> In philosophy and theology, Leibniz is most noted for his optimism, i.e. his conclusion that our world is, in a qualified sense, the best possible world that God could have created, a view sometimes lampooned by other thinkers, such as Voltaire in his satirical novella Candide.
I learnt the rule "The principal principle is that every school should have a Principle". But i've recently heard that principal can be a noun? Is there a difference in UK English vs US English on this?
> Ɯ (minuscule: ɯ) (also ) is a letter that was used in the Zhuang alphabet from 1957 to 1986 to represent a close back unrounded vowel /ɯ/. At some time in or before 1986, it was replaced with W. It was also used in Semyon Novgorodov's Yakut alphabet.
@DannyuNDos So yes and no. It is a W (double-u), but it's very literally a "turned m" for purposes of typography.
> "Lower reinforcement sensitivity in response to chronic SSRI administration may reflect the ‘blunting’ effect often reported by patients with MDD treated with SSRIs."
A recently-published 21-year-long study showed that antipsychitics cause negative symptoms (anhedonia, lack of motivation) and cognitive symptoms (reduced ability to do mental tasks) through their anticholinergic action.
No wonder then that schizophrenia treatment outcomes in the richest nations were no better than in the poorest in 1990s, despite the lack of drugs in the latter
SSRIs → apathy Antipsychotics → lack of drive to do anything, reduced cognitive abilities
@Robusto I mean, basically drugs used for majority of mental diseases ... increase bad symptoms
> "Amotivational syndrome caused or related to SSRI dosage is also commonly known as apathy syndrome, SSRI-induced apathy syndrome, SSRI-induced apathy, and antidepressant apathy syndrome"
I should buy a keyboard set for court stenography, and type 200 words/minute
@Robusto I took lithium, and it made me extra calm. But I started falling dead asleep in the middle of the day, and my blood sugar started always hovering at about 8 mmol/L despite insulin
I took it out of interest for a couple weeks, to see what it does
@CowperKettle The problem with that is you have to pronounce words to yourself in a simplified system of phonemes. For example, have is transliterated to a pronunciation that would rhyme with brave
When I was putting myself through school I typed court transcripts from court stenographers, which is how I know this sort of thing.
I saw a guy on YouTube who said that he tried out a stenography set and got hooked, because he can type very fast even while he only self-trained in his spare time and is below 50% of speed achieved by a pro stenographer
My grandma was a typewriter typist in the USSR, in a company that extracted peat for peat-fired powerplants
She was offered a typist position in the KGB, but she wiggled out of it by assuring them that she was not up to the task, could not keep secrets and so on and so forth
The Shatura Power Station (Russian: Шату́рская ГРЭС, romanized: Shaturskaya GRES, or GRES-5 locally) is one of the oldest power stations in Russia. The facility is located in Shatura, Moscow Oblast, and generates power by utilizing two 210 MW units, three 200 MW units, and one 80 MW unit, for a total capacity of 1.1 GW. Built in 1925, the power station initially used peat as its fuel source. Later on, the power plant has been diversified into multifuel. In 2010, a new combined cycle block of 400 MW was installed. The 80 and 400 MW blocks can not work on peat.
== Balance of fuel ==
In 2005 the fuel...
> I was always afraid of Somes's Pond: Not the little pond, by which the willow stands, Where laughing boys catch alewives in their hands In brown, bright shallows; but the one beyond.
Alewife station is a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) intermodal transit station in the North Cambridge neighborhood of Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is the northwest terminal of the rapid transit Red Line (part of the MBTA subway system) and a hub for several MBTA bus routes. The station is at the confluence of the Minuteman Bikeway, Alewife Linear Park, Fitchburg Cutoff Path, and Alewife Greenway off Alewife Brook Parkway adjacent to Massachusetts Route 2, with a five-story parking garage for park and ride use. The station has three bike cages. Alewife station is named after nearby...
One of our local train stations is, ultimately, named after them.
The definition of a direct object is being a recipient of a transitive verb, and the definition of a transitive verb is: characterized by having it containing a direct object.
Can someone define the two words in laymens terms?
