>>67340
Why would Emily reappear now, at this stage in the ILL CULT game?

>>67340
I've only just come across her just now.

She seems relatively sane to me.

https://blackrabbitblackrabbitblackrabbit.blogspot.com/2010/

>>67410
Richard Herring doesn't blog this much, Jesus.

>>67417
That's not her only blog either - there are many many others. Poor lass is disturbed.

>>67419
>Poor lass is disturbed.
Oh, really?!

>>67405

I've never once heard anyone being called a captainess, it might be a real word but it is never, ever fucking used - and yes I do encounter females with the title of captain, daily.

>>67406

>That's not how people work no matter your relative wealth and it presumes that rational actors are at work when people are perfectly willing to play against their own interests.

I have absolutely nothing to back this up but I'm willing to bet that if you could somehow study it, people from a wealthier background are better at pursuing "rational" self interest than people from poorer backgrounds, whatever the definition of rational self interest is.

>>67407
Where do you work, either the forces or somewhere that processes lots of ships/planes?

Is there even much demand for fisherman these days? I looked into it and it turns out that only a significant portion of the elderly are getting their recommended two portions of fish a week while there's a decline every year in other demographics.

Turns out you're supposed to have two portions a week for your health which I've certainly not been doing. I should look into this but aside from baked Salmon really don't know where to start.

>>67408
>I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO BACK THIS UP

Well that explains your politics.

Thing is the biggest determining factor in altruism isn't wealth but community inequality and relative distance. I'd guess that all of us here would save a drowning child (and tut at anyone doesn't) but the amount of good you could do with even a modest western income is shameful. It's a tired argument but there's much more going on when we're all the global 1% and something philosophies of life continually smash into like a brick-wall because we don't operate consistently or rationally.

To return to the point, the ineffectual solutions pushed by the bourgeoisie is one thing but to call it a deliberate plan or suggest that they don't care at all is nonsense. I'm sure if there was a magic fanny-trawler wand they'd use it but the real solution is hard and with all gender politics liable to get you burned at the stake. Certainly harder still than some 'eat the rich' solution aimed at giving people bennies until they hear the call of the sea.

>>67416

>Well that explains your politics

And what would those be then, based off one post to make assumptions on? you great big berk.

>To return to the point, the ineffectual solutions pushed by the bourgeoisie is one thing but to call it a deliberate plan or suggest that they don't care at all is nonsense

I'm fairly certain that was actually the point of the post you are so laboriously disagreeing with mate. Good grief.

For my own view: I wouldn't call it a stretch to say throwing all this shite out and starting with cold hard measurable quantitative inequalities like income disparity across the board, would both do a lot more to address all the soft, wishy washy inequalities that only exist qualitatively as well as be much, much easier than any of the current crop of people in charge would ever like to admit. it is not at all conspiracy talk to suggest that the ruling class of our time is committed to prevent material solutions to inequality being implemented, hence why so many meaningless gestural ones must be found.

>>5504
I understand how Kidneys are supposed to work just fine, teenlad. An otherwise healthy person would not be given the same advice. So maybe you should have qualified your cry for attention if you didn't want follow up enquiries.

My fingers hurts from playing guitar too much.

I'm fully aware of why they hurt and fully expected them to hurt after I was finished because I haven't played in a while, but I'm going to make a post about it anyway.

Please don't give me medical advice, or I may become passive aggressive.

>>5501

I can't believe that's a real, it'd be too painful to have been ignored and "coped" with.

>>5513
Well, best of luck developing callouses again, I suppose.

>>5512
>cry for attention
>didn't want follow up enquiries.

So which is it I am doing professor, make up your mind?

This is an ailments thread on an image board mate, the entire point is to have a piss and a moan about your ailments, and you’ve gotten awfully high and mighty about the purpose of the thread pretty quickly if you think anyone is coming before seeking medical advice, and not just to complain. If you don't want a banal thread you need people to actually share interesting problems.

>>5508
>This is serious
Not as serious as you would think. First time it happened doctors were concerned it could be stage 4 bladder cancer as it has a lot of shared symptoms, facing your own mortality like that is terrifying, after that kidney stones felt like a blessing.

