What did you learn today?

[Krisfield]

I found out the other day my doctor lied in his notes and made stuff up. My lesson, check on a regular basis as to what your doctor is putting in his notes.

Time to get lawyered up.

Learnt this a long time ago, and every single damned day, it gets further confirmed.

 

[Oddly]

Today I learnt there's a 'secret' hand signal that can be used in video calls, zoom, etc to alert to domestic abuse.
I figured it'd be worth sharing here as the more people are aware of it the better, obviously.
Hoping it's never needed, but also hoping any of us who come across it will recognise it.

 

[Tom Bomb]

Redemption takes a load off. And everyone deserves a second chance.

 

[Qlanq]

Limes and oranges float, Lemons do not.

 

[bholder]

I learned that practicing oboe makes me almost as much as does. Ain't hypoxia fun?

 

[FilterFunk]

I found out the other day my doctor lied in his notes and made stuff up. My lesson, check on a regular basis as to what your doctor is putting in his notes.

Time to get lawyered up.

Man, that sounds bad...really bad.

I sure hope you get it sorted out.

 

[Krisfield]

Thanks mate, I appreciate it. Yeah, it gets a whole lot worse when the doctor makes a referral to a couple of specialists with made up information in it. But what also concerns me is who else is he doing this too. He's got zero evidence to back up his made up data, so I'll be sorting him out good and proper, legally that is. I'm actually lost words with whole thing...

Man, that sounds bad...really bad.

I sure hope you get it sorted out.

 

[Lagado]

Not learned, confirmed.

"Naturally, bureaucrats can be expected to embrace a technology that helps to create the illusion that decisions are not under their control. Because of its seeming intelligence and impartiality, a computer has an almost magical tendency to direct attention away from the people in charge of bureaucratic functions and toward itself, as if the computer were the true source of authority. A bureaucrat armed with a computer is the unacknowledged legislator of our age, and a terrible burden to bear.”

Neil Postman - Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology.

Johnson blames 'mutant algorithm' for exam fiasco

 

[FilterFunk]

TIL my old Flip video camera, which has been sitting unused for many years, is no longer fully functional.

I did something very uncharacteristic of me - I left the batteries in it. Yes, they corroded...I cleaned up most of the corrosion and installed new batteries, but the unit won't record or play, or show a full, bright screen except for a few seconds on startup. I was able to export a short video to computer, though.

I was hoping it was still fully functional so I could put it on eBay and maybe get a few coins out of it. I put an old but fully functional (although very limited compared to today's gadgets) mp3 player on eBay a couple years ago and got about $50 for it...

 

[Jeff Scott]

TIL about this guitarist:

 

[Tom Bomb]

I have another pen pal — Haunting dispatches from the edge of the Roman Empire, just before its collapse.

Better than the last one

 

[tubedude]

I learned not to cook bacon naked.

 

[PillO]

I learned not to cook bacon naked.

Well, perhaps you should spend some time internetting. You will find out that "friends with benefits" are not acquaintances who get extended health services and a pension.

 

[delta7fred]

Today I learned that my favourite music shop (that closed in April due to water damage from the extinguishing of a fire in the office above) reopened today in bigger premises.

https://www.facebook.com/RWBmusicyork/

Pre covid it was my regular Thursday haunt where I would chat to the owner and the guitar tech and drink coffee and was often left "in charge" while the owner went for a cigarette or bathroom break. I even managed to sell a couple of guitars (well strictly speaking 2 people came in with the intention of buying guitars and I happened to be "in charge" at the time).

 

[tubedude]

Well, perhaps you should spend some time internetting. You will find out that "friends with benefits" are not acquaintances who get extended health services and a pension.[/QUOTE
Wrong post perhaps.

 

[Tom Bomb]

Exploring possible links with an odd, but fancied old pedal — the VITRUVIUS MOD. Time to dig it out again, and team it up, this time with some novel, more percussive elements. I get the sense today that this should be fun. In any event, the mod's going back on the board for a spell

 

[Tom Bomb]

Today, 'Hotel Rwanda' inspiration Paul Rusesabagina held on terror charges hits the headlines, which comes into focus on the heels of certain other revelations that have lit a fire under my sheltered aspect, in recent times. I was given the DVD, Hotel Rwanda, when it surfaced here. Hard to watch. Time again to set the compass for a better comprehension.

 

[Tom Bomb]

Honeybee venom and melittin suppress growth factor receptor activation in HER2-enriched and triple-negative breast cancer … powers that bee … being cancer free. That's the buzz, today.

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[RedVee]

Honeybee venom and melittin suppress growth factor receptor activation in HER2-enriched and triple-negative breast cancer … powers that bee … being cancer free. That's the buzz, today.

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Beat me to it

 

[the harp unstrung]

Would my 3 younger sisters agree?!!