@Robusto But thanks to you, somebody somewhere just -gained- two hours. It's how it works. That's science.

There was just too much blind-leading-the-blind to fix in a comment.

Randomly reminds me of the interval-training unit from my high-school music theory class of more than two-score years ago. The mnemonic song for an octave ascending was the opening interval from When You Wish Upon a Star — well, or Somewhere Over the Rainbow.

Word of the day: spoiler

> The doors open only once. That’s how people often describe Japan’s hidebound hiring system, in which college students have their best shot at landing a coveted salaried position in the year approaching graduation.

What is the meaning of hidebound here? Narrow-minded?

Word of the hour trade books (Trade books are published for general readership, and usually are headed for bookstores and libraries. They are not rare books or textbooks for small, specialized or niche readerships, but neither are they targeted toward impulse buyers at drugstores, airports or discount stores.)

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer, pattern-matching website in answer, potentially problematic ns configuration in answer (140): Are guillemets used at all in English? by phDassistance higs on english.SE

> If two prison inmates dated, would it be romantic if they finished each other’s sentences?

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Post is mostly images (13): Figure of speech of "that i really needed him" ✏️ by Morenike on english.SE

@Cerberus An abscess started as a cavity, but wasn't treated in time. By that point it's often too late to save the tooth, as was the case for me.

@CowperKettle Ossified. Resistant to change.

@Cerberus If you have a cavity, get it filled ASAP. Cavities are usually no big deal, but do need to be dealt with.

@FaheemMitha Thank you!

@CowperKettle Conventional, traditional, not flexible. No new thinking, no chances taken. Apparently hidebound is a century old term for a malnourished condition of cattle with hide that was no longer flexible.

@MattE.Эллен noooo y u migrate nonsense, I was about to close it.

Now it needs five fresh votes on the other site to get closed.

@RegDwigнt I'm sure they can help. it'll be fine!

@CowperKettle Am I to figure out that the spoiler is in the crucifix hanging above the VM, Joseph, and the blessed child as they perhaps thunder over the countryside in a steam-powered train?

”except for the anachronisms, such a charming tableau”

maybe it's a highly anthropomorphised bat

> New Flute Solo for Flute and Piano Accompaniment!

A flute solo for flute?

And a solo with accompaniment?

What a treat!

No treats for you owl boy because Covid-19 took away hallowe'en this year

mikewblog.com/2-years-to-learn-japanese -- You can't become fluent in Japanese in under 2 years.

@MakeStackexchangeGreatAgain what you mean, "this year"?

Who the fuck even celebrates halloween, you heathens are all going to hell.

Hell: where it's Halloween all year 'round!

^

Hell is other wieners.

or Friday the 13th all year 'round

@M.A.R. just because I didn't, doesn't mean I can't.

@MattE.Эллен I don't think they can. It is asking for something that is not present in the text.

But wevs.

Out of sight, out of mind.

@RegDwigнt it is present in the text, well in the photo of the text. the first highlighted sentence of the passage

@MattE.Эллен I don't think you understand. The question is "what figure of speech is this". But there is no figure of speech present in the text.

although I will admit I don't understand how it is figurative, other than maybe using "him" to mean a computer?

This.

It is not figurative at all.

but that is answerable

@RegDwigнt yeah it's kinda that guy's point. He's trying to call BS on all the conflicting info iut there about language learning (not just Japanese)

Well, yes, by that token every question is.

"How much seven is blue". Answer: "yesterday". Totally answerable.

hopefully ELL will be able to get to the real question.

reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/j5w6v7/… -- Trump projecting strength while having trouble breathing and high on steroids

@M.A.R. why is he trying to call Britney Spears on that? She is not a specialist on anything.

Or is it because her loneliness is killing her and he just wants to help?

@RegDwigнt *Bush Senior

Oh his loneliness ain't killing him no time soon.

Only the lonely

Schmonley the pronely.

i forgot the rest of the song :-/

Of course you did. You still have Covid.

Who allowed His Highness Mr President in this chat anyway, he's highly contagious at this point.

and I'm highl on steroids

I'm hooked on a feeling

high on believing

Babe watch?

I want Pamela as my nurse

Thanks.

Any time.

GILF wife.

?

m.youtube.com/watch?v=flSVidqmlzU m.youtube.com/watch?v=flSVidqmlzU6

Saddest Song.

