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Anonymous

5:32 AM

Hi, is this about meta.stackexchangfe or meta.stackoverflow or about any site on the network?

Tinkeringbell

6:12 AM

@ParibusCeteris The chat talks about pretty much anything, but it's mainly tied to meta.stackexchange. If you're looking for more information about a specific site, each site has it's own chatroom and I believe there is also a chatroom for meta.stackoverflow where you may have more luck: The people that use those sites are more likely to be found there than here.

magisch

6:27 AM

this is really the parrot chat

Tinkeringbell

Okay, note taken... I'll just go do work all day then.

magisch

well

now i'm picturing a sentient parrot actually living a normal life, working a 9 to 5 job, etc

Mithical

...she's a terrible gossip, though.

Ryan M

pssshh, normal lives are for the birds

err, wait

Tinkeringbell

6:42 AM

@Mithical Ouch. I'll pay more attention to that, because if there's one thing I hate it's gossip. Thanks for letting me know!

magisch

@Tinkeringbell you really don't like drama I remember

like, even less then I do

Tinkeringbell

Yeah. I have a very low tolerance for the BS that comes with drama :)

Either fix it or shut up XD

magisch

you are quite dutch

Anonymous

this is really the parrot chat.

Am I doing okay?

magisch

quite

Tinkeringbell

6:53 AM

@magisch Maybe... I don't think it's just Dutch though, because there's plenty of Dutch people doing drama :P

magisch

@JNat Network wide spammer with spam profile description for the nuking: stackexchange.com/users/21987826/online-front

Anonymous

7:22 AM

@Tinkeringbell That's the human condition - you might be immune as you are a fairy

Tinkeringbell

@ParibusCeteris Named after a fairy that dies when she doesn't get attention XD I think fairies are more dramatical than humans :P

Anonymous

@Tinkeringbell yeah, you're right, especially in the small fact that they don't exist

Tinkeringbell

Fictional characters are like that...

magisch

you know i've been reading a metric ton of fantasy novels

it's like my tv

Tinkeringbell

I haven't been reading much lately, but what I've read was mostly just 'fun facts' I guess... I read a book about books, and one about letters XD

Weren't you always big on reading fantasy?

magisch

7:31 AM

@Tinkeringbell yes it's my favorite genre bar none

but i've put away over 400 books since the pandemic started

Tinkeringbell

Wow. That's quite a few, yeah :D

magisch

amazon kindle unlimited and 0.99€ books make it possible

Tinkeringbell

Heh, I guess :)

Anonymous

@magisch Ugh - that's like saying that 99c big macs allow you to eat a lot of meat :6

magisch

@ParibusCeteris you know a lot of those books are really good

or at least, they're good enough for me and I enjoy fantasy in general

Anonymous

7:36 AM

Would you dare to actually recommend any? I might be pleasantly surprised, against my prejudice...

Luuklag

o/

magisch

I don't know enough about which tropes you don't like to do that

Anonymous

I also like fantasy in general and I prefer the ones going straight to the point like, say, sanderson, butcher, mieville, rothfuss and less the verborreic fantasy authors like tolkien or le guin.

magisch

John Conroe's Demon Accords are on Kindle Unlimited, and they're excellent. If you don't mind a heavier romance focus, most of what Erin Flynn writes is really good (and also free on Kindle Unlimited). Vortex Chronicles is also very good and free on Kindle Unlimited. World of the Lupi is also a very good series

most of these are urban fantasy since that's what I mainly read

Anonymous

btw, is verborreic a word?

magisch

7:39 AM

If you don't need HEA in your books the Alex Craft Series and Mercy Thompson Series are also very nice

I know what you mean, and I'm the same

I don't like overly wordy

Kingmaker trilogy is also really nice for more high fantasy like

Tinkeringbell

@Luuklag \o

Anonymous

There was a time, oh, what a time, where the light glistened over the small green leaves on the ancient trees at the top of the hill. What things have those trees seen over centuries, they even knew the small beetle Gupt

magisch

I enjoy most fantasy books for what they are

even if they're not sanderson I still get enjoyment reading them

Anonymous

The thing is that some are really trite and boring, that's not to say that there aren't "cheap" good ones though

