Links of a day

[pyesetz]

Some 𝕌𝕟𝕚𝕔𝕠𝕕𝕖 icons I might want to use: 📹 Video.  📷 Photo.  🖼 Artwork.  📜 Official document.  📰 Newsmedia.  💬 People talking.

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Medicine.  More and more useful facts are being discovered every day!  The thymus gland turns out to be essential for pregnancy, because it creates a T cell that the placenta needs; without her thymus, the mom would get gestational diabetes.  And you thought the thymus just shrank to nothing at puberty, didn't you?

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🖼

Art.  Well, you gotta give this person points for originality.  It's Spongebob Squarepants, drawn in the style of Medieval Japan.  Or maybe it's just an excuse to use my new "Art" tag 🖼.  Do you see a little Mona Lisa in the tag?

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Libertarian trainwreck.  The music is good, but the claimed connections to Modern Monetary Theory and US Elections are farcical (although I suppose the caricatures of the Fed and FOMO have some validity).  Three minutes you'll never get back.  Hey, isn't it cute how the text wraps around the 📹 icon and then wraps around the "two guys sitting" image?  It doesn't?  Try making your window narrower or increasing text zoom.

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Food.  Americans prefer lighter yolk colours, so their factory chickens are fed corn.  A "normal" egg from a small-scale farm (where chickens eat bugs) is shown for comparison.

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Vaccine:  Israel has already vaccinated 15% of its population.  (Ontario has so far vaccinated 0.5%.)  How did they do it?  They paid double the going rate to get lots of vaccine quickly.

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Sorry, no uses of the "Official Documents" or "People Talking" tags today.  That Unicode blue colour they chose is ridiculously bright.

Comments

[rain_gryphon]

Eggs: Interesting. I started eating only the free-range eggs about two years ago, because I don't like the thought of keeping chickens in cages. The yolks are a good deal darker, how I strongly suspect they looked a century or so ago. I had no idea the light-coloured yolks were being sought deliberately, or that people preferred those. I figured they were just a side-effect of raising chickens cheaply that people had just gotten used to.

Interestingly, one of the local farms recently went over to free-range. Vast hordes of chickens all wandering about the place.

Vaccine: It's amusing to me how rapidly the movement to include Africa in the initial distribution of vaccines died out (pretty much overnight) when the new covid variants appeared.

And I can't really believe that Israel's success is entirely due to paying premium prices. Indiana has plenty of vaccine, but we have issues organizing the distribution. I finally got my mom signed up with the county health department, and they're administering one shot every ten minutes. It's ridiculous.

[pyesetz]

Israel is now up to 22% vaccinated.  They've made it a national priority and a point of world pride that THEY ARE GONNA DO THIS.

[beckyway]

>>Do you see a little Mona Lisa in the tag?

No. On Chromium it's a landscape, and on Firefox it's a little house on a mountain. So much for unification.

My email notifications when you make a new post apparently broke sometime around August, and since you frequently go several months at a time without posting I didn't find out until today.

[pyesetz]

On my (temporary) computer (running Linux Lite), both Firefox and Chrome show the Mona Lisa, but all the other icons differ between the browsers. On my Lineage phone, Yahoo Mail shows a landscape.

And now you have so much Unicode goodness to catch up on!