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Heard some ppl had to sleep in the office to catch with his deadlines.
Polygamies were also modern back then. Several wives.
Its okay, they are not really together. He just makes babies.
Imagine getting asked to take out the trash 9 times a second by 3+ wives each
As god intended
Sew thy seed ๐
Don't ask, just subscribe, it'll be fun for your close ones to find a charge for subscriptions on the X website on your bills
Bible also said no divorce
What cool thing has he done though? There was a time when I liked elon but that was when I didn't really know anything about that guy. He made a flamethrower, spewed bullshit ideas about colonising mars, reinvented trains and got fired as CEO for smoking weed
Rocket reentry
His engineers did that, not him
Reusable
He paid their bills
Who thunk it up and spent the money for it
Well he didnt think it up
It's been a thing just not applicable says NASA, who just wants more money
Yes, he just spent the money for it. Something every other billionaire has been trying to do since 2010s when the Nasa space fleet was decommissioned and private space launch agencies became lucrative
Only difference is, he achieved it
Which is cool
Nothing hes done makes him a unlikable person either
Unless you're a twitter stan
Uh, okay. I doubt elon can solve a second order differential equation but he achieved reuseable rocketry. Got it
Elons not likable until he follows through on Occupy Mars
Yeah, his south African mines that were crewed by literal slaves during his lifetime is not on him. Got it. Lounge reset
1 bad thing
Just yapping
Lounge has been reset
Because you brought up a "point" about something that has no solid proof of its existence, and even if it did it still wouldnt be on elon because it's his dads company?
Yapping to yap. That's that twitter mentality
Can i offer you a red panda gif in these trying times?
You could offer me a solid point with some truth behind it instead of yapping
Red panda has surpassed my cat in balance.
Like calling someone a pedo on twitter like a tool
I already did offer a solid point but apparently it's not solid enough to you, you a major of anthropology. You who declared, that the apartheid was not backed substantially by evidence. If you're going to reply to every argument with, nuh uh that's not enough, give more, i dont have the energy to engage with you on this
That's 90% of twitter users who do this anyways
Liquid points fill the empty space better
Someone making a flamethrower is a reason to hate them?
Plasmic points
Or spewing ideas to colonize another planet
I didn't state those as the bad one tf, do you lack reading comprehension? I just stated some moronic things he's done. Then you said he was likeable as a person as he hadn't done anything wrong. That was when I mentioned the "bad" thing
Yeah time for the old block button, not worth it
Lol no. Even so, youre still a tool if you do it
The bad thing literally doesnt have solid proof
They've found no evidence of that mine existing, even if it did. It was his father's. Not his.
Cats are liquid yes
Do not the car
Cats are alarm clocks actually
why is noone paying to watch the marvels, i heard it has cats
And that line is a meme way of saying "do not harm the cat"
Your point makes more sense to not like him for then the yapping stooge
Well I could mention the early paypal frauds but that would make me a yapping stooge in your eyes, probably lol
I have terrible impulse control
do you have enough lube for all the dick riding?
He crashed a Mclaren F1, who does that... I was even upset when Rowan Atkinson did the same thing
Who am I dick riding?
But Elon was so angry at the car for crashing itself he bought into Tesla to make a car which wouldnt crash itself
Should've gave paul Walker a tesla
you can't just pretend like there's not a single negative to say about elon
Laura desperately trying to reset lounge
I'm not pretending
I generally asked for a solid thing to not like him for
The mine is not solid. They found no proof of it existing.
Im so amazed at all these car movies with Teslas in em... oh right, imagine the insurance on a EV in stunts
Maybe stop sucking your own dick and read ๐คญ
I can do both
How
I learnt it from Elon
PayPal frauds, paypal frauds ๐ถ
and also saying Ukraine should just give up those teritorries to Russia
this is not including being an absolute dick in the paypal saga
claiming that he founded tesla, which he didn't
Thunderfoot has heaps on videos on Mr Musk. He sold solar tiles at one stage
Finally some solid points
I coulda just said I dislike all rich people
tesla still sells solar roof tiles if that's what you mean
Actually filthy rich people
Even jack black, Keanu Reeves, and jack sparrow?
Fine to have money just not obscene amounts then complain bout the one time you have to pay tax
I don't know how you could say he's a likeable person after knowing anything about him outside of what he says himself really
there's plenty of documentaries and books on him
the recent biography is a hit, and also doesn't paint a pretty picture
read "Elon Musk" by Walter Isaacson and see if you're still a fan
I cant wait till we start mining asteroids with quadrillions of dollars of resources then the market cap of these companies go through the roof and all other companies get absorbed into X
Cant wait till every company is absorbed into one big company
The year is 2089. Everything in your credit card bill is one way or the other an X subscription. Children cry in the streets. There is no hope
And the trash gets stacked so much that company builds giant ships for humans to leave the planet while robots make cubes out of the trash
do you want to live in Wall-E?
