Your pointless thoughts & observations

  On 10/7/2023 at 11:28 PM, ignatius said:

yeah.. def dependent on where you are. people can test for fentanyl as well and i'm sure there's some club drug dealers who check and then don't buy when it's got fentanyl. not that they all have some kind of code or whatever. 

mushrooms/LSD/Weed and psychedelics in general seem the safer bet.. but i know 2 people who's kids have died taking pills. both young. like 17 and 19 it think. one was told it was a xanax. he was at a house party. my friend's oldest kid. the other i'm not sure of circumstances but was similar situation. accidental. 

Fucking hell, what a nightmare. 

I realise after some more reading that my references and general drug related axioma’s are somewhat outdated. I was aware of the ubiquity of fentanyl and how potent and potentially dangerous it is but completely unaware of how cheap it is and how much more likely it is that it ends up being sold as another drug. 
 

  On 10/7/2023 at 11:26 PM, toaoaoad said:

In many cases the sound of running water won't cut it. There should be another setting that plays a constant sonic tapestry of rip-roaring loud farts, so yours will be totally camouflaged.

This occurred to me as well.
Of course playing a random pre-recorded colonic symphony would not work unless my housemate would already be acquainted with my personal cacophony and therefore be able to distinguish it from the foley farts and vice versa. In which case camouflaging would no longer make sense.
 Highly personalised phase-cancellation might be the answer though. Throughout the coming days I will record as much of my drawerless jams as I can, after that it’s simply a matter of replacing the factory ROM in one of the more common sound princess models with a custom EEPROM. I’ve already found a service manual. A common household slope detector will instantly address the ram bus and an inverting op amp circuit (might get some burr browns for this actually) driving a high-output piezo electric horn transducer will take care of the rest. I expect to muffle at least 90% of the rms of my anus, any abnormal peaks will be cloaked and perceived as high pitched whines, or, in the worst case, the sound of rupturing the skin of a medium to large diameter hand drum. 
This will literally take no more than a couple cauliflowers, some onions, eggs and patience. Make the recordings and just make sure the dynamics are there but maybe add some subtle compression to make life easier.  The additional circuitry can be done on a bit of perf board and for the rest just use what you’ve got in your parts bin. Although I’m going fancy with the opamps there’s no need to use audio grade electrolytics or whatever.  

  On 10/7/2023 at 11:03 PM, cruising for burgers said:

 

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btw, random thought, i learned a lot with watmm during all the years i've been around and somehow i've outgrown (quite a bit) the shitty bloke i once was... got tired of hearing my own voice and thoughts so i just surrender to the opposite, talk/type less, listen/read more... nice outcome...

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haha yeah 4 real. anyone's who's posted on a forum for close to 20+ yrs would say the same thing. aging/maturity, right? can't stay the same 20 something yr old online persona forever. 

  On 10/7/2023 at 11:26 PM, toaoaoad said:

In many cases the sound of running water won't cut it. There should be another setting that plays a constant sonic tapestry of rip-roaring loud farts, so yours will be totally camouflaged.

^
might drive someone crazy 

all because of disguising farts

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Do people with aphantasia not have a wank bank?

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my wardrobe has almost completely flipped from ripped jeans and t shirts to chinos and comfy sweaters.. is this just part of the aging process? 

  On 10/21/2023 at 1:04 AM, luke viia said:

my wardrobe has almost completely flipped from ripped jeans and t shirts to chinos and comfy sweaters.. is this just part of the aging process? 

I’d say so. It’ll flip back to ripped jeans and t-shirts for a bit around your 50s and then back to comfy sweaters and dark coloured chinos plus padded underwear. (Because of having a leaky dick or just being straight up incontinente.)

IF there are any rugby fans here I hope to see England beat South Africa

Will be tricky.....

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What the hell happened to Floating Points.

I rarely go, but when I do go to a professional sporting event, I can't help but thinking that this is a massive scam. everything is incredibly overpriced. a decent seat costs in the hundreds. the cheap seats have horrible views, and you're mostly watching a screen from far away. you are crammed next to some undesirable group of loud obnoxious disgusting humans. most of them are starring at their phones anyway, barely paying attention. a beer costs $15. bad food. generic loud music. sitting in horrific traffic trying to exit. why tf did I do this? this is a miserable experience. I could've watched it on a decent sized screen at home and saved all this hassle. 

