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3:16 AM
What's the plural of [bæθ]? Is it [bæθs] or [bæðz]?
 
3:29 AM
@tchrist What is that in Latin letters?
Or what does it mean?
 
Just like it sounds.
It might be a lot of water in a tub, for washing and cleaning.
It's like a shower, but lying down.
Kids like it with bubbles.
It's a bad word for the duchies.
 
@tchrist I say bæðz.
 
Thanks.
I do, too. I heard a kid in a grocery store here the other day say it the other way, but she didn't seem too fond of them.
 
4:12 AM
Ohh.
Bath.
It just didn't click.
I don't know.
 
 
1 hour later…
5:40 AM
Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation has been declared "an extremist organization" by a court ruling the previous night.
The prosecutor's deliberation before pronouncing the verdict lasted 47 seconds.
The defence laywers tried in vain to bring their own witnesses.
The whole court session took some 11 hours and lasted into the night, which is unprecendented.
Usually a court adjourns to continue the session on the next day.
It's a monkey court.
 
Yeah sounds like a farce.
But, sadly, it is little surprise.
 
6:23 AM
Mesmerizing and amazing music.
 
@CowperKettle the jury, you mean, or the prosecutors deliberate too? I wouldn't know
 
6:40 AM
@M.A.R. Ah. Sorry. The Prosecutor's speech lasted 47 seconds.
 
Heh, so it was essentially like "Lol. get rekt"
 
The defense lawyers asked explanation conserning the 'evidence' which contained a lot of paper but no actual evidence. The Prosecutor's side did not answer. Basically it was a fake court.
 
I've read a book about Mosaddegh's trials. It was epic, if the transcript was legit.
 
Here , I understood Gig can be like a concert.
Assistant event can be like someone for managing for the event.
I am confused the world ‘cord’ ?
 
7:36 AM
coordinator?
The gig here is the job, I think.
 
@Xanne Ok.
What kind of coordinator but ?
 
8:09 AM
I read it as “an assistant event coordinator job.” You are invited to send a direct message to the poster to find out the pay. I don’t see much of this sort of thing so I don’t have any feeling for whether it’s genuine or whether my guesses are good.
There is no information on what kind of event will presumably be held.
 
8:56 AM
@Xanne Ok. Thanks a lot.
Should I ask them like what do I have to do and what is event ? . I kind of feel it doesn’t sound right to ask them like this.
 
Yes, ask them. Then use your own judgment about whether it's a good idea.
 
 
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11:35 AM
@Xanne Ok. Thanks
 
@tchrist it's supposed to be bæðz but I hear bæθs a lot.
 
bɑːθz
 
12:21 PM
"Yeah, we'll get on that right away."
I suppose we should take this as an encouraging sign that a Republican actually acknowledges climate change is real? But damn, the stupid shit comes down so hard I think I should be wearing a hat.
 
and why the Forest Service? Not even NASA or some kind of marine science?
> “as feasible as making the sun rise in the west.”
 
actually that's very easy. just rename "east" to "west"
 
On the official website of Ukrainian Police, the file showing the busting of an undercover whorehouse is named whores4.jpg (шлюхи4.jpg)
LOL
 
not whores4u.jpg? shame 😋
 
12:35 PM
It's amazing that prostitution is still not decriminalized.
> According to the National Institute of Justice, a study conducted in 2008 alleged that approximately 15-20 percent of men in the country have engaged in commercial sex.
 
@CowperKettle yes. the backwards thinking about how putting prostitutes in prison will stop human trafficking, sexual assault and rape of prostitutes. They're not the ones causing the problems.
it's like imprisoning pedestrians congressmen because they might get run over assassinated
 
12:53 PM
@MattE.Эллен Shhh. Some fool might hear you and propose that idea in a Congressional subcommittee.
 
