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by HighlyIrregular
Thu Jul 31, 2025 4:18 am
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 415
Views: 485723

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

He killed the hikers at a state park in northwest Arkansas Devils-Den-killer.png what disease are absence of lips and turned-up nose consistent with ChatGPT 3. Smith-Lemli-Opitz Syndrome Can include: hypoplastic midface small mouth or lips Upturned nose Often with intellectual disability and growth ...
by HighlyIrregular
Thu Jul 31, 2025 12:59 am
Forum: World
Topic: Arrows and curves
Replies: 2
Views: 23

Re: Arrows and curves

Me too. But no need now. I spent two days looking for an easy-enough to use substitute and found EdrawMax.

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by Senseye
Wed Jul 30, 2025 6:31 pm
Forum: World
Topic: Arrows and curves
Replies: 2
Views: 23

Re: Arrows and curves

At first I thought you had inadvertently created an optical illusion that made the lower line look longer when they are the same length, but on closer inspection I believe the lower line is actually longer. I prefer the lower one personally. Better symmetry around the line-arrow intersection althoug...
by Senseye
Wed Jul 30, 2025 6:18 pm
Forum: World
Topic: Gaza
Replies: 11
Views: 1999

Re: Gaza

My impression is that air drops are too hard to control. The hungry mob will just grab what they can when the crates hit the ground. So whatever aid agencies are still operating can't really control who gets it, so fighters and black marketeers are as likely to get it as anybody. Although I am sure ...
by Catoptric
Wed Jul 30, 2025 2:55 pm
Forum: World
Topic: Seen on the internet
Replies: 160
Views: 364083

Re: Seen on the internet

Looking through emails from 2011 to early 2012 (I was deleting some files for space) A company that prior to it's acquisition by Backcountry (around the same time that Amazon bought Woot.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Amazon which had a similar approach to mark...
by HighlyIrregular
Wed Jul 30, 2025 1:39 am
Forum: World
Topic: Arrows and curves
Replies: 2
Views: 23

Arrows and curves

Which arrow do you prefer? arrows.png Paint 3D is deprecated and unavailable for Windows 11. It let you make curves pretty intuitively, where all the adjustable points were on the line and the line moved where you expected. There's a type of spline manipulation algorithm called Catmull-Rom that work...
by HighlyIrregular
Mon Jul 28, 2025 7:25 am
Forum: World
Topic: ChatGPT and AIs
Replies: 56
Views: 143140

Re: ChatGPT and AIs

I'm made for these times (at least more so that previous times, probably not as much as later times...probably same as most people...) ChatGPT has helped me with JavaScript and today helped me simplify and convert two fairly simple equations to something that can be entered into a non-scientific cal...
by HighlyIrregular
Mon Jul 28, 2025 3:29 am
Forum: World
Topic: Gaza
Replies: 11
Views: 1999

Re: Gaza

I'm not clear on whether aid agencies were allowed to air drop food in Gaza and didn't because of cost so they held out for permission to bring in trucks. And I'm unclear on whether avoiding dropping food on a tent is really impossibly hard. I think Israel blamed the aid groups for not having people...
by aether
Mon Jul 28, 2025 12:41 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1220
Views: 727250

Re: What are you listening to?

Discovered a new DJ.

Einmusik - Ember



Einmusik Sundowner Set at Lech am Arlberg, Austria

by Catoptric
Sun Jul 27, 2025 5:59 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1244
Views: 803801

Re: What are you watching?



by Catoptric
Fri Jul 25, 2025 8:05 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1220
Views: 727250

Re: What are you listening to?

Major Dad - UFO Contact From Triangulum by Randy Prozac https://archive.org/details/1-ufo-major-dad/(2005)+Major+Dad+-+UFO+Contact+From+Triangulum/01.+Major+Dad+-+Paranormal+Universe.mp3 Part 2 https://archive.org/details/major-dad-ufo-contact-from-triangulum-2 https://archive.org/details/@roxanna_p...
by Senseye
Fri Jul 25, 2025 7:03 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 415
Views: 485723

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

There must be a theory brewing somewhere that Trump supporters killed Epstein. A few years ago I saw an interview with someone from the Watergate era who said that Nixon told someone "he needs to be taken care of" or words to that effect. Forgot who needed to be taken care of, but it's feasible tha...
by Catoptric
Fri Jul 25, 2025 6:17 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 415
Views: 485723

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

After Colbert get's cut, the FCC approves the merger of Paramount for $8 billion (after South Park had signed a deal for $1.5 billion for 5 years of episodes, opening their season 27 premiere making comparisons to Saddam in relation to Satan and revealing Trump's Penis.) But at least DEI is dead? DE...
by aether
Fri Jul 25, 2025 5:07 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1220
Views: 727250

Re: What are you listening to?

