on a brighter side, my bag of coffee, which I had assumed to be empty after testerday's morning coffe, HAD YET ANOTHER PORTION OF COFFEE AVAILABLE!!!!!!!
In the mid 20th century, there were several successful comedians of Dutch extraction working in the USA, eg Danny Kaye and Dick van Dyke. But I guess that's not quite the same as hearing a Dutch comedian being funny in Dutch.
@FélixGagnon-Grenier Oh yes. You can buy chocolate-coated coffee beans. The beans are specially roasted so you can crunch them without breaking your teeth, but they still have plenty of caffeine.
@Tinkeringbell it was IIRC considered to be too unwelcoming even though it was the primary way of keeping the vision of a generic FAQ site. I think it was the first thing axed when Jeff left
@FélixGagnon-Grenier They're pretty nice, and more than a little adductive. ;) I've had some average ones, that weren't very impressive, but good quality choc-coated coffee beans, using dark chocolate, are exquisite. Definitely not suitable for small children.
@JourneymanGeek My work apparently turned something off that I need turned on to work, and now they're fighting over who turned it off and who has to turn it on again. 15 e-mails in the thread so far, exluding a few phone calls and Skype conversations :|
+1 to this. SE seem to have fallen into the classic "Let' s turn our company into a platform to foist our views onto our userbase" trap. It started with the anti-Trump post and is working its way along from there. I fully expect to see an unhideable "Vote Biden" banner on the top of every page during the upcoming election. — Richard7 hours ago
@djsmiley2k-CoW I don't know that it's particularly bad, to be honest. That will depend on how much and how often. But the direct result (hyperactive children) will be felt by the parents immediately.
@M.A.R. no I mean this in the most basic sense of the word. Parents have a responsibility to help their kids form healthy habits and behave properly then
as a kid your habits are malleable and you can still be taught to avoid later issues. Later it needs a lot more self control and reflection to break out of bad habits you learned early
@djsmiley2k-CoW Oh no, I am not advocating giving kids coffee. I certainly wouldn't. I just don't know that's it's particularly bad medically. It might be, but I don't know that it is.
Although I admit I don't see why you'd mention gory movies. If the kids like them, I don't see why not. Personally, they scared the living daylights out of me and I didn't want to watch them. Friends of mine did, so more power to them.
@terdon well, subjectively the effect exploitation movies leave on me is, the way I describe it, horrible. Not just because it's scary, sometimes I even laugh at it
But mostly because it's the autopsy course gone wild.
And nonsensical
So I would stop a kid from watching it
Other than that, for the broad category "gory" seems to define, there are already a jillion G-rated movies, so who am I to judge?
Is there a german word for that feeling you have when you have to commute to work but you really don't want to go outside that much and you're mostly chilling out in a chatroom and listening to music and procrastinating the day?
@ter @Mag FWIW, I think there's truth to that defense of movies like "Watership Down"; a memorable movie about death and its inevitability could really help children mature their unicorn fairies world fed to them by other shows
@Cerbrus I do get a feeling of 'either there was more going on then what's in that comment there, or people were just being a bit too fierce about the whole thing and you shouldn't really worry about it'.
Perhaps better not... I a.) am supposed to be working now and b.) am not fond of dragging old cows from the ditch... But it's not nice if things like this keep festering for you :(
@Tinkeringbell He basically only addressed the inclusiveness aspect of the issue, and not the fact that the moderator was out of line, or that I was called a sexist, or named on meta...
@JeffDarwood There would be almost no way such a "forced answer" system would work. And there's no way SE would ever want to implement such a thing because they only want people who are willing to commit to a quality answer to answer. Forcing answers is never going to happen. It would be a nightmare for SE and users alike.
@Rubiksmoose so what do you think will happen when users start to complain that their questions remain unanswered and there is a pattern (that I'm afraid to mention for known reasons) in that
@JeffDarwood Same thing that happens with any other pattern of rudeness between two users. And hint, that does not include forcing the users to interact.
@MarkAmery Nope, not that I can see. My best guess is that there's almost 30 flags on the post alone (comment flags works too), and it was closed as a dupe... so it saves some more flags to have it deleted?
I read the question prior to its deletion and thought it was sensible and respectfully asked. We have the nastiest abuse I've witnessed since joining Stack Overflow 7 years ago coming out at the moment, and at least the bits that remain undeleted for me to see have been exclusively from people who are fervently on the pro-trans-pronoun side of the current debate. Seems reasonable in this context to ask whether they're being given a deliberately lighter touch by mods as a matter of policy.
