When's the last time you've had a Koolickle, bernd?
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I know toxoplasmosis is some kohlface broscience but I am addicted to cats smell.
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There is nothing devilish. Do it. If you get indoor kots you must have sufficient space so they can roam around and get two so they can play with each other when you don't have time for them. Best is ans outdoor kot of course.
I noticed it gives me tremendous joy to watch kot videos. So I try to do this multiple times a week. I do recommend this.
Wowowow I've never seen a thunderstorm like this.
And it's coming closer omo
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Would you eat my filled zucchini with cheese, mushrooms, onions, garlic, chili and mozzarella on top?
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I am not sure tbh lol, I ate the tastiest aromatic zucchinis and I ate some horribly bitter ones that almost ruined the entire dish, I think it has something to do with age. The fresher the zucchini the sweeter they are, they tend to get bitter somewhat quickly despite not being bad. Also the small zucchinis are sweeter than the big ones, but obviously they are not that suitable for filling. Just make sure you eat them 3-4 days after buying
European first world send help to USAzil it's suffering.
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i miss paul
where is paul
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Kill paul. Behead paul. Roundhouse kick paul into the concrete. Slam dunk a paul baby into the trashcan. Crucify filthy paul. Defecate in paul's food. Launch paul into the sun. Stir fry paul in a wok. Toss paul into an active volcano. Urinate into paul's gas tank. Judo throw paul into a wood chipper. Twist paul's head off. Report paul to the AFP. Karate chop paul in half. Curb stomp pregnant paul. Trap paul in quicksand. Crush paul in the trash compactor. Liquefy paul in a vat of acid. Eat paul. Dissect paul. Exterminate paul in the gas chamber. Stomp paul's skull with steel toed boots. Cremate paul in the oven. Lobotomize paul. Mandatory abortions for paul. Grind paul fetuses in the garbage disposal. Drown paul in boiling paul piss. Vaporize paul with a ray gun. Kick old paul down the stairs. Feed paul to alligators. Slice paul with a katana.
i've been neglecting my health training. over the years i did many experiments and found lots of stuff i very much believe to be healthy.
today i did pretty good: i did
>netipot
>wim hof breath training
>light aerobic
>lymphatic muscle pumps (that's something i invented myself)
>some medium intensity umbrella skating
>drank healing tea
tomorrow i wanna continue. the breath training and the muscle pumps are something i should be doing every day. i did this for a while and i stopped because i didn't know how to handle being molested by ugly women so much. i hoe-p i'm better at dodging the uggos now.
i've experimented quite a bit with different schools of breathing. what i like about the Wim Hof method is that it is so easily accessible. i don't have to be in this transcendent serene longterm mindspace to get into it, i just press play on the video and follow along and the results are instant. i've never done the exercise without immediately feeling that this is doing me good.
if any bernd wants to know what it is that i will be doing tomorrow, this video is a good introduction and i very much recommend:
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>Isn't the age of 24 a bit too cring to start skating
no? i'm teaching my 75 year old father how to snakeboard.
you seem still very much worried what other people will think of you. if you keep this attitude up your life will be shit because evil people will wanna trick you into doing their bidding. they will never stop bitching until you follow their exact orders. it doesn't matter what you do or don't do, people will complain and be nasty to you because they are trash.
So, for those of you unaware, I've been working on a quasi-phonetic alphabet for a very very long time. The goals are:
1) use the entire original alphabet
2) use the extensions in a way that aligns with as many systems as possible
3) use letter case (because I'm trying to stick true to how latin alphabet works, even though this feature is something I personally don't like much)
4) use additions that are as distinct as possible
5) make the system as regular as possible
The points 3) and 4) make it impossible to go the way of IPA and use a shitload of smallcaps symbols and various typographic variants signifying different phonemes. According to point 2) I decided then to go with a regular system of recognisable diacritics. I've maximally simplified the distinction by place of articulation (to labial, coronal, dorsal, laryngeal, + sibilant & lateral specials). I still had to introduce plenty of additional letters, the full inventory stands at 48.
I'm now almost satisfied with the end result, but there is one thing that bothers me: the letter Qq. I have two solutions how to complete the system;
1) use Qq for the guttural R ("dorsal vibrant"), and ʔ for the glottal stop (standard usage in phonetics), with a mirrored hamza-like (ء) uppercase – kind of like an open Q (but this leaves the 2-like variant cursive Q incompatible) – not encoded in Unicode, it's possible to mock it up using open O and ogonek: Ɔ̨. Fairly elegant, but seeing q's to denote the guttural Rs in French and German looks too counterintuitive.
