>>8549
You and me both (am I talking to myself). Easter was a loss, went down Friday, cam up Tuesday, barely in time for work. Should not have bothered. Should just have died.

>>8550
I managed to verify that I'm talking to myself.

I have spells of sobriety. They last 1 or two days, then I fall into the abyss. Work is accomodating for now, but I doubt thery'll put up with it much longer.

I've been drinking for 25 years now. I gained a lot in cameradery, but sometimes I still wish I'd never touched that first drop.

Because it opened the doors. I smoked weed for a while, then started growing my own weed and vaped it, I've taken DPH and DXM. All those, but it's only alcohol that has me coming back. I wish I could be the fun drunk in a pub.

>>8551

How much does the habit cost you, out of curiosity?

>>8552
Right now about £10/day by drinking 9% cheap beer (Karpackie). I've sort of graduated from Debowe and Perla (both around 7%). Fortunately, there's an Aldi near by that has 0.7l of 37.5% "Tamova" vodka for around £11. So £300 per month, depending on how bad it gets. As addictions go, I suppose that's relatively cheap and affordable and I don't think I'll escalate much further.

I bought 8 pint cans of lager but after drinking a couple of glasses of water I don't feel like cracking open a can at all. Don't mistake dehydration for beer cravings, lads.

Where I live now, it happens so often that people will move in for a few weeks and then vanish in the middle of the night that my tenancy agreement contains no deposit at all, but rather, the first and last month's rent. That way, if I leave, I have already paid my rent for the last month. I won't get my money back under any circumstances, but since it's rent I don't expect to. I have lived here for eleven years. Perhaps renting from a private landlord rather than a company was actually the answer all along.

>>3099

>even though landlords should be beaten up

I guess he didn't beat him up, but grabbed his landlord by the collar and shouted in his face and pushed and shoved him around a bit. At least that's what happened according to another friend who told me about it. But that would still have counted as physical assault, and it's something no landlord needs to take from you. I think I remember he was given a week to leave, but I might be wrong.

>>3092
So I did the front door and it was incredibly easy despite being over on size. I didn't need to do it but if you're drastically over you can always fold and staple to the size you need with no bother aside from chunky flaps.

Standard black magic tape will probably leave black marks but fuck it, with some white spirit I'll probably get it off faster than angrymodlad and a thread about the bloke-who-divorced-Dawn-French. The real test will come in a couple weeks when I get the big bastard screen for the double doors on the balcony and have to do it on the inside.

>>3102
This is sick. I've got the door on and light on and I'm laughing at the bastard moths hitting the netting and getting furious that they can't land on my clothes and lay eggs everywhere.

Eat shit nature.

>>3103
Pride goes before an infestation. Enjoy your mothpocalypse.

>>5448

>Possibly, but it would probably be more effective to strap GoPros to toddlers and feed the algorithm millions of hours of recorded footage. Unlike humans, machine learning algorithms can be trained in parallel.

That's a very interesting point.

Although, while I might be a layman at programming, I'm a scienceman at science, and I feel compelled to point out that to properly test the hypothesis you're probably going to want to keep everything as consistent with "real" childhood learning as possible. The variable you're isolating should be the substitution of a toddler's smooth unformed brain with a blank AI; you never know what other factors might have an effect on the outcome, so you have to eliminate as many of them as reasonably possible. The ones we can't eliminate are biological- The effects of hormones, genetics, gender, and so on, because our robot wouldn't have any of those, and we couldn't rule out that those could be vital to the nature of sentience/sapience.

Sociologists and psychologists are terrible at this and that's why a great deal of their studies are as good as worthless. But ignoring that for the sake of argument, if our experiment here concludes there's some plausibility to it, then you can start using different approaches like that and comparing the restults. If we wanted to go full mad Nazi scientist with no regard to ethics we could even answer once and for all what parts of our being are truly nature, and which are nurture, using the robot brains as a null hypothesis for not having a physical, biological body compared to real life kids raised under the same conditions.

