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- Wed Jan 22, 2025 5:41 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
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Re: What's going on in your city/country/region?
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....
- Wed Jan 22, 2025 4:03 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
- Replies: 420
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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. ...
- Wed Jan 22, 2025 1:08 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: What are you watching?
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- 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...
- Mon Jan 20, 2025 7:50 pm
- Forum: World
- Topic: What are you watching?
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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...
- Sat Jan 18, 2025 11:07 pm
- Forum: World
- Topic: What are you watching?
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- 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...
- Sat Jan 18, 2025 8:52 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
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Re: What's going on in your city/country/region?
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...
- Sat Jan 18, 2025 6:38 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: What are you watching?
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- 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...
- 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...
- Fri Jan 17, 2025 11:27 pm
- Forum: World
- Topic: What are you listening to?
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- Views: 730230
Re: What are you listening to?
Paul Kalkbrenner @ PM Open Air Buenos Aires
- Fri Jan 17, 2025 12:45 pm
- Forum: World
- Topic: What are you watching?
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- 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...
- Fri Jan 17, 2025 12:13 pm
- Forum: World
- Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
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Re: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Trump 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...
- Fri Jan 17, 2025 2:16 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: The food and drink thread
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- 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...
- Thu Jan 16, 2025 5:04 pm
- Forum: World
- Topic: What are you listening to?
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- Views: 730230
- 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
- Wed Jan 15, 2025 6:07 pm
- Forum: World
- Topic: Clothes & navigating social stuff
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- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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...
- Sun Jan 12, 2025 9:34 pm
- Forum: World
- Topic: What are you listening to?
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Re: What are you listening to?
Miley Cyrus - Malibu



- 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...
- Sat Jan 11, 2025 12:35 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: What are you watching?
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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...
- Fri Jan 10, 2025 8:31 pm
- Forum: World
- Topic: What are you watching?
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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...
- Fri Jan 10, 2025 12:53 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
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Re: What's going on in your city/country/region?
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...
- Wed Jan 08, 2025 5:29 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: What are you listening to?
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Re: What are you listening to?
Stairway to Heaven (Remaster)
- Wed Jan 08, 2025 4:33 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: What are you listening to?
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When We Were the Same
- Wed Jan 08, 2025 12:00 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
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Re: What's going on in your city/country/region?
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 ...
- Mon Jan 06, 2025 12:11 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: Run-up to WW3
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- Views: 497195
Re: Run-up to WW3
Lex Friedman finally interviewed Zelensky
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- Sun Jan 05, 2025 7:47 pm
- Forum: World
- Topic: What are you listening to?
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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)
- Sun Jan 05, 2025 12:56 pm
- Forum: World
- Topic: What are you watching?
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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...
- Sun Jan 05, 2025 12:43 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: What are you watching?
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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...
- Sat Jan 04, 2025 10:56 pm
- Forum: World
- Topic: Emergency preparedness
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- 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...
- Fri Jan 03, 2025 9:30 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
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Re: What's going on in your city/country/region?
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...
- Fri Jan 03, 2025 2:28 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: What are you listening to?
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Re: What are you listening to?
Keep Hope Alive
The Crystal Method
The Crystal Method
- Thu Jan 02, 2025 11:09 pm
- Forum: World
- Topic: What are you watching?
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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...
- Thu Jan 02, 2025 12:42 pm
- Forum: World
- Topic: Seen on the internet
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- 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...
- 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...
- Thu Jan 02, 2025 7:17 am
- Forum: Meta
- Topic: Apologies for downtime
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- 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.
...actually, I was thinking of the image dominos threads on INTPcomplex. Those pages loaded really slowly for me.
- Thu Jan 02, 2025 7:00 am
- Forum: Meta
- Topic: Apologies for downtime
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- Views: 99605
Re: Apologies for downtime
Slow again (assuming this posts).
