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12:23 AM

Supreme Court finds that the Civil War was wrongly decided, reinstates the Confederacy.

12:49 AM

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When I click on a link, say, to a Wikipedia article, and it opens in mobile form, is there an easy and quick way to switch to normal (PC browser) form without manually editing out the .m. letter?

CowperKettle

1:31 AM

Ilya Yashin, one of Russia's last oppositional politicians who have not fled Russia, was detained by a police squad while walking in the park late night. Nobody knows where he is now.

SmokeDetector

2:52 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Email in answer, messaging number in answer, pattern-matching website in answer, potentially bad keyword in answer (249): A diploma and a degree cetificate: the difference in use in the USA and GB‭ by Mian Gan‭ on english.SE

Cerberus

3:11 AM

@CowperKettle For Wikipaedia, the easiest way would be to write a quick userscript.

CowperKettle

4:40 AM

@Cerberus nods

CowperKettle

7:42 AM

@Cerberus What are "not-quite-U suits"? Suits so expensive that they seem to tell to onlookers "I'm not a poor person like you"?

ConGovDeIn

How many triangles are there in the following figure?

Solve it in a way so that you can explain it to others lucidly.

(In this chat room puzzles have been discussed, so, I thought mine will not be considered odd too)

Vikas

@ConGovDeIn Not worth it. Can't mess my brain XD

CowperKettle

There are 20 triangles of the "minimal" size (half-square).

Vikas

I will solve this instead:

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CowperKettle

7:59 AM

In addition to the 20 minimal triangles, one could calculate the number of two-cell triangles, by noting all the "two-square" combinations.

There seem to be 12 two-cell triangles.

Thus far, 32 triangles.

And there are 2 distinct "four-cell cubes" combinations, giving an additional 4 "four-cell" triangles. Total thus far: 36

And I can see one additional triangle in a 3-by-3 cell combination, the one whose hypothenuse is parallel to the rugged edge. Thus far, a total of 37.

I'm not good with math problems.

I was wrong, the two distinct four-cell cubes give not 4, but 8 additional triangles, thus a total of not 36, but 40.

Therefore the 3-by-3 triangle will bring the total to 41.

Of course there might well be some thing I overlooked.

Percentage of Electricity Consumed from Renewable Sources in OECD Countries

Xanne

8:19 AM

@CowperKettle I’m surprised by France, or doesn’t nuclear count as renewable? It’s non-carbon, once built. But then it takes fossil fuel energy to build windmills and solar oanels, install them, etc.

@CowperKettle Have you heard of Mueller-Weiss syndrome, with which Rafael Nadal has been (long ago) diagnosed? He is playing (second seed) at the Wimbledon tennis tournament right now.

Mueller-Weiss syndrome is adult-onset of deterioration of the navicular bone in the foot.

Nadal has used local anesthetic to control the pain, but has used more radical treatment recently, getting at the nerve with more permanent radiation, I think. He wants to win Wimbledon and the U..S. Open.

Meanwhile Wimbledon is not permitting Russians or Belorussians to play. As a consequence no ranking points will be awarded for this tournament. Daniil Medvedev, ranked #1 in the world, can’t play, nor can Russian Andrei Rublev, ranked in the top ten also. Alexander (Sascha, of course) Zverev is not playing—he’s German but his parents immigrated from Russia in 1990 or so. He’s ranked second in the world, but he turned his ankle and tore the three lateral ligaments. He is recovering from surgery.

CowperKettle

8:41 AM

@Xanne No, I never heard of it. I've added navicular bone to my Anki dictionary for memorizing.

Looks like the Spanish got tired of traveling.

Xanne

Novak Djokovic (Serbian) is playing, and has been ranked #1 for a long time, but has slipped in the rankings because he refused to get a Covid shot. So Australia invited him, then decided he had to be deported. He may not be able to enter the U.S. for the U.S. Open without Covid vaccinations.

CowperKettle

I used to play tennis from ages 8 to 15, but I never was interested in tracking championships or watching matches ))

Xanne

Djokovic, who heads the group that speaks for players, disapproves of the Winbledon decision on Russian/Belorussian players. Rublev said on Feb. 24 or 25 “No war please!”

All this also affects the women—Vika Azarenka, playing for Belorus, can’t play at Wimbledon. She and Medvedev and Rublev are all nice people insofar as one can tell from their interviews.

CowperKettle

8:56 AM

Well, there are a lot of other championships to play in.

Wimbledon is just a small championship on a small island. ))

Xanne

I like following it—where they come from, why they play, etc. This Winbledon situation seems to

CowperKettle

My dad used to have several dozen video cassettes with tennis matches.

And a dozen of books describing the proper technique of hitting the ball, tactical behavior on the court, etc.

And special gear for putting strings on a racket.

Xanne

….seems to be all mixed up in the current events in the world—which are influencing who plays whom, etc., just when the three who have dominated for so long are being challenged by a new generation. So I like it and I like the players, finding them more engaging than the football and soccer teams. ajust thought you’d like to hear about Mueller-Weiss syndrome.-:j

CowperKettle

Yes, that was handy! A new word in my dictionary ))

I knew about the scaphoid bone, and this bone is its counterpart, but in the foot.

The scaphoid bone is in the hand.

