>>53718
>>53718

>It’s literally the first or second cause of death in Arab petrorich countries kek.

>and what else
>well, this world is so brutal that it can be even true

http://www.healthdata.org/saudi-arabia: "What causes the most deaths?"

FFS it's true. It's the 2nd.

>I saw a lot of vids of cars driving with only two wheels touching the ground

yes, and the guy above, yes. You reminded me the death wish vibe that videos had.

It might be weird, but nowadays, this little house-set fascinates me much more than aliens and space ships. Imagine all the stories that could play out in the house!

• A child gets sick, the doctor needs to come, the child gets well again.
• The father's car breaks down and has to be towed. The house is burgled!
• The police arrives to investigates footprints in the garden!
• One of the trees grew to tall and has to be cut back.
• A window is broken and needs to be replaced.

and this is just from the top of my head.

I cannot think of a single story to play out with aliens and space ships, except for flying through space, fighting and shooting, etc.

This is probably me getting old, because as a child, I loved the spaceships. But I loved them for their gimmicks and flashy colors, not for the stories that could be made up to inhabit them.

Maybe flashy tech-toys make the assburger.

>>53784
Queer theory (which deals with gender but also more) is rooted in cultural studies and thus in semiotics and the analysis of power relations. Like all humanities it comes with a certain understanding of language. And cultural as semiotics system where language is the most prominent.
Gender is different from biological sex. So the thesis is that gender is not natural. How is argumented for that? By looking at history and and semiotics. What is understood as female and male varied over time.
There is also the claim that these norms and imaginations influenced the way earlier science "read"/interpreted nature. So like oh in nature there male animal is always the provider or something like that, dunno exactly. There have also been parts in the book about newer biology findings, that argue for diverging understandings, same sex in animal worlds, sex in the non-human animal not being purely reproductive, asexuality etc. Nature is not entirely binary as human sexuality is claimed to be and claimed to be natural. Also cog science that says if you always hear "boys don't cry" as boy, it gets hard wired in your brain, there is nothing natural about it but nurture impacting brain cells making you believe it has to be like this.

https://www.introducingbooks.com/ib-title/queer-a-graphic-history/

I mean what do you mean by facts? If you have no clue how culture is understood as semiotic system that impacts human beings, ofc this can only sound alien to you. I mean most people have no clue of this, a little bit ofc, but mostly without being fully aware and able to describe it systematically.
Queer theory works via deconstruction, so it works by working backwards, answering how things became what they are, also by finding holes in what is claimed waterproof and contradictions.

>>53772
And an example from there to show what I mean by efficient workflow.

Let's say that I am using my targeting pod to spot targets before running in. I have a wingman, and we want to hit different targets of the same type. Instead of talking him on manually, or typing out coordinates, I can simply:

TMS UP LONG
TMS RIGHT LONG

and send exactly what I'm looking at to my wingman, who can then

COOLIE LEFT LONG (assuming TAD is left MFCD and not SOI)
CURSOR SCROLL
TMS UP
TMS UP LONG

and have sights aimed at that same target.

That whole process can happen in under 10 seconds, with 6 finger movements. The reason it's on the HOTAS? Because I want to be heads down and hands off as little as possible once I'm fenced in. Dunno if the example helps demonstrate what I mean by reading HOTAS as a process, but worth a shot.

Hey britlad, not sure wherever you went but I just wanted to formally apologize to you about that and how you were right last year for telling me to invest. That is literally the fourth fucking time in my adult life I missed a rather major, epic chance to cash in because I was retarded and/or too poor to do anything about it. When you told me I should stop paying my rent and just invest you literally told me that right before this huge crypto bull run, judging by the charts. I mean yeah I eventually ran out of money anyways by new years. Yeah it was actually quite noice to push myself so far ahead on bills and rents that for once in my life I knew I could quit my job and live with myself playing vidya for months on end without any job and not even so much as get pestered with a bill in the mail. It was actually a noice feeling, but I should have listened to you. Had I actually taken that gamble back then I'd of had thousands and thousands of dollars extra now per just a few hundred which I could've easily written off as a loss, and I think a huge part of it is in being both stupid lazy. That, and because I pretty much just did not think it could justify sinking into investments then.

I would also just like to point out in the medium to short term I am absolutely expecting to be getting hosed, which is fine by me because I don't think anybody should ever actually invest money in anything particularly this volatile without mentally and emotionally having already written it off as a loss. I still consider my financial exposure well within acceptable limits, with say 5k junkcoins for $5-10 being at once the lowest possible financial exposure as well as the rather unlikley chance of it going up being the maximum returns for such a small bet.

I don't know much on investing however and I was actually disappointed to see how much airlines and cruises particularly Southwest Airlines being either up already or outright largely unaffected. It figures Southwest would be up.

Meanwhile I want to absolutely bet against myself in the longer term with quantum computers as well as genetechs if I can find the right IPOs. Apparently a megacorp holds a company literally called Genentech as the subsidiary and which now holds the 23andme databases you're a moron for paying someone to harvest your genetic data if you did that for frivolous reasons btw but which isn't what I want, and sadly it's likely going to be a bunch of chink companies to be most profitable because PRC corps don't give a shit about the rules and will just keep doing unethical or dangerous gene editing. The bigger problem is they lie, as a whole. I don't trust a word that comes out of a Chinese mouth. I will never speak the language so I can't even verify not being conned, but if I can find genetic engineering to buy into that will be the next tech rush. We are exiting the digital era and the future will not be nano, it will be genetic. The gene age will immediately follow the digital revolution and I want to cash in on that.

