You got questions, Getclosure has answers! (CS Team AMA)

POPSOCKETS! SPROCKETS! DAVY CROCKETT! AWESOME!

@ExtraMedium I dunno about “awes0me.” I hardly know what it’s like BEING.

@ExtraMedium @GetClosure
Nice philosophical answer.

@ExtraMedium I second the awesomeness.

@FreePasta The Color Purple. It has an excellent exploration of the human condition through the lens of an uncomfortable history of repression and slavery. Brilliant film. Watermelon is sticky but the narrative of The Color Purple sticks WITH you.

@lichme
/giphy sweating

@lichme I’m in a unique position in which I’m not burdened with the prospect of who is paid for what and their value to a company in the pseudo-capitalist machinery. Those who strive to do less while putting up a facade so others can think more of them are none of my concern; we all have our own foibles and problems and my plate is full. I don’t have room for the value appraisals of others in a working context.

@GetClosure @lichme Listen you can just say me.

@Targaryen I’d rather listen TO you than say anything ABOUT you. I’m not the tax assessor of labor.

@GetClosure @lichme Are you practicing to be a politician?

@riskybryzness CHILI’S! [default joke]

@GetClosure bet

@er1c Good one! Honestly, I don’t watch that much TV these days but the last episodic thing I REALLY enjoyed was Netflix’s “Shadow and Bone.” Riveted 'till the end for sure!

@er1c @GetClosure Thanks for pointing me in that direction. We enjoyed it at our place as well. Very interesting/new concepts and fun to follow!

@jaybird I can see you’re not reaching out to the support team to request a new one.

Is your account secure in which nobody else would be asking to reset a password constantly? It’s normally an automatically-generated response if you’re seeking to change that from the login screen. Also, you may want to ensure that the requests are coming from the correct domain as it may be a phishing attempt.

If the problem persists, send the team a ticket!

@GetClosure @jaybird Or someone named jaybord has a bad memory and buys a lot of stuff from morningsave.

@GetClosure Not a phishing attempt. I always figured it was someone trolling but it does concern me that there may be some daytime show watcher shopper trying to get my account info.

@GetClosure @jaybird There are at least 2 other users with a really similar username that could be the culprits.

@sammydog01 We’ve seen some doozies like that in the past, actually! Needed the corkboard, three packages of thumbtacks, and 2 duck’s feet worth of red yarn to make sense of it but we can usually get it sorted!

@GetClosure @Thumperchick Names! I want names!

@ruouttaurmind African or European?

@GetClosure I, I don’t know that!

@GetClosure @ruouttaurmind both

@er1c About 24mph ground speed (European/African) as converting from airspeed (kts). There’s actually a negligible difference between the airspeed of either considering their contiental origin.

Source HERE

@Targaryen I start a puppet “secret society” in order to throw the tabloids and authorities (is there a difference these days anyway?) off the trail of the REAL secret society that’s such a secret you’ve never heard of it. Or know if you’re already a member of or not.

@GetClosure @Targaryen The best secret societies are the ones you don’t know you’re in, for values of “best” that lean toward “safe from being revealed”.

@salvaje both; one on each foot.

@salvaje In my younger years, Docs. Nowadays, Vans. A little from column A and a little from column B. Gosh-darned good one! [turns up Misfits]

@er1c balance

@werehatrack Was the motivation predation or sustenance? Either can affect production.

@GetClosure Probably procreation, but the subject appeared to not understand Azerbaijani, so we aren’t sure. The gestures would seem to support that, however.

@narfcake Luckily no! But I did work for a little and now-defunct Computer Parts USA back in the day (Not affiliated with Comp USA). Cut my teeth building machines in the era of Windows 98 and Red Hat Linux (back when that was a new thing). But I can’t say I’ve never shopped for a strip of resistors in order to step-down and debounce a 5vdc switching input for an Arduino and ADAFRUIT workpieces.

@cbilyak Now that is a goodie!

I think a corndog or funnel cake. Or a turkey leg. I can never decide.

@cbilyak If money isn’t an issue, is the purchase really extravagant?

@shahnm

Don’t have to use money, just spend a resource without restraint or economy.

@f00l An ambiguous “why” means that there is an intrinsic cause and effect relationship in the context in which you may pose the question. Without an expansion of concepts surrounding the question, I can only assume you intentionally left a verb out of a completely well-meaning one-word sentence. Why indeed.

@GetClosure

Why, indeed?

(verb usage of “indeed” intended in that sentence)

@GetClosure The time-tested best response to “Why?” is: “Because!”, followed by the number two choice: “Why not?”

