>>498174 USA does trump doesn't USA doesn't matter very much, trump is focused on his own money and power he pulled out of the iran deal knowing it would destabilize oil prices and that we would gain nothing from it
TN
>>498176 well name a post kennedy president who wasn't looking out for themselves, their croonies and the mil-industry
Kirara 🚗
none but other presidents actually tried to look like they were doing their jobs even while obama murdered people overseas he worked to get gas prices down trump doesn't do anything to benefit americans
us is quite oil independent now though you could ignore rhe global oil markets completely if you wanted
Kirara 🚗
we could for a little while but US oil Independence is a myth we use oil far more quickly than we gain it and generally only have 30 days of oil stores
TN
anyhow i think it is a show of force together with sa agaibst iran and eu eu gets fucked up major as 0 oil producer and largest importer
Kirara 🚗
even if that's what saudi arabia wanted it to be, trump probably doesn't realize that trump doesn't work like that
TN
who knows how his hrad works even before gettimg old he functioned funny
Kirara 🚗
we know that he doesn't think through his decisions and has trouble telling fact from fiction his decisions aren't calculated that's why nearly every decision he makes gets walked back on everything he says gets corrected by the white house he's not competent
TN
wonder who the next potus will be
Kirara 🚗
generic faceless murderer #46
TN
i bet repub, but yeah they would be mad to rally behind trump again
Kirara 🚗
probably not republican it's hard to run someone when you have the presidency already it'll be some dem vs trump unless trump steps down
Kirara 🚗
or gets impeached (highly unlikely)
TN
kayne 2020
TN
imagine dems grabbing some celeb to run for them oprah vs trump for example
Kirara 🚗
they will probably run oprah or the rock actually yeah
TN
>>498193 >the rock man he'd win too bad he'd be such a puppet in the end
how much do you have to drink to even get alcohol poisoning how do people do that i have drank so fuckin much before and never had that happen, and i'm a pretty unabashed drinker >>498252 what is a promille i will ask google but for posterity i'm announcing the question here
idk blood alcohol content doesn't make sense to me you have half a liter of 51% bourbon, that's .5 liters of alcohol with 6-ish liters of blood in the body, you're at like 1/12th is it based on alcohol or the acetylalcohol metabolite according to BAC you would only need 40ml of alcohol to send you into fatal territory, but people can easily drink six or eight times that amount
it goes through your system quite slowly and your liver constantly cuts it down we are talking about the actual ethanol content in your blood circulation not just your system but how much of it is on average in your blood
TN !PcAPtAiNJo
>>498257 russians have been tagged with 8 permille at times and been still able to drive trucks weird people
Kannagi
My internet died for while. It only got restored recently. Without internet it was super boring here.
月
>>498258 well ethanol content isn't quite the same like, you drink so much alcohol, and the liver metabolizes it into acetylalcohol and when it's too backed up for the liver to process, then you get the raw alcohol in the bloodstream i guess although i feel like i have it backwards i think the acetylalcohol is what causes the harmful effects on the body idk
>>498261 i dunno about the bac system, but the permille system measures indeed the content of 100% alcohol in your blood
月
BAC is the same blood alcohol content we just use figures like .08 or .16, which should correlate to .8 and .16 permille
月
>>498260 super boring in texas? what part are you in
Kannagi
I got back from texas last saturday. I was only there for a week, but it was nice. I went to a texas roadhouse and wataburger. It was super hot though, the humidity was unbearable.
Because the internet was down all yesterday I went out for a walk, I think I went a bit too far. I walked into santa fe and ended up walking for 18 miles. I've got blisters and my legs have bright red lines on them from sunburn. I just checked the weather report for today and yesterday and apparently there is an extreme UV levels warning out. I should have properly put on sunscreen, my legs hurt a lot.
>>498266 btw do you also hate sunscreen or just forgot?
Kannagi
I didn't apply it properly. my socks went down a bit as I walked and exposed unsunscreened skin. so I have a circle around my legs where my legs fell down.
月
it would take me like seven hours to walk 18 miles how do oyu // you do it
Kannagi
>>498271 I left at 12 and got back home at 5pm It was pretty tiring, I wanted to try walking into town but I underestimated how I'd feel after doing it. I didn't really feel all that bad when walking but when Igot back home I was feeling pretty ill. >>498273 It was pretty scary walking along the road. I don't think I'll do it again. at least not with how painful my legs are right now.
月
be careful out there though you're pretty vulnerable as a pedestrian
月
i don't want to have to hear about a kannagi pancake being found on the road flattened by a truck in new mexico or that a group of tweakers kidnapped you and sold your kidneys in tijuana
walking or cycling alongside roads with no walkways or such is scari
Kannagi
>>498274 Oh right, some weird guy living inside a little grove by the road was asking for a cig from me, I was just shocked by the psst! from the trees
I am pretty careful about walking along the road, but I don't think I enjoyed it enough to do it again, especially walking along a bridge above another road. I was pretty scared of the height.
I am going to nap and rest all day to day, I feel tired and my legs are fucked.
But if you ever again feel bored and are lacking internet just remember out there in the same state is the magical mysterious place of albuquerque
Kannagi
https://oaspub.epa.gov/enviro/uv_search_v2?minx=-106.03295999999997&miny=35.59668000000008&maxx=-105.84295999999998&maxy=35.786680000000075 Extreme UV levels is insane. I hope I don't get leg cancer.
