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by Catoptric
Thu Sep 18, 2025 3:56 am
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 432
Views: 498728

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

In a previous incident they were targeting a few Houthis within proximity to civilians and live-streaming it while Trump was still wearing his golfing outfit. During that time Pentagon had Hegseth (probably with his favorite cocktail) interacting with the rest of his drinking Cabinet, and they were ...
by aether
Tue Sep 16, 2025 5:10 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you reading?
Replies: 295
Views: 454511

Re: What are you reading?

'In the United States, monopoly capitalism leads to underinvestment and to the concentration of wealth'

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/artic ... 35_23.html
by Catoptric
Sun Sep 14, 2025 8:00 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1263
Views: 824115

Re: What are you watching?

Why It Sucks to Be a Brothel Boy (in Qing Dynasty) by Bernard https://youtu.be/HMsbA6Tp0A8 Another one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtVhsX44fpw It seems the animation was inspired by the more historically appropriate version of this: https://youtu.be/7VKVtqqCiPQ The Ming Dynasty Concubines: A Lif...
by aether
Sun Sep 14, 2025 7:31 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1232
Views: 742713

Re: What are you listening to?

VØJ, Narvent - Memory Reboot (4K Music Video)



Boards of Canada - Music is Math (HD)

by aether
Sun Sep 14, 2025 7:03 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1263
Views: 824115

Re: What are you watching?

When Celebrities Humble Disrespectful YouTubers

:lol:

by Catoptric
Sun Sep 14, 2025 4:31 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you reading?
Replies: 295
Views: 454511

Re: What are you reading?

Authoritarianism Predicts Trump Support - Matthew MacWilliams The Rise of Trump: America's Authoritarian Spring by Matthew MacWilliams https://archive.org/details/the-rise-of-trump-americas-authoritarian-spring/978-1-943208-02-9_MacWilliams/ 2016 article https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/...
by HighlyIrregular
Sun Sep 14, 2025 10:57 am
Forum: World
Topic: Seen on the internet
Replies: 166
Views: 368616

Re: Seen on the internet

I had a polo shirt with a collar that had a crease where there shouldn't be a crease. I tried fixing it a few times then I threw it out. This reporter or his station seem to think it's acceptable. I wouldn't even donate it.

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by Catoptric
Sat Sep 13, 2025 9:46 am
Forum: World
Topic: Little Rants
Replies: 430
Views: 491959

Re: Little Rants

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcXtRI8FaYo Charlie Kirk advocated for being gaslighted and following teachings that were intended to brainwash generations of people towards ideologies that were antithetical to ethical treatment of anyone more than the so-called 'Author(s)' of the book(s). It's a ci...
by Madrigal
Fri Sep 12, 2025 8:52 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you reading?
Replies: 295
Views: 454511

Re: What are you reading?

Shirley , by Charlotte Brontë So this is her only historical novel. She wrote it in the mid-19th Century but it's set in the year 1812, when the Luddite struggle was at its height. There are two events in the novel that seem closely based on real events involving a notorious mill owner. It's not ba...
by Madrigal
Fri Sep 12, 2025 8:38 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 432
Views: 498728

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

Charlie Kirk Loses Gun Debate by a Long Shot

(posted somewhere online)
by Catoptric
Fri Sep 12, 2025 1:34 am
Forum: World
Topic: Seen on the internet
Replies: 166
Views: 368616

Re: Seen on the internet

The Man Who Can ‘Prove’ Life Is a Simulation—With Just a DMT Vape and a Laser https://www.vice.com/en/article/danny-goler-dmt-vape-laser-simulation/ Eventually a portal will open up in the retina, though it will always be just out of reach. . . (yes, this is a joke. Those Machine Elves don't want yo...
by Catoptric
Thu Sep 11, 2025 7:18 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1263
Views: 824115

Re: What are you watching?

Roy Cohn shows up in this https://youtu.be/Sr0RTCFlkGM Earlier I posted a video that documented models being sexually exploited and kept in something like a boarding house in France, where coked out photographers would barge in on them in the shower (since the bathroom had no locks on it. . .) In th...
by aether
Thu Sep 11, 2025 5:03 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1263
Views: 824115

Re: What are you watching?

