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Hi there — I understand the initial confusion about pronouns was stressful, but at this point consensus (and the preponderance of sources) is that the shooter was a trans man who used he/him pronouns. Please don't intentionally misgender him [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2023_Covenant_School_shooting&diff=next&oldid=1147157730 in edit summaries]. Thanks! [[Special:Contributions/2600:1700:87D3:3460:E07E:FFB:80F2:8234|2600:1700:87D3:3460:E07E:FFB:80F2:8234]] ([[User talk:2600:1700:87D3:3460:E07E:FFB:80F2:8234|talk]]) 07:49, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
I have actually curled with vodka one time. My teammates claim it made them better players. Me?, I lost that game so badly that the other team went literally off the scoreboard, and I got 0 points,,, so. Happy Editing--IAmChaos09:04, 27 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Sweet. I've only "really" tried it on beer and weed, but I had to respond to Martin's (atypically) lame pun somehow, and didn't want to laugh or seem rude. On that note, the important thing is we all had fun and we all go home, points are just gravy. InedibleHulk (talk) 09:32, 27 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Ah - that's interesting. Is the use of -ize verus -ise creating concern in some places because of Russia's use of Z as a fascist-like symbol? I'm in Canada, where the -ize is the only one used. Which is interesting, as we use British spelling most of the time. So it's colorization in the USA, colourisation in the UK, and colourization in Canada! Nfitz (talk) 19:41, 10 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
If it has anything to do with Russia, that's newz to me. I think it just gives us away as ignorant foreigners. What pisses me off is how the Loyalist provinces put the day before the month; go back to yer motherlands, eh? InedibleHulk (talk) 19:51, 10 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Hang on - I thought Northern Ireland was the Loyalist province! :)
Also, in looking at your recent edits (trying to figure out my reversion confusion), I noticed Canadian white bread. Fascinating! I had no idea there was such a thing. Perhaps explaining why Wonderbread in the USA is so lacking substance - kind of like an Ontario bagel. Though perhaps there needs to be clarity at the beginning that this is a USA product - I was half-way through before I realized that!
At least it makes more sense than Canadian bacon - which has no resemblance to back bacon (which is more likely to be called peameal bacon by most here). Americans told me it was back-bacon ... first time I ordered it, I was shocked ... looked like a highly-processed between fake ham and baloney - with a rather disturbing skin. Nfitz (talk) 20:05, 10 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
It's peameal bacon and plain white bread. Anyone who tries to tell you differently is a manipulative bastard or a fool! I don't eat either these past couple of decades, though, so I can't get too upset. InedibleHulk (talk) 20:13, 10 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Sagittarius A-star
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This is actually almost the sharpest photograph in human history (microwaveograph?). The resolution's an astoundingly small 3,000 Earth diameters which is equivalent to 0.01 millimeter resolution from 68.8 kilometers away. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 05:58, 14 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
OK, fair point. In the grand scheme of things, it's not a meaningless anuslike smudge, it's an accomplishment. But this computer is no supercomputer by far, and what small portion of gradient fits on screen is still massively taxing, so I've reshrunk it to boxsized and added two words to your caption. Thanks for sharing! Enjoying that lunar eclipse tomorrow? InedibleHulk (talk) 17:33, 14 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
No problem, Mr. Shadow is only a few thousand Earths wide anyway so even 20x20 pixels would have most of the information of the one in 17 million pixel Ultra HD. The wavelength was about 2,000 times bigger than red light so the telescope had to be the size of the Earth. To see how fun this aperture synthesis would be if it worked on dogs see this cartoon. Beret Guy's doing it wrong though, you need more than two telescopes for a 2-D image. This anus pic took FIVE YEARS to calculate! Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 21:06, 14 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I think I'm going to need a rotation or two before that cartoon makes sense. I'm sure it is pretty fun, eventually. I'm glad you get it for now! InedibleHulk (talk) 21:22, 14 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
They synthesize a virtual Earth-sized radio dish with some tiny (up to 50 meters) real ones. But the synthesized dish is hidden by a virtual perforated lens cap that hides the c. 99.99999999% of the virtual dish that isn't a legit submillimeter astronomy dish. If the virtual dish with holed lens cap was real it wouldn't see as sharp as the pic like you'd think cause the laws of physics suck but they figure out the pic with knowledge of how light waves add and subtract, 5,000 CPU-years of number crunching and I think they need knowledge of the dishes' latitude, longitude and altitude to very sub-wavelength accuracy (≤0.3mm probably). Also the Antarctic dish, African dish, Hawaiian ones, Chilean ones and N. American ones need atomic maser clocks so that trial-and-error becomes good enough to find out which microwave is which many months later when they fly the massive amount of hard drive data to the supercomputer (there's 230,000,000,000 microwaves per second). Maybe the exposure times have to be 1/1,000,000,000,000th of a second or less too, it sure seems like it to me if they're interfering single waves. Eyeball astronomy's so much easier, the mirror just has to be satellite dish-shaped to <0.0001 millimeter accuracy regardless of size and as little as 116 mm wide for near laws of physics-limited sharpness. Some amateurs even make the scope themselves with low tech, a handful of pages of know-how and no power tools — and they save money!. It seems impossible but it's like "buy a shit telescopemaking-only mirror straight from a glass mold, rub the right spot right with the right (very small-grain) abrasive, look at it through 1800s physics tricks, learn where to rub next from what distorted pattern you see, repeat, use progressively smaller grains, deposit barely non-translucent layer of metal when the pattern's good" (when they check mirror curvature to <0.0001 mm a knife-edge test is involved somehow, I think that's the one that shows stripe(s), there's a similar test for aligning the optical train so the view's not shit, around the turn of the century they started selling affordable amateur telescope aligning lasers, they'd fit the standard 1.25 or 2-inch wide tunnels that eyepieces look through and shoot a laser off the small periscope mirror then big then small again and if the laser didn't hit the small hole in the laser aligner you'd turn mirror screw(s) till it did) Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 05:46, 20 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Everyone's welcome here and most of us seem like twats to someone, sometimes. Anyway, I'm not tagging in, that whole article's on fire. May the coolest heads prevail! InedibleHulk (talk) 01:49, 31 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Given that I'm quite new to Wikipedia and have interacted with you on ITN, I wanted to ask you for some assistance relating to the Current Events Portal. As there does not seem to be any talk pages for each date of the Current Events, where would a discussion for the disputed content be held? I noticed that there was a noticeboard for the portal, but it seems that the portal is rarely used. Carter00000 (talk) 11:14, 9 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Well, until you realize how many of those were used to fix my own minor errors, anyway. Slight misindentation alone probably accounts for hundreds. Meanwhile, a hundred thousand or more other editors used the same time to tend to their health, careers and relationships; they're the real heroes, I must impress! InedibleHulk (talk) 19:34, 22 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Just a friendly note that in my view and I think, the majority of editors, Chris Cilizza's column "The Point" in CNN is an opinion source, so it wouldn't be usable for a description of Trump's politics. Most of the content on CNN is very reliable but Cilizza is a notable exception due to lower quality of content, lack of oversight, and tendency to report opinion as analysis. If Cilizza could come in, that would open the door to many op-eds that call Trump much worse stuff that folks have already objected to. Andrevan@20:22, 22 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
He's just another example. The other two assholes, too. Any guy or gal on the Internet, same deal, whether they think he's a heel, a far-right politician, a conspiracy theorist, an insurgent, a reptilian, a racist, the rightful president or an idiot. InedibleHulk (talk) 20:34, 22 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Well, reliable sources with editorial boards and rules for fact-checking and stuff, are better than random blogs or op-eds from otherwise reliable outlets. This is RS 101. Andrevan@20:37, 22 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I gave you two others, as a favour, because you asked. I'm not the one looking to put an entirely different opinion into Wikivoice in a living person's lead. Accept my point for what it is or kindly move on. InedibleHulk (talk) 20:42, 22 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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Don't worry, I'm leaving, as soon as I can figure out a way to convince a colleague they're well within their right to revert me on an extremely unimportant point. InedibleHulk (talk) 00:57, 25 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Tabassum was a kid, not a kidnapping. I agree with her biography's tag, it should not be, so no deal. That beheading seems easy and apt, so I assume I'm about to step into a catch, but will do! InedibleHulk (talk) 01:15, 22 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
The deed is done. It was slightly harder than I thought, that's a tragically large table and quite the memory hog. Have a look, and if it looks alright, just leave a Wikigift equal to whatever the information's worth to you on the dresser in Section 12. InedibleHulk (talk) 01:46, 22 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
They were also four white guys from the Southeastern United States, of roughly the same height. If I thought harder, I could probably find more similarities. But I think we can agree the main distinction is between teaming in the WWF and teaming in the NWA, so I've shortened it to that; if I thought wrong, feel free to revert. InedibleHulk (talk) 09:05, 22 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
It would seem Luger was shorter and Northeasterner than I hastily recalled. And sure, West Texas Rednecksshould have been obvious enough for Windham's billed longitude. But still, they were all pretty big in that famed Solie corner, in their own little ways. InedibleHulk (talk) 10:49, 22 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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I'll have you know that Charles III, God save him, is my King as well. My Rex Britannica. After careful consideration, I have to agree with your point. The king is more than just a ceremonial figure, we are his subjects. But, his power is only held back. Soon, he will take back his rightful title as the leader of this country. The speaker of the commons shall be a duck, all that oppose will be charged for treason, and glorious Britannia will rise again.