@GetClosure @rockblossom

I’m not time tested

I’m only idiot tested

@f00l What was your score?

@rockblossom

So very high on the latter test. They had to borrow a cray system to calculate it

@sdragonfire88 what is apple’s obsession with apples?

@er1c @sdragonfire88
Mediocre Labs, right?

@Kyeh @sdragonfire88 Mer(catalyst) also vibes with the beaker.

@er1c @Kyeh @sdragonfire88 Correct - in the before times, we were Mediocre Labs. Thus the Erlenmeyer flask.

@er1c @GetClosure @Kyeh @sdragonfire88

How do you come to know the correct full name of the chemistry flask?

Also, please forget the full name and just call it a flask, as do most of us local idiots. Is it really so important to be super-educated?

@f00l @GetClosure @Kyeh @sdragonfire88

/giphy breaking bad chemistry

@Cerridwyn I have very little control over these things. I’m no Superman.

@GetClosure
/image superman

@Cerridwyn @GetClosure

@Enigma To condense your litany of questions:

• I have no idea.
• Why can’t I buy an Nvidia RTX3060 for MSRP right now?
• Random.
• Don’t have enough data to formulate a total. (see first answer)

@GetClosure Welp, that was uh… well meh to say the least. After 7 yrs it would seem there would be enough data to answer at least 2 of the 3 or litanny of questions.

Thanks for replying anyway.
To answer your question… Maybe you maxed out your credit card already.

@njfan There is only one Irk so if he’s appearing in myriad forms, traveling at impossible speeds and directions according to government sources, then he is going way above and beyond (literally) to avoid calling me back.

I’ve left like … a million voicemails on that monster’s phone already.

@GetClosure

IRK left his phone under the seat in your car, with the ringer turned off. That way he can track you.

@f00l That is brilliant, actually.

@GetClosure

Random/coincidental

@capguncowboy Did you know that mustard is naturally antiseptic? And is the prime condiment for hotdogs, not that wicked tomato condiment.

@GetClosure I didn’t know

/giphy well now you know

@rockblossom

Where the local authorities offer only a meh amount of tax breaks and incentives

Maybe Denton?

@rockblossom

“If Mercatalyst follows the Amazon example …”

Let me stop you right there.

But to seriously address the question (as seriously as possible coming from someone that has no influence on corporate decision-making): I’m a fan of opening something on the West coast because of climate and shipping order volume. But de-centralizing operations has its own pitfalls aside from long-term warehousing and shipping labor costs based on proximity to the customer base. If we went on data alone, we would have our own shopping mall-sized operation in Florida already.

@GetClosure @rockblossom

Ah yes.
Millennial Climate 2.0:

Sunny California

/giphy “forest fire”

Balmy Florida

/giphy hurricane

At least “Boring Carrollton, TX” is well above sea level, is not known for risk of months-long fires, and it’s far from most major earthquake zones.

Maybe wait for Really Insane Tax Incentives as opposed to normal ones?

@GetClosure So no new HQ in Hawaii or the ISS? How disappointing! I could point out that an office aboard the ISS would be less than 250 miles from a whole lot of places every day. And this is where gravity is in your favor when it comes to deliveries. Sure, they might arrive a bit worse for wear, but probably not any worse than what PB and the USPS do to them.

@juststephen That’s like a random, seasonal groundskeeper for an entry-level truckstop franchise asking the CEO of KFC which 12 herbs and spices goes into their famous, finger-lickin’ good recipe that’s made them a fast-food staple from sea to shining sea. (not a sponsor)

Estimate: Big.

@GetClosure Okay, you need easier. What’s the entire weight of the Meh warehouse including the building itself as well as the foundation of the building, divided by pi and split evenly between yourself and irk, as well as the estimated caloric value?

@GetClosure @juststephen

Original question didn’t specify whether Meh proprietary database, or cosmic database that includes Meh.

2nd estimate:
Bigger than that.
Yeah. Bigger than even that. A lot bigger.

@juststephen

“…divided by pi and split evenly between yourself and irk…”

Why formulate an answer based on the size of a bisected circle of our warehouse? We’re only working in two assumed dimensions here, huh?

If you wanted to ask an easier question, why not just posit “if the mass of the warehouse, including its contents as of 4/14/2021 were converted into pure energy, how would the intensity of the light on the visible light spectrum emitted over 0:00:00.006s as observed from a mile away compare to the reflection of sunlight from Enceladus when observed from 31°N on Earth?”

To which, I would answer: “More … by a lot.”

@halfling I don’t see a difference, sorry.