Kenneth Thomas - Achems Razor

by Catoptric
Fri Jul 25, 2025 2:08 pm
Forum: World
Topic: Seen on the internet
Replies: 160
Views: 364083

Re: Seen on the internet

https://selfishdream.vercel.app/ Instead of the website, these are the videos from it (most of the files would need to be downloaded, and then played from an exe, and since that could be really sketchy, this can show what the website is about.) Video (it won't show the playthrough here for some reas...
by Madrigal
Thu Jul 24, 2025 1:11 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you reading?
Replies: 286
Views: 447391

Re: What are you reading?

Perhaps not such an elevated subject but I have been browsing through An A-Z of Pasta: Stories, Shapes, Sauces, Recipes by Rachel Roody recently. Every entry has a couple of recipes some of them it seems inspired by her husband's Sicilian family. Begone, Satan. I can't do pasta right now. xD I woul...
by Catoptric
Thu Jul 24, 2025 2:13 am
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 415
Views: 485723

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

There must be a theory brewing somewhere that Trump supporters killed Epstein. A few years ago I saw an interview with someone from the Watergate era who said that Nixon told someone "he needs to be taken care of" or words to that effect. Forgot who needed to be taken care of, but it's feasible tha...
by HighlyIrregular
Thu Jul 24, 2025 1:53 am
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 415
Views: 485723

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

There must be a theory brewing somewhere that Trump supporters killed Epstein. A few years ago I saw an interview with someone from the Watergate era who said that Nixon told someone "he needs to be taken care of" or words to that effect. Forgot who needed to be taken care of, but it's feasible that...
by Catoptric
Thu Jul 24, 2025 12:33 am
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 415
Views: 485723

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

https://youtu.be/qDdCZ7zviaA Basically Trump wants to distract from his complicity with Epstein and Maxwell by claiming Obama was being treasonous, even though the Mueller report investigation (which ultimately determined the Russia collusion couldn't be substantiated,) was treasonous even though it...
by Catoptric
Wed Jul 23, 2025 4:16 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1244
Views: 803801

Re: What are you watching?

Two radio shows that inspired each other in creating noir Detective comedy segments, - The Prairie Home Companion by NPR (1974-2016) 'Guy Noir' in addition to 'News from Lake Wobegon' by Garrison Keillor (started in 1985) - Firesign Theatre (1966–1985, 1993–2012) (with solo performances of Nick Dang...
by Catoptric
Wed Jul 23, 2025 3:02 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1220
Views: 727250

Re: What are you listening to?

Black Sabbath - Planet Caravan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvrOzYtnLMA Two weeks ago (might have been Ozzy Osbournes last performance? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuX44I1flg4 And it was pretty stupid of Trump to have used Black Sabbath music without their permission, especially when they ar...
by aether
Wed Jul 23, 2025 6:44 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1220
Views: 727250

Re: What are you listening to?

Black Sabbath - Planet Caravan

by aether
Tue Jul 22, 2025 9:01 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1244
Views: 803801

Re: What are you watching?

Even Psychologists STUNNED by Gen Z’s Mental Health CRISIS


by Catoptric
Tue Jul 22, 2025 2:50 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1244
Views: 803801

Re: What are you watching?



He hated Trump even though his brother turned out to be a schizophrenic pedophile.

Crumb (Terry Zwigoff, 1995) cartoonist Robert Crumb documentary
https://ok.ru/video/2010882312824
by HighlyIrregular
Mon Jul 21, 2025 9:10 pm
Forum: World
Topic: Ancestry
Replies: 30
Views: 40282

Re: Ancestry

I can see that just having a DNA connection does not imply a free ticket to an interpersonal relationship. Yeah, our similarities are probably mostly in internal organs other than the brain and maybe genetically high cholesterol, but mine was borderline and his was dangerously high. My lack of desi...
by Senseye
Mon Jul 21, 2025 8:41 pm
Forum: World
Topic: Ancestry
Replies: 30
Views: 40282

Re: Ancestry

OK, so more the latter. You did actually get to know him once you found out about him. I would have been a bit puzzled if you had not had any interest at all. But I can see that just having a DNA connection does not imply a free ticket to an interpersonal relationship.
by aether
Mon Jul 21, 2025 6:54 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1220
Views: 727250

Re: What are you listening to?

