Something you know today that you didn't know yesterday

[Rizen]

Today I learned how to make the words and buttons dance across the screen on my website but I think I over did it. I also learned that certain cows can use tools like a stick to scratch their backs.

[Charladele]

I learned that you can pop a blood vessel in the white of your eye for no apparent reason and wake up and scare yourself when you first look in the mirror.

[Rizen]

[brewerb]

Vagal nerve stimulation is being used to treat olfactory dysfunction post covid.

[Paleophyte]

Vagal nerve stimulation is being used to treat olfactory dysfunction post covid.

I read this as "vaginal nerve stimulation..." which was a much more entertaining headline.

[brewerb]

Vagal nerve stimulation is being used to treat olfactory dysfunction post covid.

I read this as "vaginal nerve stimulation..." which was a much more entertaining headline.

Could you give us your concept for performing that procedure? We are people of science after all. 

[Paleophyte]

I read this as "vaginal nerve stimulation..." which was a much more entertaining headline.

Could you give us your concept for performing that procedure? We are people of science after all. 

I hadn't formulated a detailed procedure. My understanding is that it isn't difficult to find and you'll know when you're there.

[Rizen]

I learned how to make crests and a compass rose in Clip Studio Paint. These lessons are really good but it's hard to catch what she does because her accent and she goes so fast.

[SYZ]

...I learned how to make crests and a compass rose in Clip Studio Paint. These lessons are really good but it's hard to catch what she does because her accent and she goes so fast.

Interesting... I didn't have any issues with her accent as such, but
with my elderly hearing, I had more of a problem with that fucking
background music—that so many YouTubers seem to think is a total
necessity.

I used to draw compass roses for engineering drawings in 1988/89
using DOS-supported AutoCAD using a digitiser "mouse" and tablet.

[brewerb]

Heard a claim from a believer (catholic I think) that all christian eucharist blood tied to miracles is type AB. I had to get out of this persons space, it was the wrong to question/challange him.

[brewerb]

50% of newly diagnosed female HIV patients are black women. 

[pattylt]

50% of newly diagnosed female HIV patients are black women. 

What I think is the more interesting question is why more black women that white women contact AIDS.  My suspicions are that black communities distrust doctors in much greater numbers than whites and that black men aren’t willing to have their AIDs status known by anyone…due to either shame or ostracism by others.  If they won’t get diagnosed because of medical fear and don’t acknowledge their status if they do know, then black women and blacks in general need to face and address these issues head on.  

A bunch of white people telling them what to do won’t work.  We can help but, I think it needs to be led by by black doctors and social workers. I certainly don’t blame their history with white medicine and whites need to address their own issues about black communities and their part in the harm.

[brewerb]

50% of newly diagnosed female HIV patients are black women. 

What I think is the more interesting question is why more black women that white women contact AIDS.  My suspicions are that black communities distrust doctors in much greater numbers than whites and that black men aren’t willing to have their AIDs status known by anyone…due to either shame or ostracism by others.  If they won’t get diagnosed because of medical fear and don’t acknowledge their status if they do know, then black women and blacks in general need to face and address these issues head on.  

A bunch of white people telling them what to do won’t work.  We can help but, I think it needs to be led by by black doctors and social workers. I certainly don’t blame their history with white medicine and whites need to address their own issues about black communities and their part in the harm.

Another interesting bit to this, the black numbers overall are declining and white numbers are increasing.

[pattylt]

So, they may be doing what I’ve said? I’m sure it’ll become a huge scandal when it’s more whites than blacks. Someone will blame the Democrats, I’m sure.

[Fireball]

^ All those "woke" libruls are surely at the bottom of this.

[GenesisNemesis]

Today I learned about Opaki. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okapi

Very cool looking.

[SYZ]

50% of newly diagnosed female HIV patients are black women.

I wasn't aware of that, but we have a similar problem downunder
with our Aboriginal (black) population's health.

So, in the United States...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released its surveillance report
that showed that despite Black women in the United States making up just 13% of the
overall female population, they accounted for 50% of HIV diagnoses among women.

[Rizen]

Birds do indeed have belly buttons from the yolk sac of their egg but the scare fades away as they grow up.
https://www.audubon.org/news/question-do...ly-buttons

[GenesisNemesis]

Today I learned about Opaki. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okapi

Very cool looking.

I did a dyslexia thing, and I don't have dyslexia.

[brewerb]

Turning Point's halftime is on youtube if you like watching failure.

[SYZ]

...I did a dyslexia thing, and I don't have dyslexia.

Neither do we, either half.   

[brewerb]

FDA approved a wearable device that treats pancreatic cancer with alternating electric fields. Down side, it costs $21K/month and only extends life for a max average of 3 months.

[Astreja]

After several unsuccessful attempts (several years apart) at trying to set up a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) with MIDI instruments so that I could get back into music production, I finally had a breakthrough. Found some virtual instruments and also did some YouTube research that helped me connect them to my recording software. If I put the plug-ins in a particular Windows directory, the program finds them automatically when it starts up.

Got some pianos and drums hooked up so far, and by the end of the weekend I'll have a few more things in my "studio." I have one project underway for a songwriting friend, and there's a piece I wrote with MIDI software some years ago that I want to rework for concert band.

[brewerb]

They are working on making medical smart toilets.

[Fireball]

They are working on making medical  smart toilets.

Large Language Model says, "This tastes like shit".