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@AIQ I wasn't cooked recently
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@snailcar Oh no I didn't say that in regards to that conversation. I wanted to say "Snailcar, you will get your mod team in 3 days ... are you excitedddddd!!!!" Sorry I realize that wasn't the appropriate situation ...
 
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02:45
@AIQ Oh! I actually am really looking forward to it.
@snailcar@userr2684291 Thanks for the feed-back.
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Thanks for the edit snailcar
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03:28
I think it's going to be really good for ELL having more moderators.
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@AIQ I wasn't 100% sure what the best way to edit the post would be, but I got confused without something to tell my eye where the images started and ended, so I think it's better this way :-)
Anonymous
I've had some personal things going on, so I've been a bit distracted from the site, but I've definitely been trying to take care of some flags every day.
Anonymous
On the "flags handled this month" page, my flags handled has been hovering around 200 for a while now. It's not that big of a burden, but there are a few flags that require a bit more in-depth examination, and I've just left those flags sitting around for the time being.
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I do try to make sure to handle anything urgent in a timely fashion.
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It's not just about keeping me from being overwhelmed, though. I can actually keep up with the vast majority of the flags on this site by myself. What's really nice, though, is having a team that can talk about problems, work together and discuss what to do.
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03:36
Relying on my own personal judgment such a large amount of time is okay, but it's not ideal. That's something I really miss about when J.R. and Colleen were active moderators, because I respect them a great deal and trust their judgment, and sometimes we ended up taking different courses of action than I would have decided on on my own.
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Right now, it's me and Em., and I have been handling most of the flags just because I've been on here every day, so I think I've been taking action on most of them before Em. sees them.
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@snailcar It sure is much better now, I was having trouble with it too, just didn't know I could do > to images.
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@AIQ Yep! :-) There's some controversy over whether it's a good idea to actually put images in blockquotes, but right now I don't know of any better alternative.
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True. Snailcar, have you tried contacting MaulikV. Or is he on a break or something ...
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@AIQ He's been on the site. He posted a question. I believe after six months of no moderator activity Stack Exchange contacts inactive moderators and asks them whether they're interested in continuing to moderate.
Anonymous
03:47
I have no problem with him being inactive. He's contributed quite a bit in the past, and it's not a job, so it's totally understandable to me if he wants to focus on other things. As you can see from his profile page, he has quite a few interests! I'm sure he's keeping busy.
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@AIQ Hey, check this out:
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snailcarAbusing the <kbd> tag to add outlines around images:

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I think that is super not kosher, but it kinda looks better than blockquoting images.
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What do you think?
I think COVID-19 is going to change a lot of policies around the world as we slowly find out if this thing is stoppable...
Anonymous
03:55
That seems optimistic.
I don't want to look down the pessimistic rabbit-hole.
ie if it is not stoppable.
Anonymous
Well, I'm sure it's something we can do a lot about.
Anonymous
So I don't think we're helpless in any sense. But actually stopping it, as in eradicating it? There are too many unknowns this early in the pandemic to really say, but it does look unlikely, doesn't it?
I only have "hope" right now.
Anonymous
04:02
I'm sure things will get better at some point.
Anonymous
I don't know when or how exactly.
As you said, it is too early :-)
Anonymous
Yeah. We just don't know.
Anonymous
I've been making an effort to be as informed as I can, but a lot of the information out there is just uncertain, and a lot of the research is not very high quality.
Anonymous
It's hard for me to be optimistic on a personal level because of what's already happened.
04:04
Humanity has had many pandemics much more dangerous than COVID
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Sure. The world isn't ending.
As recently as 1970 400 thousand people were dying each month from smallpox, on average.
@snailcar Using <kbd> was a clever way to get around the changes to the quote formatting!
Anonymous
But without going into too much detail, I'm dealing with some consequences of the current pandemic on a personal level, so it's going to be difficult for me to be too hopeful for a while.
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@ColleenV I'm surprised, it actually looks pretty good! :-)
04:06
I'm very sorry to hear that!
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04:36
@snailcar Oh wow this kbd thing looks real nice ...
Niceeeeee ... I really like it now snailcar, thanks. I have edited the images with the <kbd> thing
The pandemic has not touched me personally yet, so it feels a little unreal. When I read the news, it's horrible, but when I go outside, it's everything as usual.
05:01
Word of the day: cradleboard
Word of the night: filial
 
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> conditions stemming from the novel coronavirus—rampant unemployment, isolation and an uncertain future—could lead to 75,000 deaths from drug or alcohol abuse and suicide, new research suggests.
 