I'm glad we're on the same page. Or at least not too far off on that kind of thinking. Always a gamble dropping an unsolicited Hulk Rant on a fellow editor. Y'heard me, though, and I hear ye! I'm more of a Canadian, personally, but have absolutely no problem with the Dominion deal, which worked fine for far more of us over the years than not. InedibleHulk (talk) 01:07, 20 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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You lost your patience on this years ago, if I recall, and none could blame you. Today, you've restated your case nicely, but I doubt it's anything the brick wall you're trying to sway won't shake right off. I'll take umbrage with "wild", for argument's sake, since I think callous disregard toward and willfull blindness of our own are both products of civilization. Anyway, glad your heart is holding out. Too stressful for mine anymore, so don't take it personally if I don't tag in and clean house, brother! InedibleHulk (talk) 00:12, 27 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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I'll look to see if Larry Burton is mentioned in news reports. I think you are improving as an editor. Understand you aren't fully following principles of journalism.Highwatermark1 (talk) 09:40, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Well, no, this isn't a newspaper. At a newspaper, original research is a good thing and showing our sources often isn't. Whole other world here, Mark. InedibleHulk (talk) 19:33, 2 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
That is overwhelming, but also more interesting than, say, a pile of train station history. I probably won't get very far very fast, but will definitely dip my toes now and then, thanks. Already skimmed the beliefs article and made a few minor edits, some unmarked. The thing that stuck with me the most (so far) is how Witnesses are taught to be skeptical of the Trinity. Certainly not how I was raised, but it takes all kinds, no hard feelings! InedibleHulk (talk) 21:02, 10 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
In regards to the "you sure are a literate bunch" edit summary... I feel the need to explain that I'm not actually a JW anymore. I've been a "mentally diseased" apostate since I was 13. Both sides of my family are JWs going back four generations. So I tend to care about all of this a bit more than train stations, mostly just because it's impacted my life so much. I found it interesting to learn about other religions even though I've considered myself an atheist for quite a long time. Something else that's interesting and somewhat unique to the JWs is the "Michael the archangel is Jesus" belief. It was a bit hard to wrap my head around stuff like the Trinity so I can understand your confusion of the other way around. :) If you ever have any questions or want to get more involved in editing JW-related articles, always feel free to ask me. Clovermoss🍀(talk)23:54, 10 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
That's cool, I'm a very lapsed Catholic. When I say my branch, I mean it. I've wrapped that stick in Algonquin campfire tales, Zoroastrianism and the World Wrestling Federation in more ways than one. I see no reason why The Watchtower can't be one of my Four Lesser Influences (a concept I invented just now, leading me to doubt whether this counts as a religion). Crazy line about Michael, I hadn't even considered that possibility! I'll delve into that first and will surely call on you later. InedibleHulk (talk) 00:07, 11 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
It wasn't that luxurious
That lift snailed most of 2,121 feet @ only inches per second (far worse than some of the lifts of Guangzhou Chow Tai Fook: their ear-comforting pressure control and maglev-like car (46mph going up!) drop hotel guests 5 NFL fields in 43 seconds (only a few times more seconds than jumping out the window). At least the snailavator's probably still quicker than climbing a 0.4 mile ladder though. Or was — one of the fifteen anti-shear cables was being replaced which briefly involved two very temporary ones and they didn't do the steps right so the wind snapped the whole thing like a twig. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 22:44, 15 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
That's unfortunate, likely and probably why I said they deserve all the luxury in the world. As in that old ditty "your" president unpopularized, you can't always get what you want. But if you try sometimes, you can change a lightbulb, scared and alone! InedibleHulk (talk) 22:48, 15 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
