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12:30 AM
 
12:41 AM
Trash. Pandas.
Let's be honest about these "adorable" vermin.
 
1:11 AM
We prefer "uncompensated sanitation workers."
And the preferred term is "majestic," not "adorable."
Feb 13 at 2:31, by alphabet
As a society, we need to move past anti-raccoonist beliefs like "theft is bad"
 
2:09 AM
Rabies is bad, too.
Baylisascaris, too.
 
Have you tried the London Cryptic crossword puzzle @XanderHenderson
 
2:47 AM
Word of the day: functional alcohol alternatives sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/…
> The total elimination of alcohol consumption, which has been long imbedded in human culture and society, is not practical and prohibition policies have proved historically ineffective. However, valuable strategies to reduce alcohol harms are already available and improved alternative approaches are currently being developed. Here, we will review and discuss recent advances on two main types of approaches, that is nutritional interventions and functional alcohol alternatives.
 
 
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6:51 AM
Does "三" look like the Greek letter xi to you?
It actually is the CJK ideograph meaning "three", so
 
 
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9:06 AM
I visited my neurosurgeon yesterday, and she examined my latest MRI scan, and then asked for the previous ones - and voila - she found the same area of gliosis 6*6*4 mm in my corpora quadrigemina (tectum) on the scans from 2022 and earlier - the area is hard to see there, because those scans were made without a contrast material
I wonder now: could my high cholesterol have caused a tiny infarct in my tectum years ago, and produced these odd symptoms in the left side of my body - since the lesion is in the right hemisphere?
She said it could have been so, but I don't trust Russian doctors much.
I did not found any literature on tectum lesions producing stroke-like lessenning of sensation in the contralateral body side.
And no literature at all concerning my attacks of "airplane ear", when I just out of a blue sky have them - if I avoid injecting insulin and load up on carbs.
> Feeding rodents a high-fat diet triggers inflammation and gliosis in the arcuate nucleus, located in the mediobasal hypothalamus (MBH), even before obesity occurs (1, 4) and eventually reduces pro-opiomelanocortin cell numbers (1). Such changes are associated with both obesity and impaired glucose homeostasis in rodents (5-7)
Mice studies are meh though, since they usually give elephantine doses of this or that chemical (metabolite, far, carbs, protein) to see the results clearer
I would not care much about the gliosis if not for the deterioration in my brain function (depression, fatigue, fog in the mind, and now switching from being a translator to being a delivery guy)
 
Sounds like it's time to get a second specialist's opinion.
 
9:34 AM
@Robusto Three EU countries drive on the wrong side of the road: Ireland (not in the Commonwealth), Cyprus and Malta (still in it). Gibraltar (not a country and not in EU) drives on the right side, unlike the Anglo-Norman islands.
 
9:47 AM
Several other European countries switched from the left to the right in the past, the last one being Sweden in 1967 and much earlier, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Austria-Hungary and a few other. There was no rule in Rotterdam until 1917 :-)
Left-hand traffic (LHT) and right-hand traffic (RHT) are the practices, in bidirectional traffic, of keeping to the left side and to the right side of the road, respectively. They are fundamental to traffic flow, and are sometimes called the rule of the road. The terms right- and left-hand drive refer to the position of the driver and the steering wheel in the vehicle and are, in automobiles, the reverse of the terms right- and left-hand traffic. The rule also includes where on the road a vehicle is to be driven, if there is room for more than one vehicle in the one direction, and the side on which...
 
 
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11:41 AM
#WhenTaken #61 (28.04.2024)

I scored 917/1000 🎉

1️⃣ 📍 735 km - 🗓️ 1 yrs - ⚡ 177 / 200
2️⃣ 📍 23.0 metres - 🗓️ 4 yrs - ⚡ 196 / 200
3️⃣ 📍 145 km - 🗓️ 6 yrs - ⚡ 187 / 200
4️⃣ 📍 405 km - 🗓️ 3 yrs - ⚡ 184 / 200
5️⃣ 📍 670 km - 🗓️ 6 yrs - ⚡ 173 / 200

https://whentaken.com
I have relatives that live in the city of (2) (and my great uncle was mayor of that city in the 60s). It is always fun when you recognize a place. :D
 
12:36 PM
@alphabet well it's generally a petty and disgusting thing to do, everywhere. But petty rich people do it to varying degrees everywhere anyway.
And America, simply due to having more multimillionaire than everywhere else, is probably more associated with such behavior
 
Well sure, money talks.
 