How are the children crying when there emotions are regulated by neurallink
Yesnt
credits cards are a distant memory. you wake at 5 Am an work the fields in an agrarian society
Children crying=memes so that's probably still allowed
some say ambulance will be the first volunteer for tribute for neurallink
Fuck that
Ahh yes suffering for the techno kings amusement
If I got neural link I wouldn't be able to bash people for unnecessary plastic surgery
I myself would have an unnecessary bodily injection ๐
Not vaccinated with 5g?
mons the 6g is new
When 12g
14cg
5G needs some range increase atleast
Then i can inject it and immediately break my neck because of the extreme g forces
Gg guys, it was fun while it lasted
What is neural link
I think Elon will clone his consciousness into an army of clones
Is it supposed to make you smarter or something
X is legion
Yes yes very smart. Much smarter than twitter stooges. Get it now, there's a sale happening
please god no
Elon is your God now
That wouldn't make him a god
He needs to fed the souls of 1000 psykers innocents every day for 10,000 years for him to become a god, you're correct
Embrace the warp
If we kill him the rest will die or give up, as shown in independence day
embrace slaneesh
Does this unit have a soul?
raindust if legion is killed in me2 it comes without memory on me3
||its not legion, its a copy of legion that the geth consciousness makes to honor the true legion||
||you also have the same thing with the rachni queen||
My choices in Andromeda caused one of my best ship mates to become a depressed alcoholic
||if you send the clone rachni queen to the crucible, you get a special event, that's about it||
Andromeda was fun, i wish they just didn't call it mass effect
For its own good
||different color endings, gamers love it||
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It must be difficult to keep a series like that going
Same with most series.
me3 should have been the end tbh. i want the universe to continue but shepard's story needed to end in me3
Power creep gets you in the end.
I dont think many trilogies really set out to be that
Cod isn't exactly a progressive series. It's just "fight ze terrorists" in a slightly different combination.
CoD is on a remake of a spinoff
Of a remake
And Final Fantasy, we know this isnt the last one
also the entirety of cod lore is about half of mass effect 1 campaign
CoD has lore?
had*
yeah
Cod zombies, the mini game, has better lore
mons did you make side deal with enemy on andromeda
Here's the perfect candidate for your wife btw
Queen of a powerful colony, has some cake, is attractive, Presumably human, knows how to handle some big ass weapons.
I liked the lady from UT3 better
The gears that keep the coalition moving
the human super soldiers are called gears iirc
I think that's why they're called gears
Coalition of governments or something like that
gears of war is on steam though
Gears 4 and 5 are
The first three are xbox exclusives
well, sort of
4 isn't on steam
Big ass fucking corpser and brumack
I thought 4 was
Or was it on epics game store
For pc
nope is only on windows one
Windows Me
It's on one of the many pc game marketplaces
Gears of War isn't owned by Epic
Not anymore
Published by Miicrosawft
Its owned by a cringey studio that changed their name to Coalition once they got the rights to gears
meecrowauve
Microsoft owns that studio too
Atleast gears has never been touched by the defilement that is playstation
Gears 5 had a terrible ending
"AI Artist" wtf
This is new, there are some profiles that are a collection of red flags
for some reason everytime i read your name i think of the mon calamari
Ai artists isnt a new thing
They're gonna bitch and complain when they find out the artwork the ai makes for them isnt eligible for copyright protection or trademarks
I need a epic developer who worked on gears 1 and 2 to tell me that Skorge and Raam are canonically female
All my dreams will come true
Skorge, raam and me are gonna be in the back
I hope raam chokes me like he did Hoffman
https://x.com/unity/status/1725080342636192251?s=20 looks like unity is leaving unreal in the dust now
Who greenlighted this
to live up to mass effect standards. they failed, miserably, but atleast they tried
watch tim announce unreal 7 kek
are they gonna kiss?
i doubt the devs that im talking about were involved in the decision to ship it
idk i felt like andromeda had more soul than anthem
which was the bioware A team project
I wish it was me
you wanna kiss them?
Gears 4 brought Raam back, why?
Did gears 5 bring Skorge back??
Is gears 6 gonna revitalize myrahh?
Nvm apparently gears 5 was myrahhs return
Unity just trying to get peeps to move to the new licence
They're fan games tbh. Its what it feels like
Fan fic
Yes
ah, that's where the kissing comes from
Why else would they return two people you 100% definitely killed in previous games
||not legion and not rachni queen look at each other uncomfortably||
now that is what I call a french kiss
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why are you tagging laura in that lol
there's not even any mention of crunching at microsoft
Because she seems like shes always on the verge of one
have you ever met a human irl?
