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- OBBTKN3
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At my wife's recommendation, I was thinking of changing my work hours from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Bugger, I have clients who also work past 3 p.m.
Let's see what I can come up with to explain this to her without ruining our relationship. lol
- You can still do it. Everyone has differnt work hours. They'll get over it.HAYZ1LLLA
- And of course... right now it's 22°C, a beautiful and sunny autumn day, superb!OBBTKN
- I get it Hayzilla, but in autumn I need my 10 or 11 hours of work, along with spring, it's crazy busy for me :(OBBTKN
- I work 7:30am - 4pm, anyone who emails me after 4 gets a reply the next day. We also schedule work out weeks in advance so there is less pressure. Short lunchesslappy
- BusterBoy6
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Had an interesting Facebook marketplace experience over the course of the past week. We were selling a small boat we've had for about 15 years...have hardly used for about 5...so time to get rid of it. We originally paid about $900 for it...it's banged up a bit and I needed the storage space so listed it for $50.
A guy contacted my wife and asked if we'd take $30. We told him to GTFO. I said $50, take it or leave it...he agreed.
The wife asks for payment before pickup...he goes silent. Then asks if he can pickup at midday on Sunday...again I say GTFO - come at 9am or after 7pm as it was a nice day and I didn't want to be stuck at home. Again we ask for payment.
The guy then contacts my wife and says can he pick up at 11am - she says no problem, we'll leave the boat in our front yard...gives him our address and as he hasn't paid yet, to leave the cash UNDER THE FRONT DOOR!!
So out we go...I have no idea about this new plan, and of course when we get home, the boat is gone and no cash. I say to the wife 'WTF is going on'? She tells me her plan and I almost fall over...now my wife is lovely, but a bit too trusting at times.
Anyway, at this stage my eyes are turning red with rage...I find the guy's profile - see that he's a 'digital creator' in the local Indian community here...so I post a message on one of his IG posts 'how's the canoe going mate?'.
I then send him a filthy facebook messenger note...warning him if he doesn't pay for the canoe in the next 30 minutes, I'll be outing him on all his platforms as a thief...as we had the entire thing on CCTV with a clear view of his face.
The money landed in my wife's account about 5 minutes later.
- Well done! Tremble, oh boat robbers! ;)
And don't worry, your wife is a good person, take care of her.OBBTKN - :)BusterBoy
- Just to clarify...it wasn't the money that got me angry...just the fact this turd came onto our property and brazenly stole something was what got my goat.BusterBoy
- Wait, he stole your goat too?? What an a-hole!Akagiyama
- I once sold a shitty set of BMX handlebars for £5 on FB Marketplace. Local cash handover only. Guy turns up and immediately says he only has £3. I'm like FFS...Horp
- And then "yeah, whatever. £3" He then hands me a £5 note and wants change. I told him I didn't have change. He said "well okay what else can you add?"Horp
- I say "nothing, the bars cost £5" and he says "but I got you down to £3. How about throwing in that frame too?" I said "how about you pay the £5?" And he saidHorp
- "I can't. I need the bus fare"
What the fuck is up with basic mental processing these days?Horp
- Well done! Tremble, oh boat robbers! ;)
- mort_13
- +1
There were so many shows about it too.monospaced - That shit got to me as a kid. And spontaneous combustion. I thought how the fuck?Ianbolton
- Glitches in the matrixmort_
- and quicksandfooler
- Only losing to this.
http://i.ebayimg.com…moogchild - PiranhasYakuZoku
- And killer beesAkagiyama
- also lochness monster, yeti, champie, bigfoot. still out there!Squiddy
- i was mesmerized by it. read and watched anything about it.renderedred
- I was convinced that quicksand was gonna be a fairly regular obstacleGnash
- +1
- PhanLo13
- Nairn6
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I just spent ten minutes getting seriously pissed off that I couldn't do a monthly payment via a website, effing and blinding after checking and re-checking and refreshing and trying in new private tabs, different browser and every fucking thing I could think to try it to get it to reset the session or whatever other piece of fuck it might be that was making it not wor... oh. I'm behind a VPN, aren't I?
