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- renderedred18
Got tazed TWICE by the police! I thought it's worse but I stood both times and pulled out the needles. I am free and they are the ones imprisoned for life with IQ 40. ACAB!
- I live in a fascist state of Israel!renderedred
- Fuck!YakuZoku
- What the fuck that’s crazy!_niko
- Sieg Heil Israelutopian
- Take care rr, hope you're well :(OBBTKN
- ACAB!robthelad
- fucking hellContinuity
- i still have pain in my ribs where one of the needles went deep. other than that i'm fine. thanks guys.renderedred
- I re-read this three times. It's fucking insane, man, seriously. Super-happy you're okay!Continuity
- The real question is: What were you wearing?palimpsest
- The real question is: Why didn’t you comply?Ramanisky2
- @palimp I was wearing a hoodierenderedred
- @ram they came for me for something i wrote online. they broke into my garden and whole hell broke loose ;) in general i don't comply with cops. tazing was justrenderedred
- part of it. i was arrested and kept in the station for four hours for "not complying" with police orders...renderedred
- no water, no wc so i had to piss in the cell. :)renderedred
- i was kept with super tight handcuffs even in the cell (against the law). i still have blue marks on my wrists. they did it on purpose because i stood uprenderedred
- to them.renderedred
- nobody brakes into my home and starts giving me "orders".renderedred
- Bastards, indeed.palimpsest
- israeli cops are super stupid and love to "torture" left wing people... more than arabs btw.renderedred
- every time i asked for water they werr like "in a minute" and then "forgot". same with wc so i had no choice ;)renderedred
- all the while they took arab prisoners out to smoke and such. that's fine by me of course.renderedred
- as i said i am ok. thanks again guys.renderedred
- and guess what i asked for a lawyer immediately and never saw one :)renderedred
- @renderedred let a doc see yousted
- Is Mossad monitoring QBN? Wtf lol_niko
- ..um, what the hell?garbage
- prophetone3
Great perspective re auto industry and electric: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMh4YmMLw/…
This has been my feeling for ages re cars, trucks vs. environment. This guy is doing things right with his hybrid trucks he builds... which of course it slaps the face of the current auto industry BUT is actually the right path for consumers and the planet, at this point.
The most environmentally-friendly stance we can take if we’re actually serious about the environment and not blowing smoke up each others’ asses includes:
A) buy used if possible - re-use previous vehicles going back x decades, rebuild, recycle parts over and over and over with creating a minimal need to buy new anything aside from consumable parts to keep these vehicles safe and efficient
B) ban all closed-system approaches with vehicles and make it mandatory for manufacturers to provide access to user data, knowledge and training required to promote a right-to-repair ecosystem to ensure these vehicles can last decades - not unlike cars from the past, they were designed and expected by consumers to last 20+ years and be easily repairable
All I see out there are shoddily-built vehicles that are 2-3X the price they should be, are so entwined in their proprietary digital ecosystems, going green! marketing... it’s a laughing stock. Sad too b/c environment is more toast b/c of it.
- And the delicious irony is many players in the industry are beginning to feel the devastating effects of doing it the wrong way for so long, ie Stellantisprophetone
- My car is 24 years old, still running well, and wife's is 18. I don't plan on buying anything for at least three years, and then it will be used...OBBTKN
- There is a change in strategy, in the US at least, to produce rational and cheap cars, but I am not in a hurry yet.OBBTKN
- US = EUOBBTKN
- And I think the VW group is doing worse than Stellantis right now.OBBTKN
- Yeah I owned a new VW years ago and they run great and everything is great until the moment the warranty period ends...prophetone
- at which point major stuff like headlight system dies, carbon buildup in engine so bad a rebuild required, trans toast... that new car is suddenly upside down $$prophetone
- And this is stuff that intentionally prohibits the right to repair, insane cost of parts, used to be $20 part, now it’s $500
https://vm.tiktok.co…prophetone - Haha wrong link
https://vm.tiktok.co…prophetone - It’s so true. Also this guy is goin fer a rip there, bud.********
- It’s like when architects put some trees on a building and say it’s green! Green is building something that stands for centuries with little maintenance.********
- There was a building with a big tree on top in Vancouver. Tree was dying and it was going to be something like $1M to replace one fucking tree.monNom
- And this post is totally correct. Think of the cost of the vehicle as the equivalent of that much fuel to get a rough sense of the carbon footprint of a new carmonNom
- Then the manufacturers are incentivized to make higher efficiency/short life expectancy vehicles. Are we really winning on emissions?monNom
- There are millions of decent used cars sitting around... imagine the environmental benefits of for next 5 years we pause new car manufacturing...prophetone
- We just work our way through the millions of new or slightly used cars just sitting there, we also freeze msrp so as to avoid a gray market...prophetone
- Make it ten years. We just recycle and re-use what’s already existing and eradicate this culture of I need a new car every 3 years bs for no logical reasonprophetone
- And have a commercial level of course that is strictly monitored that can buy new if critical to avoid shipping supply chain probs, of courseprophetone
- Also we avoid 10 years of massiveness inefficient car battery manufacturing that’s rapidly gobbling up resources in the most planet killing ways possibleprophetone
- And in 10 years we may catch up with battery tech where instead of 7k! cells in a Tesla battery we’ve halved it, then halved it again w/ new techprophetone
- Or straight up avoid mining for nickel/lithium batteries because of cleaner, superior hydrogen fuel cell advancements for cars by thenprophetone
- autoflavour4
feeling so burned out.. its the same every year, the 10 weeks leading up to December I sign up to tutor sound design at Uni, which is usually just 1 extra day of work.. but its 3 classes back to back no break, and then we usually have at least 3 assignments throughout to mark.. now given i work the other 4 days a week, and both of my kids have their birthday during this period also, my days usually look like 8 hours at day job followed by 2-3 most nights just to keep on top of marking.. Then if im lucky I get in front of it enough to maybe have a sunday off.
