post:
"From now on it's only America first"

Trump suspends all foreign aid except to Israel and Egypt

https://apnews.com/article/state…

comment: Putin busts a nut.

html_comment: Putin busts a nut.

[User] utopian

comment: Who is retarded enough to go to a political rally and wave flags and wear t-shirts with slogans and paint their faces?I guess I answered my own question

html_comment: Who is retarded enough to go to a political rally and wave flags and wear t-shirts with slogans and paint their faces?<br>I guess I answered my own question

comment: america is imploding.

html_comment: america is imploding.


[User] zaq

topic_title: Pic of the Day

comment: Finally

html_comment: Finally


topic_title: Show your latest Pics

[User] YakuZoku

comment: Nice

html_comment: Nice

[User] grafician

comment: Prompt?

html_comment: Prompt?

[User] thenohero

comment: nice and fun.

html_comment: nice and fun.

[User] Continuity

comment: Love these

html_comment: Love these

comment: Lovely, dreamy.

html_comment: Lovely, dreamy.


[User] Khurram

topic_title: Meme of the day

comment: lol I was about to post Khurram? Then I saw the name that posted this...Khurram!

comment: Also don’t worry about it there Kim Won Kim, you keep fighting that good fight in Ukraine for Putin, America will turn its soil to ashes on its own

comment: Fucking irony you twat.

html_comment: Fucking irony you twat.

comment: You absolute twat!

html_comment: You absolute twat!

comment: The only irony is that qbn is now firmly on team Khurram

comment: And all it took was the orange shit for brains to get elected again. Death to America brother!


[User] rzu-rzu

topic_title: Guess Who...

[User] neverscared

comment: robinson boozoe

html_comment: robinson boozoe

[User] Krassy

comment: Alec Baldwin

html_comment: Alec Baldwin

comment: Randy Quaid

html_comment: Randy Quaid

comment: Vinny Jones' favourite brand of nuts

html_comment: Vinny Jones' favourite brand of nuts

comment: Julian Assange

html_comment: Julian Assange

[User] fooler

comment: Max Cady

html_comment: Max Cady

[User] Nairn

comment: flol neverscaed - that was actually quite good.

[User] AQUTE

comment: Gavin Oldsome

html_comment: Gavin Oldsome

[User] bezoar

comment: Paul Lawrence

html_comment: Paul Lawrence

[User] garbage

comment: FUCHES!

html_comment: FUCHES!

comment: Geralt of Rivia

html_comment: Geralt of Rivia

[User] Gardener

comment: Gazza

html_comment: Gazza

[User] dopepope

comment: Rick Grimes

html_comment: Rick Grimes


topic_title: Donald Trump

post:
A white supremacist and neo-fascist hate group, Patriot Front emerged as a rebrand of the neo-Nazi organization Vanguard America in the aftermath of the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

According to the SPLC, the Patriot Front “represents one of the most prominent white supremacist groups in the country”.

comment: Members of the white nationalist group Patriot Front have gathered in Washington DC for the anti-abortion March for Life rally.

comment: A slew of big-name conservative men are addressing March for Life, the largest anti-abortion rally in the US.Senate majority leader John Thune, House speaker

html_comment:
A slew of big-name conservative men are addressing March for Life, the largest anti-abortion rally in the US.

Senate majority leader John Thune, House speaker

comment: Mike Johnson and Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis, are all amping up the thousands of marchers who gathered on the National Mall on Friday.

comment: cheers so far belongs to a man who isn’t there: Donald Trump.


topic_title: Artificial Intelligence

post:
https://github.com/synth-inc/oni…

https://www.getonit.ai/

"Onit is an open-source AI chat assistant that lives in your desktop!

It's like ChatGPT Desktop, but with local mode and support for other model providers (Anthropic, GoogleAI, xAI, etc). It's also like Cursor Chat, but everywhere on your computer - not just in your IDE!"

[User] Salarrue

comment: How to know the RAM requirements...

html_comment: How to know the RAM requirements...