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Q: Vacation and vacations

ramteja guthikonda 1)Summer and Winter vacation are compulsory in our schools. 2)Summer and Winter vacations are compulsory in our schools. Which is correct? If both are correct, what is the difference in meaning between them?

 
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My brother said I should wash my shoes each time I return home. Is it really necessary?
Russians don't use shoes inside the flat, we change to slippers.
Do Americans really walk around in actual shoes in their homes?
It's hard to imagine.
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@CowperKettle I can’t speak for Americans (I’m Australian) but it depends. My family does sometimes, and we definitely wouldn’t insist that people take off their shoes when they come inside. Normally we take them off (more comfortable), but if we’re just passing through or popping in (so to speak) we don’t. On the other hand, I have never seen anyone change from shoes to slippers, or anything. Sometimes people keep their socks on, but few take shoes off and put something else on.
10:49
@CowperKettle Some do. Our family removes their shoes and puts on house shoes to keep the rugs nice. We wouldn’t expect guests to remove their shoes.
 
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@ColleenV Where I live, nobody wears shoes into homes.
@ColleenV That was Monica singing. This is me singing:
As you can see, I am wearing my favourite blue colour.
I will delete the channel and put up better quality videos later this year. This is just a temporary test channel.
You have a very nice tone to your voice. I am not brave enough to perform for people.
@ColleenV Do you sing as well?
Scientists have discovered that coV can actually delay the creation of a black hole.
12:27
Um, why was this downvoted? Sorry for trying, I guess, lol.
12:46
> If I need a tooth pulling out, I like to go to the dentist.
Apparently this is grammatical in BrE.
@ColleenV In Russia, the only people allowed to pass into the flat in their shoes are ambulance doctors, because their time is too dear to be spent on changing their footwear.
I can imagine it with tooth modifying pulling-out (hyphenated for clarity), but it sounds awfully "grammatical" rather than natural.
Could also be completely idiomatic.
But what do I know, lol. BrE and its derivatives sure have many of these kinks I just don't seem to recognize.
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Q: Impose a sentence on [sentence] (again)

Glorfindel(if you're wondering about the pun in the title, that's a Stack Exchange meme for tag-related Meta questions) The sentence tag currently has 17 questions and no tag excerpt or wiki. IMHO it's a very broad and ambiguous tag; I guess more than half of the questions here involve sentences in some w...

@Jasper I sang in a choir when I was younger. My mother studied voice in college and sings in a "just for fun" choir now.
@userr2684291 I don't know why it would be downvoted, unless someone felt like you didn't explicitly answer the question. Maybe if you explain how what you've written ties into looking for a good duplicate target? (I didn't downvote it, so I'm just making a guess)
> Therefore a single duplicate target cannot possibly exist for this type of question because whether an infinitival or gerund-participial is used depends on (1) the type of, or individual verb licensing the above forms, and (2) sometimes, the complement itself.
P sure that's as explicit as it gets.
13:49
@userr2684291 Maybe put that up at the top and then explain why...
Honestly, I think the new quote formatting is what is really killing you there. It's hard to separate your points from your supporting evidence.
@CowperKettle I wonder why it's that way in some cultures and not in others. Does it have to do with how likely it is to track mud, snow, or sand in the house? Or does it have to do with the typical type of floor (dirt/stone versus rugs/tatami) or the use of the floor (only for walking or also for sitting and sleeping)? I think anthropology is fascinating, but I haven't really studied it.
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Yes, you don't want to track dirt into your home. It's pretty simple. Dirt (or mud, or snow, or whatever) is seen as ... unsanitary, lol. You don't want to turn your house into a pigsty.
Plus, shoes make your feet sweaty, etc.
I've never worn a single pair of shoes that was as comfortable as walking barefoot (inside).
Flip-flops / slippers are still worn because the floor is seen as dirty regardless, and sometimes cold, especially when your floors aren't carpeted. I think people don't wear slippers that much when everything's carpeted, but who knows.
@ColleenV Yes, the floor will be crunchy with small particles if you go around in shoes.
In our flat in Siberia we went around with bare feet as kids.
And sometimes we went outside to play with bare feet, because the town was so recently-built and so small that there was little dangerous dirt like glass shards.
It was a closed town too, which meant low crime rates.
A person had to provide some special document to buy a ticket to the town. Or provide a passport with his domicile address indicated on one of the pages.
After the fall of the USSR, closed towns became ordinary towns, and criminals flooded in.
Chechen mafia thugs and so on.
14:49
@CowperKettle I haven't heard of those before. We have communities where only people above a certain age can live there and "gated" communities where you have to have a code to open the gate and drive into them, but not entire towns.
 