but the you get a run of 2 busy weekends in a row and before you know its 18 days without a day off for anything, laundry, sleep, music, drinking.. just carnage.
fortunately next week is the last week.. and I get that weekend off before they submit their final assignment and I start on the marking grind again.
for real feels like i age 3 times as faster during this period.
so broken
- 2-3 hours most nights i meanautoflavour
- woe is me..autoflavour
- Hugs brother, you're a fuckin champ!YakuZoku
- inhale - exhale, keep going.
I'll refer to you as QBN David Goggins from now on.uan
- HAYZ1LLLA1
What would it take for the UK Monarchy to fuck off?
Protests? Signed petitions? Electing a political party who promise to do it with a referendum?
Is there actually any way it could happen or are they still more powerful than government and we need need an actual civil war?
- to what end, tho? so we can have our own orange horror?hans_glib
- Aren't there richer, and much worse, people to get mad about? People with actual power over gov't and society.i_monk
- historically, monarchies get abolished by revolutions, or they are replaced by republics through democratic processes.uan
- the uk monarchy is special. everybody, from full anarchist punk to right wing businessman I've ever met in the uk LOVED the queen and owned a mug with her faceuan
- Half of England is owned by less than 1% of the population.PhanLo
- "Anarchist punk..." Loving monarchy? Sorry, but, or it is not anarchist or not punk...OBBTKN
- I say UK is special :-) I don't know if they love monarchy, but they love the queen mugs.uan
- Queen died, get over itgrafician
- Rip Fred Mercuryi_monk
- Uk is special.cherub
- UK royal family (still) has an innordinate amount of power and influence over how things are run.face_melter
- the queen and Charles have meddled in government affairs for decades, usually to only benefit themselves - property law, taxes, etc.face_melter
- More chances of the UK to disappear than the royals to disappear. Honestly, not too sure I dislike the permanence of it. Like Batman. It’s always there.maikel
- Mega tsunami would work.mrAtor
- my mother in law: irish speaking republican, cried when the queen died, watched the funeral. mega tsunami plzkingsteven
- grafician1
Mood
- HAYZ1LLLA-1
I'd like to see a "Like" & "Dislike" button on Chrome. When you come across a dogshit webpage that has wasted your time or a page you have found useful or well written you can give it a quick rating. I'm sure Google would love that information too. I bet there is an extension that does it but would be nice to have it built in.
- > https://www.qbn.com/…uan
- imagine it implement on a OS level.
you can rate everything you see on the screen.uan - "I'd like bots to manipulate search results" would be faster to type.i_monk
- ^+YakuZoku
- mg332
I saw The Wild Robot yesterday with my kids. Anything with robots showing emotion just guts me. It's a beautiful movie but man the people that make those movies truly have a solid formula for crafting emotional hooks on a level few live-action movies with humans ever could.
- Gardener6
Hey don't worry about Trump, the good news is there is a fresh Skylarking mix released to a depressed public on Friday morning 08/11. Titled Folk In Hell - it's a mixture of old 78's from The Depression era onwards featuring songs of love and hope, loss, death and despair, oh joy!
- OBBTKN5
What a scare! An hour ago (9 pm) I received a message from a client, regarding a project that I had to solve in a hurry...
The first thing I thought was that something had happened, and that everything had gone to hell, and I would have to solve it during the weekend.