I turn off VPN and it works straight away.
Right. Nngh.
I need to get split-tunneling set up, because this shit's beginning to be a real pain in the arse.
Well done, UK.
- It might've helped if the site, which is a bit flaky sometimes, provided a useful security response other than "something's wrong".Nairn
- #brexitpalimpsest
- still yet to figure it out. the thought of maintaining a whitelist across browsers and 3 computers enough to keep me toggling for now.kingsteven
- Ouch! Remember. There's nothing in this world that politicians can't screw up!OBBTKN
- Yep. When I go to listen to anything on the BBC Radio and forget I've the VPN on I have to spend about ten minutes refreshing the site to let me back in.webazoot
- I installed 1VPN into chrome as a free extension. Only use it for QBN (imgur) and it's super easy.Ianbolton
- mort_7
- https://media1.tenor…YakuZoku
- Lolz: "Mother, blogger".ideaist
- BlowerOBBTKN
- slappy14
Proud dads...
Karting update, things escalated, we now have a kart each so we can race each other.
Made a small edit of the lads POV below.
?share=copy- So dope!YakuZoku
- +1utopian
- Fantastic, go on! <3OBBTKN
- awesome dad u are! does he has issues grabbing the wheel properly? it seems like gloves are giving him some hard time, maybe i'm wrong just noted it in the vidsted
- They are on the small side but he had just put them on I think. I also think we need to move the wheel forward as he is gripping the wheel to high to get comfyslappy
- PhanLo9
- And a new memecoin probablyYakuZoku
- And we mock boomers on FB.palimpsest
- the qbn demonsHayoth
- the "Yes, I'm on it too!" at the end... she straight gunning for that Elon baby paycheck.jonny_quest_lives
- https://c.tenor.com/…jonny_quest_lives
- Captain Kirk's body is still warm, a week later Erika has already invested, built and launched her app and looking to get some bone. – Godspeed and Grift On.utopian
- LOL
https://www.snopes.c…PhanLo - I can never tell what is real now, there is no reality any more.PhanLo
- why are the right so small minded they still talk about demons like they’re dark ages children?monospaced
- ^ fo realYakuZoku
- you go grrrrl!renderedred
- Too easy a fake y'all.garbage
- And we mock boomers on FB.palimpsest
- rightoids talk about demons with the same kid logic sloppy libs have about electoral politics.face_melter
- _niko1
Artificial Intelligence
as slopish as this is it's still 1000x better than anything Hollywood can do and I'd watch this as long as there was some human element to it - voice actors, script etc.
- I mean full length films must be a year or two away if that._niko
- no they are not. this is still crap, just got better hiding it.sted
- i did this with gemini pro with coworkers faces... it's fun at first then you're like meh gemini pro locks u at like 3 outputs per dayjonny_quest_lives
- https://i.imgur.com/…jonny_quest_lives
- AI will continue to be fantastic until we realise how far we've let our standards slipMrT
- I challenge anyone to show me CGI better than AI when it comes to natural human movement. CGI is still in uncanny valley. it might add an extra arm_niko
- but it still looks more real than CG_niko
- AI video literally is CGI though isn't it? This is sort of my point; AI is OK against an already-poor benchmark.MrT
- kaiyohtee4
- I have many mosh pit stories and a lot of my best ones are from NIN shows, Fuck I miss these shows!YakuZoku
- I saw them twice. Once, they opened for Jane's Addiction, or the other way around. Both were as great as you would have hoped.CyBrainX
- fuck you! ;(pango
- Yeeah! Saw them this year, was so incredible!!!Projectile
- fuck you too!