THE PRIDE OF THE GERMAN NAVY: Frigate Hessen - Combat Drill in the Atlantic | WELT Documentary



Why so many famous Berlin clubs are closing | DW News :(

by HighlyIrregular
Thu Sep 11, 2025 4:51 am
Forum: World
Topic: Science Microthreads
Replies: 101
Views: 302611

Re: Science Microthreads

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd725pj0g9ro Unusual rocks discovered on Mars contain the most tantalising evidence yet of potential past life on the Red Planet. The mudstones, found in a dusty riverbed by Nasa's Perseverance Rover, are dotted with intriguing markings nicknamed leopard spots and p...
by Catoptric
Tue Sep 09, 2025 10:46 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 432
Views: 498728

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

(Edit) So the Epstein birthday card image was here but now it isn't. . . (I thought I had broken it as I was updating the post with an upload: hence I resorted to using Google Drive.) And it seems that entire group was deleted because it seems it got too many complaints for being off topic; because ...
by HighlyIrregular
Mon Sep 08, 2025 8:34 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 432
Views: 498728

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

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/08/trump-epstein-birthday-book-oversight.html “HERE IT IS: We got Trump’s birthday note to Jeffrey Epstein that the President said doesn’t exist,” the X account for the House Oversight Committee’s Democratic minority wrote in a post revealing the letter. Trump-letter.png
by Madrigal
Fri Sep 05, 2025 11:23 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 432
Views: 498728

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

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/us/p ... fense.html

Undoing decades of wholesome doublespeak.
by Catoptric
Thu Sep 04, 2025 10:41 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1263
Views: 824115

Re: What are you watching?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2l83qUWUp4 list of the 50 documentaries shown Tell Me Who I Am (Ed Perkins, 2019) Amnesia and trauma The Witness (James D. Solomon, 2016) Kitty Genovese Gladiator Days - Anatomy of a Prison Murder (Marc Levin, 2002) Troy Kell Three Identical Strangers (2018) triplets...
by HighlyIrregular
Thu Sep 04, 2025 12:37 am
Forum: World
Topic: Little Rants
Replies: 430
Views: 491959

Re: Little Rants

I used to like browsing Ebay for $1 stuff from China. I had a long search string that included words like "stainless steel" and "tool" and there were tons of products available for free shipping. No more, thanks to tariffs. The US had some special deal with China for shipping and I'm not sure if tha...
by aether
Wed Sep 03, 2025 5:14 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1232
Views: 742713

Re: What are you listening to?

Live visuals for Tycho - Glider by Scott Hansen (Tycho)



please don't complain if Boards of Canada shows up soon :palm: :sneaky: :fsleazy: :whistle:
by Catoptric
Tue Sep 02, 2025 11:45 pm
Forum: World
Topic: Science Microthreads
Replies: 101
Views: 302611

Re: Science Microthreads

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOza0te-fo8 Ego and it's tag team of confirmation bias, mixed with cognitive miser behavior (where failure to acknowledge the incongruence with wish-fulfillment, and so people would rather be too lazy to challenge their own thinking) convinces some people that they ar...
by Catoptric
Tue Sep 02, 2025 6:32 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1263
Views: 824115

Re: What are you watching?

Not in use since the 1950s, and a similar history surrounds the area around it. https://youtu.be/iVwGFBJWE54 Cotton Belt Freight Depot 1400 N 1st St, St. Louis, MO 63102 https://share.google/VtjcdbkPOxoHU6hD3 If you change the time this shows to present, two buildings across from eachother were demo...
by Catoptric
Tue Sep 02, 2025 5:32 am
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 432
Views: 498728

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

I HIGHLY recommend reading the comments, as it corroborates a lot of what the book is saying. If you go to the reviews on Amazon they are just a bunch of morons complaining that they dissed Trump (the one who renamed Fort Bragg to what it was, which was changed for a fucking reason; the same as Albe...
by Catoptric
Tue Sep 02, 2025 1:48 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1232
Views: 742713

Re: What are you listening to?

I just realized that the music album I downloaded about 15 years ago took a lot of liberty using audio from the movie, 'Waking Life' (Richard Linklater, 2001) https://archive.org/details/waking_life_2001/The+Trailer.mp4 Chilled Cequence - Dream Triggers (album name) https://www.discogs.com/release/1...
by Madrigal
Sun Aug 31, 2025 9:23 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you reading?
Replies: 295
Views: 454511

Re: What are you reading?