Kannagi
Oh right on the driveway, I saw a huge black wasp thing with honey coloured wings. I asked someone what it was and they told me I saw a tarantula hawk. I'm glad I walked the fuck away from it.
normally if i am offered work and decline it, i get redirected to a page that says "No problem, ____!" but right now i'm declining work and i just get redirected to a white page that only says "problem"
Kirara 🚗
>>498298 tue/thur and Friday is nothing but providing therapy Wednesday is the same as Monday but no night class
>>498300 I'd totally rather have a more even split of work throughout the week, but I guess looking at the positives, it's nice to have a couple lighter days
月
>>498301 i know right i really question whether i'm hallucinating or having delusions or something
月
it's not like an error message or a server error notification it's just a white html page with "problem" in plaintext
>>498302 id rather have one of the classes on a different day like the night class on Thursday or something >>498304 that's so weird
Kirara 🚗
wow dennys is adding Solo themed meals like Chewbacca hash browns
月
adderall omelettes
FormerRei@mobile
IHOP is better
Anno
>>498306 I was at the theatres last night for Infinity War and it really seems like Disney is cranking out the ad campaigns for Solo now that Infinity War is out.
Kirara 🚗
yeah for real they are going really hard
there's a movie called Sorry to Bother You coming out soon that im really looking forward to me and my old call center buddies are gonna go see it
Anno
The theatre I was at even had a pre-roll thing of Don Glover giving a "bachelor's pad" style tour of the Falcon. I assume it's the set model they have for the calmer scenes that are gonna get filmed inside it. It's a really nice build too.
Kirara 🚗
that sounds awesome glover is gonna be a good lando i think
Anno
Yeah. He doesn't quite have the voice or the face, but I'm sure he'll slam the personality. And we're running off of a Solo that doesn't quite sound or look like Solo, so I'm not bothered by that. As long as they get the personalities down and the movie's fun, I think it's fine.
Kirara 🚗
yeah, im kind of over it now I'm sure it'll be alright
FormerRei@mobile
Heard back from the other place i applied to last week.
FormerRei@mobile
Of course i didn't get it, but emailing me to let me know was nice.
Anno
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2018/05/14/thanos-arrested-following-jaunt-down-yonge-st.html Oh maybe we don't need Avengers 4.
Kirara 🚗
Florida might get a minor hurricane this week before hurricane season even starts gonna be a bad hurricane season supposed to be scarier than last year's
>>498323 alright ill say "he didn't do that, these charges are ludicrous, and id like to see the prosecution prove that my client killed even just a single person with only a snap of his fingers"
Maria
we have like 5 people who saw him snap those fingers and people just happened to start dying immediately afterwards coincidence? I think not
Anno
>>498321 Avoid the court like the plague the day of his trial because he can go toe-to-toe with the Hulk without the use of any of the Stones. What's an old, ruddy building of legal infrastructure gonna do to contain him.
Kirara 🚗
>>498325 the entire court just saw you stand up but that doesn't mean you standing up killed anyone
>>498327 I don't have infinity stones though Also you could probably charge him with the other murdering he did before the stones like when he went round conquering planets
>>498334 Nope, they seem pretty much the same to me. That's mostly because asking how someone is isn't meant to be a functional question in most contexts.
>>498338 There are some contexts when either could merit a functional answer, particularly "Are you doing all right?" Our tendency to ask people how they're doing while not actually seeking an answer is a fascinating topic. You could probably write a book on it. Sometimes it's something you're supposed to respond to meaningfully and other times you're absolutely not supposed to respond to it as anything other than a greeting.
Well I kind of am writing a paper on natural language encryption it's not particularly focused on that, but it was kind of an arbitrary query to soundboard a thought communication is pretty fascinating in general
>>498334 one's a statement and implies they're concerned for the other persons wellbeing wheras the other is a question Then again, I guess you wouldn't ask "are you doing all right" hoping to hear "no I'm doing poorly"
>>498365 i made jambalaya with sausage last night and offered some to everyone but you weren't here so you missed out! i feel like this curry is missing something though so i might be an american ingrate and add mozzarella cheese
Kannagi
>>498366 I've never heard of Jambalaya before, apparently it is a cajun dish. It looks and sounds nice though.
>>498367 it's just rice and sausage with some spices really nothing special super easy to make i feel guilty even calling it a cooked dish it's so simple
I don't know a lot about Nigera, I do know a lot of smart people come from there, there are a bunch of university students that have gained scholarships.
Well, There a bunch of nigerian students doing PHDs at universities in the UK, I don't really know much else. I know it was a former colony of the British Empire.
月
>>498393 oh it's science to cage death that makes sense
FormerRei@mobile
>>498394 Nigeria is a terrible place and people leave it to go live in other places that aren't as terrible. Well, people rich/smart/lucky enough to get out.
月
the same can be said of anywhere
Kannagi
I don't know if it is a terrible place, It sounds interesting though, it looks like it is one of the stronger economic nations in Africa. and it abandoned Miltary Juntas for a democratic republic.
FormerRei@mobile
It's ranked 152/188 for human development index amongst all UN member states. It's hdi as of the last report on hdi by the un or whatever was .527 which is kind of bad. >>498400 It's productive in educating someone about a country that they know very little about.
Maria
Is talking about how awful it is really so productive in this context
there's somebody on this work forum saying to try this simple hack to improve your workflow and they link to some audio equalizer software i really want to reply saying that hacking is illegal and that they should be ashamed, and that i reported their post for illegal content
i would do it if it wasn't full of people in their 50s who wouldn't understand it was absurd humor and would probably start flagging either me or the main thread and i'd get banned
>>498406 Yes. They're saying that if your tubes are blocked, God sends a soul to unblock it and then the soul dies because it did what it was sent to do, and then the person has a kid later. >>498405 oh man dude my history and systems professor was talking about how he thinks skinner is one of the most brilliant philosophers of our time
FormerRei@mobile
I bet he was conditioned to say that.
