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Grab-n-Stash

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Went to a 18+ only Halloween themed event at a skating rink several hours ago. Managed to get at least 4 people complimenting my simple western cowboy costume with one person initially trying to guess what I was going for. Also the best I've ever skated in my entire life.

Came across some other costumes like the mask from the Scream movies, someone looking like Beetlejuice, a girl in a Finn the human costume, Freddy Kreuger, Batman, a costume that reminded me of or is completely made in reference to "White Chicks" (if I remember the movie name right), a black skintight suit, Minnie mouse, Luffy, Captain Jack Sparrow, a regular mime/mime costume with some good face paint that looked like a mask from a distance, handsome squidward, cowgirl, a guy who's just crossdressing, fox ears/tail combo (personal favorite), a grandma, a butcher, an escaped convict, several animal costumes such as the stereotypical choice of a cat, and some others that were ok or don't feel like mentioning.

dba afish

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using Google Sheets is such like a-- uhh... acutely frustrating experience.

I'm glad I've really only had to use it for leisure projects. I could imagine that some of the stuff I've chaffed against myself would be supremely annoying if I was using it to make something presentable for work or something, and not like, "haha funny robot stats".

Ruppari

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They are quite worn down, but they are still there and standing strong. In fact nearly all of the bedrock in Finland is pre-cambrian thanks to the glaciers grinding everything down during the last ice age.

LeopardSpots

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Oh shit I actually wasn't aware of this tidbit. I mean, I was aware that the ancestors to sharks were old but not THAT old. I dunno about you but sometimes I wish we can bring all these extinct animals back to life just so we knew how they actually looked, and how they actually behaved. I read somewhere that the T-Rex may have been a lot more colorful. Sometimes I wonder, what if they were more bird-like in nature? Like, what if they did some funny little dance to attract a mate. I wonder if there were any animals from that time that were equally as intelligent as some birds are today. Which ones were they?

Ruppari

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Related fun fact: Finland has fells formed out of remains of eroded ancient mountain range called Karelides that is estimated to be even older the Appalachian mountains. The estimate is that the mountain range was formed roughly two billion years ago, making them older than fungi and multicellular life.

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    Ruppari

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    My favorite phenomena is artists drawing crossgender version of their fursona as a silly haha joke, feeling unexpected feelings about it, and coming out as trans soon after.

    dba afish

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    In response to blip #136215

    related:
    sharks are also older than trees.

    ...kinda?

    fossils of several of the earliest known elasmobranchii, like antarctilamna are dated to the early-mid Devonian period. the middle Devonian being when plants decided that they'd finally be trees, after like 70-something million years of just laying around doing nothing.

    they weren't really all that shark-like yet, though. and the things that people are saying are "shark-like" from around that time, cladoselache, were holocephali which is what chimaeriformes are, not sharks.

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    LeopardSpots

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    FUN FACT: the Appalachian mountains are old. Incredibly old. They saw the rise, dominance and extinction of dinosaurs. They were there before animals even came to land. In fact, they're older than trees and possibly older than the rings of Saturn (this seems to be disputed, new data suggests that the rings are far older, but it's not agreed on from my understanding)

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    dba afish

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    In response to blip #136212

    savageorange said:
    I wasn't arguing otherwise -- there's just a question about who should be using them and who maybe should be encouraged to master the more basic things first, as with eg. regular expressions.

    it's not like it's a particularly complex idea overall, I mean, we've all been through algebra class.

    I feel like the the bit at the end of the Basics section of the cheatsheet does well enough at explaining its functions/use case.

    honestly, in this particular case, I think the issue might've been more not understanding exclusion in logical expressions, rather than not understanding grouping, necessarily. it does feel a bit weird that:
    x AND NOT y AND NOT z
    is identical to:
    x AND NOT ( y OR z )
    it's just something you learn from experience.

    savageorange

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    In response to blip #136210

    dba_afish said:
    I mean, parenthetical searching has plenty of uses, particularly when you have more than one set. it also handles wildcarded terms and metatags in ways that are not possible with normal searches.

    I wasn't arguing otherwise -- there's just a question about who should be using them and who maybe should be encouraged to master the more basic things first, as with eg. regular expressions.

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    dba afish

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    In response to blip #136208

    savageorange said:
    A cleverly designed poll might be able to find out some things about how usable these features are in practice.[...]

    I mean, parenthetical searching has plenty of uses, particularly when you have more than one set. it also handles wildcarded terms and metatags in ways that are not possible with normal searches.

    I was just saying excluding multiple tags was a function that already existed prior.

