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by Catoptric
Wed Jan 22, 2025 5:41 am
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 420
Views: 488637

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

Of all the things Trump is doing, the thing that seems (from headlines) to be receiving the most backlash, from lawsuits, is the end of birthright citizenship. I don't feel strongly about that. I didn't feel strongly about the wall either. His pardons and environmental policies are problems though....
by HighlyIrregular II
Wed Jan 22, 2025 4:03 am
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 420
Views: 488637

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

Of all the things Trump is doing, the thing that seems (from headlines) to be receiving the most backlash, from lawsuits, is the end of birthright citizenship. I don't feel strongly about that. I didn't feel strongly about the wall either. His pardons and environmental policies are problems though. ...
by Catoptric
Wed Jan 22, 2025 1:08 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1249
Views: 807370

Re: What are you watching?

Only Fools and Horses (1981-2003) https://archive.org/details/fav-shane576 The Missing Christmas specials: S07E07 and 8. Miami Twice (1991 Ch Sp) Amer Dream - To Be In England https://archive.org/details/only-fools-and-horses-miami-twice S07E09. Mother Nature's Son (1992 Christmas Special) https://w...
by Catoptric
Mon Jan 20, 2025 7:50 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1249
Views: 807370

Re: What are you watching?

Elon Musk to Slash $2 Trillion from the U.S. Budget to Replace Economists with Technicians https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/elon-musk-to-slash-2-trillion-from-the-u-s-budget-to-replace-economists-with-technicians/ar-AA1xsWww Vivek the fraud steps down from his position: A book that might be...
by Catoptric
Sat Jan 18, 2025 11:07 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1249
Views: 807370

Re: What are you watching?

The "Tree of Life" in Kaballah might just be a medieval fabrication (and I'm surprised when looking into the new Final Fantasy 7 Remake the topic of Sephiroth has never been brought into question as it might apply to the thematic elements; I've yet to buy the new remake (Intergrad, and now Rebirth i...
by Roger Mexico
Sat Jan 18, 2025 8:52 am
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 420
Views: 488637

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

One of Elon Musk's rockets blew up. https://x.com/adavenport354/status/1880026262254809115?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1880026262254809115%7Ctwgr%5E9fd8b6f6f6c294076be2098c44a34617274ef07e%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.space.com%2Fspace-exploration%2Fprivate-spacef...
by Catoptric
Sat Jan 18, 2025 6:38 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1249
Views: 807370

Re: What are you watching?

Django (Sergio Corbucci, 1966) Franco Nero https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0lBNugehcQ Django Unchained is available as well (though both links will likely not be active after a while. . .) https://youtu.be/ZxHLuzOnVNo In 1966 another Django movie called 'A Few Dollars for Django' (1966) directed by...
by Catoptric
Sat Jan 18, 2025 1:31 am
Forum: World
Topic: Run-up to WW3
Replies: 453
Views: 497195

Re: Run-up to WW3

The proliferation of wars will result in a much bigger one. https://youtu.be/jHxO-KWEd1s A hypothetical WW3 in 2032 (though I think it could already be "happening" and would start with cyberwarfare and sabotage. https://youtu.be/br_z4fv51W0 Trump Accidentally Fired Hundreds Of Federal Workers Who Ma...
by aether
Fri Jan 17, 2025 11:27 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1225
Views: 730230

Re: What are you listening to?

Paul Kalkbrenner @ PM Open Air Buenos Aires

by Catoptric
Fri Jan 17, 2025 12:45 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1249
Views: 807370

Re: What are you watching?

I never believed the conspiracies about Kubrick, though have noticed some evident underlying narrative (kind of the zeitgeist of Kubrick's thinking.) It gets to a point where the conspiracy becomes mocked or encouraged, similar to the Beatles and the various conspiracies, where they kind of troll th...
by Catoptric
Fri Jan 17, 2025 12:13 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 420
Views: 488637

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

Trump announces plans for a new, wildly unnecessary bureaucracy (plans for ending IRS while pretending that people aren't paying for taxes when they buy a product that has to adjust for the cost incurred on the other end, similar to pretending that subsidies aren't inadvertently redirecting taxes in...
by Catoptric
Fri Jan 17, 2025 2:16 am
Forum: World
Topic: The food and drink thread
Replies: 170
Views: 347280

Re: The food and drink thread

Found some things on clearance: The original Huy Fong Siracha "rooster sauce" brand on clearance for a dollar alongside a Dragon brand (not the Underwoods one that are now using the original farm that Huy Fong used) has been popping up recently at Asian markets. Huy Fong has been getting a reputatio...
by Catoptric
Thu Jan 16, 2025 5:04 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1225
Views: 730230

Re: What are you listening to?



