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I've found the lang attribute and :lang pseudo-class to be pretty useful in publishing for private tribal use documents in my (critically endangered) language. Unfortunately there isn't any standard way of distinguishing between the various scripts/orthographies, so we've extended the language names for that purpose.

Our work isn't listed on any of these pages about which indigenous languages are on the internet because we don't want it to be, these pages are for tribal citizen use only. So, there may be a lot more written languages in use somehow than the author believes. But who knows.

Planting crops!

The azithromycin was given to some of the patients with viral pneumonia as there is a chance of reinfection with bacterial pneumonia. Astonishing and unexpectedly, the covid19 virus was completely wiped out in all the HCQ+azithromycin patients but only in a bit over half the HCQ alone patients. So just as an antiparasite drug surprisingly once was found to also work as an antiviral, azithromycin has unexpectedly been found to have some sort of a complementary amplifying or catalyzing effect with the hydrochloroquine. Of unknown mechanism and no doubt this will be explored in great detail in future research. For now it's known that putting the two together looks to be a good thing to do.

I'm taking it, I've also got my family and neighbors on it. I was unable to convince doctors since February to take me seriously that hydroxychloroquine is likely to have prophylactic effects so I took matters into my own hands. I know what I'm doing. Those who don't know what they are doing should not just jump in since they need to manage and understand the dose, the drug interactions, and the side effects. None of which are a problem for most people. Most. The ones that aren't though the interactions are well enough known and documented. I am not recommending it to anyone, that would probably be a crime. I'm saying if you're smart and understand science and thoughtful and not reckless you might be able to use it with the same safety that indians did for thousands of years. I still don't think you should though. Push for HCQ instead.

Commercial tonic is limited by federal law to 20mg per 8 oz, so I make my own tonic.

It would be much much better and would likely stop this whole problem if we'd just mail prophylactic doses of HCQ to the whole population instead of mailing a $1500 check to everyone like they've decided instead.

It's very humorous how people look at tropical countries that still have widespread HCQ use for anti-malaria and announce that they must be undercounting cases since their reported numbers are far too low. No, their numbers are not too low. It's just a lot of people in these regions are essentially vaccinated.

To be perfectly clear, some have been sampling reverb spaces for use in convolution reverbs using a starter pistol since the 1980s, and the procedure became widespread in the 1990s.

It is not 10 years old at all in any imaginable interpretation.

This person's "innovation" of popping balloons instead of using a starter pistol is completely and totally irrelevant and inconsequential.

"Only possible in the last 10 years" is not correct.

Computer musicians have used the IRCAM ISPW board as far back as 1989 to implement live real time convolution. Single purpose realtime convolution reverb hardware has been commercially available since Sony's 1999 DRE S777. Non-real time convolution has been done for decades as well, including by myself in 1991 and likely hundreds of others during that time period. Real time convolution on an off the shelf affordable consumer platform has been available for a long time as well, including eMagic's Space Designer plugin which was released in 2003. It's still part of Apple Logic.

> "Please note that a fee of (specify dollar amount) for the use of our basic services and overhead is included in the price of our caskets. This same fee shall be added to the total cost of your funeral arrangements if you provide the casket."

Correct, and if your casket fee is $7000, then $6500 is "basic services". Casket is only $500.

So you say, hey I just want that mahogany and silk casket, no services. Then they say "Oh sorry, that's not a bundle we offer."

If any one is interested, we bury our own in my family on our ancestral land. We use a plain wooden casket and dig the grave ourselves. If a backhoe from a friend is available it's a bonus.

I support the right to self bury, as most states have done for centuries.

There's a weird idea that government needs to get involved in this and protect funeral home gouging.

In any case total burial, funeral and wake cost can be around $800, if you want.

For years my public library charged a $3 fee to get a book sent from another library in the system.

At some point I was chatting with a librarian about this and she revealed they had eliminated the fee so as not to discourage the use of interlibrary loans.

I few weeks later I tried checking out something from another library and was then treated to a 10 minute lecture on how it costs them $20 to process these loans and am I really sure I want it.

No thanks. I'll just get it for a penny plus $3.99 shipping from amazon, less than the cost of gasoline to drive into town to order it, pick it up, and return it (3 round trips).

My own tractor is 67 years old. The parts catalog brags that not only do they carry every part new, but they have a photo of a copy they built entirely from contemporary made parts. It's a fine tractor and not hard to work on.

I've always found it interesting that there was mail service between Greenland and Iceland at least up until 1424.

Not too long after that, in 1477, Columbus went to Galway Ireland to ask fishermen about routes across the northern sea. These fishermen routinely visited Iceland, and knew about Greenland. Columbus also inspected a boat on which a couple had arrived in Galway from beyond Iceland, likely Greenland, and either viewed the bodies of the couple or met with them depending on how you read his Latin.

