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by Catoptric
Sat Jun 14, 2025 10:43 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1218
Views: 787484

Re: What are you watching?

Around 8:20 Emmanuel Lewis mentions the "real creator of the Matrix," Sophia Stewart, *who also claims they wrote the screenplay to Terminator, which is something Harlan Ellison claims, citing plagiarism for the "The Outer Limits" episode titled "Soldier." Incidentally Christopher Nolan did say he p...
by Madrigal
Sat Jun 14, 2025 1:20 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you reading?
Replies: 279
Views: 441875

Re: What are you reading?

Of Mice and Men and Cannery Row right now.

Liked the former more than I'm liking the latter. I'm also realizing there are some hints of fantasy in Steinbeck, huh.
by HighlyIrregular
Sat Jun 14, 2025 1:17 am
Forum: World
Topic: Run-up to WW3
Replies: 446
Views: 484447

Re: Run-up to WW3

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/damage-iranian-nuclear-sites-so-far-appears-limited-experts-say-2025-06-13/ • Satellite images do not show significant damage to nuclear infrastructure • Israel may have avoided big attacks on nuclear sites to avoid harming international inspectors • Israel ...
by Madrigal
Sat Jun 14, 2025 1:12 am
Forum: World
Topic: The food and drink thread
Replies: 170
Views: 342896

Re: The food and drink thread

Made myself a pizza napoletana since I'm alone this Friday, I forgot this was my favorite. I dunno how it's really done in Naples, but the way we do it is with sauce, cheese and tomato slices with a lot of chopped garlic on them. Then just drizzle olive oil on it and sprinkle black pepper and oregan...
by Catoptric
Fri Jun 13, 2025 5:19 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1194
Views: 713572

Re: What are you listening to?

The World Is Over! A-Side by Le Colibri Necrophile (the B-side: https://archive.org/details/VA_The_World_is_Over__B_side https://archive.org/details/VA_The_World_is_Over__A_side/01.An_Ode_To_Transhumanism_by_Escaped_Trees_The_World_is_Over_A_Side.wav Curse Of Knowledge by Invisible Illusion https://...
by Catoptric
Fri Jun 13, 2025 4:30 am
Forum: World
Topic: Run-up to WW3
Replies: 446
Views: 484447

Re: Run-up to WW3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWtmIfcWeZo Earlier in the day: US braces for potential Israeli strike on Iran even as Trump pursues nuclear deal https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-braces-potential-israeli-strike-iran-trump-pursues/story?id=122793206 And of course the news says the USA claims to be...
by aether
Fri Jun 13, 2025 2:37 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1194
Views: 713572

Re: What are you listening to?

A couple of Italian Songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn1IeHL5DHY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYtdYslLY9I 🎼 Erwin Krüger: The German-Nicaraguan Voice of the Highlands 🇩🇪🌄 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY_prHNxNtU Most people know Erwin Krüger as a beloved Nicaraguan composer, poet, and fo...
by Roger Mexico
Fri Jun 13, 2025 1:11 am
Forum: World
Topic: Run-up to WW3
Replies: 446
Views: 484447

Re: Run-up to WW3

by Catoptric
Thu Jun 12, 2025 10:31 pm
Forum: World
Topic: The food and drink thread
Replies: 170
Views: 342896

Re: The food and drink thread

Not sure if I will watch these, but it is the first I've heard of him (and a better alternative to the Frugal Gourmet. . .) The videos would have been made during the 1990s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Barber_(author)
by Catoptric
Thu Jun 12, 2025 9:23 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1218
Views: 787484

Re: What are you watching?

The California Raisins (1) Meet The Raisins (1988 claymation) https://archive.org/details/the-california-raisins-meet-the-raisins The California Raisins (2) Raisins Sold Out(Will Vinton, 1990 claymation) CBS https://archive.org/details/the-california-raisins-raisins-sold-out After the first clip, a ...
by Senseye
Thu Jun 12, 2025 7:33 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 406
Views: 479257

Re: What's going on in your city/country/region?

I guess Trump just deployed the Marine Corps to Los Angeles to suppress protests against mass deportation. https://www.latimes.com/california/live/los-angeles-protests-immigration-raid-updates Wild. It feels increasingly like the world has become a sci-fi dystopia. I always compared Orwell and Huxl...
by Catoptric
Thu Jun 12, 2025 8:31 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1194
Views: 713572

Re: What are you listening to?

