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- Continuity6
Who would win in a drag race:
OBBTKN in his Multipla, or bennn in his Yaris?
This is what keeps me up at night.
- My money is on OBBTKN.
https://www.qbn.com/…palimpsest - Bennn for sure, but who would be able to take more people in sublime comfort out into the campo?Nairn
- I could see Bennn in stockings, heels and sequin dress winning a foot race.hydro74
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</qbn>Nairn - Hmmm.....Akagiyama
- psst Ben don't worry, don't tell anyone but there will be a BBQ somewhere at the end of the track. so when he steers in that direction, just keep driving.********
- lolben98
- Wait, who would be in drag?Akagiyama
- Here's a drag race. Did it look like this?
https://streamable.c…CyBrainX
- My money is on OBBTKN.
- palimpsest5
@Continuity
Put a barbecue in the back and let's go!
Approved by Harold.- Hahaha the fuck?!
Offroading with a Multipla ... I've seen it all now!Continuity - Have you?
https://www.youtube.…palimpsest - Imagine a cooler full of cider and a grill on that Cabriolet.palimpsest
- ^ holyflol!!Continuity
- I just checked like three second hand car sites here in the UK and oufnd on - only one! - Multipla. £5k and it's ours.Nairn
- *found one, evenNairn
- lol********
- good gawd... that is one ugly looking car....pango
- https://y.yarn.co/71…pango
- it can do it allmilfhunter
- Aw, pangi.
It's not ugly.
It's ... special.
In an Olympic kind of way.Continuity
- Hahaha the fuck?!
- Nairn0
I wonder what the very last thing that will be posted on here will be.
And when.
- Not now.Nairn
- Not now.Nairn
- Not now.Nairn
- Not now.Nairn
- Not now.Nairn
- Now?Nairn
- Not now.Nairn
- AND WHO.
WHO WILL IT BE?Nairn - probably PhanLo.uan
- drgs. Hes lived to 176 and has kept a QBN mirror running off solar in the international zone of spitzbergen, where the last holdouts of humanity huddle.Nairn
- Unfortunately, PhanLo is Scottish, so will die at the age of 36.Nairn
- cowering by the fading warmth of the ever-slowly glimmering remnants of a candle, drgs posts a lonely exeunt, to an audience of one, and at that, no more.Nairn
- HEY I'M BACK
-SHULA
that will be the last onehydro74 - CatPower updating his thread will be the last ... with no-one here to read it.Continuity
- If it lasted this long, what could ever stop it?CyBrainX
- Continuity2
I've thought idly lately about what would happen if someone went back in time to the early '00s armed with some memes from the 2020s, and started posting them on all the old forums everywhere.
Would they resonate then as they do now?
Would they be so popular as to easily overtake Nyan Cat, Imma Chargin Mah Lazer/Shoop Da Woop, Objection, You're the Man Now Dog, and All Your Base?
Or would they absolutely tank?
I think 'WOULD' would have what it takes, even back then. Not sure about anything else from the last few years, though.
- Quiznos commercials were animated memes of the nineties and early oughts. No one understood.imbecile
- Mr T ate my ballsi_monk
- Oh, damn, I'd forgotten that one. Seems to me, we had a lot more surreal and absurdist humour in our memes, compared to now.Continuity
- (re: Mr T ate my balls)Continuity
- Would the dancing baby count then? Or Numa numa?imbecile
- Most memes today seem to be from specific subcultures that wouldn't exist online 20+ years ago.i_monk
- "I said .... What, what, in the Butt?!"microkorg
- hans_glib3
how can it be that the usa seems likely to put trump back in the white house?