Paul Kalkbrenner - Sky and Sand (Official Music Video)

Iconic German techno anthem. Evokes coastal winds, introspection, and ancestral solitude. Blends ancestral Norse textures with modern trance, ambient techno, and cinematic ritual beats.

by HighlyIrregular
Mon Jul 21, 2025 1:21 pm
Forum: World
Topic: Ancestry
Replies: 30
Views: 40282

Re: Ancestry

Out of curiosity re: your half brother, why did you want to know? From the perspective of - you were curious if a person existed, but don't care they do vs just not being curious in the first place. Unless you mean, you kind of got to know your half brother, and blocked him because you don't like h...
by Senseye
Mon Jul 21, 2025 7:15 am
Forum: World
Topic: Ancestry
Replies: 30
Views: 40282

Re: Ancestry

I closed my 23andMe account and blocked my half brother on my phone. Just wanted to know, not to deal. 23andMe has pretty much closed itself. Well, I guess not really, companies can come back from Chapter 11 filings. Out of curiosity re: your half brother, why did you want to know? From the perspec...
by Ferrus
Mon Jul 21, 2025 6:40 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you reading?
Replies: 286
Views: 447391

Re: What are you reading?

The Wine Bible , by Karen MacNeil. Perhaps not such an elevated subject but I have been browsing through An A-Z of Pasta: Stories, Shapes, Sauces, Recipes by Rachel Roody recently. Every entry has a couple of recipes some of them it seems inspired by her husband's Sicilian family. I used to go to t...
by Catoptric
Mon Jul 21, 2025 2:31 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1220
Views: 727250

Re: What are you listening to?

Trump by Penthouse Apartment https://archive.org/details/PenthouseApartmentTrump/01+The+Art+Of+The+Deal.flac Revisiting this and that archive had some new ones (prior posts were 2022, these were in the last few months https://archive.org/details/@mirrorladyru ) Fairy Circle by Old Man https://archi...
by aether
Sun Jul 20, 2025 11:16 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1244
Views: 803801

Re: What are you watching?

I didn't watch the whole video but seems interesting. I've had my runes read before :lol:

Why we should go back to writing in runes


by Catoptric
Sun Jul 20, 2025 8:11 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1244
Views: 803801

Re: What are you watching?

(Vid "You may not take an interest in politics, but politics will take an interest in you." ) Ex-OpenAI Scientist WARNS "You Have No Idea What's Coming" https://youtu.be/79-bApI3GIU The New Fascist International: Technocratic Oligarchy and the Threat to Democracy https://harmoniousdiscourse.substack...
by Catoptric
Sun Jul 20, 2025 12:07 am
Forum: World
Topic: Seen on the internet
Replies: 160
Views: 364083

Re: Seen on the internet

Director's cut version of Home Alone 2, withTrump meeting Kevin, and Kevin waking up up the next morning. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1AzpXrJ7vm/ ********** https://www.facebook.com/CelinaTruckStop About Celina 52 Truck Stop https://celina52.com/pages/about Their physical address (on FB) is a D...
by Catoptric
Sat Jul 19, 2025 2:13 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 415
Views: 485723

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

A followup on the previous post. . . It sounds like she had died close to the last post on Instagram and the family didn't even want to claim the body. . . Probably some fanatical Muslim culture that believed she had somehow shamed them, is my guess (and maybe if she put an end to herself they would...
by HighlyIrregular
Sat Jul 19, 2025 1:53 pm
Forum: World
Topic: Ancestry
Replies: 30
Views: 40282

Re: Ancestry

I closed my 23andMe account and blocked my half brother on my phone. Just wanted to know, not to deal.
by Catoptric
Sat Jul 19, 2025 1:41 pm
Forum: World
Topic: Historical Fragments
Replies: 138
Views: 333537

Re: Historical Fragments

Oldest known depiction of an insect from Enlène Cave in Ariège, France (1700 BC etc) https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtefactPorn/comments/1aed2n8/the_grasshopper_of_enl%C3%A8ne_was_carved_on_bone/ The Creepy, Crawling History of Insect Art https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-creepy-crawling-hi...
by aether
Sat Jul 19, 2025 5:18 am
Forum: World
Topic: Ancestry
Replies: 30
Views: 40282