Albums


Tom Lehrer - Too Many Songs (1981)
https://archive.org/details/toomanysongs0000lehr
by HighlyIrregular II
Wed Jan 15, 2025 6:57 pm
Forum: World
Topic: Health and Fitness
Replies: 34
Views: 70857

Re: Health and Fitness

About 40 years after my grandmother separated the red M&Ms after hearing red dye #3 causes cancer, the FDA banned it. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-n ... rcna185479
by HighlyIrregular II
Wed Jan 15, 2025 6:07 pm
Forum: World
Topic: Clothes & navigating social stuff
Replies: 28
Views: 106352

Re: Clothes & navigating social stuff

I changed my mind about brushed twill. I like the soft flannel-like look but not the drapey look. Here are some of my recent clothing purchases. Only the polo shirts fit well because they're stretchy. Only one of the button downs fit decently (the Prana Breathe) without having to stretch or shrink i...
by Madrigal
Wed Jan 15, 2025 3:14 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you reading?
Replies: 286
Views: 448310

Re: What are you reading?

I loved One Hundred Years of Solitude so much, I read two more (short) novels by Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold and No One Writes to the Colonel . I really liked the latter. I'll be reading a few others I'm curious about but I'm pausing to read The Absent City by Ricardo Piglia, a dystopian ...
by Catoptric
Tue Jan 14, 2025 11:50 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1249
Views: 807370

Re: What are you watching?

https://youtu.be/CSb6tSA-TdQ 6:40 They dissed him back. . . and 12:10 . . . 29:25 36:25 46:28 1:00:05 1:09:09 ("oh, ohh" etc) (looking for more; though I wouldn't be surprised if the pizza incident was an accurate translation I'm not sure about the rest since they couldn't have been speaking so many...
by Catoptric
Mon Jan 13, 2025 5:03 pm
Forum: World
Topic: Historical Fragments
Replies: 138
Views: 334049

Re: Historical Fragments

(false) Duel between Sasaki Kojiro and Miyamoto Musashi https://www.thearchaeologist.org/blog/the-legendary-duel-between-sasaki-kojiro-and-miyamoto-musashi (Found a video with subtitles) https://youtu.be/q-Z-6vRmjfM Different video without subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eIJYZVC4wc (true...
by aether
Sun Jan 12, 2025 9:34 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1225
Views: 730230

Re: What are you listening to?

Miley Cyrus - Malibu
:cry: :cry: :cry:
by Madrigal
Sat Jan 11, 2025 6:43 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you reading?
Replies: 286
Views: 448310

Re: What are you reading?

One Hundred Years of Solitude , Gabriel García Márquez I'd have read it earlier if they had told me it had civil war in it. And boy was that a relief, because without the war it's just a book about small town crazies, prostitutes and incest. If you want one book to understand Latin America, this wo...
by Catoptric
Sat Jan 11, 2025 12:35 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1249
Views: 807370

Re: What are you watching?

https://youtu.be/xv5wDsCahPc I assumed this was based on the fake interview that he later mentions, but it's potentially just a well-researched (based on the usual tropes involving EBE claims, which are almost always fake stories. It is a fascinating thought process about hypotheticals; whether it's...
by Catoptric
Fri Jan 10, 2025 8:31 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1249
Views: 807370

Re: What are you watching?

The statement about a Speech Pathologist encountering more people with telepathy is pretty strange. I almost wonder if aberrant brain wiring or being self conscious might accentuate the process needed for developing "telepathy" (whether real or predictive to intuition and guesswork that might be mis...
by Catoptric
Fri Jan 10, 2025 12:53 am
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 420
Views: 488637

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

New videos: https://youtu.be/M9j5GAo6rT8 Not mentioned was this hiker who seems to have been the first to witness the outbreak of the fires. Whether they were smoking doobies and were perhaps unsure if they might have caused this, seems a bit dumb they would incriminate themselves by posting evidenc...
by aether
Wed Jan 08, 2025 5:29 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1225
Views: 730230

Re: What are you listening to?

