Stomach: I want broccoli tempura.
Brain: It's the middle of the night. Restaurants are closed.
S: It'll go great with the leftovers of the chicken fried rice you made.
B: The point of leftovers is you don't have to cook again.
S: Come on, it's not that hard to make.
B: I'm so woozy I can't even watch cartoons right now.
S: Brooooooccccoooolliiiiiii teemmmmppuuuuuurrrrraaaaa
B: Dinner is in 2 hours. We'll see.
I finally did it. I used an LLM. A couple of months ago, MS added its Copilot to Windows. I turned it off. But the latest update shoved it back in my face and tried to get me to let it use my data. So I asked it a question: How do I get rid of Copilot? It suggested I uninstall it like any other program, but MS removed that option. But Copilot went on to tell me the exact registry key to change to block it from loading, and now it's gone.
US Department of Health and Human Services is proposing a new rule requiring hospitals to electronically report cases of respiratory illness such as COVID-19 on a weekly basis, even in the absence of a declared public health emergency.
Public comments on whether to adopt this policy are open.
Cooking revolutionized food safety so much that the appendix (which existed to try to deal with foodborne parasites) became vestigial. Germ theory led to pasteurization, vaccines, and sterile medical environments, which all but eliminated a whole swath of deadly infections.
Those measures were so successful that we have trends of raw diets, raw milk, antivaxxers, and anti-maskers because people don't remember why they're able to feel safe.
Thank you, Associated Press, for getting this subhead right.
Amazing they can charge for the feature (which is just a software update, since the cars already had the sensors it uses) when it's still so far short of actually working.
From a friend of a friend (so make of it what you will):
A friend of mine is doing her PhD Dissertation in Community Engagement - specifically exploring the connection between nonbinary people’s communities and identities. She's collecting research data, so if you identify as nonbinary and would like to help please take a look at the survey. https://www.courtneytobin.com/nonbinary-identity-community
It doesn't look like much, and it's not linked on their website. I wish there was a better option to verify that it's not a scam, but here's the tweet from their official account: https://twitter.com/NewsHour/status/1778808320041550061
Trump: Jews should vote for me because unlike the Democrats I'll back Netanyahu unconditionally.
Also Trump: Put me in power and I will make sure this is a Christian nation.
(There is no actual conflict between these positions, because, again, backing Israel is about pleasing antisemitic Evangelical Christians who want to trigger the Rapture. Also, American Jews aren't Israeli, and many of us are as opposed to Netanyahu as we are to Trump.)
There were many names for the islands. But the Chinese called them Nippon/Nihon ("sun origin") because it's east of them.
Italian merchants wrote down the Indonesian pronunciation of the Chinese name as Gaipan, which became Japan in English.
When a 1943 Batman movie villain said "Actually, I prefer to be called Nipponese," there was a pause for the audience to boo. Because we'd been asked to correct it and didn't want to.
@WearsHats
I can't remember if I was directly told this or inferred it from "ju" being listed as an alternate reading of 日, but I think "Juppon" may have been a historical or dialectic reading of "日本". And that seems a likely origin of "Japon"/"Japan", by whatever route it made into Western languages. IIRC, there are still a few modern words using the "ju" reading of 日 (a very common and very old kanji, of course).
It's been awhile, but I studied Japanese pretty seriously about 20 years ago.