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12:16 AM
@M.A.R. I just came across a news about him
Dingleberry Lake is a natural lake in Inyo County, California, in the United States. The lake was so named on account of dingleberries hanging on the rear of sheep in the area.The Sabrina Lake Trail leads hikers to Dingleberry Lake. Dingleberry Lake is a popular camping site. The lake contains a population of brook trout. == See also == List of lakes in California == References ==
> A simple saliva test that analyzes microbial distribution may accurately be used to diagnose PTSD in people, a new study reports. neurosciencenews.com/ptsd-saliva-test-21213
 
 
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1:40 AM
@CowperKettle quick, correct that before Rob sees it!
Oh no, it's too late to edit! What have you done!
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Q: Can you have too little body fat?

amphibientIs there a bottom limit to an optimal body fat range that it would be considered unhealthy to be below? In other words, can you have too little body fat in modern (1st world) living conditions when it is unlikely to need to have stored body fat for unpredictable economic conditions (famine, war e...

Oh, no! cancels exercise sessions and orders pizza with extra cheese
 
 
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5:09 AM
> Why did Star Wars Episodes 4, 5 & 6 come out before 1,2 & 3?
Because in charge of directing, Yoda was.
 
I see what you did there XD
 
5:45 AM
Offshore wind turbine
 
6:18 AM
A journalist from Yekaterinburg, currently in Europe to avoid persecution, posted a photo of an official death notice sent to the relatives of a Russian soldier. It was written on a death notification blank printed in 1974.
 
6:42 AM
20 days ago, a new page in history was opened, with the approval of the first-ever gene therapy for the brain: European Commission Passes Eladocagene Exuparvovec as First Approved Treatment for AADC Deficiency neurologylive.com/view/…
This really makes one feel like living in a 21st century.
 
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> "I cannot listen much to music, it excites my nerves. I feel like talking nonsense and caressing people who, living in such a filthy hell, can create such beauty. Because today one must not caress anyone: they will bite off your hand. One must break heads, pitilessly break heads, even if, ideally, we are opposed to all violence."
@Vikas Oh, I know that one. But I've forgotten the name of the country.
I recalled it just now.
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7:26 AM
@CowperKettle Did Oscar Wilde say that?
@CowperKettle Nice
 
@Vikas No, Vladimir Lenin
 
Oh
 
Vladimir Lenin, in a conversation with the famous Russian writer Maxim Gorky ("Gorky" was his pseudonym, which means "bitter" in Russia, because his childhood and youth were very bitter, full of poverty).
> Gorky became an orphan at the age of eleven. He was brought up by his grandmother[1] and ran away from home at the age of twelve in 1880.
> After an attempt at suicide in December 1887, he travelled on foot across the Russian Empire for five years, changing jobs and accumulating impressions used later in his writing.
> The name reflected his simmering anger about life in Russia and a determination to speak the bitter truth.
I have a literary almanach published in 1900, with some stories by Maxim Gorky.
There are also curious old advertisements, like pictures of a man who is bald and then, after applying some concoction, he has a head full of hair, and there's a sign "I was baldъ!", with the letter yat, no longer used in Russian, at the end of "bald"
Order a new, patented, anti-balding hair restoration concoction.
 
3.8 ratings on IMDb so far for Lal Singh Chaddha (remake of Forrest Gump).
 
7:44 AM
Laal Singh Chaddha is a 2022 Indian Hindi-language comedy-drama film directed by Advait Chandan from a screenplay by Eric Roth and Atul Kulkarni. Produced by Aamir Khan Productions and Viacom18 Studios, it is a remake of the 1994 American film Forrest Gump which itself is based on Winston Groom's 1986 novel of the same name. The film stars Aamir Khan as the title character alongside Kareena Kapoor, Naga Chaitanya (in his Hindi film debut) and Mona Singh.The adaptation of Forrest Gump, underwent a series of changes over a period of two decades, with Atul Kulkarni spending the first ten years adapting...
 
Yeah, terrible reviews.
 
The Indian remake of the Soviet cult comedy The Irony of Fate fared no better..
I Love NY, also known as I Love New Year, is an Indian romantic comedy film directed by Radhika Rao and Vinay Sapru starring Sunny Deol and Kangana Ranaut. It was produced by Bhushan Kumar and Krishan Kumar under the banner of T-Series. The main plot was taken from the 1976 Russian romantic comedy The Irony of Fate (1976). After numerous delays, the film released on 10 July 2015. == Plot == A beautiful musician and a serious Wall Street banker cross paths on New Year's Eve and share experiences that the banker cannot recall. Over the next two days, they fall in love. == Cast == == Production... ==
 
3.4 ratings :P
 
People see only two digits on IMDb. 1 or 10 :P This has been trend in recent years for many Bollywood movies.
@CowperKettle Of course. Needs cooperation all around the world.
 
