In 2023 it was the worst year of my life. I had hope that 2024 would be better and it was, 2024 has been good to me.

As for 2025 I want to travel more. I'll see what happens as the new year approaches.

I'm glad to hear this has been a better year for you. For me it's been long and difficult year but there's hope on the horizon.

We’re trying to plan a week long trip for Norway in September, but we have some financial difficulties we need to take care of first. I’m hoping to get a good chunk of it (if not all of it) taken care of by the end of February.

That's awesome man! I'm glad you've got a good plan together.

oh and I wear this vintage stuff from zales almost every day

Quote from: Ingy on November 24, 2024, 12:42:51 PM

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So that's my reasoning for voting for Trump and I feel like it reflects the majority of people who voted for Trump. If people here still think that makes me a member of the nazi party then fine. But I hope this helps to provide an opposing viewpoint and helps in convincing people here that maybe half the country are actually reasonable people and not just the evil goblins they envision in their minds

That doesn't make the majority of Americans sound like Nazis, it makes them sound like fucking idiots.

well, the Nazis were also idiots

lots of Nazi supporters on the ground level were bumbling, incompetent... in America we would call them rednecks, I'm not sure what the German word is

I'm buying a house in a week so locking down for next yr

that's amazing!

Home ownership has changed me deeply as a person, I hope your new home is a happy one.

Oh and HAPPY THANKSGIVING everyone!

Quote from: path1k on October 23, 2024, 11:36:54 PM

Of a movie you saw a long time ago, but don't know the title.

Is therea website I can hse to track my mystery movie down? If it's worth mentioning it's an overseas movie (Italian)

Reddit (you will need an account to post)

https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthatmovie/
and
https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue/

yoo super useful

I know what it's like to force put on airs to fit in with the Christian Nationalist crowd, day in and day out. The job I was working when I bought my house more or less depended on it. I got a huge promotion because I went on a rant about the WEF and the Great Reset to impress the owner.

It drove me crazy trying to be someone I wasn't and it will be an enormous source of dysphoria for you. You shouldn't wedge yourself into that shape, even to save your life. There are other ways to get out of a bad situation. I don't have any suggestions for what you might do, but don't go full Maga just to make it in Trump's America, please.

From time to time.

I mostly just lurk and read the threads.

I don't really have anyone else to tell. I don't use social media. Beyond that, in spite of what some of you think of me you're the people I have always felt most comfortable with.

Being a part of the b.net and Sep7agon communities helped me figure a teeny tiny bit about myself when I didn't really know anything about who I was. When I was a child, I wasn't really allowed to be or want anything. My mother raised me like some disgusting mixture of a dress-up doll and a poorly trained dog. I wasn't allowed to choose my own clothes until I was in eighth grade. I'm sure you all know I didn't have any friends, and I'm sure I've told my story extensively over the last decade here.

My life was really hard after that. But I checked in every now and then and you probably know things have gotten a lot better. You're probably aware that I started HRT six years ago. You might not know that it was difficult for me to maintain a supply of medication early on, or that it was more important to me than things like food, or shelter. I've been able to be secure in having access to meds for the last four years.

I'm talking about all of this because, the thing I wanted to share with you, is that I just broke down in tears after realizing that for the first time in fifteen years I am not completely ashamed of myself and my body. I stopped being comfortable with being seen without a shirt on when I was eleven or twelve. The funny thing about this is I've been extremely depressed lately, and completely went insane in October. I was doing some engineering work for a company near Tulsa, and it was the first job I'd ever had that paid well enough for me to buy a house. I pretended to be someone that I wasn't because I knew that they wouldn't take the real me seriously. I had a relatively socialist worldview, which I had constructed for myself after clawing out of the repressed pits of fascist hell my brain lived in until I was 22. Suddenly I needed to fit in with the Maga crowd. I really didn't realize how much self-harm I was inflicting by trying to be that person. I knew I could be that person though, because I had been before. Holy shit what happens to you when you start drinking their Kool-aid.

So, I had gone completely insane, not the first time. Then my mother forced me to relive being abandoned by her. I had an absolute psychotic breakdown. I checked myself into the hospital but it was too late, the damage was done. I needed to start all over over again and this time I decided to go back to school. Now that I have fewer external pressures I'm free to be myself all the time. I still feel guilty for going on autistic rants about everything, while pacing and gesticulating, but I'm trying to accept that I can't repress my neurodivergent behavior without hurting myself either. It's still really embarrassing though.