>>5509
Never heard about that before I'll ask my doctor about it next time we talk about this. Thanks

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Pretty sure those are bum seeds. You'll want to plant both of them in your bum at your earliest possible convenience.

>>2883
Does that mean he would grow another bum? That would be awkward.

>>440269
The soap doesn't hurt the plants, you can just rinse the peppers if you're worried. They won't taste of soap.

>>440270
They may be taking shelter under any fallen leaves in the pot then.

>>440272
The nice thing about home gardening is that if you have a rudimentary understanding of the chemicals you're using as well as a good understanding of organic pest control methods, you can use products in a careful targeted way to maximise their effectiveness, and minimise any exposure to yourself and to the local ecology.

Conversely this is also the big problem with commercially grown organic food, to get the label on the product it's all or nothing (unless you cheat obviously), it has to be 100% organic so you can't use a mild artificial pesticide just once to save your whole crop, you can't use a chemical fertiliser just once to correct a serious deficiency in the local soil. Then again there's still plenty of certified organic farming practices and products that are no better for your health or for the environment.

A permaculture based approach is definitely the best all-round, but it's labour-intensive and sadly there's no public awareness of it meaning you can't charge a higher price in the same way as you can with organic food.

>>440274

>you can use products in a careful targeted way to maximise their effectiveness

And that's exactly what I doubt commercial growers in southern Europe do. They'll just use tons of pesticides willy-nilly, and there have been repeated tests where they found out that vegetables from there were heavily contaminated by commercial pesticides.

As a home gardener, you can make sure you heed the recommended dosages and, crucially, waiting periods before harvesting, so that most of the pesticide will have been broken down again by the plant. With your Lidl vegetables that come from Almería or Turkey, all bets are off in those respects.

>>440275
>They'll just use tons of pesticides willy-nilly
That would be expensive for a business. I'm pretty sure they use only necessary amounts.

>>440276

Not untrue; but if you're really talking business, then you also have to factor in the cost of damaged crops due to not using enough pesticide.

Pesticides are a cost factor, but they are not a huge expense, as in cost per unit. It will be far cheaper to use excessive amounts of it than having to throw away a batch of bell pepper.

>>23196
>if anyone has other sci-fi-ish recommendations I'll take them.

The only Space one I can think of right now is "Tytania", but it's actually really disappointing, considering it's by the Legend of Galactic Heroes author.

On the other hand, "Real Drive / RD Sennou Chousashitsu" (by the same writer as Ghost in the Shell) takes a laid-back approach to Sci-Fi. It's set on an artificial island somewhere in the South Pacific, using a fully connected AR-based society which makes use of saltwater as a data storage medium. Some residents of the island have found ways to hack into this "Meta-Real" system for the purposes of pleasure-seeking and crime, and so an investigation team uses a "diver" to catch them like something out of The Lawnmower Man.
Many of the stories are self-contained but slot into an overarching narrative of social quandaries and plutocratic backstabbing. There's a lot of stuff there that would appeal to someone who is into the kind of stories that fetaured in 2000AD, for example.

>>23185
Vinland Saga was my most recent watch, that's definitely a fantastic bit of Medieval brit larp.

Made in Abyss has a nice episodic story telling style. It's a bit like Kino's Journey in that there's "mild peril" in it, but it has that feeling of exploration that seems to only scratch the surface of the world it lives in.

I should say that another anime that I'm watching right now is Re:Zero. It does have cliché elements being an anime about a NEET transported into a fantasy world but there's an interesting idea around how fucked up it would be to live with a particular superpower.

Spoiler for what that is ruins episode 1 but I assume you will have watched it already if the above were enough: When he dies he returns to a save point. Every 3-4 episodes is him facing off against some challenge and mostly having to watch all his friends die over and over until he gets it right.

>>23186
>ACCA:13-ku Kansatsu-ka (not the Insurance company) - A bright and colourful web of political intrigue in !NOTAmerica. Everyone is fucking beautiful for some reason.

I really enjoyed this. I'd say its really more a political thriller in !NOTJapan if it never formed a unitary state because you have elements that fit strongly with the past and present of Japanese monarchy and an underlying allegory to the Japanese succession debate.