Luuklag

I just put shouldiblamecaching.com in an answer :)

Anonymous

7:44 AM

but as long as there is no guilt on stopping to read them, everything's fine

magisch

I'm a sucker for interesting and varied magic systems too

Mithical

@ParibusCeteris ...Tolkien is like the archetype at this point

magisch

which is why I really enjoyed Hidden legacy by illona andrews, allthough those books are 2/3 romance and I usually don't enjoy that part too much

Mithical

@magisch Have you read any Pratchett?

magisch

most of what pratchett wrote, yeah

Anonymous

7:45 AM

Pratchett is so awesome - I love me my word play

magisch

he has a very whimsical yet satisfying and insightful writing style

Mithical

:D

magisch

I'm not always in the mood for pratchett but it's very high art in my opinion

Mithical

The only person I found who has a similar style to Pratchett is Douglas Adams

Luuklag

I'll just stick to reading the newspaper :)

Anonymous

7:46 AM

And even then they are not the same

Anonymous

They do have the whimsical quality but they are different

Mithical

Yep

Anonymous

Jasper Fforde

magisch

I don't think there's anything quite like pratchett out there

Anonymous

I loved Shades of Gray

magisch

7:48 AM

i really didnt

like really, really, really didnt

Anonymous

heh - I didn't like the literary meta on his other titles

Anonymous

but shades of gray resonated

magisch

I might have written an essay somewhere about how I think it's cultural pollution

Anonymous

I'm gray

magisch

wait

you're not talking about the bad twilight fanfiction right?

Anonymous

7:50 AM

shades of gray by jasper fforde

magisch

alright

in that case I didn't read that one yet

I thought you were talking about the bad twilight fanfiction turned bad movie

Anonymous

goodreads.com/book/show/2113260.Shades_of_Grey

magisch

I view a good book rather like a movie, but it's more detailed and I can watch it at my own speed

Anonymous

And without forcing you to picture their stereotypes. That's why it's usually underwhelming to see a movie after reading the book - unless you have a lousy imagination :-D

magisch

yeah

tbh I like books better then movies in almost every aspect

Luuklag

7:56 AM

@SmokeDetector N

magisch

it's easier to get into, more enjoyable, there's much more content there and it's at my own pace

Anonymous

Michael Sullivan's Ryiria series was somewhat enjoyable for me too!

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

8:10 AM

@Luuklag nah, took the pic before starting to eat. Coffee is half level because I put it in the cereals. Spoon not clean because it was used for the coffee. ;)

@ParibusCeteris hello gray!

Anonymous

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 hellow (which is a yellow hello)

terdon

9:06 AM

Is anyone else having trouble accessing chat.stackexchange.com? isitdownrightnow.com is telling me it's up, but I can't access it.

rene

@terdon works for me

terdon

Damn.

terdon

9:21 AM

Changing DNA solved it. What a weird thing though, everything except chat.se was fine.

rene

@terdon your DNA or the DNA of another species?

Journeyman Geek

@rene Yes

terdon

@rene lol. DNS.

I spend most of my day discussing DNA, so I guess it's become a habit :)

rene

:D

JNat

10:05 AM

ok, let's have a look at that backlog, then

@Luuklag gone

Luuklag

wall of pings incoming :)

JNat

I mean, I get all my pings spread out over a week (or however long it takes me to get to 'em). Y'all are lucky to get mine back all in a bundle ;P

Luuklag

Luckily I mute my chat tab ;)

JNat

@Luuklag gone

need to find a way to force unmute your tabs just for this ;P

Luuklag

haha, you might need some browser injection script then

JNat

10:10 AM

@Luuklag gone

@Luuklag which I totally have the expertise required to write on my own... xD

@Luuklag gone

Luuklag

@JNat I bet you could base it off off your hangman game :)