Of course without an understanding of what consciousness really is it's impossible for us to actually guague if what we're observing is a consciousness, or merely something that perfectly mimics a consciousness. That's where the philosopher's approach becomes a bit more meaningful to the question I suppose, because we have no other way to draw the line. I find a lot of philosophers are too sentimental about humanity itself, viewing our species with a kind of exceptionalism to all other life- I think I'd almost be willing to say that anything closeley enough resembling sentience may as well be sentience. We can never know what it's internal perception of reality is, indeed we can never know what another human's internal perceptions of reality is, yet we never question one another on wether we're sentient or not.

>>5448

>Possibly, but it would probably be more effective to strap GoPros to toddlers and feed the algorithm millions of hours of recorded footage. Unlike humans, machine learning algorithms can be trained in parallel.

That's a very interesting point.

Although, while I might be a layman at programming, I'm a scienceman at science, and I feel compelled to point out that to properly test the hypothesis you're probably going to want to keep everything as consistent with "real" childhood learning as possible. The variable you're isolating should be the substitution of a toddler's smooth unformed brain with a blank AI; you never know what other factors might have an effect on the outcome, so you have to eliminate as many of them as reasonably possible. The ones we can't eliminate are biological- The effects of hormones, genetics, gender, and so on, because our robot wouldn't have any of those, and we couldn't rule out that those could be vital to the nature of sentience/sapience.

Sociologists and psychologists are terrible at this and that's why a great deal of their studies are as good as worthless. But ignoring that for the sake of argument, if our experiment here concludes there's some plausibility to it, then you can start using different approaches like that and comparing the restults. If we wanted to go full mad Nazi scientist with no regard to ethics we could even answer once and for all what parts of our being are truly nature, and which are nurture, using the robot brains as a null hypothesis for not having a physical, biological body compared to real life kids raised under the same conditions.

Of course without an understanding of what consciousness really is it's impossible for us to actually guague if what we're observing is a consciousness, or merely something that perfectly mimics a consciousness. That's where the philosopher's approach becomes a bit more meaningful to the question I suppose, because we have no other way to draw the line. I find a lot of philosophers are too sentimental about humanity itself, viewing our species with a kind of exceptionalism to all other life- I think I'd almost be willing to say that anything closeley enough resembling sentience may as well be sentience. We can never know what it's internal perception of reality is, indeed we can never know what another human's internal perceptions of reality is, yet we never question one another on wether we're sentient or not.

I know I'm bringing down the intelligence level of this conversation, but what if we tried to combine these these machines/data models with organic matter in some way?

What worries me about AI is how omnipresent it's going to become. Billionaires talk about a world where machine intelligence doesn't operate as independent actors but is teamed with humans in all aspects of decision making backed by massive data collection right up to telling you how to work and monitoring every aspect of your day.

I'm a lazy fucker and a petty criminal so that doesn't sound good at all.

>>5451
Some sort of human-learning tool? I've looked at naked ladies for decades and now I have tits so maybe there's something to it.

>>5451

In theory we could, there have been some experiments with using organic neurons for computing, but the problem is the interface - brains don't come with an Ethernet port installed. Ol' Elion Mucks has been putting chips in monkeys, which definitely isn't sinister.

I like to have a spooky channel to watch but they all seem to devolve into true crime which I find dull. Does anyone have any recommendations?

Stuff like:

Be. Busta is also okay if you just want reddit larps told in a spooky narration:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-ir6MfYIuyvVJS_DhOhcJw

>>24468

Weird World is kind of spooky, although some of their content is a bit laughable. They focus a lot on reincarnation, ghosts, time travel and hauntings.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQwT19wQm23dVTOHiap-u7w


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qanViwv5Itk

>>24468
Barely Sociable (and his 2nd channel Slightly Sociable) are good for long form documentaries on spooky mystery type stuff.
Nexpo occasionally veers into true crime but it's mainly spooky stuff, ARGs and internet mysteries
blameitonjorge is a mixture of spooky stuff, mysteries and lost media.