:-o
fool proof
 
I like the corrections.
Idiocracy is a 2006 American science fiction comedy film directed by Mike Judge and co-written by Judge and Etan Cohen. Starring Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, and Dax Shepard, it follows an American soldier who takes part in a classified hibernation experiment, only to be accidentally frozen for too long and awaken 500 years later in a dystopian world where dysgenics and commercialism have run rampant, mankind has embraced anti-intellectualism, and society is devoid of such traits as intellectual curiosity, social responsibility, justice, and human rights. The film was not screened for critics, and...
Who knew Mike Judge was making a documentary?
 
@MattE.Эллен I came here to say that
 
Your work here is done. By someone else.
 
I'd write something to thank you for your recognition, but I'm waiting for that to be done for me also
 
1:07 PM
We'll put it on the list.
Perhaps @Matt can take time out over the next few days to perform that service for you.
The difference is he is saying all this in fun.
 
I'll just imagine it: "you're welcome"
 
1:23 PM
Thinking it is almost doing it.
 
20 yo Russian girl faces up to 3 years in jail for hugging her 16 yo friend, also a girl, and kissing her on the lips. znak.com/2021-06-10/…
A criminal case has been launched under Article 135 of the Criminal Code of Russia.
 
1:41 PM
37 beats per minute, the lowest thus far
 
@CowperKettle Is it yours ? I’m really sorry it’s very low.
 
No, it's normal
I'm a runner
 
@CowperKettle Nice. I like to run too. Daily I do.
 
I've run only 705 km since the start of the year, but still it helps decrease the heart rate
 
@CowperKettle Omg. Nice 👍
 
1:44 PM
@SrijanM.T Do you track your runs on Strava?
Strava is an American internet service for tracking human exercise which incorporates social network features. It is mostly used for cycling and running using GPS data. Strava uses a freemium model with some features only available in the paid subscription plan (formerly called Strava Premium and then Strava Summit). Strava Metro, a program marketed towards city planners, uses cycling data from Strava users in supported cities and regions.The service was founded in 2009 by Mark Gainey and Michael Horvath and is based in San Francisco, California. During the early years of Strava, both founders...
I'm a Strava addict
It's popular in Russia
 
@CowperKettle No. I just run because I like to. I am a school champion (Bronze)
Im 17 btw
@CowperKettle I can try it. Thanks
I play a lot of sports. Football , cricket , basketball , handball but due to COVID. I can only do running 😞
 
Cool!
I'm 43, and in school I hated running
 
@CowperKettle Yup.
 
I only started regularly running aged 27 maybe
CYA!
 
@CowperKettle That’s great
@CowperKettle Bye
 
2:25 PM
subbookkeeper is a word with four double letters in a row
bbookkee
 
2:49 PM
I lost my thesaurus today. I have no words to express how I feel.
 
 
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4:44 PM
> According to the Texas law, it is illegal for any public official (elected or otherwise) to be a communist, which makes it difficult for the party to participate in elections.
Wow. Never knew that.
 
 
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6:11 PM
@CowperKettle how do you keep your knees intact
all i've been doing during the pandemic is walking long hours and somehow it's bothering my knees
 
6:22 PM
@shintuku Thankfully, they are okay thus far. I don't know how exactly to spare them
@shintuku Sorry to hear that!
I wonder if there are reviews in PubMed on how much exactly running tends to ruin one's knees.
In terms of injuries per thousand km or something like that.
 
i've always thought that it can't be that bad when you look at Zidane
 
@CowperKettle It ruined mine.
 
6:39 PM
@Robusto I'm very sorry!
 
@CowperKettle It's just something that happens if you're active. Nobody runs on pavement forever.
Between basketball and running, my knees began to give out in my 40s and in my 50s they were pretty much done. I went through seven years of hell where I couldn't walk a mile without a lot of pain.
Being forced to be sedentary was the worst.
Finally I got a knee replacement and it gave me my life back.
 
knee replacement 100% fixed it?
 
I can't run anymore, but I cycle a whole lot.
Before Covid I was doing 10k miles per year (about 1600 km).
 
very cool!
 
I mean 16,000 km.
Math is hard.
 