HeadCandy with Brian Eno (CD-ROM, 1994)





- docu https://youtu.be/-nwWpQJFGp8
by Catoptric
Thu Jun 12, 2025 5:29 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1218
Views: 787484

Re: What are you watching?

I could never get into this movie within the opening minutes (I only ever fully watched Pirates of Silicone Valley,) and can see why a parody film was made about it. Jobs 2013 film directed by Joshua Michael Stern https://archive.org/details/jOBS.2013.1080p.BluRay.x264.YIFY iSteve 2013 by Funny or D...
by aether
Thu Jun 12, 2025 4:26 am
Forum: World
Topic: Science Microthreads
Replies: 94
Views: 295227

Re: Science Microthreads

Solar Orbiter gets world-first views of the Sun’s poles

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration ... un_s_poles
by HighlyIrregular
Thu Jun 12, 2025 12:19 am
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 406
Views: 479257

Re: What's going on in your city/country/region?

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. put a bunch of vaccine critics on a CDC committee. This could affect whether insurance covers some vaccines. One pick is Dr. Robert Malone. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/11/rfk-jr-malone-cdc-vaccine-committee.html Malone suggested earlier this year, without evidence, that recent...
by aether
Wed Jun 11, 2025 4:55 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1218
Views: 787484

Re: What are you watching?

Snow White (2025)

The protagonist did a 'brown face' IMO. IDK, it was a very strange movie. You could tell everyone hated each other.

by Madrigal
Wed Jun 11, 2025 12:11 am
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 406
Views: 479257

Re: What's going on in your city/country/region?

I guess Trump just deployed the Marine Corps to Los Angeles to suppress protests against mass deportation. https://www.latimes.com/california/live/los-angeles-protests-immigration-raid-updates Wild. It feels increasingly like the world has become a sci-fi dystopia. I always compared Orwell and Huxl...
by Roger Mexico
Tue Jun 10, 2025 5:31 am
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 406
Views: 479257

Re: What's going on in your city/country/region?

I guess Trump just deployed the Marine Corps to Los Angeles to suppress protests against mass deportation.

https://www.latimes.com/california/live ... id-updates
by Catoptric
Tue Jun 10, 2025 5:09 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1218
Views: 787484

Re: What are you watching?

Duckman - Pilot (1992) Ronnie Schell as Duckman (aired only once in 1993) VHS https://archive.org/details/duckman-pilot-1992-vhs I'm trying to pinpoint when I watched that episode, and seem to recall how when the series started after the first episode, the main character sounded different (because J...
by Madrigal
Tue Jun 10, 2025 4:30 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you reading?
Replies: 279
Views: 441875

Re: What are you reading?

The Pearl , Steinbeck. I think I'll stick with American 20th century stuff for a while. I kinda wanted to read Gulliver's Travels , but I don't have it yet and I suspect I might get a bit weary of the whole shipwreck theme. Robinson Crusoe was riveting, although the core and whole point of the stor...
by aether
Tue Jun 10, 2025 1:06 am
Forum: World
Topic: Little Raves
Replies: 106
Views: 247397

Re: Little Raves

Duolingo will also teach you High Valyrian, Yiddish or Navajo if you want to scroll through their smaller learner group languages. There's Latin on Duolingo. Duolingo was started by a Guatemalan Jew born in Guatemala City (interesting fact of the day), but I heard he hasn't included Mayan languages...
by aether
Mon Jun 09, 2025 4:18 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1194
Views: 713572

Re: What are you listening to?

deadmau5 - There might be coffee (Cover Art)

by Catoptric
Mon Jun 09, 2025 2:52 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1218
Views: 787484

Re: What are you watching?








by Catoptric
Mon Jun 09, 2025 2:36 am
Forum: World
Topic: Gaza
Replies: 9
Views: 988

Re: Gaza

Israel intercepts Gaza-bound aid ship, detaining Greta Thunberg and other prominent activists - https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/08/middleeast/freedom-flotilla-gaza-aid-ship-thunberg-intl-hnk Israel sprayed a White Substance (possibly paint, though the person reporting it before the communication was jam...
by aether
Sun Jun 08, 2025 5:47 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1194
Views: 713572

Re: What are you listening to?

Rammstein - Amerika

by Catoptric
Sat Jun 07, 2025 5:31 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you reading?
Replies: 279
Views: 441875

Re: What are you reading?

