@Robusto Derry Girls does that.

@Mitch Since when are you a Derry Girl?

BTW, I did enjoy that show.

@M.A.R. N-Acetylcysteine seems to help some people w/schizophrenia

Glutathione is also low in people with keratoconus, so I sometimes took NAC + Glycine to see what it does

> Currently NAC has the most evidence of having a beneficial effect as an adjuvant agent in the negative symptoms of schizophrenia, severe autism, depression, and obsessive compulsive and related disorders. Future research with well-powered studies that are of sufficient length will be critical to better understand the utility of NAC in the treatment of psychiatric disorders. link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40263-022-00907-3

Proper evidence is lacking, though, as evidenced by "future research will be critical.."

> During his time at Stockholm University, he researched the relationship between language and reality by studying the analytic philosopher W. V. Quine. He also did some turns on London's stand-up comedy circuit.

@CowperKettle I tried it once when I was dealing with depression; my doctor said it'd helped a few of his patients. But it gave me really nasty acid reflux and nausea so I had to stop taking it.

@alphabet Yes, reviews seem shaky to say the least

The only thing that's been helping my 'depression' is methylfolate

@CowperKettle Said doctor still doesn't know what exactly happened to me, but now I'm back to my normal, poorly-managed-ADHD self.

@alphabet I'm glad to hear you're feeling (relatively) better!

Starting as a delivery boy improved my condition a lot.

Maybe because liver has a high B12 content

@CowperKettle Anyway I had to get a brain MRI recently (long story) and it came back normal. Sadly they do not yet have the technology to find out in what precise ways my head is effed up.

Huh. Apparently my new doctor's website lets me view the MRI imagery myself online.

@Robusto How did you figure it out?

You know I kind of wish I didn't know what a cross section of my head looked like.

My brain looks weird and I don't like realizing that I'm using it to write this sentence.

@alphabet I think the image is less problematic than seeing an actual cross section

I can confirm that the contrast agent makes my brain much shinier.

@Mitch I don't think I'm at much risk of seeing that, fortunately.

@alphabet They found an area of gliosis in mine, in the quadrigemina, but it's an old area, dating at least several years back but unnoticed until this spring

@alphabet I have all my MRI/CT scans in full on my HDD and on a backup HDD and on a USB drive :)

"There’s Now 1 Fast Charging Station for Every 5 Gas Stations in California" gov.ca.gov/2024/04/27/…

There is an actual electric car store in Yekaterinburg.

2100 used cars were sold in Russia in Q1 2024, which is 11% more y/y autostat.ru/news/57464

AliExpress is working again in Russia, it turns out. But the descriptions of their wares are as psychodelic as they were.

I wonder why can't they hire a retired teacher or dozen to improve the descriptions. Probably the sales are good as they are

I remember there was a story - by Ray Bradbury - or a part of a larger work - in which there was a woman who drove an electric car in the 1910s or 20s. Was it in "Dandelion Wine", I wonder

> The green machine in Dandelion Wine is an electric car. In the story, Miss Fern and Miss Roberta bought the vehicle from the salesman William Tara.

Cosmology of the day: baryon acoustic oscillations

> In 1970 Sunyaev and Zeldovich predicted the existence of baryon acoustic oscillations, regions of dense gas where galaxies would have formed in the early universe and that would appear as brightness fluctuations in the CMB. These oscillations were first observed in 2001 by balloon-based microwave detectors.

@Mitch It was the cute little Catholic girl uniform.

Pity he doesn't come here anymore.

A couple of these have been posted before. Lucky I remembered them.

@Robusto I -have- had comments made about my legs.

Are y'all sure that (1) isn't in South Korea? :D

(I nailed that one because we've seen it before.)

The only one that really stumped me was (4). I'm not sure how I could have done better. :/

And I've been to (2).

@XanderHenderson That one was featured before, possibly before you started this game.

It was a red herring for sure, which is why I remembered it.

Ah. Sad that they are already recycling images, given that it says that this is only #62.

#1 was a do-over, since they screwed it up so bad the first time around.

@Robusto Sure sure. But (4)?

I feel cheated. :(

@XanderHenderson Yes, I did too the first time I encountered it. What are you supposed to do with someone's picture of a place within one country that is a foreign enclave?

This game has many flaws. Like the Asian cooking one.

@Robusto Yeah, I took a wild guess on that one, based on the language on the box and my general feeling that "Those people look pretty Han, maybe?" And the cuisine seemed moderately identifiable. But it really was just a wild guess (the year was a little easier, based on the grain of the photo, but that is also something of a crapshoot).

(no shooting craps in the chatroom please) 🎲🎲

@XanderHenderson The precise location of #1 is less wrong than when it was the previous time but still can't be what the map shows. The street on the picture is clearly sloping while the one on the map is on a flat island.