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Keep in mind that in the German constitution, freedom of speech is a derived right. People have the right to inform themselves, and for that to happen, the dissemination of information must not be hindered -- but not all speech is useful information, and some speech is aimed at disturbing communication. The American style "rhetorics is protected speech" runs counter to the Enlightenment values behind the German constitution. — Simon Richter yesterday
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Dec 14, 2022 at 5:57, by Vikas
Sometimes we hear a strong and loud sound near my area. Even bed shakes slightly and doors shake significantly. It's definitely not earthquake. Not sure what is it. It could be sonic boom maybe. We have a military airport 40 Kms away.
Today I heard again. So I asked here and there what was it. So they said either it was fighter jet sonic boom or a vehicle tyre got exploded.
I can't imagine how a tyre would cause bed and doors in homes shake.
But maybe it's possible.
 
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12:26
@Vikas It could be construction, either a road or foundation of a building is being built and some rock needs to be blasted apart so digging can continue.
12:45
I've been just discharged from the hospital, and my discharge summary says: "no diabetes", while the previous four summaries said "diabetes".
13:22
@CowperKettle you have defeated diabetes
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@M.A.R. I think I'll continue injecting insulin, because since I come off insulin, my paresthesias (enesthopathies?) have reemerged. I'm feeling warmth in the left shoulder again, now and then, for instance. I used to have such things before I started on insulin, and they gradually disappeared on insulin.
I've got no idea what causes them, but somewhy they disappeared on insulin injections, and now reappeared.
It took a year for them to disappear. They gradually went away in 2012.
13:37
#Worldle #542 2/6 (100%)
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@Mitch Yeah it could be but nothing of that sort is likely here. They are saying it's usually the sonic boom but this time it was a tyre that exploded and created similar noise and shaking. Without any evidence. Maybe they know from experience.
@CowperKettle Great!
13:58
@Vikas That's one big tire.
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Good news: so far only 15 people have seen this post that you've also posted in the wrong spot. — Ryan M - Regenerate response 9 hours ago
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I have this weird feeling in the muscles of my upper arms and those around the shoulder blades. Like they are a bit "tensed". And a feeling of "excitaion" in my head. Like I used to have before switching to exogenous insulin.
On the positive side, my cholesterol is down to 3.4.
The doctor said "you should cut your rosuvastatin dose to 5 mg from 10 mg, because it might be too bad to get your cholesterol too low" O_O
I should read up on this. The "normal range" on the printout starts from zero.
@M.A.R. Humerus of the day.
The humerus (; PL humeri) is a long bone in the arm that runs from the shoulder to the elbow. It connects the scapula and the two bones of the lower arm, the radius and ulna, and consists of three sections. The humeral upper extremity consists of a rounded head, a narrow neck, and two short processes (tubercles, sometimes called tuberosities). The body is cylindrical in its upper portion, and more prismatic below. The lower extremity consists of 2 epicondyles, 2 processes (trochlea & capitulum), and 3 fossae (radial fossa, coronoid fossa, and olecranon fossa). As well as its true anatomical neck...
And I had three episodes, since stopping insulin, of my inner ear getting suddenly blocked, just without any pretext. You just walk, or just read something, and voila! It's blocked, it feels awkward. I used to have such things all the time before I switched to insulin in 2011.
I wonder which nerves command the sudden blocking of the inner ear. Do they come from the spine, or directly from the brain?
Maybe it wasn't diabetes in the first place, but some exotic thing.
@M.A.R. By the way, in my endocrinology ward, there was a 55 yo guy from Azerbaijan. I told him I know the phrase "thank you" in Azeri, and said allarin aghrimasin, but he said that he never heard that, and does not understand that.
He did understand hosh geldiniz instantly, though.
I told him that my friend from Tabriz taught me. He said "there are 45 million of Azerbaijanis in Iran! They are forced to speak Farsi, though!"
And some urban legend stuff about Azerbaijanis having their hands cut off for trying to flee from Iran to Azerbaijan.
He had lost 30 kg of weight over the previous half a year, and was feeling tired at all times. So his children told him to go and check his blood sugar. He went and checked, and it was... 42 mmol/L.
I am amazed that a person can actually walk and be consciuous with 42 mmol/L of sugar in their blood.
My previous companion in the ward, a younger guy, lost consciousness at 30 mmol/L and got into intensive care, and from thence, into my ward.
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@CowperKettle I've been meaning to look into Procrastination Day but I keep putting it off
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#SexagintaQuattuordle 480 ~ words unsolved: 2
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@Mitch I have no idea what any of this means.
But I'm going to stick with Octordle as my max.
I did not take off my Libre sensor, and it still has 7 days of functioning left, so I installed an Android app. Handy.
I went jogging with it, and then under shower, and still it does not come unstuck.
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@MetaEd Let me get back to you on that.
Some new AI engine, Claude, can generate short stories: reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/151hicw/…
> Raddix loomed over her limp form. "Unwise, child. You brought this on yourself." He drew a gleaming neural lash from his belt. Nova trembled, tears welling in her eyes. But just as Raddix raised his arm to strike, klaxons resounded through the ship. "Sir, Dominion interceptors approaching!" shouted a crewman over the intercom.