This Lounge. Stupid questions are the best.
Why mention the rules, I havent broken any
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Clearly you havenโt
What rule did I break then?
#1
So far Iโve seen you make sexist comments and silly unfounded statements that can only yield โdumbโ questions. Why are you here btw, Iโve not seen you exist in other channels
Tf did I say that was sexist
Just block each other and kiss.
Things Iโd rather not repeat several days ago
Ok?
Do I need to talk in other channels to be here?
Prolly not USA, too expensive there. Just walk.
Nah I was jw
Most are in this server because of Unreal, I think
Yeah and this is a off topic channel, I will talk in the other respective channels when I have a project being made with unreal. In the meantime I will talk here while my non unreal projects are being worked on
legalization of gay marriage in USA, colorized
Why does it need to be colorized
i think you misread that one
Whoโs taking black and white pictures
Oh no typo
No dutch
Well not typo, stupid autocorrect
df is that word. Looks AI made.
it's "colonized" in dutch
A roundabout way to say it.
Wait till you see how they spell beer, deer, tea, coffee and other daily words
Best one yet is how they spell animal
How is that showing ignorance
Imagine the audacity of countries using their own languages. Shocking.
Dier lord
Hes clearly a english speaker, shocked at what another germanics spelling is like. So I pointed out other words that are 1 to 3 letters off from the english version
Stop being so stuck up and cocky ๐
It is tho
When the fuck did I give off that impression
No you're not
I thought you were raindust?
LMAO
those Belgians, they made you so damn... evil. And, of course, they share a border with the Dutch
That's why we dumped their tea in the ocean
belgian tea?
Don't ask what Belgium did in the Congo
Ok then
What happens in the Congo, stays in the Congo
Handy? ๐ฑ
๐
Handies at the end of their armies?
Cant sign the Geneva conventions if you don't have hands
Idk I see clips of people writing with their feet
I prefer pens or pencils
I prefer crayons, easier to explain to others
wth is that lol
Lol
Lmao wtf
tf
why is it the first gif showing for asl
Iโm sure thereโs an intricate backstory
SEO was a mistake
oh no luos here to ban me
asl > agressive sign language
lol
but yea, imma remove that rather annoying one. well tbh, i find em all annoying
luos about to make the whole server gekolonizeerd
Luos is a homie
XD
Gecko bros
Yet you stick around ๐
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Perhaps she was signing "WTF am I saying?"
I dont see it
It was way too aggressive
if you go on tenor the gif's tags hint a lot more about what it was saying
I'll pass, but thanks ๐
i don't blame you
looking at it in discord was already too much
She reminded me of that old couple doing system of a down
House ๐ ?
I already watched alll episodes of House
Worth watching twice I think
Never got the appeal of that show
I struggled to find anything else heโs made since that had decent enough writing
Or of Grey's anatomy
who is he?
those are 2 very different things
Looks fine, whatever do you mean
Haven't seen both
Hugh Laurie
blackadder
Black adder gud
rowan atkinson will never not be good
johnny english is a cracking trilogy of movies
I said since
The newest one was garbage though
Oh wait you said trilogy
Yes agreed
The new one doesn't exist
idk if he's done much acting since
eh it wasn't the best, but i wouldn't put it at garbage tier
but since I don't know about it, probably not that great
Yeah, we don't talk about Johnny English 4
I was so pumped for it but it was just..... Bad
So bad
Few reboots are ever properly written I feel
It felt like a cash grab tbh
Lots trying to capitalize on old fame
Battlestar Galactica 2005 is the only good reboot imo
That one actually was better than the old one
Every other reboot is just..... Weird
Although the last season was pretty bad but the first 3 more than make up for it
so.. Epic recently put suicide squad for free on EGL only in my region
we all took it
today they are refunding it automatically xD
well it was probably shit anyway
i play a lot of shit games
don't play with your shit
But how would I know my shit is fun so other people can enjoy playing my shit?
I make a lot of shit unfinished games
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probably cause its not injustice 3
it is on wb one also
Rocksteady is making that tho, NRS makes the Injustice games
I liked it
I loved that reboot. I would just add that certain elements of the old series were excellent, although it got weird the last year or two.
yeah unity 6 is the thing now
Tbh I only learned about and watched Battlestar Galatica recently, but I watched all of them and enjoyed them thoroughly
I literally waited a couple of years to cancel cable when it was airing so I could finish the series.