月
>>498409 dude i heard someone say something like that before i can't remember who it was but damn it was kinda cute
i think he's what i might have become if i hadn't realized how fucked up the world is and how fucked up i am he's like "i love prison, i love the prison system, it's so much fun" wtf
>>498412 I'm not totally against prisons but I think that their intended function is really fucked up it's not a terrible environment, and really not even that bad but in terms of rehabilitating people for society, it does the opposite by forcing them to function in a counterculture which most of the prisoners are already very adept at doing
my biggest problem with prison is that it's used for slavery the prison system is really bad and unnecessary imo it's just a form of oppression
like you could abolish it and create a similar but more effective system i guess but it'll never really be as effective as community-based rehabilitative systems i don't think
either way though loving it is really weird and kinda gross
FormerRei@mobile
>>498416 Wait I thought the intended function was good and the actual way they ended up working was bad? Assuming we're talking about the US prison.
Talesof !NuKeSlvmWE
>TIME LIMIT MAP god fucking dammit
月
>>498418 i consider execution as a part of intention their execution of intended function is so niche that it rehabilitates only the people who could have been rehabilitated in more direct means, and otherwise serves as a segregation of criminal elements from society which is largely a counterproductive goal, as taking someone who holds territory off the streets only opens the position up for someone else to exploit an already exploited population, rather than the organic development of a provider whose stakes are in preserving their sense of community
FormerRei@mobile
>>498420 Yeah but Prisons in Norway and other parts of Europe work fine. They also intend to rehabilitate people.
Kirara 🚗
those prisons are also completely different types of institutions that just happen to be called prison
FormerRei@mobile
Yeah They just happen to be so different that they work. They're also not overpopulated due to the war on drugs.
Talesof !NuKeSlvmWE
I'm livid
月
>>498421 the social element of Norway is different than here the flavor and culture of crime in Norway is not the systemic variety that we have in the united states because it's not integrated into the system in such cases, it's easier to expose the affected individuals to a more wholesome system and acclimating them to it to limit criminal interfacing
the US is different our reason for imprisoning criminals is twofold for the less career criminals, it's to provide them with the basic resources to help them move out of that life, which i actually think is a decent system but i condemn the system as a whole because the lower portion of its regimen deals with removing criminal elements from the street, which is a counterproductive maneuver that causes worse and more serious crime that a community cannot self-control, and the prison system doesn't do anything to remove the individuals from a criminal lifestyle, as the same variety of crime is still rampant in prisons (no judgment on that) but that's only to say that it's clearly not intended for rehabilitation, but just for criminal segregation
Kirara 🚗
>>498423 war on drugs is a big part of it but there are a lot of other factors too
Prison doesn't occur in a vacuum. Those European countries have prison populations that are more easily rehabilitated. The solution to criminal behavior starts at early education.
Kirara 🚗
most people in prisons are in for crimes that shouldn't have punishments that involve prisons
月
and the OGs, whether they're in prison or not, still pull the same weight they're putting the same work in on the street whether they're in prison or not
>>498428 Most state prisons are overcrowded and are trying to dump inmates as fast as they can. People convicted of state er People convicted of drug and property crimes often don't go until they have a ton of priors, and they still get out quick. Not only is overcrowding a motivator to getting them out, they can't pay court costs and restitution from the inside and money makes the world go round. At least around here, most people serving long prison sentences are in for violent or sex crimes.
>>498430 what kind of trouble to people get in for something like, say, just hypothetically, not paying their taxes to the IRS
Kirara 🚗
>>498430 possession of most drugs past a (low) weight is like minimum 5 years the prisons are full of these people they're the reason the rates are so high
>>498432 That'd federal crimes, the feds are jerks.
>>498433 Yeah, but whenever someone says "minimum give (five) years" they're overlooking the fact that the sentence is suspended and the person is placed on probation. Distribution and manufacturing require relatively high weights, and yeah, those people go in becauase they're deemed a danger to others (for distributing drugs)
People really only serve their sentences if they get their probation revoked or if they have a ton of priors.
>>498436 A lot of times they can't stay good and get their probation revoked. Also, that includes people in jail for manufacturing and distribution. Those people probably need to be in jail.
A person who actually has to serve a 5 year sentence will typically only spend a year in because of good time, parole, and the fact that prisons need to get rid of nonviolent offenders to make room for the violent ones.
Maria
even one year is too long for drug posession
Anno
apparently school kids are taking benziodiazepine as a challenge
>>498451 Yeah, but that's just what happens when lawmakers are faced with the task of solving a drug epidemic that no one has any idea how to solve. You can't just let them use.
At least around here, people only actually go to prison for simple drug offenses once they've failed out of rehab and been convicted of 2-3 felonies.
>>498456 well the drug epidemic is largely in part due to the loosening of regulations on big pharma by the democrats but the socioeconomic problems were created by lawmakers
>>498456 Actually you can just let them use Safe injection areas decrease deaths from opioids by a decent amount
Anno
>>498456 my cousin is an addict and ... oh i hvaent posted about it here.
I talked to my doctor. apparently my dad who also treats with him has been heavily drinking again. he cancelled 2 appointments and didn't pay and i dont think he's working.
>>498457 Socioeconomic is er Socioeconomic inequality is an absolute truth that has followed humanity since the very beginning. You can't get rid of it. It is a fancy word that simply describes the fact that scarcity exists.
Kirara 🚗
>>498462 that's wrong there are many societies historically and even today that have no socioeconomic inequality that type of inequality is mostly the result of western influences moreover, even if we work under the assumption that you're correct on that, that doesn't have anything to do with the fact that politicians have been purposefully targeting the poor (and especially poor minorities) when enacting welfare policies in order to keep them poor this has led to long histories of poverty in communities which manifests today in drug crime because for many, drugs are the only economic opportunity available
Anno
>>498462 fun how you're saying slavery and marriage are natural to humanity.
