I can't keep count.
Love Live or Idolmaster（○￣ ～ ￣○；）H~m…
I always prefer eating out locally; it creates a comforting illusion of village living and it makes getting home so much more affordable after a few glasses of wine - or sake, as the case may be. So crossing the bridge for a meal is not taken lightly. But, encouraged by friends' rave reviews of this long-standing Mosman restaurant, we take the plunge and head north.
The door opens to an unpretentious room; it is a warm, comfortable space, with soft-yellow walls and perfect lighting, accentuated by flickering tea lights. There are wooden tables and chairs - with padded seats - and a hanging wooden grid on the ceiling.
We are here for the house speciality, the six-course set menu or kaiseki, a food experience that embodies Japanese culture and is traditionally served at tea ceremonies. In essence a tasting menu, each course is made up of several small dishes that balance flavour, texture and appearance.
One of the joys of kaiseki is it speeds up ordering when dining with a group. There are two kaiseki menus: mino (regular) or goshu (seasonal), with a choice of mains and dessert flavours. Many of the kaiseki dishes are available a la carte in larger servings.
The restaurant is full at 7pm but our friendly waitress seats us quickly, takes orders and delivers the sake, along with a basket of sake cups for us to make a selection.
Then the parade of lacquered trays begins. The opening salvo is an aperitif or amuse - a shot glass of plum wine, surprisingly delicious, and not at all cloyingly sweet, offset by a mouthful of tart pickled mackerel.
An appetiser follows on a green-glazed plate with a bonsai serving of octopus and cuttlefish salad sitting in a puddle of sweet miso. Just enough to whet the appetite, it gives a false sense of what lies ahead.
The waitress delivers a third tray, a knockout presentation of three pieces of plump sashimi - tuna, salmon and kingfish - plus two pieces of sushi with a stripe of addictive Japanese mayo and a fresh Pacific oyster raised on a pedestal and bathed in a bright vinaigrette. All four diners agree the kingfish sashimi is a knockout.
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When tray No.4 arrives, I start to worry. There are five entrees in individual pottery bowls and plates, all presented like edible art. Included is a strip of grilled ocean perch with a dash of citrusy ponzu sauce, a zucchini flower stuffed with minced prawn and lotus root, and a piece of crunchy deep-fried soft-shell crab beside a tiny mound of green-tea salt.
As the tray is cleared away, I notice the growing pile of small dishes waiting to be hand washed at the far end of the room. Exquisite ceramic plates are not dishwasher friendly.
My main is a piece of Atlantic salmon, grilled to succulent pinkness, with a sweet walnut teriyaki sauce and salad. Others choose the light-as-feather assorted tempura and a spicy miso hotpot of mixed seafoods.
No one thinks there could possibly be room for dessert. Of course, we are wrong. Tray No.6 bears a small dish of ice-cream or sorbet chosen from a range of knockout flavours (blood orange is the table favourite), alongside slices of kiwi fruit and rockmelon. There is also a pot of green-tea panna cotta - comforting and addictive - and a square of soft, dark chocolate dusted with a nutty soybean powder.
Definitely worth crossing the bridge for.
Menu Japanese, specialising in kaiseki, but also a la carte.
Value Very good. Entrees, $14; mains, $24; dessert, $8, six-course kaiseki, $59.
Recommended dishes Kingfish sashimi, grilled salmon with walnut dressing; blood-orange sorbet.
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[ 📌 KARÉ カレー, 173 Victoria St, West Melbourne VIC 3003]
KHARÉ - CITYPORT OF TRAPS
I'm not optimistic enough to believe in suicide.
https://www.notquitenigella.com/2024/01/11/sun-ming-hurstville/
Granola Shotgun & MMM
Timeout at Sidonee
https://www.timeout.com/sydney/news/the-best-free-things-to-see-and-do-during-sydney-festival-in-2024-121923
https://www.timeout.com/sydney/things-to-do/things-to-do-in-sydney-at-least-once-in-your-life
It's too easy to accidentally divide by zero.
Physically speaking, the way to a woman's heart is through her boobs.
With a gun?
>>11
Exactly, and the smaller the boobs, the closer to the heart.
>>10
don't, it's dangerous!
is github social media?
i pride myself on not using social media but my school requires github
>>15
yes
>>15
It is.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/delete-your-account-how-social-media-may-be-metastasizing-terror-in-service-of-hamas/
Before himself, a man lives first unto the Lord.
