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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@Boner said in In other news today...:
The flying schmeckle strikes again!
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
A bill was almost passed in English parliament once that would have banned encryption for ordinary folk.
Which just means they'll try and pass it again.
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@Watson I think the meta-irony here is that for all the sanctity of WhatsApp's E2EE, it doesn't appear to be preventing people getting hold of the conversations the MPs have with each other.
Presumably they think this means it's not secure and can therefore be defanged with impunity.
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@topspin The title is kinda fumbled
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@Bulb "Antimicrobial" is a superclass of "antibiotic". The latter is antimicrobial in the specific context of medication; the former also covers things like cleaning products ("antimicrobial" floor cleaner also gives bacteria an assault course workout that tends to be even tougher than that presented by standard antibiotics because it can get away with being a lot more toxic).
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 Yes, but some people having more money than sense isn't news.
At least they're not buying NFTs.
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Weekend at Bernie's 3: Ireland Drift
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@Boner said in In other news today...:
The flying schmeckle strikes again!
"And whenever two or three are gathered together in one place, let someone sometimes dangle a wang on a string among them."
As true today, as it was, when it was written.
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Today in reading the headline and never reading the article
I feel that reading the article will ruin the headline.
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@DogsB I didn't read the article.
I only clicked through to confirm if any commenters had posted the "nature abhors a vacuum" joke, only to see the article itself mentions it.
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<center><blink>Well, dammit. I guess I finally need to redesign my website. </blink></center> Filed under: Under construction.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
<center><blink>Well, dammit. I guess I finally need to redesign my website. </blink></center> Filed under: Under construction.
The problem is that most zoomers have no fucking idea what the gifs are referencing. I always thought that by about 2020ish we would encounter a generation that would reference the Simpsons but wouldn't know what the Simpsons were referencing. Instead, we've encountered generations that don't realise the world existed before they became cognizant of reality beyond the end of their noses.
I'm tempted to downvote your post for making me remember Angelfire. Go fucking figure that one out zoomers.
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*edit. some how double posted.
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Do People Use GIFs Anymore?
are these Gen Z people using that means they think no-one's using them?
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@loopback0 these people are from a time when “reaction gifs” had already been normalised and therefore passé, and that they have a camera in their pocket they could video themselves reacting to things rather than using a poorly-curated library of reaction images in Tenor/Giphy etc.
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@Arantor They're missing out on the fun of picking from the existing library of images. OK, sometimes that's more than anything else, but usually it's a lot better than that.
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@dkf that’s just it, they’re “over it”.
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@Arantor if the "issue" is that gifs just aren't cool anymore then that's fine
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I'm tempted to downvote your post for making me remember Angelfire. Go fucking figure that one out zoomers.
I was aiming for Geocities, but same difference.
Edit: FWIW, while this made you remember Angelfire, I had to actually search for those GIFs. That's some serious PTSD territory. (And quite detrimental to my Google search history.)
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@Arantor if the "issue" is that gifs just aren't cool anymore then that's fine
A bunch of 'net places still call any animated images “gifs” even though 73.28% of them are “webp”s these days.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@Arantor if the "issue" is that gifs just aren't cool anymore then that's fine
A bunch of 'net places still call any animated images “gifs” even though 73.28% of them are “webp”s these days.
Yes I know, and that's fine and I was making the same "all animated images are gifs even if that's not technically the case" assumption that these platforms make.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Do People Use GIFs Anymore?
are these Gen Z people using that means they think no-one's using them?
They don’t know!
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@Bulb it’s more a mashup of mp4, animated WebP and WebM just to be helpful.
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@Arantor *cries in APNG*
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@TwelveBaud APNG did get browser support in the end, but animated WebP tends to actually perform better.
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Some kind of 3 Stooges thing going on in Japan...
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I'm tempted to downvote your post for making me remember Angelfire. Go fucking figure that one out zoomers.
I was aiming for Geocities, but same difference.
Edit: FWIW, while this made you remember Angelfire, I had to actually search for those GIFs. That's some serious PTSD territory. (And quite detrimental to my Google search history.)
Go play Hypnospace Outlaw. The entire game is a love letter to Geocities, Angelfire, and the early internet in general.
(Because I enjoy seeing people suffer.)
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@PotatoEngineer said in In other news today...:
Hypnospace Outlaw
Watched the trailer. The dithering was real.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@PotatoEngineer said in In other news today...:
Hypnospace Outlaw
Watched the trailer. The dithering was real.
I played it for a few hours, but decided that the detail-oriented work involved in "investigating webpages for violations" just wasn't fun. Lots of going over things with a fine-toothed comb.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Some kind of 3 Stooges thing going on in Japan...
There's an old joke that this reminds me of. St Peter is at the Pearly Gates processing a long line of new arrivals. Asks the next guy to explain how he died. Guy says:
"I got home unexpectedly to my girlfriend's apartment and suspected she had been with another man. Searched from room to room but couldn't find anybody. As I looked out the window I saw a guy below getting into his car and figured that had to be him. So with the increased strength that comes from rage I picked up her refrigerator and threw it out the window, killing him. At that moment the realization of what I'd done, coupled with the exertion of lifting the refrigerator, caused me to have a heart attack and that's what killed me."
St Peter takes all this down and tells the guy to proceed to the waiting room for review, then turns to the next guy in line and asks the circumstances of his death:
"I'm not really sure. I had been visiting my sick mother in her apartment and was just leaving when suddenly a refrigerator comes out nowhere from five stories up and flattens me."
St Peter again takes the notes and sends the guy to the waiting room. Then he asks the next guy in line how he died.
"Well, you see, I was in this refrigerator...."
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
That's what happens when you give antibiotics to everyone with a cold, and feed it to livestock by the truckload.
