No.16799
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No.16847
Ape like behaviour of violent thugs is not alpha
No.16848
It's called free speech, you communist faggot.
No.16852
A great war leaves the country with three armies - an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves.
No.16873
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No.16879
It's a tiered issue.
1. Absolute shit healthcare due to greed and capitalism infecting our insurance market and conservative retards so afraid of helping a nigger they shoot down any useful advancement towards something that makes sense like single-payer
2. Manipulation of our food by corporations to increase bottom line and decrease expenses by jamming everything full of preservatives and empty calories
3. Lobbying by food and agriculture groups that keep the public uninformed about things like sugar intake or just how much fucking corn is in everything you've ever eaten
4. Sedentary lifestyles brought on by living in an extremely developed country where food is abundant and physical activity is considered an extraneous pastime
5. Skewed perspective. There's plenty of fat fucks in literally every country. But because America is easily the most well-known and exposed country on the planet people know a lot more about us than we know about them.
6. A government that long ago realized that the populace is much easier to control when they are sick and fat and distracted, all of which are easily accomplished by tainting both the actual food supply and what we consider to be healthy eating habits.
7. Body positivity movements started by lonely fat bitches and then funded and pushed by food companies and government agencies that attempt to make anyone who is physically fit seem like they are brainwashed by unrealistic beauty standards or are wasting their life achieving a state of physical fitness.
8. A culture that centers around food and the dopamine loops it helps to enable
9. A country that has unrivaled access to the most diverse selection of foods ever seen in human history and the abundance to have the liberty to try them at your leisure.
There's probably more.
No.17039
Various Artists
No.17040
Deftones
No.17041
skidrowgamesreloaded.com
No.17071
It is a privilege, after middle age, to have the opportunity to ride the wave of dissolution, which as we have seen can be long, slow, blissful, and end gently on the beach.
No.17090
bepis
No.17105
chimpanzee that
No.17106
I'll just cut to the chase. I don't recommend this anime. I'll start out with the good things. The art is superb and very atmospheric. It's drawn in a unique style and it might be worth watching an episode or two for just this fact alone. If I were ever to direct an existentialist anime, I would definitely turn to this series for some major inspiration. The opening theme is well chosen and the sound effects are fairly good.
Now for the bad– everything else. Serial Experiments Lain tries to tackle the problem of existence and identity but it completely fails. The parts that are supposed to be creepy are unconvincing and incoherent, and the attempt to create tension instead collapses into unbearably slow pacing in the storyline. Dialogue is much too short and yet drawn out. Entire scenes go by that neither attempt to interest the viewer nor advance the plot. Each episode except maybe the first one could have easily been cut in half without losing any content. The series could've been much better as a result.
The typical theme of weakening of identity as technology advances was handled very clumsily in the series, as if the writers thought that bringing up the issue alone was sufficient to be profound. It's not. The theme is nothing new in modern media.
Some reviews (not here) by mainstream critics claim that the series asks "deep" questions about contemporary life and the nature of reality, but this really is not true. The questions are old and the answers given are nonsensical and shallow. We are presented with several common plot devices in cyberpunk– the near omnipotent digital entity that wants Lain (the protagonist) to abandon the flesh and become one with the cyber world, the use of dissociative identity disorder to symbolize Lain's mental fracture due to virtualization, the embodiment of humanity's collective unconscious made possible due to the new internet, etc. This stuff isn't new, which would be fine if at least SEL executed these things to perfection, but it doesn't. Instead the directors plod slowly onwards and resolve the philosophical dilemmas with absurd, silly conclusions about what Lain really is. It's just like they reduced everything down to magic.
Don't get me wrong, I really wanted to like this series. I enjoy cyberpunk and philosophy and wanted to look for a well done series that incorporated the two. I had heard many good things about this anime, but it just did not meet almost any of the most basic expectations I have for either anime or cyberpunk.
If you are interested in cyberpunk, Ghost in the Shell is very much the superior choice in all aspects, except possibly the art, though it's no sloucher there either. If you are interested in a coming of age story for children in a virtual world, Dennou Coil is better. For those just interested in really crazy, genuinely weird stuff– that still makes actual sense– try Paranoia Agent or Paprika.
That isn't to say you, the reader, might not like Serial Experiments Lain. If you have no prior exposure to cyberpunk or the philosophical issues raised within, or if you have very high tolerance to long scenes in which absolutely nothing advances the plot, or if enjoyment of the artistic merits of a series is sufficient for you, this just might do it. But it's not really enough for me.
No.17145
>>17106This review is 100% correct tbh.
No.17146
>>17106>>17145Y'all do realize that it came out in 1998, right?