The Age of Revolution (1789-1848), Hobsbawm

My novel hasn't arrived so I figured I'd read this in the meantime. I only ever read the last book in this tetralogy on the long 19th Century and the short 20th Century. I forgot how much I liked Hobsbawm.
by Catoptric
Sun Aug 31, 2025 2:08 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1263
Views: 824115

Re: What are you watching?

Quigley Down Under (Simon Wincer, 1990) Tom Selleck, Alan Rickman, and Laura San Giacomo And other films https://archive.org/details/@markskywalker Sun Also Rises (1957) with Errol Flynn https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051028/reviews/?featured=rw0062819&ref_=tt_ururv_c_1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
by HighlyIrregular
Sat Aug 30, 2025 11:00 pm
Forum: World
Topic: Science Microthreads
Replies: 101
Views: 302611

Re: Science Microthreads

Anti-aging discovery by Harvard researchers: "preparations for human clinical trials of the lab’s age reversal gene therapy are in progress... 'this new discovery offers the potential to reverse aging with a single pill, with applications ranging from improving eyesight to effectively treating nume...
by aether
Sat Aug 30, 2025 8:44 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1232
Views: 742713

Re: What are you listening to?

That was acid jazz, dude.

Anyway ....

Giuseppe Ottaviani - Glowing In The Dark


by aether
Sat Aug 30, 2025 8:41 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1263
Views: 824115

Re: What are you watching?

Inside Spain’s Fascism Fandom

by Catoptric
Sat Aug 30, 2025 10:31 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1232
Views: 742713

Re: What are you listening to?

David Bowie - (Berlin Trilogy) Albums - "Low," "Heroes" (both 1977) and Lodger (1979) https://archive.org/details/bth_20250602 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand_Hammer_(group) https://archive.org/details/dope_20250708 Boomer music? https://archive.org/details/woodencupi/WoodenCup+-+Bang!+Bang!+On...
by Catoptric
Sat Aug 30, 2025 10:01 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1263
Views: 824115

Re: What are you watching?

First I heard of the cult https://youtu.be/68OC4CURwx4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SZ4NabR0gw Māori documentary (and I might have been to some of the tribal buildings shown in this film.) Children of the Mist (1974) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_EFuW2OCOE&t=395s When I was in New Zealand du...
by aether
Sat Aug 30, 2025 4:44 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1232
Views: 742713

Re: What are you listening to?

Electra Glide - Down To The Bone

by HighlyIrregular
Fri Aug 29, 2025 8:34 am
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 432
Views: 498728

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

What's going on in a country that speaks my language: A 1991 time capsule sealed by Princess Diana was unearthed in London on Thursday. Workers born in or employed during that year led the reveal, which included a pocket TV, a Kylie Minogue CD, and tree seeds. Waste of Diana's time. I was into time ...
by HighlyIrregular
Fri Aug 29, 2025 5:28 am
Forum: World
Topic: Seen on the internet
Replies: 166
Views: 368616

Re: Seen on the internet

I was reading about how, in Finland, conversations have long pauses and it's OK to be an introvert. I knew there was a European country known for that but I forgot which. The article also mentioned people are happy and safe. Then I went on Google Maps and saw they have bicycle lanes on the sidewalks...
by Catoptric
Thu Aug 28, 2025 10:59 pm
Forum: World
Topic: Seen on the internet
Replies: 166
Views: 368616

Re: Seen on the internet

Labubu demon being removed by a person who calls themselves a Christian, practicing what looks like voodoo.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNTJ128t ... d3czdsbjZu

Rule34 - Oscar The Grouch
https://rule34.us/index.php?r=posts/ind ... the_grouch
by Madrigal
Wed Aug 27, 2025 6:25 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you reading?
Replies: 295
Views: 454511

Re: What are you reading?

Have you read The Making of the English Working Class by E.P. Thompson? IIRC it has a rather lengthy section on the Luddites, and more generally is one of those "required reading" books on early-industrial-era British class politics, at least according to all my college professors 20 years ago. E.P...
by Roger Mexico
Tue Aug 26, 2025 5:47 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you reading?
Replies: 295
Views: 454511

Re: What are you reading?

Re: Blood in the Machine I loved this book and recommend it to everyone. I didn't actually know anything about the Luddites, beyond clichés, despite their struggle and multi-faceted political action having been so seminal to the industrial workers' movement that came later. Not to mention its relev...
by Catoptric
Mon Aug 25, 2025 6:37 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1263
Views: 824115

Re: What are you watching?