[User] utopian

comment: Google recommends at least 8GB of RAMhttps://www.reddit.c…

html_comment:
Google recommends at least 8GB of RAM
https://www.reddit.c…


post:
 EU military chief says it would make sense to put European troops in Greenland, Welt reports

BERLIN, Jan 24 (Reuters) - The top European Union military official, Robert Brieger, said it would make sense to station troops from EU countries in Greenland, according to an interview with Germany's Welt am Sonntag published on Saturday, as U.S. President Donald Trump has expressed interest in acquiring the Danish territory.

https://www.reuters.com/world/eu…

comment: Good

html_comment: Good

comment: is he played 4d chess and conniving us to actually deal with our own back yard?no. but it was a thought.

html_comment: is he played 4d chess and conniving us to actually deal with our own back yard?<br>no. but it was a thought.

comment: i bet he cant even play 0D chess... now thats a thought....

comment: a very accurate one...

html_comment: a very accurate one...


[User] sted

topic_title: Elon Musk

comment: Is the middle 'tache one photoshopped?

html_comment: Is the middle 'tache one photoshopped?


[User] OBBTKN

comment: Democracy 2.0

html_comment: Democracy 2.0


comment: https://www.business… <- this

html_comment: https://www.business… <- this


topic_title: Signs your getting old?

post: Yesterday my doctor mentioned cholesterol.

comment: Also old enough to have a doctor

html_comment: Also old enough to have a doctor

comment: Were you prescribed a statin?

html_comment: Were you prescribed a statin?

comment: Liars! Don't take the pills

html_comment: Liars! Don't take the pills

comment: No, it was borderline. Had the blood work done between Xmas and new year's, so not the healthiest sample.

comment: Ah that doesn't sound too bad. I was put on a statin a few years ago. Keeps it within range and no side effects.

comment: I made the mistake of googling statins at the time. They seem to have a bad rep for side effects but that's not my experience.


topic_title: Politics

comment: hahaha of course. Go back to your country! this is Americuh!

comment: Although, MAGAS are so retarded that I wouldn't put it past them to classify Indigenous people as Asian invaders from the Bering strait


comment: Dunno, but she looks like she licks her chihuahuas anuses.

comment: Beavis + Butthead

html_comment: Beavis + Butthead

[User] Akagiyama

comment: Vagina Dentada

html_comment: Vagina Dentada

[User] YakuZoku

comment: Andrew Callahan from channel 5

html_comment: Andrew Callahan from channel 5

[User] elahon

comment: Jonnah Trump? Eric Hill?

html_comment: Jonnah Trump? Eric Hill?

[User] sab

comment: Schumacher

html_comment: Schumacher

comment: i guess now we know why the eggs are so xpensive... he ate them all.


topic_title: Billionaires

post: Someone did an update...


topic_title: Idle Thoughts

post: Ever go through a large town or city and just wonder at How Many Fucking Bricks there are and how much energy has been invested over time in their production?

comment: "Just throw human death and suffering at it until it's finished"https://youtu.be/UVT…

html_comment:
"Just throw human death and suffering at it until it's finished"

https://youtu.be/UVT…

comment: ^ that needs to be in the academic curriculum.

comment: Whenever we travel, I love to joke with my wife by pretending to be a clergyman or a king... "Let's build the towers up there!!"

comment: "You are a bastard!! Couldn't you lift it something closer? And with smaller stones?"

comment: Lol

html_comment: Lol

[User] neverscared

comment: i have that with pricks more than with bricks...


[User] bainbridge

post: What a bleak world he lives in


topic_title: The More You Know ★

post:
 Acopia

https://www.physio-pedia.com/Aco…


topic_title: Where The Fun IS

[User] Danish

comment: No gloryhole?

html_comment: No gloryhole?


[User] Nairn

post:
 For all you Canadians

https://i.imgur.com/qtcRkq1.mp4

comment: LOL!

html_comment: LOL!


post:
So to recap the week... OpenAi and a a bunch of other western Ai companies have been selling their AI secret sauce for years to investors as a proprietary mystery formula that only they could understand... They also claimed they needed infinite compute to achieve the next horizon of either AGI/ASI driving up the valuations of their companies as well as Nvidia.

Now a group of young Chinese dudes who used to mine crypto just wrote a really good algorithm that performs equal to or better than OpenAi’s $200 a month offerings made it open source and claim it was trained for WAAAY less is threatening to burn down the whole Ai Silicon Valley venture capital grift?

Interesting week.

comment: Chan GPT

html_comment: Chan GPT

[User] grafician

comment: Yes. Exactly this.

html_comment: Yes. Exactly this.