The trench is about 4 inches wide. It's under the eaves. You can also do it on the inside of the building if you have a crawl space. Dig 10 ft of trench. Pour 5 gallons water in trench mixed with something like 1 oz neonicotinoid. Then backfill the trench. The neonicotinoid bonds with the soil and remains active for about a decade, stopping termites from entering the building. Any house meeting building codes is going to have a roof and eaves that prevent large amounts of rain from entering this area. The area has non-neonicotonoid soil on top of it so there's no casual run off. You'd have to have leeching through the soil to whatever watershed you have. This is impossible because the neonicotonoids bond with the soil and do not move once set.

With fruit trees it also has long lasting action, bonding with the very bark of the tree and remaining for many years. This is a problem since honey bees come to the tree and get microdoses which appear to mess with their navigation. But the interesting part is other pollinators don't show these effects. Which is perhaps because honey bees have the food they store (honey) harvested by their "keepers" and are then given commercial corn syrup mix (grown with pesticides and including residue) as their only food. The simplistic nutrition of this substance compared to real honey weakens these fellows, compounding the disorienting effects of the neonicotonoids.

In OP's Japanese study they are mass applying neonicotonoids directly to the surface of a watershed, which resulted in huge problems to the down stream aquaculture. This use of neonicotonoids is a terrible idea and the adverse effects were not surprising. I'm quite surprised that mass application of neonicotonoids to a watershed isn't considered a criminal act.

I grow a lot of crops that require pollination, vegetables for market, and I have several small fruit orchards. After European bee colony collapse in my area the european honey bees disappeared. Within one season they were replaced with native pollinators, including literally dozens of species of bees I'd never seen before (because the alien european bees were starving them out), as well as a panoply of wasp species which I hadn't realized were major pollinators. Some of the wasps that moved in have done things like eliminate the Japanese Beetles that were ruining my grape and berry crops. Losing the european honey bees was the best thing ever to happen to me. And these other bees don't seem to get mixed up in the problems with the neonicotinoids. I use neonicotinoids myself for my dogs and cats and for termite control and they are the least toxic solutions for both of these uses. I do not support the use of neonicotinoids as applied directly to flowering crops or lawns with clover etc and consider such use to be highly misguided if not fairly insane.

Loss of European honey bees means expensive honey. It doesn't mean a loss of pollinators despite various misguided claims to the contrary that have been promoted for years, some making completely hysterical and unfounded claims of global starvation and the end of humanity. To the contrary in my experience the result is greater pollination and yields following the loss of the alien bee species.

Neonicotinoids are one of the best and safest pesticide treatments for termites. You dig a narrow ditch around the building's foundation, you mix in the neonicotinoid with the dirt, and you refill the ditch. Used this way there is absolutely no risk to bees or aquaculture.

Neonicotinoids are one of the best and safest pesticide treatments for flea and ticks on cats and dogs. You apply it to the back of their neck and it lasts 30 days. Used this way there is absolutely no risk to bees or aquaculture.

Neonicotinoids, although effective, are not suitable for use in fruit orchards or golf courses, or where they can enter water systems, yet are used in these contexts.

When you buy a neonicotinoid for termite control the instructions explain that it is illegal to use it for those other things. Yet you can instead buy the exact same neonicotinoid for fruit trees where the instructions explain that it is legal for that use. This makes little sense.

Losing neonicotinoids for termite, tick and flea control would be a grave mistake and loss and give no advantage.

Modifying neonicotinoid instructions to ban usages that are obviously causing problems is reasonable.

A few years ago I found out my nephew's Kindergarten had implemented fingerprint scanners for all students. They get to scan their fingerprint when checking in or out of lunch, going to the bathroom, arriving and leaving school.

Promoted as a safety feature to ensure they knew where the kids were and that they were ok. I was asked to go in with my brother and talk to them about it. They said it was all ok because that the actual fingerprints aren't stored on the system, only information derived from the fingerprints, the system wasn't costing them anything because some Edu-Tech company was paying for it as a test, no other persons had complained about the tech, not one, we were the first, and it's kind of weird that we are opposed to children's safety.

We asked that my nephew not participate in the trial and they agreed, though he reported after that he was often forced to be scanned anyway.

A couple years later I asked another parent about the fingerprint scanners and they didn't know what I was talking about, so either they were removed, or parents are simply not reading the notices they are sent home and often even asked to sign.

Thank you. I've received some of those too, a small package of pencils for example shipped from China, and I agree those are probably that scam. The key is that the product is of incredibly low value.

This doesn't match though the higher value items, costing dozens to low hundreds of dollars, which I've inexplicably received, and which seem to be related to random things I've done recently that are unique. Those shipments I feel reasonably are bizarre and unusual and otherwise reasonable explanations of scams just don't explain them.

