>>6391
Not with the state of schools today. Some people have dire knowledge of history.

Jacob Bronowski, despite not being a historian as such, gives one of the most beautiful overviews of human development I've ever come across in The Ascent of Man. It's more like anthropology, really, or a kind of history of science -- but the scope goes a lot wider than that, drawing on culture, biology, geography, and politics.

I'd recommend watching the television series and using the book as a companion. Finding this series in my early twenties genuinely made me a more a more compassionate person. If I could redesign a history curriculum from scratch, I'd probably draw heavily on this work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH7SJf8BnBI

>>6390

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2145007.History

This will give you the basics, then you can research further individual topics. It is massive though.

>>6395
Not OP, but bookmarked for later viewing, ad book title noted. Thank you.

Sage for old thread.

some odd history https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4sEmXUuWIFlxRIFBRV6VXQ/videos

It's nice we got what will likely be one last movie with the old gang back together. I think people went in expecting action action action and didn't get it.

>>6401
Better on your record than your liver.

>>6399

There's a whole thread in /A/ for us resting actors.

> if I have raw chicken

You mean on purpose? I googled that pic and it turns out Chicken sashimi is a thing.

I drank it consistently although not that heavily transitioning from my late teenage years to early adulthood. I will say it probably impacted my health in a very negative manner coupled with my sedentary computer NEET lifestyle and barely working out.

Can't even process things that fast anymore and I often struggle to find the right words for my sentences in realtime talk and if I say something erroneous I'll try to correct myself.

I do hope I don't have early-onset dementia, that would suck a great deal.

>>6408
I'm fairly sure that talking on the computer and talking in person use different parts of the brain. You may be overestimating how much damage the alcohol did and underestimating how much better trained you are to talk via a keyboard than in actual face-to-face human interactions.

>>64425

nah m8 there still trying to boot up her clone wot theyve got in the vat under windsor castle but no one can remember where they wrote down the access codes or summat

Gibbo, Burnsey and Cheeks failed at the job just like Marcus Sarjeant and Michael Fagen. Cowboys.

>>64421
is this about Peter Kay?

>>64432

No, he's dead.

I'm so easily amused that I find the names funny

No, I wouldn't draw that conclusi- oh, this is /iq/. In that case yeah y not m8.

The obvious solution is to offer lobotomies to high IQ people with treatment resistant depression.

>>64436

Or ten minutes a day on .gs

>>20728
You could pray on your knees perhaps? Or lying down?

>>20730
That's not how praying works. It's a ritual thing. You have to be clean - clean clothes, purified yourself (Wudhu), etc. Be clean inside and out. You have to do that five times a day, which is mandatory. If you want the bonus rounds, you can pray all the extra prayers to get sweet brownie points to level up after you die.

With that all being said, I am still deeply troubled by what will happen to me after I die. Referring back to what I have been taught when I was young - the punishment is worse for those who were taught better and went astray.

>>20729
It is a fun game. I was told to fold my trousers up a bit before prayers a couple of times. It is a good way to measure how far along a person is along the scale.

>>20728
I asked a couple of Asian friends about this; said you're talking bollocks. They said it's frowned upon to wear things like robes that would drag on the floor to pray because they aren't modest but that's it.

>>20732

There's some degree of dispute about whether it's forbidden or merely frowned upon, but the hadith are pretty clear that wearing garments below the ankle is not cool.

https://islam.stackexchange.com/questions/1895/is-it-necessary-for-eskimo-males-to-wear-cloths-that-which-show-up-the-skin-abov

I don't think OP is emotionally mature enough to have relationships.

They don't seem like the are capable of dealing with any problems without looking for a sinister motive. I'm also concerned with the pushing them to tears. I think this story ends in OP being one of those abusive controlling people who acts like nothing is their fault. And they can't help but take restitution for any grievance to the absurd where as a normal person wouldn't even perceive a grievance had happened.

OP lad overreacted for a tenner , obviously, and it'd have been better to let it slide if it was the first time anything of the sort had happened.

That said, can I ask you lads- How much money does a bird have to accidentally nick before it does become a problem for you? Or, for that matter, how many times would you give the benefit of the doubt before you started to get suspicious? Not trying to be a cunt just genuinely posing the question for debate.

For instance, my ex developed a habit of "accidentally" overspending, and me having to front her half of the rent. I let her off the first couple of times, naturally, but I had to say no eventually. If I'd let her carry on, I'd only be setting the precedent that it's okay for her to behave with complete financial irresponsibility, and I'd always be there to pull her out.