@JeffDarwood There are ways that ignoring a user can be construed as being rude and that is an intentional consequence of the new policy. But at no point does it being labeled as rude mean that forced interaction is anywhere in moderation's playbook.
What was it ultimately closed as a dupe of? I remember there at one point being a dupe closure that struck me as silly and essentially unrelated, though I forget what exactly the target ws
@MarkAmery I've occasionally wondered why we can delete stuff without giving a reason, when even simple edits have a Reason field. But I guess that generally by the time stuff needs deleting anything that needed to be said has already been said in comments.
A loaded question, by having an unjustified assumption (such as a presumption of guilt) can start a quarrel or upset people, which is just what trolls do. Arguably such a question should therefore be closed and deleted even if expressed "politely".
@M.A.R. Honestly, in the context of recent Q&As, when I see "bigotry" anywhere in a post aimed at a group of people it is almost certainly a conversation that has gone off the rails.
@rene Eeesh, the first closure follows a pattern I see too often, especially but not only on Meta - where somebody asks "How should we handle this special case?" and gets closed as a dupe of "Here's a multi-page essay, mostly unrelated, about a broader topic, which does not in fact unambiguously answer your question anywhere."
@MarkAmery It was a loaded question because it only made any sense if you assumed that there was a double standard. It did not present evidence of a double standard, so it insinuated that there was.
@Raedwald Would the question then be okay if it were filled with examples of undeleted abusive comments by trans or pro-trans people? I... kind of suspect that would do the opposite of achieving a better reception.
@Raedwald It's a fight I've had a few times. Occasionally I've scored a minor win on some particular question I cared about. Sometimes I've failed even at that. Certainly never managed to shift the culture.
@MarkAmery You can get a partial victory by having duplicates of duplicates, with a narrower canonical question closed as a duplicate of the broader question.
@Tinkeringbell stahpit. You're addicted. Go ... go take selfies or something ... or shout into your phone while holding it in front of you, like people seem to do these days.
@Snow Some do, some don't. Eg, rainbow lorrikeets don't have crests.
FWIW, when I lived up north, 5 different parrot species visited our yard. 6, if you count the black cockatoos that'd fly over but never land. We had a nice bird bath, plus a few trees that the parrots liked to forage in.
We'd also get scaly-breasted lorrikeets visiting the bird bath. They're mostly green, with yellow flecks on the breast, but more colours under the wings. They're smaller than the rainbow lorries, and the rainbows generally wouldn't let the scaly-breasteds share the bird bath with them.
When our umbrella tree was bearing fruit, a pair of king parrots would take up residence. The male has a totally red head & upper body, the female has a lot more green camouflage, as you can see in the images at the top of that page. Compared to the lorrikeets, they're pretty timid, so it was hard to get close to them.
Yep, grandpa had one that used to know when he'd wake up and make his cheese sandwich (and when he'd get a bit of cheese too). It would be waiting each morning.
@Tinkeringbell Was. I'm now living back in the big city, so the bird population is somewhat diminished. I still see lots of sulphur-crested cockatoos in a park nearby, and the occasional rainbow lorrikeet. And of course magpies and pigeons. But there are a lot of non-native "pest" species like ibis, and the dreaded Indian mynah. We also have a native mynah, the noisy mynah. The Indian mynahs take over the nesting hollows that parrots need, so they're having a big impact on the parrot populations. :(
@JohnDvorak As you know, sexual dimorphism's pretty common in spiders. With one well-known (mostly harmless) Australian species, the golden orb weaver, it's not unusual to see half a dozen or so little males around the fringes of the web of the much larger female, waiting for the opportunity to court the female. Their web is a distinct greenish-gold colour in the morning sunlight.
Offering to pay me what you clearly owe me, in return for removing my review, which is clearly true, made in order to ensure others know what's happening, doesn't seem like an equitable trade.
Spider silk is pretty tough stuff. But yes, you need lots of it, and I expect that harvesting it is a lot more work than harvesting silkworm silk. I don't know how they process the golden orb weaver silk. The centre of the web is usually very sticky, and quite springy: it takes a lot of tension to break that stuff. (Spiders can control the stickiness of their web).
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