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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
00:39
> The settlement first appeared on maps in 1846 under its original name New York and was then situated in the Yekaterinoslav Governorate of the Russian Empire.[2] According to official data, in 1859 the village consisted of 13 households, 45 male residents, 40 female residents, and a factory.
 
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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
03:08
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Cerberus
Cerberus
03:52
Hah.
 
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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
06:54
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Nærum
Nærum (Danish pronunciation: [ˈneːʁɔm]) is a suburban district in Rudersdal Municipality in the north outskirts of Copenhagen, Denmark. Quartered by the Helsingør Motorway running north–south and Skodsborgvej running east–west, Nærum is bounded by Jægersborg Hegn on the south and east, Geel's Forest on the west, open fields on the north and the Søllerød district on the northwest. 5230 people live in the parish of Nærum, most of them in low-rise concrete blocks or single-family houses. == History == A village has been there at least since the Iron Age, but the name Nærum is first recorded in 1186...
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
07:08
SS Eastland
The SS Eastland was a passenger ship based in Chicago and used for tours. On 24 July 1915, the ship rolled over onto her side while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew were killed in what was the largest loss of life from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.After the disaster, Eastland was salvaged and sold to the United States Navy. After restorations and modifications, Eastland was designated a gunboat and renamed USS Wilmette. She was used primarily as a training vessel on the Great Lakes, and was scrapped after World War II. == Construction == The ship...
After the Titanic disaster, regulations required more lifeboats, and this made SS Eastland top-heavy. She capsized, killing more people than died on Titanic.
 
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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
09:51
> Iran will receive more than 4 million doses of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 shot from mid-February under the COVAX vaccine distribution scheme, the health minister said on Wednesday.
Great news.
 
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Xanne
Xanne
11:52
@CowperKettle Is the
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
12:43
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at beginning of body (43): ever and never exercise by Marco on english.SE
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
13:23
@Xanne yes
Johan Larsson
Johan Larsson
14:09
> Use then clicks "Load Order"...
What is a nice way to refer to a named thing in the app when writing manual?
Maybe Italics?
Gigili
Gigili
Sometimes I feel that life is an endless series of quests.
Robusto
Robusto
14:41
@JohanLarsson Use bold, or bold and a different typeface.
Mitch
Mitch
@Gigili a chivalrous enterprise in medieval romance usually involving an adventurous journey
Gigili
Gigili
@Conrado Enjoyable, huh? Like the smell of a freshly printed book
Mitch
Mitch
of, relating to, or characteristic of chivalry and knight-errantry
Robusto
Robusto
@Gigili A freshly printed book and a freshly baked loaf are both pleasing to the nose.
Mitch
Mitch
the quality, condition, or fact of wandering
Robusto
Robusto
14:43
> Go quest, young man, go quest.
Mitch
Mitch
characterized by aimless, slow, or pointless movement
pointless
ok
got it
I get it
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
15:04
Word of the day: medication overuse headache
Gigili
Gigili
@Robusto Nothing more pleasant than reading your freshly printed book while biting into the freshly baked loaf
OK, some things could be more pleasant but still.
Johan Larsson
Johan Larsson
@Robusto bold feels so heacy
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
15:26
Study identifies brain areas that support social semantic accumulation - I read the news, but failed to understand it.
Robusto
Robusto
@JohanLarsson But it's the right choice.
Johan Larsson
Johan Larsson
16:02
ok, thanks
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
16:17
> A first batch of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine arrived Thursday in Iran, the regional country hardest hit by the pandemic, which has charged US sanctions have hindered its fight against COVID-19.
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
16:29
@CowperKettle Hmm. Politicians like the reassure the saner of their people that sanctions against Russia-loving country X do not impact medicine, but it couldn't be further from the truth
There's been a shortage of transplant medication recently
I have some Prograf stored for the rainy day, but I imagine most people don't
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
@M.A.R. That is very bad
The state prosecutor today asked to send Anastasia Shevchenko to a penal colony for 5 years. Her crime - "taking part in a political debate and organizing a training seminar for election candidates". She did this as part of her work in Open Russia, a movement organized by the businessman Khodorkovsky, whom Putin and his cronies robbed of his company back in 2003.
Putin hates Khodorkovsky, so he will pursue people for the slightest sign of their allegiance to Khodorkovsky.
@M.A.R. Couldn't Iran buy these from India, China or Russia?
Robusto
Robusto
16:47
@CowperKettle Seriously, that is a criminal statute in Russia?
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
@CowperKettle Not every drug is produced by every company in the world, and there are several other obstacles to just replacing a known brand in the market
Gigili
Gigili
p
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
@Robusto Yes, Russia introduced a law making it illegal to participate in organizations deemed "unwelcome in Russia".
Gigili
Gigili
@Mitch Glad I could help.
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
@Robusto Russia did this with a nod to the USA, stating that a similar thing is practiced in the USA
"The USA can give an organization an unwelcome status, so why could not we?"
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
16:51
@CowperKettle They're giving everything a boolean status, I wonder what the logical fallacy is for it.
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
@M.A.R. Iranians living in the USA should team up and promote laws that would make it easier for simple people in Iran
Robusto
Robusto
@CowperKettle Well, I think the difference may lie in the definition of unwelcome. I don't know, though.
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
@M.A.R. After the USA bombed Yugoslavia, Russia has used it many times locally to explain why we can invade Georgia and Ukraine.
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
@CowperKettle Sadly I suspect most Iranians in the US don't care too much about Iranians in Iran unless it's something effortless to object to like women rights.
They'd consider us uncultured peasants. I probably would in their position.
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
Every little crack in the USA is instantly remembered and used by criminal regimes throughout the world to justify their own misdeeds.
@M.A.R. Maybe because Iran, just like Russia, was an empire? People coming from empires usuall don't have the strong sense of community, unlike people from smaller countries like Armenia, Georgia etc.
I've listened to several TV programmes by Putin's most higly paid propagandist Solovyev. In every single program he mentions instances of police brutality in the USA, the use of harsh sentences in the USA, the suppression of protests in the USA, etc, etc, etc. youtube.com/watch?v=H3QtZM8uhPo
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
16:55
@CowperKettle No no, that's too far past. I personally just think they have no compassion for our people, most, but not all, of course. Most permanent US residents fled from a theocracy back at 1978 or later. It's a past they wouldn't want anything to do with.
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
All these are used as justifications.
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
Of course, with the caricature portrayal of how things are here by foreign media, they wouldn't be inclined to come back.
BBL, gotta study
Robusto
Robusto
@CowperKettle Yeah. The US has been like a parent in that respect: the kids don't listen to a word you say, but they see everything you do.
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
> Ancient Greeks invented orgies. But it was ancient Romans who first started inviting women there.
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Alexander Ryabchuk, a history teacher in Rostov-on-Don, laureate of the 2020 Teacher of the Year award in his city.
His flat was raided by 5 policemen this morning. His former wife's flat was raided and searched on 3 Feb.
He has been arrested for 5 days.
He was recently thrown out of work for participating in a pro-Navalny meeting.
Rostov teacher thrown out of school, arrested today - local news report
 