Bureaucracy is such a fine idea, why does it always have to suck?
I HATE FIREFOX
I LOVE LINKS2
Dances of Universal Peace
Peacedance.org
The Industrial Revolution and it's consequences have been a disaster for the human race
The Industrial Revolution and it's consequences have been a blessing for the human race
it's consequences
*it's consequence's
In the beginning the Universe was created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
~ Douglas Adams
*its consequences
The Industrial Revolution and its consequences will never be the same.
Possessions themselves do not make a man happy. As soon as some of his desires are quenched, new wishes spring up. This is the hard truth of human nature, and goads on many men, both great and small a far ways off from the acreage of satisfaction into the perilous lands of futility. But wisdom leads us to see the persuit for what it is: a journey to nowhere. Can we find pleasure in what things we have now, with hope in our hearts for fruitful abundance, and in abundance, good?
Suffering is endemic, it's said, yet regardless of which path you choose in the natural world, so dare to be bold and authentic. Walk with heartfelt sincereity and purpose. Take what courage you can muster, and open the eyes of your heart. Take pleasure not only in the things you have, but in the things you do, the work of your hands, knowing that you do not live unto yourself, and that every thing you do makes waves that ripple out into eternity and affect the world without and within beyond understanding and all seeking out. Hold tight upon your thoughts, and the perfection and maturation unto finality your true personality. The more you take up, so then the loss, but in all of it, a reward of finality.
sex
Miss you, love you.
Can we still post from I2P? That's the question.
tired :(
Put on some Grateful Dead and relax.
the industrial revolution and its consequences has fallen, billions must die
>>36 The dehumanization process has begun. How many human souls in hell eternal at current rate of exchange are worth a kilogram of finest gold?
>>37
2 souls per kg
>>36
The nanotech IoT AI quantum web3 cloud computing biotech blockchain Fourth Industrial Revolution has started. While billions will die, trillions more will live.
>>39
cancer and its consequences will never be the same
And if you come near my daughter, guess what?
Scheme is a huge scam.
Schame is a huge scem.
its a scheme
It's a scam scene cam, a can of man spam scans.
I don't want to work.
I think I will be a one more, just one more of those men who have never had any offspring, or any love from anyone.
I ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkFP0F8Z-jE
Oh, God!!
https://tacobelllabs.net/@nkizz/112175723261998691
Was this picture drawn by the same person that did the illustrations for The Little Scheme?
I figured it out: yes, it's Duane Bibby.
thinking of never working ever
It's wild that there are programming influencers on Twitch and YouTube and they do these dumbass reaction videos and people actually care about their opinions.
Whoever made the latest public paste, I love you too.
I like apply, it can be used to make cool stuff.
>>53
ben ur meant to stay anon
Common lisp is the least common of all lisps
It's obvious these people are having their money stolen by someone well connected with the State of Florida...
Aiming for anything other than 0% inflation is flat out retarded.
A target inflation rate of 2% means the absolute value of people's savings is halved every 35 years.
>>58
The purpose of maintaining a low inflation rate is to encourage people to spend their cash into investments; when there is a zero inflation rate, people will hoard cash in the bank over many decades, this outcome contributes to low cash liquidity within the economy.
I'm honestly scared just speaking out for Julian Assange and such an authoritarian state of affairs is unacceptable.
The purpose of maintaining a low inflation rate is to encourage people to spend their cash into investments;
If the perceived return on investment of a given product is higher than that of cash, people will be incentivized to invest their money regardless of the inflationary environment.
when there is a zero inflation rate, people will hoard cash in the bank over many decades, this outcome contributes to low cash liquidity within the economy.
Targeting for 0% inflation rate does not necessarily mean ceasing to print money. If people "hoard" cash and reduce the total amount of currency in circulation, that is when you would print additional currency to prevent deflation. This way, the supply of money in circulation and the amount of goods and services available would increase in tandem.
Savings is a bs concept made up to bamboozle low iq working people. Wealthy people’s wealth is not “saved” somewhere, it’s made up of investment vehicles like stocks. Money is just a tool and treating it like the platonic ideal of value like coiners do is deeply misguided
You can use vinegar in place of clothing conditioner when you wash clothes. Just don't use it on silk...