[User] monNom

comment: Highly doubt this. This story, like the open source release, is more likely intended to dry up private investment in AI in America.

comment: It saps revenue from the companies selling access to private models, drys up interest from investors. Facebook was following the same strategy with Llama releas


[User] fooler

[User] Khurram

comment: I love your pain.

html_comment: I love your pain.

comment: MAGA

html_comment: MAGA

comment: Thanks Obama

html_comment: Thanks Obama


topic_title: BMX

post:
 BMX or RIP of the Day or both?
GT Bicycles to Pause Operations, Liquidate Inventory
https://www.bikemag.com/.image/c…

[User] prophetone

comment: saw that, def sad

html_comment: saw that, def sad

[User] garbage

comment: tbh, they've been pretty irrelevant for a good 15 years. But BMX has been in a massive freefall the past few years. So many core companies have gone under.

comment: S&M would be the real canary, if they go down then BMX is truly dead.


post: Holeee phuk.


[User] utopian

comment: thank god they booed him offstage at the chappelle event before he could make one of his anti-humanistic jokes....


post: Remember when Silicon Valley was liberal?

comment: Should be neutral

html_comment: Should be neutral


post:
 Nazi Ties to Credit Suisse Ran Deeper Than Was Known, Hidden Files Reveal
Fresh look at archives unearthed Nazi-linked accounts discovered by bank in 1990s but never disclosed to investigators

https://www.wsj.com/finance/bank…

comment: Surprise!

html_comment: Surprise!


comment: Trump is too stupid and lazy and unmotivated to be a tyrant

comment: And most of the people who are working with him are just looking to get easy money

comment: And the idiots who actually like him aren't in power

comment: But there's a slow dismantling of American values for sure

comment: stoopid and lazy.... with the right entourage that sounds like the perfect recipe for tyranic chaos...

comment: Chaos, yes. But tyranny takes drive and focus. This will just ruin democracy and leave room for a new person to become tyrant


[User] rzu-rzu

topic_title: Food

comment: Cool.. He could easy earn 10000 dollars a day, only by spending 100 dollars on cup noodles!


[User] Gardener

comment: Opel.

html_comment: Opel.

comment: Himmler Rims

html_comment: Himmler Rims


topic_title: Tweet of the Day

[User] robotinc

comment: I hope there is never a fire in one of those


topic_title: Fail of the day

comment: Karibbean Karnival Kruise

html_comment: Karibbean Karnival Kruise


topic_title: Pic of the Day

[User] OBBTKN

comment: Jesus on a bike

html_comment: Jesus on a bike

[User] bezoar

comment: or St. Christopher

html_comment: or St. Christopher


[User] thenohero

topic_title: Photobook

post: something like this ... https://www.zno.com.   They in San Jose.


[User] webazoot

post:
 I've done about six books through Photobox and I was really happy with them - https://www.photobox.co.uk/photo…

Similar thing, wanted to collect some photos together from events that other wise would be lost or stuck on a hard drive, book of photos of our last dog etc.

The positives are you are pretty much open on the layout and the number of pages the negatives are their software can be a bit buggy at times and you are stuck with their branding on one of the inner pages and the cover designs. But quality for the cost I thought was really good.

comment: Cool. Can I upload PDF's I'm creating in inDesign that are the right dimensions?

comment: No, I don't think so. Has to be done via their  browser software I think.


[User] neverscared

topic_title: America is Fucked

comment: america second... 1 trillion vs. 10 trillion... great deal donny...


topic_title: Perfume/Aftershave

[User] nb

comment: Can you take me hiiiiigherrrrTo a place where blind men seeCan you take me hiiigherrr

html_comment:
Can you take me hiiiiigherrrr
To a place where blind men see
Can you take me hiiigherrr

comment: To a place with golden streets

html_comment: To a place with golden streets


topic_title: blog

post: I finally captured actual footage of Ziggy & Sylvester play fighting - they do this all the time but as soon as I pick up my phone to film them doing it they stop, so smart! (well Sylvester is)

[User] Continuity

comment: That final arse-sniffing ...

html_comment: That final arse-sniffing ...

comment: haha, yeah

html_comment: haha, yeah

[User] Akagiyama

comment: Awwww! <3

html_comment: Awwww! <3


topic_title: What are you listening to?