Roots (1977) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075572 https://archive.org/details/roots-1977-full-mini-series Roots: The Next Generations (1979) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078678/?nm_dyk_trv https://archive.org/details/roots-the-next-generations-1979-full-mini-series Tenko (1981-84 BBC Aus) Sino-Jap ...
by Madrigal
Mon Aug 25, 2025 12:01 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you reading?
Replies: 295
Views: 454511

Re: What are you reading?

Frankenstein , by Mary Shelley Couldn't put it down although it does get a bit repetitive and predictable. This is one of the books I was led to read after Blood in the Machine , in a Marxist key, with the monster being the industrial working class that's revolting around the time this is written. ...
by Catoptric
Sat Aug 23, 2025 7:27 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 432
Views: 498728

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

“Go learn some English:” Customer berates Georgian NYC café owner. Now everyone’s coming to her defense https://www.dailydot.com/news/georgian-cafe-owner-nyc-mamali/ The Beatles were prophetic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS5_EQgbuLc And Trump shock spurs Japan to think about the unthinkable: nuc...
by Roger Mexico
Sat Aug 23, 2025 9:05 am
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 432
Views: 498728

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

"Oh look, it's Couch Fucker. You gonna fuck a couch, buddy?"

[bbvideo]https://www.youtube.com/shorts/C0fZOO85QMQ[/bbvideo]
by Catoptric
Sat Aug 23, 2025 5:37 am
Forum: World
Topic: Seen on the internet
Replies: 166
Views: 368616

Re: Seen on the internet

I was noticing some FB account that I accepted a friend request from, and I believe the reason their account was no longer active (probably since 2022 when this stuff showed online) is because they got arrested. . . My only guess is they were amongst the "STOCK BROS!" that are predominantly narcissi...
by Catoptric
Fri Aug 22, 2025 9:20 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1232
Views: 742713

Re: What are you listening to?

Most of this stuff seems to have died off as soon as 9/11 happened, though made a brief revival around 2010 in parts of Europe, and then possibly evolved into various festivals with a different style of music (I'm thinking of Jared Leto cults or the kinds of people that would want to watch someone l...
by Catoptric
Fri Aug 22, 2025 9:09 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1263
Views: 824115

Re: What are you watching?

Bill Hicks - One Night Stand [Live] (1991) https://archive.org/details/bill-hicks-one-night-stand-live They also posted another Bill Hicks performance and have decent music albums: https://archive.org/details/@lunar_monkey Techno music collection (look for klangextase channel dump) They have more of...
by Catoptric
Fri Aug 22, 2025 5:38 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1263
Views: 824115

Re: What are you watching?

The Night Stalker (1972 book and film which evolved into a 1974 series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_Stalker_(1972_film) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071003/reviews/ (Kolchak) The Night Stalker (1972) was first a book and then a TV movie from that same year, written by Jeff Rice, with a ...
by HighlyIrregular
Fri Aug 22, 2025 3:57 am
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 432
Views: 498728

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

I haven't found an article from a source I'm willing to link to, but Trump signed an order for "IMPROVING OUR NATION THROUGH BETTER DESIGN." He wants a single template for government websites. I'm assuming there's a nefarious motive like eliminating foreign language translations.
by Catoptric
Thu Aug 21, 2025 4:01 pm
Forum: World
Topic: Run-up to WW3
Replies: 455
Views: 505886

Re: Run-up to WW3

Russia bombs US factory (of civilian products in Ukraine) in one of war’s largest attacks
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ru ... r-AA1KWpuq
by Catoptric
Thu Aug 21, 2025 3:33 am
Forum: World
Topic: Little Rants
Replies: 430
Views: 491959

Re: Little Rants

The great paradox of our time: everything is both better and worse than ever before https://thecorrespondent.com/104/the-great-paradox-of-our-time-everything-is-both-better-and-worse-than-ever-before After just finishing up watching Rosemary's Baby for the first time (Roman Polansky. . . And starrin...
by Catoptric
Thu Aug 21, 2025 3:10 am
Forum: World
Topic: ChatGPT and AIs
Replies: 58
Views: 146037

Re: ChatGPT and AIs

Some news articles are being written by AI: At 32:00 ( https://www.youtube.com/watch ) their appears to be a chat GPT written article about the news coverage claiming that earlier in the day he aimed a gun at a woman and robbed her, but was immediately stopped by Police who used their patrol vehicle...
by Roger Mexico
Thu Aug 21, 2025 3:00 am
Forum: World
Topic: Run-up to WW3
Replies: 455
Views: 505886

Re: Run-up to WW3

Trump is dick-wagging at Venezuela with a couple of warships and a regiment of Marines.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/2 ... -operation
by HighlyIrregular
Wed Aug 20, 2025 8:16 am
Forum: World
Topic: Little gusts of hot air that don't deserve their own thread.
Replies: 106
Views: 313650

Re: Little gusts of hot air that don't deserve their own thread.