The ending got a bit weird, but I liked it better the second time I watched it.
uhhh guys, what is EGS becoming? What is this game with no textures, how is this even allowed?
thats why steam has a 100$ entry fee
Maybe itโs called maze horror because the level design is horrific
is this actualy for sale or are they trolling?
ok nvm i found it in the store
It may get its 30 minutes of glory one day, like some other games do, with XQC streaming it briefly to 60,000 viewers lol
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So does epic games store
I tried having my computer in my bedroom for a few weeks, and this happened to me. So I moved my computer back to the patio and saved my life.
what is that bs then? bro put out a game without even textures
i dont understand its purpose, it just has basic cube shapes resized to make a "maze" and a few monsters added
That was pretty much me from 2014 to 2018 ๐ฅฒ
My PC is still in my bedroom but it's also my work PC now and I don't play games as much as back then
I used to play for like 14 hours
the patio ? You code outdoors ?
Canโt say I got too much work done since Sunday ๐
I finished the patio about 5 years ago. It is fully enclosed now but I still call it a patio because that's what it was for decades. I guess it's more of a sun room now.
Ah, that makes more sense now ๐. Also hello cat! ๐
i got the opposite problem. whenever i used to burnout i just play a game for few hours and now im back in action. now i associate my pc to coding that i cannot game on it without feeling like i should stop and CODE
which is great except when im burned out ๐
Sometimes I feel that way but it depends on how entrenched Iโm in the game Iโm playing
And how stuck I am in my latest coding issue ๐
oh im always stuck in a coding issue lmao. i wish i could say it's a really complex thing that requires months of work but no it's a really simple thing that i cannot figure out
for whatever reason in MAUI i add an element to a stacklayout but it doesnt render!
only does when i resize the window
please kill me ๐ซ
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lol
Kinda cool for Tesla drivers lol (a new app for the watch I have)
finally they abandoned that unity 20xx naming. hopefully they will bring some actual game creation tools with it so it can actually be a game engine
are they free?
Dang, so many reviewers roast FarCry6. Looks imma skip that one.
I guess it's a far cry from a good game.
the main reason is because "it's the same game, different location"
which the theme of ubisoft at this point
I think if they did the same game it would have scored better.
Ppl say it is so nerfed it is boring.
And for some reason, I see the UI/UX and I can thing only of the Division.
It is like the same template, just different chars and enviro.
It is like content-focused. I heard the other day the term, Marvelization of cinema. Kinda applies here too.
What the fuck is a frunk
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What is this guy yapping about
front trunk ๐
in electric cars there is quite a bit of space in front so most of them have the front trunk
since electric motors and converters are relatively tiny
I see
That guy called the evasive maneuver in ocarina of time a soulsborne roll
And kingdom hearts 2
Well, that's an injustice isn't it
I found the old series too corny lol. But yeah it had some good ideas
Fair enough. Hard to believe its almost 50 years old now
It has these weird backpack things, the tone of the game is just weird. The main enemy takes himself seriously but the rest of the game is just jokes
lol, very polite
Last chapter of Alan Wake 2 left for tomorrow 
I'm 23 hours in, I don't know how some people were finishing it in 10 lol
unless you literally fly through the story without paying attention to anything else
They spend less time for pressing F12 aka screenshotting.
tbf I'm pretty sure I have looked at every corner of the map ๐
it will be cooler than before
I burned my finger cooking late-night dinner. :/ Not too bad tho.
maybe I should post this in #food ๐ค
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If rocksteady is making injustice 3 what is bebop working on?
I'm glad they got out of their life of crime and harassing the turtles
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Nope
Never heard of it
Will look it up
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I just realized Johnny depp plays Sweeney Todd
And theres a few harry Potter actors in the film too
Mostly death eater actors
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so f1 in vegas got drama when some drainvalve got bustedto one f1 car
So I did this instead of amogus cutting board
still needs some sanding and oiling though
only regret is I should've made the hole cutout a bit larger, but can't be bothered to redo it
Feet
thanks
That's why socks exist
pay 5k to get heated floors or 10 bucks on a pair of thick socks
we have floor heating
Floor heating?
yes
What is that
Underfloor heating and cooling is a form of central heating and cooling that achieves indoor climate control for thermal comfort using hydronic or electrical heating elements embedded in a floor. Heating is achieved by conduction, radiation and convection. Use of underfloor heating dates back to the Neoglacial and Neolithic periods.