- Trannys and bud lite duh,_niko
- Answer: Democrats are total pussies and picked a washed up ol’ coffin dodger that no one is passionate about.********
- combine that with the fact that republicans are also pussies who can’t stand up to trump and only ever act out of individual self-interest.********
- I’m terribly sorry, but that’s exactly the problem with democracy.maquito
- so we blame democracy what allows the lunatics to the presidency.
where is the urge that society should elect them as leaders?******** - The US is far from a democracy. The guy willing to spend the most money wins.Morning_star
- Because the Republican party has become 1920s German Workers Party all over again. The Jan 6th terrorist attack was the Reichstag fire.cherub
- nb is rightmonospaced
- and any democratic nation that is laughing at us should just take warning, this shit could happen to you guys toomonospaced
- ^ It's about to happen here, the other way around, though.maquito
- Trump should be executed for inciting the Jan 6 insurrection. Homegrown terrorist.********
- It happened in Hungary, and still sux that a fucking gypsy troll runs the show, everybody hates us except the rassans, dumbfuck republicans and *.istan********
- Lol @*.istanmaquito
- this is not an idle thought.Nairn
- indeed********
- Trumpism is happening all over Europe. The UK is almost as bad as the US.CyBrainX
- Blaming the Democrats for Biden's age is like blaming Winston Churchill for bad posture during World War II.CyBrainX
- _niko-1
The pride in one's neighbourhood is inversely correlated to the wealth of the neighbourhood.
- Nairn-1
. o O ( When someone derides something as 'saccharine', why not go with a more updated artificial sweetener such as stevia? )
- "Your performance was so sorbitol, i shat myself"Nairn
- "Yet another aspartame American sitcom."Continuity
- "her xylophone performance was endearing, if a touch xylitol"Nairn
- Stevia is natural btw:
Stevia is a natural sweetener that is derived from the Stevia rebaudiana plant, which is native to South America. The leaves of the plannbq - ... https://en.wikipedia…nbq
- Nairn2
The more I think about it, the more I want a sorta AI-trained smart interface with Illustrator (etc) where I can do whatever shit I'm doing on screen with a mouse and as I do it, explain what complex interactions I want thereafter vocally.
Like, you alt-mouse copy an object and you say aloud "name this new object 'left flap' and set its width to 120mm" so whilst you're dragging away the object to be copied and modified, you're giving it a name which you can subsequently refer to for modification later.
I mean, I don't particularly go out of my way to name objects in illustrator, because I don't much need to as it's all visual and that would just represent additional physical cruft on each operation. But if I could add that detail in by voice, in parallel? That could be handy.
I'm rambling. But I'm sure I have a point here.
The more complex the software, the more useful this kind of additional layer of interaction could be. Looking at you, 3D modelling and CAD
- Seeing how Adobe "finishes" off its applications lately, I wouldn't have much hope for it...OBBTKN
- Would be amazing if Adobe actually did some stuff like that instead of charging for generative fill. I hope things like that happen, would be coolPhanLo
- Haven't everyone wanted this though?canoe
- Say aloud? Nah, do it with thoughts.stewart
- the more u have to combine the more fun... as in know how.. and know what.... limitless combinatorial chicneverscared
- Charging for Generative Fill? I'm not paying for that. It's in the regular version of Photoshop, not even the Beta as of this month.CyBrainX
- Apparently this is what Misrocosft are moving towards.. https://jdmeier.com/…Nairn
- @cybrainx - i'm talking about something completely differentNairn
- I think this will happen. Handicapped people would want this at the very least. I wouldn't call it AI though. It's more of a very powerful voice command setup.CyBrainX
- jagara3
Adult weird instagram Britney is pretty hot. I wood *eats potato chip*
- jagara10
Embrace doping culture in Tour De France, make the whole thing a competition between big pharma companies of making the perfect performance drug cocktail. Let each company compete with their own drugged up mutant, and let them compete. Team Pfizer. Team Lily. Team Novo.
