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Dannyu NDos

01:23

They say someone confused gochujang to ketchup.

Heck, what's the difference? Both are a sauce with red color. The only difference emerges from their ingredients.

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CowperKettle

04:05

Word of the morn: antidromic

CowperKettle

04:39

The Farmina Struvite feed has vanished from the stores, and my cat is having blood in his urine again. I bought a specialized feed from Serbia, and the cat started having blood on it.

I wonder what kind of ingredient could be added to prevent this, or maybe could be injected intramuscularly.

Otherwise, I'm afraid the cat could die or be euthanized.

Some person on a local forum recommended Alleva Care Cat Adult Urinary - but would it work? I don't have endless funds to just buy and try everything.

M.A.R.

05:17

@CowperKettle food can't be injected IM, and IV food has pretty dangerous side effects, except in, say, ICU patients we have no choice. As to what could be causing it, maybe if you add enough info it could be a good question for Pets.SE?

It's likely an ingredient is causing it, not that an ingredient is needed to prevent it

An immune reaction to a common ingredient in cat food? Did the vets say anything?

@DannyuNDos I mean, it definitely looks like ketchup, from Google. Might even taste like some varities of ketchup.

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CowperKettle

06:59

@M.A.R. I think that vets in Russia are even worse than human docs, and human docs found a diabetes in me when I had none, and did not find a post-stroke lesion in my brainstem on 9 consecutive MRI scans over a span of 13 years, when it was staring them in the face.

In my childhood, my mom diagnosed me with hepatitis very early after the disease's onset - my sclerae were white yet. She forced the doc into prescribing blood tests, since he was adamant that there was nothing wrong.

Thanks to her, nobody in my school class caught it, while in other schools it was spreading fast, and nobody from our family caught it.

She was once at her friends' apartment dining and chatting, and the host started having pain in his back. He had a bad heart, so he called his friend cardiologist, and that guy told him just to relax, and my mom raised hell and insisted he go to the cardiac clinic - she asked him to accompany her home and on the way talked him into entering the clinic for a short chat with a rezident doc.

The clinic was on the way, so they entered for a couple of words, and that doc immediately hospitalized the guy for a heart attack or something. Later they said she probably saved his life.

There are a lot of doctors who just go through the minimal motions to get through the day.

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CowperKettle

08:13

> Hesiod asserts that a bronze anvil falling from heaven would fall nine days before it reached the earth. The anvil would take nine more days to fall from earth to Tartarus

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HippoSawrUs

10:34

@Mitch When they were only $7 at the PX, long ago, I bought one for every child I could think of so all the parents could suffer. It seemed right at the time.

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Robusto

13:55

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jlliagre

14:37

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jlliagre

14:48

Daily Octordle #888
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#WhenTaken #124 (30.06.2024)

I scored 916/1000 🎉

1️⃣ 📍 1290 km - 🗓️ 10 yrs - ⚡ 149 / 200
2️⃣ 📍 1 km - 🗓️ 1 yrs - ⚡ 199 / 200
3️⃣ 📍 649 km - 🗓️ 5 yrs - ⚡ 176 / 200
4️⃣ 📍 118.8 metres - 🗓️ 2 yrs - ⚡ 198 / 200
5️⃣ 📍 109 km - 🗓️ 1 yrs - ⚡ 194 / 200

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jlliagre

16:19

Corn Popper

The Corn Popper is a toy manufactured by Fisher-Price since 1957. Aimed at pre-schoolers, when the Corn Popper is pushed or pulled, colored balls inside a plastic dome bounce and create a popping, bouncing noise. == History == The Corn Popper was invented in 1957 by Arthur Holt, and sold to Fisher-Price for $50. The Corn Popper is one of the most popular toys for young children in history, and was designed to help them learn to walk. It sends tiny, colorful, gumball size balls flying and hitting the plastic dome, to create its signature loud popping noise. == Accessories == Corn Popper keyrings...

I first misread sold to as sold by so thought $50 was very expensive for such a toy in 1957 :-)

Robusto

16:45

@jlliagre In 1957 you could by the whole company for 50 bucks. ^_^

jlliagre

16:59

@Robusto Fishy price ;-)

Mitch

@HippoSawrUs you monster

jlliagre

17:15

The Collapse of the Third Republic

The Collapse of the Third Republic: An Inquiry into the Fall of France in 1940 by William L. Shirer (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1969) deals with the collapse of the French Third Republic as a result of Hitler's invasion during World War II. == Prewar == As a CBS correspondent in Germany during the climactic events under discussion and as a frequent visitor to and correspondent from prewar France, Shirer was left to question how Germany had overrun France within weeks in 1940. Both countries had fought each other for four years in 1914-1918, with France successfully resisting Germany at every turn...

CowperKettle

18:04

It was a surprise for me to learn of the plan proposed by Churchill in 1940 to unite the UK and France into a single state

> France and Great Britain shall no longer be two nations, but one Franco-British Union. The constitution of the Union will provide for joint organs of defence, foreign, financial and economic policies. Every citizen of France will enjoy immediately citizenship of Great Britain, every British subject will become a citizen of France.

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jlliagre

19:22

Entente Cordiale

The Entente Cordiale (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃tɑ̃t kɔʁdjal]; lit. 'Cordial Agreement') comprised a series of agreements signed on 8 April 1904 between the United Kingdom and the French Republic which saw a significant improvement in Anglo-French relations. On the surface, the agreement dealt with issues strictly related to fishing and colonial boundaries. Egypt was recognized as part of Britain's sphere of influence, and Morocco as part of France's. The Entente was not a formal alliance and did not involve close collaboration, nor was it intended to be directed against Germany. However, it paved...

Robusto

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Robusto

20:57

@jlliagre Looks like Macron shit the bed with his snap elections ...

France's Far Right Scores Big in First Round of Elections

Woe is us.

Robusto

21:36

#WhenTaken #124 (30.06.2024)

I scored 909/1000 🎉

1️⃣ 📍 2014 km - 🗓️ 2 yrs - ⚡ 148 / 200
2️⃣ 📍 22 km - 🗓️ 2 yrs - ⚡ 197 / 200
3️⃣ 📍 649 km - 🗓️ 3 yrs - ⚡ 178 / 200
4️⃣ 📍 35 km - 🗓️ 7 yrs - ⚡ 189 / 200
5️⃣ 📍 41 km - 🗓️ 1 yrs - ⚡ 197 / 200

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alphabet

21:57

@Robusto This may prove to be another demonstration of how runoff voting strongly disadvantages moderate parties, which may be the second choice of the vast majority but the first choice of relatively few.

jlliagre

22:14

@alphabet Compared to what voting system?

@Robusto Yes, everybody but him knew that as soon as he announced it. Maybe he'll come back later and tell that was the best option.

@Robusto Likely the same place in #3.

Robusto

23:16

@jlliagre Yup.

My guess was where I'm from, and I've never actually been to the actual place. Why would I ever go there?

jlliagre

23:35

@Robusto Why? Because you would have improved your score by 19 points and beat me ;-)