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> There are currently 44 publicly acknowledged closed cities in Russia with a total population of about 1.5 million people. 75% are administered by the Russian Ministry of Defense, with the rest being administered by Rosatom.[4] Another 15 or so closed cities are believed to exist, but their names and locations have not been publicly disclosed by the Russian government.
We have a closed city some 100 km north of Yekaterinburg. They make nuclear fuel there. My friends crossed into this city during their bicycle ride, and got caught. The police took their fingerprints and the court charged them with fines.
Olli still has not paid her fine, she hopes that this will be somehow forgotten. She does not have a lot of money.
Novouralsk (Russian: Новоура́льск, lit. new town in the Urals) is a closed town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located on the eastern side of the Ural Mountains, about 70 kilometers (43 mi) north of Yekaterinburg, the administrative center of the oblast. Population: 85,522 (2010 Census); 95,414 (2002 Census). == History == It was formerly known as Sverdlovsk-44 (Свердло́вск-44). Although it came into being during World War II and was named Novouralsk in 1954, it was kept secret until 1994. It has had closed town status since its establishment. == Administrative and municipal status == Within the...
It has a stylized atomic nucleus as part of its coat of arms.
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@CowperKettle Outside here, we have businesses closed, but we also have lots of people outside trying to pass some of their copious free time. People still get together every day and throw parties and so on. For all the doom and gloom, most people I see don’t seem terribly bothered by the pandemic at the moment. A lot of people think the whole thing is a hoax or a conspiracy, or they think there are already cures for the virus.
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Small businesses are going to disappear, it feels like. Kids are everywhere, out having fun. The air quality is nice. Some people wear masks, but most don’t bother.
@snailcar My friends went out rafting on a river, and will return only tomorrow. Olli said to me that I'm a паникёр (panykyor, a panic-mongerer) and that people "die out of fear".
Three other friends went to a local swimming hole, a former quarry, to swim yesterday.
Three other friends went to a баня (banya, Russian sauna)
Everyone's having a jolly good time
Anonymous
Well, one of my family members passed away, but not from fear. It seems like it may end up being two.
I'm very sorry!
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16:19
Most people don’t seem particularly bothered by the pandemic, though. As long as they have toilet paper.
Heh
I'm afraid to bring the disease to my mom, who's living with me in the flat, so I"m not taking part in any parties.
She is well past the safe age limit for COVID-19
I even ordered some grocery goods for the first time in my life yesterday over the Internet.
Anonymous
My friend is a nurse in New York. He sees a lot of people our age (I’m 38) in the ICU. Mostly people my age don’t die, but it’s not an experience I really want to have regardless.
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@CowperKettle I’ve been getting groceries online for a couple months now. It’s a little weird, but I’ve gotten used to it.
Yes, even a Kremlin guard who was aged 42 died recently.
Anonymous
I do have friends my age who had the virus, and they’re perfectly fine.
16:24
In a city nearby, a woman aged 29 died, although she was overweight.
Looks like excessive weight greatly increases your chances of dying.
And over 113 doctors and nurses have died in Russia.
Anonymous
Those are relatively rare occurrences, I think even taking into account factors like obesity.
Doctors are keeping a roster of their colleagues who pass away. They do not believe the Government.
Anonymous
Most 29-year-olds won’t die regardless.
Yes
My friend, a translator, became a volunteer in order to bring food to elderly people.
I'm reading the latest research done in the US on the COVID, and it reads like something out of 21-st century.
Anonymous
If you look at the research, the first thing you notice is no one is trying very hard. They all want to publish fast, fast, fast! And there’s no rigor.
16:28
15-minute tests and so on.
Yes, there are a lot of "preprints"
And a lot of critique.
Anonymous
And there’s also politics pushing particular lines of research.
Anonymous
Likewise, we’re going to rush our vaccine development as much as possible,
I've been listening to a couple of audiobooks in English about drugs and pandemics. Very interesting. I did not know that there were outbreaks of plague in California, and that ground squirrels still may carry it around.
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As a society, we’ve basically decided it’s not possible to wait until we know a vaccine is safe, because that would simply take too long.