Fuck. That's horrible.
I did have a doctor prescribe antibiotics for something I was pretty sure wasn't bacterial. I didn't take them and got better.
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@Karla it can make sense if you’re trying to fight (or prevent??) a superinfection, i.e. you have a virus infection where antibiotics don’t help, but due to weakened immune system you get a secondary bacterial infection making things worse. But some doctors just seem to prescribe antibiotics for any random common cold.
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@topspin Part of the issue is that we, as a population, have been trained to expect doctors to be able to do something. If you read doctors' blogs or similar, you'll see many times when patients are asking the doctor for a prescription that the doctor wouldn't necessarily give them otherwise.
Sometimes they explain and don't give them, but sometimes they also decide that, on balance, maybe for the placebo effect, maybe for the possibility that it might actually help, maybe just to get rid of the hypochondriac who prevents them from seeing other patients, maybe to keep a good doctor/patient trust relationship with an otherwise fragile person, maybe for whatever other reason, the doctor ends up giving them useless drugs.
There is something similar going on with measuring the pressure. In almost all medical visits, it's totally useless. But it's part of what a patient expects from a doctor, and people complaining about their doctor not listening to them will often say stuff like "he didn't even measure my pressure," as if that was the very minimum that a doctor does when examining someone. So doctors do it, even when pointless, because it makes them look like doctors.
Which is all a nice catch-22, and relatively harmless when it comes to pressure (there is no bad side effect, apart from spending a bit of time that could be better spent doing something else), but it's more of an issue with antibiotics.
Humans are weird.
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Wow.
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@remi From what I understand, there's also an issue with people not running the full duration of the prescription of antibiotics (or even getting prescribed too short durations). E.g., people stop taking the antibiotics once they start feel better, even if they were prescribed for longer. You really want to make sure you're killing off all the bacteria, and not just favouring the ones with a slight resistance to the antibiotics in question.
Edit: After diagnosis, I've been told by doctors that should consider letting things just run their natural course (remarking of course that if I got worse, I should get back to them), possible in combination with stuff that suppresses the symptoms a bit (e.g, aspirin and similar). I'm still here (AFAIcan determine), so that seems to have worked out. Unfortunately handling things that way doesn't seem to be the default everywhere.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@remi From what I understand, there's also an issue with people not running the full duration of the prescription of antibiotics (or even getting prescribed too short durations). E.g., people stop taking the antibiotics once they start feel better, even if they were prescribed for longer. You really want to make sure you're killing off all the bacteria, and not just favouring the ones with a slight resistance to the antibiotics in question.
Yep. When antibiotics are given for something where they're the correct treatment, taking the full prescribed course is important (unless they're causing some serious side effects, in which case let your doctor know as well!)
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Slow news day. Does this barrel even have a bottom?
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@hungrier It's a music video. That is pretty much in Billboard's "entertainment news" wheelhouse.
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@HardwareGeek Surely there has been some more significant music video news in the past *checks watch* 40 years
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@remi said in In other news today...:
@topspin Part of the issue is that we, as a population, have been trained to expect doctors to be able to do something. If you read doctors' blogs or similar, you'll see many times when patients are asking the doctor for a prescription that the doctor wouldn't necessarily give them otherwise.
Sometimes they explain and don't give them, but sometimes they also decide that, on balance, maybe for the placebo effect, maybe for the possibility that it might actually help, maybe just to get rid of the hypochondriac who prevents them from seeing other patients, maybe to keep a good doctor/patient trust relationship with an otherwise fragile person, maybe for whatever other reason, the doctor ends up giving them useless drugs.
There is something similar going on with measuring the pressure. In almost all medical visits, it's totally useless. But it's part of what a patient expects from a doctor, and people complaining about their doctor not listening to them will often say stuff like "he didn't even measure my pressure," as if that was the very minimum that a doctor does when examining someone. So doctors do it, even when pointless, because it makes them look like doctors.
Which is all a nice catch-22, and relatively harmless when it comes to pressure (there is no bad side effect, apart from spending a bit of time that could be better spent doing something else), but it's more of an issue with antibiotics.
Humans are weird.
And here my complaint about visits to Urgent Care is that it's 15 minutes of waiting in an empty room, 5-10 minutes of getting vitals read by a nurse, and 30 seconds of the treatment I came for – which may have been given by the nurse, so when the doctor rolls around (after further waiting), there's nothing for him to do.
Covid tests, in particular, have a very high waiting-to-useful-work ratio.
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@PotatoEngineer said in In other news today...:
And here my complaint about visits to Urgent Care is that it's 15 minutes of waiting in an empty room, 5-10 minutes of getting vitals read by a nurse, and 30 seconds of the treatment I came for – which may have been given by the nurse, so when the doctor rolls around (after further waiting), there's nothing for him to do.
Like the recent SMBC:
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek Surely there has been some more significant music video news in the past *checks watch* 40 years
I'll tell you what would be significant news. Actually playing music videos on MTV.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
I'll tell you what would be significant news. Actually playing music videos on MTV.
I think in a delicious twist of irony they have created a new channel now which does play music videos, but it's not their main channel.
Possibly .
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But did they name it "Music MTV"?
EDIT: "MTV Music" might also be acceptable.
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This isn't affecting me but I do have an odd one. If my VPN is on I sometimes can't connect my phone to iTunes. So I have to turn it off or switch to a different exit point.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
I'll tell you what would be significant news. Actually playing music videos on MTV.
I think in a delicious twist of irony they have created a new channel now which does play music videos, but it's not their main channel.
@JBert said in In other news today...:
But did they name it "Music MTV"?
EDIT: "MTV Music" might also be acceptable.Yeah, it's MTV Music.
Music Television Music.