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    SNPtheCat

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    In response to blip #136208

    savageorange said:
    (I suppose the other side of the argument might be : "it's not any more confusing than blacklist rules already are". On the other other hand, there is generally exactly one way to correctly write a given blacklist rule, not multiple ways.)

    There are multiple ways to correctly write a blacklist rule. Before grouped tags, blacklist actually allows more combinations than search (for non-metatags).

    Since you have multiple lines at your disposal, you can represent tag1 ~tag2 ~tag3 as
    two lines,
    tag1 tag2
    tag1 tag3
    (You can unwrap all OR operators in this fashion, and it allows you to prefix the NOT operator on tag2 and tag3)

    Another example is tag1 -tag2 can be written as ~tag1 ~tag2 -tag2, and it can also be written in two lines as
    tag1 -tag2 tag3
    tag1 -tag2 -tag3

    savageorange

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    In response to blip #136202

    dba_afish said:
    tag_1 -( ~tag_2 ~tag_3 ) is identical to just tag_1 -tag_2 -tag_3
    [...]

    A cleverly designed poll might be able to find out some things about how usable these features are in practice.

    Of course anyone who is any good at programming should be able to use all the boolean ops. But I've seen enough in various instances, to think that people are often confused by anything more than basic AND + NOT operations with no parenthetical clauses.

    I'm not really against technically-superfluous usages like the above, they can be 'syntactical sugar' -- but if they are causing confusion, then perhaps they should be discouraged. (I've seen this particular confusion twice recently)

    (I suppose the other side of the argument might be : "it's not any more confusing than blacklist rules already are". On the other other hand, there is generally exactly one way to correctly write a given blacklist rule, not multiple ways.)

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    SpiritusZabaione

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    In response to blip #136206

    Voltage-controlled said:
    Currently listening to Gomez - Buena Vista

    I can play the bass line to this :3c

    Good psychedelic rock music! The music feels like a combination of these two songs at the beginning

    Then when it reaches the instrumental solo at the end it goes something like

    Thanks for the exceptional music listening today, V!

    post #4002453

    dba afish

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    In response to blip #136201

    Bigol'Skitty said:
    So after having found out about parenthetical searching, I just found out that you can use - with parenthetical searches to remove a whole set of tags!
    So for instance, while ~miso_souperstar ~r-mk (~butt_focus ~areola) will show every post that has any combination of those tags and artists, ~miso_souperstar ~r-mk -(~ butt_focus ~areola) will show all posts by the r-mk or miso without those tags. Yet another way to avoid posts you don’t want to see. Almost like the people who work on this site put genuine effort into QoL. Shocker. Love you admins and developers! <3

    tag_1 -( ~tag_2 ~tag_3 ) is identical to just tag_1 -tag_2 -tag_3
    the first is saying:

    • posts with tag_1
      • excluding:
        • any of tag_2 or tag_3

    the second is saying:

    • posts with tag_1
      • excluding tag_2
      • excluding tag_3
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    Bigol'Skitty

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    So after having found out about parenthetical searching, I just found out that you can use - with parenthetical searches to remove a whole set of tags!
    So for instance, while ~miso_souperstar ~r-mk (~butt_focus ~areola) will show every post that has any combination of those tags and artists, ~miso_souperstar ~r-mk -(~ butt_focus ~areola) will show all posts by the r-mk or miso without those tags. Yet another way to avoid posts you don’t want to see. Almost like the people who work on this site put genuine effort into QoL. Shocker. Love you admins and developers! <3

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    LeopardSpots

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    FUN(?) FACT: You may associate F5 or EF5 tornadoes with the United States but there are more countries that have them, just not as frequently. There are a total of 7 countries, United States, Canada, Argentina, Germany, France, Italy, and Australia.

    Another fact: In 2014, Mongolia had it's first and only tornado in all or recorded history. And it was a rather violent EF4.

    Doomguy666

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    In response to blip #136196

    @Dragonlord2328: @SphericalZabaione:
    Glad people like these, I've got a huge pile of these things to paint and at the rate new ones come out the pile is getting bigger faster than I can paint them.

    This is my new favorite thing though so I'll never get bored.

    LeopardSpots

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    In response to blip #136186

    Dragonlord2328 said:
    Thats a fun/interesting fact

    I find it incredibly interesting, mainly the fact it could be felt such far distances. It's (to my understanding) due to the bedrock that's in this portion of North America. A magnitude 7.0 in California would not be felt nearly as far, probably 250 miles at the absolute most. Another one of my favorite geological facts is that Bear's Lodge (you may know it as Devil's Tower, I prefer to call it Bear's Lodge) was actually a volcano. It fell dormant, the magma cooled and the mountain around it eroded away, leaving behind a monolith of basalt. The reason it was called Bear's Lodge is due to the surrounding Native American mythology, and the name became Devil's Tower because of a mistranslation. I genuinely think that Bear's Lodge is one of the coolest geological features of the United States.