There are trails near me that I want to walk, but they're near old uranium mines, so I bought a Geiger counter. It got me thinking of what forum members, past and present, are most likely to own a Geiger counter. The Catoptric made the list and that made me feel this is a worthy thread. In no partic...
by HighlyIrregular
Tue Aug 19, 2025 3:13 am
Forum: World
Topic: ChatGPT and AIs
Replies: 58
Views: 146037

Re: ChatGPT and AIs

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by Madrigal
Mon Aug 18, 2025 3:52 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you reading?
Replies: 295
Views: 454511

Re: What are you reading?

The Stories of Ray Bradbury (Everyman's Library) So, after reading the shorter Vintage Classics edition, I was left wanting more Bradbury and this larger collection arrived today. It's really beautiful and carefully edited. It includes a three-column chronology with one column detailing the events ...
by Catoptric
Mon Aug 18, 2025 9:46 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1263
Views: 824115

Re: What are you watching?

Too much weird shit surrounds this topic. https://youtu.be/n2oHfedQIOE https://youtu.be/xuSNmjqY2d0 ************* I think the thumbnail is false advertising (it's probably AI generated,) though perhaps when skipping through to the "good parts" I believe I overlooked whatever arrest that was. Worth m...
by HighlyIrregular
Mon Aug 18, 2025 4:26 am
Forum: World
Topic: Little Rants
Replies: 430
Views: 491959

Re: Little Rants

There are farms not far from me. Have been last place I lived too. I've taken busses past them. I've looked at them in Google's street view. Never have I seen a fruit or vegetable in them. Just greenery. Finally! Tomatos! https://www.google.com/maps/place/Frick+Family+farms/@40.5338046,-75.4493124,...
by Catoptric
Sun Aug 17, 2025 5:27 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 432
Views: 498728

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

Really odd, that a fire broke out in an historic Mosque (later turned into a Cathedral, hence the name Cathedral La Mezquita) in Cordoba, Spain. It occurred on August 8th, 2025 in the Almanzor extension of the structure, used as a warehouse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosque%E2%80%93Cathedral_of_...
by Catoptric
Sun Aug 17, 2025 6:49 am
Forum: World
Topic: The food and drink thread
Replies: 171
Views: 350719

Re: The food and drink thread

An alternative to sushi is making a sandwich out of nori and rice, layered with egg and spam cooked in tariyaki sauce (soy sauce, mirin/rice wine, sugar) https://eatbook.sg/mr-onigiri-vivocity/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRqJsYel7V0 It's actually kind of similar to the Hawaiian version of sushi...
by Catoptric
Fri Aug 15, 2025 4:43 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1263
Views: 824115

Re: What are you watching?

I kept this in a shopping cart on Steam and forgot about it, so I didn't get it at the sale price (it was $1.50, and the second one was half off at $7.50,) though I was really more curious about it than anything else, so decided this was a better option. . . Hylics (first game 1 video) https://www.y...
by HighlyIrregular
Fri Aug 15, 2025 7:23 am
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 432
Views: 498728

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

Power outage last night for 3-4 hours. Battery backup worked fine for my computer and I had time to turn it off properly, but I forgot that I made edits to a file on a remote server and didn't save it locally. So, today I notice the the local file isn't working locally and it took me an hour or two ...
by Catoptric
Fri Aug 15, 2025 1:57 am
Forum: World
Topic: Science Microthreads
Replies: 101
Views: 302611

Re: Science Microthreads

https://youtu.be/2i2QKui95SE This crap is pretty insane. Also, this nonsense would be needed if ever they attempted to go to Mars (and Musk is just a grifter exploiting taxpayer subsidy for mindless nonsense.) How much money of taxpayer dollars has been lost in SpaceX launches after third failed att...
by HighlyIrregular
Thu Aug 14, 2025 12:29 am
Forum: World
Topic: Little gusts of hot air that don't deserve their own thread.
Replies: 106
Views: 313650

Re: Little gusts of hot air that don't deserve their own thread.