JNat

lol, unlikely

@Luuklag gone

@Luuklag the part I didn't mention in my question is how little use I have for the new answers that keep popping over the years on a question I asked ~9 years ago

imagine if I was still stuck with that same problem now xD

Luuklag

@JNat yeah that would suck ;)

But then again, it isn't about you, but it is about the greater community ;)

JNat

m-hm :)

@Luuklag gone

Journeyman Geek

Or at the very least "the next guy with the same problem"

I'm kinda trying to decide how to answer that question

JNat

10:19 AM

@Luuklag gone

Journeyman Geek

meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/303988/… covers the bones, but quite a lot has happened in 6 years

JNat

@Luuklag gone

Luuklag

@JourneymanGeek Well, it was about how you got started here, so that would be about right

JNat

@Luuklag gone

Journeyman Geek

@Luuklag in a sense, its written for a particular audience

JNat

10:27 AM

@Luuklag mmm, unsure of whether they're a legit user or not... cleared sessions; lemme know if you see anything else funky coming from 'em

@Luuklag gone

@JourneymanGeek but the core of it should still be the same, no?

Luuklag

@Sha I read you guys are getting new covid measures, but ones that actually make sense it appears?

Journeyman Geek

@JNat It talks about SO (which frankly isn't that important) and SU (which everyone knows is important to me)

It dosen't talk about SF (which is one of the places I hope finds its feet again) or the smaller communities I'm involved in

JNat

@Luuklag gone

Journeyman Geek

and after a decade I'm not sure some of the story is really important :D

JNat

@Luuklag gone somewhere above (~25 minutes ago, to be precise, it looks like)

@Luuklag gone

Luuklag

10:32 AM

ah your almost done

JNat

@Luuklag gone

@Luuklag is that a bad thing? xD

@Luuklag gone

@Ollie gone

@magisch gone

and that is all for now

Luuklag

Congrats. When will your big red nuke spam users button be ready?

JNat

hopefully some time in Q3, if I'm not mistaken

Luuklag

That would be nice

@Glorfindel perhaps you should switch the status tag, on that banner bug report to -review again?

Glorfindel

Let's give them 24 hours, perhaps the caches will have refreshed by then.

Luuklag

10:43 AM

Good thing you pointed out about the VPN, that was also what fixed it for me, unknowingly

Glorfindel

VPN is always an easy thing to try (especially when it comes to caching). There are other solutions such as taking a flight :)

Journeyman Geek

o0

Luuklag

You're not very mindfull of the environment, are you @glorfindel, you should have taken the train on such a short distance ;)

Glorfindel

I haven't taken a flight since February last year, that compensates ...

Also, in that period, I have traveled a longer distance by foot than by car (or any other engine-powered thing).

Luuklag

@Glorfindel yay for google tracking you ;)

Glorfindel

10:52 AM

I'm not afraid of Google, I have nothing to hide.

Luuklag

same here :)

This month doesn't do my stats any good, about 1k km in car :)

Journeyman Geek

11:13 AM

lol

user1030808

@Glorfindel :scream:

Journeyman Geek

lol

Everyone is watching you everywhere

magisch

@Glorfindel angry dpo noises

i had a good laugh about someone who honestly believed microchips were in the vaccine

he was disseminating this story on his latest smart phone

user1030808

they dont need to put chips on vaccines to know all there is to know about you

user1030808

you already have several in your pocket

magisch

11:29 AM

yeah that's the headscratcher there

you have an outlandish conspiracy theory but the goals of the conspiracy aren't even aspirational, just stupid

even if you got a microchip with your vaccine what good would that do? The range of rfid chips on skin to skin is a few meters from the person at most

user1030808

they don't read enough good urban fantasy

magisch

why use that when your smartphone is a fully functional internet enabled computer you carry with you every day and that knows a lot more about you then a positional rfid chip could ever know.