One book is called The Pandemic Century, and it's very well-written. The other is Spillover.
@snailcar It turns out that a vaccine can even be harmful
Anonymous
16:31
If we unknowingly give ammunition to the anti-vax crowd, it could have serious consequences for herd immunity in the future. People might avoid vaccines more than they do already.
There are cases in which an under-researched vaccine actually makes the disease stronger. There's even an article in Wikipedia about it.
The anti-vax people are mainly people who do not like to read a lot.
They will be anti-vax regardless of any evidence.
I have an antivax friend, she is a very good woman.
And she knows English quite well, surprisingly.
Anonymous
@CowperKettle Sure, there are two main examples. One is Dengvaxia, which led to ADE in children who never had Dengue. The other was the infamous 1976 flu vaccine, which caused serious side effects in a small number of people.
Anonymous
Getting vaccinated is important despite those failures, but they are real and scary.
The Dengvaxia controversy, Dengvaxia issue, or Dengvaxia mess is an ongoing controversy about the use of anti-dengue vaccine Dengvaxia in the Philippines. In late November 2017, the Department of Health (DOH) suspended a school-based vaccination program utilizing French drug-based vaccine maker Sanofi Pasteur's Dengvaxia vaccine (Tagalog pronunciation: [dɛŋˈvakʃa]) because reports circulated that several children died from various complications allegedly attributed to the dengue vaccine. Shortly after, the company made a statement that its product poses higher risks to people without prior dengue...
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Yep.
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16:35
Making a safe vaccine for the novel coronavirus is going to be a challenge, but we have approximately everyone working on it.
Anonymous
We’ve never made an actual vaccine for a coronavirus in humans before.
Yes, there are about 80 vaccines in development. A couple of them in Russia
I never knew that! Interesting.
Anonymous
We’ve got one in dogs and one in cats if I recall correctly.
I wanted to read up on RNA vaccines but lacked the time.
An RNA vaccine is a novel type of vaccine for providing acquired immunity through an RNA containing vector, such as lipid nanoparticles.Just like normal vaccines, RNA vaccines are intended to induce the production of antibodies which will bind to potential pathogens. The RNA sequence codes for antigens, proteins that are identical or resembling those of the pathogen. Upon the delivery of the vaccine into the body, this sequence is translated by the host cells to produce the encoded antigens, which then stimulate the body’s adaptive immune system to produce antibodies against the pathogen. Currently...
They want to create such a vaccine for COVID
Anonymous
16:37
We already have human trials in progress for multiple vaccine candidates.
Anonymous
It seems like people are too scared to end a lockdown without a vaccine, which is not at all how the lockdowns were intended to go…
In Russia, the lockdown was too mild, and tomorrow Putin will most likely prolong it.
Anonymous
Many governments are trying to apply pressure to make people open things back up.
He missed the chance. We should have followed the Chinese example and locked down really hard.
Here, food stores are open. Hairdresser salons are open. Computer shops are open.
Anonymous
It’s tricky while people are still scared. But of course a lot of people aren’t scared. I feel like people tend to fall on one extreme or the other – they think it’s a complete non-issue, or they think the world’s ending – and not a lot of people really think about the situation rationally.
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16:43
@CowperKettle In much of the world, people are getting pandemic hair. Or would it be better called lockdown hair?
Not in Russia!
The hairdresser salons were closed just for a couple of weeks.
And alcohol sales went up 30% in Russia.
Anonymous
Well, I hope your nation’s hairdressers don’t get sick. But at least their jobs exist, so that’s a plus.
Anonymous
A lot of people’s jobs just aren’t going to exist anymore.
Anonymous
And not everyone can just immediately find something new to do.
Now I can see why so many people in the 1970's Soviet Union were addicted to booze. It looks like when people are alone with themselves, they find nothing interesting to do but drink.
And in the Soviet Union there was a narrower choice of activities.
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16:47
I’ve never had alcohol, so I’m not sure what that’s like. For that matter, I’ve never lived in the 1970s Soviet Union.
Did you abstain just for health reasons? Were you not curious what it feels like?
I rarely drink. When in company, I drink one glass of wine. When in company in the woods, I sometimes spill vine on the ground, out of sight.