bunch of tubes with warm water under the floor tiles
it heats up the whole house
and no visible radiators in your rooms
Is this a common thing in Belgium
not common
Pretty fucked if you drop a piece of beloved chocolate
but not uncommon either
it's not that warm on the floor
normally tiles are just cold though
Makes sense
I'd say the floor temperature is slightly colder than my skin
I wonder if we have that in the u.s
and chocolate doesn't instantly melt in my hand so
it used to be something rich people did, but it's becoming more common here
it became more interesting with the rise of heat pumps
Seems pretty expensive
Electricity bill too
well, you'd be heating your house anyway
whether you put it in the floor or in the air doesn't make a cost difference
I think the floor heating is actually more efficient
also, get solar panels
Probably not common here since we have to keep natural disasters in mind
East coast always bombard by hurricanes, mid west always hit by tornadoes, and the west coast has too many energy consumption laws
knowing our politics, we probably have worse laws
electricity is also way cheaper in USA
California's energy laws are so strict their pcs can only consume 650 watts of power
Last time I checked/heard about it
Most gaming machines machines made after July 1 are restricted to using no more than 50, 60, or 70 kWH of power a year, depending on the type of computer in question โฆ
Whatever tf that means
means bye bye 4090
I'd be happy if the u.s integrated roads like germany and bike lanes like the netherlands
Current shit is so confusing and makes me not want to drive
Especially in small/big cities
americans have bikes?
Yeah but no bike lanes in most places
Only in cities or in parks
Cant even use a skateboard for transportation
Harleys.
I think we have bike lanes by law on certain types of streets
it's only like around highways we don't have them
or when the road is so small that there would probably not be cars on it much anyway
It's pretty hard to keep a bike here in some areas
keep as in you have no space, or as in it gets stolen
we have that in big cities too though here
they did some research on this. its actually better to put it in the ceiling.
tldr: you can now have it installed in both floor and ceiling. basically turning your living room into a low heat oven for a low and slow cook.
I think riding bikes also died out here as well. We had a lot of bmx parks but most are abandoned. Only old people ride bikes on the park trails bow too
when you go to the cops in a large city and you tell them your bike was stolen, they just tell you to steal another one lol
we have it partially in the ceiling, but mainly so that the upper floor bathroom has heating
difference is crazy tbh
in the mornings the hallway is cold af (cause we keep the window open) but in the bathroom it's like heaven
it does, but since its already at ceiling, it pushes down, which is more effective than it rising.
yeah, the heat will not rise through heat
so if the ceiling is warm, the heat on the botton floor will be kept better
re: bike
my bike was stolen two years ago, and since its a rather peculiar model, they actually found it and brought it back.
nice
10/10 thought it was a lost cause.
We have a custom bmx bike shop but it barely ever gets business
my brother's electric step was stolen, and they know who did it, but they can't prove it since the camera images are not sharp enough, so he just got away with it
My state is basically Belgium
Practically two areas divided by wealth/culture
Fed is 7% and local is like 5 percent or something
lol
rookie numbers
our lowest tax bracket is 25%
we also have city taxes, but it's like next to nothing, paid like 30 bucks last year lol
but yeah, we get fucked on wage
Jesus
State income tax is 4.75-5.25% and fed is between 7-10%
the median wage is 3.5k, * 13.92 pay cycles, is 48720, so the majority pay 50% tax on part of tehir wage
one of my neighbors has a backyard filled with bikes. (not theirs). And police knows, and they saw em trough the fence. but they cant legally do anything unless someone reports its their bike in that backyard. <_<
of course you can reduce it in some ways, by having a low income partner, or if you have kids or disability
but most people are just fucked
maybe he just really likes bikes
I'm legally not "disabled" anymore
ffs bracket 4
you see why belgium is not very competitive in the international space
labour costs are really high
our main export is probably politics ๐
people working for the EU are balling though
their entry wage is like 6k, and they only pay 1.5% tax to the EU, not to belgium
well in vegas strip
Is the tax rate different between the Flanders and wallonia area places thingymabobs
not for this, this is federal
The Dutch side and french side
but the discounts you can get have some region specific things sometimes
I'd imagine fries are discounted in Wallonia ๐
at least we have no tax on capital gains, so rich people can be rich
Sounds like the u.s
everything is discounted in wallonia lol
if you cross the border, the housing prices drop like 40%
A law just passed makinh Political leaders not liable to trade in stocks or something like that
Since they always seem to be ahead and make money from it
well, guess who is making those laws
Corruption being dealt with, but they'll probably get other people to do it for them
A political leader
we also have a law that puts a ceiling on maximum pension, guess what kind of jobs are exempt from this ๐
spoiler, it's politicians
Corruption is gross
and they're already making more than 4 times what the average person makes
and they don't even have to show up
we have a politician that abused government funds to commit fraud and stole 2 million dollars, she's still active in parliament, but she hasn't showed up in 2 years cause of "illness", she's still getting paid full wage
again, normally you lose your wage partially after a month of not working, but not for politicians
Politicians dont even work
I find it crazy what you get over here for being PM
In the UK once you've been the prime minister you get ยฃ115k a year for life. For doing nothing. Take a recent example, of Liz Truss who was PM for 40 something days, royally screwed the country, resigned, and now gets a top .5% salary for doing so
They just occasionally pass a bill or go golfing
how do I become uk prime minister?