>>498464 All I said was that scarcity exists and it is a universal truth, at least for as long as we are on this planet. I don't believe that scarcity exists in space. I could be wrong though, because I don't know.
Anno
yeah i know, back then people killed each other for scarcity now they just jail them.
FormerRei@mobile
>>498466 If we cut down the population scarcity wouldn't really exist.
月
>>498467 back when you gotta make a connection between what you're thinkin and what you're sayin so people can understand
Anno
reminder that prison for debt and slavery for debt existed until recently.
>>498468 Humans breed like rats. You can't really cut down on the population without oppressing people.
>>498463 Poverty has been a constant, though. I just don't believe that there's ever been a society where everyone has been equal. Someone is always getting oppressed and resources are always limited. It's just the way life is.
Maria
>>498468 why would it not still exist resources are still finite and not infinite
Anno
>>498469 oh, sorry. i wasn't being serious just complaining...
FormerRei@mobile
>>498471 I never said anything about not oppressing people. >>498472 Well if we limited the population to some point such that resources wouldn't run out before the earth's core dies then it may as well not exist.
月
>>498473 no it's cool, i'm just tryna help you along bring up the connecting point and it'll be more receivable in the discussion is all i'm saying
Kirara 🚗
>>498471 well, i would give you some examples of societies that disprove your theory (and have done so in the past) but you won't care so i'm not going to do that again
and again, that point doesn't really matter what matters is that people are being jailed for trying to survive in an environment they were forced into by politicians
Maria
>>498474 In practical terms we might not be running out of resources, but it's still finite And now you're just creating an artificial scarcity, that being the a scarce amount of births that are allowed to take place
>>498474 Yes, I'm saying something about oppressing people. If you want to keep the population low, you either have to kill people or tell them they can't have babies.
I guess with enough mental gymnastics you could indirectly kill people and tell yourself that it really isn't you.
月
>>498478 i feel like that diminishes as populous power diminishes today, letting people have tons of babies kinds of means they don't have the resources to invest in power of opinion
>>498476 We can't go back to tribal society, we can't go back to nature. Pandora's box is already open.
I don't think drug use has anything to do with survival.
FormerRei@mobile
>>498478 Oh it would totally require killing people. Like I never meant it didn't. But that would eliminate the need for as much resources.
月
>>498480 I don't think drug use has anything to do with survival.
literally a generation hat would not have survived that were on the fringes of society did so because of the CIA introducing crack cocaine to them like it's not even a conspiracy
>>498481 Well killing people is like the worst kind of oppression.
FormerRei@mobile
>>498483 Wow It's like you missed the point where I refuted the original statement.
Kirara 🚗
>>498480 selling drugs is a means of survival because for many, it is the only opportunity for economic gains
月
you have an impoverished community who is not looked after and has to cope with various sorts of oppression and you have people risking their social status to distribute the means of coping to their community, and it's labeled criminal in the tribal society they'd have been witch doctors, but now they're low-life criminal drug dealers i feel like that stance is just horribly marginalizing the existence of it if it was as simple and marginalized as it's made out to be by the news media, then it wouldn't exist there's a real reason for it
>>498485 Well, like I said, fixing the problem starts at early education. Way before prison comes into the picture. The first step is fixing that troublesome issue that black people have where they turn on their own for acting "too white" when a black man tries to make something of himself.
When you're talking about fixing low income communities in America, it's obvious what you're talking about. It's not a mistake. The biggest obstacle a young black man has when it comes to making something of himself is his peers.
It's racist to point out, I understand, but it's reality.
>>498496 it's not about the color of anybody it's about misunderstanding the community meth is a different issue because it's divergent from the community, at least in the current generation
A large amount of my work deals with members of marginalized communities and often intersects with their drug problems and problems with law enforcement. You can't just say that you can't understand it because you didn't live it. In fact, that's just a terrible way of approaching problems in the first place. Objectivity is crucial when it comes to understanding things.
Kirara 🚗
that's not the same
Kirara 🚗
some people can understand it without living it but i don't think you in particular have done so you've never really demonstrated the same level of understanding of the issues as anyone else who has lived in poverty or been marginalized
your experience is that of the outside observer you don't see what it's really like, you just see what's immediately visible to you behavior changes under observation you lack a great deal of the context necessary to understand these problems well
月
>>498500 do you have the opportunity to interface with the community behind it or do you just deal with the interactions between perpetrator and law enforcement you get the story but you're missing the world it was built out of
>>498503 A lot of what I do is helping people overcome their drug problems, and if we're lucky, help calm the cops down enough to get them out of hot water.
月
so you're interfacing with the portion of the community that has drug problems
>>498502 I dislike reasoning like this because it is inherently exclusionary. It basically precludes anyone who hasn't been subjected to a very specific set of circumstances from giving tough love to individuals who need it, because "you don't know so shut up" is the natural defense to anything you say.
Kirara 🚗
>>498506 you've completely misunderstood what i said in fact i explicitly said the opposite of what you're saying i'm saying
No, I don't think I have. It's pretty clear what it means. I think an outsider can come to a perfectly clear understanding of a community like that. All you have to do is observe for a little while.
I enjoyed the first heaven's feel movie. That was a good time.
Kirara 🚗
>>498508 >I think an outsider can come to a perfectly clear understanding of a community like that. yeah that's what i said which is why i'm convinced you've misunderstood me
i said that people can come to understand it without experiencing it, but you in particular have not come to do that
doing so involves checking your biases and being able to look at the problem from the perspective of those people but you see everything from the perspective that you always have - and that's not unreasonable, - it's just not effective for understanding plights that are so far removed from you
Maria
>>498509 Oh yeah that's out of theatres now Woud've been nice if it was in theatres here
>>498511 It will be airing in western theaters (select ones of course) in June I think. but // well I was worried about dub but I remembered that I think those same theaters do dual-audio
>>498510 The problem I have with this is that "checking your biases" is often just code for not engaging in groupthink. That's why the response was "whoaaa rika you can't say that" when I pointed out a real phenomenon that I've really observed.
