I don't trust people from tiny islands in the middle of nowhere. Isolation makes people weird
I live with a bunch of Vanuatans and sometimes its difficult to read their intentions. They're really jolly people and constantly joking but sometimes they push food onto me, which makes me suspicious. When I was doing my washing the other night, a fat one came up to me and started babbling in broken English and then propositioned something to me that sounded like sex.
Very strange people.
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Definitely not. Take your schizo pills.
I think the problem is me. Western culture is built upon exerting our power in friendships, as I've learned and grown to notice, where as these men build their friendship based on blood, culture and helping each other out for the sake of it. These tiny islands are the last happy islands untouched by the Western need to be economically productive, when for them a good life is having a house and land to feed your family and invite your friends over to eat and share kava.
>friendships
>helping each other out for the sake of it
I was going to ask, what's the difference, but then I remembered that during the course of the last century, Western culture has also shifted the meaning of "friendship" from "helping each other out" to "hanging out enjoying the same stuff".
Sad!
My guitar teacher asked me to sell him something to smoke and I will be the first student who ever sells him drugs! He also didn't smoke any cannabis for 40 years so basically I will re-take his pot virginity next week.
r8
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Happy Sunday
Does bernd want to play a game?
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Not to cite anyone in particular, but you notice a lot that some people don't want to post on a board because it's dead, and the board is in turn dead because nobody posts on it. I find this effect interesting; and it's understandable: if there's no threads to engage with, there's not much of a reason to go to a board, no?
Well, then I asked myself; how would one model expected board speed? How does number of posters affect it? What's the correlation? Of course, posters have very different levels of postings individually: some are prolific, some are more prone to making new threads while others generally just reply – that's a lot of variables. But let's just assume that there's not much difference between bernds, and let's assume that, since bernd doesn't go outside and has a fucked up sleeping schedule, there's no real power hours at any time. (Yes, I'm being a physicist here.) What kind of function of N – number of posters on a board – is posting speed? How does bringing a new poster affect board speed?
So, if we assume that all bernds are equally likely to create a thread, and will reply with equal likelihood to what they read (not necessarily reply to everything, just to things they find interesting, or have something to say) – bringing a new bernd over will 1) increase the number of threads (since he is OP of some of them now) as well as 2) increase the number of replies in each thread.
But his threads and replies, in turn, also make it more likely for all other bernds to post something: in reply to his posts. So if everyone reads everything and replies to everyone (when applicable) – number of threads goes as N, but number of replies, and thus posting speed grows much faster, since there's not only more posters, but also more content to reply to! Is it N² – N threads times N bernds who might reply? No – each new reply also makes every other bernd more likely to reply!
It's an infinite series: if probability of a bernd to reply is p, and if N bernds create N OPs: then there will be N*pN first order replies (N threads, and each of N bernds has probability of p to reply); then there's N*pN*pN second order replies (replies to first order replies), and so on and so on: N + pN² + p²N³ + p³N⁴ + ... = N/(1-pN) (which obviously makes sense only if p<1/N)
This has an interesting consequence. While number of bernds is small – the denominator is practically 1, and board speed grows roughly linearly with number of bernds. But as number of bernds approaches critical value: Ň=1/p, the board speed should, in this model, suddenly start diverging towards infinity. (Clearly, this shows that model assumptions are broken.)
Well, we assumed that all bernds can read everything, and will reply to everything they feel like replying to: but, can bernd really produce infinite number of posts? Not really: as the number of bernds approaches this critical value, suddenly the board becomes fast enough that there's constantly new posts, and bernds can no longer reply to absolutely everything. At higher speeds, there's not even enough time to read everything bernd might be interested in. But, we have seen that there's a critical number Ň when a board ceases being slow. At that critical number, the board is suddenly fast enough that, no matter when you come, there's new posts being made.
The key to getting the board alive is, thus, increasing the number of bernds past this critical number Ň.
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What are some good apps for Android?
t. Mostly uses newpipe & lichess
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Admin how did you learn to code and web design?
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What can be done? Russia never signed the Budapest convention against cyber attacks and turns a blind eye against rogues operating within it's borders just as another tactic to peck at America's weakening state and expose how vulnerable it is to propaganda and attacks on its infrastructure and companies.
I think Biden is either playing a front by playing coy by telling the media he's ignorant of the attackers. If he showed strength, this could be a good move against the perfidious ruskie.
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What is Bernd carrying here?
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are you the american who hates me because i'm a stoner? (im not)
8 beers? yikes.
drinking beer is unbased af unless it tastes well (99% of beers dont). alcohol is a meme, the only alcoholic drink i'd ever touch is the french apple cider because its taste is just god tier.
it ruins your brain and body and its not even fun to be drunk.
Nice, just recently walked by a park in which I would consoom some homegrown Haitians or whatever that shroom breed was called with 2 friends and gf 15 years ago, gave me pleasant memories.
Luckily they were dosed just a little on the light side, so we all had a great time with still being mostly clear of mind. Back then I also found my totem animal to be the vulture, as I was pretty much sure to be a vulture while high.
Also had to smile when I saw that round boulder again, that transformed into some kind of lava beetle back then.
Interesting experience.
