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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
It's a bit similar to how vehicle owner's insurance is mandatory.
AFAIK the vehicle owner's insurance doesn't follow you around and cancels your coverage as soon as it seems like you might risk getting into an accident, though. Similarly, I'm not aware that insurance against damage from natural disasters would get cancelled if the weather forecast shows a hurricane heading in your direction.
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@ixvedeusi It does not follow you around, but the insurance companies can certainly say they won't insure that wreck and then you are not allowed to use it. And they are definitely trying to come up with ways to better estimate your specific accident risk too.
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I'm glad I don't drink tea
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
I'm glad I don't drink tea
I saw a story about this and it was the first time I'd heard about plastic tea bags. I thought they were all paper.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
What is it with the British and trying to create a surveillance state?
After the Cold War, they had this giant spying apparatus, but nobody to use it on.
All those people had to be kept employed. But spying on actual foreign enemies carries the risk of diplomatic oopses. And actual danger to life and limb of the agents, but that's always been a secondary concern.
So, what to do to keep that fat budget untouchable? Well, spy on your own citizens, of course!
And if you spy a little on the right people *wink, wink, nudge, nudge*, then you can have their votes in parliament in exchange of not publishing that photo of them <redacted> the Thai <redacted> <redacted> in <redacted>.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
Anyone want a real, functional giant combat mecha?
Oh yes! Even better, with one of those I'm sure I'll be able to find the room to park it on street…
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@boomzilla One of those things actually works? I'll have to tell grandpa. He's been missing his hair for decades.
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The onebox says:
Astronomers capture the moment a black hole rips a black hole apart
Both the article and the video however only say:
Astronomers capture the moment a black hole ravages a star and rips it apart
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@topspin well, you know...journalistic standards being what they are...
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@boomzilla Yes, but I don't see the wrong text on the article's site at all. Maybe the onebox cached an earlier, since corrected version?
I don't know how these things work.
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@topspin It's the DailyFail. What do you expect of a British tabloid?
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@topspin I also was enthralled by
The star was approximately the same size and was spotted by various telescopes.
Same size as what? And why only a CGI video and nothing from the telescopes?
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla Yes, but I don't see the wrong text on the article's site at all. Maybe the onebox cached an earlier, since corrected version?
I don't know how these things work.It's my understanding that the stuff you see in a onebox is stored separately (by whoever owns the target page) from the actual page title or whatever and it seems like corrections like that often don't make it to the onebox source data.
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@mott555 said in In other news today...:
@topspin I also was enthralled by
The star was approximately the same size and was spotted by various telescopes.
Same size as what? And why only a CGI video and nothing from the telescopes?
Any "telescopic" pictures you see are actually CGI reproductions of the (incomprehensible to mortal eyes) data being collected by the telescopes. Overlaying multiple channels in false color, stitching together multiple exposures, etc.
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@Benjamin-Hall Yeah I know, but I'd still prefer to see those over some cheap animation whipped up by a Blender intern...
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@mott555 said in In other news today...:
And why only a CGI video and nothing from the telescopes?
I guess that the actual data of the telescope was essentially a dot that changes in brightness over the time of a few days or so. Not
click-baityvisually attractive enough for the average Daily Mail reader. All the conclusions about this being a black hole eating a star and such would then be made purely by analyzing how exactly the brightness of that dot changes.
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@ixvedeusi said in In other news today...:
@mott555 said in In other news today...:
And why only a CGI video and nothing from the telescopes?
I guess that the actual data of the telescope was essentially a dot that changes in brightness over the time of a few days or so. Not
click-baityvisually attractive enough for the average Daily Mail reader.Eh...NASA created and released the video.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
NASA created the video.
From the moon-landing department?
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla Yes, but I don't see the wrong text on the article's site at all. Maybe the onebox cached an earlier, since corrected version?
I don't know how these things work.iFramely looks at the
<meta property="..." content="...">
tags inside of the<head>
tag of the HTML. It seems The Daily Mail website seemingly allows some things to be changed but somehow the Twitter meta tags (and some others) are not updated.
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MCU pretending it isn't over
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And based on what we know of vaginas,
Not gonna read any further than that.
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@topspin Whatever you do, do not transplant poop into vaginas.
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The
nannydoggy government strikes again!
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Australian Capital Territory state
:trigge—
oh wait, never mind
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https://taskandpurpose.com/hero-airman-saves-child
"I can't decide if he's Superman or Mayhem (the guy on the insurance commercials)," Silfe said on Facebook. "I don't know whether I want to be right next to him in case some bad stuff goes down, or whether I want to be as far away from him as possible because bad stuff always seems to go down around him."
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@topspin Whatever you do, do not transplant poop into vaginas.
But the reverse is perfectly fine!
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@Tsaukpaetra
doesis it, though?!
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
I've read this before and it makes no sense to me.
Minoxidil is a topical treatment. How does it work orally?
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@topspin Whatever you do, do not transplant poop into vaginas.
The Nope thread is .
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
I've read this before and it makes no sense to me.
Minoxidil is a topical treatment. How does it work orally?
IANAD but it seems you're looking at this the wrong way around. I would expect the drug to work on the whole body when ingested if it can spread to the hair follicles (thus the werewolf effect), and using it topically is just a method to get hair growth only more or less where you want it to.
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
I've read this before and it makes no sense to me.