At the time I wondered if I was being similarly petty to the OP in this instance, but I feel pretty confident drawing a line was the right thing to do. It can be a hard thing to judge in anything other than hindsight.

>>29107

>How much money does a bird have to accidentally nick before it does become a problem for you?

Probably it would have to be a couple of hundred quid before I started having doubts about it being an accident.

>how many times would you give the benefit of the doubt before you started to get suspicious?

It's one of those "know it when I see it" type judgements. I've had girlfriends that were just a bit scatterbrained, so a lot of things I'd assume were her being thick rather than thieving. Then I've had others that were very organised and I'd find it hard to believe they would make the same mistake more than a couple of times. It's not hard to identify a pattern in this sort of thing, I'm speaking from experience, not with a partner but with a family member.

When it comes to rent and loaning money to your partner, I'm much the same as you, it's fine in general but if you overspend every month and rely on me to dig you out then you're being a knob.

Slightly tongue in cheek here lads but wait until you're married and the missus starts ringing up four grand sofas on your credit card.

>>29107
>How much money does a bird have to accidentally nick before it does become a problem for you? Or, for that matter, how many times would you give the benefit of the doubt before you started to get suspicious?

I don't see why the amount would matter beyond simple plausibility. The smart answer is if it makes you suspicious then you try to confirm it first which may involve leaving money out or thinking about whether this conforms with a picture of her character in general.

Become a shameless gold-digger with a mommy-complex, lads. You merely have to watch out that most of your clothes don't become her 'presents'.

>For instance, my ex developed a habit of "accidentally" overspending, and me having to front her half of the rent

She can fuck right off.

>>63998
People like the "one neat trick that solves complex societal problem" rather than the nuanced incremental changes, or at least the media do because it's easier to get their heads around and report on a radical quick fix.

Politicians also love something that can be condensed into a sound bite. At the current time, unsurprisingly, most of the noise is about A Levels and university admissions; Labour want students to apply to university after they have their results because they claim that poorer students are most likely to have their grades predicted too low and will end up accepting an unconditional offer from a 'lesser' university than they would be admitted to based on their actual grades.

This appears to be a good thing but in isolation it is an oversimplification of a wider and more complex issue. We should also be asking why teachers in disadvantaged areas are much more likely to under-predict the grades of their students; the Sutton trust found that they tend to have the greatest misconceptions about Oxbridge and are far less likely to encourage pupils to study there. Are they more jaded and does this rub off into their teaching? Do they have much less belief and optimism for their students? Are they less engaged with their students, perhaps due to larger class sizes and more disruptive children, so they don't actually know them well enough to predict their grades with as much accuracy? If we want to emulate the likes of Finland then it's clear that we need to be almost halving class sizes. We should also be asking whether students from poorer backgrounds are given even support to understand how important where you study actually is and that a degree from the university of Manchester is far more valuable than a degree from Manchester met. We should be asking whether we have too many 'lesser' institutions and if some of these should be converted into polys. We should be asking why so many universities are making unconditional offers in the first place. We should be asking whether too many students are going to university. You get the idea, otherwise you're just papering over the cracks.

Targeting chicken shops was racist, they said.

>Man dies after Lewisham chicken shop fight

>A man has died after a fight at a chicken shop in London.
>The Met said two men suffered stab wounds and head injuries in a fight in Downham Way, Lewisham, at about 23:55 BST on Friday.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-49700338

>>64075
Wasn't someone else stabbed to death in a KFC in London the other day?

>>64075

But was this chicken shop participating in #knifefree?

It might well have saved somebody's life.

Further evidence, if it were needed, that knife crime and fried chicken are intertwined.

>>64417
BLOODY NORA
MILFY MILKERS

This is basically the kind of thing I wank to these days. Makes me sad in a way; what ever happened to that 18 year old pervert reading g-fur comics and playing adventure games where the aim was to be oviposited? Suddenly tits are enough, what a let down.

>>27318

Not the right place otherlad. If you're coming here to get your pc fixed you might as well hang round with a group of love and cherishers asking for the best lube.

>I'm going to buy a screwdriver set and have a poke around, but I'm not really sure what to look for -- how can I tell what part broke?

>Am I better off taking it to a repair shop? Perhaps they test the components individually?