    Dragonlord2328

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    In response to blip #136185

    LeopardSpots said:
    FUN(?) FACT: There is an ancient fault on the east side of the United States that is capable of magnitude 7+ earthquakes. The New Madrid Seismic Zone, by New Madrid in Missouri, had a magnitude 7.0 or greater in 1811 and again in 1812. What's most shocking about these earthquakes is that United States president Madison was able to feel the ground shaking in the White House, and there are reports that the quakes caused church bells to sound in Boston, MA. For reference, the NMSZ is over 1,000 miles away from Boston.

    Thats a fun/interesting fact

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    LeopardSpots

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    FUN(?) FACT: There is an ancient fault on the east side of the United States that is capable of magnitude 7+ earthquakes. The New Madrid Seismic Zone, by New Madrid in Missouri, had a magnitude 7.0 or greater in 1811 and again in 1812. What's most shocking about these earthquakes is that United States president Madison was able to feel the ground shaking in the White House, and there are reports that the quakes caused church bells to sound in Boston, MA. For reference, the NMSZ is over 1,000 miles away from Boston.

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    W0LFB3AT5

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    LeopardSpots said:
    FUN FACT: in 1987, a store called Hypermart USA was opened. This was a new experimental store that Walmart had opened. Walmart created four of these Hypermarts, which included everything you'd expect your Supercenter to have plus extra things including an arcade. However, they didn't expect the cooling and heating costs of these stores, maintenance, and more. These stores were profitable, but it wasn't nearly as profitable as Walmart as hoped. The company would then launch the Supercenter in 1988, which performed much better, and the rest is history. Today, two of these Hypermarts are still operating as Supercenters. These two locations being in Topeka, KS and Arlington, TX.

    Heh! It’s like if Sam’s and Costco had a baby…

    LeopardSpots

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    FUN FACT: in 1987, a store called Hypermart USA was opened. This was a new experimental store that Walmart had opened. Walmart created four of these Hypermarts, which included everything you'd expect your Supercenter to have plus extra things including an arcade. However, they didn't expect the cooling and heating costs of these stores, maintenance, and more. These stores were profitable, but it wasn't nearly as profitable as Walmart as hoped. The company would then launch the Supercenter in 1988, which performed much better, and the rest is history. Today, two of these Hypermarts are still operating as Supercenters. These two locations being in Topeka, KS and Arlington, TX.

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    dba afish

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    In response to blip #136177

    garfieldfromgarfield said:
    which artist πŸ‘€

    Impamy, who has a bit of art on here. dosn't post here directly but there are a few posts containing Billy, Impamy's main avatar character, which is who I recognized.

    kinda surprised that I was able to place the face as quickly as I did, the character does not have a particularly unique color scheme or anything.

    dba afish

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    scrolling through YouTube for the briefest of moments something slides past that catches my eye, so I go back a bit and, yep, the avatar is the fursona of an artist that I recognize from here.

    their first YouTube video too.

    #

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    dba afish

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    In response to blip #136173

    Waydence said:
    That shouldn't be possible with grid, can I see what it looks like?

    Date and user are the same element in HTML, can't really change that, but doesn't seem like a problem either.

    strange, I pasted it again and it works fine...

    ...

    it seems like just changing the formatting makes it not work right? I'm guessing it's the site's CSS parser thing messing with it in some weird way, something that wasn't getting the !important flag before starts getting it when I change it.

    Waydence

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    In response to blip #136171

    dba_afish said:
    ~ using the version you shared, the action buttons' container covers up most of the post:version ID on my end.

    That shouldn't be possible with grid, can I see what it looks like?

    Date and user are the same element in HTML, can't really change that, but doesn't seem like a problem either.

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    dba afish

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    LeopardSpots said:
    FUN fact! Did you know that the average new mattress weighs about 90 pounds while the average used mattress weighs about 110 pounds? Isn't that fun?!

    that-- dosn't sound true. while I wouldn't doubt that there's some amount of weight accumulated over time, a 22% gain in mass from the sweat and stuff that makes it through the sheets between the sleeper(s) and mattress sounds quite high.

    I'm not finding any actual studies about this anywhere online, just claims in this vein which were even more ridiculous getting debunked (a double in weight over the course of a decade is so obviously absurd).

    I found a random chiropractor saying that it is estimated that mattresses gain 10-20% in weight over 10 years of use, but-- estimated by who, Larry? who estimated this? where's your data?

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