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What is the average intelligence of text board.org readers and posters? All I can guess is that the average IQ is rapidly falling.
IQ is degenerate globohomo scam for poorfags and total idiots, IQ is endorsed by shills.
That's the news from SchemeBBS, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.
I like muscular women, they are very pretty.
IQ = 85
I like very tall, high, athlethic fit women, that do Olympic swimming or NBA or baseball. Who are also smart and could keep conversation going wether it PhD thesis for quantum physics or UFO. A friendly LOWKEY attitude is also important. 🧡
ts are fine too
also there been idea in the air of IQ captcha, seems better than current weeb captchas. But do not spawn a new board for that sole specific reason, as an excuse, there are way too many boards, and not too many tall athlethic fit women who meaningfully contribute to the discussion.
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Different peace draft for Ukraine
Russians soldiers withdraw from all of pre-2014 Ukraine, that means even including Crimea, UNDER THE CONDITION, that all US military, including its secret service members, withdraws from Ukraine as well, and Russia is allowed access to their fleet in the Black sea AND Ukraine promises to never join NATO, ceases its current "enhanced opportunities" association with it and permanently becomes a neutral sovereign country.
If the contract is broken, there is war again, until the next peace contract. We general population in the West shouldn't allow the post-2001 secret service monolith to wag the dog again into such a war, out of our own interest. Ideally, corporations would be fined, according to their involvement. Particularly for agitation and propaganda.
>>25
Vladimir Putin is an AI puppet of the American armaments industry. The invasion of Ukraine was planned by a consortium of American weapons manufacturers to increase sales. American lawmakers are supportive because the war increases tax revenue and employment.
>>26
Using warfare as a means to economic growth has to be one of dumbest ideas that humanity has ever conceived.
How would anyone think that we can grow our economy by destroying another economy, or in the case of civil war, our own economy.
Wars might increase weapons sales but at what cost? Won't it be easier to just pay people dig holes and then pay others to fill the same holes?
Heck, if you think there is nothing left to support economic growth, just take a look at all the research proposals coming out and the list of unsolved scientific problems.
In any case, warfare is staged for purely different reasons other than purely economic growth. My hunch is HUMAN GREED. Just take a look at how much land is currently unoccupied, yet a battle ensues over some very specific piece of land. Leading to the question, won't it be easier to just develop some unoccupied piece of land instead of fighting over some one specific set of coordinates?
>>26
Biden created a lot of jobs, so people can have the three jobs necessary to pay for basic living expenses.
it's not about "economic growth", it's about depopulation. controlled demolition of bankrupt Ukrainian economy. 90% of people are parasites. as long as people multiply like rabbits they will go on killing each other like rabbits. it's nice to understand that soon there will be much more blood, vaxxers and pro lifers killing each other.
There are more effective means to depopulate than warfare.
Given, economic growth is clearly not the aim of warfare. Albeit, it does bring a smile to weapons manufacturers whenever warfare is staged.
The true causes of warfare, in my opinion, are for us mere mortals to speculate. We cannot start them when we want, neither can we stop them when we don't.
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I can't keep count.
I wouldn't do that if I were you.
macroblogging - blogging lisp macros
How I am supposed to use board when each time I get 403. I'm new user & in good faith, please stop & unban un403 my isp 247 & other subnets.
seems like x.x.245.x also 403ed :(
maybe you should expand/explain your 403 messages in better details & how to work around them. I really love to write & contribute meaningful posts for your board, but that's been such a pain to get 403 unexpectedly after writing a post and trying to "post" it. (or lyft 403 from ..245.)
I fucking hate sepples why do I have to program in it
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I don't usually post here, I just check every so often to clean up the spam. I find it tiresome to write in english: it's not my mother tongue. Maybe I should write my mind and ask OpenAI to translate.
The Internet as I (we?) knew and loved it is all but dead. If I felt like talking to random strangers, I wouldn't even know where to go. Let's try here.
I am wondering if keeping the site running is really worth it. It feels the same as shit like https://www.ddial.com : useless nostalgia in the time of TikTok. I actually hate meme culture, reading the same thing over and over only angers me, but a sure sign that a community doesn't really exist is when it has failed to produce a single meme or recurring joke.