I'd say Golden Kamuy is probably the best tv show running at the moment. Overall its a historical western adventure set in Hokkaido shortly after the Russo-Japanese war with plenty of comedy, cooking and learning about Japanese aboriginals mixed in.

The story follows competing groups on a hunt for hidden Ainu gold - the protagonists being a Japanese veteran and a Ainu girl with blue eyes but you slowly get a backstory for every reoccurring character. I've found myself opening up wikipedia to learn about various events described in the series which is a fascinating look at Japan's expansion into the wild Northern Islands to secure control, the short lived Republic of Ezo and Russo-Japanese strategic competition in the area.

Also to find the gold they have to use maps tattooed on people's skin. A proper good romp.

>>23196
Should say that you can watch a good portion of anime for free on Crunchyroll and with adblock you don't even have to watch ads. The catalogue doesn't have everything but I'd say there's more hours of content on a free platform than you'd find on Netflix.

>>23423
I'd imagine some form of slingshot would work as well.

>>23424
Your average* person can easily match that speed with an atlatl, if they know what they're doing.

*in good shape, so not an average modern Anglo.

>>23421

Maybe if I whirled it around like a discus thrower, but I suspect that the loose spuds would dissipate a lot of the energy. It'd be a nasty knock, but I wouldn't bank on it as a knockout blow. I'd be more confident with one big spud in a football sock.

>>23425
Even a spear with a potato on the end of it?

>>23427
Drop a spud in one of these, should be about the same.

>>13591
>probably the first in generations to have a job in a slightly more professional sphere

I can hear that you care about this person, and unlike others in the thread, that isn't a bad thing in a professional environment, as long as you haven't tried to/actually shagged her.

Your expectations of her are too high, and you need to give her good feedback to help her change and improve. Her capacity for the kind of work you are expecting her to do right now are too great, which is perhaps why you are finding her performance disappointing. Focus on the positives - start finding, and giving her feedback on the things she is good at - give her a bit of confidence. That will allow you the space to then be able to tell her the things that she needs to improve on.

Try to be unemotional when talking to her about what she has done wrong, and learn some techniques for giving good, specific feedback, for helping her to improve. I know two feedback techniques that work - 1. Start, Stop, Continue. 2. Situation, Behaviour, Impact. There are tons of pages all over the internet that talk about those feedback techniques.

https://www.ccl.org/articles/leading-effectively-articles/closing-the-gap-between-intent-and-impact/
https://www.scienceofpeople.com/start-stop-continue/

Talk to her.

The sun has been getting on my tits this week, which I'm assuming is due to it being at a lower angle. It's either too dark in my home office or it's glaringly bright; there's very little middle ground.

>>13597
>home office
Alright, Priti, you know the drill. Tits or gtfo.

>>13640
No-one wants that.

>>13641
Exactly. With Priti it's her bountiful, bodacious buttocks or nothing.

Found this weird mirror of .gs, is this your doing maroon?

http://britfa.pantsu.org

>>15578
I think that's the link someone made when purple forgot to renew the domain name.

>>15579
I believe that was http://cuntoff.club (now gone) unless there were several made.

>>15578

Just checked and it's just a duplicate DNS entry, not a full-blown mirror.

britfa.pantsu.org has address 54.154.180.248

britfa.gs has address 54.154.180.248

>>15580

Christ, apparently I didn't even bother to verify my email, amazing.

I thought councils were not allowed to lose money? Did I make that up entirely or is there some manner of law or prevision like that?

Anyway, one of the reasons I like more decentralisation in this country is so someone's keeping an eye on scoundrel laden councils like these. Maybe Croydon really did think they had a brilliant plan and they'd be millionaires by this time next year and never again have to rely on a drip feed of cold piss from central government, but Manchester are a complete load of bastards who've let the city centre go to pot in various ways.

Is this anything to do with how the Tories encouraged councils to be more like businesses and raise money that way? You know instead of funding from central government?

>>28777
No, councils aren't allowed to set unbalanced budgets. They can't stop themselves from losing money if it all goes tits up, though.

