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Robusto

00:55

Last Week In The Republican Party...

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CowperKettle

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CowperKettle

02:47

The Methodist Church of Yekaterinburg

My friend sang in the boy choir in the 1990s in this church on the day of its first opening.

He was a choir singer and travelled the world as a boy, with concerts.

But then became a marketing specialist. And turned to love electronic music, like drum-n-bass.

For some time he even tried being a DJ.

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Cerberus

04:24

@CowperKettle That's really sad.

CowperKettle

05:12

@Cerberus Why? Is being an electronic DJ bad?

I mean mixing and "scraping" some vinyl disks in a club

And different electronic music mixing.

I thought it must be hard to do. One must feel the tempo, the metrics of the music. I don't know the terminology.

But when we were listening to some song, he would say right away - it's in the 2/4 tempo, or it's in the 4/4 tempo or something like this.

I would break my mind trying to distinguish this. And he was like "oh, it's so easy"

I still don't understand this.

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CowperKettle

07:33

A photo on a local caffee

CowperKettle

08:13

CDC finds unvaccinated 11 times more likely to die of COVID

M.A.R.

08:58

@Mitch well I guess that's about it, I dunno what more you expect me to say. Though of course heat is always expensive industrially. So a startup with a lot of funding. With that money they probably do other things.

M.A.R.

09:23

@Mitch It turns an electrical gradient into ATP. That's pretty impressive, regardless of how many gears turn.

Though the entire 'oxidative phosphorylation' system was never meant to be efficient. It has lots of other considerations in mind, which is why it works the way it works.

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CowperKettle

10:49

twitter.com/ashleygjovik/status/1422380335703101443

Word of the day: vocal fry

thecut.com/2016/07/female-voice-anxiety-c-v-r.html

And upspeak

Never ever heard of this.

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CowperKettle

12:32

Q: Can autoantibodies found in the father affect the emryo, and how?

From "Folate Receptor Alpha Autoantibodies in Autism Spectrum Disorders: Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention" (2021): Comparison of the Childhood Autism Rating Scale (CARS) after 2 years of treatment (folinic acid supplementation and correction of abnormal nutrient values) with the CARS at basel...

Robusto

12:49

@CowperKettle Just FYI, we say "4/4 time"—not "4/4 tempo". Tempo refers to how fast the music is played, and you can have a slow 4/4 or a fast 2/4, etc. The time signature indicates how many beats in a measure and what note (eighth, quarter, etc.) gets a beat.

4/4 means four beats to a measure, and each quarter note is one beat.

Man_From_India

13:40

@Cerberus I too. But the problem is to access the correctness of including "work" in comparative clause. I would have called the inclusion a bad grammar or even a mistake. But after reading the correctness of keeping "afraid" in the comparative clause, made me confused.

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Mitch

15:36

@M.A.R. On one hand my point is that all the energy that goes into the rotation of this 'engine' and all it seems to do is spit out a couple molecules per second... isn't the rotational energy already kind of a big deal? What's so great about ATP that you can't do already with a spinning wheel?

On the other hand, holy shit, well before... well well before anything like life happens, this whole process evolved, combinations of these molecules that spin and spit out molecules that store energy that can be used in other molecular processes that eventually do 'life' stuff.

Of course, this electron transport chain... that's what it is right?... could have evolved in parallel with DNA replicated life. That is maybe there were amino acids in much shorter chains and smller proteins that acted like ribosomes to do encoding/decoding (that's already pretty complicated... and there may have been no ATP/ADP process but all energy straight from light, and then maybe ATP/ADP without this rotating engine, but the ones that had an small engine tended to last longer?

Or something?

Frankly this sort of stuff probably happened before cell walls were invented, but having them around meant that some of these chemical processes could act more stably within them. But then does the replication process (DNA/RNA) encode for cell walls?

Could you explain this real quick? I need to reinvent life by Monday morning. and I'm getting pretty anxious.

Q: The term 'vocal fry': where does it come from?

On a recent Language Log posting Vocal fry: "creeping in" or "still here"?, Mark Liberman discusses an (also) recent article about the phenomenon of 'vocal fry' and shows how it has been around for quite awhile in the US (lots of references in that blog post). I personally had never heard of thi...

etymology pronunciation american-english

A: What is this US accent found so often in instructional videos?

There isn't any unusual accent in that speech. What you're referring to, though, is intonation, and one of the things you're specifically referring to is called vocal fry. In vocal fry, the vocal folds are shortened and slack so they close together completely and pop back open, with a little...

Andrew Leach

16:17

@CowperKettle Generally a "High Rising Terminal", although also known as Australian question intonation or Australian Interrogative Ending.

High rising terminal

The high rising terminal (HRT), also known as upspeak, uptalk, rising inflection, upward inflection, or high rising intonation (HRI), is a feature of some variants of English where declarative sentence clauses end with a rising-pitch intonation, until the end of the sentence where a falling-pitch is applied. Empirically, one report proposes that HRT in American English and Australian English is marked by a high tone (high pitch or high fundamental frequency) beginning on the final accented syllable near the end of the statement (the terminal), and continuing to increase in frequency (up to 40%...

Robusto

16:33

@AndrewLeach This is definitely a feature of some Southern US variants. It's usually used in a situation where the speaker is inviting agreement or acknowledgment. "So I painted my house last week?" is such a declarative, and might be rephrased as "So I painted my house last week, you know?" in the exact same circumstance producing the exact same effect.

CowperKettle

16:43

Thank you'all for the links!

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tchrist

19:09

The accents in your name fall on the first syllable of each of those three words. So Adrien is ˈeɪdʒɹiən to rhyme with Hadrian, Bischoff is ˈbɪʃɔf to rhyme with fish-off, and Dyson is ˈdɐɪsən to rhyme with bison. That little ˈ you see right there in the very front of each word’s phonetic spelling tells you that that’s the syllable that gets accented/stressed, and not those following it. Is that what you wanted to know? — tchrist ♦ 8 mins ago

@Robusto There ya go. :)

Accents are easy in English, but English accents can be tough.

Not worth stressing over.

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Robusto

21:53

@tchrist That certainly provides details and clarity.

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