No.17148
Eiko Ishioka
No.17169
ur a faget lol
No.17181
ot/res/17175.html
No.17183
onward my noble steed
No.17195
http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Crawl.mov(Sorry, DevaintART had stabbed me in the chest because of a disabler when I was reading a great Pokèpasta and reminding me of my argument is hitting me hard. I'm having a hard time.)
No.17226
(DEAD?)
No.17227
Donald Trump is US president and Wikileaks is about to blow the lid on interdenominationaldemensional globalist pedophile vampires.
No.17228
They wanted to have a good time, but they were like children playing in the street; they could see one after another of them being killed–run over, maimed, destroyed–but they continued to play anyhow.
i was on lainchan and wanted to look up this quote that was below a banner.
No.17247
I see a massive lack of drive and practical understanding in the non-denominational church presently. It's been pushing me towards the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches in my leisure reading.
No.17331
Marine Le Pen
No.17365
>>16849I met that guy at a free party. He was chill.
No.17367
arulumaya
No.17403
I Trawl the MEGAHERTZ
No.17404
"C:\Program Files\BestGameEver\Audiosurf\"
No.17442
Simply put, modern society consists of hard workers, people who want to work but aren't allowed to, and parasites who pretend it's the others who are the true parasites. No, I don't feel bad for not volunteering to be a host to them.
No.19158
It's time to thin the herd. The bees demand it be done.
No.19421
Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded as Peculiar to the United States
No.19432
cmd[0] = '\0';
No.19433
The public can report violations of U.S. federal law or suspected terrorism or criminal activity to the FBI online or via telephone or mail.
No.19436
exhnolyze
No.19455
tree of savior faena
No.19456
hilarious and original
No.19506
but why
No.19516
SEI GAY
No.19523
Bierholen
No.19796
862
the money in my bank account, not related to the SCP
No.19801
http://dream.uboachan.neI've been trying to get people to join lol
No.19809
izskatīt dokumentus, pārdomāt dzīvi
No.19815
>Basically you except even more of a little bitch.
Looks like I've been a dick on 4chan again.
No.19816
yo bunnies be fast imagine if they did DDR
No.19839
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No.19844
neo-fauvism
No.19854
Nokia N97
No.19864
突撃！ガラスのニーソ姫！ D.watt nu-denpa RMX
No.19873
Der Mond Das Meer
No.19875
wmic baseboard get product,Manufacturer,version,serialnumber
No.19889
arc welder vintage lincoln
No.19920
So now just have to out-eat bugs before they can outbreed us
No.19922
$post['thread']
No.19923
SONIC IS HARD
No.19941
Electric eels are also capable of controlling their prey's nervous systems with their electrical abilities; by controlling their victim's nervous system and muscles via electrical pulses, they can keep prey from escaping or force it to move so they can locate its position.
No.19977
What is not allowed on this board?
* Encouraging others to become NEET.
* Attacking or discouraging others for being NEET.
* Giving or requesting advice on how to enter the NEET lifestyle.
* Encouraging or showcasing drug usage.
* Announcing your planned suicide. Call a hotline or something just don't do it here or it becomes my legal responsibility.
* Helping others to plan or commit suicide.
* Topics not related to the purpose of the board. Such topics will be moved.
* Intentionally breaking these rules or the global rules will still result in a warning or ban.
* Rule 6 is enforced more liberally on /hikki/. Users may be banned from /hikki/ for inflammatory remarks in cases which might not result in a ban on other boards.
No.19979
Hey
I'm girl from russia
my dream is to have a nintendo switch. parents come to america and are struggle to find a job so can't buy it for me because salaries job they have is very small. I dont have a normal job (because I'm delicious kek) and I don't know what to do. I was the happiest if I could get nintendo. help me sweet
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No.19982
>>19979Why did you remove the link! I want to help russian girl get nintendo switch, dumb seisatsu!
No.19992
Sensei wa Seiyoku o Osaerarenai
No.20035
Attack on Titan Season 3 Episode 18
No.20227
On Death's Bloody Trail: Murder and the Art of Forensic Science
No.20240
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No.20757
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Albert Camus
No.21086
Kingdom by JAXSON GAMBLE. Ruined King: LoL.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpRRLYJ5fIQ No.21111
When You Feel Like a Morning Goddess
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA1Q71pEzuI No.21112
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RV0v7dw9E810lettername never disappoints. Wonder what he's up to nowadays.
No.21823
MAKS Airshow 2021 ✈️ Su-30SM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4CFUEFTm3k>>19979The only Russians I will support.
