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- Fax_Benson4
Only just found out all the Smog / Bill Callahan albums are now on spotify.
- Today just took a turn for better! Thanks for the heads up Fax. Love his voice.capn_ron
- It's like ChristmasFax_Benson
- Don't use spotify, but +1 on principlegarbage
- BusterBoy2
A member of my family was telling me he's had problems with Possums at his house...so he rigged a trap outside to see what he could catch. Went out the next morning to find a dirty great specimen in the cage.
His wife had apparently googled and found that shifting the possum to a new location was somehow a fate worse than death...unsure what to do, he lowered the frigging cage into a rubbish bin full of water and drowned the poor thing.
Staggered. Not sure I'll ever be able to look this person the same ever again.
Cunt.
- omg. what did he do with that water?docpoz
- and yeah, that's a brutal murder.docpoz
- no idea how he disposed of the body or the water. Still shocked.BusterBoy
- Fuck that.garbage
- They eat them in El SalvadorHijoDMaite
- What a pussy. Seriously fuck that guy. If you're going to be a shit and kill it at least have the balls to do it humanely.set
- thats a Fd up way to go for that possum.docpoz
- ffskingsteven
- this belongs in the "Punches For..." threadfooler
- I still can't believe he did it...BusterBoy
- wowLMFAO
- What state are you in? Its an offensive to kill them in some. Tipping he didn't check the pouch for young too.thumb_screws
- That shit riles me right up. Humans are piece of shit sometimes.thumb_screws
- That is fucked. One got in our house one night and pissed on me. Long story but I didn't kill it, despite me and the dog very much wanting to at the time.MrT
- Awesome Possums...pango
- Mate, this woman is a psichoOBBTKN
- FLOL MrT - MOAR!detritus
- qbn possum crew in full effect! lolimbecile
- PonyBoy0
- fu!Gnash
- :PPonyBoy
- They caused a riot in Vancouver in 2011.
we do not forgive, we don't forget.
http://images.fanpop…pango - https://timenewsfeed…PonyBoy
- Why the hatred towards the Bruins? It's not like they are the "Cheatin' Patriots!utopian
- Fuckers.i_monk
- Lolpango
- Whit this wheel... Is this a motor team or...??OBBTKN
- Sorry, but I know nothing about your football, baseball or pingpong teams gringos...OBBTKN
- Hockey mofo! Hockey!pango
- mofo? I'm buying a filight to Canada and to kick your ass, kid... ;)OBBTKN
- I'll meet you on the ice!!pango
- no prob. hold onOBBTKN
- bitcoin?hans_glib
- wut disGuyFawkes
- freedom2
It's amazing people figured out how to make computers with mined metals and elements.
- and now the opposite is happeningGnash
- Computers are organicrobotron3k
- It was a slow evolution, with imperfect and awkward progress. But it's just boolean logic at the heart of it all.fate
- set0
Anyone know a nice library of purchasable (sets of) illustrations? To illustration what the Noun Project is to icons. Does it exist?
- creativemarket.com may have something.capn_ron
- not quite what you seek but I use these guys often:
http://www.csaimages…Gnash - (a lot of their stuff is on iStock, too. good if you already have an account there)Gnash
- Thanks chaps. Stumbled across the gold old YWFT which is pretty decent too
https://www.youworkf…set - ^ for sure! i'm on their site twice a week, at least. didn't think of themGnash
- that YWFT is a good find. gonna add that to the list. thanks.capn_ron
- My developer friend who needed it shat his pants with delight when I sent him to that YWFT linkset
- https://www.uplabs.c… ?notype
- OBBTKN5
Ouch, tired and totally wasted... Want to stop now, but I've got a very important project presentation tomorrow, can not delay it more... What a crazy year mate
- docpoz2
The internet is enabling a community of men who want to kill women. They need to be stopped
The man who killed 10 people in Toronto this week said “the Incel Rebellion has begun!”
In 1989, a man armed with a hunting rifle and a knife entered a Montreal university and systematically killed 14 women, before killing himself. “I have decided to send the feminists, who have always ruined my life, to their Maker ... I have decided to put an end to those viragos,” he wrote in his suicide note. One female student shouted during the massacre that she was not a feminist and did not hate men. He murdered her anyway.
Twenty-five years later, a self-proclaimed “kissless virgin” named Elliot Rodger, who was active in the online “incel” community and felt rejected by women, drove to a sorority house in Santa Barbara and opened fire, leaving behind a YouTube video where he proclaimed, “I don’t know why you girls have never been attracted to me, but I will punish you all for it. It’s an injustice, a crime. I’m a perfect guy.”
On April 23rd, a man named Alek Minassian, who posted on Facebook that the “the Incel Rebellion has already begun!” and “All hail the Supreme Gentleman Elliot Rodger,” drove a van into crowds of pedestrians in Toronto, killing 10 people.