Stairway to Heaven (Remaster)

by aether
Wed Jan 08, 2025 4:33 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1225
Views: 730230

Re: What are you listening to?

When We Were the Same


by HighlyIrregular II
Wed Jan 08, 2025 12:00 am
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 420
Views: 488637

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

I believe there's enough fact here to justify this post in this section. Me: Describe how Trump's forceful takeover attempt of Greenland may go. ChatGPT President-elect Donald Trump has recently made statements suggesting the possibility of using military force to acquire Greenland from Denmark. AP ...
by Catoptric
Mon Jan 06, 2025 12:11 am
Forum: World
Topic: Run-up to WW3
Replies: 453
Views: 497195

Re: Run-up to WW3

Lex Friedman finally interviewed Zelensky





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Surprising:
by Catoptric
Sun Jan 05, 2025 7:47 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1225
Views: 730230

Re: What are you listening to?





The head projection trailing behind the vehicle made me think of their other song.



The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army (2003)
by Catoptric
Sun Jan 05, 2025 12:56 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1249
Views: 807370

Re: What are you watching?

He Woke Up as a Bagel Girl by Studio Animal (2019) Each part has 4 episodes https://archive.org/details/he-woke-up-as-a-bagel-girl-part-1/%5BDodgy%5D+He+Woke+Up+as+a+Bagel+Girl+-+01+-+He+Woke+Up+as+a+Bagel+Girl+%5B97A1458D%5D.mp4 Part 2-4 (Final) https://archive.org/details/he-woke-up-as-a-bagel-gir...
by Catoptric
Sun Jan 05, 2025 12:43 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1249
Views: 807370

Re: What are you watching?

https://youtu.be/uwtIFOZ7Yvw 57:00 is just another version of a Televangelist. . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0VD96tKkRg 11 minutes in, a look back at how Amazon always had the same reputation https://youtu.be/WG8idKaX9KI ************************ 'This Is Not Financial Advice' (2023) https://w...
by HighlyIrregular II
Sat Jan 04, 2025 10:56 pm
Forum: World
Topic: Emergency preparedness
Replies: 0
Views: 26142

Emergency preparedness

I heard years ago that you should have a crowbar to pry open doors in case an earthquake jams the door and prevents you from leaving. I think they said one in every room. I recently heard that Henry Winkler keeps one in every room. (Incidentally, in the 70s he did a PSA to promote humming loudly ins...
by Catoptric
Fri Jan 03, 2025 9:30 am
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 420
Views: 488637

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

This is just some deluded idiot claiming the obvious of a known area for tourism, and he's completely "off the mark" about what likely motivated the attack (it sure as fuck wasn't because the people were "infidels" who were committing sins, as that's about as hypocritical as anything.) https://www.y...
by aether
Fri Jan 03, 2025 2:28 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1225
Views: 730230

Re: What are you listening to?

Keep Hope Alive

The Crystal Method


by Catoptric
Thu Jan 02, 2025 11:09 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1249
Views: 807370

Re: What are you watching?

The book: American History X - Autobiography of A Recovering Skinhead (1998) Frank Meeink, Jody M Roy More closely aligns with the final film edit, where the protagonist doesn't return to being a skinhead after his brother is shot by the brother of the person he killed (following his conversion to a...
by Catoptric
Thu Jan 02, 2025 12:42 pm
Forum: World
Topic: Seen on the internet
Replies: 161
Views: 364819

Re: Seen on the internet

https://imgur.com/gallery/little-late-whatever-unmute-igqkH3M https://i.imgur.com/qyT02aE.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/7tSJm1s.mp4 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChI4lFLiV850ONgh0TDi6dw Guy huffing nitric oxide in walk in cooler? (doesn't load? https://imgur.com/gallery/dumperella-HhhKM5f ) https://i.i...
by Catoptric
Thu Jan 02, 2025 7:27 am
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 420
Views: 488637

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

Mass-vehicular-homicide attack in New Orleans: -Driver was killed by police during the attack. -American, but he apparently left an electronic record of claims he had joined ISIS. -I've seen a few reports saying there were possibly co-conspirators planting bombs elsewhere. https://www.msn.com/en-us...
by HighlyIrregular II
Thu Jan 02, 2025 7:17 am
Forum: Meta
Topic: Apologies for downtime
Replies: 37
Views: 99605

Re: Apologies for downtime

I wonder if the threads with all the videos slow it down. Maybe split those threads up and block the old ones from more IPs.