So I've been really depressed and I got a little bit fat, I gained about thirty-five pounds over the course of the whole ordeal, and I've been really ashamed of that. But I just lost the first ten pounds and just yesterday I realized that my hips are wider than my shoulders. And I realized even though I've still got another twenty pounds to lose I have a narrow waistline. I tried on some of the clothes that I had put away years ago because I would be embarrassed to be seen in them when I was 30lbs lighter than I am now, and they actually looked pretty good. And tonight, it struck me that I didn't have to feel bad about myself anymore, and I don't need to pretend to be someone I'm not anymore. I'm actually more myself than I've ever been in my whole entire life and it's time to start acting like it. And I just broke down sobbing. I'm crying right now, too.

Thank you guys so much for being here, after all these years. And thank you so much for all the help you gave me. I just didn't think I could get through this moment without letting you know it means everything to me.

Looks cozy in a beat down kind of way. That your home or some kind of hobby project?

I have an idea for you if you want. The building I'm staying in is 100 years old. Same sawdust insulation in it when it was originally built. This building is both stupid hot in the summer and cold in the winter. I've no money, but I think I found a way to make wall insulation out of scavenged plastic.

The theory is, take two sheets of plastic and seal them together to make an air pocket. Could leave it at that, but my idea is this. Stick an air valve in the plastic and suck out 80-90% of the air between the sheets. Vacuum or near vacuum makes a great insulator because there's nothing to conduct heat.

I've been building batteries out of screws and nails of two types and using water as an electrolyte to power smaller things in the house. Dunno about you, but I don't count on power grids very much lately. If you want, once I've tinkered with the prototypes a bit and find out their duration limits, I could give you specs on them. Good chance you could power some shit in that shed with it.

No, it's just our smoke and drink spot, there's also a house on the property that was built in 1920.

I recommend you look into aerogel insulation solutions, you can actually just paint it on and then reuse your existing insulation as a fill. My plan for this little building is to put up a cementboard ceiling, then paint my walls with Rova Shield, then insulate with cermic fiber. If you have a metal roof you can also paint it with a solar reflective aerogel. Unfortunately mine is tar shingles.

i don't suppose it can't be about both

From a perspective of subject, it's certainly about both, but from a perspective of making a statement about something, the two are more contrary to one another than you might think.

The goal of the former statement is to assert that humans have limitless potential and we should therefore be careful about how we continue to grow into the future.

The latter statement, instead asserts that the potential of humans for growth is limitless, and asserts that we should avoid growing beyond a certain point because any continued growth after that point has been reached will inevitably result in ruin, and perhaps even asserts that we've already passed that point.

The devil lies in the difference between "Limitless Potential" and "Potential for Limitless Growth". The former implies humans are capable of creating a perfect society, but need to be careful on the way there. The latter warns you that it's impossible, even if there isn't technically a limit to how far we can develop and push the envelope.

what if Handlebars by FloBots isn't about the darkness within human potential, but instead is about the inevitable trajectory of limitless growth

Ah, television in 4:3, just like God intended.

Zack Snyder said that it's just the right way

got the SNES and GameCube set up on the crt and native analog 480i streaming without an Xbox or ps3

old shows look great over this setup, nothing is squished and it also has dlna steaming

Old 4:3 anime looks especially good.

Witch Queen to me felt like the last hurrah for Destiny. Everything since then has been "vaguely adequate" at best but all largely forgettable with a very "minimum viable product" quality to it. Even then the fatigue with the seasonal model was starting to set in around Chosen/Splicer. And Bungie have made clear that they're committing to the seasonal model, and that putting any effort into the core playlists (beyond bloating it with Battlegrounds) would take resources away from that. As long as people continue buying the Annual Pass every year I don't see that changing sadly.

I find myself often wondering if we'll ever get another patrol area as varied and interesting as the ones from long ago. The standard has long been three large areas each with one lost sector. I very sincerely hope that the area added in the final shape will feel more holistic, like the EDZ or Cosmodrome. To say the least I have been bored with the seasonal model ever since they abandoned trying to make interesting and engaging encounters for each season decided "fuck it make it a strike with a twist". Black Armory forges may have been lacking in terms of depth but at least it was something different to do with your time, and more importantly it still felt like Destiny. I haven't really felt that way about seasonal content in the last three years.