But no, in reality he wrote to me thanking me for the speed and quality of the final result.
I love receiving this type of praise, but please; I'm too old for these types of scares ;)
- https://media.tenor.…PonyBoy
- On your next invoice, you can add a change of underwearfuturefood
- Client of the Dayi_monk
- ********12
Hoooooooldup a sec
This is a DESIGN forum?!
- That's what I heard, anyway.Continuity
- for a better tomorrowPhanLo
- that's what I tell my other halfFax_Benson
- Well I never********
- Or so the Germans would have us believe.palimpsest
- lol fax, yup “ it’s a design forum honey, we talk about the latest CSS tricks and typography trends, That’s why I’m on it all day”_niko
- Yeah I tell people that it's a design forum were I fight with my American friendsgrafician
- Americans call it Swiss Design. It stays.monospaced
- Now I’ve seen everything********
- Build your portfolio with Kropfuturefood
- Build your portfolio with wix.com********
- Build your portfolio with squarespace.comutopian
- for @nb: https://altneu.42web…renderedred
- I thought everyone went to templates and frameworks 10+ years ago. Anyone still designing from scratch?spot13
- The design content is here: https://www.qbnpro.c…maikel
- ^ LOL "it stays"grafician
- Funny...every time that I post design related stuff here on QBN...it either gets downvoted or quickly descends to the bottom of the QBN feed.utopian
- Post better things?********
- @utopian
Post whatever the fuck you want but then don't be a little bitch and cry about the same topics you help promote.palimpsest - Posting stuff only to see it on the frontpage is a sad way to live.palimpsest
- @palimpsest
Fuck off you sniveling cock sucking POS,
Have a Nice Week!utopian - You should look up sniveling, buddy. I'm certainly not t he one doing it here.palimpsest
- The rules are, the first one, never talk about this site...OBBTKN
- Well, I talk about it with my partner, but, that's understandable... But with no one elseOBBTKN
- And, no. This is not a design forum, it's a designers' forumOBBTKN
- "This is not a design forum, it's a designers' forum."
Preach, brother. Preach!palimpsest - Please keep Preaching to the Religion thread********
- OBBTKN3
Two nights ago, this time, the geese passed through, on their annual migration, heading south, entering through the Pyrenees...
And it shows, today I had to turn on the heating in the studio, with my hands frozen and wearing a vest, just in case.
The group of stray cats that I feed every day, look out from the garden window, they are cold and want to come inside. There are 5 of them, too many to feed all winter.
Look how my head works (also my wife's, apparently) I only think about the weekend to light the fireplace, prepare comforting recipes, read and rest, winter is coming, and with it, the time to take things more calmly.
- Winters comingHAYZ1LLLA
- which reminds me i took my daughter to see "wild robot" last night... beautiful animation but the story is all over the placehans_glib
- I have booked the weekend to watch "The boy and the heron" with my daughter...OBBTKN
- I watched Wild Robot with the kids and thought it was great. Would love to watch The Boy and the Heron but looks a bit creepy for young kids!lemoucheron
- microkorg0
I grew up having two cats.
Never seen the appeal of having a drooling dog.
One of the things that pisses me off the most is dog piss streaming across the pavement. With only a dog sh*t on the pavement trumping that.The wife and two young kids (5&7) all want to get a dog.
I know I'll be the one left to walk it in the Scottish wind and rain, have to clean out the car etc.Am I being too pessimistic?
Tell me the good things about having a dog.
Did having a dog turn you from a cat person into a dog person? :P- A tale as old as time: dad doesn’t want dog, family wants dog. Dad worries he’ll have to do all the work.********
- Every single time, the dog and dad become best friends and the dad is grateful to do all the work.********
- get them a
unitree go 2
or a roombla+a mop+ductape.uan - Haha, yes I guess its an old repeating story.
One benefit in having a dog and having to do all the walking is that it'd get me off my ass more and out walking.microkorg - i was a cat person before we got a dog. best thing we ever did. it changes walking from just going A->B in to something enjoyable, i walk downkingsteven
- every street, know a load of my neighbours, dog people, every short-cut and back road in a 4 mile radius. my dog loves the rain so now i do to.kingsteven
- All my mates got dogs, so they could smoke weed away from family, worth thinking about it.mrAtor
- https://www.boredpan…********
- One of life’s great pleasures is a dog walk that happens to stop at the pub. Share your crisps and everyone’s happy.MrT
- lol mrAtorNairn
- Thanks KingSteven.