7:49 AM
I tried watching some sci-fi hits of the last several years, and boy are they vapid. Beautiful actors that act formulaically.
Only Predestination had good actors, but it was wrecked by a poor plot. But it's watchable, just for the sake of good actors. Actors need to earn money, they are not responsible for the vapid plots.
 
I'm also doing same. Watched Predestination, Looper, 12 Monkeys etc. recently.
IMO 12 Monkeys relatively easy to understand.
 
But it's sad to see great actors, who are like diamonds inserted in a plastic structure of a poor plot, makes for some odd jewelry.
@Vikas Yes, 12 Monkeys were great.
 
8:34 AM
Apparently, when used as an adverb rather can mean both moderately and significantly. Isn't that weird?
 
> Movies evoked activity from a network of modality-specific, semantically selective areas in visual cortex. Stories evoked activity from another network of semantically selective areas immediately anterior to visual cortex. Remarkably, the pattern of semantic selectivity in these two distinct networks corresponded along the boundary of visual cortex: for visual categories represented posterior to the boundary, the same categories were represented linguistically on the anterior side.
@Kiro Yes, it's rather weird.
 
9:34 AM
@Kiro Examples?
 
 
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10:43 AM
"The Beatles", dubbed as such by their hostages because of their English accents, was an Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) cell made up of British militiants. Its members were nicknamed "John", "Paul", "George", and "Ringo" by the hostages, after the four members of the English rock group The Beatles. In November 2015, one of the militants was killed and one was arrested, and the final two were caught in early 2018, and transferred to U.S. military custody in 2019.They are accused of being responsible for beheadings in Iraq and Syria, as shown in the beheading videos of American journalists...
I loved their albums
 
11:17 AM
> The [mental gravity] theory of depression maintains that the proximal cause of the disorder is the quasi-delusional belief or quasi-hallucinatory sensation that gravity is stronger than it actually is.
 
 
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12:22 PM
> British people are sickened that a British citizen could be involved in murdering people – including a fellow British citizen who had gone to Syria to help people – in this way. It is the very opposite of what our peaceful, tolerant country stands for.
I'm impressed he could say that with a straight face. But I guess he gets a lot of practice.
The British. Peaceful, tolerant, and always trying help people.
 
@FaheemMitha Generally, we are. That may not always have been the case, and there are particular situations even now which need more careful characterisation. But generally, what David Cameron said is right: British citizens who murder people deserve to have the book thrown at them and the key thrown away.
 
 
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2:09 PM
@FaheemMitha Every country tends to look at itself in the best light. In March, I was told by a friend that "Russia has never, ever attacked any country. You are a traitor."
 
2:59 PM
@CowperKettle Is that some sort of 'just-so' explanation of why so many (ie really hardly any) depressed people slouch? Because they believe gravity is stronger for them?
In science and philosophy, a just-so story is an untestable narrative explanation for a cultural practice, a biological trait, or behavior of humans or other animals. The pejorative nature of the expression is an implicit criticism that reminds the listener of the essentially fictional and unprovable nature of such an explanation. Such tales are common in folklore genres like mythology (where they are known as etiological myths – see etiology). A less pejorative term is a pourquoi story, which has been used to describe usually more mythological or otherwise traditional examples of this genre, aimed...
which comes from Kipling's just So stories about things like how the leopard got its spots.
Just So Stories for Little Children is a 1902 collection of origin stories by the British author Rudyard Kipling. Considered a classic of children's literature, the book is among Kipling's best known works. Kipling began working on the book by telling the first three chapters as bedtime stories to his daughter Josephine. These had to be told "just so" (exactly in the words she was used to) or she would complain. The stories illustrate how animals obtained their distinctive features, such as how the leopard got his spots. For the book, Kipling illustrated the stories himself. The stories have appeared...
@FaheemMitha They all live in quiet desperation, say sorry for having their own foot stepped on, is incensed at how people add milk to their tea differently than them. Jolly Holiday and Mary Poppins and all that.
 
@Mitch I looked up the paper, and it feels like utter nonsence.
Hard to believe that someone would write such nonsense in 2022.
 
@CowperKettle I mean some good ideas come from the imagination of what could possibly be motivating people.
Also some totally insane ideas.
 
I later checked the Twitter psychologist who posted the link, and she turned out to be a.. psychoanalyst. That explains it.
 