Ni devas traduki R7RS-on al Esperanto, kaj esperantiĝi SchemeBBS-on ankaŭ. Tiel vi ne devus paroli angle.
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Google for "stefan lanka". In short, cold is cold, animal flus are pesticide poisoning, syphilis was deliberate poisoning with mercury as "cure". As compared to animals in zoos or farms people are starving. germ theory of diseases is total bs. all governments do is lie, lie, lie.
division vax/antivax is intentional and misleading. don't trust germ theorists.
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Freedom consists in converting the state from an organ superimposed upon society into one completely subordinate to it; and today, too, the forms of state are more free or less free to the extent that they restrict the "freedom of the
state"
I see this kind of statement all the time “marx siad x y z” but there is never a reference to book/essay + page number. Do you animals really think you can just make wild claims with no citation? Stupid
marx was a stupid shill
>>5
It's one thing to recite the words that came from the Marx's publications. It's another thing to interpret the meaning that puts the citation within its proper context. A simple reading of Marx divorced from his context means that you lose a lot of meaning when interpreting his publications. I personally missed so much of what Marx meant during my initial readings of his works because I wasn't able to find its proper context. It was only after a serious dive into the history of Marx that I read other publications (that were not written by Marx) that put the words of Marx within the proper context. So it is possible that I would cite the specific chapters of Marx's works, I won't be doing this at the moment. The reason is that Marx has a worldview that isn't a western Christian worldview, I'm not going to cite the background context that properly matches the words of Marx. Instead, I merely wrote my very high level interpretation of what Marx meant without direct citations.
>>5
It's from Critique of the Gotha Programme: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/ch04.htm
Here's the programme itself: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gotha_Program
But if you mean >>4 then yes, that's completely made up and has nothing to do with the actual works of Marx.
never read marx, it's waste
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When you sign in you must give your phone number, id, driving license, picture of you holding random objects..., just like when you try to get your bitcoins out of Coinbase.
Then you're randomly assigned a partner who's the only person you'll ever be able to chat to. You're legally married according to the laws of this last chance dating site and you'll never be able to make another account. Think of a one-shot Omegle, it's actually very simple to put together.
State-mandated gfs!!!
>>1
This is arranged marriage with extra steps....
>>8
Indians love this!
This should not be implemented as a dating site. This should be implemented by the state in the form of a Ministry of Marriages (MOM). Every citizen will have their life partners selected for them by the state. Every marriage must be consummated in the presence of a group of witnesses that includes government officials. Life skills such as child care and sexual intercourse methods will be part of the mandatory school curriculum. Divorce, adultery, and family neglect are strictly forbidden.
there's no problem
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Love from Kazakhstan, I Hate Women So Much It's Unreal.
Great country.
Mounted Horse Archery Competition, Kazakhstan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDCsNX1LJPM
Horse archery is lit
another crap hole
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MESSAGE FROM CENTRES OF DISEASE CONTROL
THIS THREAD HAS BEEN QURANTINNED TO PREVENT SPREAD OF COVID 19
nono, inside the quarantine, everyone's dead anyway. Focus on keeping the healthy threads, healthy posts,, far away from each other. Thus may we ascertain our health.
>>3 ATTENTION; INFECTION IMMINENT. YOU ARE HEREBY QUARANTINED FOR LIFE
Pink-haired Aitana Lopez is followed by more than 200,000 people on social media. She posts selfies from concerts and her bedroom, while tagging brands such as hair care line Olaplex and lingerie giant Victoria’s Secret.
Brands have paid about $1,000 a post for her to promote their products on social media—despite the fact that she is entirely fictional.
Aitana is a “virtual influencer” created using artificial intelligence tools, one of the hundreds of digital avatars that have broken into the growing $21 billion content creator economy.
Their emergence has led to worry from human influencers their income is being cannibalized and under threat from digital rivals. That concern is shared by people in more established professions that their livelihoods are under threat from generative AI—technology that can spew out humanlike text, images and code in seconds.
But those behind the hyper-realistic AI creations argue they are merely disrupting an overinflated market.
