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@Karstan @cbarbermd Hint: Don't tell them your real age.

@thisismyglasgow Saw some interesting parch marks on old sat images that imply that it had a number of walled gardens (much like neighboring Pitsligo, which still mostly has its walls) and there is the remains of a doocot bordering the field. They must have ate pretty well, as there is also the remains of a seperate kitchen building that still has a very tall chimney sticking out of the middle of nowhere. Really not at all a bad state of affairs for circa 1600.

@thisismyglasgow It must have been a pretty nice structure in its day, for essentially being in the middle of nowhere. There were two ranges branching off from the tower house in a big L shape, some sort of entrance hall building with a straight strair for accessing the tower. The tower has a turret stair starting midway up and there is also another turnpike stair midway along one of the halls, probably for servants to bring wine up from the cellar into the hall above.

@tzimmer_history My basic feeling is that the framework under which democratic federal governance has been practiced in the US is fundamentally architecturally broken and has for too long relied on the participants having the good sense to not push a bad system into a non-democratic failure mode. I think it is questionable whether the US can recover as it is now constituted.

@thisismyglasgow Very odd to have an oriel window on the corners of a building. I do know of one historical example, though.

This is Pittulie castle, built ~1596 by the Frasers of Philorth. Its up near Fraserburgh in Aberdeenshire. I was lucky to be able to visit it earlier this year just after harvest. Can't really get to it otherwise, due to it being encircled by cropland. Pitsligo castle is just a stone's throw away, too.

@BathysphereHat Thanks. Been a long time, but I've been witness to two grandparents go through long and lingering battles with cancer before ultimately die of it and a third who was battling it in the last years of their life and then died of heart issues. My mom has had different forms of cancer twice and thankfully they've been fairly direct surgical cures. I hate the Big C with a passion. Wish the HPV vaccine was talked about more often.

@BathysphereHat Went back and edited the original to correctly list the Cervix and not ovaries as the major cancer caused by HPV in people with female sex organs.

@Lydie Have you seen the prices of ram lately? I bet someone with good skills could buy "sold as bad" ram kits on eBay, repair it and resell it profitably.

@BathysphereHat You look up the list of cancers attributable to HPV across both genders, their annual incidence rates and then multiply by say a 75 year average lifespan and if everyone just got vaccinated as soon as possible when they were kids, the vaccine would have eliminated about 2.25 MILLION cases of cancer I. The US by the time you died of something else. People talk about how much they hate cancer, well here is something simple they could actually do to "Fuck cancer!"

@BathysphereHat yeah, sorry. That is personal history showing there. My grandma died of ovarian cancer and I think whenever lady-parts cancers come up that is just what I think about.

@BathysphereHat

This really shouldn't be a hard case to make.

Man: "I don't have ovaries. Why should I care?"
Doctor: "Do you have a penis?"
Man: "Yes..."
Doctor: "HPV causes half of all penis cancers. Also, genital warts, warts in your throats and all sorts of nasty cancers in your mouth and throat. Also, your anus. You do have one of those. Trust me, you don't want cancer in your anus. Now roll up your sleeve and be a big boy so a surgeon doesn't have to chop off your penis one day."

@BathysphereHat There are all sorts of nasty cancers it can and does give to one and all without respect to gender. Stupid that the focus has been so on Ovarian cancer that the general perception (when people are aware at all) is just about the vaccine protecting against Ovarian cancer. Men should get this not for affording better protection to women, but for the completely selfish asshole reason of protecting their own self from nasty repercussions of infection.

Past one in the afternoon and Domfront en Poiraie is still shrouded in this pea soup. Maybe I should go out and see what sort of "medieval shit shrouded in the mists of time" photos I can get?

@Karstan @cbarbermd The present formulation Gardasil9 protects against 9 of the HP viruses selected because of their implication in severe human health impacts. There are still kore versions of the virus which have lower % frequency of impact which might still be protected against in the future, but they went for the low hanging fruit first.

@Karstan @cbarbermd Humans of any gender description are approved for it up through age 45 in the US. Getting it while you're young is of course better as you are then less likely then to pickup one of the nine strains it covers against, but getting it later in life even if you may have brushed against some version of the virus in the meantime is still protective against the ones you haven't yet contracted and night still be exposed to someday.

@cbarbermd Pretty much the same thing among those vaccinated in Scotland. I went and got vaccinated this last year. Plenty of nasty effects men can suffer from these viruses as well. Really wish there was more emphasis on men getting vaccinated for it too. It helps men's health directly and getting vaccinated helps break the chains of onward transmission, helping those who for whatever reason aren't vaccinated.

@xerz Hook them while they're young.

@Lydie TechnologyConnections on Youtube did some episodes on these things.

https://youtu.be/PnpX8d8zRIA?si=RCaXwtxQ9wNQ4c7R

Also climbed up this little rocky hill with a cross on it to take in the view of the countryside as dawn was breaking. Pretty area with all the mists in the morning. Very chilly though. Going to grab some groceries and then try and warm up a bit.

The town has a small municipal theater showing something different every night, so I'm guessing one screen. The building is part of a complex which includes the local school and where the bus dropped me off.