Got out of bed dizzy and tired at 2 PM (not late considering when I went to bed and fell asleep. Wasn't especially hot but I turned on my living room AC. I figured it was just my sleeping position, but then I remembered the wax in my ears so I used an ear wax pick. Got back to bed and didn't get up ...
by Madrigal
Tue Aug 12, 2025 11:45 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you reading?
Replies: 295
Views: 454511

Re: What are you reading?

Blood in the Machine, Brian Merchant

It's about the Luddites and the backlash against Big Tech today. It's pretty good, haven't gotten too far yet.
by Catoptric
Tue Aug 12, 2025 7:12 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1263
Views: 824115

Re: What are you watching?

The AI topic is something to look at. https://youtu.be/5KVDDfAkRgc *********************** Retro TV I Dream Of Jeannie (Sidney Sheldon, 1965-1970) Barbara Eden, Larry Hagman https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058815/ https://archive.org/details/iDreamOfGennie Kind of low quality, though complete, and I m...
by Catoptric
Sun Aug 10, 2025 6:03 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1263
Views: 824115

Re: What are you watching?

From 1933-34 Leni Riefenstahl would create propaganda films and had an unfinished movie script that would eventually use Gypsies from concentration camps in 1944 who it's believed were offered freedom for assisting with the production of the movie (whether by convenience to try and protect themselve...
by Catoptric
Sat Aug 09, 2025 10:26 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 432
Views: 498728

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

https://www.instagram.com/p/DNHQHo1Bq0Z/?img_index=2 Anyway, Trump was not including Zelensky in the latest Trump and Putin dialogue (still scheduled for around mid August in Alaska) and he's telling Zelensky he will need to give away parts of Ukraine to "bring pieces." Trump Suggests Ukraine Will H...
by HighlyIrregular
Sat Aug 09, 2025 7:21 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
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Views: 824115

Re: What are you watching?

by Catoptric
Fri Aug 08, 2025 6:49 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 432
Views: 498728

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 Catoptric
Fri Aug 08, 2025 3:30 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
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Views: 824115

Re: What are you watching?

Gavin Newsom https://youtu.be/1NLoTuRR3hE https://youtu.be/toqY9NIADrY https://youtu.be/ZxvPdYMw_Sw https://www.youtube.com/@LookingGlassUniverse Based on https://ai-2027.com/ The case for AGI by 2030 https://80000hours.org/agi/guide/when-will-agi-arrive/ Shrinking AGI timelines: a review of expert ...
by Catoptric
Fri Aug 08, 2025 12:55 am
Forum: World
Topic: Health and Fitness
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Views: 72030

Re: Health and Fitness

Electrolytes https://youtu.be/LUGdQnxuixI It turns out with the medical case that the girlfriend is not the only thing that guy shared. I also wonder about the fine balance between seizures and blood clots, and heart issues (the types of electrolytes for heart function, but also preventing blood clo...
by Catoptric
Wed Aug 06, 2025 2:24 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1232
Views: 742713

Re: What are you listening to?

Super Eurobeat (6990 music tracks - some appear to be 30 second samplers but most are not.) SEB Collection (1990-2018) https://archive.org/details/01.-va-seb-vol.-9-41-maharaja-night-hi-nrg-revolution-vol.-1-8-megamix/SEB+Lossy+Collection+(1990-2018)/SEB+Vol.+111+%5B2000%5D/01.+Dave+Rodgers+-+Ale'+J...
by Catoptric
Tue Aug 05, 2025 6:46 pm
Forum: World
Topic: Run-up to WW3
Replies: 455
Views: 505886

Re: Run-up to WW3

It's worth mentioning, if Taiwan joins China the defense industry would be compromised since so much of the circuitry is manufactured in Taiwan (thinks to shallow-minded business leaders early on in the US computer chip manufacturing, where the only option would be to bring the industry overseas. Th...
by Catoptric
Tue Aug 05, 2025 1:21 pm
Forum: World
Topic: Little Rants
Replies: 430
Views: 491959

Re: Little Rants

In addition to the previous post, Trump wants NASA to destroy two satellites used in a project to study global warming. . . Because truth shouldn't exist. Consumer impulse creates an exploitative capitalism oligarchy Few people want to admit it, but our society rewards conformity https://davidmcelro...
by Catoptric
Tue Aug 05, 2025 5:31 am
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 432
Views: 498728

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

Statue of Confederate General Albert Pike to be reinstalled in Washington https://www.reuters.com/world/us/statue-confederate-general-albert-pike-be-reinstalled-washington-2025-08-04/?utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwQ0xDSwL-ddBleHRuA2Flb...
by Catoptric
Mon Aug 04, 2025 11:22 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
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Views: 824115

Re: What are you watching?