;(pango - Saw the years ago in Los Angeles, opened up for David Bowie. Amazing show.Akagiyama
- And you too!pango
- and you and you and you lol. i really liked the dual-stage this time around. it made for a unique experience for me.kaiyohtee
- The 1994 with Bowie is one of the things I most wish I didn't miss out on.CyBrainX
- neverscared7
Headline of the day
We’re Being Ruled Over by the World’s Biggest Losers
- https://www.thenatio…neverscared
- because of the shit populace thoughsrhadden
- What’s new?monospaced
- losers and wierdos, running all on feelings, no factsinteliboy
- And they're all kid fuckersYakuZoku
- also ...jaden smith is CD of menswear at LouboutinSquiddy
- Nairn5
Conspiracy of the day
This is pretty wild. S Korea's overly-centralised, unbacked up, gov digital infrastructure's apparently been burned to the ground at a very convenient time..
- utopian4
capitalism
Trump considers massive bailout of at least $10 billion for American farmers hurt by his failed trade war.
- WINNING!NBQ00
- L O LPhanLo
- Socialistmonospaced
- Good for the deficit!bainbridge
- Lose money, print money, be a saviorbainbridge
- monospaced5
Bitcoin
A couple years ago I randomly bought a tiny bit of bitcoin on Venmo using cash that I was too lazy to transfer out, and honestly, totally forgot about it. To my surprise the investment has nearly tripled.
- Quintupled I mean.monospaced
- now u can buy more palantir stock...brilliant.neverscared
- what are you trying to say about me exactlymonospaced
- exactly that.... which is written above...neverscared
- so absolutely nothing, got it. Why bother?monospaced
- I can also buy more of anything. Why bring up palantir?monospaced
- why not? anything or something specific like palantir .... u were informing us once u made some good cash with palantir......no need to get upset.neverscared
- Palantir is a whipping 0.5% of my investments. Who gives a shit? Why bring it up? It’s absolutely irrelevant unless you’re trying to critique memonospaced
- Please don’t tell me you’re one of “those people” who equate stock ownership with support of a company. Eye roll.monospaced
- ok ... no problem u dont need to make it 0.6%.... everybody knows buying stock of a company means kicking the company in the nuts ... its not a capital infusionneverscared
- to expand operations, developing new products, or paying off debt.neverscared
- totaly fugazineverscared
- So you finally reveal that you actually do want to say something and it’s just to talk shit and reveal your petty ignorance. Well done.monospaced
- if you would have mentioned the other 99.5% of compannies which stock u enganged with somewhere where i could have seen it ... i probably would have mentionedneverscared
- them too.. have u bragged as hardly about any stock as the palantir one around here...if u show me that..neverscared
- Grow up. Palantir is the only one that returned 2000% in a short time. It’s a bit noteworthy.monospaced
- so u r buying ?neverscared
- what u mean by grow up? i should invest into palantir stock ?neverscared
- are you asking me for investing advice?monospaced
- By grow up I mean maybe talk about this like an adult and not like a redditor.monospaced
- I remember arguing with you about btc... how times have changed. only if all of us qbn elite bought when this or ethereum thread first started....inteliboy
- eth was something like $4 when qbn started chattering about it :/inteliboy
- adults invest into palantir thats your advice how i read your comments ...neverscared
- and if u could be so kind answer the question if u r buying..because thats what adults do ... they answer the questions.neverscared
- and not ignore them like the worst redditiors.neverscared
- i dont need advise.. .since you are investing into palantir its would be shizo of you not to advise investing into palantir.neverscared
- but since u must have a dedicated and mercantil opinion how adults think about investing into karps company... i would be delighted to hear a few points..neverscared
- it's funny - the first time I head about BTC was through the people in here...maikel
- I didn’t sell the bitcoin. I get the impression you know little or nothing about investing and are here just to talk shit.monospaced
- And I already answered that palantir is only like 0.18% of my portfolio now, and when I bought it it was .001%. It was a ridiculously good buy, OBVIOUSLY.monospaced
- I also wonder if you have any clue considering palantir is an all time high and that’s usually not a good time to buy.monospaced
- ok, thanks lots of projections what i know and dont ...maybe u can cut that out next time to keep it more adult.neverscared
- palantir über alles!neverscared
- as long as i know enough about the design profession not the get laid off like u.. i couldnt care less about the finance investment anyhow.neverscared
- LOL!!!
You guys are doing great without me afterallgrafician
- NBQ00-3
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What is the universe and why does it exist?