> Technology Connection
Ridiculously in-depth videos about mostly domestic appliances. If you ever wondered about the history gas lamps, or think you could use a few hours of video about air conditioning and heat pumps, this is for you.
https://www.youtube.com/c/TechnologyConnections

> Practical Engineering
Breaks down large scale infrastructure projects, both how they work and how they sometimes fail. Not a prolific poster but just in depth enough that someone like me who knows nothing about civil engineering can still follow along.
https://www.youtube.com/c/PracticalEngineeringChannel

> Unreported World
Well produced foreign affairs programs (as seen on Channel 4) about often overelooked issues.
https://www.youtube.com/c/unreportedworld

> 12tone
Serious music theory breakdowns of (usually) modern songs, delightfully illustrated. I find it soothing to listen to, even though I have no musical background.
https://www.youtube.com/c/12tonevideos

>>24473

> Technology Connection

Bit camp, but he's good fun. Although he tends to lose me on his more elaborate technological explanations. He probably has a solid engineering degree of some description, but he can be hard to follow here and there.


If you're into obsolete technology, especially obscure audio formats and similar things, then Technoman Techmoan is your guy. His is a more hands-on approach, he often likes to take things apart to see how they work and fix them. Usually very entertaining.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5I2hjZYiW9gZPVkvzM8_Cw

>>15930
Well, it ended up that I said something about another banned poster to the effect of 'What that person said is fine because it made me laugh' and then the delicate mod banned me with 'Well banning you made me laugh so it's ok' or something.

I'm just happy that they agreed with me.

I know it's only a one-hour ban, but it seems unfair to fall foul of a banned link filter just because you wanted to tease someone.

I mean, what happens if you want to take the piss out of a libertarian loon for invoking medieval common law (which has been legislated into oblivion anyway)? Or if the Appleby Magna massive want to big themselves up by extending some vowels? Because Brian never learned regex, THEY CANNOT.

I don't think I've been banned, but I don't understand why my Lenny Henry thread, as well as all posts I've made over at least the past 24 hours/subsequent replies to them, have been removed.

Is shitposting no longer allowed on /iq/ or is posting The Guardian links now blacklisted or something?

(A good day to you Sir!)

>>15933
I think you mean denylisted.

>>15934
Wait, can we not post Guardian links now?

>>449484

I think at this rate I'm definitely just going to end up buying my council flat, fuck it. At least that way I'll have a chance of having my mortgage paid off some time before I'm 75, and it's not like I'll ever need to worry about selling it because where the fuck else am I going to move.

Definitely pinning all my hopes on meeting one of those birds on tinder with "homeowner 🏠" in her bio, then pissing in her arse to rightfully claim the castle as my own.

>>449485
If they still do that council house discount thing you might as well.

>>449484

I love how they couldn't even find the promised number of examples, with number 5 explicitly using the help of mum and dad.

>>449545
The first example hasn't actually bought a house yet, she keeps getting outbid.

Baby boomers say struggling young should cut Netflix

More than half of baby boomers, those born between 1946 and 1964, believe that “luxury” lifestyle choices made by young people are to blame for their inability to save enough money. Among the lifestyle choices identified by baby boomers in a study by researchers at King’s College London were takeaway coffees and food, mobile phones, Netflix and foreign holidays.

A quarter of those aged 25 to 34 on average incomes own their own home, down from two thirds in 1995. It is not only baby boomers, however, who blame this on a mix of youthful laziness and poor financial decisions. Young people themselves, according to the study, are more likely to agree than disagree with the statement that “takeaway coffees and food” are the reason their generation cannot afford to buy a home.

The study suggests that 48 per cent of millennials, those born between 1980 and 1995, believe that young people are too careless with their money when trying to save, just below the 52 per cent of baby boomers with the same view.

At the same time there was a high level of recognition among the public that economic factors were preventing young people from buying a home. The study found that 76 per cent of people agreed that adults aged under 40 could not afford to buy their own home because of issues such as high house prices, stricter lending rules and stagnant wages.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/baby-boomers-say-struggling-young-should-cut-netflix-8pzg372dx

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/policy-institute/assets/housing-hard-work-and-identity-generational-experiences-and-attitudes.pdf

Look how many of them are doctors and nurses. That requires a bit of training at least.