7:04 PM
a person needs to pass some examination to get admission to an organization.
what if a person cannot pass the examination of any organization, can this person live?
 
they tend to be homeless, no?
or interned in corresponding institutions
 
when an organization recruits people, they choose applicants in the order of good to bad performance in the exam.
 
unskilled industrial jobs often don't need much qualification
 
every organization does this kind of thing. So only applicants performing good enough in the exam would be selected,
 
unskilled jobs in customer service too, don't need much qualification
 
7:11 PM
so what to do for those who are not selected by any organization?
they apply for unemployment aid from the govenment.
so if there are too many people applying the unemployment aid from the government, how does the government do?
the government selects a proportion of these applicants to grant unemployment aid.
what criteria does the government use to select from these applicants to grant unemployment aid?
 
depends on the country, which country are you talking about?
 
the government examines the level of disability of these applicants - the more disable a person is the more likely he is to be selected to grant the unemployment aid.
the organization selects applicants based on one's ability - the more able a person is, the more likely he is to be selected by the organization.
 
well, for instance, in canada, unemployment aid, requires at least 3 years of full-time work before application. social assistance, or disability annuity, are reserved for other sorts of applicants
 
so finally those who can't live are those who are in the middle, who are not the most able nor the most disable.
 
bad generalization
for starters, what country are you speaking of?
Spain has a minimal universal income
no matter what you do, you have an income
 
7:23 PM
In Netherlands, if one has depression, he can apply for the government's stipend no matter whether he belongs to any organization providing salary to him because depression is counted as a disability there.
so this kind of person can live no matter whether he is admitted into an organization or not.
 
this is the case in most social-democratic countries
 
@shintuku but one needs to belong to an organization to get income. If a person works in private, like some creative works, or studies, he cannot have an income.
 
it depends on the country and the social assistance program
 
7:40 PM
I think those who are not selected by any organization nor the government for unemployment aid may probably try to live by selling things as peddlers. They are like modern hunters and gatherers.
 
@RegDwigнt ^
This showed up in my feed. Kind of fascinating, really.
I've come to the conclusion that it's impossible to ruin this piece with different orchestrations/instrumentations.
But the orchestral version is still sublime.
 
8:39 PM
@Bohemianrelativist Are you in the Netherlands? I thought you were somewhere else.
 
@Xanne no, but I by chance know a Holland who has depression and can get the government's aid no matter whether he has a paid position or not, so after the fund cut of his original affiliation, he volunteers to be a researcher in another institute which doesn't pay him.
if a person has income no matter what, he can really volunteer to work on anything his is interested in.
if in this world everyone has income no matter what, there may be some works nobody want to work on.
because nobody is interested in them.
 
 
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10:28 PM
It says in the papers that America and England still forbid all vaccine exports.
Is that true?
 
11:00 PM
@Cerberus Sounds off given Biden said he would be donating a half a billion Pfizer doses.
 
@tchrist In the future.
He is going to buy those.
 
Well he said it in the past. :)
 
But it was not long ago.
 
Just kidding.
 
Hmm.
I have to say I find it a bit hypocritical, trying to build a beneficent image of yourself, after forbidding all exports for so long.
I hope America has at least been donating money to Covax?
 
11:04 PM
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WASHINGTON—The Biden administration moved to sharply ramp up Covid-19 vaccine shipments to other countries, following calls for the U.S. to bolster efforts to curb the coronavirus globally as it rages unchecked in developing nations.
> U.S. officials have said there was no outright ban on exports but that domestic distribution was given priority under the Operation Warp Speed strategy implemented by the Trump administration and continued under the Biden White House.

Under that program, the U.S. government preordered hundreds of millions of vaccines from companies like Pfizer and Moderna even before their vaccines were authorized, which obligated the companies to fulfill those contractual volumes first.

The U.S. has used the Defense Production Act to limit exports of vaccine ingredients and related equipment like vials
 
Yeah.
I mean, I can kind of understand prioritising one's own citizens.
But then admit it, and don't pretend to be altruistic.
 
What's pretending?
 
And end the ban once it becomes clear your vaccination programme has been successful enough.
And don't claim your own vaccination programme is going faster while suggesting that it is because of anything other than export bans.
The British government has been the worst.
The role of Astra Zeneca remains under investigation.
 

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