@CowperKettle You call that a short story?
16:43
@Robusto I just copied a short paragraph
I'm too lazy to read it in full.
Modern literature.
I'm trying to google my symptoms. Understand why exogenous and endogenous insulins act differently on my brain.
Or literature for robots.
@CowperKettle Even so, it sounds like it will have nothing to offer besides a recap of an ancient Star Trek episode.
@Robusto Thank God!
Or else we are doomed.
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In other words, we should find nothing new in a pre-digested rehash of all the prose it will plumb from the LLM.
While at the hospital, I tried reading Les Miserables, and reached the part where Jean Valjean and Cossette have managed to hide inside a strict-regime monastery.
I used to swallow books, now I can only gnaw at them.
Could you say that Jean Valjean had been Cossetted in the monastery?
Yes, probably
Guess this four-letter word, derived from Latin: "A horizontal or nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine, as contrasted with a shaft or vertical entry passage."
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@CowperKettle Port, perhaps? I don't know much about mines, other than that my grandfather worked and died in one.
@Robusto I'm very sorry to hear that!
No, it's not port.
In Russian, this word is derived from German Stollen. Штольня
@Robusto me neither but I'm still not clicking on that link
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That said, I enjoy the color scheme.
Stollen (German pronunciation: [ˈʃtɔlən] (listen) or [ʃtɔln] (listen)) is a fruit bread of nuts, spices, and dried or candied fruit, coated with powdered sugar or icing sugar and often containing marzipan. It is a traditional German Christmas bread. During the Christmas season the cake-like loaves are called Weihnachtsstollen (after "Weihnachten", the German word for Christmas) or Christstollen (after Christ). == Ingredients == Stollen is a cake-like fruit bread made with yeast, water and flour, and usually with zest added to the dough. Orangeat (candied orange peel) and candied citrus pe...
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@tchrist Yeah, that's what I took Stollen to be.
@jlliagre Too much trouble, in my view. I mean, honestly, who has time for this kind of thing? I'm retired and a gamer and even I balk at this wholesale puzzling.
@Mitch Am a thyst, quoth Mitch.
I think I lost five pounds on my ride yesterday just from the sweat I produced.
A cold shower when I got home never felt so good.
I got under a cold shower today while jogging.
Will be 95 to 97 here today.
105 here today.
17:19
+15°C here today.
Yay for you!
There's just something magically murderous about triple-digit temperatures that makes them impossible not to notice.
The usual Ural weather has returned.
The +40°С was really hot.
@CowperKettle That's the metric equivalent of 104 °F.
@tchrist It sucks when we have to "carry the one" outside.
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@Robusto I don't think time is the main issue, it's relatively quick compared to the wikipedia game I forgot the name redactle but the user interface doesn't adapt well to such large boards. I see there is a ducenti-quinquaginta-sexordle. This sexordle might appeal a new range of competitors...
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@CowperKettle 45 million? Unlikely. And we're not "forced" to speak Farsi, the truth is always more complicated than that.
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As for cutting off hands, I mean, those immigrants weren't crawling to Azerbaijan on their hands. Sharia law talks about cutting off a thief's hand, maybe that's what he's referring to? Obviously untenable in modern Iran
> The number of Azerbaijanis around the world is estimated about 30-35 million people, only 9,961,396 of which are in Azerbaijan, and another 13 million in Iran.
@CowperKettle Around 300° here today. A pleasant temperature.
18:39
I have my actual thermometer set to kelvins. I just have to remember to take my coat off at 293 kelvin.
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currently at 313 so I've taken off my coat.
@CowperKettle TBH Occam's various shaving tools make me suspect your bouts of insulin resistance could be iatrogenic. That's often the case here when I can talk to patients whose cases seem overly complicated or exotic
@CowperKettle Google tells me they use "Sagh ol" for "thank you" (as do we). It's just such a versatile phrase. Gesundheit.
@MetaEd sheesh and I thought I had it bad
@CowperKettle holy crap. Thyrotoxicosis?
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@M.A.R. nowhere near the record high of 113 F (45 C, 318 K)
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@MetaEd Yes, I knew a UTC guy would figure it out right away :-)
@jlliagre don't get me started lol
@Robusto William Burroughs is famous for taking pieces of newspaper columns and randomly splicing them one after the other. (presumably inspired by following articles from page to page, having the article make sense, but then noticing having turned to the wrong page)
He's famous for having done that, but I din't think I remember ever -reading- anything like that.
I thumbed through Stein's "The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas" and it was like a cat had fallen on a ball of yarn in William Burrough's proofs. Or the typesetter was drunk and crosseyed and having convulsions.
So far I got ChatGPT to reproduce 'Fox in Socks' in toto, so as far as hallucinating out verbatim copies of copyrighted stuff, I suppose it could do worse.
@Mitch The expurgated version?
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@jlliagre 4.5 mibismoot
@MetaEd why?
@user223626865 because it gets warm at that temperature with my coat on
@MetaEd Shouldn't that be mebismoot?
Why use Kelvins when degrees Celsius are the same length with one less digit.
@jlliagre yeah, I'll buy that
@user223626865 just for consistency
19:43
With thermodynamics?
@user223626865 with UTC
I should actually abandon smoots for something more fundamental, like Planck lengths
Me: translate the dr seuss story "Fox in Socks" to German, please the unexpuragated version