Minoxidil is a topical treatment. How does it work orally?
IANAD but it seems you're looking at this the wrong way around. I would expect the drug to work on the whole body when ingested if it can spread to the hair follicles (thus the werewolf effect), and using it topically is just a method to get hair growth only more or less where you want it to.
That does make sense.
I guess. intuitively (to me at least), it would seem a topical medication wouldn't survive digestion and/or would be toxic when ingested.
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
I've read this before and it makes no sense to me.
Minoxidil is a topical treatment. How does it work orally?
Side effects of minoxidil:
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Acne at site of application.
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burning of scalp.
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facial hair growth.
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increased hair loss.
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inflammation or soreness at root of hair.
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reddened skin.
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swelling of face.
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lycanthropy
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@Carnage Can you verify this? It's repeated in a few places with seemingly independently written text, but the whole idea seems so... soviet, that I have difficulty believing it. And I don't speak enough Swedish to Google myself the Svenska Dagbladet article referred to in the second article.
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@acrow Well, considering that I'm trusting RussiaToday as far as I can throw it, I went to the source. And to me it seems that their main complaint was the simple fact that beginning at Ancient History left no space for arriving at the present.
I.e. you were learning so much about Ancient Rome that topics such as Vietnam, the Middle East or similar much younger topics weren't covered.
Which is something I myself experienced as well - we had Ancient Greece / Rome, the middle ages and WW1 / 2. Newer topics such as the Cold War, Vietnam or similar weren't covered. Sounds rather reasonable to me, the rest will probably be blown out of proportion.
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@Rhywden Part of the reason might be that it is much easier to talk about ancient history without taking sides and adding much emotion. History that the teacher still remembers is much harder to describe from outside point of view.
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@Bulb Well, they also mentioned some things like "teaching democracy". I can see why RT would get all hot and bothered about that.
They (and the usual suspects) tried a similar tack recently in Germany when a state announced new plans around teaching sexuality in primary schools.
Naturally, everyone on the right blew a gasket. "Oh, no, you're teaching them to be whores! And you're making them all homosexuals!" and similar idiocies.
In reality, the plan amounted to something more akin to: "Some of you may have two dads. That is okay." I.e. age appropriate topics about stuff the kids are asking anyway.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@Carnage Can you verify this? It's repeated in a few places with seemingly independently written text, but the whole idea seems so... soviet, that I have difficulty believing it. And I don't speak enough Swedish to Google myself the Svenska Dagbladet article referred to in the second article.
It seems a bit improbable. Yeah, I'm pretty sure gender bullshit is gonna get added, but I sincerely doubt that ancient history will get nixed completely to make room.
There already is a bit of gender studies and postmodernism in the curriculum I think, so it's not getting added so much as extended, if it's going to be changed.
I'll see if I can find something about it.I can't seem to find the original news piece in SvD about it, it doesn't show up in searches either on google or their own page so I cant really say anything about what they said.
I do know that the entire edumacationating thingymabob in Sweden is in a really sorry state because of politics, so politicians making it even worse doesn't really surprise me.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
I do know that the entire edumacationating thingymabob in Sweden is in a really sorry state because of politics, so politicians making it even worse doesn't really surprise me.
It's funny how you say that you cannot find anything but, of course, "politicians make everything worse."
If you cannot find anything then how do you know?
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
I do know that the entire edumacationating thingymabob in Sweden is in a really sorry state because of politics, so politicians making it even worse doesn't really surprise me.
It's funny how you say that you cannot find anything but, of course, "politicians make everything worse."
If you cannot find anything then how do you know?
I didn't say they make everything worse. But they have continuously made education in Sweden worse over the last 30 or so years. That's not even a point of contention in Sweden. And my offhand comment about politicians was regarding recent scholastic history in Sweden. It's a big steaming pile of failure upon failure, and pretty much everyone agrees on the failure bit, and disagrees on how to fix it bit.
But most people that aren't politicians are of the opinion that as long as the politicians stop meddling, it will improve.
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
I've read this before and it makes no sense to me.
Minoxidil is a topical treatment. How does it work orally?
Side effects of minoxidil:
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Acne at site of application.
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burning of scalp.
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facial hair growth.
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increased hair loss.
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inflammation or soreness at root of hair.
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reddened skin.
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swelling of face.
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lycanthropy
Oh shit, it is is actually used (and officially approved for) as a "last resort" anti-hypertensive.
The above link states using for hair loss is off-label use. (Now the article makes more sense to me.)
My daughter has alopecia areata and after 2 months of a steroid cream, her dermatologist has prescribed minoxidil cream.
The studies that show it helps with hair loss are only specifically for adult hair loss. Warnings on the bottle say avoid for patchy hair loss (they very definition of alopecia areata) and avoid for under 18.
So use in children with alopecia even further off label.
For those unfamiliar with alopecia:
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
In other news, drug dealer complains to source that latest order is not what he expected. Click here to see what he got instead.
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
I've read this before and it makes no sense to me.
Minoxidil is a topical treatment. How does it work orally?
It makes them grow hair inside their mouths?
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
I do know that the entire edumacationating thingymabob in Sweden is in a really sorry state because of politics, so politicians making it even worse doesn't really surprise me.
It's funny how you say that you cannot find anything but, of course, "politicians make everything worse."
If you cannot find anything then how do you know?
Projection based on 50-odd years of a very clear trend?