In my mid-teens I noticed someone left a freight lift unguarded. Jackpot! I checked for witnesses, hopped on and quickly hid myself with the shaft door. Huge car and empty with little to no wall to better show its awesome unladen speed and horsepower per ton be the work truck of elevators. Move the lever a bit and I could align grill door with shaft door, move it all the way and I got much cooler upward g-forces than most lifts. Align with the door numbered top floor (double digits), shove it 90 degrees and my organs almost lifted me off the floor. I don't know what'd happen if I tried to go too far and how many bones I'd break if I crashed through too far at top speed. With only my weight it was powerful enough to stop max fall very fast but one fall I was momentarily a bit nervous did I cut it too close? But the power-to-weight ratio was so good I stopped halfway between ground floor and basement. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 03:36, 16 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
That's good delinquency! All I got in my mid-teens was one measly go in Cedar Fair's third-tallest Drop Tower. Only we don't call it a Cedar Fair, we pretend it's Canada's Wonderland so it feels worth it to follow the rules and pay the price (plus Paramount was the style at the time). That Xtreme Skyflyer cost extra and I simply never had the balls. I still don't, not for heights, not even drunk. The Bat was probably the most G-forceful, real pain in the neck, I recall. A good pain, though! InedibleHulk (talk) 03:58, 16 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
NYC's a good place to grow up if you like harmless adolescent trespassing. You can see furnaces, climb scaffolds, see mechanical rooms, see active elevator motors, see what drives minor pro antennas (cell, ~12 foot dish, ~12 foot needle), see semi-abandoned factory, use its roof golf wedge at sunset, see how bright clear "dark" NYC night looks in abandoned smokestack, look for fire escapes where someone dropped the ground ladder naughty naughty, look for the champagne of fire escapes (that plus no scary roof ladder), do your flat's fire escape to private alley to street you're not on if someone left it down (it's very hard to solo lift a whole floor), see if a train can make 2 smaller wood rulers in 7th grade, walk across the track to another platform, walk on the track to the next station, hide every time you hear a train, stay on the train (terminal turnaround loop), ride between cars @ age 12, ride between cars @ 12 without holding both cars when you know where all the turns are, sneak under workers by crab-walking the rocks @ low tide, sneak down a steep dirt slope by crab-walking, see so many roofs your parents move you under one of them by coincidence, get all the way up the down tall escalator @ age 4 just for fun, do that @ age 12+ to explore locked places, turn off the escalator and just walk (turn it back on right away), climb 1 floor of junk pile to reach the rest of an office block stair, see two school roofs, see my 9th grade auditorium movie projector room, see giant roof signs, see my 9th grade backstage when I was never allowed (actor, curtain lifter etc), see Manhattan even Jersey naked eye from surprisingly faraway low NYC roofs, use a rod to successfully push a roof alarm tang that's only few millimeters from the border of locked and unlocked, see your insanely paranoid rightwing ex-neighbor's unlocked apartment, literally lie on stairs/floor and slither 1 diagonal millimeter per second for 2 hours to trick roof alarms, run away from that painfully loud alarm cause you don't want to snail another 2 hours, study pretty tall wood board construction fences till you think of a clever climbing trick, unlock your roof alarm box at age 13.5 without a key or damaging it and figuring out which wires to unscrew and which to keep for the LED then locking it, be annoyed at how hard it is to climb this spear-topped decorative iron fence in summer with this crotch-to-extended toe length, sweat while thinking the more I wait the deeper it goes in the painful shoe grabbing thin V and the worse the lactic acid, unstuck!, OK finally a less tiring pose, it must look like retarded monkey ball, why'd I do this, the ground is so far, if either sweaty hand slips the scrotum impales, bypass school and basement locks by literally squeezing through a crack before I'm too old to fit, semi-herniate from dropping too far then find out oh dear it's locked from inside too how do I leave school, rearrange the entire room just to reach where you dropped from, consider and reject a series of drops from a 4th floor roof to a 1st floor yard cause might starve to death if all doors locked, consider and reject the painted-shut dumbwaiter to bypass our new roof alarm, climb a tall normal ladder in a cylinder grid (the kind where you can't fall far if spread arms ASAP), explore your basement at age 9 pick up an inches long roach and let it walk on your hands (toe hooks tug) but then it drops an ugly shit on you and escapes up arm and you don't know if it's hooked on your clothes for dear life, and climb a ~48-72 foot ladder with ~24-36 foot ceilings arms through the ladder as much as possible sweaty palms facing me cause the pullup bar exercise is easier palms in holding on for dear life okay hang by the elbows and push the trapdoor hard with my head and it's so heavy I OK dare to lever it to diagonal but not enough to continue and oh God I'm so high (literally, not drugily)