Is there a "vote to un-migrate" option? As Araucaria said in the comments, this is actually a difficult question and I see no signs it came from a non-native speaker.
@EdwinAshworth As Auracaria pointed out, a detailed answer to this is quite difficult and this question should not have been migrated. Please do not migrate questions to ELL because you consider them too easy; that's in violation of current ELU policies. There's no reason to think this came from a non-native speaker so it should stay on ELU. — alphabet2 mins ago
@Laurel Would you mind backing me up by telling Edwin Ashworth that he should, indeed, not be closing "easy" grammar questions? He seems not to have learned this and keeps insisting the mods are on his side.
Now this one should, I think, go to ELL, not because it's too simple but because it's the sort of exercise that would only be given to non-native speakers.
(Ended up deleting that comment because I don't want to stir things up. Well, I do want to stir things up, but not now.)
I need a way of traveling back in time, to stop myself from posting overly disputatious comments instead of needing to delete them later.
When I walk in the street, my old iPhone 5s gets frozen and the charge indicator falls to 1%, but when I return home, the second I connect it to the charger, the indicator jumps to 60%.
> Between February 1999 and February 2005, we assisted five young adult patients who were admitted to the emergency department with a history of red-brown urine temporally related to candombe drumming.
Autobiography of a Yogi is an autobiography of Paramahansa Yogananda (5 January 1893 – 7 March 1952) published in 1946.
Paramahansa Yogananda was born as Mukunda Lal Ghosh in Gorakhpur, India, into a Bengali Hindu family. Autobiography of a Yogi recounts his life and his encounters with spiritual figures of the Eastern and the Western world. The book begins with his childhood and family life, then finding his guru, becoming a monk and establishing his teachings of Kriya Yoga meditation. The book continues in 1920 when Yogananda accepted an invitation to speak at a religious congress in Boston...
@jlliagre Very 'covid' era. Very strange to see all the streets and sidewalks entirely empty of anything at all (Like cafes and restaurant seating). But this update had a creepy feel to it... a bunch of older men standing around, a young man driving one of them around, the utter arbitrariness of the woman giving the driver of the older man some flowers.
I don't know the connotations in French but 'louche' in English means 'creepy like an older man leering at a young woman'.
Google gives "Qui n'est pas clair, pas honnête. ➙ suspect, trouble. Affaires, manœuvres louches. Un individu louche." which is not the same -definition- as English, but applies to the same situation in a similar manner.
@CowperKettle I wonder if, being neurology, they found that the redundant signage was actually not redundant and different patients recognized them differently.
@jlliagre And does the name 'Lalouche' have a certain... je ne sais quoi... inclination?
I like my fiction to be based on facts that are totally misunderstood in order to have a plot where things explode, instead of facts based on hallucinations of the real world and nothing explodes.
@jlliagre Oh 1) yes - older, not old 2) I wouldn't have recognized either.
@jlliagre That brings up an interesting question. I wonder if the dad was an Ashkenazi Jew whose ancestors were from France and part of colonization (and came back -as- Pied-Noir, -or- natively North Africa Jewish?
wikipedia is correcting a lot of wrong assumptions I had.
The history of the Jews in France deals with Jews and Jewish communities in France since at least the Early Middle Ages. France was a centre of Jewish learning in the Middle Ages, but persecution increased over time, including multiple expulsions and returns. During the French Revolution in the late 18th century, on the other hand, France was the first European country to emancipate its Jewish population. Antisemitism still occurred in cycles and reached a high in the 1890s, as shown during the Dreyfus affair, and in the 1940s, under Nazi occupation and the Vichy regime.
Before 1919, most French...
I thought historically Jews in France were mostly Ashkenazi, but it seems not, that they are mostly Sephardic (from the Spanish expulsion in 1492 and afterwards) or Mizrahi (or is it Maghrebi?) associated with Arabic rule of North Africa.
@Mitch There are many stories and events in it which are claimed real but seem fiction. Indians debate on it. Real or fiction, it didn't matter to me much. I enjoyed them.
@Mitch Been there, done that. ASPCA used to sell cardboard cat carriers, but determined cats would easily shred their way out of those if under duress. As I had cause to know when my GF's cat got spooked by loud truck noises and literally exploded out of the shitty carrier.