- Thu Jan 02, 2025 4:04 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
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- 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/...
- Wed Jan 01, 2025 2:26 pm
- Forum: World
- Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
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Re: What's going on in your city/country/region?
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...
- Wed Jan 01, 2025 2:12 pm
- Forum: World
- Topic: What are you watching?
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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...
- Tue Dec 31, 2024 10:59 pm
- Forum: World
- Topic: What are you listening to?
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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:
- Tue Dec 31, 2024 8:34 pm
- Forum: World
- Topic: What are you watching?
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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...
- 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...
- Mon Dec 30, 2024 12:09 pm
- Forum: World
- Topic: What are you watching?
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- 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...
- Mon Dec 30, 2024 5:36 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: What are you listening to?
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- Sun Dec 29, 2024 10:35 pm
- Forum: World
- Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
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Re: What's going on in your city/country/region?
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 ...
- Sun Dec 29, 2024 6:08 pm
- Forum: World
- Topic: What are you listening to?
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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, ...
- Sun Dec 29, 2024 4:08 pm
- Forum: World
- Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
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Re: What's going on in your city/country/region?
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,...
- Sun Dec 29, 2024 12:02 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: What are you watching?
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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...
- Sat Dec 28, 2024 9:33 pm
- Forum: World
- Topic: What are you reading?
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- Sat Dec 28, 2024 10:16 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: Science Microthreads
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- 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
https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-stra ... ype=answer
- Sat Dec 28, 2024 3:46 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: What are you listening to?
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Re: What are you listening to?
Limp Bizkit - Nookie
- 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...
- Sat Dec 28, 2024 2:41 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
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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...
- Sat Dec 28, 2024 2:24 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
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Re: What's going on in your city/country/region?
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...
- Thu Dec 26, 2024 6:49 pm
- Forum: World
- Topic: What are you listening to?
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- Wed Dec 25, 2024 7:41 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
- Replies: 420
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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...
- Wed Dec 25, 2024 6:23 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: What are you listening to?
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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.
I'm really bored with primates, and all their bullshit.
- Tue Dec 24, 2024 9:30 pm
- Forum: World
- Topic: What are you listening to?
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Re: What are you listening to?
Conjure One feat. Sinead O'Connor - Tears From The Moon // Tiesto In Search Of Sunrise Remix
- 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...
- Tue Dec 24, 2024 7:27 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: Roll Call 2021
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- Views: 131171
Re: Roll Call 2021
Forgot about Senseye.
- Tue Dec 24, 2024 7:08 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: Roll Call 2021
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Re: Roll Call 2021
Why three Australians and no Canadians?
- Mon Dec 23, 2024 2:51 pm
- Forum: World
- Topic: What are you watching?
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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...
- Mon Dec 23, 2024 3:09 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: Science Microthreads
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- 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.
- Mon Dec 23, 2024 1:58 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: Health and Fitness
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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...
- Mon Dec 23, 2024 12:07 am
- Forum: Meta
- Topic: Apologies for downtime
- Replies: 37
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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. 

- 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...
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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)
Chicago - Hard To Say I'm Sorry (Official Music Video)
- 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.
- Wed Dec 18, 2024 12:55 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: ChatGPT and AIs
- Replies: 56
- Views: 143399
- 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...
- 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
- 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=...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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...
- 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."
- 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...
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...
- Tue Dec 10, 2024 11:13 pm
- Forum: Meta
- Topic: Apologies for downtime
- Replies: 37
- Views: 99605
Re: Apologies for downtime
:popcorn emoji:
- Tue Dec 10, 2024 10:27 pm
- Forum: Meta
- Topic: Apologies for downtime
- Replies: 37
- Views: 99605
- 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...
- 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...
- 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/
https://www.thedailybeast.com/decoding- ... tic-clues/
- 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'...
- 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
https://apnews.com/article/syria-assad- ... 8dff419430
- 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.
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.
- 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 ...