I wanted to fuck the chicken boy
just one more function and the sepples stdlib will be good
>>65
hate how this is the design principle of large
they should just stay in the kitchen with the sink and make me a sandwich
Fun fact: 9)% of sepples design committees dissolve right before their new features would fix the language.
sepples is fixable what
share what drugs youre on i didnt think posting this was good but its whats on my mind
The only way to fix sepples is to declare it obsolete.
damage is already done i disagree
gotten to the point that its purify by fire and brimstone and societal collapse
Yeah that's another way to fix sepples
by mass-smashing computers
and developers
the issue of these developers is a certain disintelliga cognitive hazard that runs deeper than cniles
some like to call it midwittery but that barely scratches the surface
getting rid of cnile developers isnt nearly enough
Is your son a computer hacker?
Is your son obsessed with "Lunix"?
BSD, Lunix, Debian and Mandrake are all versions of an illegal hacker operation system, invented by a Soviet computer hacker named Linyos Torovoltos, before the Russians lost the Cold War. It is based on a program called "xenix", which was written by Microsoft for the US government. These programs are used by hackers to break into other people's computer systems to steal credit card numbers. They may also be used to break into people's stereos to steal their music, using the "mp3" program. Torovoltos is a notorious hacker, responsible for writing many hacker programs, such as "telnet", which is used by hackers to connect to machines on the internet without using a telephone.
Your son may try to install "lunix" on your hard drive. If he is careful, you may not notice its presence, however, lunix is a capricious beast, and if handled incorrectly, your son may damage your computer, and even break it completely by deleting Windows, at which point you will have to have your computer repaired by a professional.
If you see the word "LILO" during your windows startup (just after you turn the machine on), your son has installed lunix. In order to get rid of it, you will have to send your computer back to the manufacturer, and have them fit a new hard drive. Lunix is extremely dangerous software, and cannot be removed without destroying part of your hard disk surface.
https://gwern.net/doc/cs/security/2001-12-02-treginaldgibbons-isyoursonacomputerhacker.html
lost the cold war
You mean they - unlike you - were smart enough to avoid nuclear war.
"Hey, I want that thing gone! There will be consequences, if you don't remove it"
*removes it himself in a huge explosion*
"Hey, this is top secet! You're looking, aren't you?"
"The most hated sort, and with the greatest reason, is usury, which makes a gain out of money itself, and not from the natural object of it. For money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of all modes of getting wealth this is the most unnatural."
- Aristotle, Politics
>>74 cope goy ww3 won
Chapter X of Book IV of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke.
Of our Knowledge of the Existence of a God
1. We are capable of knowing certainly that there is a God. Though God has given us no innate ideas of himself; though he has stamped no original characters on our minds, wherein we may read his being; yet having furnished us with those faculties our minds are endowed with, he hath not left himself without witness: since we have sense, perception, and reason, and cannot want a clear proof of him, as long as we carry ourselves about us. Nor can we justly complain of our ignorance in this great point; since he has so plentifully provided us with the means to discover and know him; so far as is necessary to the end of our being, and the great concernment of our happiness. But, though this be the most obvious truth that reason discovers, and though its evidence be (if I mistake not) equal to mathematical certainty: yet it requires thought and attention; and the mind must apply itself to a regular deduction of it from some part of our intuitive knowledge, or else we shall be as uncertain and ignorant of this as of other propositions, which are in themselves capable of clear demonstration. To show, therefore, that we are capable of knowing, i.e. being certain that there is a God, and how we may come by this certainty, I think we need go no further than ourselves, and that undoubted knowledge we have of our own existence.
2. For man knows that he himself exists. I think it is beyond question, that man has a clear idea of his own being; he knows certainly he exists, and that he is something. He that can doubt whether he be anything or no, I speak not to; no more than I would argue with pure nothing, or endeavour to convince nonentity that it were something. If any one pretends to be so sceptical as to deny his own existence, (for really to doubt of it is manifestly impossible,) let him for me enjoy his beloved happiness of being nothing, until hunger or some other pain convince him of the contrary. This, then, I think I may take for a truth, which every one's certain knowledge assures him of, beyond the liberty of doubting, viz. that he is something that actually exists.
