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- Horp0
I am not sure why I am back on QBN. I know why I am back from a Mode Of Action = Outcome perspective. Continuity worked hard and solo to remove all of the obstacles in the way of my full participation. Without any encouragement, not even from me.
But I'm not sure why I am back here.
It wouldn't be a problem except that since I left, years ago, I have quite enjoyed just dropping in to silently see what's been posted here. To read the discussions, the arguments, and to laugh at the comments. You're funny. It always makes me chuckle.
But now I have access again, I can't just look in through the plate glass window from the outside. I now have a key to be on the inside once again. Somehow that changes the experience of dropping in to QBN.
So I am going to log out again now. Sorry Continuity, and thanks for all your hard work getting me backin, but I do just like to be on the other side of the glass with no means to enter or interact with the biome.
- Hi and bye********
- Leaving QBN? I want to quit the internetdrgs
- Ehm. Okay.Continuity
- Its like someone opens the glass wall at the zoo and invites you to join the apesdrgs
- https://i.imgur.com/…utopian
- shame - was good to have an old timer back.Fax_Benson
- Old timer?monospaced
- aweYakuZoku
- You do you Horp. I appreciated the post on loneliness, that was a good read. Peace.BuddhaHat
- More bmx posting plsthumb_screws
- Godspeed Horp. Wish you the best!islandbridge
- lick the plate glass window.. it helpsautoflavour
- Helps with what? cleaning windows?islandbridge
- Hi and bye
- OBBTKN1
An acquaintance (50), a nice guy, has just suffered a heart attack and is undergoing surgery.
He has been training very hard in the gym for years, but he has never stopped smoking.
Difficult to do both things at the same time (note to self).
- autoflavour1
leaving for Denver on Saturday.. so unprepared.
- autoflavour3
is it just me or has google dramatically reduced its cache? feels like when you search for an image now days its only the last few months or so.. before it used to be almost the way back machine.
like I was looking for an image from a few years back, not even that long, and its all gone
- I had the same impression months ago. got more luck from images.bing.com
I think a factor is the amount of images and platforms around nowadays.uan - I've noticed too. Maybe to prevent bots from scraping search results to build well-labelled AI datasets?monNom
- google sucks now. doesn't know how to monetize, provide reliable non ecommerce data, and more or less - keep it realcanoe
- I had the same impression months ago. got more luck from images.bing.com
- shellie1
Beach House is a good band suffering from pop production in the studio.
- imbecile0
Lawnmower?
I have an old LT2000 riding mower that I used at my old house for years. I’ve bought another house with a much smaller yard. I don’t want that riding mower anymore. Looking at a walk behind self-propelled, I notice that there are a lot of electric options. What are you using..? Gas, electric, goats?
- I pay a guy to do it but have been looking at those battery powered dewalt jobbies. Gas is loud and i once mowed over the cord for a plug-in electricscarabin
- https://www.hiregoat…Gnash
- Guy across from me at the old place had goats. I used them a couple times. They love weeds.imbecile
- they'll eat pretty much anything. great at clearing overgrown fieldsGnash
- don't give scarab any ideas, he's already got quite the farm going_niko
- I’d like a robomower, but I’m cheap.imbecile
- I use goats and donkeys, they are complementary... Some eat what the others leaveOBBTKN
- j/k, I use a wired electric cheap one, but our garden is only 40m²OBBTKN
- I researched owning a goat, but they’re not allowed here and scream like a woman. Have to be milked twice a day. Would love a fridge full of chevre though!scarabin
- Makita Battery powered. Works greatsab
- Scarabin the GoatlessGnash
- wish i bought electriccanoe
- Got a cheapish McGregor battery one. Its great and so much quicker than having to plug things in, not run over the wire etc.webazoot
- electric cordless. can do front and back twice on one charge. would go for gas over electric corded though, cant be dealing with that cable all the time.kingsteven
- https://egopowerplus…
Got this one and love it. Lighter weight, self-propelled, comes w/3 blades, and has headlights!stoplying - It folds up!
*bites lip*scarabin
- drgs-6
QBN is 95% memes now
Discuss
- go certify someone********
- Todays internet is "5 giant websites each filled with screenshots of text from the other 4" source: https://www.youtube.…monNom
- ..says a meme.Nairn
- What's stopping you from bumping one of the dozens of design threads and posting serious content?i_monk
- drgs went countingsted
- 13.23% memes/single images
55.94% notes
30,83% text posts, w-w/o imagessted - the only thing i learned from qbn is that drugs are the best drugs. carry on.dasohr
- nahh i think it's more like 94%pango
- Not saying its a bad thing. I just wanted to point out that we are 5% away from 100%drgs
- USA! USA! USA!monNom
- your mom's a memedasohr
- the other 5% is racism from ppl drgs certifiedsarahfailin
- QBN is 100% moew nowpango
- catpornsted
- go certify someone
- oey_oey1
Google Indexing anyone?
Annoying as fuck...
- doggydoggdog1
Remember Bored Apes and NFTS?