@ParibusCeteris btw, do you have some recommendations for good UF?

user1030808

Mieville and Butcher

user1030808

But I doubt their books are at 99c or on Unlimited they are rather famous

user1030808

:(

Journeyman Geek

11:35 AM

@magisch Actually... I actually (kinda intentionally?) carry a literal tracking chip :D

magisch

@ParibusCeteris I buy books too, even famous ones

Just the majority of what I read is on KU or cheap, to avoid breaking my bank entirely

I spent like a month's salary last year just on ebooks

Journeyman Geek

@magisch I kinda like the rivers of london series

magisch

which is fine but I could not afford to buy every book I read for 5+€

@JourneymanGeek I read that one in full including false value which came out recently

very nice

user1030808

Well then I recommend the Harry Dresden Series from Butcher and Perdido Street Station from Mieville :)

magisch

I also really enjoyed the series about the probability mage

user1030808

11:41 AM

that sounds interesting, a probabiulity mage? Does spells to change probabilities?

magisch

his main skill is to see short term probabilities

which translates into excellent combat skills, since he can see which moves he has to make to not end up splat on the floor

It's the alex verus series

I especially enjoy it because it's a massively interesting and varied magic system

Journeyman Geek

OH

magisch

in a world where people can throw fireballs and melt holes in walls alex is one of the most badass characters out there, since nobody can ever win against him

Journeyman Geek

Dosen't he constantly get into trouble tho?

magisch

yes

because he ran away from being an apprentice to a dark mage

user1030808

11:44 AM

I hope that's on purpose, and not for not foreseeing short term probabilites

magisch

still massively interesting imo

well without spoilering the dark mages in that world are very big on might makes right and it is expected that one apprentice out of however many a dark mage has kills all the others to become a dark mage

and alex was not okay with that

He's kind of a big deal because probability mages in that universe usually go insane

Like whenever he fights someone he gets to see a side reel of all the ways he could go splat on the wall when making the wrong move

Tinkeringbell

@magisch Sounds a bit like one of the characters in one of the Darkover books. They could also see all possible futures, and almost went insane.

magisch

alex is just grumpy and reserved and very paranoid as a result

Tinkeringbell

12:00 PM

Oh, no I don't think this character was different/reserved/paranoid. More like constantly struggling to stay calm.

magisch

still interesting

may take a look later

Tinkeringbell

It's not too bad of a series, the darkover one. There are a lot of books though, and some of it gets rather 'trite' after a while. I don't know, I guess there's just so much you can write about 'humans land on a different planet, humans grow psychic powers, humans inbreed, humans are rediscovered and have to learn to live with that...'

Journeyman Geek

erf

I downloaded a game, run it, and... there's a 20gb patch on a 40gb game applied by their launcher ._.

magisch

reminds me of rift

Journeyman Geek

Watchdogs legion...

magisch

12:08 PM

download the whole v1 game to start the launcher, which will then take you through all the patches sequentially

Journeyman Geek

the DLC apparently is charecter based, and it was on half off :D

magisch

watchdogs 2 is pretty good

Journeyman Geek

I loved the first 2

not really sold on the "anyone and everyone can be your PC"

magisch

me neither

I liked the pc in watchdogs 2 because he was sympathethic and had a backstory

Journeyman Geek

yup

Is the statute of limitations on spoilers over on that?

The bit where one of his crew gets killed was.... Its a good piece of writing, and set up the next bit well but daaaamn

magisch

12:15 PM

g3rv4 is here

o/

Tinkeringbell

@JourneymanGeek As far as I'm concerned... I don't care :P

magisch

@Tinkeringbell this reminds me

Didn't you want to get giant flemish rabbits?

Tinkeringbell

Yes. I still do, but I have to see if it's possible. Apparently, there's going to be a playground behind the apartment too, and I don't really want to have to worry about kids tresspassing and hurting the rabbits/letting them escape.

And I also don't want to always keep the rabbits locked up or indoors.