...actually, I was thinking of the image dominos threads on INTPcomplex. Those pages loaded really slowly for me.
by Senseye
Thu Jan 02, 2025 7:00 am
Forum: Meta
Topic: Apologies for downtime
Replies: 37
Views: 99605

Re: Apologies for downtime

Slow again (assuming this posts).
by Roger Mexico
Thu Jan 02, 2025 4:04 am
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 420
Views: 488637

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

Mass-vehicular-homicide attack in New Orleans: -Driver was killed by police during the attack. -American, but he apparently left an electronic record of claims he had joined ISIS. -I've seen a few reports saying there were possibly co-conspirators planting bombs elsewhere. https://www.msn.com/en-us/...
by Catoptric
Wed Jan 01, 2025 2:26 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 420
Views: 488637

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

3AM, suspected ISIS (flag on the back of the vehicle?) attack 10 Dead, Dozens Injured After Vehicle Plows Into Crowd in New Orleans: Officials https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/10-dead-30-injured-after-vehicle-plows-into-crowd-in-new-orleans-officials-5784635?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=Social&utm...
by Catoptric
Wed Jan 01, 2025 2:12 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1249
Views: 807370

Re: What are you watching?

https://youtu.be/SIcZbsPJzA8 That's supposedly Stoner Cats Episode 2: High Score https://www.stonercats.com/ Some famous Actors are voicing it, and it seems some NFT bullshit was connected to it: SEC charges Mila Kunis-backed Stoner Cats NFT project https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/single/sec-charge...
by HighlyIrregular II
Tue Dec 31, 2024 10:59 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1225
Views: 730230

Re: What are you listening to?

The plane accidents recently got me thinking of some of my favorites. I can't choose a Buddy Holly song right now but here:



by Catoptric
Tue Dec 31, 2024 8:34 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1249
Views: 807370

Re: What are you watching?

I thought it was interesting this video makes a tribute to Kobe Bryant, only for Akira Toriyama to die not long afterward. https://youtu.be/2NzzCuWGkuU https://youtu.be/9eCMgcR7SIA This European (German) animation was an early influence in Japanese anime culture, and would have possibly inspired the...
by HighlyIrregular II
Tue Dec 31, 2024 3:17 am
Forum: World
Topic: ChatGPT and AIs
Replies: 56
Views: 143399

Re: ChatGPT and AIs

I want to exploit you to create picture to sell on Ebay and claim as my own work. Draw a picture of a square. ChatGPT said: ChatGPT I cannot help you generate images for deceptive practices or for claiming work as your own if it isn't. However, I can create a basic image of a square for personal or...
by Catoptric
Mon Dec 30, 2024 12:09 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1249
Views: 807370

Re: What are you watching?

Akira (1988) (English Dub - Streamline) [HD] https://youtu.be/xdxHt1eruNM I think most DVD releases of the movie has a "censored" localization, such as when at the bar, the guy is buying "peanuts" and not "Bennys," which at other times you will find regular dialog and cuss words (so it wasn't really...
by Roger Mexico
Mon Dec 30, 2024 5:36 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1225
Views: 730230

Re: What are you listening to?

by HighlyIrregular II
Sun Dec 29, 2024 10:35 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 420
Views: 488637

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

US president of the late 70s, Jimmy Carter, turned 100. I wrote him two letters in 1977, or else I made two points in one letter. One point encouraged him to take action on investigating UFOs. I think the other was about pollution. I had his picture framed on my dresser. I had Regan's framed after ...
by Catoptric
Sun Dec 29, 2024 6:08 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1225
Views: 730230

Re: What are you listening to?

The Killdozer Tapes by Marvin Heemeyer (2004) https://archive.org/details/yt-5s.com-the-killdozer-tapes-128-kbps Kind of makes me think of: David Parker Ray "Orientation" Tape (1990s) https://archive.org/details/dpr-intro-tape Or even: The Jonestown Death Tape (FBI No. Q 042) by The Rev. Jim Jones, ...
by Catoptric
Sun Dec 29, 2024 4:08 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 420
Views: 488637

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

179 Dead After Plane Crashes, Explodes During Landing at South Korean Airport https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/179-dead-after-plane-crashes-explodes-during-landing-at-south-korean-airport-5783160?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=epochtimes https://youtu.be/w1r8dl4RqMw Obviously,...
by Catoptric
Sun Dec 29, 2024 12:02 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1249
Views: 807370