Maria
>>498512 The existence of dubs feels weird to me because I've never met anyone who watches anime and actually prefers them
Well actually rika I was just concerned that you brought race into it because you brought race into it. That was a surefire way to make this go downhill fast. >>498514 There are some good dubs out there and it makes me sad when some people just go "NO IT'S A DUB SO IT'S BAD" You know. Some people.
Kirara 🚗
>>498513 checking your biases means that if you are a rich white woman then when dealing with something like poor people. you need to be able to realize what being a rich white woman does to your perspective that's the only way to be more objective
and nobody said "you can't say that" you're making so many assumptions and projecting them on to us based on what you think a caricature of political correctness would say
>>498516 I disagree with that. To look at something objectively, all you need to do is remove yourself from the equation. I don't need to go on some crazy journey of self-reflection to find the true meaning ot priviledge, that stuff is completely immaterial. All you have to do is look at the issue objectively, which is what every person should do in every situation.
Like chain challenge has already made me sick to my stomach I don't need other stuff on top of it.
Kirara 🚗
>>498517 >To look at something objectively, all you need to do is remove yourself from the equation.
i said >you need to be able to realize what being a rich white woman does to your perspective that's the only way to be more objective
it really feels to me like you aren't paying attention to anything i say you're responding to me as if i'm saying entirely different things from what i'm saying it's very frustrating to me and i know that there's no way for me to feel satisfied with this conversation no matter where it goes so i'm done
Maria
>>498515 There's a few dubs that I think do a good job but on average the original is usually better
>>498519 I think it's just a product of the fact that the two of us think very differently despite our similarities.
Being able to look at something clinically is just automatic for me. It's like flipping a switch. A professional should be able to do that sort of thing instantly, I think. I don't really need to analyze my biases because I'm capable of throwing them out the window in an instant.
>>498522 I think it's only fair to give them a chance I don't think you're getting the original vision with a dub though. They can still be good, but you're watching something that was edited by people wo weren't the original staff of the show
Kirara 🚗
>>498521 i don't think it's the difference in how we think in terms of thought processes, we think very similarly
my frustration doesn't come from us disagreeing, it comes from my feeling that you aren't understanding me and seem to keep thinking i'm saying the opposite of what i'm saying
>>498524 I think I do understand, I just disagree with a lot of the premises. I don't really think you need to think about who you are when eliminating your biases. Just flip the switch and go clinical.
>>498527 i feel like if you understood, you wouldn't disagree with me by saying what i just said i keep saying x, and then you say, "no, that's wrong. i think x."
>>498530 No I'm not ready please do it tomorrow instead
definitely bang
oh okay i'll save it for another time
FormerRei@mobile
>>498531 Thanks, I male sure to take great hair of it. Real talk though I do take good care of my hair. You would be surprised at how many people I know with long hair that don't brush it.
>>498528 I definitely disagree with a lot of the stuff you say. Maybe we agree on the answer but get to it different ways. It's important to show your work.
>>498535 yes, we do disagree on many things but i keep saying i believe x and then you say i'm wrong and then say you believe what i believe you keep responding to me by refuting points i didn't make it tells me that you're not understanding me
>>498537 Not long right now because taking care of is a pain. It's really obnoxious during the oeriod where its long enough to get in the way but not long enough to put in a pony ttail.
>Global peer-to-peer bitcoin technology firm Paxful is to launch a blockchain technology incubation hub in Lagos, Nigeria, later this year, providing a co-working space and services including mentorship, corporate and individual blockchain training, and networking for ICO advisors.
one of my colleagues found out her dad has stage 4 cancer yesterday and she told her boyfriend and her boyfriend suggested they should break up dayum
definitely bang
unfortuante as it may sound, the world is not always so beautiful and it's entirely possible that he's being completely reasonable given we aren't fully aware of his life's situation
he may be sacrificing guilt later for peace of mind now depending on how close their relationship is, finding out that his girlfriend is about to have some seriously intense emotional needs and be dealing with a lot is terrifying for some people i'm not saying that he's a paragon of morality for it but it could be that he just can't handle this at this point in his life
they've been dating for like five years i think it's pretty shitty even if he feels like it's going to be hard for him to handle
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i mean i don't know all the details and am playing devil's advocate but i'm just saying relationships aren't shackles and people aren't perfect unbreakable diamonds capable of endless support
Maria
>>498557 At what point do you think it would be not shitty for him to break up
>>498558 i know, i don't disagree but i feel like with a long relationship there is something of a mutual understanding that they're there for each other well, not all relationships will have that, but i think this one did it just seems really selfish to jump ship at that moment
>>498559 i'm not sure i think responding to your girlfriend's devastation with a suggestion that you should break up is really gross though
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>>498559 maybe he should just wait until the old man's dead
FormerRei@mobile
Anyways, they have a bunch of FPGAs and you get them configured to compute for your problem as an optimized ASIC.
I too would like to believe that with a long relationship there is something of a mutual understanding that they're there for each other.
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>>498562 it is really selfish, i won't argue that but selfishness should probably be the norm and sleflessness should be appreciated when it exists i'm definitely not oging to appreceiate the guy for being selfish i think maybe they had some more deeply rooted problems in their relationship before this if this is happening though i think if this is happening to her, she needs to focus on her father the guy leaving might not be worth the effort and any demonizing wouldn't be productive for anybody
Maria
>>498562 yeah he could have at least waited like, a week
FormerRei@mobile
Also they gave me $50 of free credit.