Re: Ancestry

Ancestry is wild. I recently learned that a major part of my deep ancestry is German-Norse. Being surrounded by a very different kind of culture has been tough, to say the least. Funny enough, I came up with the name ‘ae’, aether, and it turns out that might not have been a coincidence. I had been u...
by Catoptric
Fri Jul 18, 2025 10:08 pm
Forum: World
Topic: ChatGPT and AIs
Replies: 56
Views: 143140

Re: ChatGPT and AIs

And I'm paying for ChatGPT now! That kind of reminds me of the grifter's after 2021 that called themselves Q Anon who would claim they were being in contact with some tRump Secret Service, who would field them as sympathisers to the "True President" (similar to North Korea calling itself "True Kore...
by Catoptric
Fri Jul 18, 2025 8:44 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1244
Views: 803801

Re: What are you watching?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8H2ETMpRFw This video was made 2 years ago and features Jeffrey Epstein (least people forget that Elon was also implicated by his ex-wife in a photo, and admits to having gone to Ghislaine's house in Manhattan, but downplays it as some novel his ex was writing, as we...
by HighlyIrregular
Fri Jul 18, 2025 7:50 pm
Forum: World
Topic: ChatGPT and AIs
Replies: 56
Views: 143140

Re: ChatGPT and AIs

I bought an old edition of a style manual, but I was too lazy to look something up so I asked ChatGPT a style question and it linked me to the full new version, illegally! (link inadvertently deleted, but that's probably a good thing) You said: does the AMA manual of style have disclaimer recommenda...
by Catoptric
Thu Jul 10, 2025 4:14 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1220
Views: 727250

Re: What are you listening to?

https://youtu.be/LfAR8eSrENM https://youtu.be/Yghn-fPHVJI SubGenius Radio Ministry Hour of Slack (1985-2022) https://archive.org/details/hourofslack/Hour_of_Slack_0001_(640r).mp3 Edit: 8 days later since site was offline Death in June - Discography https://archive.org/details/death-in-june_202209/De...
by aether
Thu Jul 10, 2025 4:13 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1244
Views: 803801

Re: What are you watching?

Local Shredder Cut Through The Crowd (opening Scene) - Bingin

by Catoptric
Thu Jul 10, 2025 4:00 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1244
Views: 803801

Re: What are you watching?

https://jeremybraddock.substack.com/p/lets-visit-the-world-of-the-future (pdf) Society of the Spectacle (1967) Guy Debord https://files.libcom.org/files/The%20Society%20of%20the%20Spectacle%20Annotated%20Edition.pdf https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/381440.The_Society_of_the_Spectacle https://yout...
by aether
Wed Jul 09, 2025 7:23 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1220
Views: 727250

Re: What are you listening to?

After some coffee :w00t:

A Revival of a Trance Classic: This track is a 2025 remix of the original 2011 hit "An Angel's Love" by Alex M.O.R.P.H. featuring Sylvia Tosun.

by Madrigal
Wed Jul 09, 2025 2:40 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you reading?
Replies: 286
Views: 447391

Re: What are you reading?

The Wine Bible , by Karen MacNeil. Very talented writer, I'm loving all of her wine descriptions. About Rhône Syrahs: There is no question that, among the world's greatest red wines, Rhônes are the most untamed. Their howling spicy, dark flavors seem almost caged, ready to explode with fierceness. ...
by Catoptric
Wed Jul 09, 2025 9:37 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1220
Views: 727250

Re: What are you listening to?

Arise! SubGenius Recruitment Film #16 (1992 VHS) https://archive.org/details/arise-subgenius-recruitment-film SUBGENIUS RADIO MINISTRIES Hour of Slack compilation episide (J.R. 'Bob' Dobbs) https://archive.org/details/SUBGENIUSRADIOMINISTRIES Some more versions- https://archive.org/details/@slanderb...
by Catoptric
Wed Jul 09, 2025 8:57 am
Forum: World
Topic: Historical Fragments
Replies: 138
Views: 333537

