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08:24
@CowperKettle please tell us more of these educational idioms
08:51
> Cuscuta epithymum (CE) is an established medicinal herb utilized for treating psychosis in Persian medicine. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of CE combined with risperidone on the clinical symptoms and the cognitive impairment in patients diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Persia had a herbal antipsychotic.
09:17
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at beginning of body, potentially bad keyword in body (41): how we can use India army photo editor by Muhammad Afzal on english.SE
 
2 hours later…
11:08
@CowperKettle That doesn't sound remarkable
I mean, traditional medicine everywhere would have had such herbal remedies, I think
11:28
> Feature creep: German hunting knife that's also a gun, that's also a calendar, 1528
@M.A.R. I previously only knew about a plant in India being used against psychosis. This is the second plant.
I never ever heard of some plant in Russia traditionally used against psychosis.
36 deaths yesterday in Sverdlovsk Oblast, the highest figure ever.
I rode a bus from the jogging area today back home, and only several people wore a face mask.
An old lady sat near me on the neighboring seat, and she did not wear a mask.
Surreal.
Several dozen joggers rent a shed by the lake to keep their things there while jogging.
I went into the shed, and nobody was wearing a mask.
I felt too awkward to put on a mask.
When we went running, one woman whom I was chatting with, said she had not been vaccinated.
Because she does not believe the vaccine has been properly researched.
So she'll wait till next year, to see if all is well, to get vaccinated.
And to see if she is still alive and without grave injuries to her lungs and neural system.
By the way, nobody wears caps here except in public transportation and in medical facilities.
 
1 hour later…
12:41
Advertisement for condoms
Called Machines, or Implements of Safety
1770s
What machines could these be?
condoms were called machines for some reason
New Hummums was a brothel nearby
Ohh huh.
That explains the skins.
A popular meme in Russia.
Lee Kuan Yew: "I had two options. Either I get corrupted and I put my family in the Forbes list of the richest people in the world and leave my people with nothing."
"OR I serve my country, my people and let my country be in the list of the best ten economies in the world."
"I chose the second option".
Vladimir Putin: "I had two options, but the second was already taken by Lee Kuan Yew".
13:34
<<I'll reach you once you'll have killed him!>>
Is it correct?
13:50
I don't know. Do we really need the will after you?
Would just ".. once you have killed them" work as well?
Well I think so
Usually, will is omitted in conditional or similar subordinate clauses.
I would omit it here.
14:14
So <<I'll reach you once you have killed him!>>
Or <<I reach you once you have killed him!>> ?
 
1 hour later…
15:16
@CowperKettle If I went outside as often I would probably have also fussed unnecessarily over how many people wear masks and how. I think you should let it go.
Hello!
Can I say please it remains steady?
Can I use adjective as a direct object
e.g., steady?
15:56
@CowperKettle Isn't Singapore basically a Police State? I once had a colleague from Singapore who actually liked it, and that's how he himself described it.
16:16
@Avra This does not sound right.
You'll have to explain what you want to say, what your intention is.
You could say, Please, it should remain steady.
@FaheemMitha I guess yes, I heard of severe fines there.
> "Patients overdosing on ivermectin backing up rural Oklahoma hospitals, ambulances"

