times I did, it was indeed better. :)

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

cv-pls meta.stackexchange.com/questions/311949/…

peterh

9:25 PM

@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog IMHO intentional harmful act is practically impossible in this case. He simply didn't know, that multiple SE sites are existing with many topics. The correct reaction had been to move his question to the SO on the spot, without downvotes.

@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog Well, it had been closed as unclear there

@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog The learning curve of the site network is too hard. The OP could probably easily learn, that he had to ask. Maybe his English is not very good... maybe he could become a productive member of a hindi StackOverflow, if he had got nice treatment here.

Martin James

9:52 PM

It's an NRE. SO will just close it as a dupe.

Shadow Wizard

10:12 PM

spam ^

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

10:59 PM

@peterh I do that for two reasons: 1. if people are talking here and aren't on the site, they'll go step into action and vote to close the question, and 2. it provides a permanent archive of links to these questions, so that <10k users can file feature requests based on them and have enough data as evidence.

@peterh Two possible responses from me, depending on your intent: "Thanks for letting me know", or "That doesn't mean it's on-topic here."

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A: Why do users often ask blatantly off-topic questions here on Meta?

Update (January 23, 2018): This answer previously contained a canned comment containing a link to a survey I was running to determine why users post off-topic questions here. Per a request from an SE employee, the link has been removed, and the survey is no longer accepting responses. The team i...

Also read the linked answer from Tim Post

Undo

11:18 PM

undo's minirant of the day: turn signals should make progressively louder sounds the longer they're on. Might help people who are apparently deaf, oblivious, or otherwise incapacitated from driving eight miles down the freeway signaling a turn.

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Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

@Undo Why didn't the above notification work?

I'm recusing from this discussion. Anyone else who wants to participate is welcome: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/311955/…

Journeyman Geek

11:34 PM

@Undo actually sounds like a good idea

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