3. He knows also that nothing cannot produce a being; therefore something must have existed from eternity. In the next place, man knows, by an intuitive certainty, that bare nothing can no more produce any real being, than it can be equal to two right angles. If a man knows not that nonentity, or the absence of all being, cannot be equal to two right angles, it is impossible he should know any demonstration in Euclid. If, therefore, we know there is some real being, and that nonentity cannot produce any real being, it is an evident demonstration, that from eternity there has been something; since what was not from eternity had a beginning; and what had a beginning must be produced by something else.
If the designers of X-Windows built cars, there would be no fewer than five steering wheels hidden about the cockpit, none of which followed the same principles — but you’d be able to shift gears with your car stereo. Useful feature, that.
- Marus J. Ranum, Digital Equipment Corporation
I have lost the game.
You have lost the game.
When will it finally be possible again to be free of surveillance without being lonely?
It is obvious that atheists think that the world is much older than it really is, because that would make the spontaneous creation of life from non-life more likely. The world is not some 13B years old, but was created with an inherent age, just like the animals were created by God not as egg cells, but as complete organisms that one could not tell were just created. In the beginning, before the great flood of Noah, God had separated the waters from the waters, and the world was protected by a layer of water that blocked much cosmic radiation. This led to the C-14 levels being a lot lower than today, which makes anything dated to before the flood seem older than it is. Anyway, life can not be created from non-life as it not only needs all the right molecules for a cell, molecules that are difficult to create even synthetically, such as DNA, but also need them in very high concentration to make it possible to form a somewhat cell-looking structure out of them.
What’s stopping you from hanging in meat space. The covid rules are over for over a year now
becoming a communist just to piss off americans
becoming a communist just to piss off americans
becoming a communist just to piss off americans
becoming a communist just to piss off americans
Let Assange go, now!
I'm the last survivor of a dead culture. And I don't really belong in the world anymore. And in some ways I feel I ought to be dead.
Fortitudine vincimus
becoming a capitalist just to piss off communists
capitalism is shit. communism is urine. liberalism is cognac made from bedbugs.
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ANARCHY IS THE MOTHER OF ORDER.
THERE ARE NO GOOD LEADERS - THINK WITH YOUR OWN HEAD.
DO NOT Shift RESPONSIBILITY TO OTHERS.
GOD HAS TRUSTED EACH OF US WITH THE PEOPLE.
Cromwell brought the niggers from Africa into the commonwealth. The Crown rejected that.
Monarchy is the only real form of government, maybe supplemented by legislators elected from a popular pool via a lottery.
Democracy is the greatest tragedy ever foisted on the World. God damn Marx.
Idea: democracy but every mandate is lifelong.
Idea: democracy but the electorate can recall any representative at any time with a no confidence vote, as Lenin suggested in “The State and Revolution”
> Isn't this just liquid democracy?
*
>>96
The Battle of Thermopylae was fought in 480 BC between the Achaemenid Persian Empire under Xerxes I and an alliance of Greek city-states led by Sparta under Leonidas I. Lasting over the course of three days, it was one of the most prominent battles of both the second Persian invasion of Greece and the wider Greco-Persian Wars.
The engagement at Thermopylae occurred simultaneously with the naval Battle of Artemisium: between July and September 480 BC. The second Persian invasion under Xerxes I was a delayed response to the failure of the first Persian invasion, which had been initiated by Darius I and ended in 490 BC by an Athenian-led Greek victory at the Battle of Marathon. By 480 BC, a decade after the Persian defeat at Marathon, Xerxes had amassed a massive land and naval force, and subsequently set out to conquer all of Greece. In response, the Athenian politician and general Themistocles proposed that the allied Greeks block the advance of the Persian army at the pass of Thermopylae while simultaneously blocking the Persian navy at the Straits of Artemisium.
Around the start of the invasion, a Greek force of approximately 7,000 men led by Leonidas marched north to block the pass of Thermopylae. The Persian army, estimated by ancient authors to number in the millions, and by modern scholars to be between 120,000 and 300,000 soldiers, arrived at Thermopylae by late August or early September. During two full days of battle, the Greeks blocked the only road by which the massive Persian army could traverse the narrow pass. After the second day, a local resident named Ephialtes revealed to the Persians the existence of a path leading behind the Greek lines. Subsequently, Leonidas, aware that his force was being outflanked by the Persians, dismissed the bulk of the Greek army and remained to guard their retreat along with 300 Spartans and 700 Thespians. It has been reported that others also remained, including up to 900 helots and 400 Thebans. With the exception of the Thebans, most of whom reportedly surrendered, the Greeks fought the Persians to the death in one of history's most famous last stands.