It's almost certainly a motherboard fault. If you don't even own a screwdriver set, you have basically no chance of finding and fixing a blown component on a modern motherboard - they're absolutely teeny-tiny and require specialist tools and techniques to (de)solder. If you're lucky, there isn't any lasting damage, just a bit of lingering moisture or mineral residue that's preventing the machine from booting, so give it another day or two to dry off. If you're going to take the machine apart anyway, (carefully) remove the motherboard and thoroughly wash it in high-purity isopropyl alcohol.

>>27320

Well, tits. I'll wait it out. Thanks lad.

What would the milk be like if they were shown nothing but Let's Play videos of Katamari Damacy?

>>64403
That does sound familiar.

OK now I realise what you are actually referencing, but for some reason I genuinely had a memory of cows being in VR.

>>64406

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3mmTaxKEsQ

moo matrix

>>23055
Just buy him an N64 and insist you think it's the same thing.

They're now selling the digital versions of the Xbox One for €99 on Amazon, they're going down massively in price.

>>23172
what the hell is that? like an emulator to run on your PC?

>>23173

An xbox one without a CD drive.

>>23173
What the other lad said and also covered off earlier (>>22807). The cheapest deal at the moment seems to be £84 from Very if you buy it on credit.

https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/xbox-one-sall-digital-console-1tb-optional-extras-7999-at-very-new-customers-only-3347326

>>27308

The answer is 'pretty well', it seems. Here's a decent video on it that goes over the basics, but also demonstrates that even though Linus is actively trying to get the authentication to trip up, it doesn't always work. It also seems like if your Win10 licence is tied to a Windows Live account it's even easier to sort out anyway.

https://youtu.be/M3bezYerYxQ?t=110

>>27309

I should add that in my experience, I've swapped out graphics cards, CPU and motherboard, and Windows 10 either didn't notice, or immediately adapted to the new hardware behind the scenes. I've also put my SSD from one Thinkpad into a different model and that worked fine too. I wouldn't worry.

>>27309
>>27310

Sound, I'll just go for it then. Cheers lad.

>>27306
> How much of my PC can I upgrade before Windows 10 shits itself?

I'll eventually find this out myself as I migrate various VMs around work/customer/enterprise boxes but I do have a shit ton of experience of Office 2013's "Windows Genuine Advantage" which basically threw its toys out of the pram if your CPU changed.

If Win10 is anything like WGA you can change your hdd/ssd, your ram, and any peripherals like video cards / gpus and the like - but the moment you change out the CPU it'll throw a wobbly.

Essentially it all comes down to what data MSFT uses to create their "globally unique identified" (my money's on CPU model and serial number and probably BIOS/UEFI serial number if it's available).

>>27316
If you've got a fleet of any significant size you really should be using KMS or emulating it.

I'm getting some Nazi vibes around 1:40.

>>27303

l33t hacking?

>>27303 I dunno I think PDAs have had their day.

That's probably why you didn't buy one, and I did.
I've had Nokia Communicators, teeny tiny laptops, the Gemini and now this. It's hardly a PDA, it's a computer with a small but tolerable keyboard. I really don't like touchscreens for text entry, and this is something I can easily pocket, and which has a decent battery life so it'll probably work when I want to use it.
As for 'why' - it's a fine email machine, and fine for hammering out words for code or documents. I still tend to go back to a real machine for editing, but for getting the first cut of things, if I can't be arsed to fire up a laptop or find somewhere to perch it, it works nicely. I played with various OSes on the Gemini, but lacklustre support for the Mediatek means I ended up back on Android. I'll try again on the Cosmo.

>>27305 l33t hacking?

it does make a decent ssh / remote desktop / X box, which seems to be what the kids think l33t hacking is all about.

>>27313

That is basically what I meant, joking aside. I only have personal projects to faff about with but have still often wanted a 'proper' keyboard for this sort of thing. Even just for emailing in the field in my real job, though personally I prefer a good software keyboard over an "okay" mini keyboard. A thumb board is preferable to both, something in the XDA format would be genuinely useful for my work, but a the clamshell of this or the Gemini or the GPD Pocket are just not ideal for the outdoor-ish work I find myself doing, and modern smartphones are still pretty excellent at typing while standing up, walking etc, but lack the ability to run weird old proprietary software I use, and they don't play well with our VLAN either.

Yeah, the clamshells aren't good for standing use.
It's stunning that blackberry managed to shit the bed so comprehensively. They had the best thumboards, good screens, a decent understanding of power and security. I loved the thumbwheel thingy, that's a fine navigation tool, fast and accurate.

