@Xanne Thank you! I'll look it up!

According to an article published in the journal The Lancet, being a non-smoker "doubles the risk" of Parkinson's disease

@Xanne That all seems terribly dated now. Surely the author would be flayed alive if today they talked like that about the mullahs and the boys in skirts and putting down all the Single White Englishmen and the Prissilly Conspicuous Englishmen as though both those personal ads were of equal merit.

Oh it was Xanna not Mitch.

@Mitch That response was for you, not her.

Today was the 50th Park Run in the center of Yekaterinburg

Snapped this on the run

108 runners took part, the highest-ever number for this run. parkrun.ru/plotinka/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=50

@CowperKettle Humans are weird. "So did you just burn 300 extra calories? Congrats! Here, make up for it"

@M.A.R. Logic is not human's forte

judgment vs judgement?

This appears to be British vs American spelling. Not sure which one to choose.

@CowperKettle meh, I'm just salty because I can't seem to be losing weight

@CowperKettle that does make sense in a way.

But then they would have to do one about psychosis.

"69th Parallel" hotel, Murmansk, USSR, 1970s.

People used to travel to Murmansk just to stay there overnight.

Port of Vladivostok

Very interesting solution. Seems great for warm countries.

Swapping two batteries will give you another 140 km of distance. In just a couple of minutes.

Russian word of the day: удача (udacha) - luck

Derived from prefix "u" and the verb dat (to give)

Thus, "something given", "the state of being given something"

10 years ago it was so handy to listen do different radio stations over the internet. You just downloaded a special file and opened it in your Foobar2000.

Nowadays, they dropped this system, and you have to manually open the station's website.

bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_radio_fourfm

> 44.3% of the world population has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.

That's good. Sadly, the global vaccination rate has been hovering at about 30 million doses/day for many weeks.

mediazona.by/news/2021/09/25/bombs

56-year-old citizen of Vitebsk dug up an artillery shell dating back to WWII. The shell fell but failed to explode. So he helped it explode by trying to saw it apart. And died in the attempt.

Hitler's artillery kills, even 80 years after the invasion into Belarus.

> "whoopie! that may have been a small one for Neil, but that's a big one for me"

@CowperKettle So, the same root as dacha? That car up on the bridge seems to be in a bit of trouble.