post: Tash Sultana - Jungle  (Live Bedroom Recording)


[User] grafician

topic_title: Batman of the Day

comment: not sure what that is but it's splendid

html_comment: not sure what that is but it's splendid


[User] YakuZoku

topic_title: canada

post: Canada needs some Freedom

comment: Shut the fuck up joe you midget stoner, as usual you have 0 idea of what you’re talking about. Come up here for a week dickhead and see it for yourself

comment: His description of Canada and Trudeau is 0.000001% accurate. Fucking moron.

comment: Joe Rogan saying something idiotic?Heavens, say it ain't so ...

html_comment: Joe Rogan saying something idiotic?<br>Heavens, say it ain't so ...

[User] ideaist

comment: Ignore him.

html_comment: Ignore him.

[User] Gnash

comment: Trudeau is about as communist as his dad

comment: wait his Canadian dad or his Cuban dad?

html_comment: wait his Canadian dad or his Cuban dad?

[User] monNom

comment: I see what you did there.

html_comment: I see what you did there.


topic_title: Elon Musk

post: fuck it ... how banal can u get...

comment: yes u a-holes focus on the future... get out of paris agreement.. get out of EU...vote for fashists...

comment: Ähm, übrigens ... 'fascists' ist die richtige Schreibweise.

comment: ich glaub nicht... die richtige schreibweise ist - fecalist-


[User] Danish

[User] Ianbolton

comment: this came up on my Youtube the other day. It seems gross to me for some reason. Maybe it's the mince

comment: Is this classed as 'rage bait'? Their whole channel is fucking rank.


topic_title: Guess Who...

comment: pango!

html_comment: pango!


comment: Love me a raisin cheeseburger.

html_comment: Love me a raisin cheeseburger.

comment: Imagine pizza without raisins... doesn’t bear thinking about!


post:
 I’ve been getting photobooks through this company for years.  I think i found them because they were the printer for apple photobooks. They do a nice job in my experience. Feels like a book you’d find on the shelf at a bookstore. They have discounts pretty regularly. A bit spendy otherwise.

https://www.blurb.ca/

[User] utopian

comment: If in the UKhttps://www.blurb.co…If in the UShttps://www.blurb.co…

html_comment:
If in the UK
https://www.blurb.co…
If in the US
https://www.blurb.co…


[User] Gardener

topic_title: Star Wars OTD

comment: dat audio though

html_comment: dat audio though


topic_title: The More You Know ★

comment: What to do when meeting a MS13 gang member for the first time.

comment: does the blinking mean u only have to listen to 50% of the time..?

comment: Blinking items are repeatedly failed.

html_comment: Blinking items are repeatedly failed.


[User] prophetone

comment: ah the memories

html_comment: ah the memories

comment: I probably had 4-5 packs of these refreshed over years in school

comment: American spelling tho

html_comment: American spelling tho

comment: Probably because these were produced shortly after early Canadians burned down the White House?


post:
 About $2.75 USD.

Is this where Vladimir Gluten is gonna get us dem cheap eggs?

comment: even with Trump's idiotic 25% tariff threat Canuck eggs will still be 300% cheaper. Thanks Obama?

html_comment: even with Trump's idiotic 25% tariff threat Canuck eggs will still be 300% cheaper. <br>Thanks Obama?

[User] hotroddy

comment: Everything in Canada feels like a bargain for Americans

comment: It's similar to visiting Mexico, where everything feels like a discount


topic_title: The Nope Thread.

comment: NBQ00 bust's a nut

html_comment: NBQ00 bust's a nut


topic_title: recommend tv series

post:
 The series hails from “Fargo” and “Legion” creator Noah Hawley and begins when a mysterious space vessel crash-lands on Earth.

A young woman (Sydney Chandler) and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet’s greatest threat.

As members of the crash recovery crew search for survivors in the wreckage, they encounter mysterious, predatory life forms more terrifying than they could have ever imagined.

With this new threat unlocked, the search crew must fight for survival, and what they choose to do with this discovery could change planet Earth as they know it.

In November, Hawley cleared up the confusion, revealing the series unfolds just two years prior to the events in “Alien” in 2122. He also confirmed the series will lean into the retrofuturistic aesthetic of the original “Alien”.

comment: Looking forward to this.

html_comment: Looking forward to this.