If i still smoked weed I'd prob see it as a great opportunity for a toot too!microkorg - Heard from a dog owning work colleague who lives in my area that a lot of the local shops will give your dog treats.microkorg
- An animal is for life, he's family till death. So be sure before making the move. Abandoning an animal is a tragedy.HAL9001
- Kinda genius as it means the dog will always want to stop by those shops on walks.microkorg
- Shitting in a litter box doesn't make u more civil. When cats use the toilet and can flush, then I will respect them.cherub
- HAL. Wouldn't abandon an animal.
It's likely it'll be a young rescue dog/pup if we get one.microkorg - good thing is you will always have someone that looks up to you and want to be around you all the time (unlike most cats).Nutter
- True Nutter.
One of my wifes team told her that it'll be someone who's always super happy to see you. Unlike children! Haha.microkorg - Get a dog and move where there's less rain, problem solved :)davey_g
- All my cat loving friends who got their first dog couldn't believe the depth of love a dog can give you, it's like a natural anti-depressant. Go dogs.davey_g
- Well done, Bennn! I'm sure our friend in Edinburgh would've in all likelihood blithely hoyed the beast into a bin after the novelty had worn off otherwise.Nairn
- I always had both cats and dogs growing up. Now living in London's made me allergic to both, and I couldn't imagine cooping up a dog inside all day long :(Nairn
- 1/2: I dislike dogs. Our nanny has a dog. She moved in with us. Now we have a yapping little dickhead who is so happy to see me when I get home.DaveO
- 2/2: Once the dog got pregnant and I took her to a vet to deal with a stillborn pup. Now the dog loves me even more. I still dislike dogs... apart from her!DaveO
- no one mentioned finding a sitter when you're traveling. My cat has been living in our home by herself in Turkey since August. The sitter stops by 2-3 timesBeeswax
- a week to clean her litter box. She can also roam on her own and come back home. Good luck doing that with a dog.Beeswax
- Do you have a garden? Then it's a no brainer. Get a dog.
Live in an apartment? It'll get you out the houseProjectile - Also... teach your kidsa some responsibility. Want something bad? Agree to 2x daily chore and make them stick to itProjectile
- Yes, have a decent garden, so maybe don't need as many 'walkies'.
Good shout with teaching the kids responsibility.microkorg - I had to feed cats as a kid.
Been looking at rehome dogs, one they liked said 'doesnt likeloud noises' so told them if we get a pet there can be no tantrums etcmicrokorg
- A tale as old as time: dad doesn’t want dog, family wants dog. Dad worries he’ll have to do all the work.
- mg330
I'm going to see either Heretic or Conclave tonight at a movie theater. Can't decide between them. Suggestions?
- futurefood2
Anyone else running into this while playing videos here?
I have to sign in now to play videos on qbn? I avoid signing in on yt because I'm using my work rig.
- lol wow ... YT/Google are getting increasingly outright hostile to users.Continuity
- I had it some years ago...went away by itself. I bet it's some change in bot protection algo that is being implemented or tested or deployed without testing :-)uan
- The enshittification of google marches oni_monk
- Constantlymonospaced
- No. Using Brave.grafician
- microkorg0
I'd posted earlier about my dying windows laptop and looking for something new asap.
Someone had mentioned going for Apple instead of Windows. So had me checking out the new M4 MBPs.
An appealing thing about apple is their value down the line. If I buy a beast and use if for 3,4,5 years, I can still get a decent return if I was to sell it. Same can't be said for anything Windows.Found out that someone I know can get me a decent discount on any new Apple so def going M4.
I'd be using it for:
Digital Art - Photoshop with lots of layers, large filesizes.
Video - Putting together audio visual artworks, large filesizes potentially but videos would only be 5 mins max. No half hour episodes.
Music - Occasionally use Ableton Live for music production.Not really into gaming, and no 3D work either.
Do you think the Pro version with decent RAM is enough?
Or invest in the future and get the Max (the max max chip) with decent Ram?- (£ saved getting a Pro model could go towards a TE OP-XY)microkorg
- Pro + 64GB RAMgrafician
- Pro only has 48gb as the top rammicrokorg
- upgradable win laptop
https://frame.work/c…pango - my MacBook Pro from 2015 still runs great, i was just doing some video editing this past weekend, no probs.BabySnakes
- 5timuli32
Got laid off yesterday for the first time in my life, from a 13-year run at one of the world's largest tech companies. This happened while I was on medical leave for stress and anxiety (totally legal, just shit). I also found out yesterday that my divorce was finalized, so it was a pretty eventful day.
People keep telling me that they're "so, so sorry", etc., but honestly so much fucking awful shit has happened to me in the past few years that I think I'm just desensitized to it all.
