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6:46 AM

Regularly eating foods cooked or processed at high temperatures, including roast meats, potato chips, and bakery products, causes a component of the innate immune system to become hyperactive, injuring the kidneys

7:00 AM

@CowperKettle well I be damned

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12:13 PM

Work No. 227: The lights going on and off

12:40 PM

Work No. 227: The lights going on and off is an installation by British artist Martin Creed. As of 2013, it forms part of the permanent collection at Tate Britain. The installation is widely considered to be one of Creed's signature art works and has also been described as Creed's "most notorious work". == Summary == Creed was shortlisted for the 2001 Turner Prize for two exhibitions: Martin Creed Works, a solo exhibition at Southampton City Art Gallery, Leeds Art Gallery, Camden Arts Centre and Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, and Art Now: Martin Creed at Tate Britain. His submission for the Turner...

Sales of fully electric cars and plug-in hybrids in Germany:

> 1Q2016: 5.849 (0.7%)
1Q2017: 10.328 (1.2%)
1Q2018: 17.574 (2.0%)
1Q2019: 23.326 (2.7%)
1Q2020: 52.449 (7.5%)
1Q2021: 142.741 (21.7%)

A threefold jump is impressive

12:59 PM

More talk, less action.

Robusto

Soviet Gandalf the Red is curiously charming

@CowperKettle: ^

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2:48 PM

@Robusto Yes, it was recently found, I should try watching it

Oxytricha trifallax

Sterkiella histriomuscorum, formerly Oxytricha trifallax, is a ciliate species in the genus Sterkiella, known for its highly fragmented genomes which have been used as a model for ciliate genetics. == Genetics == Like all ciliates, O. trifallax has two different types of nuclei: macronuclei, which are the site of transcription and gene expression, and micronuclei, which are only active during sexual reproduction but are otherwise transcriptionally inactive. Macronuclei are formed by the differentiation of micronuclei, which usually involves some degree of RNA-mediated DNA editing. O. trifallax...

This organism has 16 000 chromosomes

Sixteen thousand.

Matt E. Эллен

does it keep them in its pockets?

@Robusto he did all kinds of things. Worked as a critic, as a reporter for some newspapers. Something else I forget. He kind of gave up on the whole idea of poetry for a whole while, so just worked as a correspondent instead. But then poetry drew him back in, and that was his demise.

The flute piece with translated lyrics is now up at:

musescore.com/user/27897310/scores/6704777

Check it out.

Robusto

3:44 PM

@RegDwigнt Quite lovely indeed.

4:07 PM

Cordoba in Argentina is bigger than Cordoba in Spain.

4:58 PM

@CowperKettle Boston in Massachusetts is bigger than Boston in Lincolnshire

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6:13 PM

> > Why is my voice cracking so much?

Two weeks ago this started happening, its embarrassing. I was talking to my mom and my voice cracked. I was talking to a girl ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°), and my voice cracked again!

I am also getting hairs in...some places. And my voice is getting deeper. I watched some videos of me when i was younger, my voice was so high pitched. Have you guys experienced this? Is this normal? Im a bit concerned...

Actual top post on MuseScore right now.

And I recognize the user. They are not trolling. They are genuinely asking this for real.

Top-quality second and third post as well.

6:28 PM

@RegDwigнt Cute.

Must not be great at Googling.

6:52 PM

@RegDwigнt TwT

@RegDwigнt Lol that takes a toll

I'm an 'admin' of a Telegram group for English learners (meaning, I have to visit there once a day) and I need lots of breaks because it constantly feels like dealing with toddlers

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8:06 PM

@M.A.R. Toddlers are effing psycopaths

@Mitch tell me about it

Them. Thy.

8:30 PM

Chomsky on whataboutism:

9:21 PM

@M.A.R. Cuts through all the crap.

...but...

It's really easy to be defensive when someone says something about you, and the easiest defense is 'tu quoque', you've made mistakes too, pot calling the kettle black and all that.

I bet Chomsky kicked a puppy when he was a kid and has been atoning for it ever since.

10:05 PM

In some contexts, tu quoque is not all that unreasonable?

10:34 PM

@Cerberus Isn't that part of what he's saying? I mean, it's really useful to have a label for it, but when you get down to business, it's almost always used to shutdown the discussion. It's an insult disguised as a poor logical argument. "You're dishonest"

> I'm new in this group.
If anyone wants to talk to me or offer me his sheet music, I would be happy to go for a walk!
Sorry for my bad English, I'm french ^^''

That's an interesting idiom.

Never heard it before.

Is that what you say in French for trying something out, "to go for a walk"?

I'm looking now, and I'm finding no uses but in the literal meaning.

@M.A.R. oh if I were a mod, I'd deal with all the crap in a single afternoon with no breaks.

Problem is, they have no site mods. No community manager. Nothing. And the group mods are themselves 8-year-olds. (I'm not even exaggerating. They're publicly saying as much on their profiles. Even though it is against the ToS and indeed the law to use the site at that age. That's the level of ignorance we're talking about.)

So yeah.

Like, the other day one of them posted a video of an underage girl getting shot in the face. Titled "try not to laugh". And everybody commented "lol".

10:49 PM

. . .

That's why no serious musician uses that site.

Like, it just makes you upset on a visceral level. And you can't shake it off.

11:04 PM

@M.A.R. Mitch or the article?

I must admit I've only read the first paragraph.

@Cerberus the . . . it's not an article, I think. The whole book (Understanding Power) is the Q&A sessions after his lectures

@RegDwigнt Hmm doesn't ring a bell.

@M.A.R. Noted.

Then I don't know.

I think tu quoque can be used reasonably to imply something relevant.

I mean, even if tu quoque is an insult, which it is IMO, sometimes the alternative is arguing with the court jester

Sometimes you do need to shut down the discussion, because the Ben Shapiros of the world have nothing to say but muddy the waters

Yes, some fallacies can be reasonable in context.

@Cerberus inorite. I'm sitting like five hundred yards away from them cheese-eating surrender frogs, and have been for a quarter of a century. And it doesn't ring a bell with me, either.

I would go and ask, but them's not letting anyone in ATM.

11:09 PM

Or it could mean, "you are saying x is terrible, but you also do it yourself, so maybe you should realise x isn't so very bad at all".

Maybe they thought it's an English idiom

@RegDwigнt French.SE would probably love to have you.

ELU question imminent

No SE would love to have me. Don't be silly.

Birds are yummy

11:10 PM

Yeah but they don't live in bogs.

I am qualified to say that

@Cerberus How often does that happen in political contexts though? It's often "dis genocide, no that genocide"

Anyway, I forgot French.SE even existed. How many reps does I even has there.

Perhaps not often.

All I'm saying is some fallacies have reasonable uses.

209 ! Oh, là, là !

fromage

11:12 PM

How pathetic.

> Joined 9 years, 7 months ago, last seen 10 months ago

The fuck did I do there ten months ago.

Probably drunk again. And not with absinthe.

Looking up "go for a walk"?

I wish I were that precog.