>>28779

It's a long story.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rate-capping_rebellion

>Bexley Council has approved its latest strategy for a raft of money-saving measures including cutting up to 150 full-time posts from its budget in an effort to plug a large financial black hole.

https://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/18881467.bexley-council-backs-job-cutting-strategy-balance-books/

Looks like Bexley's next. There are rumours, not yet published, that they will be begging the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government for money this week.

are you still in denial about your 3% english dna test results varg?

a true aryan warrior like are Nödtveidt would have broken you in two

>>67379
Once Eddie Izzard was presenting a documentary about human lineage (strange choice) and spends all the time talking about how he identifies as a Celt and how he can feel his African ancestry, and when he does a test it comes out as him being like %100 Anglo-Saxon.

Re what OP is saying, I think liberal lahdidahs are the most likely people to be able to actually go and live in the countryside and have their own plots, so assuming they survive the apocalypse none of them will have learned their lesson and will carry on running secret international paedophile rings and importing vibrant urban youths into Europe. Unless the apocalypse turns out to be the second coming of Christ, in which case they are all going to hell for being sodomites and apostates. I hope I have given you a lot to reflect on

Have you thought about why 'the NWO' might be doing this?
Have you heard about the population problem which, if not adequately addressed, threatens to starve out humanity by 2050?^{citation needed}
Couldn't these RNA vaccines be an attempt to release our dormant DNA which the Anunaki locked away?

Have you even thought about what 'New World Order' means, in abstract?
What are you attempting to run on your farm if it isn't a new order for your world - ie your new family?

What do you propose we do about the problems humanity faces, that doesn't result in running away to a remote farm in the middle of nowhere?

Have i taken to some delicious bait?

>>31052
>If I'm reading Rightmove properly, he bought a house ~100m away from a fairly large primary school in 2015.
Were the laws about blocking people's driveways different in 2015?

>>31052

The thing about the recent trend of driving children to school was more general than a direct defence of the man whose driveway you blocked.

>>31053
He could have got out if he really wanted to. Moving to a house near a school and getting frustrated about parking is like moving near a church and then complaining about the bells ringing.

>>31050
Come on, lad. You are the cunt in this scenario.

>>31056
I think we both were. Heigh-ho.

>>30175
Well he has made his intentions clear that he plans to escalate this to self-mutilatation.

It would be trivial for me to pass his details onto law enforcement for "concern for welfare" reasons and get him put on a 78hr section based on the evidence in this thread alone, never mind whatever he may say that incriminates himself once the cogs of institutionalisation begin to turn.

>>30176
He did post it on other boards too and it was removed from them.

>>30178

Awww, if you're that concerned I'll get it done by a doctor.

>>30178

Sorry to burst your bubble, but sanding your cock down to a nub doesn't warrant sectioning these days because it's not immediately life-threatening. Even before the pandemic, psychiatric inpatient units were working on a one-in, one-out basis and most units were routinely having to discharge actively suicidal patients to make room for even more suicidal patients.

>>30181
Another casualty of covid. RIP OP's knob.

We could always delete it and ban him if he comes back, but then we wouldn't be able to call him an arsehole in longform.

>>91584

Sounds like everyone's happy really. Centrists get to play to their crowd, lefties get to play to theirs, everyone thinks their side won in some way.

It's like WWE really isn't it, they're all mates behind the scenes.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/london-councils-warned-lessons-croydon-bankrupt-b71864.html

So what's going to happen with this Croydon council then? Surely the Govt wont bail them out, I mean it's not like they're a bank or anything.

>>91609
Here you go, lad. >>/news/28775

>>91584
>>91599
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/nov/18/jeremy-corbyn-refused-labour-whip-despite-having-suspension-lifted
Only as a Labour member apparently, Starmer's not giving him the whip back.

>>91611
If the argument for this was "we expect more of MPs" I could understand, but it's not. This just seems like the most akward fudge possible that looks bad to everyone. Hang on! It's Starmer's Brexit Ref 2.0 all over again! Christ almighty.

>>7177
Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human is popular for depressed types but I'm not convinced it aged or translates well.

>>7177

Not to be flippant, but many (most?) of Kafka's stories.