Angora Napkin Cuddle Core Collected Edition (2016) https://archive.org/details/angora-napkin-cuddle-core-collected-edition-2016-digital-empire/mode/2up Lone Wolf And Cub Manga (based on movie series) Collection https://archive.org/details/lone-wolf-and-cub-vol.-01-the-assassins-road/Lone%20Wolf%20an...
by Catoptric
Sat Jun 07, 2025 12:32 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1194
Views: 713572

Re: What are you listening to?

Gorillaz Playlist https://archive.org/details/gorillazs-1080p-remastered-hd-music-videos Dreamscape https://archive.org/details/dreamscape-remastered Kola (vaporware album) by Bart Graft (and a bunch more albums by the same guy) https://archive.org/details/kola-wvj8j8 Japan - https://archive.org/det...
by aether
Thu Jun 05, 2025 5:11 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1218
Views: 787484

Re: What are you watching?

Watched the whole movie, it was meh.





by Roger Mexico
Thu Jun 05, 2025 8:28 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1218
Views: 787484

Re: What are you watching?

by Senseye
Wed Jun 04, 2025 7:32 pm
Forum: World
Topic: Gaza
Replies: 9
Views: 988

Re: Gaza

The international community is very obviously becoming more vocal against Israel. I think in the past month or so, the Overton window has shifted in countries like the U.S and the U.K., and criticism of Israel is no longer automatically antisemetic, and the reflexive defenses appealing to antisemit...
by HighlyIrregular
Wed Jun 04, 2025 9:41 am
Forum: World
Topic: Little Rants
Replies: 422
Views: 477391

Re: Little Rants

Lack of buttons on the front of monitors these days. I have a roll of shock cord that comes in handy for keeping cardboard boxes closed and bundling things. Two days ago I made a loop and put it around my monitor to hold notes. St. Jude sent me free note pads and I didn't want to throw them out so n...
by aether
Wed Jun 04, 2025 3:32 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1218
Views: 787484

Re: What are you watching?

<r><YOUTUBE id="5ChkQKUzDCs" t="1"><URL url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ChkQKUzDCs&t=1s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ChkQKUzDCs&t=1s</URL></YOUTUBE><br/> <br/> <YOUTUBE id="nH-hui_S-C4" t="713"><URL url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH-hui_S-C4&t=713s">https://www.youtube.c...
by HighlyIrregular
Tue Jun 03, 2025 8:23 pm
Forum: World
Topic: Health and Fitness
Replies: 33
Views: 69138

Re: Health and Fitness

Chat GPT could analyze lab results. And BTW, not bragging but I asked it to calculate my age from sexual function markers alone and the upper range was 40 years old. Forgot the lower. Just to let you know it could do that.


lab results - ChatGPT analysis.png
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by Catoptric
Tue Jun 03, 2025 6:02 pm
Forum: World
Topic: Run-up to WW3
Replies: 446
Views: 484447

Re: Run-up to WW3

Russia Covering Aircraft With Tires Is About Confusing Image-Matching Missile Seekers U.S. Military Confirms https://www.twz.com/air/russia-covering-its-aircraft-in-tires-is-about-befuddling-image-matching-seekers-u-s-military-confirms . . . It didn't work. Ukraine drones strike bombers during major...
by HighlyIrregular
Mon Jun 02, 2025 10:42 pm
Forum: World
Topic: Mastering Web Development
Replies: 3
Views: 69737

Re: Mastering Web Development

Do not use WInzip. I've known of Winzip for decades. Even recently I heard good things about it, but I didn't look for reviews until after I uninstalled it. It's crap. I had asked ChatGPT to recommend encryption products with a decent sized company behind them and with a GUI and it mentioned Winzip....
by HighlyIrregular
Sun Jun 01, 2025 11:12 pm
Forum: World
Topic: Seen on the internet
Replies: 156
Views: 360482

Re: Seen on the internet

Over the years, I've found three of my childhood cups that I haven't seen in over 40 years (maybe 50!) on Ebay. Buggs Bunny, Fred Flintstone, and now the oldest yet - Tommee Tippee! My only memory of Tommee Tippee was of a character on it (I MAY have remembered it was a bear) holding the same cup, a...
by Utisz
Sun Jun 01, 2025 7:24 am
Forum: World
Topic: Gaza
Replies: 9
Views: 988