@CowperKettle A lot of academics are under great pressure to write -something-. And once it is typeset by MS Word, it looks so official.
 
The mental pressure theory of publication maintains that the proximal cause of publishing nonsense is the quasi-delusional belief in elevated pressure to publish.
 
3:07 PM
@CowperKettle It could very well be that a professional psychoanalyst sees just a few depressed people, and ... they all have bad posture?
 
Could be so.
 
@CowperKettle There is a lot of twitter evidence to support that delusion.
 
Word of the day: far transfer. Far transfer occurs when there is transfer of learner knowledge and skills from the taught context to another dissimilar context.
 
<perfunctory sceptical precaution>
 
3:28 PM
> Don't use double negatives. They're a big no no.
 
> Before the operation, 14 of the 20 participants were blind. After two years, none of them were blind any more. Three of the Indian participants who had been blind prior to the study had perfect (20/20) vision after the operation. medicalxpress.com/news/…
Bioengineered corneal implants made from cultured pig skin cells.
Amazing.
 
An option for you?
 
I did not read the paper. I would need a transplant of the endothelium, and here it's probably stroma.
But it's great all the same. There would be less need for human corneas, those could be stored for the most urgent and complex operations.
 
Ah, I see.
 
3:43 PM
> Corneal endothelial transplantation, commonly referred to as DSEK (Descemet’s Stripping Endothelial Keratoplasty) or DSAEK (Descemet’s Stripping Automated Endothelial Keratoplasty)
> In the early stages corneal swelling may be effectively treated by conservative measures such as strong salt water or glaucoma eye drops or exposure to dry air (such as a hair dryer on a low setting).
 
Huh.
When my eyes feel dry, eye drops or tears help, indeed: blowing dry air into mine eyes would seem to have the opposite effect!
 
4:05 PM
When we were kids, if someone else's finger would 'touch' someone's eye while playing (that is an annoying feeling for eyes, you might have experienced it) it would be irritating/annoying. So to 'treat' that, our grandmother would blow air from her mouth, filtered through a thin cloth right into that eye. It would give temporary relief! Not sure if it actually worked or it was psychological.
 
> Alan Turing, with less than two years experience, ran a marathon in 2:46:03 and was mentioned as one of the few men with a shot at representing England in the 1948 London Olympics
 
@Vikas That will temporarily increase evaporation, which make make the spot feel cooler.
But also drier.
And drier is generally not what you want for your eyes.
 
I would stop crying after that 'treatment' anyway :P
 
I once ran 33 km in 3:10:00, that was my longest run. And Turing ran a whole marathon in a shorter time.
 
Great
 
4:11 PM
@Vikas worth mentioning that IMDB is much less reliable these days
 
Yes, ever since they shut down the forums on IMDB, it has become impossible to truly gauge a movie.
 
@Vikas the people who vote seven or four out of 10 are not really better.
 
There were forum sections for every movie, and they were extremely intresting.
 
@M.A.R. Yeah. I thought I was the only one thinking like that.
Today evening was good to walk, even in the sun.
 
Beautiful greenery
 
4:14 PM
Not that I fancy another pretentious disabled-person Bollywood sympathy bait.
 
Wind speed was better. Otherwise wind speed is 0 so you sweat a lot.
I also saw a rainbow, right at the time of sunset. There was no rain today! Rainbows without rain exist? :O
 
If it's humid, why not
 
Brainbows are without rain, usually. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainbow
 
@M.A.R. I usually rate 7/8/9 movies I like. Except a few where I rate 10.
 
@CowperKettle whenever I see inspiring pictures of nature, I remind myself of all the venomous snakes and animal shit in the shrubbery to balance my view.
 
4:17 PM
Not a good photo but I was surprised to see it so I took a photo.
 
Well, okay. Not whenever, just now that I'm in a dour mood.
 
@M.A.R. It was relatively less humid today.
 
I only gave 10 points on IMDB to Amélie (2001), Witness for the Prosecution (1957), The Big Lebowski (1998), The Pianist (2002), The Boat (1981), The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), and Forrest Gump (1994)
 
I used to rate things, I think. Not anymore.
 
@CowperKettle Soon that will turn white. It's cotton mostly.
 
4:19 PM
I often watched movies that were pretty "safe" to watch, meaning, already decent movies that didn't need my praise. So it was often an 8, 9 or 10.
 
@M.A.R. WDYM?
 
@CowperKettle have you watched The Ballad of Buster Scruggs?
 
@M.A.R. No, I'll check it out, thank you
 
I gave 10 to Interstellar because I really loved it! It was best experience. Some people hate it though.
 