Steppenwolf by Hesse deals with a suicidal protagonist with a different, somewhat more abstract resolution.

Pulpy and satirical, not to everyone's taste, but Palahniuk's Survivor is about the last surviving member of a death cult dealing explicitly with the question of when and how to kill himself.

This was a vast improvement on The Song of Achilles. Circe was an actual rounded and fully fleshed out character, which I think is in part Miller's improvement as a writer although I did find her use of words like 'trash' a little jarring and also her motivations when writing each novel; this was focused upon showing the protagonist as a strong female character in contrast to how Greek poets diminished the roles of women in their tales or simply used them as a plot device with no agency.

>>7180
Does anyone really have agency in classical Greek stories? They always seemed to me to just do what they were fated to do, even if they actively don't want to. I'd say Euripides' Medea has more agency than Homer's Odysseus.

>>7181
Not especially, but in general women even less so. I suppose motivation might have been a better word to use rather than agency.

>>28876
No, that was caused by a haunted cowboy boot.

>>28876

Havana Syndrome couldn't have been caused by microwaves, because microwave frequencies are strongly attenuated by walls. To cause a noticeable effect from outside the building, you'd need hundreds of kilowatts of RF. That amount of energy is not subtle - anything conductive in the area would be fizzing and crackling with arcs.

>>28879
How do we know they don't have something that works around this? These weapons are at least 10 years old now, the US definitely has something more advanced especially considering they have something to deploy to protect against directed energy weapons.

>>28880
We don't, but how does that confirm that one event with one set of symptoms was done by the same thing as caused a completely different set of symptoms?

>>28880

We don't, but at the same time, you can't really just work around the fundamental way waves interact with matter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ebw6k0l6ds

>>12585

I was expecting weirdness when I saw the Harpejji, but frankly I was not prepared for that.

>>12587

It's weird but, as the youth say, it slaps.

>>12585

I was certainly not expecting that, but at the same time, I'd be fucking livid if my parents had cut my turtleneck off in the name of a god or social convention.

I think what you've noticed are differences in stress and isochrony. The rhythms of French or Spanish are closer to Mandarin or Japanese than English.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress_(linguistics)

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

All three sound fine to me, it's not until Italian that I start to notice that.

Torx is close to mathematically optimal. The only real down-side is that a) it's quite hard to distinguish the sizes by eye and b) it's quite easy to chew up a screw head by using an under-sized bit. It's perfect for manufacturing, but slightly annoying during servicing and repair.

I've probably had the least grief with internal hex, but it's not suitable for a lot of applications due to size constraints. External hex is still probably the best option for tough environments subject to abrasion or corrosion, but those buggers owe me a lot of knuckle skin.

"Cross-head" is an absolute shit-show, because there are so many almost-compatible standards.

Pentalobe can fuck off. Tri-point can fuck off, come back and then fuck off again.

My favourite is the Pitlock, which is the only removable security bolt I've used that is actually secure. Totally niche, but invaluable if you need it.

>>2827
Naruto really went too far with the whole Sharingan business

Internal hex for countersunk, external for when you really mean it. Though I think this is just an admission that I prefer bolts, but that's a whole other discussion.

I'll admit I've had limited strife with posidrive, I've rounded maybe two in the last decade, and I interact with them almost daily.

I think we can all agree slotted is a joke - I curse whatever backwards farmer built my house every time I find one.

>>2832

I should qualify that I accept that many other solutions may be technically better, but the availability of specialist bits is a huge letdown for me. You can't really bodge a torx like you can a posi/phillips or slotted, and fiddling with often fragile driver bits is a real turn off - ironically any sort of torque applied through a torx bit will snap the bit easily. Maybe I could just buy more expensive torx bits, but fuck you - I've never once snapped a Philips bit.

>>2832

>I think we can all agree slotted is a joke - I curse whatever backwards farmer built my house every time I find one.

They're fine if you drive them by hand and you use a proper hollow-ground screwdriver. In any other case they're absolutely fucking awful.

>I've never once snapped a Philips bit

Aye, but I bet you've rounded off plenty of the fuckers. There's a reason why they sell massive bulk boxes of PH2/PZ2 bits.