I hope you recover quickly.
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I hope you recover quickly.
I hypothesised elsewhere a month ago that Melbourne is having so much trouble controlling covid because of poor compliance measures leading to the virus circulating among disease-lovers who refuse to cooperate with authorities and refuse to get vaccinated, when few people were saying it and all the lefties were instead blaming mythical incursions from Sydney. Anyway a thousand of them rioted last week and a couple of them are now confirmed to be in hospital with covid and a union office that they attempted to storm had a few positive cases. So I feel vindicated.
But at what cost. Ever since the riots started and the construction industry was shut down due to massive non-compliance, hooning and motorbike racing in my local streets have increased five-fold.
But at what cost. Ever since the riots started and the construction industry was shut down due to massive non-compliance, hooning and motorbike racing in my local streets have increased five-fold.
Hygro
soundcloud.com/hygro/
I wrote a rant and hit the back button on my mouse before it auto-saved.
Back buttons on your mouse are so unfriendly.
I have lost so many posts here 'cos I brushed the back button on my mouse, but I do use it all the time so I do not disable it.
Basically all I got from this is that you lack a motorcycle and you take care of your respiratory health.
amadeus
Bishop of Bio-Dome
Why’m I working when I could be updating my resume? 
There used to be one, called Lazarus.
It died and was not restored to life.
No, this is not a joke post. I found the Lazarus extension incredibly handy on this site, considering how I'm given to very long posts at times.
amadeus
Bishop of Bio-Dome
“We couldn’t find you on Facebook.”
Yes.
You couldn’t.
I turned it off.
Yes.
You couldn’t.
I turned it off.
MagisterCultuum
Great Sage
Dad had been moaning loudly for half an hour. (I'm surprised I haven;t heard mom scream at him yet that he needs to be quiet as she can't sleep with such noise.) When I went down to check on him he was shivering and insisting the rather warm room was freezing. He has a fever of 101.7 Fahrenheit.
I eventually convinced him to take a couple Tylenol, but only after I agreed to bring him two blankets and a space heater to help him warm up.
He seems afraid it could be a symptom of covid, but really doesn't want to go to the hospital. Two weeks ago and a day and a half ago (when he had a fever of 101.9 F) the Tylenol worked, so I'm hoping it will be enough again.
The endocrinologist thought it sounded like a UTI then. We just discussed that with his urologist on Friday morning. He didn't have any symptoms Friday so the doctor assumed it has passed, but they did take a urine sample to culture it and decide whether they ought to prescribe antibiotics. I'm guessing they will send in such a prescription on Monday, or whenever they get the results.
Just as I was about to hit post reply he started yelling again that he needed me to help him get up as there was no way he could make it to the bathroom on time on his own.
I eventually convinced him to take a couple Tylenol, but only after I agreed to bring him two blankets and a space heater to help him warm up.
He seems afraid it could be a symptom of covid, but really doesn't want to go to the hospital. Two weeks ago and a day and a half ago (when he had a fever of 101.9 F) the Tylenol worked, so I'm hoping it will be enough again.
The endocrinologist thought it sounded like a UTI then. We just discussed that with his urologist on Friday morning. He didn't have any symptoms Friday so the doctor assumed it has passed, but they did take a urine sample to culture it and decide whether they ought to prescribe antibiotics. I'm guessing they will send in such a prescription on Monday, or whenever they get the results.
Just as I was about to hit post reply he started yelling again that he needed me to help him get up as there was no way he could make it to the bathroom on time on his own.
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Germany: Still not good with technology.
Recently there was an emergency-call-app published by the governnment.
A few days later the regular emergency call goes down.
Therefore so many people sign up for the app, which brings the app down.
Recently there was an emergency-call-app published by the governnment.
A few days later the regular emergency call goes down.
Therefore so many people sign up for the app, which brings the app down.
amadeus
Bishop of Bio-Dome
How come so many people got them cigarette butts hanging out of their ear?
Lohrenswald
世界的 bottom ranked physicist
I just watched this youtube video
and it's kind of a straw that broke the camel's back for me. Been thinking of some things for a while
like I don't really know anything besides super basic mechanics maybe
I'll never be able to figure out something new that is true and like solidly found
what the fudge have I been doing imagening I'm a physicist. bachelor degree probably just too lenient
Spoiler :
and it's kind of a straw that broke the camel's back for me. Been thinking of some things for a while
like I don't really know anything besides super basic mechanics maybe
I'll never be able to figure out something new that is true and like solidly found
what the fudge have I been doing imagening I'm a physicist. bachelor degree probably just too lenient
Yeah, and so does everyone else.
At some level, this stuff gets so specialized, that you will not understand it, unless it's in your exact same field.
If I scroll through the latest newsletter of Science and Nature, and there is a research article which is not in my field, I'll not read it (news items yes, but not articles). Might not understand a bit. My field is microbiology (kinda). If there's stuff which has too much immunology or human genetics in it, I'll just skip it. Not worth wasting my time, I'll not understand half of it. Not even considering stuff which is further away.
So you're not special
.You would hope that this stuff gets sorted out at some point by experts. But sometimes people are embarrassed to admit that they don't understand it. Or just bad publishing. Could be many things.
That you'd not have caught it means nothing
.It actually shows more a (partially) broken system, unrelated to you.
For some more entertaining reads (I've only watched the first few minutes, Sokal and the Bogdanoffs), which are somewhat related, also check:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCIgen (and everything in the "see also" list)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scholarly_publishing_hoaxes
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_open-access_publishing
amadeus
Bishop of Bio-Dome
Bogdanoff? You mean David Seville? Between that and Gumby, my sixties low-budget production pop culture reference radar is on overdrive today. I’m kind of surprised Gumby never got a 3D animated movie—just throw in the guy from Napoleon Dynamite and get Alec Baldwin to voice a sarcastic Pokey and you’ve got your forgettable retread of fourth-wall breaking jokes.
What am I even complaining about today? I don’y know, I just don’t have the energy. Work finished late last night and I’m on today too. I’m just going to veg lest there’s some unneeded interference. Blech.
What am I even complaining about today? I don’y know, I just don’t have the energy. Work finished late last night and I’m on today too. I’m just going to veg lest there’s some unneeded interference. Blech.
Zkribbler
Deity
My California recall ballot arrived today. Now all i have to do is fill it out and drop it in the nearest time machine. 
amadeus
Bishop of Bio-Dome
You couldn’t pay me to vote to keep Governor Davis.
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