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all this said, please tell you friend that some rando on the internet feels really sorry that she's going through cancer in her close family and hopes that she and her loved ones can stay strong
it's really sad apparently she found out about the cancer last week but her mom told her it was stage 1 but she saw her dad yesterday and her dad told her it was stage 4
when i found out my grandfather had stage 4 cancer he died within like 24 hours of it so i wasn't able to see him before he died cancer is really scary
in more romance related news >Female lawyer stabs husband to death, chops off genitals in Lagos i guess since i'm in the US, the only nigerian news i can get my hands on is the stuff that really stands out it sure makes nigeria seem wacky though
>A 17-year-old Mahmud Adamu was over the weekend reportedly killed by his elder brother, Nura Adamu, 19, and Hussaini Adamu, his cousin, over alleged missing cell phone.
I wish I could just get specific news from Nigeria. Google makes it so difficult. Why does it list news in terms of relevancy instead of date and not give me the option to sort by date? I have to go through like 30 pages to check everything.
>>498584 No. How do I sort news searches on Google by date?
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what are you on your phone or somethign
Ko-Shi
>>498582 Okay Anyway Collarbone is the word of the day >Bad image Fuck this trash website
Talesof !NuKeSlvmWE
>Collarbones >image doesn't upload Dude don't blueball me like this
Anno
what if it it's an anime girl with a broken collarbone
>Abuja: Rambo, A Notorious Criminal Who Shoot With Two AK-47 Rifles At A Time Arrested >NIGERIA NEWS notes that the dreadful kidnap kingpin, Rambo who has been terrorising Abuja, the federal territory city of Nigeria met his Waterloo on Sunday, May 14.
>Rambo who gained notoriety for his ability to shoot with two AK-47 rifles at a time was arrested within Maraban Yakawada, Giwa local government area of Kaduna state.
So I think i figured out what to do with my free cloud computing credits. >The GZIP accelerator does not support password-protected archive generation
Pricing
1 coin per 2GB processed
I have 50,000 credits. I'm going to gzip 100 terabytes of binary pi
Maria
>>498595 >Rambo is that his birth name or did he change his name because he thought it'd sound cool
Kirara 🚗
real name John Ogais
Kirara 🚗
i think the media is where he started getting called rambo
Ko-Shi
>let me see who else is in Uhhhh isn't that why we have an attendance sheet? Just check that
Kirara 🚗
>Armed bandits operating along Birnin-Gwari-Kaduna Highways have kidnapped 107 passengers on Sunday as the Chief of Army Staff, Lt General Tukur Yusuf Buratai charged troops to end the wanton killings and destruction of property in the axis in three weeks.
FormerRei@mobile
Shit I don't think there's enough time left in the month for me to upload 100 terabytes
Ko-Shi
There isn't enough time in life but that might be for the best
I've determined that the 100tb of pi thing is unrealistic and have decided to waste their electricity with gzipping 50tb or so of true™ random numbers.
i knew some people who did a high school graduation party where they just made like a hundred bags of popcorn and put it all over the floor knee deep in the apartment so you could just scoop it up and also had like a hundred cups of coffee out some people got really sick from drinking too much coffee
>>498726 i'm sure it wouldn't get completely obliterated instantly molten plastic bits flying through the air can probably do some damage not as much as real shrapnel though
月
yeah but they won't fly through the air the same since most of the energy is being dispersed as thermal radiation rather than kinetic momentum
>>498733 i must be punished for my sins this is my PENANCE
Anno
>>498734 >fish gets home >you have a piece of lego shrapnel and a lego left hand
月
>>498731 terminal velocity doesn't even APPLY to propulsion that's for units in freefall in an atmosphere
Anno
>>498734 the body i've lost... the builds i've lost... i'm gonna make them give back our bricks
Anno
>>498736 Yeah, as I was typing it I had a feeling it wasn't right for what I was thinking of. The plastic would slow down awfully fast because of how light it is based on its size though, except for maybe those tiny nib pieces.
i had class from 8:30-10:00, 1:30-4:00, and 6:00-8:30 fuckin
i gotta start seeing clients again tomorrow one of my clients terminated but i have an intake tomorrow my new client has anger problems or something
Anno
My night school classes are Monday and Wednesday this term. Though they're the same class, just doubled up for the summer semester.
The professor's a pretty fun guy. He's really passionate about explaining the subject matter and really pushes for group discussion-style learning. Which is probably a nag for some people but I get more value out of that than lecturing.
Anno
>>498750 >come home nobody is there >lego replicas of you and your boyfriend laying motionless in bed >lego tables and glasses and a lego refrigerator and TV i would fucking lose it
Kirara 🚗
>>498757 >lego boyfriend slowly turns its head to look at you
>dark souls remaster fixes all of the fun bugs >changes almost fucking nothing else >is a direct downgrade from the fan-patched PC version >but costs $20 >and you can't buy the original anymore i'm still gonna buy it though lol
yeah same i haven't touched my switch a single time since the xenoblade NG+ that I didn't end up finishing though it's cool to be able to use the torna blades the game is still largely linear i'll probably finish it later on
Anno
I'm a little upset MonHun for the Switch isn't gonna be out until late-August. If it came out just a bit earlier we could totally local co-op one night or something during the Philly trip.
fish might be coming back in like three days unless they're prolonging the trip the return date wasn't really set in stone
Maria
maybe the monsters we hunted were inside us all along
Anno
It must be nice to be rich enough to fly into somewhere without a hardset limit on when you need to fly out of it. Two one-way tickets are way more expensive than a round trip.
>>498765 freezing to death sounds like a lame way to go
Anno
It's rather comfortable after you get over being fucking freezing. When you start to die from cold you just get sleepy and lethargic. As far as death goes there isn't much pain.
haha what if someone got crushed by snow and their body got found and they were just frozen jacking off
Anno
Considering cold temperatures creates some shrinkage in that department I don't know if it would be great to draw attention to it.