So... it'll take some time, see how many kids there are and if they've been raised properly.

magisch

get a sturdy fence/wall

Tinkeringbell

@magisch Yep, planning on that. Still, a ball thrown over the fence can hit a rabbit hard.

magisch

12:23 PM

If you ever do get giant flemish rabbits I need to come visit sometime

I always wanted to see some of those

@Tinkeringbell If someone hit our office dog with a ball that person wouldn't be leaving in one piece

Tinkeringbell

@magisch I think I already said you'd be welcome to :)

If I do get them, I'll let you know :)

@magisch Exactly ;)

magisch

you know

people who abuse animals make me incredibly mad

one of my cousins always bullies my aunt's cat

Tinkeringbell

12:39 PM

Well I have to admit I'm not too kind to cats either. At least not when they hunt birds in our garden or use it as their litter box.

They might become a problem too in my new neighborhood, another reason to wait a bit with the rabbits... while I was visiting the build site a few months back, there was a cat using the dirt as a litter box :/

curious

12:59 PM

@Tinkeringbell ahem I mean meow

@curious Shoooo!

sssssHHHH

kssst!

I can't lie I love most animals

I even like snakes and reptiles

user1030808

1:03 PM

I love all animals, except humans - they are nasty as a group

magisch

everyone knows my favorite person in the office is the dog

curious

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Catija

@ParibusCeteris Dresden is great. :) Changes a lot over time, too.

magisch

Hey cat

long time no see

curious

@Catija The "not-a-toddler-anymore" angry phase made me want to curl into a ball this morning and I had a thought for you lol

Hope all is well with you!

Catija

1:15 PM

@magisch Hey you! :D Always nice to see you here.

magisch

how have you been

Catija

@curious I've heard some people call it the "hulk smash" phase. Gus is in it now. Things are going well, though. Bennett had his first swim class yesterday - didn't go in the pool, just wanted to watch, so that was stressful in its own way. But things seem to feel more... "Normal", whatever that is.

magisch

my coworker's twins are 5 now I think

you can see the exhaustion

Catija

@magisch Good. I'm a lot happier with things now than I was at one point in time. Today's my 3rd anniversary :D

magisch

:)

thats nice to hear

curious

1:19 PM

@Catija Hulk Smash sound very appropriate! I think my girl had this phase too but the lack of a sibling made it easier. At least if they fling toys in anger, there's less chance of someone getting injured (and they break their own toys)

@Catija Happy anniversary!

Catija

I always wanted twins. But it does seem very exhausting. Bennett will be five next month, so we'll see. He swings back and forth between being helpful and crying on the floor because he didn't get what he wanted. This morning he had a meltdown because Andy opened a new jar of peanut butter and he didn't get to scoop the first knife-full.

curious

Catija

Waffle cake? How appropriate.

Tinkeringbell

@Catija Having kids sounds so very lovely :D

Catija

Yeah - the people who pressure people who are childless by choice or apathy into having kids do it because they don't want to be the only ones suffering. This is why I tell people "having kids isn't for everyone"

Honestly not sure it's for me, either, but there's no return policy for them so I'm kinda stuck.

curious

1:23 PM

@Catija I think it gets easier... fingers crossed

Journeyman Geek

That's true of almost anything worth doing :D

Catija

@curious ... and that's the lie we all tell ourselves to keep moving forward. :P

Journeyman Geek

@curious or you get better at it

curious

but I know the feeling. I consider myself to be typically very patient and sometimes I don't recognize myself anymore ^^'

@JourneymanGeek Is that called resilience? lol

Journeyman Geek

hm, maaaaybe

g3rv4

1:24 PM

@Catija hah, huge +1... once they're here, we just try to do our best ;)

Journeyman Geek

it could be called a lot of things :D

Catija

I yell at the boys a lot. They both like being physically in contact with me and (as someone who likes personal space and often can't be touched) it is really hard.

@g3rv4 Indeed! And there are bright spots. They're often very cute and they give nice hugs and sometimes they even help. Maybe they'll keep me company when I get old.

curious

You are their safe space :) I wish I could keep my boy closer...he has absolutely no conception of danger and wants to try aaaaallll the things

"and sometimes they even help" lolz

Journeyman Geek

"he has absolutely no conception of danger" - this is 10 out of 16 years of having a dog :D

g3rv4

@Catija def bright spots, and very bright. I love my kid like I don't love anyone else. Still, if I could go back in time...