"'The scariest one I’ve heard of and seen is people coming in with vision loss,' he said."
@FaheemMitha It must be a stupid meme then. A police state is bad, with or without corruption.
@CowperKettle What must be a stupid meme?
@CowperKettle So the insane are blinding themselves.
@Curio The former: the main clause should still have will, just not the subordinate clause.
@FaheemMitha Oh, the picture I posted above. Must be a stupid meme, since if Singapore is a police state, it's worse than Russia.
16:31
@CowperKettle Isn't Russia also a police state?
16:49
@FaheemMitha We are moving in that direction, but there are still media and websites that are free.
And there was a public rally against political repressions yesterday in Yekaterinburg, and nobody was arrested there.
So it's not completely a police state yet.
Because in a complete police state, I guess, everybody is arested for any protest.
Yeah.
Although the organizers of the rally had to get the official permit to conduct the rally.
Which is not needed according to the Constitution.
And they got it.
17:04
@Cerberus Yes, which surprised me.
Lately it has been getting almost impossible to get a permit for a rally.
Maybe the Government wants to measure the extent of public discontent with the crackdown.
It's weird that a 79-yo lady went out with a poster sign, and was apprehended by 5 policemen in Yekaterinburg in February, and yesterday a whole 40 persons were allowed to stand with poster signs.
But even under Stalin the repressions came in waves.
Three persons running for a place in St. Petersburg parliament.
All three have the name Boris Vishnevsky.
Only the third one is the real Boris Vishnevsky.
Another is a namesake who was found by Putin's party United Russia and paid to run in the election, to flummox the people.
Yet another, which is beyond weird, is a person who changed his name specifically for this occasion.
It's the technology invented in the 1990s and used ever since by Putin and his accomplices.
When a democratic candidate is so popular and so respected that nothing could be done to bar him from running in the election, one or several namesakes are found to dilute the vote.
In the hope that people will make a mistake.
What's even funnier, the two fakes grew up beards to look more like the real one.
They did not sport beards before.
@CowperKettle Is this real? Hilarious, crazier than I could have invented.
Just curious: why can't they simply bar the candidate from running, based on some weird charge?
@Cerberus Yes
I used the Google Chrome's extension to auto-translate this article: fontanka.ru/2021/08/10/70071275
It did a great job at putting it into English.
Meet the Putins, just another nineties neighbourhood family:
17:25
Tracksuits...
You can be sure my parents did not wear those in the nineties!
@Cerberus. Thank you very much.
18:20
@Cerberus so colorful
Good looking family
Vomit is also colourful.
If you eat candy.
@CowperKettle I'd rather have a sport beard than play beard sports
I had a tracksuit in the 1990s
For jogging?
When my dad first gifted me the tracksuit, it was looking so cool. There were no tracksuits in the USSR, and in 1993 they only started appearing.
@Cerberus I rarely jogged then. Mostly I played tennis.
Compared with Soviet sport suits, it was extremely light and airy.
18:24
@Cerberus I'm not sure what kind of vomit you're used to but
Oh
I should read ahead
Yes candy colored vomit is very colorful
@CowperKettle We were only supposed to wear white, playing tennis!
@Cerberus kind of authoritarian if you ask me
@Cerberus White shorts and white T-shirt?
I was at a country club with friends and they were going to play tennis and I was in an orange bathing suit and a t-shirt with some weird logo on it and they (not my friends but the tennis person in charge) said I couldn't play
So I sulked as hard as I could
That was my contribution to the revolution
Nobody cared
But at least I knew I was protesting in my head
@CowperKettle Well, preferably not a t-shirt, but more like a polo shirt or whatever.
18:31
Ah! I had some nice polo shirts.
Trying to look like Andre Agassi?
Hello folks.
I need to prepare a list/array of categories that decribe driving experience of people.
Each person can land into one of these categories. For example a person who has from 0 to 1 year experience in driving vehicle would fit into category "noobie". A porsen with driving experience from 1 to 3 years would be "moderate" and so on.

How would I name the list of categories?
A coalegue of mine has named it "drivingExperiences" but this doesnt sound natural to me. May be Im wrong.

Is it correct to say something like "here is the list of possible driving experiences options"
He's a tennis player
@Mitch Yeah, it is the same here at tennis courts. Or at least it was when I still played, as a child.
Which I've heard of
18:32
I remember when first fiberglass tennis rackets appeared. They were so light.
@Cerberus so uptight
All those rules
I had first a small-head Yonex racket.
@Hairi Maybe experience levels?
@CowperKettle same here. And much bigger
Or years of experience?
A bit more metephorically: veterancy?
18:33
Ok, how does it sound to you guys "driving experiences"?
Bad.
The plural of experience means something else.
mhmm me too
Experience is fine
When you make experience countable (add an or make it plural), it means something like "an event or instance in which your experienced something".
18:34
Veterancy is 🥜 s
What?
Speak English, man!
Word of the day on Wiktionary though
@Cerberus I speak for all nations
: 🪛: 🏀
Emojis are hard to get right
False friends
I meant nuts not peanuts
And screw not screwdriver
Ok fair enough. Thank you. I can use "levels" or "categories", "rank" or something else.
The phrase "driving experiences" just didnt pass the smell test and I wanted to align(please suggest a better word here) with you guys.
Thank you 🙏
@Hairi Check?
Good luck!
@Cerberus 10x
18:44
I mean, you could use the word "check" rather than "align".
Yup.
This chat is a real treasure for people like me.
Yay.
For everyone!
Have not studied English at school, have not lived in English speaking country, only internet, books and movies
18:52
Why no English at school?
Your English seems to be pretty great.
@Cerberus it's not for me
and yet I work with multinational team (all of them not native in English) but we use English to communicate, and yet I need to write emails to clients that are native English speakers.
@Cerberus Frankly, I studied English at school for two years - but it was more like memorizing words and two years later all of it was gone
who are native VS that are native
I do these mistakes all the time
Your typed English is pretty good. I don't 'read' an accent
@Mitch Not you, of course.
You're a clear exception.
@Hairi Both correct!
19:08
@Cerberus gracias a ti!
Wait...that doesn't sound right
Is that Spanish?
Maybe?
19:29
Google translate says ¡Sí!
 
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21:53
Among major tennis venues, only Wimbledon requires “tennis whites,” with strict rules on logos, color bands, etc. Even shoes.
It was similar at my tennis club, and I think (most?) other clubs in Holland.

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