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- NBQ002
I could eat blue & black berries all day long.
- frozen blueberries have been my dessert lately, especially when they start to defrost!futurefood
- Oh yeah, they're pretty much unanimously said to be good for us too.MrT
- Nairn0
'Mistake' should be spelt 'mistak'.
- ( https://www.qbn.com/… )Nairn
- the word 'misspell' should be misspelledKrassy
- no. Missteakcannonball1978
- NBQ00-3
I love vaginas.
- narcissist cunt.Nairn
- How old are you again? Just curiousscarabin
- How would you know?Ianbolton
- Lighten up, scarabin. You grumpy, old fart :)NBQ00
- Just testing a theoryscarabin
- That was actually a multi tiered insult by Nairn. It stays...with bonus.StoicLevels
- Thanks. I thought that was the cleverest thing I said that week...Nairn
- _niko3
The tragedy of human existance is that we're aware of our existance.
- Do you mean this in a solipsistic way, or that we're aware that our existence is temporary?garbage
- Nahnb
- however you want to take it :) but yeah, we're aware that we exist and that existence is fleeting._niko
- also I spelled it correctly the first time -existence but got autocorrected to existance lol_niko
- "hell is other people" fo egoistskingsteven
- pretty deep.utopian
- Still nahnb
- This comment section is begging for a classic nairn replystoplying
- This comment section is begging for a classic Bennn replyKrassy
- yeah, Bennexplanation please!api
- I have not thunk, therefor I cannot amGnash
- i vote for a Bennnsplanation too!renderedred
- also good one @nikorenderedred
- Until you get Alzheimer and fade away.shapesalad
- I entertain the idea of non-duality, that the sense of being a separate self is illusory and actually the cause of all suffering.mort_
- No mention of God or Apple....no monosplanation needed.utopian
- The tragedy is that we are aware of the relationship of our existence to reality.cannonball1978
- your mom is aware of my existencesrhadden
- Yes, the human condition. utopian wouldn’t know, because his existence as a troll is severely limited to vague unoriginal insults.monospaced
- My existence is aware in your mom.cannonball1978
- Would you prefer not to be aware?NonEntity
- I’d prefer to be a lemon meringue pie.mort_
- Nairn4
I wish we had raccoons in Britain.
- ..or, do I?Nairn
- You do!scarabin
- If I ever become mega rich, fuckit, i'm introducing them.Nairn
- I wish we had foxes in the statesscarabin
- just find some squirrels and use your imagination.uan
- sounds like one of those things you can't take back if you change your mind. Raccoons forever.Fax_Benson
- If they arrived and the population exploded, what would they replace in the food-chain?
Scousers?
Lib Dems?Fax_Benson - They’re scavengers.monospaced
- Are they not like upright badgers?PhanLo
- They’re adorable.PonyBoy
- they'll fuck you up!
https://i.imgur.com/…pango - They like the doggie door on my garagemisterhow
- They are absolute bastards. They open bins and make a mess, and then the gulls and crows come in and you end up with a gianter mess.garbage
- I stopped at a rest stop before and one chased me as I was coming out the bathroom. They are kinda dangerous. Don't pet.cherub
- I had raccoon vs crows battle in my backyard a few days ago, they were destroying a garbage bag that had 1000 yr old corn crisps in itprophetone
- I love the crows, but man when they team up with the raccoons it's just too much.garbage
- StoicLevels0
meow meow meow meow
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- drgs1
To catch the emergence of the internet as a mass medium and even be part of 2000s web design boom as a young kid, too see AI development unfold -- this is the best time to be alive, within a 1000 years perimeter backward and forward in time (maybe not in terms of life quality, but it is the most interesting time period)
I probably won't be able to visit other planets/experience space tourism, but the 20th and 21th centuries are the turning point in human history, enjoy every moment of it
- I feel like our grandparents had a pretty good run. They started with horses, got electrified in the home, witnessed the birth of the transistor, the bomb...monNom
- That's what I thought too. Maybe in a 100 years this planet won't even be hospitable anymore. For now we're living in prosper times.NBQ00
- now they can see and talk to their great grand children halfway around the world through a sheet of glass that they stick in their pocket.monNom
- automobiles and highways, air travel. robots, antibiotics... its a pretty high bar.monNom
- Nairn1
Why are there no positive diseases?