For decades I have loved Ritchie's design aesthetic. Some years ago I met one of his close family members without realizing it and we bonded over our love of both classical studies and indigenous issues. At some point through random chats I talked about what an influence Ritchie was on me. My friend was shocked that I had heard of her relative whom her family considered as a pleasant eccentric, and she was gobsmacked when I told her stories about him that she had heard for countless years from the man himself over the holiday dinner table which everyone had rolled their eyes at. The concept outsiders had heard of him was astonishing. I was similarly amazed that my super smart friend was so close to him. As time proceeded I became something of friends with Dennis, not close, but someone he at least knew and we exchanged some amusing letters and gifts.

When I called my friend to tell her that Dennis had passed away it was the first she heard of it.

Not everyone likes Dennis' design aesthetic but it's been valuable to me in my career to find someone else, someone well known, who had similar predilections.

Dennis was genuinely a wonderful person who had excellent design taste. I miss him though I can still meet with him any time I like by thumbing through the K&R.

1967 and 1971.

So far they have all been "coffee table books", large books with photos and some text. The theme has always been indigenous issues throughout the world.

I assume that my mysterious benefactor is someone who used to read a blog I used to keep and then shut down. When I had the blog my address and name were obtainable from my site's whois records. There's also a possibility it's some old friend who is just being anonymous for some reason. I doubt it's something else but it could be I suppose.

On a separate but topically related issue I also receive packages from amazon of fairly obscure things which are usually relevant to me. Imagine that I had dinner with a friend of a friend who turned out to be a former Chinese Circus Bear Trainer. A week later from amazon I receive a starter kit for Circus Bear Training. And I pass it on to my acquaintance who finds it interesting I got it. It's not that but a similar thing. I wonder if it's random shipments as part of some scam I can't imagine to comprehend. I think that it was a Bear kit after meeting with a Bear person is actually a coincidence and I'm reading too much into it since no interpretations other than weird scam make sense. I don't worry about any of these anymore and instead get excited when I receive a new bizarre shipment on an erratic irregular schedule, and show off the package to my friends and family who find the whole thing fairly hilarious. And some of them report to me that they too get random mis-shipments from amazon. While acknowledging that the Bear Kit takes the cake. So maybe Amazon's system is just messed up somehow.

Every year around a certain date, the meaning of which is opaque to me, I receive a package sent from the Strand bookstore containing a very nice expensive book. First couple years I called to ask who the sender was, they read back my name to me. I asked them to describe the purchaser, it took a bit of doing but indeed someone remember them and described what I look like. I've never been to New York or the Strand, but thanks whoever you are, who is impersonating me to send me expensive gifts, all of which were really cool books that I enjoyed.

You are responding to a post where he paid $7,900 for a $11,800 procedure.

Under ACA Bronze, the worst plan, his copay should have been 40%.

Is it your assertion that $7,900 is 40% of $11,800?

> where doctors run their own private practices

The supposed evil sole individual human you postulate as the source of dire evil is not the problem usually, rather the evil collective corporation or other organization calls the shots when we see these sorts of industry wide systematic abuses.

Fine. Last minute round trip flights to Europe from the US are not $600. PROVE ME WRONG.

"they know the reimbursement for each procedure"

This is not true.

"There's a requirement to share how much a consumer needs to pay before procedures are done"

This is not true.

And as a critical care patient he dies during the flight. Now what.

Also, emergency last minute round trip flights to Europe are absolutely not $600 as you claim.

"Is there any reason not to make discounted rates for insurers illegal?"

Flat pricing for all is possible and workable under single-payer.

I had to go to the corporate owned emergency room recently. They told me that as an uninsured person my discount was 70%. They wouldn't tell me what the insured discount was even though I asked. For 5 minutes with the doctor and there's nothing we can do today follow up with you GP doctor tomorrow or ASAP, the bill was only $145.50, discounted from $485.

The follow up with my doctor during weekday hours was $70.

> More than 270 election workers in Indonesia have died, mostly of fatigue-related illnesses caused by long hours of work

Was that really the cause of death? Or is it just what they are saying. That seems to be an absolutely enormous number of fatigue deaths from one election.

Also of interest, Moche electroplating.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-antiquity/a...

http://resources.conservation-us.org/osg-postprints/postprin...

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Moche

Your statement is incorrect, which your provided source clearly acknowledges.

Only idealized waveguides produce perfectly harmonic timbres. Idealized waveguides do not exist in nature. The closest thing we have to the sound produced by ideal waveguides is digital oscillators driven by a highly accurate clock playing back a single-cycle waveform. The result is close enough and is often described as an organ like sound.