My uncle was an alcoholic all his life.
Anonymous
I didn’t like the effects I saw on other people, so I was never really interested in trying it myself. Later on in life I learned that I shouldn’t drink for medical reasons.
He even got delirious from alcohol once.
Anonymous
In my mind it’s a recreational drug, and I’m not really interested in any of those.
Once he was staying in our flat and he drank a lot of home-made tincture of Rhodeola Rosea which we made in order to be consumed by thimbleful. He felt bad.
Anonymous
16:50
I’m not judging people who do drink, but it’s not for me.
Anonymous
I remember when I was a teenager, my brother broke up with his girlfriend and drank a lot, and it just made him sadder about the whole thing. It didn’t seem like it helped. At that time I was still making up my mind, but alcohol didn’t seem very exciting to me.
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Seeing how it affected him made me not really want to try it.
My father had a Chukcha (or Khanty?) friend who once drank some vodka at our flat and then refused to leave.
My father had to literally drag him out of the flat ))
I was very young but still remember.
Native people get addicted to alcohol very hard.
The Khanty (in older literature: Ostyaks) are a Ugrian indigenous people calling themselves Khanti, Khande, Kantek (Khanty), living in Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug, a region historically known as "Yugra" in Russia, together with the Mansi. In the autonomous okrug, the Khanty and Mansi languages are given co-official status with Russian. In the 2010 Census, 30,943 persons identified themselves as Khanty. Of those, 26,694 were resident in Tyumen Oblast, of whom 17,128 were living in Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug and 8,760—in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. 873 were residents of neighbouring Tomsk...
That man, Pyotr Lazyamov, had a herd of 80 deer.
He was quite well-off.
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I’ve always felt like if I did drink I could become addicted quite easily. I have that sort of personality.
16:56
Me too
Because alcohol makes me less anxious. I think it's better to take an antidepressant than drink.
Anonymous
I do have a high level of baseline anxiety.
Anonymous
I’ve been on anti-anxiety medication before, and it’s like all that just disappears and everything feels so wonderful … I don’t take it because I don’t want to be addicted to that, either.
I tried pregabaline, it feels very nice
Anonymous
SSRIs kind of made me manic.
Anonymous
But on the bright side, I ended up doing a lot of stuff.
17:02
And gabapentine, it's quite nice too. What's interesting, I get vivid dreams with complex story lines on gabapentine. Sadly, it also makes me sleepier than usual.
I'm on an SSRI now, on escitalopram.
I started feeling very tired in April 2018, and could not do any work until I started on it.
My cortisol was elevated at all times, but not very highly
It's a sign of depression.
Or rather cortisol by itself causes depression when it's elevated for a long time.
Anonymous
I remember you talking about that.
Anonymous
This pandemic is going to be bad for a lot of people’s mental health.
What made me a little manic is 15 mg of L-methylfolate per day. By the 20th day of taking it I was feeling full of energy.
Sadly, I started having terrible allergy starting from day 25.
So now I"m taking a meagre dosage of 1.25 mg/day, and even that makes the backs of my palms dry. Allergy, probably. Or maybe it's a poorly manufactured drug. It's from iHerb.
Yes, Medscape has a projection that 70 000 people may die of suicide due to the COVID pandemic.
> Methylfolate: the vitamin for your monoamines.
One carbon metabolism has very interesting links to depression mechanisms.
And vitamins B6, B9 and B12 are part of the scheme.
Anonymous
Those are some cute enzymes.
I was reading a lot about folate metabolism. It turns out that pregnant women drinking more than 4 cups of tea per day have increased chances of damage to the fetus, because tea and coffee speed up the elimination of folates from the body.
Anonymous
17:09
My body doesn’t synthesize enough vitamin D even when I go out every day. I have supplements prescribed for me.
Anonymous
Mine got down to extremely low levels.
@snailcar Yes, it's from an article by Stahl, a famous psychiatrist who wrote a book that is considered a psychiatric Bible
@snailcar Mine went down to 19 ng/ml in 2018
I am taking 30 000 units per week, and my D level is about 42 ng/ml now.
Anonymous
Mine got down to 7 :-(
That is very low, it's a rachitic level!
Anonymous
I didn’t even know it was low until they tested me.
17:11
I mean, a rickets-low level
Anonymous
They put me on 50,000 / week.
Anonymous
And it got back up over 30x
Anonymous
Oops, that x was supposed to be a period.
My mother had 9 ng/ml, and I had to smuggle vitamin D capsules to her hospital, she was in the hospital at that time. THe doctor said she should not take anything that he did not prescribe.