I got Covid a year ago Christmas, as a fully vaxxed individual. I tried the Paxlovid, which helped some, but two days after the course of medication I tested positive again.
Plus, Paxlovid makes your mouth taste TERRIBLE. The aftertaste on that stuff lasts five days.
I think I only had COVID once during Thanksgiving 2021, right when I became a mod for the first time. I don't think any of what I have to say about it would be useful here since I didn't need to do anything special to get over it
@Laurel I remember the tiktok videos of young adults filming themselves getting a fancy drink at starbucks and getting all angry at them for not putting in the flavor blasters requested or frankly not any flavor at all and oh shit they have covid
> “I understand that you want to stay in there forever because you get free food,” Brad tells her (the mother) politely as he slips a snare pole around her body.
@Mitch Neither do cats, but for different reasons.
If dogs do something bad, they hang their heads and mope away. Cats just look at you like "So I peed on the rug. What is that, a crime? Besides, this is boring, I'm outta here."
@alphabet Do apologize for your political comments above, which are offtopic on this site, before critisizing others.
@Jakobian It's the task of the folks above the English.SE moderator to point him/her to his/her wrongdoings (and not up to folks below).
@M.A.R. The moderator's spam (to be more precise: offtopic flood) is completely unrelated to my question being closed. Here, we're talking about the moderator's misbehaviour concerning the first (and not the second) issue: clearly flooding the chat with offtopic stuff.
Then please go on and tell us how “There can be only one .
Requiescant in pace 31k† Ukrainian troops.” with music (sang NOT in English) would ever on Earth be considered proper behavior and worthy of a moderator for an English language site.
@AlMa1r You've been told how this chat works by a room owner, another ELU moderator (me), a moderator from a different SE site, and even someone who's apparently just an active user in other chats. There's not really anyone left other than a Community Manager and they're just going to tell you the same thing: You can discuss your closed question here if (and only if) you do so respectfully. Respect that we talk about all sorts of things in this chat. It's not spamming
@AlMa1r Please, don't make us kick-mute you here. If you want to behave in a respectful, collegial manner, you are welcome. If all you want to do is yell at everybody for imagined injuries, that is a different matter entirely.
@AlMa1r You seem upset. Have you considered adopting an all-milk diet? It worked for me. Like most topics, my all-milk diet advocacy is appropriate for ELU chat and not considered spam.
Tataouine (Berber languages: Tiṭṭawin; Arabic: تطاوين) is a city in southern Tunisia. It is the capital of the Tataouine Governorate. The below-ground "cave dwellings" of the native Berber population, designed for coolness and protection, render the city and the area around it as a tourist and film makers' attraction. Nearby fortified settlements (ksars), manifestations of Berber architecture, such as Ksar Ouled Soltane, Chenini, Douiret, and Ksar Hadada, are popular tourist sites.
== Etymology ==
The name Tiṭṭawin means 'eyes' and 'water springs' in the Berber language. It is sometimes t...
@jlliagre I've converted everything I can think of to 'e-transfer' so much so that it's a real inconvenience when some place only takes checks. I have to -find- the checkbook, remember how checks work, find an envelope, find a stamp, remember how to send things by mail... and if I can't do any of these things I have to order new ones.
@M.A.R. When I pay by check, it's not that I ask for but that the creditor want one for some reason. That might be a doctor, the farmer who sell me firewood, the chimney sweep, my kid's school for some trip.
@M.A.R. My daughter-in-law, who is an M.D., says it's like trying to dry up a waterfall with only a teacup. Every day you begin again, and the waterfall is unchanged from the day before, except for the teacups you've managed to extract.
@Mitch I mean, guy barges in, demands a whole therapy regimen for some vague description of a potential illness his aunt's unkle's granddaughter has, who isn't present, because that would be too easy
And um, I realize it's embarrassing telling Americans that we don't have classy drugs of abuse, but they also sometimes ask for an 'expectorant codeine' syrup.
I've heard stories of patients intentionally injuring themselves to get doctors to prescribe them opioids. And pretending to be allergic to all non-opioid painkillers.