Re: Historical Fragments

Phyllis Latour Special Operations Executive agent (1921–2023) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Latour Trained by a former cat burglar in the Scottish Highlands, she parachuted into Orne, Normandy and concealed herself as a poor French teenager to scout out intel for the D-Day invasion. After re...
by Catoptric
Tue Jul 08, 2025 4:25 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 415
Views: 485723

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

Group planned “ambush” with intent to kill ICE officers at Alvarado facility https://dfwscanner.net/2025/07/07/update-group-planned-ambush-with-intent-to-kill-ice-officers-at-alvarado-facility/?fbclid=IwY2xjawLaJY9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHlEQHHLZw6Qh42gKhoLmvfRkAB5mlX_hjkSAVWnGUb3uLR1jyDNh5-F_Oz3l_aem_BKRs...
by Catoptric
Tue Jul 08, 2025 7:14 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1244
Views: 803801

Re: What are you watching?

Tale of Crab Temple (Omen) (1925 short, Hakusan Kimura, Hidehiko Okuda, Tomu Uchida) https://youtu.be/TfPMttEIE6c https://archive.org/details/silent-tale-of-crab-temple Summary https://www.uchidatomu.com/tale-of-crab-temple-kaniman-ji-engi-1924-or-1925/ Dojoji Temple (Kihachiro Kawamoto, 1976 short)...
by aether
Mon Jul 07, 2025 3:47 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1220
Views: 727250

Re: What are you listening to?

Finland in the house :-)

Yotto - Radiate

by Catoptric
Mon Jul 07, 2025 11:13 am
Forum: World
Topic: Run-up to WW3
Replies: 452
Views: 495622

Re: Run-up to WW3

Russia-Azerbaijan Going To War https://youtu.be/dz_1OlQ33CQ And some suggest that Georgia and Armenia could have incentive to get into conflict. And then Russian soldiers are cannibalizing each other. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14831811/Cannibal-Russian-soldier-ATE-dead-comrade-lived-r...
by Roger Mexico
Mon Jul 07, 2025 8:27 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1220
Views: 727250

Re: What are you listening to?

by HighlyIrregular
Sun Jul 06, 2025 8:22 pm
Forum: World
Topic: ChatGPT and AIs
Replies: 56
Views: 143140

Re: ChatGPT and AIs

And I'm paying for ChatGPT now!

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by HighlyIrregular
Sun Jul 06, 2025 11:38 am
Forum: Meta
Topic: A Shoutout to Catoptric: The Steady Light of INTP.live
Replies: 4
Views: 589

Re: A Shoutout to Catoptric: The Steady Light of INTP.live

Madrigal mentioned that she'll never leave and so far that's been true and I almost posted something like the OP about her once, then I thought of all of Catoptric's posts and felt I can't talk about how she contributed all these years without mentioning him, and there are other people too so I just...
by Catoptric
Sun Jul 06, 2025 5:49 am
Forum: World
Topic: Little Rants
Replies: 425
Views: 483323

Re: Little Rants

Musk’s AI Robot Blames Trump and Its Own Creator for Texas Flooding Deaths https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musks-ai-robot-blames-trump-and-its-own-creator-for-texas-flooding-deaths/ It was a combined effort by various people within the "Administration" (from Elon Musk, to Howard Lutnick, to tRump...
by Roger Mexico
Sun Jul 06, 2025 4:36 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1220
Views: 727250

Re: What are you listening to?

by Catoptric
Sun Jul 06, 2025 3:59 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1244
Views: 803801

Re: What are you watching?

Hardware Wars (Ernie Fosselius, 1977) (special edition) https://archive.org/details/hardware-wars-special-edition Original (though a larger file, might not be better) https://archive.org/details/HardwareWars Porklips Now (Ernie Ford Fosselius, 1980) https://archive.org/details/1980-porklips-now Deco...
by Catoptric
Sun Jul 06, 2025 3:52 am
Forum: Meta
Topic: A Shoutout to Catoptric: The Steady Light of INTP.live
Replies: 4
Views: 589

Re: A Shoutout to Catoptric: The Steady Light of INTP.live

I'll give him credit for keeping the lights on around here. I have no problem with his posts, but sometimes I find they are a bit of an overload. There's a big mixed bag of subjects he gets into. I often wonder how in the world he finds the time to even watch parts of all the videos he posts. Howev...
by Senseye
Sat Jul 05, 2025 6:50 pm
Forum: Meta
Topic: A Shoutout to Catoptric: The Steady Light of INTP.live
Replies: 4
Views: 589

