I remember that picture from a long time ago

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ :48717222 Thank you both.

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ - You were saying that cancer is not cured. I'm translating a research paper on cancer.

> We here report the outcome of treatment of patients with HER2-positive early-stage breast cancer who received perioperative trastuzumab treatment. The 3-year relapse-free and OS rates were 94.2% and 98.9%, respectively.14 Under these circumstances, it is becoming difficult to conduct clinical trials for patients with recurrent HER2-positive breast cancer.

The authors complain that new drugs have become so efficient that it becomes harder and harder to investigate recurrency - because it takes longer and longer for the disease to return.

@CowperKettle I'm not saying cancer isn't cured. That couldn't be further from the truth!

What I'm saying is there hasn't been found a universal cure for cancer

I saw a number, and I forgot it. But it was something like 450. 450 types of cancer can be cured.

And do get cured.

There will never be a universal cure for cancer.

Because it's different diseases.

Like schizophrenia, which was named schizophreanias from the start by the inventor of the term.

> Another observational study reported that the PFS of trastuzumab retreatment for patients who relapsed after perioperative trastuzumab treatment to be consistent for approximately 7 to 12months. [15,17–19]

OMG, they write study but provide four references.

I'm certain it's a typo, the article was written by Japanese

@CowperKettle This is true

@CowperKettle This is not true

Why?

Drugs are manufactured based on the similar traits different conditions show

We just don't know enough about cancers in general to find a common trait, a common bloody chemical, to silence

Cancer is the result of evolution. Cells want to live and they evolve to cheat the system (the organism) to live and multiply.

It has to be something with minimal impact in a normal, functioning body, so the side effects won't be worse than the cancer itself

@CowperKettle That's very broad . . . Mutation is usually random, not by choice

Most impactful mutations end up in a dead cell

WTH spell checker, "impactful" is a word

Most mutations are not impactful AFAIK

Yes, and only those cells that get beneficial cancer-evoking mutations survive.

Yes, too broad.

@CowperKettle Only to be screwed (literally) by them SWATs

Perforin is so scary and awesome

Like a plutonium shell

BBL studying

> There is a possibility that the patients with cardiac function deterioration due to perioperative trastuzumab treatment was not registrated, and the fact that very few patients with hypertension in this cohort were affected, retreatment was safely performed in clinical practice.

Now how should I translate this into Russian if this Japanese guy failed to get his meaning across to English?

> and the fact that very few patients with hypertension in this cohort were affected

Did he mean to say "that few patients were affected with hypertension"?

This is the only way I can construe this.

> A diverse sample of American adults watched the same video of a 5-year-old receiving a finger-stick at a pre-Kindergarten doctor’s visit, and afterwards were asked to rate how much pain they thought the child was actually experiencing. While all participants watched an identical video of an identical child exhibiting identical pain-display behaviors, the group who knew the child as “Samuel” said he was in more pain than the group who knew her as “Samantha.”

neurosciencenews.com/girl-pain-10643

"Registrated" huh

It is a word, it's even included in the Urban Dictionary. The authors of the paper probably looked it up there.

@CowperKettle Maybe they're advising extra care because

1. Not all cases of cardiac function deterioration were carefully reported

And

2. The sample size, the patients, usually didn't have hypertension before the trials.

So they might be saying that "people with a crappy heart might need some extra care that we didn't find out in our study"

That's what I can make of it after staring at it for 5 minutes

Makes sense?

Thank you, @M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ!

@CaptainBohemian I don't celebrate it in any special way, but I like it that it is a public holiday, so people don't have to work. There are literally Chinese people in almost every country, so it will be celebrated in some form almost everywhere in the world.

@CowperKettle I wonder how you pronounce Inspiron in Dell Inspiron. Do you pronounce it as pee or pye?

een-spee-RON

Een-spee-Ron Weasley

Same here, but I have heard some people say it the other way.

Are you familiar with dual drive configurations?

I am wondering whether you can choose what to put on the SSD and what to put on the HDD if you have a SSD-HDD dual drive. Where do you set this setting?

@CowperKettle If you look up Jasper in Urban Dictionary, you will see that I am an awesome guy.

@Jasper I just cloned the contents of the HDD to the SSD

And booted up from the SSD

And rebooted, and hit F2, and disabled the HDD.

@Jasper that people don't have to work is exactly the problem for me. You know what? When I was in my alma mater during Chinese new year, the campus was like the surface of the moon, profoundly devoid of people. The desolation was like to devour me. I don't think a place only few people celebrate Chinese new year bothers me, because I can't even perceive the desolate air with so few people absent during Chinese new year.

@Jasper besides the saddening desolation, that nobody works would lead to starvation problem. We need food persistently, and when nobody makes food for too long, famine sets in.

@Jasper ))))

Maybe you're having a depression, Captain, and maybe you should take an antidepressant like me

@CowperKettle I think we should refrain from taking antidepressant because depression is our reflection to things we don't like. We shouldn't take antidepressant to make ourself numb to things we don't like. If we are depressed about something, we understand we hate it and should strive to change it or vent it to others.

if you are so depressed when at hometown, you hate hometown so much.

I strongly disagree. A lot of people strongly dislike something - but this feeling of dislike should not interfere with their functioning. People managed to find something interesting even in prison.

I agree that a person should not make himself numb to something.

But when a person constantly dwells on something, maybe it's something wrong with the brain.

Maybe not. Hard to tell.

I am hungry now, going to hunt.

I've never hunted in my life

I hunted rabbits carrots

It was kinda easy

@CowperKettle usually only when that thing you hate is in your immediate neighborhood would you dwell on it and thus bothers you.

when I first moved out the home to long stay outside, I didn't think of the home at all until one week later when I heard my roommates talked they missed home. Then I started to be aware I didn't think of home at all during a whole week of staying outside.

it's the manifestration that home, the troublesome place, wouldn't bother you as long as it is beyond your eyesight.

@CowperKettle hunting is the term my sister creates it to mean go out to eat, and I just follow her because I find it apt.

Ah! )))

actually she doesn't say hunt exactly, she said 打野食, meaning hunt for wild food.

@snailboat I initially wrote just have-nots, but then realized it's normally used in conjunction with haves, so I added that – and yes, it felt odd. I believe our word of the day is more akin to a vocabulary item of the day, and pursuant to resolving my internal conflict I posted it as such and let the universe decide, "for only a fool would attempt to escape the hand of fate."

Word of the day: abseil (BrE)

It was taken straight from German. ( :

@userr2684291 Now your Gravatar is like overdone ketchup

I both like it and hate it

The emoticon would probably be :%

A good question

For some reason I have a pet peeve with these comments

@CowperKettle Mhm, +1

I was shocked to learn that Niger is not Nigeria, and Nigerien is not Nigerian, LOL.

However, I do know that Afrikaans is not African, and materiel is not material.

@CaptainBohemian My Chinese is still good enough for me to recognise those characters immediately, LOL.

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Like me, they're probably confused because the comment above theirs, while perhaps well-intended, isn't very helpful. It looks like the asker already knows about must and its various applications – they're instead asking about the difference between come back and come back on in the context of a television program.