2) use a rho-based ♇ϱ for the guttural R. Originally (10 years ago) I had rho for the voiceless R based on how it was devoiced in original Greek when word-initial or doubled, but that turned out too irregular compared to the rest of the system. I guess using 'rh' for the guttural R is kinda intuitive too. It'd also be possible to use lowercase ɽ instead of ϱ, but I'm not sure, the hooked descender looks a bit weird & I lose the rationalization that the letter is a rho that way. Then Qq is used for the glottal stop, which is how Maltese uses it, and also some odd languages here and there (Võro, Shanghainese romanization, and I believe some languages in the Pacific too)
Thoughts? I'm not sure which one looks nicer; the rho is a bit too distinct shape-wise (doesn't look in line with the rest of letters) and ʔ for glottal stop is a very standard phonetic letter, I feel like I shouldn't discard it like that. Q ends up being used in a weird way either way, though it looks less counterintuitive for me in the glottal stop position than in the guttural R.
Complimentary are three renditions of Der Nordwind und die Sonne, a text typically used in phonetic demonstrations, in German translation, to showcase how guttural R's show (I hope I didn't make too many mistakes typing this out):
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> Come up with a standardized system for transcription of languages that don't use Latin
Why use Latin then? You could build something from a scratch instead, it would be more versatile and less confusing. It could also be less syllable-oriented, based on smaller and more distinctive sound features (like Korean script) - it's harder (slower) to write this way but easier to learn and read.
It needs to work inline with normal text, when writing in English or Slovene or otherwise, where only some words (e.g. proper names, culturally specific objects and concepts) need to be transcribed, but the rest is in normal language.
Autistic satisfaction.
Maybe I wasn't clear enough, I'm not really expecting this to replace any orthography. Being able to write German, French, Arabic, etc. is just a proof of concept.
There's another sound which I'm not 100% sure about what letter to go with.
I should note that I don't want to limit myself only to letter shapes which already exist and are encoded in Unicode, but I'm also using in all cases characters from already existing scripts as a base for addition to Latin. For example, the capital of ɽ / ϱ that I want to use doesn't exist in unicode (the canonical capital of ɽ is Ɽ, and of ϱ is just plain capital rho which is identical to P), so I'm using the Percival Lowell's monogram for Pluto, which already is encoded as ♇. Georgian asomtavruli Ⴒ (corresponding to nuskhuri ⴒ and mkhedruli ტ, with unrelated phonetic value /t'/) would also be acceptable as a placeholder... А proper uppercase should be designed by inverting the Cyrillic Б or the experimental early Zhuang tone letters Ƃ and Ƌ; or by overlaying P and L.
However, almost every letter I'm using already has an existing equivalent in an existing script. Sometimes it's quite hard to find a suitable parent script for characters representing rare sounds. The voiceless lateral spirant (I'm avoiding the modern IPA distinction between a fricative and an approximant here, because the two are often allophones & there's no clear distinction between the two), in IPA /ɬ~l̥/, therefore uses a letter from one of the few scripts that natively transcribe this sound: Ge'ez ሠ, which just so happens to be directly cognate to Cyrillic Ш (by the way of Hebrew ש), therefore I use Шɯ (with a more Latin style lowercase) for this sound. Even for the abstract positionless nasal semivowel I go to hiragana for inspiration and adapt ん for use in Latin (lowercase should look like ƕ though without the ascender) – though note also similarity in shape to the tilde ~ – while the most suitable uppercase equivalent is in my opinion an inverted N, so I use Cyrillic И as a placeholder when I have to type in Unicode. (I was however also considering something like Һ. Thoughts?)
Now, there are two sounds for which there is no suitable equivalent in any existing script.
The first one is the lateral vibrant ("lateral R" – think of Japanese pronunciation; sometimes it contrasts with R or L or both and thus needs own letter) – there are no suitable kana which could easily be modified into a Latin letter. Eventually I decided to go with a l-r monogram, which happens to be already encoded in Unicode as 𝼑. For uppercase, options are something like a Ⱶ (a Claudian letter), or again like Һ; possibly with a R-like slanted right leg. (Some shapes of how hiragana り can be written do look a bit similar, though.)
A much bigger problem is the labial vibrant. Perhaps I should note that I distinguish trills and taps by length, not as essentially different. This is a primary phoneme, but it is exotic enough that it is only natively present as a phoneme in various West African, Melanesian, upland Southeast Asian, and Amazonian languages. The only real option I'm aware of is the song by Knorkator where they joke about inventing a letter for this sound (and proceeding to replace /br/ in German words with it): YouTube: kh9oVpAmBAc and it looks a bit similar to Ω but closed, like an O overlaid with upside-down T. See attached image. It's weird, doesn't line up with the rest of letters, and I have no idea how to lowercase it. IPA uses ʙ for the bilabial trill (unsuitable as a smallcap) and ⱱ for the labiodental flap (which is an option, but I feel it's not distinctive enough from regular v, plus the hook is weird and works better in context of IPA than with other regular Latin letters.. Either way, medieval Cyrillic izhitsa which stands for y in Greek words is also very similar and could be a suitable placeholder: Ѵѵ). The only suitable option I can think of is to repurpose the phi Фф, which is ready-made, distinctive enough, but I have no justification to use it like that. Does anyone have better ideas?