>>99
guddang ephialtes ruined it
Fight to the death. Yes, sure. Yes, very good. Good job.
https://retinart.net/graphic-design/secret-law-of-page-harmony/
this place has a population of 4 people and it's the same 4 lisp fags from lainchan #programming
I like Angband!
You enter a maze of downward stairs.
This thread looks like a shitposting fest.
You see a icky post.
The icky posts touches you.
It breathes... You die. (More)
I used to love Angband, but it's so dated without the depth or UX to justify itself.
I want to make a port of TempleOS' Godwords program.
Oracle at 07:30 UTC...
look out service sector recipe birds yeah oh my have fun tattle tale I'm the boss honesty I have an idea dance you think I'm joking bye tomorrow why do I put up with this furious are you insane I planned that theft liberal I didn't see that not too shabby nut job what part of God do you not understand over the top conservative Zzzzzzzz outrageous you're nuts thats right repent
This world must dislike humans.
>>105
Do you know about Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
>>106
Played it for a bit, but the sandbox nature without a reasonable goal besides bunkering down made it feel trivial. Unreal World is more my style when it comes to sandbox roguelikes.
Why make a manhwa site with a broken reader?
So frustrating to visit a manhwa site, read a few pages and then notice that some pages failed to load and there is no option to reload only the failed pages.
Firefox has this functionality built-in but some \b\tards disabled the option, probably to prevent piracy, when they themselves pirated the stuff from someone else.
I laugh at such anti-piracy schemes on the web. Some people seem to forget that once something shows up in my browser, it is no longer protected (or private) and that that point, you can kiss your piracy protections goodbye.
Please don't make manhwa sites with shitty readers. Allow me to reload failed pages. Simple. Without that, I'm going to pirate the pages off your site (I am getting pretty good at this lately) and maybe one day, make a site with a plain and boring reader that functions like a charm but just works!!!.
Nobody wants to reload an entire chapter, just to read three pages that failed to load. Absolutely nobody wants to do that and people that make people do that have to do some serious soul-searching.
Huh, had to get that off my chest.
Hold down shift while doing a right click.
I just told mpv to play a zip file and it fucking did it, I can't believe this.
I'm I becoming a dinosaur? Back in the days when I started programming, I used to get excited about new libraries and frameworks and was eager to learn them.
I recall how Angular was the hot new thing and SPAs were popping up everywhere. A friend showed me Laravel and my eyes were round with awe. I recall spending so many hours trying (unsuccessfully) to setup a Django project. I recall Flask, and how I pored over everything that Manuel Grinberg wrote and the speeches he gave (they were pretty good resources). There was also a period where I was learning twisted (the python framework) but it twisted my brain instead.
Now I feel uninterested in any of those things. I barely reach for frameworks in my work. They feel like an impedance. I get surprised (and not in a good way) when I see people praising react and tailwind.css.
Vanilla JS has come so far. It can do what I want it to do and very quickly at that, if I put some thought into performance. Same for PHP and Python. Sass/Scss allows you to overcome some of the pains of writing CSS, sometimes making the process very enjoyable. Async/await has brought concurrency to the masses in the languages that have them. Fundamental understanding of software architecture, User Experience and data structures gives you more control over the software than any of these frameworks and libraries.
Over the years, my mind has come to associate frameworks with one thing: restrictions. Whenever using a framework, I quickly find myself at the very edge of the framework. That fragile, breaking point of the framework. You know, that very obscure, possibly undocumented feature which allows you to reach out for some of the raw power of the underlying language but makes your code look terrible and not much like slick examples.
Why learn React or any of those frameworks and libraries for that matter? Simple answer: jobs. It is almost impossible to find a frontend job advert looking for someone with a good foundation in vanilla JS. Most jobs I see are looking for a 'React dev', as if 'React' was something that exists outside JavaScript. Here is the thing, I don't know react because I haven't ever felt the need for it. Spending time thinking about user experience and the flow of actions through the software has occupied my thinking instead but here I am, looking to learn React and tailwind.css, even though I don't need them. The thought gives me unpleasant feelings. Maybe I've become a dinosaur.
I'm I becoming a dinosaur?
Yes, but so is everyone else.
