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Cerberus
Cerberus
00:12
@Mitch Very true! And North-American cities tend to do just that. It was New York.
@Xanne Quite possibly! I'm glad you write "an historic", by the way.
@tchrist Well, you would still be forced to comply if you persevered after your infraction. We do have more severe penalties for businesses that break the rules, but I think many still do.
But I agree that it is a rather soft approach.
tchrist
tchrist
@Mitch John McWhorter refuses to stop eating racist Brazil nuts.
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Seems to cover the whole topic from head to toe, if you know what I mean.
 
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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
01:31
For the first time in my life I can clearly see fire smoke transecting skyscrapers far away in a kind of fillet line
e1.ru/text/incidents/2021/08/25/70097147
This is clearly smoke, not fog.
I can see it from where I sit at my PC
 
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M.A.R.
M.A.R.
05:28
@tchrist Very well written!
@Mitch "North of what?" "I dunno, the solar system, the galaxy" "The whole thing spins, there is no north!" "The Northern Alliance will take your comment into consideration."
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
My cardiologist strongly hinted that I should start on statins. I asked her to wait a couple of months, and she relented. If there's no decrease of my LD cholesterol to the normal range by October, I'll be having one additional pill to take.
She said that diet and sport only contribute some 20% to the lipid levels. And that since I'm a jogger and eat healthy and don't smoke, there is no margin for me to skyve off.
That is, it is unlikely that my cholesterol will return to normal even on a strict diet.
She ordered me to have a 24-h Holter ECG monitoring, and an ultrasound scan of the neck to look if there is already some fat buildup on my arteries.
She said if there's any fat, don't wait 2 months and have a second visit to her right away to get a statin prescription.
Krasnoyarsk man changes his surname to Tayganaut (Tayga + naut, like in "astronaut") and changes his nationality to "Siberian", has a new passport issued. tayga.info/170907
People here love to joke and have themselves written down during an All-Russian Census as hobbits, elves, etc.
So there's a sprinkling of hobbits in Russia, per the latest census.
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
05:59
@CowperKettle heh, it's the humor of the working people who have many things to grieve
@CowperKettle so what has happened? Any idea why your LDL is so high?
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
@M.A.R. I did not think it was high, but the cardiologist said it should be a lot lower
It's 4.6, but she said, for diabetics I would aim for below 2, or even for 1.5
Nominally it should be from 1.3 to 3.0
I'm not very informed in this sphere.
I picked up several articles in English to read up, and started with an article that described the history of research, starting from the 19th century.
And got bogged down reading about how this and that scientist discovered this and that lipid and its function.
And never reached the modern article on what the levels mean.
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
@CowperKettle that sort of diagnostic info is rarely laid out plainly in articles anyway
You'd need medical textbooks for that. That, or opt for tertiary sources and half-reliable sites like Mayo Clinic or WebMD.
 
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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
10:02
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Capitalism can be ugly a bit.
Not as ugly as it was in the 1840's Britain, of course.
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The last day of the heatwave. +32°С right now.
You can see that in Moscow it's +20°C
 
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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
11:24
Qurayyat, Oman
Qurayyat is a small fishing town 83 km southeast of Muscat, Oman, adjacent to the towns of Sur, Diman Wa Tayeen and Aamerat.A popular stopping point on the way to Sur, Qurayyat is in itself also a very popular destination for Muscat. On 28 June 2018, Qurayyat set the record for the highest daily "low" temperature ever recorded: 42.6 degrees Celsius (109 F). == Portuguese == The Portuguese arrived in the 16h century. The village was a strategic point to control the Oman Gulf and access to the Persian Gulf. It was part of a chain of fortresses the Portuguese Empire had in this region. The Fortress...
On 26 June 2018 the city of Qurayyat set the record for highest minimum temperature in a 24-hour period, 42.6 °C (108.7 °F).
OMG
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
11:43
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive answer detected (78): Origin of "cracked the sh**s" by John hynds on english.SE
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive answer detected (78): Origin of "cracked the sh**s" by Peter on english.SE
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
12:02
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A new fire started just now
Looks like hot weather really makes fires fire up easier
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
12:16
Yekaterinburg has run out of water today znak.com/2021-08-25/…
The city will start pumping water from the neihboring region. It usually starts doing that in November.
Last year, it started doing that in October, due to an extremely hot summer. That was seen as quite disturbing.
This time, we ran out of water in August. Wow.
The Chelyabinsk region has a lot more of water, because it is situated at a lower height, I guess. There are numerous lakes there.
Or maybe they just don't have so many people and factories.
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
12:54
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> Your grandpa was a hippie
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
13:08
High Cholesterol Fuels Cancer Metastasis by Fostering Resistance to a Form of Cell Death
Interesting. During stress, cortisol causes cholesterol to rise. Probably this is a protective reaction, in order to shore up the body's defenses to the stressors. But it goes awry.
New Zealand is 18 670 km away from Zeeland. This was done so that nobody could confuse them.
Mitch
Mitch
@tchrist Yes, some people are going overboard into magical thinking, thinking that words determine essence.
McWhorter is also pretty heated about excesses in anti-racism, basically overboard DEI (diversity equity and inclusion) training at universities and stalinist-like approaches to toeing the party line.
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
13:27
> A monkey-loving woman has been banned from visiting a male chimpanzee at a zoo in Antwerp, Belgium, after officials declared their relationship unhealthy for the animal’s socialization with other chimps. nypost.com/2021/08/24/…
Women are like that, always trying to break your relationships with you buddies ))
 
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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
17:52
Word of the day: pyrheliograph
pyrheliograph
Noun: pyrheliograph (plural pyrheliographs)
  1. A pyrheliometer that makes a recording
Exposure to sunlight enhances romantic passion in humans - via the famous cancer-linked protein p53 no less. Amazing.
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
18:21
> "There was a massive flow of red blood cells through the brain capillaries during REM sleep, but no difference between non-REM sleep and the awake state, showing that REM sleep is a unique state"
REM sleep might be a way to clean up brain. medicalxpress.com/news/2021-08-phase.html
Or might not. They have only just created new techniques to look into it.
Robusto
Robusto
@tchrist: Sic 'em!
Mitch
Mitch
@Robusto That's [sic]
@CowperKettle "... in mice"
I feel sorry for all these sleep deprived mice. even the control mice have to try to fall asleep with a head set of sticky electrodes -and- a fluorescent light in your face.
Robusto
Robusto
18:40
Loss, Betrayal and Inaccuracy: A Translator's Handbook.
@tchrist I have accepted John McWhorter as my personal saviour. His "Great Courses" audiobooks (along with his print books) have kept my mind from freewheeling for many, many hours.
> The trick of translating is to do your best to discern just what that author had in mind and render it in a language unavailable to her. There is never anyone who can look at both texts in her own native tongue. One is inevitably foreign.

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