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Futurama is now older than the Atari 2600 was when Futurama launched

every person i've met in america who's wearing a fedora at the time.. has seemed to be an annoying flake with a healthy dose of self centered personality type... 

so far.. anyways.. 

I was in the Jardin des Plantes in Montpellier a few months back walking round before I got talking to an elderly lady who feeds the stray cats that live in the gardens. After we were done talking I could hear singing so I headed in that direction and down some steps I could hear three young people, two girls and one guy, harmonizing whilst singing without words and it sounded heavenly. I sat round the corner listening as did some others but I really do wish I had spoken to them as I saw that they were recording.

what is wrong with people man. I haven't been going out in a good while now due to being hella depressed for a time but then I see people getting drunk having the most unhinged drunk drama I've seen in a good while and it's just so.. strange to me. are people really that impulsive? why scream at your girlfriend about your relationship insecurities. why shout at your ex lover 5 years after your relationship about some weird concept you had of him maybe having cheated on you in secret. screaming at the top of your lungs like a toddler. picking fights because someone looks at you funny. this can't be the baseline for human behavior can it? what the fuck? maybe all that overthinking my own psyche did more good than bad. oh chronical its so different to talk to you about my thoughts. no. stop. maybe people are just sporadic thinkers. how else do you get racists and the like. all this coming of age of a big ass magical universe only to end in pain hatred and frustration. get out of here. this cant be it. much love watmm

  On 11/5/2023 at 3:07 AM, chronical said:

screaming at the top of your lungs like a toddler. picking fights because someone looks at you funny.

it's on my bucket list... I've been stabbed, bottle in the nose, beat down by 10 random dudes, picking up fights with bar securities (yeah I'm always shorter than them so if they kick my ass I've nothing to be ashamed of ) and all my friends think that's fun as hell and that's why my last 7 or 8 years living away from that town kinda helpped me in a way...

10 hour flight to Miami and I couldn't reserve a seat at the window... at least I got one in the aisle... gag me with a spoon ffs...

edit: do ppl call you@chronical irl?

WATMM

  On 10/24/2023 at 7:47 PM, zero said:

I rarely go, but when I do go to a professional sporting event, I can't help but thinking that this is a massive scam. everything is incredibly overpriced. a decent seat costs in the hundreds. the cheap seats have horrible views, and you're mostly watching a screen from far away. you are crammed next to some undesirable group of loud obnoxious disgusting humans. most of them are starring at their phones anyway, barely paying attention. a beer costs $15. bad food. generic loud music. sitting in horrific traffic trying to exit. why tf did I do this? this is a miserable experience. I could've watched it on a decent sized screen at home and saved all this hassle. 

 

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and everybody's poor and there's no free health insurance but that doesn't matter anyway on those days cause u know, /  

  On 11/5/2023 at 3:07 AM, chronical said:

all this coming of age of a big ass magical universe only to end in pain hatred and frustration. get out of here. this cant be it. 

nah, it's not. people who get drunk and yell at each other, pick fights, etc. are all unable to see that they are being pulled around by the voice in their head, which doesn't actually exist. you realizing that acting like this isn't the right way to be, is a step in the right direction. the only thing that makes sense as to the "it" (life) thing you mentioned, is humans co-exist as peacefully as possible, not circle down the drain of living with a mentality jam packed with hatred and anger...once you start really being able to look at emotions objectively and questioning things like why is this emotion even here, then you realize that it came from my own head, my own ego created this. if I created this, then I can stop it right now. and that to me is sorta a big key as to what life's all about. being able to have a very high level of self control over thoughts and emotions. this can lead to a higher degree of peace and calm, which we all need to live our lives on this planet. not yelling at the top of our lungs in drunken rages at bars lol.

I thought crows had black beaks and blackbirds had orange beaks... turns out it's not that simple...

  On 11/6/2023 at 6:39 PM, zero said:

being able to have a very high level of self control over thoughts and emotions.

this is very hard, zero.

  On 11/6/2023 at 11:24 PM, cruising for burgers said:

this is very hard, zero.

wrangle that shit in, Mr Tim J. don't let your mind control you. mind is like a monkey, jumping around constantly from thought to thought. gotta be able to slow that down so the mind is blank. takes effort. practice. 

I'll keep practicing

anyway, the mind, how can u separate that from, yourself ? this should be in the AI thread...