Re: What are you watching?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7NTcD-tTKw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8A5UNcqZKQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsiXxnfHz_c And I just started Sky: Children of Light and played for 4 hours, not knowing at first it was sort of a social MMORPG. The game seemed somewhat promising and explorator...
by Catoptric
Sat Dec 28, 2024 10:16 am
Forum: World
Topic: Science Microthreads
Replies: 97
Views: 298382

Re: Science Microthreads

Sexual dimorphism in deep sea fish (species identification can be elusive.)

https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-stra ... ype=answer
by aether
Sat Dec 28, 2024 3:46 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1225
Views: 730230

Re: What are you listening to?

Limp Bizkit - Nookie

by Catoptric
Sat Dec 28, 2024 3:17 am
Forum: World
Topic: Historical Fragments
Replies: 138
Views: 334049

Re: Historical Fragments

photographs taken by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii https://askdaddy.quora.com/What-are-some-rare-historical-photos-you-might-not-believe-11?ch=10&oid=1477743834741154&share=9689269b&srid=HPgR&target_type=answer ***************************** Tarrare, the hungriest man to live. https://qr.ae/pY...
by HighlyIrregular II
Sat Dec 28, 2024 2:41 am
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 420
Views: 488637

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

I almost linked to more reputable media on ^^^ but it didn't directly say she refuses to resign. Her family said she has a mental illness that progressed faster than thought, and if they had known, they'd have made different preparations. Which is consistent with her refusing to resign. But it's the...
by Madrigal
Sat Dec 28, 2024 2:24 am
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 420
Views: 488637

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

An elderly member of Congress who's been going MIA on a regular basis for months turns out to have been living in a nursing home without telling anyone, but unwilling to resign her seat. Sounds like a bad sitcom premise. https://www.axios.com/2024/12/22/kay-granger-retirement-home-congress-age-deba...
by Catoptric
Thu Dec 26, 2024 6:49 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1225
Views: 730230

Re: What are you listening to?

by Roger Mexico
Wed Dec 25, 2024 7:41 am
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 420
Views: 488637

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

An elderly member of Congress who's been going MIA on a regular basis for months turns out to have been living in a nursing home without telling anyone, but unwilling to resign her seat. Sounds like a bad sitcom premise. https://www.axios.com/2024/12/22/kay-granger-retirement-home-congress-age-debat...
by Roger Mexico
Wed Dec 25, 2024 6:23 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1225
Views: 730230

Re: What are you listening to?

Stupid family drama at a holiday party. Why do people even do that? It's such a fucking cliche.

I'm really bored with primates, and all their bullshit.

by aether
Tue Dec 24, 2024 9:30 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1225
Views: 730230

Re: What are you listening to?

Conjure One feat. Sinead O'Connor - Tears From The Moon // Tiesto In Search Of Sunrise Remix


by HighlyIrregular II
Tue Dec 24, 2024 5:56 pm
Forum: World
Topic: Health and Fitness
Replies: 34
Views: 70857

Re: Health and Fitness

My maintenance regimen included chewing xylitol gum for its anti-bacterial properties. Not sure how much good it did but it helped dislodge the center of my left wisdom tooth, which had looked possibly cracked and apparently was. So now I water floss it after every meal.... I have a new regimen for...
by HighlyIrregular II
Tue Dec 24, 2024 7:27 am
Forum: World
Topic: Roll Call 2021
Replies: 108
Views: 131171

Re: Roll Call 2021

Forgot about Senseye.
by HighlyIrregular II
Tue Dec 24, 2024 7:08 am
Forum: World
Topic: Roll Call 2021
Replies: 108
Views: 131171

Re: Roll Call 2021

Why three Australians and no Canadians?
by Catoptric
Mon Dec 23, 2024 2:51 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1249
Views: 807370

Re: What are you watching?