- Why is a silly question.monospaced
- My teacher once said: there are no silly questions, only silly answers.NBQ00
- only assholes without answers.sted
- @monospaced this is what u would you say to your kid if he asks this q?sted
- why is the universe?pango
- You really don't know what the universe is?palimpsest
- Our are you not capable of comprehending the concept of universe?palimpsest
- pali, enlighten me please. What exactly is the universe and why does it exist?NBQ00
- The universe is the space we occupy, make that of it what you will. It's only limited by your understanding.palimpsest
- As per Wikipedia: "The universe is all of space and time and their contents."palimpsest
- Is you don't know what the universe is your shouldn't be asking why it is.palimpsest
- Did you really think I was looking for a standard basic answer like "space and time and their contents"?NBQ00
- Once you understand it, in your own way, why becomes self-evident or unnecessary.palimpsest
- And I agree, this is a silly question.palimpsest
- "looking for a standard basic answer"
You might think you're being deep, but you're just being stupid.palimpsest - you guys must be shitty parents.sted
- The worst. How many do you have?palimpsest
- This is why this even more infuriating because both my 8 & 15 year old have a solid knowledge of the universe and I can have relevant discussions with them of.palimpsest
- My children are smart enough to not dismiss my answer to their question but build upon it.palimpsest
- ok dadNBQ00
- No sweat, buddy.palimpsest
- But good ahead, learn me somin'!
I'm giddy.palimpsest - Considering there is no actual answer to “why” it exists, I would say that the why is what we make of it personally. Any other answer cannot be genuine.monospaced
- I wouldn’t resort to myth or supernatural beings to answer the “why question. That would be bad parenting in my opinion.monospaced
- Why would one even attempt to understand why something is if they can't even understand what it is?palimpsest
- And when you provide the what they're like : "that's too standard".
So you tell me, buddy.palimpsest - the universe is the place that doesn't abide foreskinsGnash
- You’re talking about the Lacanian universe, the symbolic order, the grid that decides what can appear and what gets cut off.palimpsest
- You’re describing the map, I’m describing the terrain.palimpsest
- Both are models trying to describe what can’t be stepped outside of, so both are flawed.palimpsest
- But that’s the interesting part — not the “what” or the “why,” just how we keep mistaking one level for the other.palimpsest
- 3.566×1080 m
1.5×1053 kg
13.787±0.020 billion years[neverscared - the universe is a canvas for consciousness to evolveneverscared
- u can think thats why its there.neverscared
- What about rocks?palimpsest
- the universe is parametricised thats where u have your can find your what answers .. starting from the max planck constant.neverscared
- where u can find your -what answers-neverscared
- Teleology is narrative error.palimpsest
- It's still a stupid question.palimpsest
- Consciousness is a property of the universe, sure. But so is defecation.
It’s a deep property, not an inherent one.palimpsest - rocks have parameters too.... if u see the universe nonlnear its inherent..neverscared
- My rocks question was about the "canvas for consciouness"palimpsest
- But, is your “canvas” a separate layer, or part of the same fabric or more as a metaphor for the whole thing, consciousness included?palimpsest
- I’m trying to see if you see it as two levels or one continuous field.palimpsest
- We can probably agree that consciousness isn’t outside the system. The question is whether it’s descriptive or generativepalimpsest
- I’m fine with consciousness as an emergent property, not a goal. We can study its patterns without calling them intentions.palimpsest
- its a n-dimensions space in theory and in physics as far dimensions as the metric goesneverscared
- It's still a stupid question.palimpsest
- OK,chief. It’s n-dimensional, metric, curved, whatever the model needs.
