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[01:47:00] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - DDR4 and DDR5 SDRAM Prices May Drop in Q2 2022 - https://sylnt.us
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[04:27:57] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - A Homecoming for Mark Vande Hei After Setting American Spaceflight Record - https://sylnt.us
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[05:50:10] <Runway156> Take offs and landings accepted!
[06:16:20] <Runaway1956> Gaystarchus has arrived.
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[06:49:04] <RunawayXXXX> Wow, kind of a fascist faggot fest here!
[06:50:31] <XXXXrunaway> Or, a fascist MAGAat fest?
[06:51:52] <Runway156> I am just here to ask, WTF is up with all the Spam mods?
[06:53:35] <Runway156> And I see c0lo is back? Couldn't stay away, eh?
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[07:16:24] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - ATLAS Experiment at Large Hadron Collider Seeks Out Unusual Signatures of Long-Lived Particles - https://sylnt.us
[07:31:45] <chromas> Hm, so ari's using slurs now
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[07:40:43] <Runway156> Who is "ari"?
[07:45:03] <inz> The evidence would point to someone whose favourite song is: "Me, Myself and I"
[07:45:37] <inz> Runaway1956, re: rabbit food; remember what Ms. Andrews taught us: "A panful of bacon makes anything go down"
[07:48:00] <chromas> Bippity boppity bacon!
[07:50:14] <chromas> https://www.youtube.com
[07:50:16] <systemd> ^ 03Grain'n Simple Vs Food and Stuff
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[08:35:05] <x1956runaway> Is it cold in here?
[09:57:43] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Quantum Computer Researcher Warns That the Industry is Full of Ridiculous Hype - https://sylnt.us - we-had-spotted-that
[10:30:31] <FatPhil> Well, if the "new normal" is live music on Tuesday, Friday, and Saturday, I'm all up for it. Thanks Fauci!
[10:46:14] <Runway156> Toodles!
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[11:59:12] <FatPhil> inz: missed the peak, it seems, but something might be visible if you have clear skies: https://services.swpc.noaa.gov
[12:47:09] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Finland's Spy Service Warns of Russian Interference, Attacks - https://sylnt.us
[12:56:48] <inz> FatPhil, tonight mebbe, hadn't seen the sun in days
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[15:01:14] <FatPhil> inz: can you provide a quick translation into chatty Finnish for me please? "I'm really worried about catching covid at the office. Are you sure we need to be [there] in person right now?"
[15:02:04] <FatPhil> I'm trying to fit a machine translation into a space, and the words are way too long! I don't trust the machine to have got it right, of course.
[15:02:54] <inz> How chatty you aimin' for?
[15:03:20] <FatPhil> young guy to youngish boss, first name, or "hey, mate", terms
[15:04:45] <inz> "Pelkään saavani koronan toimistolta, ootko varma että meidän pitää tulla sinne" would be more or less how I'd phrase it ("I'm afraid of catching corona from the office, are you sure we must come there")
[15:05:21] <FatPhil> that works fine - thanks!
[15:06:48] <FatPhil> wow - I was overflowing everywhere, and now I have tons of space, a vast improvement!
[15:26:59] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - What Do You Do With End-of-life Wind Turbines? - https://sylnt.us
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[15:44:11] <tedious> Make them comfortable with opiates and keep them on a ventilator as long as medicare keeps paying?
[15:44:30] <tedious> Oh oops I didn't read the whole title.
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[18:15:46] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Google's Messages and Dialer Apps Have Been Collecting and Sending Data to Google - https://sylnt.us - giving-sugar-to-the-dead-horse-of-dont-be-evil
[19:00:25] <tedious> Didn't we already know google did that and every other form of spying on us?
[19:52:43] <FatPhil> n.w. /The Russians Are Coming The Russians Are Coming/ (1966)
[20:56:54] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Hubble Space Telescope Spots Oldest and Farthest Star Known - https://sylnt.us
[21:46:16] <FatPhil> /topic #shitlords If you're offended by cheesecake - FUCK OFF!!!!
[22:11:32] <FatPhil> Does google ?engrams work for anyone at all
[22:11:59] <FatPhil> there used to be another way of accessing it that wasn't "engrams", but I can't remember what that was.
[22:12:16] <FatPhil> I'm interested in the use of "gravy" as "easy earnings"
[22:12:46] <FatPhil> https://www.etymonline.com
[22:12:47] <systemd> ^ 03gravy | Etymology, origin and meaning of gravy by etymonline
[22:14:57] <FatPhil> Why does the metaphor "gravy train" *predate* the simpler use?
[22:14:59] <chromas> import gravy train;
[22:16:23] <FatPhil> It's easier to imagine that "gravy" came first, and the X train was the method of getting X
[22:16:41] <FatPhil> But apparently, there's 11 years difference the wrong way round.
[22:16:43] <chromas> freedictionary says gravy came first
[22:17:08] <FatPhil> freedictionary is wiki is possibly made up.
[22:17:14] <chromas> I guess it just says early 1900s
[22:17:31] <chromas> probably gravy was just a simplification of the phrase
[22:17:38] <chromas> like how people just say "six of one" now
[22:18:06] <FatPhil> but why did "gravy train" get coined if that came first?
[22:18:26] <chromas> Dunno. They cite Mary McCarthy, The Groves of Academe, 1953
[22:18:43] <chromas> and The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
[22:19:09] <FatPhil> The reason I became interested was because: https://en.wikipedia.org ... "as a serial entitled Gravy Planet"
[22:19:10] <systemd> ^ 03The Space Merchants - Wikipedia
[22:19:19] <chromas> maybe it was railroad workers wishing for cars full of goodies instead of coal
[22:19:32] <FatPhil> And I got interested about the history of the use of "gravy"
[22:19:57] <chromas> I don't know anything about it, but I'm still willing to talk about it :D
[22:20:15] <FatPhil> ^ Pohl was 1953 too
[22:20:29] <FatPhil> chromas++
[22:20:29] <Bender> karma - chromas: 423
[22:21:14] <FatPhil> I find it a bit weird that that use of gravy only goes back to 1899, we must be missing something in the written record.
[22:22:31] <FatPhil> g/f finds "good gravy" in 1906
[22:22:38] <FatPhil> train still predates that
[22:24:20] <FatPhil> oooh, she's just found an 1895... "gravy train"
[22:24:58] <FatPhil> of course, the spoken language isn't always recorded in print
[22:25:25] <FatPhil> To be honest, I'm surprised it's that young.
[22:28:03] <FatPhil> my grandad was born in 1900, this isn't archaeology, why aren't there better records?!?
[22:28:37] <FatPhil> Seems like the term really kicked off in the 20s, but of course that was a boom era.
[22:30:33] <FatPhil> All you crazy americans buying stocks in MicroTulip, Amazotulip, Tulipsla, Metulip, Alphabetulip, ...
[23:49:27] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Why Using the Oceans to Suck Up CO2 Might Not be as Easy as Hoped - https://sylnt.us