I used to get excited about new libraries
And then you discovered how disappointing everything is. Every "new" idea came from another system that unwittingly stole it from Xerox PARC. Given a modicum of sense, you converged on the best ideas, and then there was no more novelty; just a sea of naive children whose "inventions" no longer increase your power, nor inform your understanding.
I
Fear the CRUD!
They look cute on the outside but once you enter, you quickly find how much work lurks underneath the surface.
Never ever underestimate the CRUD.
Today I read Gary Killdall's Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Kildall). Then went to sleep. Now I'm awake, and its back to work, programming the CRUD.
Psalm 94:6
They kill widows and foreigners and murder orphans.
(New Living Translation)
I used to wonder why most software was so buggy and unreliable. Now I'm a developer.
Cbf
Git just ate my changes in the working tree. Now, I know whether to be laugh or cry.
It’s crazy how every online forum except this one is just aggressively stupid people arguing about nothing important
He who is need of forgiveness must himself learn to forgive.
>>122
this would be the same if people actually replied rather than engaging in solipsist graffiti
>>124
Silence is golden.
>>124
焉知非福。
Omnicide
(noun) The total extinction of the human species as a result of human action. Most commonly it refers to human extinction through nuclear warfare, but it can also refer to such extinction through other means such as global anthropogenic ecological catastrophe and Lethargica.
Did you hear that Elon Musk dug a tunnel under the Las Vegas Convention Center?
I think it is pretty universally known by now that the "Las Vegas Loop" is impractical, poorly thought out, and generally an embarrassment to society and industry. I will spare an accounting of the history and future of the system, but I will give a bit of context for the unfamiliar reader. The Las Vegas Loop is a (supposed) mass-transit system built and operated by The Boring Company for the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Besides four (ish) stations in the Convention Center, it has been expanded to serve Resorts World as well. It will, according to plan, be expanded to as many as 93 stops throughout the Las Vegas metropolitan area, despite the mayor of Las Vegas calling it "impractical" and "unsafe and inaccessible." This odd contradiction comes about because The Boring Company is footing a very large portion of the construction cost, while much of the rest is coming from casinos and resorts, making it extremely inexpensive for regional government agencies.
In practice, the Loop consists of a set of mostly double-bore tunnels of small diameter, which are traversed by Tesla Model 3 and Tesla Model X vehicles manually driven by humans at up to 40 mph. They have more recently switched to Model Y, but the operations manual I have predates that change, so let's stick with the older models for consistency. Each vehicle seats up to four. The system is nominally a PRT, or personal rapid transit, as the drivers take you to the specific station you request. The tunnel to Resorts World is single bore, and can admit vehicles in only one direction. A simple signaling scheme serves to prevent vehicles meeting head-on in single tunnels. While Loop and Boring Company marketing focuses heavily on the single underground station, all other stations are above ground. In the current state, I think it is actually somewhat generous to call the Loop an underground system, as most maneuvers and operations occur at surface level. It is perhaps best thought of as a taxi system that makes use of underground connectors to bypass traffic. Future expansion plans involve significantly more tunnel length and more underground stations, which will probably cause the system overall to feel more like a below-surface transit system and less like an odd fleet of hotel courtesy cars.
I am not going to provide a general review of the system, because many others have, and you can probably already guess what I think of it. Instead, I want to focus on some aspects that have not been as heavily discussed in other reporting: detailed operational practices, and safety and communications technology.
We are fortunate that, as part of its fire safety permitting, the Loop has been required to file its operations manual with Clark County. Unfortunately, the newest revision I can find online is 2021's Revision 7, which predates the Resorts World station and may be out of date in other ways as well. Still, it appears to be substantially correct, and much of what I will discuss is based on Revision 7 of the manual alongside several trips I have taken in the system.
Interestingly, the operations manual refers to the system only as the "Campus-Wide People Mover" or CWPM. This term seems to date to the original solicitations by LVCVA, but is not used in marketing.
If you were a modern age Noah and planned to save a small number (~10000) of people, where would you look to find people worth taking on board? No low quality people like libtards, conservatives, religious people, fat people, TV watchers, fast food eaters, people who read < 10 books a year etc
It's easy to make others seethe: just use emojis 💅
>>129
Easy, I'd take the whole userbase of schemebbs
[spoiler]I'd still need 9998 more people to fill the quota[/spoiler]
entry-address load-address load-size
sex
>>130 I hate the Unicode consortium!