Maria
You know those cities like pompei where everything is perfectly preserved under clay and stuff I bet there's one corpse there that was jacking off at the time of death
i dunno casual sex was like super common back then you could just go up to your buddy and have no homo gay sex and the romans were all about that life i bet if they were jacking off someone would have interrupted and gotten involved
Anno
Not to mention the sheer availability of brothels and other houses of that particular interest.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotic_art_in_Pompeii_and_Herculaneum >"Pan copulating with goat" - one of the best known objects in the Naples Museum collection
im supposed to come up with a change i can make in my life to improve my physical health and then make that change and track it for my health psychology class
but im already really healthy the only changes i could really make that might benefit me is cutting out sweets but the benefit of doing that isn't really worth it considering im already healthy
i explained that to my professor and she just told me i can always get healthier thanks for the cop out advice
i could try to eat more but that'd probably be unhealthy
Anno
Surely that's not even true. Eventually you're going to hit the hard cap of human healthiness.
Is it a sort of situation you can bluff a subject of improvement in?
health is like relative and shit michael phelps ate like a fucking stoner but he was an olympic level athlete
Anno
>>498830 When you're competing in activity-intense sports like much of those kinds of Olympic events, you need a lot of calories really. The amount of activity you do while training would ruin the body of someone who ate "healthfully". As long as you're getting the general nutrients your body needs to function, which you don't even need to get from actual food, you can eat whatever you want as long as you are active enough to burn the calories off.
>>498827 maybe you should just track how hard you can punch and work your arms every day show the results of arm strength improvement and as a closing statement for the professor write "you're next"
>>498827 Telling people shut the fuck up online Day 5: my skin is clear, my joints feel relaxed, I have blocked 100 people already. I feel energized to run more. I broke my FASTEST mile just before writing this.
Ko-Shi
Day 17: I have done 200 pushups because of Takagi's teasing. Tomorrow I will win for sure
>>498833 take kratom every day and write about how awesome it is >>498838 Day 30: My strength has become immeasurable. Mere mortal concepts of life and death are meaningless to me. I see further and with such clarity that a penguin being the first to dive into the water for fish in the far reaches of earth is easy to see. The fourth dimension has welcomed me as their first ambassador from our puny existence.
someone suggested i lift and i said that i do so much cardio that lifting would not be effective for me and they didn't understand what cardio and muscle building /// how those are related
why should i even have an assignment like this it's so dumb
my dumb writing class' professor is someone ive done research with and published a symposium with and he recognizes that i don't need the class but i still have to take it
>>498873 The horses in Uma Musume are named after real life racing horses. The one the main character is named after, Special Week, was >>498875 It happened during the week episode three or four was airing, I think.
Anno
>>498873 spe-chan broke a leg and they had to put her down ;_;
If there's a choice between eternal salvation for everyone and the crucifying of my friend you bet my ass the lot of you can expect no fucking salvation.
>>498931 On a scale of one to cosplay how tempted would you be to dress it up in pyjamas or something.
Kirara 🚗
>>498935 putting a mannequin in my bed to help me sleep is already creepy enough without me putting my girlfriend's clothes on it lmao
Anno
I just don't know if a naked mannequin or a clothed mannequin would be creepier to sleep beside. I don't have an awful lot of experience sleeping alongside mannequins.
A lot of mannequins seem to be kind of perky though. Like there's not really actual detail there but there's definitely nipple points on the breasts. I don't really get why.
Kirara 🚗
yeah that's true maybe just a nightgown or something then
Anno
Shop mannequins always give me a shock I see them in my peripherals and expect to see a real person
Kirara 🚗
what about one of those dolls with the fake skin and hair
I've spent so much time around mannequins that I don't really get jumped by them unless I'm in a particularly skittish mentality. There's so many clothes stores downtown that it's inevitable that I see them any time I'm in the area.
>UCLA neuroscientists reported Monday that they have transferred a memory from one animal to another via injections of RNA, a startling result that challenges the widely held view of where and how memories are stored in the brain.
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is this real IS THIS REAL OH NO OH NO OH NO OH NO OH NO THIS IS GOING TO BE THE TECHNOLOGY THAT RUINS HUMANITY WE'RE GOING TO DISTRIBUTE OUR RNA AND BECOME LIKE A HIVEMIND
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ID TAGGED SOLDIERS WITH ID TAGGED RNA TRAINED TO ID TAGGED FUCKING KILL THINGS
Samurai Lal'C !KW2DbpWwls
>Glanzman’s experiments — funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation — involved giving mild electrical shocks to the marine snail Aplysia californica. Shocked snails learn to withdraw their delicate siphons and gills for nearly a minute as a defense when they subsequently receive a weak touch; snails that have not been shocked withdraw only briefly.
>The researchers extracted RNA from the nervous systems of snails that had been shocked and injected the material into unshocked snails. RNA’s primary role is to serve as a messenger inside cells, carrying protein-making instructions from its cousin DNA. But when this RNA was injected, these naive snails withdrew their siphons for extended periods of time after a soft touch. Control snails that received injections of RNA from snails that had not received shocks did not withdraw their siphons for as long.
Samurai Lal'C !KW2DbpWwls
the marine snail hive mind i for one welcome
Anno
Let us celebrate the marine snail hivemind. Maybe all of them united might have the mental faculties of a human bean.
Samurai Lal'C !KW2DbpWwls
>Glanzman knows his unceremonial demotion of the synapse is not going to go over well in the field. “I expect a lot of astonishment and skepticism,” he said. “I don’t expect people are going to have a parade for me at the next Society for Neuroscience meeting.”