USA presidents also get money and security detail for life though
but I feel like that's on a different level
Our budget is insane
Align with the views that the rich get richer, force everyone in cities who can't afford a car that's only a few years old to pay a daily fine, live in the rich suburbs of London, and spew some spiel about how wonderful the country is
USA is also a world power and the president has substantially more power and control and is more likely to be a political target
who gives a shit about UK prime minister
Exactly
look at my boy boris
Just be the owner of the british museum
he's like a kindergartner that accidentally became PM
I'm just miffed that someone who got a job, was so bad at it they barely lasted a month, in the process screwed a lot of things, causing great inflation, and now gets to do nothing while earning a salary that's probably higher than I will ever earn
yeah it's wild
much like diplomatic immunity is just abused out the wazoo
it's meant so you don't get prosecuted for going against the current government
but people just use it to drive their car at 230 km/h and not get fines and the likes
and the concept is strange in itself really, cause the government can decide to remove your diplomatic immunity, so what's the point
it's just a longer process
I heard about something American cops have that's wild called "qualified immunity"
Which basically means they can assault you, violate your civil rights etc, and if they're on duty, they can't be found personally liable.
Which means if you're an unfortunate victim, and the only recompense you get is seeing the department give them a week's paid suspension, you still can't personally sue them for damages!
Yeah cops do what they want
It's cool when you run into level headed cops or young ones fresh from the marines
'MERICA ๐ฆ ๐ฆ ๐ฆ ๐ฆ ๐ข๏ธ ๐ข๏ธ ๐ข๏ธ ๐ข๏ธ ๐ข๏ธ ๐ซ ๐ซ ๐ซ ๐ซ ๐บ๐ธ ๐บ๐ธ ๐บ๐ธ ๐บ๐ธ
The one that arrested me kept a knee in my neck the entire time after slamming me down when I was already sitting down
Belittled me too
The EMT's released me from him and took me into care instead lol also had another cop come instead and try to cheer me up
Fortunately a lot of the UK cops are great and I don't have to worry about being shot.
I'm sure most of the American ones are fine too, it's just no one talks about the good cops, so everything I can hear about them, being overseas, is negatively biased.
I only ever met 1 American cop when I was a very young child, outside of the Orlando airport, and he was extremely chill
No one wants to record people being decent humans, they just want bad stuff so they get more views
Baffles me thats "standard procedure"
I've been "pulled over" just for walking with no shirt on and having "marijuana bracelets" that are sold by a store not even 5 minutes by car away from where he stopped me
They forget that CBD is weed, legal too
The UK has a very weird stance on weed.
We allow CBD, some shops even sell wax and seeds, hell, he met police even opened an official lounge where you can smoke a blunt and eat snacks, all above board, yet cannabis is a class b drug, and you can be fined and arrested for possession ๐ค
Or he is a genius politician acting out a dishevelled persona
what is the difference between them?
what's the point then ๐
Medical benefits
CBD can do wonders for joint pain and anxiety and stuff
wouldnt it still be as addictive tho? cause weed hits the "routine" part of your brain the hardest compared to the "reward" part
Can even be great for chronic disease like Parkinson's
ah right fair enough
Everyone knows that cbd shops sell thc weed under the counter
It doesn't create chemical dependency, of course as with anything psychological dependency is a risk, like with games, or doritos
Delta 8 also gets you high but it's legal as well
I just find it weird that us lot opened a shop where you can commit a crime but it's not a crime
What happens to the "criminals" in prison or jail for marijuana when marijuana gets legalized while they're incarcerated
true but from my understanding it still can be addictive tho not in the traditional way. it would be the same as lets say waking up in the morning at 8am everyday for few months. that habit which is now done unvoluntary can be hard to remove in its own way
but idk tho all i know about weed is some wikis i read while laying in bed ๐
pardon me?
I used to smoke weed, was the easiest thing I've ever quit
Didnt feel any negative effects from not having it or even needing it
ah alright great to hear!
Yeah that's psychological dependency. Mostly comes down to personal mindset than the thing itself
Like comfort eating, or unhealthy gaming habits
I can go a while without cigarettes if I'm extremely focused on something or at work. But if im not, I cant last no more than 15-45 minutes
The met police opened a shop with snacks and sofas where you can smoke weed. Like actual weed, not CBD, but weed is still a class b drug
It depends on mentality from person to person
Addiction is more like a spectrum, I guess
I find it crazy that tobacco is legal given the harm of it, as well as the sheer addictiveness of nicotine
yeah that is a tale as old as time lol. the way i understand that urge to an addiction is feels like not eating for a day
They raised smoking age to 21 from 18 like 3 or so years ago
ig that is fair. one the main issue with any drug is not being sober while being out there near people so being in a safe space where you drink alcohol or smoking weed sounds like the best middle ground solution
Yeah I guess the whole thing is a "safe space" for it.