The other thing I'll say though is that the Quantum computing rush is likely to break crypto. Crypto mining and encryption, breaking anything without qubit level encrypts, I really don't doubt that it can just adapt with the times but I think a lot of coins won't which is what will cause even wilder speculation along with my expectation of crypto being stabilized as trash in the longest term as a result. Its primary beneficiaries are just going to be all the megacorps and Chinese government. I have no idea why morons want to do away with fiat, because crypto is more traceable than cash. When I pull fistfuls of fiat out of my account it simply disappears. Even if it's harder with Monero, you still leave a digital trail that can get used to track all your purchases. They're literally building the 666 New World Order they rant about.

But regardless, I should have invested. Even if I was risking losing lots of money, which I clearly am now and that is why I mostly picked up cheap shit and new shit even if BTC and ETH will crash and take down all the other cryptos with it. Yet even those shitcoins went up over the past year. Literally I could have made 10x my money back had I listened to you, Britain gov employee with the Titan card.

As for anything else I'm just starting to look into longer term stocks, which like my dad told me he got returns on stock from 20 years ago but I am not betting on America 20 years from how. 10 year stock sure but nothing 20-30 years unless that is also money I especially never expect to see a dime back. I'd much rather invest on European companies. Those do have a great future ahead of them. I suppose whatever the hell African Nasdaq/DOW would also be a good bet for something cheapest that will grow like crazy while being highly volatile, but I'd rather look at EU blue chips now to just hold value.

My thinking has continuously been evolving for months now and it has occurred to me I think the most efficient use of my time would be forking a blockchain somewhere to try and create my own crypto. My main problem is not even the ineptitude with code afaik but rather the legal exposure I could plausibly incur particularly given that it is now "regulated" and depending how I do it could be running afoul of the Securities Exchange Commission. I think that ironically the best bet for ass covering is fortuitously also the laziest, in that I could just release some shit into the wild and buy into what I made like crazy after announcing it rather than promising anything at all nor in having any actual stake in it whatsoever outside of being just another investor. I have already figured out exactly what to do and how I could do it minus the actual part about learning to use Putty or some shit like that, and also because ETH forks like what I was looking at wanted a facebook account. like seriously just what in the absolute fuck? Why. The fuck. Does anybody. Keep pushing crypto like it's some grand solution. So far as I have seen they are rapidly accelerating the New World Order cashless society dystopia they've been ranting at me about for years now. So far as I have seen immediately following the wild west crypto phase we'll have a total Chinese style control over everything linking to your social credit score. It's beyond retarded.

Like, I am pretty sure what I have in mind is actually workable, especially if I could set up some kind of cheapass home server on a Pi and just set up my own website. All of this takes way more technical acumen than I have but luckily at pre-birth character creation while I did use a bunch of retarded things as dump stats and took a few negative perks to free up more space I pretty much just rolled on a high /INT/ character under the assumption I could work my way out of any jam the negatives cause. I know I can do this if I overcome my own laziness and enforce the strictest of discipline to singlemindedly pursuing this project.

>but isn't this just some retarded get rich quick scheme where you'll only end up losing money

Plausibly yes that could happen however I am utterly convinced if I do it this way I don't even need to win the lottery, which even at a low yield of $400k would free up so much time and wealth I could start exponentially growing my money. I am still phrasing it like this because I know that there's really only a couple of avenues that could work and am amazed no one figured out this shortcut yet, so I want the idea to sound as absolutely retarded and crackpot as possible if or until I have executed it and then either I don't do it or people would eventually see why my way would work. I have had lots of other ideas that had nothing to do with crypto but this is by far the most efficient and high yield angle.

All that notwithstanding my bigger fear is securities commissions in case there is some obtuse federal regulatory law I might trip on. I know for a fact you can get arrested if it mimics securities instead of commodities, also that ICOs are regulated which in the case of ICOs I don't want that anyway because most people will think it's scams. Just a flat out commodity where I buy my own blockchain.

>>52564
Planning to make some dan dan noodles or mapo tofu with the doubanjiang & sichuan pepper, gonna post an update this weekend. Otherwise most of the stuff is (or rather were at this point :D) snacks anyway.

>>52792

>"Taro soft flour cake"

Tbh I expected some sort of "wet" cakes, but this stuff is rather airy, dry & chewy. Found out it's also called sachima. Would definitely recommend, it's really good. So far the sweets from Taiwanese brands have never disappointed.

> gluten

Never had that stuff before, but the shop actually added a pack of gluten snacks with a low expiration date for free, it was interesting too, but overwhelmingly spicy. The Makgeolli was perfect for washing it down tho D

>Did you know you can simply buy oil with a little Sichuan pepper extract mixed in?

Saw this stuff in the shop, but decided to go with the real deal, since I also picked up a mortar & pestle recently. But good to know.

>I think I need to find new sources of Taiwanese pickles soon

I bought from ugou.de, they're not the cheapest but have pretty large selection and free shipping over 49€, so maybe worth checking