“We were taken aback by the skyrocketing rates influencers charge nowadays. That got us thinking, ‘What if we just create our own influencer?’” said Diana Núñez, co-founder of the Barcelona-based agency The Clueless, which created Aitana. “The rest is history. We unintentionally created a monster. A beautiful one, though.”
Over the past few years, there have been high-profile partnerships between luxury brands and virtual influencers, including Kim Kardashian’s make-up line KKW Beauty with Noonoouri, and Louis Vuitton with Ayayi.
Instagram analysis of an H&M advert featuring virtual influencer Kuki found that it reached 11 times more people and resulted in a 91 percent decrease in cost per person remembering the advert, compared with a traditional ad.
“It is not influencing purchase like a human influencer would, but it is driving awareness, favourability and recall for the brand,” said Becky Owen, global chief marketing and innovation officer at Billion Dollar Boy, and former head of Meta’s creator innovations team.
Brands have been quick to engage with virtual influencers as a new way to attract attention while reducing costs.
“Influencers themselves have a lot of negative associations related to being fake or superficial, which makes people feel less concerned about the concept of that being replaced with AI or virtual influencers,” said Rebecca McGrath, associate director for media and technology at Mintel.
“For a brand, they have total control versus a real person who comes with potential controversy, their own demands, their own opinions,” McGrath added.
Human influencers contend that their virtual counterparts should have to disclose that they are not real, however. “What freaks me out about these influencers is how hard it is to tell they’re fake,” said Danae Mercer, a content creator with more than 2 million followers.
The UK’s Advertising Standards Agency said it was “keenly aware of the rise of virtual influencers within this space” but said there was no rule where they must declare they are generated by AI.
Many other markets are contending with the problem, with India being one country that forces virtual influencers to reveal their AI origins.
Although The Clueless discloses Aitana is fake through the hashtag #aimodel in her profile on Instagram, many others do not do so or use vague terms such as #digitalinfluencer.
“Even though we made it clear she was an AI-generated model . . . initially, most of her followers didn’t question her authenticity, they genuinely believed in her existence,” said Núñez, who added that Aitana has received multiple requests to meet followers in person.
One of the first virtual influencers, Lil Miquela, charges up to hundreds of thousands of dollars for any given deal and has worked with Burberry, Prada and Givenchy.
Although AI is used to generate content for Lil Miquela, the team behind the creation “strongly believe [the storytelling behind virtual creators] cannot be fully replicated by generative AI,” said Ridhima Kahn, vice-president of business development at Dapper Labs, who oversees Lil Miquela’s partnerships.
“A lot of companies are coming out with virtual influencers they have generated in a day, and they are not really putting that human element [into the messaging] . . . and I don’t think that is going to be the long-term strategy,” she added.
Lil Miquela is considered by many to be mixed race, and her audience of nearly 3 million followers ranges from the US to Asia and Latin America. Meanwhile, The Clueless now has another creation in development, which it calls a “curvy Mexican” named Laila.
Francesca Sobande, a senior lecturer in digital media studies at Cardiff University, has researched virtual influencers with racially ambiguous features and suggests that the motivations behind giving some of these characteristics are “simply another form of marketing” in order to target a broader audience, when “something has been created with a focus on profit.”
“[This] can be very convenient for brands wanting to identify global marketing strategies and trying to project a hollow image that might be perceived as progressive,” said Sobande, who added that “seldom does it seem to be black people” creating the virtual avatars.
Dapper Labs emphasized that the team behind Lil Miquela is diverse and reflects her audience. The Clueless said its creations were designed to “foster inclusivity and provide opportunities to collectives that have faced exclusion for an extended period.”
The Clueless’s creations, among other virtual influencers, have also been criticized for being overly sexualised, with Aitana regularly appearing in underwear. The agency said sexualisation is “prevalent with real models and influencers” and that its creations “merely mirror these established practices without deviating from the current norms in the industry.”
Mercer, the human influencer, argued: “It feels like women in recent years have been able to take back some agency, through OnlyFans, through social media, they have been able to take control of their bodies and say ‘for so long men have made money off me, I am going to make money for myself’.”