Here in the UK they plan to raise the age for smoking 1 year every year. The aim is that someone who is currently 14 will never legally be allowed to buy a cigarette
I don't think it's a bad move, I just think it's a fruitless effort, and is gonna be a waste of tax money
It's a great move.
Just set it to 50 and be done with it
Just make it illegal so no one can smoke
honestly i think we should switch it up from cigs to weed. at least weed has way less long and short term damage on the person
Itll also help with climate
It is indeed.
I just don't think it will ever work.
The reason people start smoking is a tale as old as time. Their friends do it and they think it's cool.
A ban on cigarettes isn't going to change anything. Half my peers at school were selling and doing drugs.
I feel obligated to pick up any cigarette butt I find on the ground and throw it away
People who already smoke won't go for that. And it'll instantly hurt taxes.
This way the people who already smoke are fine with it.
Except half the teenagers in the UK who are 14 probably already smoke.
And have had at least 1 abortion.
Vaping encouraged more people to start smoking than cigarettes
I only see teens with vapes and they always say ew when I pull out a cigarette
and it does more damage!
(My younger brothers friends)
vapes are biggest scam on earth
My cigarettes will give me tar lung, in a few years
have you considered not smoking
vapes will collapse your lungs in fewer years ๐
that's not little
I don't get the human obsession with inhaling things you aren't meant to inhale
I can't believe vaping does more damage. Not to say that it does no damage, but it can't be as bad.
tbf it is little for proper addicts. i have a fried who cannot go without 3 whole packs a day
There have been isolated cases sure. But nothing that suggests a trend so far.
Except for the people who have been doing it 24/7 for the past 10 years and are fine...
The juices leak out and get into your mouth
Its nasty
the issue is not with the chemicals but the hot air that it produces and that person instantly inhale
So it's like living in a hot climate?
Still better than smoking.
Also if you hit it too often the cotton inside can burn with the vape liquid on it, and if you inhale that too much itll kill you
I have smoked and vaped. I haven't done either in 5 years.
Better than breathing in something that is always on fire, I feel.
Basically what vaping is.
Currently trying to cut down to 2 cigarettes a day, eventually half of one. Just to switch to nicotine patches
I stopped cold turkey.
nope. the issue is with vapes is the more hot you make it, the more "flavourful" it becomes. if you tweak it down that should be fine. but most people like to push it to the max (up to 250~ C) for "most" flavour
I dont think I can do that with nicotine like I did weed
the cost alone is enough to keep me away from smoking
next to the fact that I don't see any point in doing it of course
People who smoke can always afford another pack.
they think they do
Mostly because it's an appetite suppressant and they don't eat.
Menthol cigarettes are being banned here so it's why im working on stopping
Plus inflation made the prices more unbearable
Menthols were the best.
I'd never stop smoking if they had tobasco cigarettes
i know someone in uni who is apparently piss poor and cant afford a full launch for literally two cents but always has at least two packs of cigs in his pocket
average pack of cigs here is 10,70 euros
I think one of the biggest bads about vapes isn't that people are misusing them and burning their lungs, it's that the batteries in some of the bigger ones like to go boom in people's pockets
so smoking 4 packs a day would cos you about 14k per year here
which is approx 30% of median income
Some of the UK's attempts at stopping smoking were laughable.
Like putting cigs in grey unbranded packages and requiring grotesque images on them...
No one's smoking because the packet was cool
imagine spending a third of your money on a shit habit
It's wild
Save the cigarette money and build yourself a mean Dev rig and build server ๐ง
or a house or something idk
what would you say the "smokers ratio" is where live? for example for me that's about 2 thirds of people are smokers
I'd say at least 3 quarters here
it depends on the generation, older people probably like 1/3, but for younger people it's becoming increasingly rare, maybe like 1/10 that smokes regularly
maybe even less
in my social circle the only person that smokes is my mom
let me see if I can find actual stats
study in 2018 found that 15% of people smoked daily
I actually had a cashier tell me, "Have you seen the images on the packet?" when I bought a pack once.
and 4% on occasion
vaping is actually growing in popularity drasticly
4.7% smokes more than 20 cigs a day
i find it a hard to believe that's accurate ๐ maybe they only included cigarette users and not vapers?
people here are legit having a "vape collection" lmao
is it because people just dont like any more smoking or is it because the prices are too much for them to afford would you say?
another study found that from people aged 15 to 24 only 0.6% vape daily
25.4% has vaped at least once though
A lot of media made smooking look cool. It's not allowed to any more.
and 5.5% occasional vaping
Now everyone just does proper drugs instead.
progress!