That doesn’t make it purposeful, just complex. Adding dimensions doesn’t add intent.palimpsest - It's a nice metric flex, but we’re not lost in spacetime here.palimpsest
- sorry .. iam argumenting to absolute here...dont take i too serious iam only freejazzing f.. the stone thing... its maybe entangled in entropy and thermodynamicneverscared
- s... i mean for sure entangled there with the universe... thats to puny for consc. but effective still..neverscared
- isnt complexity and purpose in a way interconncected .. in biology from uni-to multi cell to a brain blasting in high neuron activity numbers...neverscared
- i guess when they finished studying the neutrino we will finaly know and the stoopid question is answered.... or not.. probbaly not...neverscared
- Let’s be clear:
I’m saying the universe is everything that exists. Consciousness arises inside. Remarkable yes, but not its purpose.palimpsest - You’ve called it a “canvas for consciousness,” then said rocks have parameters, then invoked n-dimensional metrics.palimpsest
- That isn’t an argument, it’s a collage. Adding physics buzzwords doesn’t turn teleology into science.palimpsest
- If you think consciousness is inherent, just say it. But don’t pretend “non-linear” or “n-dimensional” makes it so.palimpsest
- It's still a stupid question.palimpsest
- How matter gives rise to consciousness is still not understood. That’s an interesting question.mort_
- There are those that theorise that consciousness is fundamental and not an emergent aspect of matter.mort_
- i said in theory its n dimensions.... i think its nonlinear and not pretend otherwise einsteins general relativity makes no sense if not... therefore evidentlyneverscared
- It's not about emergence (from the matter) but embeddedness.
Consciousness doesn’t rise from matter; it rises from our being within matter...palimpsest - ...from the need to make sense of what we are and what surrounds us.palimpsest
- inherent. ok iam fine with collage.. ... a collage is as in an assemblage of arguments.neverscared
- A non-mystical Spinozian monism.palimpsest
- @neverscared
OK, chief.palimpsest - my pleasure.neverscared
- don't throwin' shade at SpinozaGnash
- spinoza is all nice and good. but considering that he didnt even know that anti-matter exists makes this quote where it belongs in the 17th century...neverscared
- @Gnash
with the real issues!palimpsest - einstein believed in spinnie's godGnash
- https://i.haasie.com…palimpsest
- " So now you don’t know what the hell to do, do ya?"
Normpalimpsest - And what have we learned lads and gents?
That unless you have a pea for a brain, definining and understanding the universe is not that hard.palimpsest - @neverscared
My man, rest assured that I will lay my head on my pillow tonight without having understood a word you've said & my only wish is you do the same.palimpsest - not really.. einstein view in cosmic religion that in cosmic laws god reveals himself as in spinoza god is cheesy to me too.. maybe ok for its time.. butneverscared
- nowadays all the god blalaba seems hillarousy esoteric .. no one talking that eso stuff anymore except some not up to date blokes.neverscared
- imagine some top scientists start brabeling that god harmony stuff rhetoric today shining fru... thats outdated..neverscared
- yes u didnt understand a word... thats the problem... a semantic problem... instead of a unambitious wish ...better try to learn what the various wordsneverscared
- mean and then read the sentences again and u get it.... thats how it works dummy.neverscared
- We’re in different games. I’m defining the universe; you’re defending a vibe.
No hard feelings, just not the same register. I’m out.palimpsest - Spinozas god isn’t really an argument for any meaningful entity.monospaced
- the universe is a vibe... as quantum physics tells as everything is a wave... dude u dont even understand the fundamentals.neverscared
- particle and wave at the same moment.neverscared
- @pali we are matter, not within matter!mort_
- bainbridge1
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Just thinking about all the plastic I throw away every day.
From food packaging to mail, coffee cups, forks, it's everywhere.
Amazing that there's so much of it everywhere.
- Then try to reduce your waste and plastics. Buy reusable coffee cup to refill and so on.NBQ00
- Just don’t buy plastic one.monospaced
- It's incredible. We've got 2 small bins for organic and for rejected waste, which I take out every one or two weeks. For paper and packaging, I use two large.OBBTKN
- The paper bin fills up and I empty it into the container once a month. The plastic container, I empty it two or three times a week!OBBTKN
- Why is it amazing that the plastic you throw away every day is found everywhere?palimpsest
- It’s amazing to me how out of control it has become. I hate how many plastic toys are just thrown away and added to the problem.monospaced
- bezoar12