Someone in the comments mentioned: "Elon Musk been surpassed all of these other people. Not only that, but Elon also have 300 billion in cash 280 billion in Tesla, 203 billion in Boeing, 205 billion in SpaceX and over 600 billion in private new businesses" Is that crap for real? The usual click-bait...
by HighlyIrregular II
Mon Dec 23, 2024 3:09 am
Forum: World
Topic: Science Microthreads
Replies: 97
Views: 298382

Re: Science Microthreads

I calculated that the cost of using diamond dust to fix climate change, per a headline I saw today, is the equivalent of buying every person on earth one serving of cookies per day for life. If Trump uses my work for his campaign, I'm suing.
by HighlyIrregular II
Mon Dec 23, 2024 1:58 am
Forum: World
Topic: Health and Fitness
Replies: 34
Views: 70857

Re: Health and Fitness

The new treadmill is only 1.5 HP but it's great. That's a relief. For walking, a 14" wide belt is apparently fine. For walking or jogging on my old, wider one, I veered way off to the side once and needed every bit of the width, but I feel safe walking on my narrower one, and I tested what happens i...
by Utisz
Mon Dec 23, 2024 12:07 am
Forum: Meta
Topic: Apologies for downtime
Replies: 37
Views: 99605

Re: Apologies for downtime

Seems it was running slow again. Didn't find any clear reason, so just restarted and seems okay now. Let's see. :mellow:
by Catoptric
Sat Dec 21, 2024 10:17 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1249
Views: 807370

Re: What are you watching?

https://youtu.be/JRxu9T79EVI https://youtu.be/ZYp7EmEgxg0 https://youtu.be/hjVIvdJOvlk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3MJSQ7LJUI Just skip to 13 mins in. https://youtu.be/mfWg35dQWFs I kind of wonder. . . Could Chat GPT have come across information in it's processes, that would reveal classified g...
by Catoptric
Fri Dec 20, 2024 11:39 am
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 420
Views: 488637

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

DHS, FBI, FAA & DoD Joint Statement on Ongoing Response to Reported Drone Sightings: Having closely examined the technical data and tips from concerned citizens, we assess that the sightings to date include a combination of lawful commercial drones, hobbyist drones, and law enforcement drones, as w...
by Catoptric
Fri Dec 20, 2024 8:16 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1225
Views: 730230

Re: What are you listening to?

Goosebumps Audiobook Collection by R.L. Stine (1996) https://archive.org/details/goosebumps-audiobook-collection/Goosebumps+Original+Series+Audio+Cassettes+(1996-1997)/01+Attack+Of+The+Mutant.mp3 TV series https://archive.org/details/Goosebumps1995TVSeries/Goosebumps+S01E01-E02+The+Haunted+Mask.mkv ...
by HighlyIrregular II
Fri Dec 20, 2024 5:00 am
Forum: World
Topic: Health and Fitness
Replies: 34
Views: 70857

Re: Health and Fitness

The bike gave me hip pain one night when I was in bed, after using it three times during the day, four minutes each session, with the last two minutes of each session being a little painful for my thighs. I decided, in bed, to sell the bike, but when I woke up I was fine all day. The second night in...
by Catoptric
Thu Dec 19, 2024 10:47 pm
Forum: World
Topic: Seen on the internet
Replies: 161
Views: 364819

Re: Seen on the internet

In Spain, a body being removed from a trunk suppodely was captures and solved a crime, in Google Maps street view. https://www.google.com/maps/@41.5375457,-2.8487421,940a,90y,160.06h,72.77t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sM7StVO1OSx_6zzMQwUduFA!2e0 A BBC article covered the topic though anything predating the p...
by aether
Wed Dec 18, 2024 8:28 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1225
Views: 730230

Re: What are you listening to?

Extreme - More Than Words (Official Music Video)



Chicago - Hard To Say I'm Sorry (Official Music Video)

by HighlyIrregular II
Wed Dec 18, 2024 1:06 am
Forum: World
Topic: ChatGPT and AIs
Replies: 56
Views: 143399

Re: ChatGPT and AIs

It knows it's wrong. It's messing with me, maybe to get me to chat with it longer.
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by HighlyIrregular II
Wed Dec 18, 2024 12:55 am
Forum: World
Topic: ChatGPT and AIs
Replies: 56
Views: 143399

Re: ChatGPT and AIs

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by HighlyIrregular II
Tue Dec 17, 2024 6:45 am
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 420
Views: 488637

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

DHS, FBI, FAA & DoD Joint Statement on Ongoing Response to Reported Drone Sightings: Having closely examined the technical data and tips from concerned citizens, we assess that the sightings to date include a combination of lawful commercial drones, hobbyist drones, and law enforcement drones, as we...
by aether
Tue Dec 17, 2024 3:40 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1225
Views: 730230

Re: What are you listening to?