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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
18:31
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Cerberus
Cerberus
18:47
Heh.
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
19:10
For one thing, surveys have consistently revealed that about 50% of the population believes in at least one conspiracy theory.
Robusto
Robusto
19:22
@CowperKettle There's a bottom half to every bell curve.
Conrado
Conrado
19:33
@CowperKettle And I thought I was unique in that respect...
The other fifty percent must be too busy planning the next apocalypse.
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
20:03
Word of the day: acuphagia
Cerberus
Cerberus
20:19
Eating sharp things?
That is a hybrid word.
Unless it means eating sound, which would be even odder.
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
> Inedia (Latin for 'fasting') or breatharianism /brɛθˈɛəriənɪzəm/ is the claimed ability for a person to live without consuming food, and in some cases water. It is a deadly pseudoscience, and several adherents of these practices have died from starvation or dehydration.
Conrado
Conrado
I heard of a guy who almost trained his horse to live without eating anything.
He gave the horse a little less straw and a little less grain each day.
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
Word of the minute: familial natural short sleep
> A number sign (#) is used with this entry because of evidence that familial natural short sleep-1 (FNSS1) is caused by heterozygous mutation in the BHLHE41 gene (606200) on chromosome 12p12.
Conrado
Conrado
He was down to three grains of oat a day, when the horse up and died!
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
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> Per 24-hour day, the short sleepers slept an average of 6.25 hours compared with other family members who slept an average of 8.06 hours. Thus, the mother and daughter represented 'natural short sleepers.'
> Pellegrino et al. (2014) reported a 27-year-old African American man with FNSS1 who also demonstrated resistance to adverse neurobehavioral effects of sleep deprivation. His dizygotic twin brother, who did not carry the variant, did not manifest the phenotype. The average sleep duration in the affected twin was 299.3 minutes, compared to the unaffected twin, which was 364.7 minutes.
> Following sleep deprivation, the affected twin had fewer performance lapses compared to the unaffected twin. The duration of NREM sleep was similar between the brothers, although EEG studies showed that the affected brother had higher delta power during NREM sleep, which is a putative measure of sleep drive.
If the natural short sleep variation is beneficial, it must gradually spread in the population.
I'll sleep on it.
Cerberus
Cerberus
20:32
@CowperKettle If it were, wouldn't it have spread a hundred thousand years ago?
There are probably (serious) adverse effects.
We still don't fully know what sleep is even for.
So we don't what what the adverse effects could be.
user 85795
user 85795
We know that medical schools have been sleep depriving interns for generations as part of their training.
user 85795
user 85795
21:15
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Robusto
Robusto
21:25
@user85795 Yes. You did.
> The only kind of tax I support is syntax.
Robusto
Robusto
22:17
Actually, that's not true. Or at least not for me. I don't mind taxation if it's used to help the electorate (not the political donors). But I don't want my tax dollars going to kill families in Yemen.
Cerberus
Cerberus
22:38
@user85795 That is unfortunately true in many places.
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
23:08
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Bit old now but never any less good
Gigili
Gigili
23:54
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hmm, looks like instagram homepage where there are images with a bit of text.
I give up.
Too late to delete that image!

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