"Got myself a good case of the whew. Slightly runny nose, but I've been tripping balls and having karmic orgasms for three days and the best sleep I've ever had each night".
- this is a real thing https://www.youtube.…scarabin
- Interesting topic! This guy’s gut produced alcohol which kept him drunk all the time https://www.today.co…scarabin
- Qbn ate the link https://www.today.co…scarabin
- Would they not be called ‘eases’ then?mort_
- It seems to me you could induce brewers gut intentionally with some yeast and a time-delay capsulescarabin
- Interesting. I wonder why a virus hasn’t tried this route - seems like this would guarantee it’s transmissionGnash
- ^I think maybe some scifi stories have had plots like that Gnash, not so sure about real life.PhanLo
- This parasite can help make you fearless https://www.medicaln…scarabin
- There’s an element of bio-hacking here i find appealingscarabin
- Can't work out of that Medical News Today article is a pisstake or not. Is this the medical version of the Onion?microkorg
- Tapeworms could help keep you slim I guess.microkorg
- I don’t know anything about the site, but it’s a very well known thingscarabin
- You carry 5kg of bacteria in your gut. Genetic diseases which are good have simply become permanent features of our phenotypedrgs
- fadein110
Has anyone clicked on Bindegalsh's latest link in NSFW?
- nope, what is it?Fax_Benson
- scar didsarahfailin
- Has he been seen since?Fax_Benson
- i don't go anywhere near that threadhans_glib
- SteveJobs0
It just occurred to me.. chess pawns are female
- That means im still straightGuyFawkes
- ?colin_s
- I read this as cheese prawnsfaxion
- ^grafician
- @colin_s, they can become queensSteveJobs
- It's not quite that black and whiteNonEntity
- They can become anything. Just because they become a queen doesnt mean they are female (or even that the queen is)cannonball1978
- Nairn2
Spite packages.
You decide to annoy someone overseas wherein taxes would be involved on packages sent. Mail a box filled with bricks valued at £5000 and see what happens.
- You wouldn't be able to send a large package like that without any form of pre-pay as it'd have to either be dropped off somewhere or picked up.microkorg
- and the postal/courier company would need to scan shit or need you to pay to stick shit on it.microkorg
- Would be better and more anonymous sending via postboxes. Send lots of letters (via different postboxes) with either sheets of lead/metal or chunks of slate.microkorg
- and dont put stamps on. receiver has to pay to receive them.microkorg
- I just yesterday sent a package with self-declared customs slips which are read by the receiving tax agency in a foreign country. All I paid was postage.Nairn
- I mean, I suppose the obvious thing is the recipient could simply refuse delivery. Better to do a few small ones, as you suggest.Nairn
- StoicLevels-7
This Snyder guy, he makes very cool looking movies. He's like the Wes Anderson of big budget, pulchritudinous, hyperreality cinema. Perfect for superheroes, really.
- StoicLevels-1
I'm about to sit down and watch Zack Snyder's Justice League movie. I'm somewhat disappointed in myself for this 4 hour investment. Lord have mercy on us all.
- After viewing at least 24 revised, updated and re-cut trailers for Justice league...I find no need to watch the movie again.utopian
- 4:3 ratio is annoying. Shoulda been a miniseries. I can't sit for four straight hours.lemmy_k
- i dont mind the ratio since im projecting but Utopian may be right about the trailer prob being the better thing to watchStoicLevels
- Ooooh cool ratio must see TVnb
- Its a pretty movieStoicLevels
- Snyder made a lot of improvementsStoicLevels
- Nairn5
In the not too distant future we will have a service that literally transcribes hash values into a block of something permanent. Be it stone at a large scale, or something like sapphire at a micro scale.
This system will allow for the writing of permanent, one-time write values, and the reading of them, by some secure remote-inclusion technology.
Vast halls of stone, writ in CNC, or crystal etches all microfiche-like.
This system will be run by a long-view supra-government agency, rendered permanent and ultimately accountable by the highest orders.
The purpose of this will be to verify bullshit digital security, be it NFTs or ether hashes or whatever other pointless - but highly valuable - fuckery that comes along.
Full circle to the first clay tablets cast in ancient Sumeria, recording transactions as proofs.