Re: Gaza

I'm in general agreement with you but it seems we are tracking more towards your option #1 at the moment. Israel is talking about re-occupying Gaza permanently and they are also fragmenting the west bank more and more. The international community seems rather impotent these days (I could say the sa...
by Catoptric
Thu May 29, 2025 12:28 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1218
Views: 787484

Re: What are you watching?

https://youtu.be/H_5PgqMZRWk This is probably circa 2010 (NK) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rueIxbkQx40 opt https://archive.org/details/youtube-rueIxbkQx40 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBcEVepC_64 https://archive.org/details/toilet-a-new-era Book: Breaking Things At Work:The Luddites Were Right...
by Madrigal
Wed May 28, 2025 3:53 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you reading?
Replies: 279
Views: 441875

Re: What are you reading?

Robinson Crusoe I mean I may as well, though it's definitely dude reading and probably full of boring as fuck sensor detail like how he built a tent or fishing rod. Edit: I spoke too soon, it's gripping so far! Also a highly cancellable book, I wonder if it has been cancelled already. I like it for...
by HighlyIrregular
Wed May 28, 2025 1:52 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1218
Views: 787484

Re: What are you watching?

Christopher Walken was my age when he did this.

by Roger Mexico
Tue May 27, 2025 7:49 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1194
Views: 713572

Re: What are you listening to?

by aether
Tue May 27, 2025 3:46 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1194
Views: 713572

Re: What are you listening to?

William Orbit - Barber's Adagio For Strings

by HighlyIrregular
Mon May 26, 2025 11:48 pm
Forum: World
Topic: Science Microthreads
Replies: 94
Views: 295227

Re: Science Microthreads

When superficial isn't. You said: why was david berkowitz discharged from the army ChatGPT said: David Berkowitz, also known as the "Son of Sam" killer, served in the U.S. Army from 1971 to 1974. He was honorably discharged after three years of service. There is no publicly known indication that his...
by Ferrus
Mon May 26, 2025 5:11 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you reading?
Replies: 279
Views: 441875

Re: What are you reading?

Faust Part 1 & 2 - Goethe While I was listening to it I found it entertaining and profound in places. After the fact, what was it about? Making a deal with the devil, of course. The protagonist, Faust ends up getting off, btw - which smells a bit off. I once considered it my favorite book, I'd have...
by Catoptric
Mon May 26, 2025 4:21 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1218
Views: 787484

Re: What are you watching?

Do people have any sympathy for incels?
https://qr.ae/pAab9E










Is that a Powder parody?

by Senseye
Sun May 25, 2025 9:16 pm
Forum: World
Topic: Gaza
Replies: 9
Views: 988

Re: Gaza

A two state solution may or may not be off the table, but I think it will increasingly become the preferable realistic option for Israeli Zionists. I think there are essentially only three ways forward: (1) continued apartheid or ethnic cleansing or genocide towards establishing a "greater Israel",...
by Catoptric
Sun May 25, 2025 4:52 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 406
Views: 479257

Re: What's going on in your city/country/region?

I was downloading random movies from 2022 and finding out what they were (I couldn't know prior to download) and just realized that Bruce Willis happened to star in several of them. I also recall that he was supposed to retire in 2021 because he was suffering from aphasia (which affects the ability ...
by Utisz
Sun May 25, 2025 6:15 am
Forum: World
Topic: Gaza
Replies: 9
Views: 988

Re: Gaza

It's such a clusterf*ck now I don't see any good way for it to end. I figure both sides hate each other to the extent they won't ever get along (I realize this has been the case pretty much from the start). The objective is not to get along, but to stop the bloodshed while ensuring basic dignity. T...
by Catoptric
Sat May 24, 2025 9:35 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1218
Views: 787484

Re: What are you watching?





by Roger Mexico
Sat May 24, 2025 3:11 am
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 406
Views: 479257

Re: What's going on in your city/country/region?