Alice's Restaurant (Arthur Penn, 1969) Arlo Guthrie's https://archive.org/details/usa-penn-arthur-1969-alices-restaurant I remember seeing a music documentary called Festival Express (Bob Smeaton, 2003) 1970 about a Train Music Tour Canada, where he shows up briefly, and it kind of hallmarks the clo...
by aether
Mon Aug 04, 2025 5:32 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1232
Views: 742713

Re: What are you listening to?

Ibiza 1999 – The Very Best of Balearic Trance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8z7IR4aBM8 Tracklist: 00:00 Chicane – Saltwater feat. Moya Brennan (Mothership Mix) 00:50 Chicane – Saltwater feat. Moya Brennan (Disco Citizens vs Tomski Remix) 06:05 Matt Darey – Eternity 09:35 ATB 9 PM (Till I Come) (...
by Catoptric
Sun Aug 03, 2025 5:00 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1232
Views: 742713

Re: What are you listening to?

Dramamine by Flawed Mangoes https://youtu.be/kV_Ls62DC20 Flawed Mangoes - Deep Sleeper (2017 album) https://archive.org/details/flawed-mangoes-deep-sleeper Flawed Mangoes - Trust Me / Virtual Aquarium (2016 album) https://archive.org/details/flawed-mangoes-trust-me-virtual-aquarium/Flawed+Mangoes+-+...
by Catoptric
Sun Aug 03, 2025 12:35 am
Forum: World
Topic: Seen on the internet
Replies: 166
Views: 368616

Re: Seen on the internet

I'm still not exactly sure what this is (but it seems like a liminal reference that makes people want to find out more, though if I were to guess it appears to have taken on a life of it's own and became a bit like a DnD game online involving levels?) It seems to have mostly gained popularity after ...
by aether
Sat Aug 02, 2025 9:39 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1232
Views: 742713

Re: What are you listening to?

Dusky - Yoohoo (Official Video)



RUBIØ - Bre Petrunko [BLCKWRKS027]



Hardwell & Blasterjaxx - Beat Of The Drum

by Catoptric
Fri Aug 01, 2025 1:48 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 432
Views: 498728

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

The official report lies about some of the guard activity, and it seems apparent that a prisoner may have gotten into Epstein's cell (and it can be pretty much assumed the entire movement was orchestrated and carried out to kill him, while exploiting vulnerabilities in CCTV.) Either that or the jail...
by HighlyIrregular
Fri Aug 01, 2025 5:05 am
Forum: World
Topic: Science Microthreads
Replies: 101
Views: 302611

Re: Science Microthreads

Heaviest stick insect in Australia discovered.

by Catoptric
Thu Jul 31, 2025 11:04 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1232
Views: 742713

Re: What are you listening to?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXMMLu7HjSA https://youtu.be/qsyfGwlf_l0 People's Temple Choir album (Jim Jones, 1973) https://archive.org/details/ptc-hesable He's Able lyrics https://genius.com/Peoples-temple-choir-and-reverend-jim-jones-hes-able-lyrics https://archive.org/details/youtube-Hjs_V8Ul-...
by HighlyIrregular
Thu Jul 31, 2025 4:18 am
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 432
Views: 498728

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: 397

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: 397

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: 3024

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: 166
Views: 368616

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: 397

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: 58
Views: 146037

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: 3024

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: 1232
Views: 742713

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: 1263
Views: 824115

Re: What are you watching?

https://youtu.be/_BmLJYI1qPM The first live on-scene 9-11 report was done by these guys (this was in July.) https://youtu.be/AtzG3wdF_IU https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Oliver https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Ryan_(reporter) https://youtu.be/0jDBalGqf9o In the Wink of an Eye aka Kisapmata (M...
by Catoptric
Fri Jul 25, 2025 8:05 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1232
Views: 742713

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: 432
Views: 498728

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: 432
Views: 498728

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: 1232
Views: 742713

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: 166
Views: 368616

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: 295
Views: 454511

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: 432
Views: 498728

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: 432
Views: 498728

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...