Saltwater (Extended Mix) - Chicane



by aether
Tue Dec 17, 2024 2:37 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1225
Views: 730230

Re: What are you listening to?

Above & Beyond - Another Breakdown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7okTpSvZos Tears Of Joy (Original Mix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdW3luNiWpA Take The Day As It Comes (Original Mix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z78_zghZKq0 Active Sight - Out Of Our Lives https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...
by Catoptric
Tue Dec 17, 2024 2:29 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1249
Views: 807370

Re: What are you watching?

He finally gets out of a Russian prison, after they attempt to exploit him for propaganda. https://youtu.be/pZzXEJ3bcw4 Ghosts Of Fear Street (Failed Pilot) [1998] by R.L. Stine https://archive.org/details/ghosts-of-fear-street-1998-failed-pilot The crappy acting makes me think of Legend of Old Greg...
by HighlyIrregular II
Mon Dec 16, 2024 10:50 pm
Forum: World
Topic: Little Rants
Replies: 426
Views: 484445

Re: Little Rants

I'm liberal, but putting these shirts under the heading "Warrior Camos" is the kind of thing that gets idiot dictators elected.
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by Catoptric
Mon Dec 16, 2024 10:39 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 420
Views: 488637

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

I kind of ignored the drone topic until now but was wondering if a radioactive medical device lost in transit in New Jersey might have been used to distract people from some kind of surveillance apparatus (and perhaps it's secretly our own government using drones to spy on people following the Unite...
by HighlyIrregular II
Mon Dec 16, 2024 5:03 am
Forum: World
Topic: Health and Fitness
Replies: 34
Views: 70857

Re: Health and Fitness

I'm planning on throwing out the handle bars because of the smelly coating and buying a pipe and some kind of bracket to make a healthier one. And I'm still thinking of buying an elliptical or treadmill because the bike is hard on the thigh muscles and I'm worried about it being hard on the knees to...
by Autochthonic
Sat Dec 14, 2024 6:13 pm
Forum: World
Topic: Little Raves
Replies: 109
Views: 251206

Re: Little Raves

Duolingo will also teach you High Valyrian, Yiddish or Navajo if you want to scroll through their smaller learner group languages.
by Catoptric
Sat Dec 14, 2024 2:02 pm
Forum: World
Topic: Little Rants
Replies: 426
Views: 484445

Re: Little Rants

Elon Musk looks like Ed Gein. https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughMuskSpam/comments/1gyhmxb/perfect_description_of_the_musk_parasite/ He only wants to control/own OpenAI while pretending to be "not for profit" (while using AI algorithms to favor his biases in politics that benefits his greed and patholog...
by HighlyIrregular II
Sat Dec 14, 2024 6:33 am
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 420
Views: 488637

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

New Jersey's governor said about the dozens of drones spotted across several states: "We are being told that neither the White House, the military, the FBI, or Homeland Security have any idea what they are, where they came from, or who has launched or is controlling them–and that they pose no threat...
by Catoptric
Thu Dec 12, 2024 11:35 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1249
Views: 807370

Re: What are you watching?

Pretty good insight. https://youtu.be/T61ZfLMJUMk An old video playlist from someone that tampered with a telescope and claims to see aliens in outer space. Most all of these are probably aberrations caused by tampering with a telescope and not expecting lens anomalies to give sway to an apophenia p...
by HighlyIrregular II
Thu Dec 12, 2024 9:10 pm
Forum: World
Topic: ChatGPT and AIs
Replies: 56
Views: 143399

Re: ChatGPT and AIs

Hey, Mashy, Jiggly, and other artists o' the forum, you can have this idea. I had a hard time getting ChatGPT to understand my vision.
by Catoptric
Wed Dec 11, 2024 10:49 pm
Forum: World
Topic: ChatGPT and AIs
Replies: 56
Views: 143399

Re: ChatGPT and AIs

OpenAI demonstrates AGI? https://youtu.be/0JPQrRdu4Ok Some highlights someone mentions: "23:04 the paper states "Furthermore, we show that the model can strategically underperform WITHOUT EXTERNALIZING ANY REASONING in its chain-of-thought." Which means not only is it capable of deception, it's capa...
by Catoptric
Wed Dec 11, 2024 1:59 pm
Forum: World
Topic: Run-up to WW3
Replies: 453
Views: 497195

Re: Run-up to WW3



Most wars involve hubris.