And this didn't just start under Trump, which is one of the more F'd up things. https://www.reddit.com/r/ElSalvador/comments/1anuvbb/innocent_in_cecot/ I've been seeing some claims lately that the Salvadoran government has been arresting journalists who allege that Bukele actually made a secret dea...
by Catoptric
Sat May 24, 2025 2:11 am
Forum: World
Topic: Seen on the internet
Replies: 156
Views: 360482

Re: Seen on the internet




Also, a "love letter" to retro internet.
https://www.cameronsworld.net/

It has hyperlinks hidden into the gif images and is explained here:


Also, AI hallucinations
by Senseye
Fri May 23, 2025 6:12 am
Forum: World
Topic: Gaza
Replies: 9
Views: 988

Re: Gaza

It's such a clusterf*ck now I don't see any good way for it to end. I figure both sides hate each other to the extent they won't ever get along (I realize this has been the case pretty much from the start). Hindsight being 20/20, while the Palestinians got a bit of a raw deal in 1948, if had they ju...
by Senseye
Fri May 23, 2025 5:12 am
Forum: Meta
Topic: Could you have an online community like INTPc today?
Replies: 6
Views: 38021

Re: Could you have an online community like INTPc today?

I'm not sure if that sort of thing would be a problem, it seems these types of long form posting forums have just fallen out of favor. I mean, there is nothing lacking here compared to the formative days of INTPC, but nobody seems to seek out these kinds of forums for the most part. All reddit or Di...
by Catoptric
Thu May 22, 2025 10:02 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1218
Views: 787484

Re: What are you watching?

https://youtu.be/9lcB9u-9mVE VFX artists are exploited for big profits, while movie studios (continue to) short-change the artists that make it possible. Movie studios would rather pay some dingbat Actor more than the entire budget of a VFX studio, even when they are the ones making the real money f...
by Catoptric
Thu May 22, 2025 10:00 am
Forum: World
Topic: Gaza
Replies: 9
Views: 988

Re: Gaza

^^ A drop in the ocean. Finally seems untenable now, the current situation. Starving people is very bad PR. They won't show a child partially crushed under concrete, or decapitated by shrapnel, or suffocating slowly during hours or days in a pocket of air under a collapsed building, but they will s...
by aether
Thu May 22, 2025 4:52 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1194
Views: 713572

Re: What are you listening to?

Starship - Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now (Official Video) [4K Remastered]

by Utisz
Wed May 21, 2025 3:49 am
Forum: World
Topic: Gaza
Replies: 9
Views: 988

Re: Gaza

^^ A drop in the ocean. Finally seems untenable now, the current situation. Starving people is very bad PR. They won't show a child partially crushed under concrete, or decapitated by shrapnel, or suffocating slowly during hours or days in a pocket of air under a collapsed building, but they will sh...
by Utisz
Wed May 21, 2025 3:32 am
Forum: Meta
Topic: Could you have an online community like INTPc today?
Replies: 6
Views: 38021

Re: Could you have an online community like INTPc today?

Could a forum like INTP central still exist today with sustainable traffic, number of active users and so forth? There's no way. A mob of shrieking chimpanzees would immediately descend upon it with tremendous ferocity, from whatever subreddit they were hiding in. Red of fang and claw, they would t...
by Autochthonic
Wed May 21, 2025 1:27 am
Forum: Meta
Topic: Could you have an online community like INTPc today?
Replies: 6
Views: 38021

Re: Could you have an online community like INTPc today?

Could a forum like INTP central still exist today with sustainable traffic, number of active users and so forth? There's no way. A mob of shrieking chimpanzees would immediately descend upon it with tremendous ferocity, from whatever subreddit they were hiding in. Red of fang and claw, they would t...
by HighlyIrregular
Tue May 20, 2025 6:15 am
Forum: World
Topic: Mastering Web Development
Replies: 3
Views: 69737

Re: Mastering Web Development

I'm ankle-deep into web dev again. Grids instead of tables. New semantic tags like aside. My past experience saves a lot of time though, and now I'm focusing on content. Even with all the responsive design stuff, I'm using absolute positioning when the resolution could handle it, so the left and rig...
by Catoptric
Sun May 18, 2025 5:07 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1194
Views: 713572

Re: What are you listening to?

This should have been trending recently. . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTOAAjtrl14 The song is in this playlist: https://archive.org/details/rockamerica-modern-rock-may-2008/ Their last album - Uncanny Valley (playlist) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=979f9rRjrnY&list=PLCuEH5Tl2B8qyH6sekhCsdLV...
by Catoptric
Sat May 17, 2025 9:27 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1218
Views: 787484

Re: What are you watching?

Darfur is insane. https://nyti.ms/4011MoN Sudan’s army and RSF paramilitary launch attacks across war-ravaged nation https://www.yahoo.com/news/sudan-army-rsf-paramilitary-launch-175118868.html The RSF parallel government in Sudan is ‘stillborn’ and lacks international or popular support https://www...
by Catoptric
Sat May 17, 2025 9:03 am
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 406
Views: 479257

Re: What's going on in your city/country/region?