>>64396

i would say that the most crippling problem we have in this country is actually symbolic classism. People are primed to trust those at the top, to defer to the elite, and the monarchy is the ultimate keystone of that idea, even though as you rightly say they don't really do anything, it'd be the push we need.

>>64395
Treason Act 1351 is still on the law books.

>>64395
Okay, but in the interest of fairness, only the one who doesn't have a shade of wrong'un in the family can do it.

>>64399

My auntie might have been sectioned a couple of times but she's never fucked a kid or anything.

>>64401
audible mirth

>>64388

There's a dead wasp in every fig. It's how they're pollinated.

>>64390

Many vegans see honey production as no different from any other animal farming, in that it involves exploitation of an animal and often ends up in significant bee deaths, as it's easier to cull a hive than treat it if there is an illness spreading. Presumably if you buy honey from someone with only a couple of hives instead of thousands, you could more or less guarantee a happy bee life, though I bet that's an expensive way to buy honey. I think even if I ever went vegan I'd find it hard to give up honey, it's just so good.

>>64391
I'm gonna quadruple my intake of fig rolls if it means more wasps dying. That's extra satisfaction.

>>64392

It's a specific type of wasp, unsurprisingly known as the fig wasp, and I don't think they're really anything like the yellow bastards we are at war with.

>>64393
Them wasps all look the same to me though.

>>64393
Aaawww I googled it, and I feel bad for it. We should call it something different - like "flying fig ants," or something.

I've been going to church as a Catholic most of my life. Myself and some of the other lads have been getting shitfaced after mass every Sunday. I really look forward to Sundays. Religious people really aren't that religious for the record, and it can be an easy place to make a few pals to drink with mate. Given, I am in central London, so I'm not sure how populated things are in your area. Mass in your area might be a bunch of old people singing Jesus songs.

>>29024

OP here. I doubt that's really an option for me, considering I'm exactly the sort of person a Christian might assume to be a devil worshipper, and if they were to delve into my creative output over the years might find a considerable body of evidence to support such a claim.

Once, when I worked in a shop, a frightened looking woman gave me a leaflet about salvation after I'd finished serving her. I recall finding it incredibly rude.

I find it's very easy for the chans to sweep me along with poor worldviews and 'reality tunnels'. It's times like those when it helps me to remember the sea is still rolling - moment after moment going in and out for eternity (at least as i could percieve it). Life goes on, those people on the beach aren't the people in my mind - for one i didn't even imagine if they're have hair. It's all too easy to think your ideas exist in the real world, when in reality everything is far to complex for us to get even a momentary grasp of (though it seems the strive to hold it is as important as letting go).

It might take a few days, perhaps longer, but i usually find getting some fresh air helps. Sit at a park side with a mug of tea, listening to the world go by. There's more beauty about this existance than we might usually think. Just need some environmental enrichment.

>What can I do?

Get outside, the internets isn't real.

>>29019
>Chan boards? Infested with alt-right mouthbreathers

As someone that's been on a certain imageboard on-and-off for what'll be ten years in 2020, I know how you feel, m8. I hate these people about as much as those redditors you mentioned. I just saw that this meme (a meme that was part of the reason I really grew sick of the place) is apparently now so ubiquitous that it's trended on knowyourmeme:

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-eternal-anglo

Maybe I'm also just getting older, but the lack of any kind of civility online is just tiring to me, now. The internet has rarely ever been civil, but *at least* I knew there was an element of freedom of expression, as older people still didn't quite understand what kids did. Now we're not even gonna have that. All the places I've browsed for years are full and under a corporate thumb that once wasn't there, and if they are there, the place quickly becomes full of childish ideologues and oh-so hilarious memers.

What I will say is that I agree very much with this lad >>29030. I'm very lucky that I have a friend who thinks similarly to me, but he's admittedly also a lot more socially mature, less anxious. He thinks many of the things I think, but he's also just a kind, grounded person. He was once a lot more addicted to chans and the internet, but he hasn't been for years, now. He focuses on the outside world, and he just seems happier for it. Thinking of him keeps me remembering that the world outside, at least as it currently is, doesn't really give a shit about most of us, and that those that concern themselves with the internet too much are the ones ultimately doing themselves harm. They think they're so smart, so learned, so funny, but they're rarely making the difference that they think they are.

I guess to just summarise: The world does keep turning. And unless we hear nuclear sirens going off or you see tanks rolling down your street; then you've got the rest of your life to go out and enjoy it. I'd recommend getting the money together to visit national parks, forests, museums, etc. Don't mind the weather, just give it a go. It'll at least remind you that you're alive.