No.21844
The Push for a “PBS for the Internet”
No.21882
KEEP YOUR CAR SAFE
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No.21955
Every now and then
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No.26174
>>21868>>22847Blue Angels acrobatic flying team is lit. However, I prefer Thunderbirds more.
No.26199
haskell
import Data.List
isPrime :: Int -> Bool
isPrime n = all (\p -> n `mod` p /= 0) (takeWhile (\p -> p*p <= n) primes)
primes :: [Int]
primes = 2 : filter isPrime [3,5..]
sumNPrimes :: Int -> Int
sumNPrimes n = sum $ takeWhile (< n) primes
main :: IO ()
main = do
let result = sumNPrimes 2000000
putStrLn $ "The sum all primes below 2 million is: " ++ show result
No.26296
Voltaic
[ vol-tey-ik, vohl- ]
adjective
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Electricity. noting or pertaining to electricity or electric currents, especially when produced by chemical action, as in a cell; galvanic.
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(initial capital letter) of or relating to Alessandro Volta.
1813, designating electricity produced by chemical action, formed in recognition of Italian physicist Alessandro Volta (1745-1827), who perfected a chemical process used in electrical batteries, + -ic.
No.26297
Kaiser
No.26468
The troubled soldiers reported cryptic symptoms:
"meanwhile space and space of me. . .seethingly that itches me. . .continually we writhe and blister"
"ocelli. . .infinite pullulation of ocelli. . .I give myself up to the ocelli. . .to the infinitesimal tearings, to the spiraling. . .I fold to the thousand folds that fold and unfold me. . .traitors, they giddy me unravel me. . ." and perhaps most bizarrely "in a high space beneath my open forehead. . .suddenly. . .I see. . .rising in tiers. . .rising in tiers. . .in tiers to the infinite. . .at angles. . .at angles. . .at angles. . .enormous, gigantic flamboyant. . .gothic monuments. . .streaming, exasperated, possessed. . .acceleratingly. . .with gothic leaps and bounds. . .with gothic chromatics. . .with gothic ballistics. . .jet-gothic."
No.26473
you can edit by [[Special:CreateAccount|creating an account]]
No.26507
Hey
I'm girl from russia
my dream is to have a yumeniki. Plz send moni
No.26509
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No.26515
comer un bolillo es como tener un buen matrimonio
No.26516
ya comete el maldito bolillo
No.26566
https://herman.bearblog.dev/cities-need-more-trees/01 Jul, 2024
I grew up just outside of Johannesburg, which is touted to be "the greenest city in the world". During the summer, when seen from above, it's a verdant, green landscape, with the tops of buildings popping through the canopy.
Joburg trees
Yes, there's a full city beneath those trees.
However, this is not what the land originally looked like.
To cut a long story short, Johannesburg was established following the discovery of gold in 1886. It's known colloquially as eGoli, or "The City of Gold". Gold extraction here is vastly different to other parts of the world. We don't have gold veins running through the rock like in old Western movies. Instead it's mineralised into the rock itself which requires significant processing to extract.
This form of extraction leads to the crushing of millions of tons of rock, which is then dumped creating large, dusty hills around the city. These hills are (especially to the communities surrounding them) toxic and radioactive1, and when the wind picks up yellow dust clouds used to envelop the city.
One of the proposed solutions to suppressing this omnipresent dust was the planting of trees (1.2 millions as of 2024) on sidewalks and pavement, and millions more planted privately in back-yards and plots. Due to Apartheid in South Africa, which economically and socially disadvantaged the majority of the population based on race, these planting efforts were not equitably distributed. You can still see a stark difference between rich and poor neighbourhoods to this day based purely on tree cover.
But I'm not here to talk about the socioeconomic problems facing South Africa. Instead I'd like to focus on how the planting of so many trees affected the city itself.
Since these trees were originally planted to manage dust, they are generally big and leafy. This has the benefit of creating a lot of shade throughout the city, mitigating a lot of the "heat island" effect which is pervasive in any city since asphalt and concrete are great at absorbing visible spectrum light and radiating it as heat2. Walking down a shady street on a hot summer day is such a pleasant experience when compared to being out in the blistering sun.
Trees are not just great dust sinks and heat shields, but great sound barriers as well3. Having tree lined streets not only reduces the noise of traffic (and the dust kicked up from their tyres), but also protects pedestrians and infrastructure on the sidewalks from stray vehicles.
On top of that it just looks better. I'm certain humans have genetic biophilia4, which is why we love being in nature or taking walks in the forest. Having trees around us, teeming with birds and other life just feels good. Speaking of birds, trees increase the biodiversity of insects and other small critters in urban environments. It also gives birds a safe-haven from the deadliest hunter of all: the humble house cat5.