Southwest NYC suburbs have the world's tallest roller coaster and drop tower ride. The coaster goes from 0 to 128 mph in 3.5 seconds, twists 90 degrees while going straight up till riders are high enough to see Manhattan, Philadelphia, Atlantic City (86 kilometers, the sea horizon from Empire State Building is only ~80) and the ocean, then dives straight down while twisting 270 degrees, it's not for us. There's only one undisputed injury in the article though, a rider minorly hospitalized from hitting a bird. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 20:13, 16 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
This seems like one of those Northeast Passages I could skim up and down at least a few dozen times and still find new and profound meaning in each time. Plus, pure numerical data! On first excursion, it brings to mind that classic Canadian shanty, "Suicide Cargoload (Drag That Weight)". Not for any suicidal connotations, of course, but like a ten-ton stone statue (when you don't speak the language). Whatever can be said about the sonic quality, there's no denying David Gold was one of the frankest poets of our time. Not sure about your time, New York City sounds like a city that truly never sleeps. My Ontario town is just a burial ground, and that's more than a catchy advertising slogan. If I went there now, after growing up on boring shit like moonlight, rocks and leaf litter, I'd probably snap after a weekend in Soho, Red Hook or whichever other hood I've only heard has gotten much quieter from TV. Still too "wild" for me, in concrete terms. I was dragged off to those Big Three Orlando amusement parks as a tyke and had a grand old time, unless I misremember, so I could be wrong about the Big Apple, too. I'll probably never find out now, grown too wizened and rooted, but if I had to have fun anywhere in America, Kentucky or the Carolinas have always seemed more my speed from afar. It's a shame what the mass media tries to convince the major markets hillfolk actually love. Obviously, more than a few do quack like cruel ignorant ducks, but fringe progressive motherfuckers like Jim Cornette have convinced me there's much more to the story. InedibleHulk (talk) 00:07, 17 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
And yeah, I want that for an average midsummer day! You think the boreal forest doesn't get as humid? It has, like, two million more lakes than Minnesota and the rest of the world combined, mosquitoes are nuts. InedibleHulk (talk) 03:01, 19 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Okay it's humid but is the low 70 on average and up to 82 like Charlotte, North Carolina? Even Sudbury and Thunder Bay barely north of USA seem too cold though. I like July to be warm enough to use a rope hammock on a lawn all night every night completely naked. Well if these pesky 48 million eyeballs weren't here. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 14:53, 19 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
It's nothing they haven't seen before, you do you! It definitely gets colder up here beyond the midsummer days, I might miss that (and everything else about Canada). Maybe I'll just visit for a weekend in the fall, see if leaves change color the way they change colour. InedibleHulk (talk) 00:45, 20 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The South still has fall foliage but South Carolina is palmy and is so proud of being the northernmost palmy state on the East Coast that this is their flag.When you get to the green the alligators start.Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 01:08, 20 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
They were nuts until 2020, anyway. Two years isn't exactly a pattern, but for the last two years, they've been pretty mellow and the dragonflies are nuts. Anecdotally, frogs now outnumber toads, too. Something must have spooked them good. I hope to get to the bottom of it this midsummer. For now all I can say is I've finally more or less wrapped my head around your post and (as I suspected) it was a damn funny learning experience. Thanks! InedibleHulk (talk) 05:35, 19 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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