A head of psychiatric department in the Sakhalin island says that in his dept two patients have died from covid. At the same time, the official statistics for the whole island is 0 deaths.

I'm sitting in a confidential Telegram room with 200 Russian psychiatrists.

Furthermore, he said that one of the patients in his ward was tested twice, and both tests returned negative. Only when the patient got severely ill did they manage to have him scanned in an MRI and found damage in his lungs. The third test returned positive.

Both the statistics and the diagnostics are very poor.

@CowperKettle Are you translating for these R.p.’s?

@Xanne What is "R.P."? Psychiatrist? I'm translating for several of them

I update a psychiatric newsfeed for my friend's channel

With some interesting stuff retold from English

And translate for a couple of psychiatrists who are writing a big textbook in Russian.

There are amazing news appearing each day, I cannot retell them all.

With some outworldish technology

Millimetre-precision drug delivery to the brain

> “Because our method aggregates drugs at the site in the brain where their effect is desired, we don’t need nearly as high a dose,” Yanik says. In their experiments on rats, for instance, the quantity of drug that they used was 1,300 times smaller than the typical dose needed.

do they realise that rat brains are smaller than human ones, so obviously the dose is lower? :þ

@CowperKettle Rp was just a quick abbreviation for Russian psychiatrists. Sounds interesting but with very slippery vocabulary—words meaning different things to different people.

not to mention that the laws of science change with scale

Such a method, if refined and approved, would prove a miracle for millions. The currently used antipsychotic drugs dampen the dopamine transmission throughout the brain, stopping hallucinations but also negatively affecting motivation and thinking.

If one could deliver these drugs only in a spot or two, and add some neutrotrophic factors to promote the formation of new connections, the scientists would deserve statues of gold.

Who is BillJ? He answers many questions in comments in brief technical language.

Yekaterinburg hospitals have filled to their limits, and new covid patients are again distributed to other towns. e1.ru/news/spool/news_id-69493287.html

One doctor in the news report said that he is working "on his last legs", having had no true vacation from the deluge of patients since March.

There was a lull but still doctors were required throughout August.

oh! I get it :D took a second

as opposed to the bottom 8

@Robusto That's a very useful chart.

@CowperKettle One wonders who made that map, and based on what criteria.

north/south

re: bottom right corner

Oh, so it's completely non-tautological.

yes

geographically on top

@skullpatrol Depends on whether you're counting Hawaii.

Horrible air nationwide today.

Yuck.

When will it end?

It has been cold and very, very rainy here for weeks now.

Where does that cloud above the Gulf of Mexico come from?

From all the yellow dots?

@tchrist You needn't have worried

Mr Ashworth is being positively hilarious at the moment:

I did like the last one.

"Dear"!? Uh oh.

@Xanne Probably "Grandma I Like to Flirt" (with)

@Robusto Wildfires?

@FaheemMitha yup

@Robusto Nasty.

Indeed

@FaheemMitha Kamala Harris? Haha

@M.A.R. Hmm?

Oh, wildfires. Sorry.

@FaheemMitha When Biden chose her as the VP, Trumpians had no comeback and Trump could only call her "nasty" in a tweet

@M.A.R. Ah. Well, he's an imaginative fellow. Also, a true gentleman.

@FaheemMitha Masterfully ironical.

Word of the day: prehensile

> “[Dexamethasone is] cheap as borscht, as my grandparents would say,” Isaac Bogoch, an infectious-disease specialist at Toronto General Hospital, previously told The Washington Post.

@CowperKettle Is this a Russian saying? "Cheap as borscht"? ^

@Robusto Definitely a made-up faux Russian saying ))

^_^

Borscht was not always cheap, it requires meat. But it's a good faux saying.

Good to know.

I don't know about you folks, but I'm still getting that dystopian novel feeling.

I think there's a nuclear war somewhere around Ch. 20 unless our heroes can head it off.

The problem is, the heroes are MIA.

I don't know those abbreviations.

@Cerberus MIA? Missing in Action.

Ch?

@Cerberus Chapter.

Ahh.

I haven't seen any signs of nuclear war.

@Cerberus The Joint Chiefs of Staff (some of them anyway) just went into quarantine.

@Cerberus Nobody expects the Spanish Inqusition.

RIP Eddie van Halen.