- coughdasohr
- VaguelyContinuity
- someone was saying majority of the NFTs are 5% of it's original worth.pango
- 5% sounds highNutter
- d_gitale18
Signed a contract today to have a house built. Exciting and probably stressful months ahead. Wish me luck :)
- Visit the work as many times as you can, and always ask if you have the slightest doubt! Good luck!OBBTKN
- Yes - I will be moving closer to the site during construction so I can be there as often as possible.d_gitale
- make sure you include an escape chutepango
- Ooh and a panic roomgarbage
- hidden bookshelf doorpango
- And machine gun turretsContinuity
- Don’t forget a moatfuturefood
- draw bridgepango
- grow roombezoar
- Dungeonspango
- Panic room with a Donkey Kong arcade and slurpee machineprophetone
- I saw a TikTok where they built a plastic playground tube slide into hidden door of kitchen island that takes you down to rec room, do that tooprophetone
- https://vm.tiktok.co…
https://vm.tiktok.co…prophetone - Thanks for all the suggestions ! Will consider ! Bezoars idea will definitely be there, even though outdoors :)d_gitale
- Drawbridge sounds appealing too. There is a pond - in the back of the plot thoughd_gitale
- Hi d_gitale Do you have a trusted architect?... A quantity surveyor? Maybe you should have trusted luck in choosing those two people.Miesfan
- "moving closer to the site during construction so I can be there as often as possible" Client hanging around the monitor vibes.. :)Nairn
- @miesfan - I designed the house myself with the help of a licensed construction engineer, no architect. It is a fairly simple design.d_gitale
- @Nairn lol - make the window bigger !d_gitale
- lol :)Nairn
- Nutter5
3 years ago I came up with a multiplayer game idea.
Once a year we have a 'free project' week, and so last year I convinced 2 co-workers to make a prototype of it. Only one of us had used Unreal Engine before, but we got it done in 4.5 days. I presented it to the whole company and people could play it at a party afterwards. They were really surprised at what 3 UI designers had made.
This year we continued it, but 3 more people joined, so now 2/6 people had Unreal experience. The amount of work we got done was staggering.
Sure everything needs to be tested and balanced more but its a unique and really solid game at its core. The presentation went smoothly again, though I really stressed about editing a trailer and making a powerpoint presentation until 5 minutes before the deadline.
It was a looong but fun and productive week.
- that's awesome man, when can we play? :)_niko
- Sounds nice! I love prototyping early ideation and concept phases, before everything gets to entangled. What sort of game is it. 3d/2d Desktop/mobile?islandbridge
- "Please be a tribute to SOLDAT, please let it be a tribute to SOLDAT"garbage
- its a 3d shooter, which doesn't sound creative...Nutter
- d_gitale4
Not quite a drawbridge yet
- jagara-11
Russell Brand
Not guilty? Upvote.
Guilty? Downvote.
- i'd downvote but to be honest, i really dont know the detail.pango
- ^ sameYakuZoku
- Good point. I guess I was asking for a gut feeling more than anything.jagara
- if asking for gut feeling then fuck this annoying cunt.pango
- this asshole learned that division and hate got more clicks and views so he went alt-fucktard to make bank. he can fuck right off.BuddhaHat
- believe women.sarahfailin
- no i dont believe anybody. but i believe cunt is a cunt.pango
- @sarahfailin all of them? Even the psychotic golddigging liars?jagara
- Would you believe Boebert?pango
- uan5
Decided I want to do more personal creative stuff in future.
I'll start by trying moho.lostmarble.com and see what I can do with it in the 30 days trial period.
- Procreate is coming out with an animation app. One-time fee, no subscriptionGnash
- ^yes, read about it somewhere. decided to go with moho (i could do it in AI,AE) just to use something new for me (and try to keep it as simple as possible).uan
- Hope it goes well :)Gnash
- I like the look of that software, keep us updated on how you find it over the next month.Wolfboy
- imbecile29
Quite an interesting day today.
I was in the backyard pulling weeds, collecting strewn about landscaping stones, and organizing an also strewn about selection of firewood into a proper pile when I unearthed a healthy network of poison ivy vines. I went next door to ask if they minded if I cleaned up their side as well to prevent them coming back to my side through the privacy fence.
Holy vines, Batman!
Two hours and three 42 gallon contractor bags later, I had ripped up, clipped as many as I could, and raked up leaves that were covering more landscaping stones as well as more firewood. (I came to the conclusion that this was all a poorly executed idea to keep a digging dog confined to their yard by the previous owner.)
Here’s the interesting part, the woman I spoke with is from Nepal, her mother is visiting her from Nepal, and her daughter was born here. The daughter is non-verbal autistic who’s able to attend a nearby school, but suffers from seizures. She was enjoying the swing and trampoline as I worked and her mother and I struggled to communicate. Google translate worked for me to her, but the iPhone couldn’t decipher her accent with any reliability. We did have a few laughs though.