The silver lining is I fucking hated that job and now I don't have to deal with their bullshit corporate politics anymore. That and the fact I honestly have pretty much fuck all to show for those 13 years.
I'll miss the money (so much money it was ridiculous). I'm also terrified and exhausted thinking about how I need to conjur up a portfolio out of nowhere and get back to interviewing. I'll be 50 next year, and I honestly just want to sit around and scratch my arse all day for the rest of my life.
No idea where I'm going with this. I recently just ticked over from being able to take all my daily pills in one go, to needing to split them in two, which weirdly is bothering me more than it should, especially given how everything else has been crumbling around me.
Wah fucking wah, whatever. Gen X represent.
- wait, they can let you go while on medical leave? wtfsted
- Yeah, if the role no longer exists. I was one of around 5 folks who got canned.5timuli
- To clarify, it was part of a huge org-wide restructuring, and apparently they have no openings on that team at my level.5timuli
- Damn dude, 13 year run at one of the largest tech companies.... You should be proud of that run. That’s impressive.********
- heard from a friend at Amazon that the average tenure for new hires is 18 months.********
- That’s in the tech org, not like people in warehouses or drivers.********
- Netflix is supposedly just over a year. So if you did 13 years, that’s fucking impressive!********
- Just apply at other tech companies or smaller, slower ones. If the name is as big as you say, you’ll get interviews.********
- And don’t include dates on your resume that give away your age. You can get past agism somewhat.********
- All great tips, cheers. I saw the Netflix culture deck years back and one of the slides said something along the lines of...5timuli
- “Average performance leads to an average severance package” (I forget what replaced “average”)5timuli
- It was “average performance gets a generous severance package”
Slide 23 here: https://www.eosworld…5timuli - This exact thing happened to me. I took a month and now I’m building my first portfolio in almost 20 years.monospaced
- I’m terrified, depressed, and optimistic at times. I have no idea how this will turn out. Best of luck. Here for you!!’monospaced
- what's the worry here, I don't understand? You are on holiday! Away from work and and a wrecked marriage. Go live your life now. NOW!!Beeswax
- ya you have the time and money. Go do whatever you want! go crash a kids birthday party and smash some cake!pango
- Good luck 5timuli, now you're free, totaly. Sure you're being laid with good money, invest on yourself, but be cold-headed, you're still young!OBBTKN
- Best of luck to you too, mono!5timuli
- Stings giving so much of what I earned away to a fucking leech. And I still have to pay a few years of spousal support and sell the house. It’s slow going but5timuli
- at least there’s a timeline.5timuli
- I need to get in shape. 13 years of a doomed relationship really fucked with my waistline.5timuli
- 5timuli, Mono... hugs n stuff. It will turn out ok. 5timuli: the waistline thing... yeah. That happens. You'll get back in shape. I'm fitter at 54 than 40.Horp
- F*ck! 13 years, and then this... Meanwhile, they invent Midjourney. Stay strong. Gen X represent: https://www.youtube.…uan
- I read the first two words, but the third one disappointed me. All the best!SimonFFM
- That really sounds like a lot. But as many mentioned: I also think you still have a good setup to come out of this stronger.Longcopylover
- Fuck man, sorry...stay positive!utopian
- Gen X: getting the short end of every other generations' sticks since 1973.Continuity
- stay strong and best of luck to you from a gen x comrade!renderedred
- Unsolicited health suggestion: plan an exit strategy for those medications. Treat the problem with coping skills and less of the symptoms with meds.cotton
- You may find if you work on yourself, your outlook might change and new solutions could present themselves. Good luck, sir.cotton
- Embrace the new. New job. New broad. New direction. New balance. And sorry man...stoplying
- Potential bright side: if you have no income, maybe she’ll have to pay support to you?monNom
- It’s like judo.monNom
- Good luck to you! Lots of us here to offer help however we can. I was laid off after 9 years at an agency in March, FINALLY starting a new job Monday.mg33
- It's had ups and downs, but the time off has been good for me. The same thing happened to me in 2013; 8 months out of work, doing the job that is finding a job.mg33
- I'd barely interviewed anywhere since 2013. Got plenty of good advice that helped me land new job - calmness, casual confidence, and never a hint of desperationmg33
- I'll be 47 in December.mg33
- Remember: we are just a piece of dust racing around a fireball in the the vast nothingness. No time for corporate bullshit.d_gitale
- Hang in there man, it's rough times for people in tech. Take some time to reflect on things and start looking for jobs when ready. It might take a few months.pseud
- But then you don't want to start a new job right away, that would suck too. The time off will help. You'll be back at it slaying I'm sure. Good luck out there!pseud
