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How Bees Revealed a Pot Farm Beneath the Maraschino Cherries

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Re: How Bees Revealed a Pot Farm Beneath the Maraschino Cherries

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Post by mc32 »

jmeyerdev wrote: post #50
mc32 wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It says an informant tattled and then they walked a narc dog which triggered. This enabled them to get a warrant.

Actually, FTA: >The dog became alert, indicating it sensed marijuana. >“We figured we had something,” the investigator says. >But they did not have enough to secure a search warrant.

My bad, you're right. They went in with the excuse of investigating illegal dumping.. That's when they came across the hidden door and stairwell --but that was instigated by the triggered dog. Else they were going to wrap up the investigation.

Re: How Bees Revealed a Pot Farm Beneath the Maraschino Cherries

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Post by thaumasiotes »

logfromblammo wrote: post #27
cthalupa wrote: post #14

I'm glad we're spending so many resources and so much time to find people growing pot in the US. It's time well spent to battle the stoner scourge, and people growing it domestically represent a much higher risk than dealing with drug dealers in Mexico. It's a bonus that we got this menace to society to commit suicide when confronted, too. He might have tried to fool us with his having a family, and working with the…

Once again, I'll endorse the use of the tilde ('~') as a punctuation mark to indicate sarcasm or satire. To use it, replace the end punctuation of a single sentence with the tilde, or wrap an entire block of text in two of them, like quotation marks. ~It's so very difficult to use.~ Fortunately, the previous post is written such that a Poe's Law check would probably confirm my suspicion of satire.

This is a terrible idea, given the existing use of a tilde at the end of a sentence to indicate general positive sentiment:

"I loved the present! Thank you~~"

Re: How Bees Revealed a Pot Farm Beneath the Maraschino Cherries

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Post by logfromblammo »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #52
logfromblammo wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Once again, I'll endorse the use of the tilde ('~') as a punctuation mark to indicate sarcasm or satire. To use it, replace the end punctuation of a single sentence with the tilde, or wrap an entire block of text in two of them, like quotation marks. ~It's so very difficult to use.~ Fortunately, the previous post is written such that a Poe's Law check would probably confirm my suspicion of satire.

This is a terrible idea, given the existing use of a tilde at the end of a sentence to indicate general positive sentiment: "I loved the present! Thank you~~"

That is literally the first time I have ever seen the tilde used in that way. I have seen it used to indicate sarcasm, satire, or snark on at least four separate web sites. In any case, we already have a mark for surprise or excitement: the exclamation point ('!'). No doubling up when we still don't have a generally accepted mark for insincerity.

Re: How Bees Revealed a Pot Farm Beneath the Maraschino Cherries

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Post by jo6gwb »

Can someone explain what these traps are? "One of the investigators noticed that a set of steel shelves was on wheels. He yanked on them and they did not roll. He then noted that they were held in place by magnets in the way of “traps,” the secret compartments used in cars to hide guns and drugs."

Re: How Bees Revealed a Pot Farm Beneath the Maraschino Cherries

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Post by cthalupa »

logfromblammo wrote: post #53
thaumasiotes wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a terrible idea, given the existing use of a tilde at the end of a sentence to indicate general positive sentiment: "I loved the present! Thank you~~"

That is literally the first time I have ever seen the tilde used in that way. I have seen it used to indicate sarcasm, satire, or snark on at least four separate web sites. In any case, we already have a mark for surprise or excitement: the exclamation point ('!'). No doubling up when we still don't have a generally accepted mark for insincerity.

I imagine it's a bit of a cultural thing, so it'll depend on the sites you visit.

I've seen it uses regularly as an indicator of positive sentiment by Japanese netizens, and people imitating them.

Re: How Bees Revealed a Pot Farm Beneath the Maraschino Cherries

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Post by thaumasiotes »

logfromblammo wrote: post #53
thaumasiotes wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a terrible idea, given the existing use of a tilde at the end of a sentence to indicate general positive sentiment: "I loved the present! Thank you~~"

That is literally the first time I have ever seen the tilde used in that way. I have seen it used to indicate sarcasm, satire, or snark on at least four separate web sites. In any case, we already have a mark for surprise or excitement: the exclamation point ('!'). No doubling up when we still don't have a generally accepted mark for insincerity.

How did you get "surprise or excitement" from "general positive sentiment"?

Re: How Bees Revealed a Pot Farm Beneath the Maraschino Cherries

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Post by logfromblammo »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #56
logfromblammo wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is literally the first time I have ever seen the tilde used in that way. I have seen it used to indicate sarcasm, satire, or snark on at least four separate web sites. In any case, we already have a mark for surprise or excitement: the exclamation point ('!'). No doubling up when we still don't have a generally accepted mark for insincerity.

How did you get "surprise or excitement" from "general positive sentiment"?

It goes the other way around. The exclamation mark is supposed to denote surprise or excitement. General positive sentiment is represented more closely by '!' than sarcasm or satire is represented by anything.

There are only a few symbols on the default US keyboard that are potentially eligible for promotion to punctuation. If you want "general positive sentiment" to have its own mark, why not use '+'? Plus for positivity. Tilde for not exactly this, which is close to its use in mathematics.

Re: How Bees Revealed a Pot Farm Beneath the Maraschino Cherries

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Post by Nadya »

logfromblammo wrote: post #27
cthalupa wrote: post #14

I'm glad we're spending so many resources and so much time to find people growing pot in the US. It's time well spent to battle the stoner scourge, and people growing it domestically represent a much higher risk than dealing with drug dealers in Mexico. It's a bonus that we got this menace to society to commit suicide when confronted, too. He might have tried to fool us with his having a family, and working with the…

Once again, I'll endorse the use of the tilde ('~') as a punctuation mark to indicate sarcasm or satire. To use it, replace the end punctuation of a single sentence with the tilde, or wrap an entire block of text in two of them, like quotation marks. ~It's so very difficult to use.~ Fortunately, the previous post is written such that a Poe's Law check would probably confirm my suspicion of satire.

The proper way in the U.K to denote sarcasm is to use (!) at the end of a sentence. This is done by U.K broadcast subtitles.

For example, watch Dr. Who with subtitles on. You'll see (!) used a lot. :)

The Japanese do use it for sarcasm though I'm not sure how common this is, I've never encountered it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilde#Japanese

It's more common to see "へ～～～" as opposed to "へーーー” (read: "heeeee" in a surprised manner with rising intonation on the e's)

The holding and rising tone makes it also used for happiness and excitement. It's "cutesy" (childlike) because of the held sound.

So ありがとう can become ありがとう～～ (the う is held at the end) which in English would be similar to saying "thank youuuuuuuu!!!"

Instead of "youuuuuuuu" it's been borrowed by some English speakers to replace repeating consonants: "Thank you~"

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