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- Nairn3
Whenever some chart or graph comes up that results in a comparison of nations, I'm basically always "Ok, whatever this is – are we better than France?".
- Germany second, and context-depending, US after. US always beats us, so it's mostly a pointless comparison.Nairn
- Same for Germany, sorry. Unless it's something I'd rather it wasn't, you guys always tend be ahead. Fuck you too. xNairn
- Could be number of nukes.
Teenage abortion levels.
Colon cancer survival rates.
Don't care. Just beat the French.Nairn - We mostly lose.Nairn
- THIS IS HOW YOU IDLE THOUGHT.Nairn
- Skip to the second question. https://www.youtube.…CyBrainX
- Nairn5
Not sure where I lie politically, never have been. What I don't think is right is that we have 'natural resources', eg. Hydrocarbons, that are taken out and sold to the whims of a market, with a fucking huge, partially- tax-payer- funded buffer betwixt incumbent resource extraction and spastic end-sale.
At the worst recent point in consumer history, we have hydrocarbon companies making literal fucking billions, much of which comes directly out of our pockets.
Shit ain't right.
- Ianbolton0
When will someone create a 'Autistic wank off' thread
- and what treasures will such a thread contain?hans_glib
- GretaBrabo_Brabo
- It’s the coronavirus threadscarabin
- Almost every QBN thread is an Autistic Wank Off Thread including this one.CyBrainX
- Bobo why you wanna wank off to underage girl?pango
- SteveJobs1
The youtube algorithm has gotten really bad. If I watch anything out of the norm, be it a video posted on qbn or elsewhere - it doesn't matter if i close the video 5 seconds in..
Youtube feed: "Boy, do we have some videos you're gonna like!!!111"
- Yeah the algo is really bad in the past few days. And the ad-blockers stopped working too. YT upping their anti-ad-blocker game.NBQ00
- It’s awfulscarabin
- On a Mac, Safari ad-blocker stopped working. Firefox AdBlocker Ultimate still does.comicsans
- all this talk of AI and machine learning.... yet everything still acts dumb as fuck.inteliboy
- StoicLevels1
Our overlords are making gas expensive so we buy electric cars.
Brilliant!
(bows to the industrial masters of the world)
- this way please: https://www.qbn.com/…
+lol just google: "DarkSide Closed"sted - Thanks Elon!utopian
- Cars don't run on gas!Hayzilla
- See Australia. World's largest gas exporter, yet we pay more than most for it. CNZ.MrT
- this way please: https://www.qbn.com/…
- Nairn4
'Missing' should be be spelt 'mssing'.
- utopian2
There are three sides to every story: your side, my side, and the truth.
And no one is lying.
- And then there's the 5th dimension whereby your story is merely a fragment of the simulation.shapesalad
- How can there be an objective truth to a story? Stories are inherently subjective.mort_
- Reality is entirely subjective.mort_
- People lie about their own side of the story all the time.i_monk
- Krassy4
An idle thought: "this thread is pretty much the same as the Blog thread"
- microkorg2
Start a band called 'Rare Recording' or similar, call your song names 'The Beatles', 'David Bowie' and other huge artists.
Upload your tunes to Spotify etc and watch all those pennies roll in from streams.
- nb5
why
- Nairn0
I was listening to some Canadian podcast last night - CBC's Ideas - and there's a radio show from fucking 1989 with David Suzuki banging on about how fucked we're going to be if we don't get our shit sorted. Back then, they were still super-worried about the ozone, which is a rare sorta-success story where we all came together and stopped making so much of that shit*.
But at the same time, they're fretting about species losses, deforestation, greenhouse emissions... in 1989, panicking about it.
That's nearly 35 years ago.
We really are fucked.
I'm just hoping the fact that insurance companies are starting to abandon entire areas because of this will be the final wake up call for the money people to finally realise they do actually need to do something about this shit. And, possibly, still profit.
- * except for recent huge emissions from various points over in asia somewhere.Nairn
- I fully believe that we as a species have the means to undo this shit. And not too un-quickly. But. It requires motivation. $$Nairn
- Well, undo some shit. I think we have truly- fucked things with micro- pico - nano- etc- plastic particulate pollution. Really badly.Nairn
- Rich people just move, they have their bunkers too.PhanLo
- This is par for the course, as far as David Suzuki is concerned. I remember he was sounding the alarm even as far back as the late 1970s in his TV docs.Continuity
- He should be considered a Canadian national treasure.Continuity
- Apparently he’s a bit of a prick in real life. Maybe he’s unhappy his predictions for the end times keep getting pushed back.monNom
- lajj0
If you point a very powerful laser beam at the sky, then you shake the thing, will the laser bend at some far away point in space?
- bend or curb or undulate...lajj
- what is gravitational lensingsted
- so no, not because you "shake it" :) but by objects with high gravity, yessted
- Moving the light source WILL "bend" it. red/blue shift of the wavelength happens when light-emitting objects move-- the speed of light remains constantsarahfailin
- The red/ blue shift only happens for axial movement, you are essentially compressing the wavefront by moving the emittermonNom
- And no. The laser will point at different points in space based on your shaking. No bending.monNom
- sarahfailin0
at what point does a man become a slut?
or at what point is promiscuity a problem?
- "...asking for a friend"sarahfailin
- Maybe NBQ00 would like to share his insights on this?Continuity
- Would you suck off a guy in a 7-11 for a bottle of hooch?Nairn
- If you're in a 7/11, you're probably doing that already.CyBrainX
- Nairn1
This is posted entirely inappopriately, but we don't have a Very Deep Thoughts thread. Or, do we?
- not sure if this fits but we have this "Intellectual Dark Web" thing. anyway do you think that King Arthur came a lot?sted
- Haha. I find Cunk a bit too cringe but this one's profoundly resonating right nowIanbolton
- I know it's all set up, but this is still delicious
https://imgz.org/iBQ…Nairn