Re: A Shoutout to Catoptric: The Steady Light of INTP.live

I'll give him credit for keeping the lights on around here. I have no problem with his posts, but sometimes I find they are a bit of an overload. There's a big mixed bag of subjects he gets into. I often wonder how in the world he finds the time to even watch parts of all the videos he posts. Howeve...
by aether
Sat Jul 05, 2025 6:23 pm
Forum: Meta
Topic: A Shoutout to Catoptric: The Steady Light of INTP.live
Replies: 4
Views: 589

Re: A Shoutout to Catoptric: The Steady Light of INTP.live

I second the shoutout to Catoptric. Ever since the 2000's his posts have been interesting. One post regarding the pineal gland begin the "third eye" really stands out for me and ever since I have respected this individual. I am transported into a different dimension when I read that kind of stuff. C...
by aether
Sat Jul 05, 2025 6:04 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1244
Views: 803801

Re: What are you watching?

How Family Structure Drives Ideology



Fascinating perspective. It helps understand the world today and what we may be in for in the future :ph34r:
by HighlyIrregular
Sat Jul 05, 2025 8:38 am
Forum: World
Topic: Little Rants
Replies: 425
Views: 483323

Re: Little Rants

Thing was my favorite superhero as a kid and I decided to look him up. He was wearing a shirt! When did Thing start wearing a Fantistic Four shirt ChatGPT said: Ben Grimm—a.k.a. The Thing—started wearing the Fantastic Four uniform (with the iconic “4” logo) in Fantastic Four #3 (cover‑dated January ...
by Yesterday
Sat Jul 05, 2025 6:00 am
Forum: Meta
Topic: A Shoutout to Catoptric: The Steady Light of INTP.live
Replies: 4
Views: 589

A Shoutout to Catoptric: The Steady Light of INTP.live

Just taking a moment to appreciate Catoptric — not only for showing up since day one, but for consistently posting content that’s genuinely thought-provoking, layered, and oddly magnetic. In my opinion, many of the forum’s most interesting discussions can be traced back to their contributions. This ...
by Catoptric
Sat Jul 05, 2025 4:21 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1220
Views: 727250

Re: What are you listening to?

by Roger Mexico
Fri Jul 04, 2025 2:48 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1220
Views: 727250

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by Catoptric
Thu Jul 03, 2025 11:27 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1220
Views: 727250

Re: What are you listening to?

Medieval music https://archive.org/details/spqrafa_gmail_20160212/Dances%2BMedievales-musikalischeopfer.blogspot.com(2)/(01)+%5BMillenarium%5D+Totz+altres+joys.mp3 Mozart complete works (Vol 7 - Sacred Works. . . is 1.7 gigs of mp3s. . . It's insane how much the guy composed.) https://archive.org/de...
by Catoptric
Thu Jul 03, 2025 10:52 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you reading?
Replies: 286
Views: 447391

Re: What are you reading?

Can somebody tell me where this has been all my life. https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/A1n8g0hFWZL._AC_UF1000,1000_QL80_FMwebp_.jpg Those books are referred to as The Kent Family Chronicles ( https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/5768.John_Jakes .) (Edit: and I just found out the first book the ...
by Madrigal
Wed Jul 02, 2025 3:02 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you reading?
Replies: 286
Views: 447391

Re: What are you reading?

Tortilla Flat , Steinbeck. What in God's name possessed Steinbeck to have his chicano characters address each other as "thou"? I think he wants to translate the informal "you", but it sounds really wrong. It's like he said, "Hey, we have that in English too," then proceeds to make the bums in his s...
by Madrigal
Wed Jul 02, 2025 2:43 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you reading?
Replies: 286
Views: 447391

Re: What are you reading?

Can somebody tell me where this has been all my life.

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by Catoptric
Tue Jul 01, 2025 5:41 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1244
Views: 803801

Re: What are you watching?

Trump's 2017 "tax cuts" to CEOs "where they agreed to give back bonuses to employee pay" allowed for stock buybacks and entrenched CEO salary in stock (which had previously been illegal, but even when it's "legal" does not suggest that society hasn't turned to shit routinely even when a government p...
by Catoptric
Tue Jul 01, 2025 3:21 am
Forum: World
Topic: Historical Fragments
Replies: 138
Views: 333537

Re: Historical Fragments

Orion/Osiris and Taurus constellation have parallels to the Lascaux cave art from 17,000 to 22,000 BC, which is really crazy that such an idea preserved itself in traditions of belief and entered mythology. https://medium.com/@bennettdns/the-triple-phallus-of-orion-05b57ab6df25 Typically with mythol...
by aether
Mon Jun 30, 2025 10:52 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1220
Views: 727250

Re: What are you listening to?