Anonymous
But yeah, I guess my body is bad at vitamin D.
Anonymous
17:12
I was outside every day at that time.
Anonymous
Not so much with the lockdown, though.
The scientists are still wrangling among themselves trying to decide whether the acceptable limit is 20 or 30. Some have written that maybe even 15 ng/ml is okay for some people.
I was also outside every day all the summer of 2018, and that did not help bring the levels into the required range ))
Anonymous
Yeah, I tried reading up on it at the time, and it seemed like what exactly the safe level was was controversial.
There was an Italian woman who spent 120 days in a closed room as an experiment to determine the body's internal time keeping mechanisms.
By the end of the stay she had very low vitamin D levels.
Anonymous
But everyone agrees single digits is way too low.
17:15
Stefania Follini (born 16 August 1961) is an Italian interior designer. She is known for being involved in a 1989 experiment on circadian rhythms, in which she voluntarily isolated herself for four months in an underground room thirty feet down a cave in Carlsbad, New Mexico, away from all outside indications of night and day. The experiment lasted from January 13, 1989, until May 22, 1989. In total, Follini spent some 130 days in the cave, thus breaking the women's world record for longest cave isolation. == Career == Hailing from Ancona, Italy, Follini worked as an interior decorator. Out of...
People in prison must have drastically reduced levels.
Anonymous
I’ve read that a pretty large chunk of the population should probably be supplementing vitamin D.
Yes, all of a sudden. Although in the 19th century people used to routinely take a spoonful of fish oil
Anonymous
Have you read any research lately about fish oil? I haven’t kept up.
About Omega 3? No, I haven't read about it
I've been translating about Alzheimer's disease yesterday and today. And some texts about depression and immune system before that.
And before that, I was proofreading translations.
Anonymous
My impression a few years ago was that it seemed like it was likely a good idea to supplement fish oil, but it didn’t really seem like anyone knew for sure.
17:28
EPA and DHA are useful, but the extent of their usefullness was overblown initially.
And quality omega-3 is expensive in Russia, that's why I'm just sticking to eating fish and olive oil ))
Anonymous
Alzheimer’s research has been really interesting. The idea that the amyloids are the equivalent of a prion and that it’s essentially a prion disease…
I've uploaded this translation today about Alzheimer's
@snailcar Yes, the prion hypothesis is very interesting
> People who carry the gene variant APOE4 are at higher-than-average risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. It emerges that this variant is linked to defects in the blood–brain barrier and subsequent cognitive decline.
What's interesting is that leaky BBB is also implicated as part of the pathology of depression.
In murine models thus far.
Anonymous
Depression and Alzheimer’s both run in my family.
Repeated stress causes mice to get depressed and changes their claudine-5 levels, which suggests a leaky BBB
@snailcar Depression runs in my family, and my uncle had paranoid schizophrenia, so I've translated a lot of news reports on the pathology of schizophrenia
Or maybe it was just severe anxiety with paranoid tendencies? Who knows.
Soviet psychiatry was very bad at diagnosing people. They just applied the schizophrenia tag to everyone.
Officially he had "sluggishly progressing schizophrenia"
Sluggish schizophrenia or slow progressive schizophrenia (Russian: вялотеку́щая шизофрени́я, vyalotekushchaya shizofreniya) was a diagnostic category used in the Soviet Union to describe what was claimed to be a form of schizophrenia characterized by a slowly progressive course; it was diagnosed even in patients who showed no symptoms of schizophrenia or other psychotic disorders, on the assumption that these symptoms would appear later. It was developed in the 1960s by Soviet psychiatrist Andrei Snezhnevsky and his colleagues, and was used exclusively in the USSR and several Eastern Bloc countries...
This diagnosis was abolished in 1991, when the USSR collapsed.
Because this diagnosis was used as a jail sentence substitute to put away people who were against the regime. Dissidents.
 
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The thread talks about the writings of 7 year old Onfim who lived in the 13th century
His are some of the birch writings found in and around Veliky Novgorod in Russia
It's interesting to me that the writings of 7 year old boys don't seem to have changed much since the 13th century :) It's still schoolwork and battles...
 
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What's happening today?
Mother’s Day in the US
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