But she said AI-generated creations, often made by men, were once again profiting from female sexuality. “That is the reason behind growing these accounts. It is to make money.”
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What is COVID-19 brain fog — and how can you clear it?
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March 8, 2021
By Andrew E. Budson, MD, Contributor; Editorial Advisory Board Member, Harvard Health Publishing
As a cognitive behavioral neurologist, I’ve been hearing from many individuals who are complaining of “brain fog” after infection with COVID-19. So I thought it was worth discussing exactly what COVID-19 brain fog is, and some things to do that might help clear it.
What is brain fog?
Let’s start by trying to understand brain fog. Brain fog is not a medical or scientific term; it is used by individuals to describe how they feel when their thinking is sluggish, fuzzy, and not sharp.
We all experience this feeling from time to time. Perhaps you couldn’t think clearly when you were sick with the flu or another illness. Maybe you were jet-lagged and your thinking was sluggish because it felt like it was 2 AM. Or perhaps you took an antihistamine or another medication that made your thinking fuzzy for a few hours. In each case you probably just waited to get back to normal, whether that meant recovering from your illness, adjusting to the new time zone, or waiting for the side effects of the medication to wear off.
But what if your thinking didn’t return to normal?
What is COVID-19 brain fog?
Recently I received an email from a man who described how he is still struggling with “cognitive challenges” since recovering from the virus in the spring of 2020. His doctor ran him through a checkup and a battery of tests. Everything was normal, yet his cognitive challenges remain. Like this man, many people who have recovered from the acute, life-threatening effects of COVID-19, but still don’t feel that their thinking and memory are back to normal.
How COVID-19 affects the brain
There are many ways that COVID-19 can damage the brain. As I described in a previous blog post, some can be devastating, such as encephalitis, strokes, and lack of oxygen to the brain. But other effects may be more subtle, such as the persistent impairment in sustained attention noted by Chinese researchers.
In addition to direct effects on the brain, COVID-19 can also have long-term effects on other organ systems. So-called long haulers can have other lingering symptoms including fatigue, body aches, inability to exercise, headache, and difficulty sleeping. Some of these problems may be due to permanent damage to their lungs, heart, kidneys, or other organs. Damage to these organs — or even just the symptoms by themselves — can impair thinking and memory and cause brain fog. For example, how can you think clearly if you’re feeling fatigued and your body is aching? How can you concentrate if you were up half the night and awoke with a headache?
What should you do if you may be experiencing COVID-19 brain fog?
The first and most important thing to do is to see your doctor and share with them all of the lingering symptoms you are experiencing. These should include your brain fog and other neurologic symptoms (such as weakness, numbness, tingling, loss of smell or taste), and also problems such as shortness of breath, palpitations, and abnormal urine or stool.
What might help clear the brain fog?
To help clear the brain fog, I recommend pursuing all of the activities that we know help everyone’s thinking and memory.
Perform aerobic exercise. You may need to start slow, perhaps just two to three minutes a few times a day. While there is no established “dose” of exercise to improve brain health, it’s generally recommended you work toward 30 minutes a day, five days a week.
Eat Mediterranean-style meals. A healthy diet including olive oil, fruits and vegetables, nuts and beans, and whole grains has been proven to improve thinking, memory. and brain health.
Avoid alcohol and drugs. Give your brain the best chance to heal by avoiding substances which can adversely affect it.
Sleep well. Sleep is a time when the brain and body can clear out toxins and work toward healing. Make sure you give your body the sleep it needs.
Participate in social activities. We are social animals. Not only do social activities benefit our moods, but they help our thinking and memory as well.
Pursue other beneficial activities, including engaging in novel, cognitively stimulating activities; listening to music; practicing mindfulness; and keeping a positive mental attitude.
viruses don't exist at all
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Hey guys, I made my own textboard. Would be cool if you could drop by. Thanks!
Tor: http://textpd7sjaop2223dfmxplbmrjn4jf2rpt3dzk73w34i3qb7aa77zsid.onion/
In what way? General confusion?
>>16
I think he means >>14, but it might also be general confusion.
Where’s Gangsters Paradise?
Dead as a dodo
More like Text Parasite. Haha.