I've been to many cities, all over the world. Some that do trees well, and others that fail miserably. And I'm always shocked at the contrast. Given two cities with a similar climate, I'm significantly more likely to do things like walk to a local coffee shop and browse corner stores, or sit on a park bench. But only if the walk is pleasant and shady.
Planting trees as a form of environmentalism or carbon capture is generally a hit-or-miss strategy. The vast majority of planted trees never reach maturity6, and depending on where the trees are planted it could have a net heating instead of a net cooling effect due to the change in the environment's albedo7. However, planting trees in cities is pretty much all upside with almost no downside (except that birds tend to shit on my car).
Dead car
So the next time you're enjoying a walk down a lovely shady street, take a look up and appreciate the trees.
Footnotes
Radioactive city: how Johannesburg’s townships are paying for its mining past↩
Urban head islands↩
How do trees reduce noise pollution?↩
Biophilia hypothesis: The idea that humans possess an innate tendency to seek connections with nature and other forms of life.↩
The impact of free-ranging domestic cats on wildlife↩
Phantom Forests: Why Ambitious Tree Planting Projects Are Failing↩
Could tree planting warm Earth? Science behind the albedo effect↩
No.26568
>>26566This is beautifully written anon. Did you make this?
No.26626
>>26568No. I just came across it and downloaded it for posterity.
No.26692
Eu dou a bunda pra vários homens, chupo um monte de pinto, dou a bunda pros caras, eu vou bater o recorde mundial em dar a bunda. Eu sou um estuprado, eu sou um arrombado, eu dou a bunda para 2050 homens diferentes. Os cavalos comeram minha bunda, eu dei a bunda pros cavalos, os cavalos gozaram dentro da minha bunda. Eu dei a bunda para 2050 homens diferentes, 2050 homens diferentes comeram minha bunda e gozaram dentro. Eu dei a bunda para 2050 homens diferentes. Eu dei a bunda para 15 cavalos diferentes, 15 cavalos diferentes comeram minha bunda e gozaram dentro, 15 cavalos diferentes comeram minha bunda e gozaram dentro. Eu dei a bunda para 15 cavalos diferentes, 15 cavalos diferentes comeram minha bunda e gozaram dentro. Eu sou um arrombado, eu sou o cara mais arrombado do mundo, eu tenho a bunda arrombada de tanto dada, estou com a bunda comida. Eu tenho a bunda violentada, tenho a bunda rasgada, eu tenho a bunda comida por 2050 homens diferentes. Eu dou a bunda no meio da rua, dou a bunda no matagal, eu dou a bunda para vários homens no matagal, no matagal eu dou a bunda para 2050 homens diferentes, eu bati o recorde mundial em dar o CU. Eu sou um estuprado, eu gosto de ser estuprado, eu amo ser estuprado, eu AMO ser estuprado. Eu sou um estuprado, eu tenho a bunda arrombada, eu sou um estuprado. Eu estou oferecendo minha bunda para vários homens. Homens, vêm comer minha bunda, eu estou oferecendo minha bunda para vocês, homens. Homens, comam bastante minha bunda; gozem dentro de mim, homens. Homens, venham gozar dentro de mim, gozem a vontade dentro da minha bunda que eu gosto. Gozem dentro de mim, homens. Homens, venham gozar dentro da minha bunda, encham meu cu de esperma, homens. Homens, tô pedindo para vocês, venham comer minha bunda e gozar dentro. Fiquem à vontade, comam minha bunda e gozem bastante dentro. Homens. Homens comendo minha bunda e gozando dentro(3x). Eu dou a bunda. Eu dou a bunda para 2050 homens diferentes comerem e gozarem dentro. Eu bato recorde mundial em dar a bunda. Eu sou o cara que mais dá a bunda no mundo. Eu bato o recorde mundial em dar a bunda. Eu tenho a bunda comida, eu tenho a bunda deleitada, eu sou um arrombado. Eu dou o cu. Eu dou o cu no matagal. Eu dou o cu para um monte de homens, os homens comem à vontade meu cu e gozam dentro. Esperma dentro do meu cu. Cavalos comendo meu cu e gozando dentro, eu dou a bunda para os cavalos, eu dou a bunda para os cavalos. Os cavalos gozam dentro do meu cu. Os cavalos comem o meu cu e gozam dentro, os cavalos comem o meu cu e gozam dentro. Os homens comem o meu cu e gozam dentro. Eu dou a bunda, eu dou a bunda no meio do matagal, eu dou a bunda no meio do matagal para um monte de homens. Eu gosto de dar a bunda no meio do matagal, eu dou a bunda no meio do matagal para vários homens, eu tiro as calças no meio do matagal e dou a bunda para um monte de homens.