Xanne

9:14 AM

The navicular problem is more common in women than in men, but no one ventures an explanation. I think it’s because women wear high heels that eventually activate the decay. Surgery is possible but not a cure. Meanwhile Nadal is playing against time. Zverev speaks German, Russian, and English fluently, the first two natively. Medvedev learned French to talk to his French coach and gets along in English.

Mueller–Weiss syndrome

Mueller–Weiss syndrome, also known as Mueller–Weiss disease, is a rare idiopathic degenerative disease of the adult navicular bone characterized by progressive collapse and fragmentation, leading to mid- and hindfoot pain and deformity. It is most commonly seen in females, ages 40–60. Characteristic imaging shows lateral navicular collapse. This disease had been historically considered to be a form of adult onset osteonecrosis, with blood flow cutoff to the navicular. == Navicular == The navicular, deriving its name from its boat–like shape, is a small but critical bone. It connects the ankle...

CowperKettle

> president of a bar association, court lawyer Dmitrii Talantov arrested, taken away in handcuffs

Dmitriy Talantov was one of the laywers working for Ivan Safronov, an investigative journalist ceized last year and accused of state treason.

Over a year of investigation, the prosecution found nothing on Ivan Safronov, but he is still in jail.

One of the witnesses for prosecution on 18 May 2022 suddenly gave statements during a hearing that practically disassembled the whole premise of the case.

After this, the court banned the hearing of witnesses in court.

It's a horrible case in which the state just punished an investigative journalist for discovering corruption.

Xanne

I am hoping that when Putin gives up, Russia will free the dissidents and hold free elections, in return for lifting sanctions.

CowperKettle

By January 2022, there were more than 400 innocent people jailed for their political or religious activity.

Just today an Jehova's Witness, a 50+ yo guy, got several years in jail for practicing his faith.

Putin will never give up, he has run himself into a corner from which there's no escape.

His parents lived to nearly 90 years, so we can have some 20 years of Putin's rule before us, all the way to 2040 A.D.

Xanne

He can’t be there forever, though.

CowperKettle

He eats healthy food and takes time to exercise. He can be there for decades, with good medical help. He is not a Brezhnev or Yeltsin who boozed.

Xanne

9:30 AM

And EU and NATO are determined to hang on and contain him. There are also the folks who have left, who may return. At least some of them.

CowperKettle

12th of June was the Day of Russia, and two artists in Moscow hang a Russian flag with the sign saying "Today Is Not My Day" on an embankment.

The two artists were immediately arrested for 15 days.

Today they were freed, and after walking several meters, immediately arrested again.

This has become a torturous tactics, to arrest people several times in a row.

To psychologically oppress them, and show everybody else that the state doesn't care about the law.

Xanne

Meanwhile Russia collects oil and gas revenues. But not forever. Gold—not forever either. Or provinces break away, the ones that have the oil and gas and gold and timber.

And may even the ones that make the weapons.

Time for me to sleep. Thanks for listening. And talking.

CowperKettle

9:55 AM

Sleep tight!

ConGovDeIn

10:39 AM

@CowperKettle That matches with the given answer

@Robusto Consider this para

> That afternoon of the inquest. The relabelled bottle on the table. The room in the hotel with hunting pictures. Stuffy it was. Sunlight through the slats of the Venetian blind. The coroner's sunlit ears, big and hairy. Boots giving evidence. Thought he was asleep first. Then saw like yellow streaks on his face. Had slipped down to the foot of the bed. Verdict: overdose. Death by misadventure. The letter. For my son Leopold.

The context is: Mr. Bloom is remembering the suicide of his father when Mr. Power mentioned that taking one's life is the worst form of death.

Well, I would judge that description of suicide, I mean to convey to readers that Mr. Bloom's father died of suicide, as not very charming and lucid.Had it to be described by Shelley or Zola, we would have got a very deep and complex sense of temperament of Mr. Bloom. This is what I call an under-description.

CowperKettle

11:55 AM

Aditya (boat)

Aditya is a solar-powered ferry operating between Vaikkom and Thavanakkadavu in the Indian state of Kerala. The boat was inaugurated by Kerala Chief Minister Sri. Pinarayi Vijayan and Central Cabinet Minister for Power, Renewable Energy, Sri. Piyush Goyal on 12 January 2017.It is India's first solar-powered ferry and the largest solar-powered boat in India. The vessel was designed and built by NavAlt Solar and Electric Boats in Kochi, India. NavAlt is a joint venture firm between Navgathi Marine Design and Constructions, Alternative Energies (France) and EVE Systems (France). In August 2020...

Well done, Indians

Vikas

12:06 PM

Thanks.

Cerberus

@CowperKettle Could be. Mainly just suits that aren't cheap but don't conform to traditional norms.

Mitch

12:46 PM

@Xanne That's pretty wild... there's this very rare syndrome..but just about that one little ankle bone... and -not- any of the others.

@CowperKettle There are probably lots of anki files out there for med students listing the names of all the weird bones, like in the face or the wrist (the latter of which I think are mostly the same as the ankle)

@CowperKettle I find it astounding that so -many- are living outside their birth country. 5% is 1 out of 20... that's a big exodus.

CowperKettle

1:02 PM

Yes, the metatarsus and the metacarpus are alike

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