Trump admin permits sale of (reset trigger) device that allows standard firearms to fire like machine guns. . . https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/trump-admin-permits-sale-device-allows-standard-firearms-fire-machine-rcna207395 A Youtube video was showing some local criminals that c...
by Catoptric
Sat May 17, 2025 8:26 am
Forum: World
Topic: Gaza
Replies: 9
Views: 988

Re: Gaza

Note: I somehow ended up posting this weirdly (I know I edited it but don't recall it having duplicate content. . . Not sure what happened, but I'll try to clear it up.) Regarding Palestine (Israel and Gaza) Einstein would refer to Palestine (most likely not referring to the Muslim population, but r...
by Utisz
Sat May 17, 2025 6:57 am
Forum: Meta
Topic: Apologies for downtime
Replies: 36
Views: 97680

Re: Apologies for downtime

On the plus side, it seems most of the threads now have close to half a million views.

Dibs on the Marlboro sponsorship.
by Utisz
Sat May 17, 2025 6:48 am
Forum: World
Topic: Gaza
Replies: 9
Views: 988

Gaza

Just wondering where we stand on this by now. Perhaps intp.live should write an editorial.

(Saoirse don Phalaistín)
by Utisz
Sat May 17, 2025 6:35 am
Forum: Meta
Topic: Apologies for downtime
Replies: 36
Views: 97680

Re: Apologies for downtime

^^ If there are others with similar problems, let me know.
by Madrigal
Sat May 17, 2025 3:42 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you reading?
Replies: 279
Views: 441875

Re: What are you reading?

Faust Part 1 & 2 - Goethe While I was listening to it I found it entertaining and profound in places. After the fact, what was it about? Making a deal with the devil, of course. The protagonist, Faust ends up getting off, btw - which smells a bit off. I once considered it my favorite book, I'd have...
by starjots
Sat May 17, 2025 2:55 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you reading?
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Re: What are you reading?

The Message - Ta-Nahisi Coates I need to read more of this fellow. He makes you think (mostly social justice issues) and reminds me somewhat of reading Henry David Thoreau, who got me thinking many years ago. Faust Part 1 & 2 - Goethe While I was listening to it I found it entertaining and profound ...
by Catoptric
Fri May 16, 2025 10:59 pm
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Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
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Re: What's going on in your city/country/region?

Nottoway Resort (1859-2025 May 15 fire) slave hair chair (31025 LA-1, White Castle, LA) 70788.jpg Nottoway Resort (1859-2025 May 15 fire) slave hair chair (31025 LA-1, White Castle, LA) 70788 Largest antebellum mansion in the south — built in 1859 with 165 rooms — burns to the ground https://nypost...
by Catoptric
Fri May 16, 2025 10:09 pm
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Topic: What are you reading?
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Re: What are you reading?

Fernando Passoa (1888-1935) Portuguese https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Pessoa He used heteronyms (as pseudonyms) Álvaro de Campos Alberto Caeiro His best known work seems to be the Book of Disquiet, published nearly 50 years (in 1982) after his death, which was left amongst 250,000 pages insi...
by Madrigal
Fri May 16, 2025 3:48 pm
Forum: World
Topic: The food and drink thread
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Re: The food and drink thread

Made some apple crumble by the food blogger from RecipeTin Eats. Such an easy and delicious dessert.

I have her cookbook, Dinner, and everything she makes is great.
by Madrigal
Fri May 16, 2025 3:37 pm
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Topic: What are you reading?
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The Boats of the Glen Carrig , William Hope Hodgson So I guess he's a precursor of the "cosmic horror" Lovecraft later became famous for. Here's the thing, if you tell me a house is haunted because someone died there and they have unfinished business, okay, that sounds like a story. But if you simp...
by Madrigal
Fri May 16, 2025 3:28 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you reading?
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The Late Mattia Pascal, Pirandello

I love his sense of humor but there's a certain existentialist undertone that I would have enjoyed more 20 years ago. I find these things a bit of a downer at this stage in life.