4:21 PM
I mean, the Coens are pretty safe. Anything they've made I've enjoyed. I've even enjoyed movies I criticize
@CowperKettle when life gives you lemons, swallow them whole.
 
@CowperKettle Ignore. I mean same to you if you're celebrating!
 
> Among women and men who are not blood relatives, there is also a transformed tradition of voluntary kin relations, achieved through the tying of rakhi amulets, which have cut across caste and class lines
 
Every other country has so many celebrations, sheesh. Why can't they be more like us and be constantly gloomy.
Our calendar is riddled with this saint or that saint's death.
 
We can't for a certainty tell
What mirth may molest us on Monday;
But, at least, to begin the week well,
Let us all be unhappy on Sunday.
 
@CowperKettle I really enjoyed The Pianist.
@M.A.R. You mean those yellow food in the photo? Those are not lemons for sure.
 
4:28 PM
@CowperKettle Holy crap, it sounds like it was originally composed for us.
Except the whiskey part. Can't even get drunk.
@Vikas gold coins?
 
A great poem
 
Also, why is she both offering him the plate and offering to feed him? That's so awkward.
 
@M.A.R. Nope! It's a sweet. For example:
Laddu or laddoo (Hindi: लड्डू) is a spherical sweet originating from India and spread through the Indian subcontinent and the Malay world. Laddus are primarily made from flour, fat (ghee/butter/oil) and sugar or jaggery . Laddus are often made of gram flour but can also be made with semolina. Sometimes ingredients such as chopped nuts and/or dried raisins can also be added. The type of ingredients used may vary by recipe. Laddus are often served during festive or religious occasions. == Etymology == Laddu is derived from Sanskrit लड्डुक (laḍḍuka; a kind of sweetmeat). == History == 260...
@M.A.R. Because she expects a good gift from her brother. So she is offering limitless sweets.
 
Ugh, Indian lemons look horrible
 
Gulab jamun (also spelled gulaab jamun; lit. 'Rose water berry' or 'Rose berry') is a sweet confectionary or dessert, originating in the Indian subcontinent and a type of mithai popular in India, Pakistan, Nepal, the Maldives (where it is known as gulab ki janu), and Bangladesh, as well as Myanmar. It is the national dessert of India. It is also common in nations with substantial populations of people with South Asian heritage, such as Mauritius, Fiji, Gulf states, the Malay Peninsula, Great Britain, South Africa, and the Caribbean countries of Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, and Suriname...
This is another. It's name is like "Rose-blackberry"
Have you eaten this ever?
 
4:36 PM
Gulab is also "rosewater" in Farsi
I can't stand rosewater
 
Yeah I'm not sure why is it named like this. Maybe rose and berry has something to do with its cooking.
 
Here we got proper sweets. Like baklava. Properly fattening.
Not that weak ass fruity crap
Our sweets clog arteries as they go.
 
weak ass == Weakass == Wikass == Vikas ?
 
Maybe in a Russian accent. It's a term of endearment in Russia. Just ask Cowp
 
LOL
Are you guys also getting spam flag notifications in chat?
 
4:42 PM
@M.A.R. Indians like festivals and celebration. Probably distracts them from their miserable lives.
 
I clicked "not sure" in both.
 
@Vikas anyone with over 10k reputation on all their SE sites sees chat flags
 
OK
 
Folks over at math can really be babies. Don't tell them I said that.
It's the problem with popularity. It's full of teenagers, and science SEs are not so big as to attract teenagers with homewerk problemz.
@FaheemMitha way ahead of you. We have miserable days to distract us from our own misery
"It is becoming more and more difficult for people to purchase essential goo-" "hold that thought. The 5th Imam didn't get poisoned as a political prisoner for you to be concerned over such materialistic vices"
 
4:59 PM
@M.A.R. rosewater smells like old ladies' farts
wait...that's sandalwood
rosewater isn't much better
@M.A.R. Essential goo? I'd prefer it in a powder.
 
@Mitch can't have shit in Iran
Just finished reading this, rot13(gurer'f n snve nzbhag bs vebal va gurz gnyxvat nobhg gur evpu arire urycvat gur cbbe naq gung fbzrbar fubhyq unir fghpx hc sbe gur cbbe, gura gur frpbaq gurl tb gb Nhfgenyvn gurl pbzcyrgryl sbetrg nobhg gur zvyyvbaf bs Nzrevpnaf orvat sbeprq gb yvir va grarzragf ba tehry) — Robin Clower 44 mins ago
 
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@M.A.R. I don't think that would work terribly well.
 
5:38 PM
 
Word of the day: snotsucker
 
 
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