Why can't people just choose to be nice to each other?
I mean, whatever wrong there is, forgiveness is a far greater force than revenge.
Some too, for whatever reason choose to be as mean as possible.
Is there any benevolence left the human race?
Greed is a bottomless pit. I consumes a person whole and is never satisfied.
Letting go and living simpler, quieter and enjoying the fruits of one's work.
What more could a man ask for?
Letting go and living simpler, quieter and enjoying the fruits of one's work.
What more could a man ask for?
To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women!
What more could a man ask for?
lisp
I like Lexus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBmNpDksfj4
Treadmill of hedonism.
I used to wonder how people could be so fucked up and stupid and then I learned that “It is estimated that well over seventy million Americans are on mind altering drugs (over 20% of the entire country’s population and some estimate it approaches 100 million)”
>>140
They all get to vote too.
There are some hawkers who remain known mainly in the local community. Zheng Xing is one of them. I am sure they must have some fans who travel some distance to eat their Char Kway Teow, but they are pretty much under the internet radar.
The stall is currently manned by Mr Quek Chwee poh, 59 who inherited the business from his father back in 1983. Over the last four decades, he has developed a loyal following of customers who mostly live around the area. One might be delighted to find that there is no queue when you get to the stall but don’t be deceived, they have a Q system and you may still need to take a number and wait for a while before you get your Char Kway Teow fix.
The reason for the wait is that Mr Quek still fries his kway teow one plate at a time, or at least, it is finished one plate at a time. Most CKT hawkers will mix the noodles with the fish sauce and set it aside before portioning out a plate to be given the wok hei treatment before serving.
They have stopped using pork lard since the swine flu pandemic years ago, so the kway teow does seem to lack that extra oomph. But it is still a very competent plate of Char Kway Teow and worth the calories if you are around the area. 4/5
Conclusion
People like Mr Quek exemplify our hard-working hawker culture of yesteryear. They might not be social media darlings, but they’re heroes in the local communities who diligently work day in and day out to provide cheap and good food for the masses.
According to my research, everyone has a butt.
But that doesn't mean, when I'm imbibing my morning cuppa and reading up on the recent presidential debate, that I want to see an ad showing an illustrated derrière with a bar of soap clenched firmly between its two ripe cheeks.
The ad that finally broke me.
Enlarge / The ad that finally broke me.
Yet there it was, a riotous rump residing right in the middle of a New York Times article this week, causing me to reflect on just how far the Gray Lady has stooped to pick up those ad dollars lying in the gutter.
It's not the first time this sort of thing has sullied the "paper of record." In 2022, I was forward-thinking enough to grab a screenshot of the Times helping to sell me some sort of wipe with the tagline: "When your butt doesn't smell like butt." It was also marketed as deodorant for "your pits and lady bits."
Would Don Draper have written "smell like butt" on one of his ads?
Enlarge / Would Don Draper have written "smell like butt" on one of his ads?
Not having any "lady bits" to deodorize, this was not particularly compelling, but the true high point of ass-related irrelevancy at the Times came when I was served an ad featuring a mournful-looking dog who pointed the business end of his hindquarters directly at the camera. "It's time to leave your dog's anal gland problems behind," I was told.
I have never owned a dog, nor—to my children's continuing dissatisfaction—ever will. It was therefore left to Ars Technica's Managing Editor Eric Bangeman, who is a noted canine lover and a true "friend to all creatures, even rats," to explain to me just what this baffling advertisement meant.
Now I <em>really</em> don't want a pet in the house.
Enlarge / Now I really don't want a pet in the house.
Once you start looking for these oddly direct ads in self-consciously "classy" media outlets, you see them everywhere, including in The Atlantic, where a bidet ad once promised that it would make my "butt crack smile."
(Perhaps this last ad can be blamed on my boss, who has spoken in such glowing terms about high-end Japanese toilet technology that I Googled it—probably marking myself as some kind of "ass man" for life.)
Whatever the reason for seeing one of these ads, all of them looked cheap, and none of them felt relevant. I have nothing against the noble bidet, but having "holy s*** this thing's a gamechanger!!!" appear in the middle of my screen while pondering some chinstroker of an article was not exactly why I had visited The Atlantic.
The game, it has been changed. By this stream of water. Shooting at your butt.