In the stories of angry Men’s Rights Activists and incels — men who are “involuntarily celibate,” and denied their “right” to sex — the women of the world are in control, teasing and taunting and withholding, even as men maintain incredible majorities in nearly every hall of power. A recent New York Times article illustrated just how ludicrous the imbalance of men to women is in management positions in virtually every industry, where women are outnumbered not just by men, but specifically by men with common names like John.
The world is not enough for many of the angriest, most bitter Johns, particularly the ones who felt that they were promised, on the basis of their gender, more of the world than the majority they have inherited. And as women push back against harassment, rape, and the basic dehumanization that accompanies being female, many of their most insulated and privileged opponents have coalesced into an online network. Loosely termed the manosphere, the movement has transformed the unquestionable cultural dominance of men into an identity based on a delusion of oppression, and even as they whine inconsolably about the identity politics they claim are ruining their lives.
- Minnasian suffered quite significantly from autism.Gnash
- "He (had) notable special needs,” Reynolds said of Minassian, citing his behaviour of making meowing noises and hugging his arms around himself in the hallways"Gnash
- yeah he was mental, and I'm sure more of these guys are too. Is a serial killer ever not mental?docpoz
- i find it strange how everyones trying to shoot everyone now. maybe it is the videogames. in the old days you had duels and standoffs. much healthier.docpoz
- "the internet is enabling..." one can finish that sentence with literally anything. it's a meaningless sound biteGnash
- it's natural for people to view mass murder as tribal warfare - be it islamist, white supremacist, mentally ill, misogynist ... but it's often just a sad loserGnash
- so exploiting a mass murder to further identity politics is kinda gross. not unlike those who fuel hatred against religions by exploiting terror attacksGnash
- Yup. Everything is politicized.docpoz
- It's *always* a sad loser who's inculcated some obscure or radical beliefs, trying to scapegoat others for their own inability to fit in and have a life.i_monk
- Yep. Then he gets bullied. Then kills everyone. Of course, of course...docpoz
- I think that those with socially debilitating issues like autism are uniquely susceptible that kind of influence.Gnash
- And using their actions to condemn entire segments of a culture is irresponsible.Gnash
- be it islam, ira, or lonely losers.Gnash
- Everyone gets bullied at some point.i_monk
- people are weaponizing these tragedies to further their own ideologies, is all I'm saying.Gnash
- I understand your idea Gnash and I agree but it's a fact that group is out there.docpoz
- they certainly are, and they're bent as hell.Gnash
- sted4
Gmail-> Gear on the right -> Try the new Gmail
- Not a fanmonNom
- not a fan either, switched backhelloeatbreathedrive
- fine one person who is.
switch back at the same placested - that dropshadow on compose, ughnotype
- our brain doesnt like change, we will get use to it. I like it a little more than yesterday. still in the 'it sucks' zone thoBennn
- visually sucks, but functionalities are niceBennn
- "you'll get used to it" -- the sound of design victory, right there.monNom
- I like it. You'll all see the old one is far inferior eventually...set
- i liked this change http://inbox.google.…notype
- these desktop hover buttons popping up at the wrong time, still no split view.sted
- i played with the settings and personalized it, i now like it. doesnt sucks anymore.Bennn
- that escalated quicklyBennn
- It's aaight... i'll keep it for now. It'll probably be the default soon anyway...jagara
- the fonts are not as crisp as previous versionzaq
- i don't like it at all. reverted to classic after one day.renderedred
- You'll realise you're mistake.set
- helloeatbreathedrive12
Long story short, I began watching the Twilight Zone 1959 series from Season 1 (1959), it's unbelievably good, can't put it in words really. Highly recommended if you haven't seen them, 2 episodes up and moving on.