Educate. Tax. Etc.
although I'm against drugs
but better to have an eye on it
and make some money in the mean time
My brother's wife has two younger sisters, so sometimes we see whole groups of teens, and besides one, they all vape.
"Let them take whatever and whoever survives gets to contribute to the gene pool"
we have some semi-legal places here in belgium already where you can be assisted in taking your drugs
Do they have those "test these drugs for purity" things?
we have free drug-test-labs across the country. it def helps.
as in you show up, they check if your drugs is of decent quality and not laced with chemicals, and then they set you up in a room to shoot up properly with guidance and monitor you
lets just say the last batch I had tested was "Yea, dont take this, we dont know whats in it, but lab confirmed its not good"
How do the dodgy dealers survive with such systems? Figuratively and literally.
at least the consumer survives
its generally the quick buck a-holes that do polluted batches. --generally-- though, regular dealers have pride in their work and want their costumers to buy again.
^
he gets me
I hope my kids are a lot like me
I don't wanna deal with this kind of stuff
Ibuprofen and benadryl are pretty good
Kinda hard here
Literally called the drug store
They aren't drugs. They are life savers
just learn to use pharmacy
Well
no, that's where you put water
We have different drug stores, "ingles pharmacy", CVS, Rx drug store
The terms that describe what store it is are in the name
same but i also consider adding "contain". for example only smoke weed in a room where you cant accidently hurt anyone, and dont let other people (adults and kinds) see you smoke so it doesnt become "the norm" for them
That all comes under the education bit, tbh.
And, well, teh same way you don't watch porn in public.
Decency and age requirements, I guess?
The whole idea of a set age for things is also stupid.
It makes doing it early "cool".
The D.A.R.E lion is disappointed in me and most of classmates
And the rest of america, that it dissapeared not to be heard from again
yeah but if it's just a pop with a "are you 18?" without anyway to properly verify is pointless. that's why the US (i think uk too?) approach to requiring to give your credit card or some way to properly identify that you're of age is a great approach
Drugs are really excellent?
at least it would prevent young people from getting addicted to that stuff, while also letting adult be adults
Drugs are bad was the mane point!
Hahahahaha
There's a whole "think 25" campaign in the UK. You don't ask if they look under 18, you ask if they look under 25.
Even if the age is 18.
You confused me
yeah i dont understand...who should ask the question? is it the porn sites? do they need to manually (or artificially) verify that the picture sent by the user looks like under 25 year old person?
I mean like cashiers and such.
They're making a movie about willy Wonka
They've already made at least 2...
Using the first movies oompa loompa design
Small orange people need acting roles too.
oh yeah that makes sense.
Nah the first two was about charlie and the chocolate factory
You can basically hire anyone from Essex.
Why, pray tell?
The accent
arent they like, the most unpleasant people to be with ๐ at least that's what my friends from UK said
Some people like feet. Some people like northerners.
Wtf is happening here
I'd take a chick from Glasgow
Cant go wrong with a Scottish woman
Haggis for breakfast brunch lunch linner and dinner. Yummy
Linner is a real thing
Deep fried linner*
You haven't lived until you've had a deep fried mars bar.
And you won't be living shortly afterwards, either.
I'm American
This screams freedom
Theres not a single sweet thing I havent eaten that wasnt deepfried
Gotta love carnival food
That's because it's fried in oil.
We dont invade people for cooking oil
Only daisy fields with crude oil underneath
Everything is cooking oil if you're brave enough
America is the perfect example of "just because you can (are free to) do something, doesn't mean you should do it"
America is also the perfect example of "this is why you don't drop kids when they're a child"
Deepfried butter, yum
Company I work for might be doing some stuff for one of these things. They're pretty great.
Set it to look like a blackhole
You mean turn it off? ๐
You can't really do the edge effects... they all happen outside the sphere.
it is on at Las VEgas GP
I guess you could do a blackhole sim if you wanted it just from one direction.
Like to scare the shit out of the people in that big building to the left of it.
You do not want to know the image that popped up in my head when i read that
Goatse?
Trump?
Oh I know, make it look like the eye of sauron
Trump was a drummer for a teenage boy band
A teaspoon of neutron star weighs a few billion pounds
It already looks like a gas giant though, just infected by murica
See how many Americans you can fool by saying "this is a life-sized replica of Jupiter"
Wont fool me
It's in Las Vegas
Home of dumbfucks gambling and being fooled by sleight of hand tricks
We need Darth Vader!
Imagine the heat that thing is putting out to be so bright
Oh i know, make it a DragonBall
imagine the energy usage
that's some nice pair of balls