Lots of words to look up, need to read more fiction in Italian.
by Catoptric
Fri May 16, 2025 10:14 am
Forum: World
Topic: Seen on the internet
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Views: 360482

Re: Seen on the internet

A fanmade Castlevania game that seems more true to the series than the Castlievania SoTN's creator's spiritual successor, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night https://youtu.be/VLTh2uo11oI Download https://archive.org/details/lecarde-2 More info https://www.gamesear.com/indie-games/castlevania-the-lecar...
by aether
Thu May 15, 2025 5:26 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
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Views: 713572

Re: What are you listening to?

Hennes and Cold - The Second Trip (Dj Scot Project Remix)



GOTH PWR!!! :nerd: :yahoo:
by Catoptric
Thu May 15, 2025 10:41 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
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Re: What are you listening to?



It must have been a quiet day (or yodeling in a Walmart has a similar effect to a bagpipe.)





by HighlyIrregular II
Wed May 14, 2025 2:07 am
Forum: Meta
Topic: Apologies for downtime
Replies: 36
Views: 97680

Re: Apologies for downtime

I don't play when there's a security warning. I just read the forum in incognito mode through a proxy until that didn't work. I also used the contact us button to tell you about the problem weeks before you fixed it Now, on my desktop, I can't login or start a new account. I don't receive the emails...
by Madrigal
Tue May 13, 2025 11:09 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you reading?
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Re: What are you reading?

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins.

The English like to say this made him the real founder of modern detective fiction (and not Poe).

He was more popular than Dickens in his day but Dickens stood the test of time, I guess. He's definitely a worthy rival though, hilarious and witty.
by Catoptric
Tue May 13, 2025 8:20 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
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Views: 787484

Re: What are you watching?

https://youtu.be/42GmgkBdT8k Palantir (Surveillance state) https://youtu.be/foMjM0iebNU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ95Gmvg_D4&pp=0gcJCYsJAYcqIYzv I had just come across this article Is your school spying on your child online? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/08/surveillance-s...
by Utisz
Mon May 12, 2025 2:11 am
Forum: Meta
Topic: Apologies for downtime
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Views: 97680

Re: Apologies for downtime

Madrigal just mentioned about the site issues today, sorry for those! We're getting a lot of traffic from iffy websites and the access logs filled the disk. I banned some I.P.s and added some rate limiting, so hopefully this will help. I also fixed the HTTPS certs (if you see an issue, you might nee...
by Catoptric
Mon Apr 21, 2025 7:11 pm
Forum: World
Topic: The food and drink thread
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Views: 342896

Re: The food and drink thread

I got nori sheets without realizing they were half cut (they were stacked like a regular sheet, and the only indication was if I paid attention to the 100 sheets (half-cut) at the bottom. These are generally intended for specific sushi roll options Hosomaki half-sized and one basic ingredient (aside...
by Senseye
Sat Apr 19, 2025 2:37 am
Forum: World
Topic: The food and drink thread
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Re: The food and drink thread

Don't they interact with alcohol, though? That alone would convince me to just eat less salt. :ph34r: I don't think so. I know a couple of guys on bp meds and they still drink without issues. Also, I think going low sodium will only reduce one's blood pressure by 8-10 points or so, which is not eno...
by Catoptric
Fri Apr 18, 2025 6:03 am
Forum: World
Topic: Historical Fragments
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Re: Historical Fragments

https://www.armenian-genocide.org/talaat.html https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soghomon_Tehlirian ****** Rat children of Pakistan (artificial microcephaly, similar to skull binding, similar to the beggars in the Oliver Twist story.) https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-most-disturbing-truth-you-know-2/a...
by Catoptric
Fri Apr 18, 2025 3:20 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
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Views: 787484

Re: What are you watching?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn_St4JuHJ4 Elon wants to save civilization by destroying everyone and everything with his chainsaw. . . Does he even have any idea how retarded going to mars is, and just what it would take to even consider reaching it and making it habitable? Elon kind of reminds me...
by Catoptric
Thu Apr 17, 2025 9:28 am
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
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Re: What's going on in your city/country/region?

The CECOT prison in El Salvador very likely is a death camp by the sounds of it, when considering the public confession by El Salvador's President that no one leaves alive, and that evident trails of red stained grounds and possibly piled up bodies, have increasingly appeared in satellite images. Th...
by Catoptric
Tue Apr 15, 2025 8:05 pm
Forum: World
Topic: The food and drink thread
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Views: 342896

Re: The food and drink thread

Ever since I've been searching for Cheech and Chong films, I've been getting a lot of promotional ads for THC (derived from regular hemp) food products. . . Currently I have a 10mg THC infused seltzer can being sent from a Cycling Frog brand and very nearly got 50mg THC 10 pack of brownies and some ...
by Catoptric
Tue Apr 15, 2025 8:40 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
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Views: 787484

Re: What are you watching?