Walmart won't give you plastic or even paper bags anymore. you can only buy reusable ones at the register for 75 cents
this is LITERALLY communism. the founding fathers are rolling in their graves
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supermarket on a sunday sounds nice, i'd much rather be able to buy food every day of the week. though selling to people is such horror, i get it that you want a day of rest from it.
i dunno why the sunday is off, people are sinners and demons anyways, they don't go to church afaik and also this is not supporting small businesses because those are mostly dead here.
they are having trouble finding enough employees, because they were such evil nazis that they fire the unvaccinated. i'd never work for covidnazis no matter how much they pay because unlike the bernds here, i am not a whore with a rotten soul, yes offense🧙♂️
Fuck, if only I was a firstworlder I'd instantly buy a ticket and go on an insane cocaine+hookers spree on the Russia. Then I would get a full cashback from the russian gubmint after posting a "WALK IN MOSCOW 2023 HD SEE RUSSIA IS NOT THIRD WORLD THEY HAVE A NICE STREET IN MOSCOW" kinda video on yt.
What's your fucking excuse euro/usgarchs
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you are a criminologist, you are in charge for an investigation about a murder crime.
The crime shows that a middle age man died while he was walking towards his car. He died for an explosion caused for a granate. Videos on the road shows that the granate was coming from above, some people in the scene of crime said that they heard noises from the sky like a motor and some suggested that the sound was comming from a drone.
the capabilitiesof a well-know drone are:
>Pic related
(evidence showed that the model of drone COULD be an
DJI Phantom 3 Standard)
What would you do to find out the murder?
>Also
Anons are allowed to make reviews of the aswers. Please make your analysis as real as possible.
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Then third column tells the range of the drone in a normal distance.
>you should investigate the university first cause is the only place you can get a drone without getting registred
I didn't know that
Some videos on the internet about shows how precise a drone dropping a granate could be (with low velocity of wind of course), that reminds me when both uckranians and russians didn't attack to each other with drones because of wind's speed.
> there would be a lot of street/car video recordings while almost no high rise buildings so a drone would be easy to trace by.
A dron could be like 50*50 cm so you are right about that i can imaginate it, the matter is how to find the people who car's recorded the video, maybe asking in a local infocomercial I don't know.
>such as digging up who the victim was and who would benefit from his death.
Correct
Is that possible such in a third-world country?
>Is that possible such in a third-world country?
All you need to have is that is that the cell-phone towers log the signal strength of each cellphone that comes into their reach. When multiple do this you can triangulate the location of the cellphone.
Presumably your towers use the same chink hardware that does it as wectern towers. The software that does the rest should be easily available.
Surveillance of its citizens is something that every government from turd world to democracy to dictatorshit has an interest in. So yes. Most likely.
The only problem is when they can't match a phone number to a person. Do circumvent that germany forces germs to register with their passport when they buy a new sim-card. Even if it is prepaid. Don't know if mexico is as far is us in that regard.
I had ans presentation yesterday in front of the managers. I proposed some changes to the software which would half loading times in some circumstances and some improvements to the user interface.
Everything went through and now I have extra work to do to implement it since I will have to do everything myself.
I already wrote a ticket about it eight months but my product manager has never read it. Every ticket must be approved by him before the team leader can prioritise it. Somehow the pm stopped working on non-trivial tickets completely about 1 year ago. There are even bug tickets that I wrote shortly before the release of the main version last year that are still open with him as the assignee.
I already talked to my team leader about it but he never does anything. Apparently now the only way to suggest changes that might actually have the chance to be realized is to do power point presentations in front of them.
During my presentation I talked about moving a button to some place else so it isn't as visible for the customer because it is usually not wise for the customer to click on it. One of the managers was first very opposed to the idea but after half an hour he wanted to remove the button completely. I talked to my team leader afterwards and me and him are pretty sure that this will result in problems in some use cases.
While I spend days thinking about changes and its possible side effect a manager can just decide something radical based on gut feeling in ans one hour meeting. This has a very neo feudalistic feel to me with some elite cast that does not have to work but gets to make all the decisions by the grace of god because he got into that position.
I really don't know what a manager is doing here tbh. There is no clear product strategy and I don't see what they are managing.
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I know that one. Some foids believe that all software engineers are super rich because they know some freelancer that drives around in a sportscar.
I've been looking at job descriptions of other departments for a couple of weeks now.
Unfortunately they are very vague.
Eg. you will implement features in product X with C# and C++. This is literally the whole description. This makes me think that either the manager didn't bother to think about what he wants that person to do which would be ans red flag to me or they just want to target as many people as possible.
The main problem with switching would be that I don't really know how to identify a good work environment. In the worst case it will slowly turn out as bad or even worse than my current one but I will have the additional effort of familiarizing myself with a completely different codebase.
such is the turbulence of life and employment. You must observe and judge and navigate this. especially so in the dying tech industry
i would say just stick with your current position so as to remain employed, but positions and companies are disappearing, so if your judgement is that it's safer and better elsewhere, keep moving. just dont get unemployed for any amount of time