ATMOZFEARS ft. DAVID SPEKTER /\ KEEP ME AWAKE (OFFICIAL 4K VIDEOCLIP)
Hardstyle concert in Santiago, Chile in video

by Catoptric
Mon Jun 30, 2025 5:11 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1244
Views: 803801

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Some of the earliest Pixar animations (1988-89) https://archive.org/details/computerdreamsvhs Televoid 1998 cgi on DVD https://archive.org/details/televoiddvd *************** Edit: It seems like what Pioneer was doing at the time was an idea that occurred in different parts of Cable Television (and ...
by Catoptric
Mon Jun 30, 2025 4:55 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1220
Views: 727250

Re: What are you listening to?

This is basically just one big music video (1996 cgi) https://archive.org/details/odyssey-into-the-minds-eye-1996-laserdisc Mostly the same kind of thing (1992 cgi DVD copy) https://archive.org/details/beyondthemindseyedvd MTV music videos 1989 (with commercials) https://archive.org/details/TheVista...
by Yesterday
Sat Jun 28, 2025 6:40 am
Forum: World
Topic: So I Self Published a Book Today
Replies: 17
Views: 119514

Re: So I Self Published a Book Today

For what it's worth, you're an excellent writer.
by HighlyIrregular
Sat Jun 28, 2025 2:20 am
Forum: Meta
Topic: Apologies for downtime
Replies: 37
Views: 99381

Re: Apologies for downtime

I've seen signs that other sites have experienced similar issues recently. https://www.intpforum.com/threads/browsers-keep-blocking-access-to-intpforum.30197/ Ever since the New Year, I've been unable to log in. Kept getting warning messages on Firefox that the HTTPS server's SSL certificate has exp...
by Madrigal
Fri Jun 27, 2025 11:29 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you reading?
Replies: 286
Views: 447391

Re: What are you reading?

The Red Pony and The Moon Is Down , Steinbeck. I really liked the latter. It's a short novel about an imaginary Nazi invasion of a small Northern European town. Oh I eventually ended up loving Cannery Row . Something that makes it hard to read Steinbeck (besides someone getting their head blown off...
by HighlyIrregular
Fri Jun 27, 2025 7:21 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1244
Views: 803801

Re: What are you watching?

by Catoptric
Fri Jun 27, 2025 12:02 am
Forum: World
Topic: Little Rants
Replies: 425
Views: 483323

Re: Little Rants

Nozick, Robert - Why Do Intellectuals Oppose Capitalism
https://e-lub.net/annuals/wdi1.htm
by Catoptric
Thu Jun 26, 2025 12:24 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1244
Views: 803801

Re: What are you watching?

Some well known actors such as (a guy that looks like Shaun Penn but whose IMDB profile doesn't list the movie for some reason,) Jet Li, and that Cobra Kai Instructor from Karate Kid that is always holding the corners of his outfit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfAc-Hss_f0 Some Kung Fu movies (in...
by Catoptric
Wed Jun 25, 2025 10:16 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1244
Views: 803801

Re: What are you watching?

Dragonball The Magic Begins (Chen Chun-Liang, 1991) Live Action https://archive.org/details/dragon-ball-the-magic-begins-1991 Some more stuff https://archive.org/details/@qaweldon https://archive.org/details/@anarchivism One of them features Jesse Ventura. . . Whose acting career up until this point...
by aether
Wed Jun 25, 2025 5:42 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1220
Views: 727250

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Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond

by Catoptric
Tue Jun 24, 2025 11:54 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
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Views: 727250

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cognitive dissonance lp by Magdalene https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Magdalene%22 https://archive.org/details/cognitive-dissonance-lp-wjmjy8/ Hermeticism and The Celestial Void by Professor Creepshow https://archive.org/details/hermeticism-and-the-celestial-void-pyblmr/ Dreamcast (insp...
by Catoptric
Tue Jun 24, 2025 10:46 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1244
Views: 803801

Re: What are you watching?