Here’s the best part. She offered me food. I would usually say no and stay to myself, but enjoying trying to communicate really made me appreciate the offer of food, a yummy language, as I was meeting my next door neighbor. As I was now cleaning a significant portion of their backyard, and had only drank a Red Bull earlier, the tea and bread offer was awesome. Since it’s hot out, I thought iced tea. Um, no. It was the richest most complex hot tea / coffee hybrid tasting thing I’ve ever tried, and I hate coffee. The bread was sweet and buttered, the two went together great.
A little later, I wanted more water and needed to get a new bag. I stayed inside for a while playing with my dog before going back out. She and her mother were out there with a bag and take like they were going to keep going. I laughed, showed them my bag and told them no. They laughed and left their rake out as they went back inside. I finished raking, pulling assorted weeds, and bagging whatever debris I could.
Fucking awesome.
But we’re not done. Now that the detour on the other side of the fence is over, I go back to working on my own yard. An hour or so goes by and I hear them chatting in the back. It goes quiet and I keep working. A little later I hear a knocking that I think is them working again, then my dog starts barking a little bit. And look back and it’s her looking over the fence inviting me over.
I get over there and there is no one outside, but I see they have cut a lot of overgrowth off of their tree. I instinctively think I need to get another bag and help these two finish the job. As I go to walk back over, I hear “No no no!” and look up. Mom and grandma are walking out with plates.
They made me more food!
They brought me out 10 delicious! chicken dumplings with a spicy sauce accompanied by a bean dish with a different spice with onions and peas in it. It was so good!
Pretty sure they tried telling me not to bag up the stuff they cut, but I did anyway, to much gratitude. My roll off will be here tomorrow and there will be plenty of space for their four bags.
Great day. Great neighbors!
- This is awesome.garbage
- That is an insane amount of poison ivy. Holy crapGnash
- It was entirely too much poison ivy, but half of it was leaves collected at the fence shading the vines feeding the leaves on my side. Luckily I’m not allergic.imbecile
- Great post! Feeling good by helping people AND getting bonus food? Way to go!stoplying
- "I'm not allergic". I retract my previous compliment out of sheer jealousy.garbage
- I have never heard of poison ivy not affecting humans ! Lucky youGnash
- I've never had good neighbors. Good for you for helping them. Friendships all around and meals shared. Feels good man.cannonball1978
- That’s some heartwarming stuff right therescarabin
- lovely :)sted
- awwwNutter
- @gnash Some people are non-reactive, and I hate them because they won't let me in the club. If my dog even brushes by some on a hike, I'm getting painted with igarbage
- *itch.garbage
- I had no idea. Same, lots of poison ivy in park near me so can’t let dog off leashGnash
- If it has long fur, it will soak up the oils. Other fun poison ivy facts: Its worse if you live in a hot location.garbage
- The bastard oil in most plants is called "urushiol", and if you get a painting, your body will also spread it when you sweat.garbage
- That's what's found in ivy, spruce and sumac. They are nothing compared to hogweed, which essentially has a skin cancer attack.garbage
- If you get their oils on your skin, they make your body ultra-susceptible to UV rays, and the jury is out as to whether or not that is permanent.garbage
- Google them if you're curious, but not if you plan on eating anytime soon.garbage
- I think I'd rather live in ignorance :)Gnash
- jagara4
Melatonin is a prescription-only drug in Denmark, so I never tried it. Until I discovered that it's over the counter in Germany. Cheap too.
Happy to report that it works as advertised.
But are there side effects I'm unaware of? Do you use it?
- I posted about it few weeks ago as I started to use 5mg. - No side effects for me but also doesn't help sleeping me deeper as I was hoping for.NBQ00
- @NBQ so what positive effects does it have for you? still think it's worth it?BuddhaHat
- 5 mg, wow. I take 1 mg, works well.jagara
- Remember, It's not a hypnotic. It's a hormone related to the circadian rhythm, that might *aide* sleep.jagara
- Apparently Melatonin has other health benefits not just for sleep. So maybe for me it's more those "anti-oxidants" than actual sleep benefits.NBQ00
- @jagara - you can probably get away with even less than 1mg if using regularly.Nairn
- @Nairn The ones i bought can de administered in 0.5 an 1mg doses. Will try!jagara
- @NBQ00 Any research you can point to? Never heard this :)jagara
- Weird that it's considered a drug in Europe... It is considered a dietary supplement in South America since it's a hormone.maquito
- My kid had sleep issues and his doc had suggested melatonin for 2 weeks only. He said long term use has not been studied that well and didn’t recommend itGnash
- Great but not for long term use. Its lovely to help break a cycle of bad sleep. This sometimes happens after long work sprints and need to get back to regular.shellie
- Also helpful for travel and quickly adjusting to time changes.shellie
- What shellie said. No good for long term use and it can cause a dependency. It's a stop gap for a fix, but no bueno for overall healthy sleep hygiene.garbage
- Interesting.maquito
- NBQ000
Money is power.
- Yupmonospaced
- Power is money.palimpsest
- Honey is pour.Nairn
- ... when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the womenGnash
- Rob the rich, give the money to the poor.
Then rob the poor and shoot the money!futurefood - https://media.tenor.…pango