Enlarge / The game, it has been changed. By this stream of water. Shooting at your butt.
The great irony of online advertising these days is that it's often claimed to be "targeted," mining our personal and demographic information to serve us the ads that we allegedly want to see. Wouldn't I prefer to view ads "relevant to my interests"? Maybe. But I can say with confidence that after two decades of being "extremely online" for work, the number of ads I have voluntarily and enthusiastically clicked upon must number in the low double digits.
Instead, the engines powering these ad networks continue to bombard me with two kinds of ads: 1) those that are wholly irrelevant to my interests and 2) those that are relevant to my interests because they display the exact product I once looked at in some online store. Ad targeting companies may "know a lot about me," but they don't know me in any truly useful way.
They don't know, for instance, why I looked at some product online, or if I already made a decision not to buy it (or to buy it elsewhere), or if I just wanted to better understand my boss's love of Japanese bidets. They don't know whether I have (or want) a dog. And they (clearly) don't know that I would be repulsed by an edible product shaped like a human ear and featuring both bite marks and Mike Tyson's name.
Oh, come on.
Enlarge / Oh, come on.
(Fortunately, you can completely opt out of ads at some sites, including Ars Technica, by subscribing for a few bucks a month—and contributing directly to our bottom line.)
This is partly because ads are not always all that "targeted." The sorts of keister-related ads I've been talking about here aren't the big, splashy, customized campaigns that a brand might design specifically for (and sometimes with) the Times or The Atlantic or my own employer, Condé Nast. Such deals may be done directly between the advertiser and publisher, so everyone knows what the ads look like and where they will run. These ads are generally expensive and look great—or at least interesting—even when the product they are pitching is of no personal interest to me. Not to put too fine a point upon it, but they rarely shove a dog's butthole in my face.
At the other extreme, there are the hyper-targeted ads on, say, Facebook, which can be directed at SUV owners in ZIP code 17023 who browse social media after midnight and like to dye their hair orange. These ads might be cheap-looking and weird, but they can still be worth a lot of money because of just how precisely they can be delivered.
The butt ads I'm talking about live in the space between these two worlds. Most appear to be some kind of "programmatic" material, often sold through real-time automated auctioning and used to fill space where more expensive ads aren't going to run. They don't bring in big bucks, and publishers don't know what they will say or show, but they do generate some cash at a time when journalism is hurting. The danger is that these ads may inject asinine (dare I say "asstastic"?) content right onto the pages of "premium" brands—thus making them look a lot less premium.
There are ways to control this. Programmatic ads are often displayed based on site size and demographics, not individual targeting data. The networks that sell them often provide categories of material that publishers can choose to block, such as adult content ads, ads from competitors, "unsafe" ads, religious ads, and even "low-quality" ads.
Not every publisher takes advantage of these controls, and even among those who do, weird or off-putting ads still slip through. Here at Ars, we take the time to hunt down and block offensive or inappropriate programmatic ads when we see them or when our readers report them—but this takes time and can be difficult. Many sites don't bother.
The result can be really low-rent stuff appearing on a publisher's pages. One would think, for instance, that the Times's own reputation could not possibly be worth whatever the paper is getting paid to run clickbait about the "Dumbest States in America—Ranked."
And yet here we are.
At least it's not butts.
Anime or Annie-May?
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I can't decide on the font to use in my suicide note.
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That's difficult, I'd opt for Comic Sans or Papyrus so I didn't take my death too seriously
A cool little trick to tell if anarchism is petit bourgeois or not: just check if the anarchist you’re talking to filed a W2 with the IRS in the previous tax year
i had a dream i was inducted into an autistic furry commune
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oodles of oogles dripping from this post
Hi, hey, before I continue to post, need to say I'm new here. I've tried to post yesterday, but unfortunately got 403. My isp have dynamic shared ip, and I don't have much power over it, it changes/assigns randomly, and it's not very big pool, small subnet, usually I get same adresses on repeat.
I'm personally haven't posten anything bad nor spam, idk about other users. But please review restrictions, blacklists, banlists, maybe lift/clear some, so I won't get 403 again. It's a random luck I was able to post tonight.
my net starts with 77.*.*.*.
maybe add account registration form & complain form that will work and won't give 403 (for those who get 403, because I was not able to post on any of the boards /test/ /mona/ /pastbin )
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.)