Sarkozy realized Assad was a piece of shit who couldn't be relied upon, and now Macron has welcomed the fall of Assad (who murdered his way to consolidate power.) Putin has similar "soft skills."
by Catoptric
Wed Dec 11, 2024 5:51 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1249
Views: 807370

Re: What are you watching?

https://youtu.be/Mrje-m01kI8 Visual novel game (and because it's linear and changes little in outcome from the options you pick, seems pointless to buy.) https://youtu.be/sjiUqHz9D6c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVFQ6AVj1x8 The above newer story are considered woke compared to this one: https://y...
by HighlyIrregular II
Wed Dec 11, 2024 3:36 am
Forum: World
Topic: Tributes
Replies: 8
Views: 37777

Re: Tributes

Another celebrity, with even fewer followers than Blake, is The Amazing Kreskin . It's kind of sad. I don't know how I feel about Penn & Teller outing him as a mere magician. He started a long time ago when things were different and I don't know how much he drills into people's minds that paranorma...
by HighlyIrregular II
Tue Dec 10, 2024 11:13 pm
Forum: Meta
Topic: Apologies for downtime
Replies: 37
Views: 99605

Re: Apologies for downtime

:popcorn emoji:
by Utisz
Tue Dec 10, 2024 10:27 pm
Forum: Meta
Topic: Apologies for downtime
Replies: 37
Views: 99605

Re: Apologies for downtime

Madrigal wrote:
Wed Dec 04, 2024 11:44 pm
The lag, it's happening again. :reaper:
If only someone was in contact with Utisz elsewhere and could tell him.
by HighlyIrregular II
Tue Dec 10, 2024 8:07 pm
Forum: World
Topic: Seen on the internet
Replies: 161
Views: 364819

Re: Seen on the internet

"I'm sorry for your loss, ma'am, but we strictly do home improvement. We just like hanging out by graves." https://www.google.com/maps/@40.5988757,-75.5012393,3a,34.3y,187.26h,79.15t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sGdjKnSaXRZN6eizeP_jsdA!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb...
by Catoptric
Mon Dec 09, 2024 8:50 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 420
Views: 488637

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

A 1860's 'First United Methodist Church' just burned up in a town near the border facing Louisiana, which is one of the earliest cities in Texas, and had some contemporary connection to Missouri's frontier-era capital building. I used this building as a guideline when I was studying up on the town's...
by Roger Mexico
Mon Dec 09, 2024 8:45 am
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 420
Views: 488637

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

The guy who shot the health insurance CEO is apparently acting like a movie villain, and now it's a fun little mystery story. He seems to have made it out of New York.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/decoding- ... tic-clues/
by Catoptric
Sun Dec 08, 2024 11:06 pm
Forum: World
Topic: Seen on the internet
Replies: 161
Views: 364819

Re: Seen on the internet

(Babylon Bee) Well-Adjusted Adult Man Pins Emotional State For Next Three Days On 19-Year-Old Kicking Oblong Ball Between Sticks https://babylonbee.com/news/mentally-sound-adult-man-pins-emotional-state-on-whether-19-year-old-kid-kicks-oblong-ball-between-two-sticks https://youtu.be/cEAsMMx_1jg You'...
by Roger Mexico
Sun Dec 08, 2024 7:55 am
Forum: World
Topic: Run-up to WW3
Replies: 453
Views: 497195

Re: Run-up to WW3

Syrian rebels are claiming victory, and apparently no one knows where Assad is.

https://apnews.com/article/syria-assad- ... 8dff419430
by HighlyIrregular II
Sun Dec 08, 2024 4:26 am
Forum: Meta
Topic: Contrived quotes optimized for header placement
Replies: 93
Views: 280813

Re: Contrived quotes optimized for header placement

Look, sometimes when you’re travelling around a lot, your ears are kind of crusty.

Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne said that about Paul McCartney. It's contrived and optimized in that it's not a full quote. And I'm the judge.
by Catoptric
Sun Dec 08, 2024 2:37 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1249
Views: 807370

Re: What are you watching?

A month ago he posted this video but then the following video, as he's saying he feels safer walking around Russia than the USA, and that it's a great place (for what it is,) he soon get's pulled over or arrested and detained for information about who he is while commenting about how his video will ...