>>71103
Yet none of them will do non-penetrative surgery.

>>24462

To what guide are you referring?

It's been on my mind for a while now, just as a personal project, to edit the very best episodes of TNG, DS9, and VOY respectively to make a series of good feature length films.

In the States Star Trek has been taken off Netflix and put on Paramount+ or whatever the fuck. Hasn't happened here yet but it's only a matter of time.

>>24464

>>24463
Scroll up the thread.

>>24464
If you're relying on streaming to watch a famous tv franchise from the 80-90s then really I don't know what to tell you. You're certainly not getting more of the product by watching it legitimately.

>>24464
Could be worse. They decided, very shortly before release, to move Disco over to P+. Which might have been forgivable had it been available anywhere outside the US at that time.

>>24466 is right. I've downloaded stuff that's been available on services that I was paying for precisely because they keep pulling this kind of shitfuckery. At this stage I'm down to just Prime, and the only reason I haven't ditched it is the delivery.

>>38713


I work from home, maybe spend less time buying shite on Amazon and using your money to learn AWS Practitioner on your account.

Then look for an entry level IT job. Stop buying pizzas and games, sit in your room for 12 months understanding s3 buckets, join IT Meetups in your area. Get known, be seen. Understand SaaS.

If you have a shit job, stop dicking around.

It brings me great amusement to see work-from-homers treated like the new benefit scroungers.

You poor dears. What, you've never been the scapegoats of a media-wide slander campaign purely because of your vague socio-economic demographic before? Diddums.

>>38719
Not everyone wants to be a low-grade code-monkey nor should it be the first resort when the you're being herded back into the office.

>>38721
Get a job. There's never been a better time to find one.

>>38722

Got one thanks m8. Never been a better time for you to buy some smart new shoes and work shirts though.

Better make sure they're a size up though, you'll no doubt have put on a few pounds staying in bed for weeks on end.

>>38721

Yes ladm9

Only this evening there were a bunch of young hoodlums stopping me going for a pint.

Where's your skengman, I punched them to fuckery,

After said pint, made my way home to perhappenchance encounter the lads i'd punched to fuckery. Wanted to know why they were punched.

Come on lads, fight like a bastard.

Walked away

>>3070
>>3071
Why do you think it's a troll? Am I asking a weird or stupid question? I'm just looking for an equivalent to the thing that I lost. I drew a picture of it. Maybe it came with the door handle I dunno. Not sure if a barrel nut is the right thing.

>>3072

That's a nut m8. It's round and it's got a slot in it, so you want a slotted round nut. If it's a metric thread, then you just need to measure the outside diameter of the screw around the largest part of the thread to find the right size. If it measures 4mm you need an M4 nut, if it measures 5mm you need an M5 etc. If it isn't a round number of millimetres, you've probably been cursed by the Imperial Fasteners Fairy and I'd suggest taking the bolt into a decent hardware shop.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/114307043178

>>3073
Fair enough I suppose, thank you. I'm just worried about finding the right size for the hole because nuts are generally quite thick, whereas the thing I lost was very thin and a bit tapered and probably came with the door handle to fit the hole perfectly flat.

>>3072
I think perhaps you're describing an insert nut. You screw it in with an allen key, and then it takes a bolt through the center.

https://www.screwfix.com/p/insert-nuts-type-d-m6-x-13mm-50-pack/59937

But I would also go with the other suggestion in the thread, to simply rotate the entire thing by a few degrees and just use normal screws. Captive insert nuts like this are usually used to fix bits of furniture together, that might need to come undone later - something like a large worktop, desk or table.

>>3074
For 5 seconds of googling it seems it might be called a sleeve.

What's L&D? I went on a course once for work and that was very useful. However, I didn't do the exam at the end because everyone else had already failed or given up by that point, and also, it might not be L&D.

I went on a weekend course in sales management at my old job, and it was shite. The lad giving it was just barely out of uni and very noticeably lacked real-life experience. All your studied sales lingo is next to meaningless if your job experience so far has largely been inernships and some entry-level position at a hip new startup whose smartphone app is virtually unknown to people outside your bubble.