- Krassy3
if humans are so good at global warming, why not global warm the hell out of Mars so the ice there melts and turns to water so we can grow potatoes there?
- - that ice evaporates
- toxic af
- ~150 days in transport
next.sted - the process of terraforming would take thousands of years and could be potentially dangerous to Earth. It's a pipe dream although not unachievable.StoicLevels
- It’s fucking embarrassing that we destroy earth through recklessness and greed so we have to find another planet, and do it all again there no doubt.mort_
- Terraform Earthscarabin
- ^Krassy
- Terraforming earth is easy, just have to plant way more treesGnash
- Terraforming earth is easy, just have to
get rid of the humans.sted - ^Krassy
- Why would terraforming Mars be potentially dangerous to Earth?Nairn
- It could destabilize Earth.
https://www.youtube.…StoicLevels - Your video doesn't appear to make that claim.Nairn
- it's been awhile since i saw it, basically mars' atmosphere could fuck with Earths spatial relationship to the sun. i thought it was this video, maybe it isntStoicLevels
- https://www.nhm.ac.u…StoicLevels
- "Mars also can't support a thick enough atmosphere for humans because it doesn't have the same magnetic field as Earth does."StoicLevels
- Maybe changing the variables of Mars atmosphere's magnetic field is what would cause the effect to Earth.StoicLevels
- a) that sounds like pseudo scientific bullshit. b) terraforming mars would ideally use mars' mass itself = no gravitational impact on EarthNairn
- c) even if we had to add an atmosphere from elsewhere in the system, apparently the ratio of 'planet to atmosphere' is about 1:1,200,000, so ...Nairn
- would also not likely impact Earth's orbit. Presumably at that level of engineering, any effect would be taken into consideration, addingNairn
- or subtracting a relevant amount of mass to Earth to compensate.Nairn
- Also, you can nix the magnetic field problem by constantly replenishing the atmosphere. The amount of loss compared to the amount of replenishment is tinyNairn
- I suppose given Mars' lower gravity, the atmosphere:planet ratio would have to be significantly higher. Still 'no biggie' lol.Nairn
- you eventually came to the conclusion that I had proposed. What if "no biggie' actually were catastrophic.StoicLevels
- Anywhoo, the prospects for terraforming are so ridiculous and farfetched I think biospheres / terrariums make much more sense.StoicLevels
- well exactly - terraforming could, feasibly/optimistica... take 10s of thousands of years. Solar stripping of atmosphere takes 10s of millionsNairn
- - that ice evaporates
- Nairn4
'Missing' should be be spelt 'mssing'.
- Morning_star2
After watching eight seasons of The Curse of Oak Island are they ever gonna find any treasure or is the best we’re gonna get ‘a British ox shoe from the eigh’een ‘undreds’
- Awsome, didnt know they made a show about it. I heard about this years ago, I thought they will never find treasure. It's a lost cause.Sellies
- I sometimes flip over to it late at night, but it makes no sense. It's like a bad Egypt documentary stretched over multiple seasons. So no, I doubt it. :-)PhanLo
- Read about Oak Island as a kid in a Readers Digest magazine. Always loved a mystery. It’s a fascinating show.Morning_star
- I heard about it from leonard nimoy’s “in search of...”scarabin
- lol, I have watched them all also. They have spent millions and found v.little! Crazy place though, they may find something one day hopefully.fadein11
- I always wonder what would happen if they finally found it in the 1st episode of a season... ha, the show would be over.fadein11
- I don't think there's any question that there is/was some treasure there. The evidence of the vaults and tunnels etc is overwhelming. The maps and markers...Morning_star
- ...and templars and sacred artefacts maybe a little too far fetched. I'll still keep watching though. Lets hope they can ramp it up next season after Covid.Morning_star
- It would be cool if they did find stuff, it's like ultimate adventure tv. But the US ad cliffhanger format is quite draining. So much money they've spent there.PhanLo
- I often wonder how much income a series like that would get for the participants. Same with Gold Rush and the like, does their income from the show matter?Morning_star
- they get a lot from what I have seen. But the Lagina's are loaded anyway hence all that time spent looking for treasure. Well Marty is, that's why he spends afadein11
- lot of time on Zoom calls rather than being there. Both millionaires... Such entertaining TV like gold rush etc... It helps me relax.fadein11
- that cross was an insane find from a while backfadein11