>“If he’s right, this would be absolutely earth-shattering,” said Tomás Ryan, an assistant professor at Trinity College Dublin, whose lab hunts for engrams, or the physical traces of memory. “But I don’t think it’s right.”
Anno
I wonder what the reproductibility method would be here to help prove the concept. Extracting and exchanging RNA from other creatures and testing reactions?
Samurai Lal'C !KW2DbpWwls
i'm fedexing you twelve (12) syringes as we speak just don't think about your deepest darkest secrets
If we extract our deep dark fantasies with this tech, will we be able to bring Birry back?
Anno
He's probably gonna be too long gone by the time this technology is even feasibly operatable on human beans.
Samurai Lal'C !KW2DbpWwls
also in the news on brains today
>In our new paper in Nature Neuroscience, we use the meta-reinforcement learning framework developed in AI research to investigate the role of dopamine in the brain in helping us to learn. Dopamine—commonly known as the brain’s pleasure signal—has often been thought of as analogous to the reward prediction error signal used in AI reinforcement learning algorithms. These systems learn to act by trial and error guided by the reward. We propose that dopamine’s role goes beyond just using reward to learn the value of past actions and that it plays an integral role, specifically within the prefrontal cortex area, in allowing us to learn efficiently, rapidly and flexibly on new tasks.
>We tested our theory by virtually recreating six meta-learning experiments from the field of neuroscience—each requiring an agent to perform tasks that use the same underlying principles (or set of skills) but that vary in some dimension.
>One experiment we recreated is known as the Harlow Experiment, a psychology test from the 1940s used to explore the concept of meta-learning. In the original test, a group of monkeys were shown two unfamiliar objects to select from, only one of which gave them a food reward. They were shown these two objects six times, each time the left-right placement was randomised so the monkey had to learn which object gave a food reward. They were then shown two brand new objects, again only one would result in a food reward. Over the course of this training, the monkey developed a strategy to select the reward associated-object: it learnt to select randomly the first time, and then based on the reward feedback to choose the particular object, rather than the left or right position, from then on. The experiment shows that monkeys could internalise the underlying principles of the task and learn an abstract rule structure — in effect, learning to learn.
>When we simulated a very similar test using a virtual computer screen and ran
>>498965 >>498968 It doesn't seem like it should be right but if it is right it really could be earth-shattering. You could get a shot that teaches you stuff.
>grow clones in suspension until they're a certain age >keep extracting your memories and injecting them into new clones to be forever young
Anno
Are your memories the same as your consciousness though? It feels to me all you'd do in that situation would be create entities with copies of your memories alongside you.
>>499029 if you're cloning yourself then your brain and all would be the same shit so if you injected the memories of yourself into a clone of yourself wouldn't the clone just function as you would? so does it really matter if your consciousness leaves or not? you will still exist
>>499030 We don't really know where the consciousness exists though. Possibly, extracting the RNA in this procedure and putting it into something else might transfer a consciousness from one body to another. But that's not really something that can be determined in creatures on the scale of marine snails. The memories the RNA transfer is moving might not even be memories that compose our consciousness, if that's even what our consciousness is. This is kind of leaving my limited understanding of thought and consciousness at a rapidly accelerating pace though so I really don't fucking know.
Ko-Shi
>>498933 Just because you come back doesn't mean that dying doesnt suck
Anno
Dying generally sucks. Even if you want it, getting it generally sucks.
Ko-Shi
I don't even think he wanted it
Anno
And the way he got it was one of the more sucky ways to get it.
Maria
>>499033 yeah true I kind of glossed over the horriffic pain bit
Samurai Lal'C !KW2DbpWwls
still pretty sweet to get eternal life
Ko-Shi
But he already had it. Imagine all these terrible people doing shit and it's like Well they'll never make it up to you so I will But you never did anything.
it would be kind of cool if i got sent to a bureaucratic hell if i got to just live there after my eternity of damnation is over hang out with hoozuki and sing JIGOKU JIGOKU
Maria
Hell is waiting for the bureaucrats to finish filing your soul
I'm almost caught up with all of the anime after a week of not watching anime well we watched like 4 new shows that week but there's so much more garbage to watch
>>499091 why don't you crush my fucking balls while you crush my fucking dreams
TN
>>499092 my dimensional hammer is still in development
Anno
>>499089 I don't know if I've beat this dead horse but you could go watch Houseki no Kuni in full. Or have you been watching the new Lupin? It's been pretty fun.
i watch currently airing stuff for like 4 hours a day i don't have time to watch anything else unless i can verbally shitpost with someone else while i'm doing it!
I want it to rain more but it's getting dry where I live! The seasons here suck.
Anno
We tend to get a fair bit of rain this time of year 'round here. This and late summer are the two most common times for rain. Summer thunderstorms are especially great. Best time of year to see great lightning shows.
>>499110 There's a decent amount of rain here until June or so but it really starts cutting off around may. Late winter to early spring it rains all the time, I like it. It'll rain several days in a row sometimes.
Summer thunderstorms would be nicer if the weather wasn't so miserable, when it's hot and humid it feels awful.
TN
may, more like july it is 24 outside and it is morning
Anno
I forgot to pick more melatonin up when I was somewhere with open shops around earlier this evening. I don't really know what I'm going to do about falling asleep at a reasonable time now.
Samurai Lal'C !KW2DbpWwls
dammit my work paged me with some broken service stuff aiiieeee i don't wanna be a backend on-call
Anno
Like just about now? It's 01:00 for you they don't have any right to make you do work. Probably.
Then they follow that drama with an episode that's funny as hell. >>499120 She got excited risking her life, so I'm sure she'll come back around to risking it for excitement eventually! Lupin could use a supah hackah around!
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Especially with how modern they've set the capers in this series. There's so much TECH involved.