>>14447
>What's L&D?

Leadership & Development. Generally used to refer to management training, but it's been co-opted to just mean "the training bit of HR".

The only good course I have ever done, is Situational Leadership. Use it every day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situational_leadership_theory

>>14447
>>14455
What the fuck. It's clearly learning and development.

>>9156

>As one of the quotes used multiple times in that video goes, they'll say "if this looks like a Ponzi then surely everything looks like a Ponzi". That line is true, but not in the way the originator meant.

Ponzi schemes are usually still quite easy to spot. The key sign that that's what an investment scheme is tends to be unrealistic yet consistent investment returns. You need to sucker investors into investing with you somehow. Why should they give you their money if they get the same kind of returns with more conservative asset classes. Also, to actually deliver those returns to at least a few people who have been your client for some time and thus not arouse suspicion, you have to keep bringing in new investors, and again, you'll only be able to do that consistently with promises of massive returns, which you can then back up by pointing at the sums you've already paid out to longer-standing clients.

If you look at Bernard Madoff, for some inexplicable reason, he seemed to be able to pay out consistent high returns that appeared to be almost completely unaffected by market crashes and other fluctuations. The reasons why he got away with it for so long were that he was very well connected in the finance industry as well as the Securities Exchange Commission, and just that people love a good lie, and that he and his employees worked quite hard to cover their tracks. His company had an entire department which did nothing all day besides pulling entirely bogus income statements out of their arses for their hundreds of clients. They were paid out an amount that seemed reasonable, at least given the fund's past performance, with some minor and equally bogus fluctuations over time, and then they concocted a list of securities that they then said they had invested their clients' money in, which seemed to corroborate the returns that were paid out.

Madoff got away with it because he was very skillful at keeping up his Ponzi scheme. It really only collapsed in 2008 during the Financial Crisis because there was a market-wide bank run. Without that, he probably could have continued it for a lot longer. Not all Ponzi schemes are that elaborate, but they don't have to be in order for you to spot them, because, again, the key telltale sign is always unrealistic consistent returns.

Worth noting that a return isn't unrealistic because it beats the market and you achieve it one time. Any retail investor can get lucky and make an absolute killing one time on a stock that goes through the roof. But it's a trick that you simply cannot pull off every time in the long run, and whoever promises you otherwise simply isn't worth your money.

>>9447
Apparently it's really important to get a 9 litre big bastard with two trays. She's gone for this one:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B09BMBFTBT

She's also used redeemed vouchers from TopCashBack or whatever else she gets up to in order to blow £159 on one of those carpet shampoo cleaners. Most of the house has hard floors, it's just the bedroom, stairs and upstairs hallways that are carpeted.

I just... just... women. I gave up trying to make sense of them a long time ago.

>>9449

Carpet shampoo cleaners are also pretty shite. They do make a difference but not £159 worth.

>>9458
Her mum has one, so she could have borrowed that on the rare occasion we need one. I don't know.

>>9459
Weren't you going to buy socks with the voucher anyway? Just cook some chicken and chips and enjoy it.

You can have the inferior translated version...

...or you can accept the sanctions and listen to the original:

Soundtrack to leaving school at 16 with no qualifications and spending summer hanging out at a mates house smoking weed and drinking because he had a 'cool' mum. Unfortunately the lass I had a crush on at the time went out with every lad but me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmsbP13xu6k

It sounded like something a 16 year old could do in ten minutes in Magix Music Maker, until you realised how fucking genius it really was.

Blaring out of every Golf GT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQQokcoOzeY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXX42IBIOVc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpdGtpfzgJk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zns8Y8phigk

Fucking brilliant.


Also -


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5LW07FTJbI

>>5430
> Penny Mordaunt

Portsmouth North is a so-called bellwether constituency; it's also where I grew up and my Dad still lives. It's probably going Labour in the next election - much as I love her, she isn't going to be the prime minister anytime soon.

>>5430
She's just saying that so he'll keep fucking her.

