Michael caldwell

@zaichishka She is unfortunately allergic to the main anti-cat antibiotic, so she’s on a massive dose of the stuff that’s less effective…. But yeah. Terrifying.

@Absurdum14 Hope she has a swift recovery ❤️ the prospect of losing antibiotics from our pharmacological armoury is a scary one!

My sisters cat freaked out (noises outside) and bit her on the hand last night about 10pm. By 7 this morning, her arm was puffed up to the shoulder and she was straight off to the hospital for a HEAVY course of antibiotics. Weird to think that 100 years ago, a death sentence.

@thecatpatrol @Msamalam They have universities in Japan and America, so if you wanted to study, and get in that way like “Christian universities”, there’s always that 😆 I quite like them, have friends, been to prayer meetings, but have my own faith, so immune to pressure that way 😆

@thecatpatrol @Msamalam Internet search. Or find a member and have them take you to a meeting. The one real cult-like feature is they have the idea that if your family try to stop you joining then they are “enemies”, so cut ties, but much much less than Tom’s fellas. 😆

Excerpts from Japanese schizophrenic Twitter. An under-explored corner of the internet. Their common enemies are sokka gakkai, Jehovah’s witnesses, gang stalkers, and electromagnetic attackers.

@thecatpatrol @Msamalam They divide areas up into tight knit groups, and push members to do stuff for the group, but don’t really push for money the way the Unification church does, or proselytise the way much dodgier Japanese cults do. Also do loads of charity etc. Imagine mormons, but less “mission”

@thecatpatrol @Msamalam A Buddhist new religion type sect (some say cult, but their theology isn’t particular odd, and they’re organised, but not messianic, so…). They control members voting behaviour, so they’re politically powerful. Fastest growing religion in NZ apparently. Big Polynesian outreach.

@Msamalam I mean, at least the missing cheese girl might just have an old woman living in her ceiling like usual.

@PaprikaGirl_JP @GentThePenguin Kids books are the way. If you’re in Japan, or possibly from Amazon, the 1st year elementary KUMON textbooks are an excellent way to go. But you’ll need to self-start a bit, because there’s no English in them 😆 Also the “Japanese” app is a very good dictionary, with flashcards

First focus on memorizing the kana. Duolingo can help with that. Next, get yourself preschool kid books, and teach each one ALOUD (one page three times). Keep getting more books. Write down words you don’t know (all at first). Know not everything can be translated, and that’s okay! Just keep ploughing through. The rest will come naturally as you “level up.”

I've decided I want to learn Japanese. I'd appreciate any help anyone wants to give me. Thank you. 🙏

@keiteay @leahfrombklyn Yes, this exactly. “Unfortunately this is not the case in Japan” is strongly implied 😆

@leahfrombklyn Am I bugging, or this this being presented as a *positive* for the American legal system?

Excuse me??? I had no idea that Adderall is illegal in Japan (yes even if prescribed from another country) and that if you have it, they will promptly arrest you.

@leahfrombklyn @Fly_Sistah Pain killers are the other big one - most common prescribed opiates in the states are illegal / not used at all in pretty much every other country. Which is low key why the opioid epidemic is confined to the US.

@Fly_Sistah Thank you! Wow I know about CBD and other drugs but the over the counter/prescription medications never crossed my mind. Good to know!

@leahfrombklyn I low-key love that the whole lede of the article is “The American justice system is corrupt and easy to game, but unfortunately this isn’t true in Japan.” 😆

@Msamalam @uckema lol, that lede though - “in America, the justice system is corrupt and easy to game - unfortunately, in Japan, this is not the case.” 😆 And the journalist really thought they were eating with that.

@uckema Also, he was detained over smuggling MDMA lol

The U.S. government has a convenient website with all that is legal and not legal to bring into foreign countries. Obey the law criminal

@dexarok @0xTommyGenesis @jaketropolis I saw or cited an et al in one of my papers, so there might actually be something to it, which would be kind of fascinating. But I suspect it would depend on the discipline, it seems more common in science papers and I’m not a scientist 😆

@dexarok @0xTommyGenesis @jaketropolis An aside, but I would genuinely like to know if AI uses et al 500,000 times more often than non-ai. Like, papers (and thesises, and published articles) I’ve seen definitely written by AI, with hallucinated references definitely have used et al, and I can’t remember the last time

professor decided not to accept a paper i wrote because it was "100% AI" and it seems that the smoking gun is my use of four citations that include "et al." what do you even do

@dexarok @0xTommyGenesis @jaketropolis No, he means that genuinely believing something is a positive defence against libel / slander. If he genuinely believes it, even if he’s an idiot to do so, it’s not libel / slander.

@0xTommyGenesis @jaketropolis That's what courts are for. You can bring expert witnesses.

Keeping cats back then must have been like playing Russian Roulette 😆

@Majyqman42 @edwardcurrent @Gumblejack @HarrySword Ahh, ok. It came here as a stand alone without the number, so I never realised they were the same thing 😆

@Absurdum14 @edwardcurrent @Gumblejack @HarrySword en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime7 Basically the 7 I listed above...

When there were only four channels if I.e some obscure 1970’s horror or western was on late at night, next day at college/work chances were *loads* of people would have seen it. So you had this strange sub cultural literacy that has been utterly lost - people randomly quoting

@Majyqman42 @edwardcurrent @Gumblejack @HarrySword Also, funnily I JUST remember channel 2 coming to our part of the country in about 79. It had started in 75, but mountains, so we missed out for a few years 😆 Prior to 75 “what’s on TV” had literally one answer (and also started at 9am and stopped at 11pm) 😆

@Absurdum14 @edwardcurrent @Gumblejack @HarrySword 6? ABC, 7, 9, 10... and SBS eventually. Where's the 6th? :P Still more than 2 I guess :D