- https://www.youtube.…palimpsest
- https://www.youtube.…YakuZoku
- I mean, you just described what happens in the NFL, NBA, MLB, etc.garbage
- The problem is that poorer players can't afford the new drugs that beat tests, and in the NFL if a low-key player has a breakout game..garbage
- .."random test".garbage
- every sport should allow doping; it would make it all so much more entertaining!Krassy
- If not for us at least for the players.palimpsest
- You forgot Team TrenNBQ00
- rzu-rzu0
shouldn't vegans and vegetarians be, automatically, against abortion? Or is this only the case when you kill a fetus in order to eat it?
- as a quasi-vegetarian myself no. I say abort as many humans as possible. too many humans in the world!sarahfailin
- Veganism is overwhelmingly not a dietary choice, but rather an ethical stance against animal exploitation.palimpsest
- A more pertinent question would be are vegetables vegan since farming practices exploit humans.palimpsest
- Gardener14
- dark brandon campaign 2024..neverscared
- His powers never cease to amaze us.CyBrainX
- jagara0
I've heard about people wanking into socks. I don't understand this concept. How is that possible? Is it an American thing for people without foreskins? Do they fill the sock with lotion? Do their socks have dried up cum in them, that they simply take care of in laundry? Ew? So confused.
- Do they have the sock on their penis during the whole wank session? Is it only the white socks? For the love of god, provide answers.jagara
- Never understood, but also never wanted answers.mort_
- Was listening to a podcast a while back about a graffiti writer who got a dawn raid from the police and they upturned his whole bedroom, inadvertently findingPhanLo
- his wanksock, but it was so well used it was like a solid mass. He described it as a 'cosh'. Pretty grimPhanLo
- I assumed this was a european thingmonospaced
- It sounds like a British wank to me.utopian
- Funny. To us "wanking into a gym sock" is an American thing.Nairn
- Funny, I don’t think Americans would agree.monospaced
- Americans, I would think, may call it a Swiss wank.maikel
- Believe the sock is more for catching to limit the mess. Using shirts you might want to re wear could cause issues with cum blobs all over it.hydro74
- Yeah, I get that, nono. which is why i suggested it was the opposite for us. We can go back and forth pointlessly, if you like? jesus. 'funny'.Nairn
- That would explain why you restated the original point then. Carry on lol.monospaced
- wait, they INTO socks.. or just onto socks? I always just assumed ONTO..autoflavour
- nope definitely into, great doc on it on Youtube. Sock companies made major $$$ as some became totally unwashable.fadein11
- jagara2
If a burrito isn't enough food, is it possible to order a burro?
- jagara3
I wonder if you could actually train in a way where you'd get Popeye muscles
- That is, totally swole underarmsjagara
- Nope. Not naturally, anyway.Continuity
- Professional climbers tend to had disproportionate forearms. Eg https://static.wixst…Morning_star
- However, how you train just the forearms rather than upper arms would be a challenge.Morning_star
- and how do you get your chin to look like a butt?CyBrainX
- That's a secret, and I'm not telling you.Continuity
- not with all the spinach in the multiverse..neverscared
- I rode bmx for well over a decade, and I have residual Popeye arms from all of the hopping and whatnot.garbage
- So I would suggest front facing curls? They put much more stress on the underside of your forearm, whatever that's called.garbage
- You mean pronated (aka reverse) barbell or EX-Curl bar curls? They tend to work the brachioradialis, which is the most prominent forearm muscle on the right ...Continuity
- ... and the brachialis, to some degree. The underside of the forarms, not so much. Wrist curls will do that, though.Continuity
- *on the exterior of your forearmContinuity
- Start with supplements to get things moving: https://www.hollanda…Wolfboy
- Yeah, that's the ticket or close to it. It depends on the mechanics of your hop. I'm pretty tall so because of my wingspan I have to use a bit more of my arm.garbage
- But also longer legs make for a taller pop. I had a friend who was an absolute ripper, but he was maybe 5'6"? Dude's arms were working harder..garbage
- He had legit Popeyes, it was hilarious.garbage
- https://i.imgur.com/…
That's mine now. Jesus I'm out of shape.garbage - https://bleacherrepo…duckseason
- jagara1
I wonder if you could repurpose worn-out electric car batteries for installation in solar powered houses. If the batteries are at 40% capacity, it should be able to power an average home.