>>5432
If she's that gagging for a shagging, she should just post here and get lusted after by that worryingly guiltless poster who fancies her. It would be less embarrassing. Even Andrea Leadsom has turned on Boris now.

Resist ITZ for less.

>>5429

Hi Paul!

https://thegrayzone.com/2022/06/07/paul-masons-covert-intelligence-grayzone/

The song is great too.

>>43066
>>43067
>>43069
I think I prefer the Sonic video, at least it has Kate Bush.

>>43071

>>43071
I would obliterate Lizzo. Nothing would remain of either of us. Just dust floating in the breeze.

>>43073

I don't think you're man enough m8, I don't think anyone is. She'd suck you dry and leave behind a dessicated husk.

>>43074
My ex looked very much like Lizzo, other than being about 2.5X as fat. 7 years later I still regret breaking up with her.

I don't shave my face that often, and if I do I only ever go down to stubble length with the clippers.

However I do like to keep my bollocks tidy. I have until now been using a combination of the electric clippers to do the majority of the work and then finishing off with a wet disposable razor. It does the trick when you are anticipating a night of passion with a slavic greyhound, but the next couple of days when the stubble starts to come through on the mons pubis and the sides of your sack are always a test of endurance.

What's the issue here, do I need to use a better razor, better shaving gel, moisurise after? All of the above?

>>6688
Don't shave above your cock, you maniac. Shave your balls and cock, then leave the surrounding area trimmed but not completely hairless. Like a fade. If you're all hairy around it, you're going to look like you've borrowed someone else's genitals otherwise.

>>6688

Bollock and arse stubble always itches like hell. Don't shave, it's not appealing, just keep it trimmed.

>>6689

You do the bit just above, and fade it into the line of hair from your belly button. If you don't leave a space you're wasting the entire purpose of shaving- Making it look bigger.

In before "well I don't need to hurr hurr", I'm sure you don't mate, and obviously nor do I, this website has a mean cock size of around 13 inches by my reckoning- And that's just in girth. But who's turning down an extra free inch?

>>6690

Nonsense, the lassies say they like it because then it doesn't itch against their fanny when you bottom out.

>>6691

Shampoo and condition your pubes, then they'll be silky soft.

>>71093
What do you mean "instead of" hipsters? Are people not still hating on hipsters?

>>71094
I don't think hipsters exist anymore. They're certainly not bête noire du jour.

Woke snowflakes.

Either evangelist christian korean youtuber people, non-binary people, or people who hate those people, depending on who you fraternise with.

>>71096
>>71097

Almost. The truth is they are exactly the same people.

if you scratch the paint and look just under the surface of the average pronoun snowflake, you will find it's just plain hipster underneath. being a hipster was about being cooler than everyone else and staying ahead of the curve in your circle of urban, gentrified, pretend bohemian mates. it was an arms race to see who could grow the silliest moustache or wear the tackiest jumper.

same goes for being a vegan pansexual demi-spirit genderfluid relationship anarchist with a feeld profile. it's a highly advanced form, barely recognisable, but the dna is 100% pure hipster.

>>71083

I wouldn't expect any different from that mucky Dutch lot.

Nobody has mentioned yet that the statue also has three arms. Perhaps that was the real message all along.

>>71088
Two and a half.

>>71084
Despite posting myself, I'm not actually involved in this discussion and was merely trying to effect more shit-hurling by pointing out the existence of the statue to the person who was saying OP was trolled to tears.

Have fun figuring out that third arm.

>>71091
If the statue was as good bait in its original context, the troll account wouldn't have had to recontextualise it. QED.The third arm is because the person is merged with another.

>>71074
> an extreme media luvvie
Mate you have a "favourite royal" you don't get to criticise anyone for appearing in the media. Your preference for bumholes to vaginas doesn't seem relevant either.

>>71075
Sorry, Meghan. You also give your kids stupid names.

>>71074
>luvvie
>favourite royal
>sjw
Tosser spotted.

>>71076

Giving the general impression you're envious of her marriage to Harry.

>>71074

Remember that time he dressed up as a Nazi for that party?

so does she.