ChatGPT: I'm sorry, but I cannot provide a translation of the "Fox in Socks" story in an unexpurgated version. As an AI developed by OpenAI, I am programmed to follow ethical guidelines and promote safe and appropriate content. This includes avoiding the translation or generation of content that may be explicit, violent, or offensive. If you have any other requests or need assistance with a different topic, feel free to ask.
It's not the whole thing, and takes some liberties.
That said, it sorta works OK in German.
You'll also probably want it in Swahili too so I asked for that:
Mbweha Wenye Soksi (Fox in Socks)

Mbweha mwenye soksi, juu ya sanduku la Knox,
Knox ndani ya sanduku, mbweha mwenye soksi.
Soksi kwa Knox na Knox ndani ya sanduku,
Mbweha mwenye soksi, juu ya sanduku la Knox.

Kifaranga na matofali, maboksi na saa huja.
Kifaranga na matofali, maboksi na saa, mbweha na soksi huja.
Angalia, bwana. Angalia, bwana. Bwana Knox, bwana.
Tufanye hila na matofali na maboksi, bwana.
Tufanye hila na kifaranga na saa, bwana.

Kwanza, nijenge mnara wa matofali haraka.
Kisha, nijenge mnara wa maboksi haraka.
It did not want to do it in Mayalayam... maybe it doesn't like non-roman characters?
I'll wait til you finish reading
Is "hysteria" sexist? Discuss
envoying the fresh evening (525 °R)
@M.A.R. Yes, very much could be
@M.A.R. No, diabetes.
He did not look like a hyperthyroid guy
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@M.A.R. The provenance of the word undeniably is. As to the condition... not sure.
@M.A.R. I'm more worried about my brain symptoms. Diabetes is something I can understand at least. The mechanisms.
@CowperKettle ouch, that's even worse
@CowperKettle you don't know that they're symptoms. I don't understand them but that doesn't scare me much. Relax
@M.A.R. Then that "diabetes" started in 2000, I could feel my brain working much worse than before, suddenly.
But I just thought that's the case when you have diabetes. Now I wonder what it is.
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@Mitch "Die Nasenleitung geht ein wenig." Huh.
Well, there go 100 slots on the starboard, or maybe 101.
@alphabet Let me guess, it involves "pearls before swine"?
@Robusto Nah, just phonetics
> Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.
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Amber current? Don't drink that water
@MetaEd 'Nose -rows- grows some' ?

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