Catija

1:27 PM

Something about second children - I've always heard they tend to take more risks but that's definitely true with mine. He's always getting jumping off things and getting into scrapes.

g3rv4

lol

Journeyman Geek

@Catija Well technically I'm number 4 (but 2 in terms of survival) but we're stubborn, hard headed, and do what we feel like... so... this is true :D

Catija

@g3rv4 I have thought many times about how much more fun this pandemic would have been without kids - working from wherever... lots of free time to chill or explore. Way better than being trapped in a house with kids and no way to entertain them at the places built for that.

curious

@JourneymanGeek and where are the 6 easier years? Asking for a friend...

Journeyman Geek

@curious old age

about 4-5 of those are excellent and chill

curious

1:29 PM

@Catija oh when people complained that they had read ALL the books after a few weeks of lockdown, I wanted to go berserk lol

g3rv4

hahaha glad to hear Daniela and I are not alone in our thoughts... it's kind of taboo around here, kids are supposed to be the best thing that ever happened to you

Catija

@curious Or talking about their hangouts/zooms with friends. Yeah, the pandemic has been hard on everyone but I have to feel like people with kids, particularly preschool-aged kids... have a really hard time.

terdon

@Catija People who pressure others to have kids are presumptuous, rude, nosy jerks is what they are. I've never been able to understand the gall of these people. Just because you (or I) want kids doesn't mean everyone does!

Mithical

@Catija ...oof. Guilty, I'm afraid.

Journeyman Geek

and heh

I haven't actually had any of the pandemic WFH 'fun'

terdon

1:33 PM

And, the fewer people having kids the better, really. We should applaud those among us who can resist the biological imperative and don't procreate, not berate them! Most of us probably will have kids, the urge is so strong and there are soooo many reasons to have them, but those few who manage to resist should be applauded.

user1030808

@terdon I'd amend that to "People who pressure others are presumptuous" :) - unless someone's hurting someone else or something. I felt identified by the VHEMT when young

curious

@Catija We tried to have a few Zooms but the kids treat it like a mirror and end up just making silly faces and disrupting the whole thing.

terdon

@ParibusCeteris Yep.

Journeyman Geek

@terdon I think the only people who have any place pressuring me to have kids is my parents, and uh.... they can't :D

curious

@terdon Also, it's not great if you're a kid and your parent felt pressured to have you :/

Catija

1:35 PM

@terdon :) Yeah. And it can be really hurtful in some cases, such as people who can't have kids but want them.

user1030808

Yeah, the half one has control over is how to feel when someone pressures you, and we should be able to just let the pressure slip over

terdon

@JourneymanGeek Exactly, and even there there's a limit. But OK, parents and close family members may get to have an opinion, but all of these nosy jerks who go "ooooh, and when are you planning to have some kids" as though this isn't one of the most invasive and personal questions in the world just drive me up the wall.

#woesOfAChildless40YearOld

Journeyman Geek

@terdon that said, apparently most of my neighbours have been asking my parents when they're getting another dog

curious

@terdon Haha

Journeyman Geek

@terdon eh, if you chose to, why not?

Well or chose not to

terdon

1:37 PM

@Catija Heh, that was apparently my mother's goto response to nosy jerks before she had me: "Why don't you have kids?" "Because I can't". That shut them right up!

Catija

Nice!

user1030808

I can see how the helpful asshole would follow on with, "well, you can adopt"

Journeyman Geek

"As oppose to shop?"

terdon

Heh, yeah. Some people have no boundaries.