- are they on netflix?pockets
- @pockets, I torrented. They are all on pirateb.helloeatbreathedrive
- Classic stuff. I love it. I hope the reboit is at least decent...docpoz
- I'm pretty sure some episodes are on Netflix.elahon
- *rebootdocpoz
- Yea so good, I’ve been watching them frequently over the last few years, started with the ones I remembered as s kid and moving on to other great ones_niko
- Amazing thing is that they’ve been referenced so many times the episodes seem familiar even if you’ve never seen them_niko
- Still get chills watching it_niko
- I had the scripts in book form that are a great read too.robotron3k
- Wow thats hardcore robotron. Nicedocpoz
- Classic.sea_sea
- Serling was amazing writer, good doc on him: https://youtu.be/T4A…robotron3k
- He also wrote the planet of the apes screenplay which is cool_niko
- Check out his early teleplays and later Night Gallery, I was lucky to watch that and this show The Night Stalker on TV in the very early 70srobotron3k
- I wanna see those show opensdocpoz
- Titles, etcdocpoz
- I'm up to 6 now, amazing plots, dreamy scenes, loving each episode. Serling was clearly a genius and so ahead of his time.helloeatbreathedrive
- They certainly dont make TV like that any more! It'd be all "previously on the twilight zone" recaps after ad breaks for low attention span idiots.microkorg
- @robotron3k thanks for sharing! I will watch the doc tonighthelloeatbreathedrive
- Worth buying Blue ray?Leigh
- @Leigh Depends. If you love having a BR collection, sure. I personally never leave my digital ways. The content's way more important than it being digital or BRhelloeatbreathedrive
- Did you watch it back in the day or discovering it now? What decade were you born in? I think it holds up today regardless._niko
- @_niko I recently discovered them, heard all the references in movies etc but one drunken night, download them all and now watching 4-5 eps nightlyhelloeatbreathedrive
- Bennn3
Amazon’s first quarter revenue :
Q1 2018: $51.0 billion
Q1 2017: $35.7 billion
Q1 2016: $29.1 billion
Q1 2015: $22.7 billion
Q1 2014: $19.7 billion
Q1 2013: $16.1 billion
Q1 2012: $13.2 billion
Q1 2011: $9.9 billion
Q1 2010: $7.1 billion
Q1 2009: $4.9 billion
Q1 2008: $4.1 billion
- add a $20 spot to prime costs, you know, cause business is tough right now.capn_ron
- I am currently noping out of a trip to the grocery store just to avoid the hoards of absolute asshats that eminate from Bezo's Balls.garbage
- To be clear, that's what locals call the new geospheres that he's built at the heart of the Amazon campus.garbage
- https://techcrunch.c…garbage
- And yes, Amazon employees suck just as much as you think they do. Entitled bunch of insufferable cockmunchers.garbage
- i imagine them to be on par with google employees. why is everything a campus now? I work near the qualcomm campus. campus, campus, campus.capn_ron
- So what?monospaced
- I wonder how those numbers correlate with retailers going out of business.i_monk
- I thought free market capitalism led to more competition. Hmmmyuekit
- tbh, besos can turn on and off the profit at any point, they just stopped investing as big a chunk of their profit and whhhooop. scary company.kingsteven
- communism is inevitabledrgs
- Profit is easy when you welch on your tax, pay your employees a pittance, and get govt. subsidies from the SNAP program.face_melter
- if they actually started providing degrees they'd do the same to universities as they did to the high street.kingsteven
- Amazon gives me the fear more than any of the others... still think it's kind of a sodding big shop but they're taking over end to end.MrT
- MrT15
It's all det's fault, he made me do it...
We'd just moved back to Sydney about 5 years go. Stuff was in transit so we had overnight gear and sleeping bags in an empty house. First night was stinking hot so we slept on the floor in the lounge with the garden doors open, figuring it would be the coolest place. The backyard is a bit of a jungle in city terms. A few palms and a massive gum tree over the house.
I was woken up around 3am by the dog going mental, which she never does inside. The dog, and a possum that'd crept in to the lounge, had just clocked each other.
I sat up in a state of WTF just as the fucking possum ran, jumped on to me and dug its claws into my chest. The possum was screaming, I was screaming (it was dark and I wear contacts so couldn't see shit, that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.) I tried to shove the possum off me which freaked it out (further), it dug in and pissed like an unmanned fire hose all over me.
The dog goes for the possum which runs up over my head, still pissing, and then does an impressive Spiderman climb up a bare brick wall in the kitchen.
The possum can't hold on much longer but the dog waits growling underneath. Coco is a kelpie so was more interested in the chase than getting it by the neck. It falls 2m off the wall and bolts out of the door followed by the dog. I'm covered in piss and scratches. MrsT is pissing herself laughing.
It was pretty embarrassing the next day explaining the commotion they heard to the new neighbours. Particularly so as my face looked like Pinhead's without the pins.
Welcome back to Sydney.
- As a Sydneysider i can totally relate. My missus would have pissed hereself too._me_
- ahaha great - this is exactly the sort of thing i need to read when I'm having my first tea in the morning!detritus
- I've never been to Australia, but I now learned that what doesn't kill you, just pisses on you?Longcopylover
- LOLMaaku
- Glorious ♥︎e-wo
- Just looked up on possum. Man they look vicious. Can you get rabies or some disease from their claws?Beeswax
- haha yeah they're full of filth. 5 years on MrsT kinda wishes Coco had got hold of it. They scream at night and crap EVERYWHERE. And then there's the piss...MrT
- This story almost justifies the drowning of another possum...imbecile
- PonyBoy0
Vegas Knights are pretty badass... I had a chance to make it to a game earlier this inaugural season (in Las Vegas... cool arena / vibe for an expansion team). So far they're 5-0 in the post AND they just beat San Jose 7-0 tonight (who went 4-0 their first series). Holy shit... 7 to nothing... UNHEARD of in hockey let alone a playoff game.