12:53 PM
== English == === Alternative forms === money talks and bullshit walks === Etymology === First appeared c. 1968 in the US; a rhyming elaboration of money talks. === Proverb === money talks, bullshit walks (slang, vulgar) Attempting to accomplish a goal by demonstrating possession of material resources will succeed, while attempting to accomplish the same goal through mere rhetoric will fail. ==== Usage notes ==== Beware that talk and walk are used in the opposite sense from talk the talk/walk the walk, in which talk means “words without action” and walk means “action”. Here talk i...
 
1:34 PM
Wordle 1,044 4/6

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2:04 PM
#WhenTaken #61 (28.04.2024)

I scored 849/1000 🎉

1️⃣ 📍 734 km - 🗓️ 1 yrs - ⚡ 177 / 200
2️⃣ 📍 3756 km - 🗓️ 4 yrs - ⚡ 128 / 200
3️⃣ 📍 138 km - 🗓️ 6 yrs - ⚡ 187 / 200
4️⃣ 📍 275 km - 🗓️ 16 yrs - ⚡ 158 / 200
5️⃣ 📍 180.6 metres - 🗓️ 1 yrs - ⚡ 199 / 200

https://whentaken.com
@XanderHenderson I have no great uncle named Wallace :-)
Wordle 1,044 3/6

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@jlliagre Wally. :D
 
2:20 PM
Daily Octordle #825
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Score: 75
Daily Sequence Octordle #825
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Score: 73
 
2:43 PM
4
Q: Is it an independent and additional offence to have a fake passenger (e.g., a mannequin) to try to avoid HOV violation detection?

Franck DernoncourtReading https://ktla.com/news/local-news/carpool-violator-busted-in-southern-california-despite-next-level-dummy/amp/ (mirror) made me wonder: is it illegal to have a fake passenger (e.g., a mannequin) to try to avoid HOV violation detection? Clearly, there would be a citation for HOV violation d...

I can't help admiring the genius behind that dummy
 
 
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6:04 PM
Daily Octordle #825
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Score: 81
Wow, that was ugly. I can't recall a worse score on a regular Octo.
 
@alphabet Seems totally reasonable. Diseased animals don't belong on the bus.
 
Daily Sequence Octordle #825
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A big crowd of monowheelers rode through the city, and a lot of fellow travellers on bicycles
And this guy has something with his leg, so he uses this electric cart, which I liked. It's quite fast.
And looks comfy
You can see his walking stick attached to the right side of the cart
I wonder if April will beat March in terms of time spent on physical activity for me.
94 hours thus far.
Some 4 hours/day
 
6:23 PM
@CowperKettle Good on ya, mate.
 
6:38 PM
@user70432 I long thought that this idiom meant "when money talks (= business pronounces some command), then even a piece of shit will walk (despite being an inanimate object)". I thought this strange, but after all, Americans are strange.
 
7:00 PM
Bucillamine is an antirheumatic agent developed from tiopronin. Activity is mediated by the two thiol groups that the molecule contains. Research done in USA showed positive transplant preservation properties. Bucillamine is currently being investigated for COVID-19 drug repurposing. Bucillamine has a well-known safety profile and is prescribed in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis in Japan and South Korea for over 30 years. It is a cysteine derivative with 2 thiol groups that is 16-fold more potent than acetylcysteine (NAC) as a thiol donor in vivo, giving it vastly superior function ...
Interesting molecule, never heard of it. The article says it's much more potent than N-acetylcysteine in restoring glutathione.
For some reason it has only been used in Japan and Korea thus far.
 
7:31 PM
@CowperKettle LOL
 
7:55 PM
@CowperKettle because restoring glutathione does jack for most patients
If you're poisoned with acetaminophen, sure.
Otherwise you can fill your cells to the brim with GSH and still get cancer.
 
 
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9:45 PM
I just heard an Irish narrator on a video pronouncing ar as air: carbon -> cairbon, far -> fair, and so on. Not exactly like that , but somewhere in between.
 

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