The film that caused United Artists to be acquired by MGM. Heaven's Gate (Michael Cimino, 1980) Kristofferson, Walken, Hurt, Waterston https://archive.org/details/heavens.-gate.-1980.1080p.-blu-ray.x-264.-aac-5.1 Poverty for Profit - Anne Kim https://youtu.be/w3nwdRIXGjc Look Who's Back (David Wnend...
by Catoptric
Mon Apr 14, 2025 10:46 pm
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Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
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Re: What's going on in your city/country/region?

Was watching this video ( https://youtu.be/GLjH3ULPcRY ) about banned films and started reading more into it with the video paused, but it basically confirmed what I posted below. I forgot about Francis Ford Coppola's groping an extra in his Megalopolis film but remembered it when finding out that t...
by Madrigal
Mon Apr 14, 2025 10:26 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you reading?
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Views: 441875

Re: What are you reading?

Camus, The Stranger Pretty sure this is a deep, albeit brief book told in the first person. The protagonist is an ordinary, but alienated French guy in Tangiers (?). Think Casablanca for setting. Through a very short series of questionable choices, he becomes the main character in a court drama on ...
by Madrigal
Mon Apr 14, 2025 10:22 pm
Forum: World
Topic: The food and drink thread
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Views: 342896

Re: The food and drink thread

I've already conceded I can maybe manage the recommended daily allowance for salt and not much less. As for blood pressure, it's probably just advancing age and maybe genetics (it never used to be an issue for me). Anyways, I understand bp meds are very effective these days. Just need to get my ass...
by Senseye
Mon Apr 14, 2025 8:30 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
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Re: What's going on in your city/country/region?

Trump seems to be going on in every country these days. Unfortunately for me, he has revitalized the fortunes of the incompetent Liberal Party of Canada. *sigh* Minimum of four more years of socialist economic decline for Canada. At least wretched Trudeau is out the door (for now). Have to take sola...
by Senseye
Mon Apr 14, 2025 8:26 pm
Forum: World
Topic: The food and drink thread
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Views: 342896

Re: The food and drink thread

I guess there are also a few conditions that could contribute to blood pressure, beyond salt consumption, and maybe tackling those things at the same time could allow you to use at least a bit of salt. Some things just aren't going to work without it, IMO. I'm no longer going zero-salt with pizza b...
by Catoptric
Fri Apr 11, 2025 11:12 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
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Re: What are you watching?

Malcolm McDowell aged pretty quick within a decade after A Clockwork Orange. This was a "made for TV" movie, and it wasn't until the Star Trek movie, that he was mostly doing TV acting gigs, including an episode of Tales from the Crypt (which admittedly was a decent series, though pretty much forgot...
by starjots
Thu Apr 10, 2025 10:30 pm
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Topic: What are you reading?
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Re: What are you reading?

Camus, The Stranger Pretty sure this is a deep, albeit brief book told in the first person. The protagonist is an ordinary, but alienated French guy in Tangiers (?). Think Casablanca for setting. Through a very short series of questionable choices, he becomes the main character in a court drama on t...
by Catoptric
Thu Apr 10, 2025 4:03 pm
Forum: World
Topic: Seen on the internet
Replies: 156
Views: 360482

Re: Seen on the internet

50 years of Microsoft (and background for Explorer or Edge) https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/microsoft-50th-anniversary?form=MT00YS&channel=stable&version=135.0.3179.66&cs=3945345948 AI generated action heros, based on country. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1ADSbAYo5t/ Christian Nightmares vi...
by Catoptric
Thu Apr 10, 2025 2:38 pm
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Topic: Science Microthreads
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by Catoptric
Thu Apr 10, 2025 10:37 am
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
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Re: What's going on in your city/country/region?

https://www.reddit.com/r/suppressed_news/comments/1jvpprw/trump_brags_in_the_oval_office_about_how_his/ This after calling people losers and failures after having sold off knowing the market manipulation would happen. Marjorie Taylor Greene BUSTED In MASSIVE Tariff Insider Trading Scandal https://ty...
by Madrigal
Wed Apr 09, 2025 12:01 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 406
Views: 479257

Re: What's going on in your city/country/region?

How bout those Canucks.