Dumb idea? No expert.
- imbecile2
Several companies and organizations are actively working on repurposing worn-out electric vehicle (EV) batteries for energy storage in homes and other applications. Here are some key players and projects in this space:
Companies and Initiatives
Nissan and Eaton - xStorageOverview: Nissan, in partnership with Eaton, has developed the xStorage Home system, which uses recycled Nissan Leaf batteries to provide energy storage for homes.
Features: The system allows homeowners to store energy from solar panels or the grid and use it during peak times, providing energy efficiency and cost savings.
Benefits: It helps reduce electricity bills and carbon footprints by maximizing the use of renewable energy.
Renault and The Mobility HouseOverview: Renault, in collaboration with The Mobility House and other partners, has launched projects like the Advanced Battery Storage program in Europe.
Purpose: This initiative aims to store energy using second-life batteries from Renault EVs, helping stabilize the grid and support renewable energy integration.
Applications: Besides residential use, these batteries are also employed in larger-scale industrial settings.
BMW - Battery Second LifeOverview: BMW has been experimenting with using second-life batteries from their electric vehicles, such as the i3, for energy storage solutions.
Projects: Their Battery Second Life project involves testing the feasibility of using these batteries in various applications, including home energy systems and public infrastructure.
TeslaApproach: While Tesla primarily uses new batteries in its Powerwall systems, they have explored second-life battery applications for larger projects, like grid storage, through initiatives such as their Tesla Energy division.
Potential: The company has the infrastructure and technology to expand into using second-life batteries in the future.
General Motors (GM)Initiative: GM has partnered with companies like ABB to repurpose used Chevy Volt batteries for energy storage.
Projects: They have deployed these batteries in various projects, including building-integrated systems and commercial energy storage solutions.
BYDCollaboration: BYD, a leading Chinese EV manufacturer, collaborates with several partners to develop second-life battery applications.
Deployment: Their batteries have been used in stationary storage systems that support renewable energy projects in China and beyond.
RelectrifyTechnology: This Australian company specializes in developing control systems that enable the efficient use of second-life batteries.
Applications: Relectrify’s technology allows these batteries to be used in both residential and commercial energy storage systems.
Connected EnergySolution: UK-based Connected Energy uses second-life batteries from Nissan and Renault EVs in its E-STOR systems, providing grid support and energy storage.
Projects: They have successfully implemented systems across Europe, offering scalable energy solutions for various needs.
AceleronInnovation: Aceleron focuses on designing battery packs that can be easily maintained and repurposed, extending the life of used batteries.
Products: Their technology is used in energy storage systems for off-grid and backup power applications.
Enel and Nissan - Project BondioPurpose: This project aims to test the feasibility of using second-life EV batteries in a distributed energy storage network.
Applications: It provides insights into how these batteries can support grid stability and enhance renewable energy integration.
Real-World Implementations
The Johan Cruijff Arena, AmsterdamDetails: This iconic stadium uses a large-scale energy storage system comprising second-life Nissan Leaf batteries.
Benefits: The system helps balance the grid and provides backup power for the stadium’s events.
Port of RotterdamProject: The port utilizes second-life EV batteries to power a sustainable energy storage system.
Impact: This helps reduce emissions and supports renewable energy usage at one of Europe’s busiest ports.
German Energy Storage ProjectsImplementation: Several projects across Germany utilize second-life batteries for grid stabilization and renewable energy storage.
Companies: Partnerships with automakers like BMW and Daimler have enabled these projects to demonstrate the viability of second-life applications.- re: jagara https://www.qbn.com/…imbecile
- Thanks, 8 months later i see this :)jagara