Tinkeringbell

@Catija WAIT there's not? Mom always told me she would return me to the stork if I didn't behave.... XD But yeah. And it's too sad to sometimes see how grandparents end up being the one caring/trying to raise kids as best as they can because it's really not for the parents :(

Catija

1:38 PM

It's funny, I didn't get a ton of people asking me when I was going to have kids (that I can remember) but I feel like I had a lot more asking when we were going to have a second one.

terdon

Although a good answer to "you can adopt" would be "Yes, I was thinking of adopting yours to save them."

user1030808

Yeah, you already started, you can't stop!

curious

@Catija Are they asking you if you want a third now? ><

user1030808

Just like with Pringles

Journeyman Geek

@curious that's an excuse to break out the death glare (tm)

curious

1:40 PM

@JourneymanGeek yep haha

Catija

Once our kids are older, we're thinking about maybe fostering a few older kids (one at a time) - ones who are about to age out but could use some good support those last few years.

curious

I've entertained that idea too... I like to think that we could do more

Catija

@curious I've had a few people but I just say "are you kidding, I'm done"

curious

At the same time, it's a bit early not knowing how your kids will turn out to be as teenagers

terdon

@Catija Wow. Kudos. That is brave and absolutely wonderful of you.

Catija

1:42 PM

Oh, I don't think I told you, @curious the younger one is out of diapers so we're officially a diaper-free household! Sooooo awesome. And he made the switch around 2.6 years, which was a lot earlier than the older one.

curious

people tell me, little kids little problems, big kids big problems...and it's true too. Flinging toys isn't all that bad compared to getting in actual real trouble

it's just exhausting to handle for the parents!

@Catija oh congrats! that must be nice

Just being in the beta phase of being able to blow their nose is already a nice upgrade haha

Catija

@curious It is! I mean, there are still accidents from time to time but it's been nice - we did the three day mesthod.

method

curious

@Catija I'm googling that right now lol

Catija

It's the method our montessori school recommends - we did it with both of the kids and it worked pretty well for us, you just have to be firm and patient with it.

curious

I'm not sure he's ready but I'm bookmarking it

anyone else watching the Tokyo opening? There's a ball in the sky made of drones I think...looking awesome O_o

Catija

1:48 PM

@curious It's so amazing what they can do with drones now. I'm not watching it but it sounds cool.

curious

SPArcheon

2:32 PM

Dyson sphere

A Dyson sphere is a hypothetical megastructure that completely encompasses a star and captures a large percentage of its power output. The concept is a thought experiment that attempts to explain how a spacefaring civilization would meet its energy requirements once those requirements exceed what can be generated from the home planet's resources alone. Only a tiny fraction of a star's energy emissions reaches the surface of any orbiting planet. Building structures encircling a star would enable a civilization to harvest far more energy. The first contemporary description of the structure was by...

Wolgwang

3:00 PM

Is this allowed?

SPArcheon

@Tinkeringbell this line is quite funny, at least on my monitor :P

magisch

@Wolgwang Probably not

SPArcheon

There is the wiZZard and there is the coMMunity, I see no problem at all.

Finally, after years of flags they fixed the typo.

Journeyman Geek

@Wolgwang if you think there's a reasonable chance of confusion why not flag the user and explain the situation?

SPArcheon

3:16 PM

@JourneymanGeek I would say that if someone created a new user with that name and that avatar, they were specifically aiming at creating confusion in the first place.

Doesn't seem casual

Journeyman Geek

@SPArcheon sure :D

Generically tho

curious

3:56 PM

@SPArcheon Nice!

SPArcheon

Also completely impossible with the tech we have right now.

And probably with the culture we have right now too.

Kevin B

and resources

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

4:21 PM

@Luuklag what do you mean?

Next week any place hosting people in closed building will have to require people to show proof they're vaccinated (or tested negative in last 72 hours), but you really think people do it?

When the requirement was in place few months ago, out of 5 places I visited, only 1 actually checked.

(it's called here "Green Pass")

@Wolgwang no, should be reported and reset, if repeated behavior, suspended as well.

@JNat cross site imposter can you please reset all the profiles name and avatar? Thanks! (that user is using the name Community and the avatar of Community account on all sites.)