These guys were written off from the start of the season as they're not only a first year expansion team but are packed w/ 'unwanted' players... yet they've been really fun to watch this season. I'll have a tough time watching if they end up playing the Bruins for Lord Stanley's Cup... O_o
- Is this like the thing from Cable Guy?
https://www.youtube.…Hayzilla - That's Medieval Times, he's talking about a hockey team.Maaku
- Is this like the thing from Cable Guy?
- face_melter-1
Christ Al - fucking - mighty. How hard is it to create a simple gradient material in UE4? All I want is something that fades from one colour to another without the need for a texture. I look on YT and there's a 12 minute video and the node layout looks like it could be used to fucking map neurons or drive a Tesla.
- What happened to you, man. Your blog posts at ntc used to be epic. Well written, humerous, jovial. Now you just moan without even a hint of humour.set
- I am dissapointset
- ntc? wat?detritus
- Also, I liked this post - it's a tool-related whinge and whilst I can only imagine the detail, it does sound like a warranted rant at an 'obvious' failingdetritus
- ..also, and again from the v.little I know about how 3d works, I can imagine it being difficult to achieve a gradient without a texture :)detritus
- Entry #167401 in "Set and Detritus share their unneeded opinions on something completely inconsequential, and disagree".detritus
- I'm just waiting for fadein to chime in, and then we're done.detritus
- lolGnash
- lolset
- notype1
What do you do when you've been feeling (low or like you're "falling behind", for a week)?
- hookers and black jack.pango
- kidding. host a party. invite friends over. cook them dinners.pango
- Do something active. Run, bike, swim. Whatever just get your heart rate up.mandomafioso
- Whack off to VR porn.face_melter
- But seriously, I tend to go for long walks with my camera and headphones on and just zone out and unwind. Now the weather has turned I can go kayaking againface_melter
- What face said. Second.MrT
- MrT, his first post or second? LOL
... so with all of the responses here, essentially, get off QBN ;)notype - pango, and face_melter, good ideas! pango really resonating with the invite friends over thing - been a while since i've cooked for ppl.notype
- colin_s1
3 days left in amsterdam, then a few in paris. recommendations?
- have fun? ;-)mugwart
- Oh some advice - in Paris if you want free extra cheese say your vegan!mugwart
- find the 1gram strong poundcake and fall asleep on a benchautoflavour
- docpoz2
Never have I seen more people "hate" the "stink" of weed than in New York. It boggles my mind. I've always seen general acceptance to the smell.
- I love smoking weed. But i do get bothered when I’m constantly finding myself pushing my baby in a stroller through a cloud of it.monospaced
- Hmm yes perhaps it is the densitydocpoz
- ... of the citydocpoz
- Im just not used to so many people thinking it smells bad. To me it's like potpourri...docpoz
- some people have a heightened sense of smell - i do + i do not smoke. not the worst thing to smell but if it's bad bud... i'm not happy about getting a whif.notype
- It's the official scent of Los Angeles. but I hear mono on this. I smoke cigarettes on occasion, but nothing sucks more than walking behind someone smoking.shellie
- I try to smoke standing still of to the side where I can be avoided, not walking through a crowded Manhattan street during rush hour.shellie
- I find myself holding cigarettes behind my back or turning away from children when they come near, not that it helps the smell but I'm trying to be respectful.shellie
- same hereGuyFawkes
- I blow my smoke in to pramsset
- Usuallyset
- Just spit across their path as you walk past. If they 'tut' then say " nasty habit ive got, eh?!! lolmicrokorg
- Not smoked cigs for about 7 years, not had weed for about 5. Still like the smell but do think people need to consider others in the street.microkorg
- I only smoke indoors and vape when I go out.Maaku
- OBBTKN2
Forecasts say another two weeks of rain and low temp. No prob. I've got a bunch of work to do in this time...
But after this I want SUN until November, have you listened to me, you stupid gods!
- freedom1
How come the only time I see credit for developers on website, it's on terrible websites?
- check the source code, sometimes they can get away with putting it there in an html commentBabySnakes
- autoflavour0
Infinity war — was ok, but way too much
- This war is going to be so big man. Like civil war big? Bigger! Ww2 x 1000 big? Bigger! War one million big! No man, war x INFINITY. Profucer: that’s the title!monospaced
- I know you are...infinity!!docpoz
- ^ref: https://www.youtube.…docpoz
- i was entertainedGnash
- docpoz6
I feel better about qbn after qbn drinks now that I've confirmed that qbn isn't one moderator trolling creatives with 20 diff troll accounts.