Recorder - The Marion Stokes Project (Matt Wolf, 2019) https://archive.org/details/recorder-the-marion-stokes-project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recorder:_The_Marion_Stokes_Project Some notes and junk she also had left https://archive.org/details/marionstokestexts?sort=-date Someone took sound cl...
by aether
Tue Jun 24, 2025 6:23 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
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Views: 803801

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More than 100 airplanes involved. :w00t:
by Roger Mexico
Tue Jun 24, 2025 4:11 am
Forum: World
Topic: Run-up to WW3
Replies: 452
Views: 495622

Re: Run-up to WW3

So Trump says he got Iran and Israel to agree to a ceasefire, which may or may not be true.




https://apnews.com/live/iran-israel-war ... -6-23-2025
by aether
Tue Jun 24, 2025 3:23 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1220
Views: 727250

Re: What are you listening to?

Azzido Da Bass - Dooms Night (Timo Maas Remix)

by Catoptric
Mon Jun 23, 2025 11:15 pm
Forum: World
Topic: Run-up to WW3
Replies: 452
Views: 495622

Re: Run-up to WW3

by Catoptric
Mon Jun 23, 2025 6:37 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1220
Views: 727250

Re: What are you listening to?

by aether
Mon Jun 23, 2025 4:49 am
Forum: World
Topic: Little Raves
Replies: 109
Views: 250722

Re: Little Raves

I saw some of the players from River Plate out in public today. I realized it was the team players after checking their instagram page. I accidentally mentioned Boca Juniors to them, because I couldn’t recognize their colors and I didn’t remember well. :palm: River Plate is seen as the more upper c...
by aether
Sun Jun 22, 2025 5:35 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1220
Views: 727250

Re: What are you listening to?

Adana Twins - Everyday

by starjots
Sun Jun 22, 2025 7:11 am
Forum: World
Topic: Run-up to WW3
Replies: 452
Views: 495622

Re: Run-up to WW3

<important stuff> If 6 bombs were dropped on Fordow: 6 × ~$21 million → ≈ $126 million for that single strike package In the US, this unit of expenditure is now called 3 military parades, or about 1 deployment of marines to a US city for 2 months. You can also express all numbers in TGVs or Total G...
by Roger Mexico
Sun Jun 22, 2025 5:15 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1220
Views: 727250

Re: What are you listening to?

by HighlyIrregular
Sun Jun 22, 2025 2:25 am
Forum: World
Topic: Run-up to WW3
Replies: 452
Views: 495622

Re: Run-up to WW3

The US struck 3 Iranian nuclear sites. What bombs were used ChatGPT said: The recent U.S. strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites—Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan—were carried out primarily using massive bunker-buster bombs, delivered by B‑2 Spirit stealth bombers. 🛡️ Weapons Used 1. GBU‑57A/B Massive Or...
by Madrigal
Sun Jun 22, 2025 1:15 am
Forum: World
Topic: Little Raves
Replies: 109
Views: 250722

Re: Little Raves

I saw some of the players from River Plate out in public today. I realized it was the team players after checking their instagram page. I accidentally mentioned Boca Juniors to them, because I couldn’t recognize their colors and I didn’t remember well. :palm: River Plate is seen as the more upper c...
by aether
Sat Jun 21, 2025 10:39 pm
Forum: World
Topic: Science Microthreads
Replies: 96
Views: 297863

Re: Science Microthreads

California scientists stumble upon methane-eating sea spiders in deep ocean discovery

https://www.sandiegopost.com/2025/06/17 ... discovery/
by Catoptric
Sat Jun 21, 2025 8:21 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1244
Views: 803801

Re: What are you watching?

'We Call It Toonami' - An Unofficial Documentary by Matt Elias https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egyMMgzDrMs https://archive.org/details/PeerTube-75bf3740-287d-46fe-b8c0-b3ee9c83e44e Beavis and Butt-Head in Virtual Stupidity (1995 PC game that works with SCUMMVM supposedly) https://youtu.be/Jmi5gK_N7Q...
by aether
Sat Jun 21, 2025 4:52 am
Forum: World
Topic: Little Raves
Replies: 109
Views: 250722

Re: Little Raves

I saw some of the players from River Plate out in public today. I realized it was the team players after checking their instagram page. I accidentally mentioned Boca Juniors to them, because I couldn’t recognize their colors and I didn’t remember well. :palm:
by aether
Fri Jun 20, 2025 6:54 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1244
Views: 803801

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