[User] palimpsest

topic_title: Donald Trump

post: At least he's gonna end Daylight Saving Time.

comment: and then he ends democracy.... joe rogan must be so proud.

comment: Everything has a price.

html_comment: Everything has a price.


topic_title: Google

post: I've switched over to DuckDuckGo now. Brave felt like a search engine from 2004.

[User] instrmntl

comment: This is the way

html_comment: This is the way

comment: I like the right-click, search Google for images though.


[User] BusterBoy

post:
 Everything is so fucking tiring.

Our political and business "leaders" have just turned into internet trolls...just a giant pissing contest to see who has the bigger ego.

If you have even a slightly wired existence, it's impossible to ignore. Fuck them all.

comment: Probably should have put in the signs your getting old thread...even the title of that triggers me.

[User] ephix

comment: I'm so tired of it too that I want to be offline as much as possible.

comment: That's how I feel when I visit Instagram Facebook comment section totally took over Instagram. Instagram is shit now

comment: Meanwhile YouTube got all positive n shit

[User] OBBTKN

comment: I feel you. Because of our jobs we can't be disconnected, but the truth is that it burns, and a lot.

comment: Totally agree. My GF had a go at me the other week for trolling people online for their stupid views so had to stop.

[User] ArchitectofFate

comment: southland tales babes

html_comment: southland tales babes

[User] mrAtor

comment: "If you can keep your head while others are losing theirs". :)

[User] neverscared

comment: “Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.”   we will c how long the rogans, trumps and

comment: musks, zucks last....in 4-8 years they highly likely will be the failure a lot of people see now already..

comment: your are only one or two breaths away from becoming the next nixon... especially when u run on lies and more lies all the time...


topic_title: Food

[User] YakuZoku

comment: I would tear up some Filipino food right now


topic_title: Psilocybin Microdosing

post:
 Anyone here still microdosing?
I'm going on 5-ish years now off and on, one day on, next 2 off.

[User] noneck

comment: I think about it often. Obviously you like it for yourself. Do you use capsules?


[User] formed

topic_title: Photobook

post:
 Good, quality companies:

Konpoli
Dreambooks
WHCC
Miller's Lab


comment: If it wasn't a Nazi salute, I'd love one of these cunts to show what an actual Nazi salute is and compare the two.

comment: hehe

html_comment: hehe

comment: joe knows best though  https://www.youtube.… .. .just kidding.

comment: its so puny to c with what stuff he comes up with to xcuse... but not a single word of his support for far right afd. sellner. robinson.. etc...  u can clearly

comment: understand how deep his pockets must run into mush, trump & co,   that he blanks out all the far right directions musk is navigating.


post:
 I recently ran out of what I'd been wearing for a while, and I'm going back to DS & Durga. Got some samples, I've had Burning Barbershop before and it's the most "me" cologne I've found, it lasts all day as well. Really liking Debaser and also Radio Bombay.

Radio Bombay - it's got this one particular aspect of it that smells like old vinyl, canvas, and leather, a little bit like the inside of an old military vehicle, which is a key nostalgic scent from my childhood, because I loved military stuff, and we had this huge outdoor museum in Texas full of tanks, landing craft, old boats, etc.

Anytime I am around a smell like that it just makes me so happy and reminds me of childhood.

Olfactory memories are interesting to me. We can take photos, record audio and video, we can get recipes to recreate food we've had, we can save food and take it home to finish later, we can write notes about something and make mental memories, but we can't capture and keep smells. I've always been intrigued by that.

There's another smell I remember from childhood, At the museum of science and industry in Ft. Worth, TX, there's a downstairs hallway that goes from an old-west facade of a blacksmith, a baker, and other things, all this cedar wood exterior and windows you can look into. That hallway turns into the a hallway through the biology area, where there are some reptiles in the windows, classrooms, etc. There's this smell I remember so distinctly, and I've only ever encountered it in a couple museums since. But when I do, good grief I just feel like I'm eight years old and it makes me so happy.

Anyhow... check out DS & Durga.

https://www.dsanddurga.com


post: When I use ChatGPT for coding the art tools I've been making since last year, there are times it seems to have an "off night" and it just doesn't get things right after multiple prompt updates. I find myself wanting to scold it like a child that isn't listening. It's so weird. LOL

[User] grafician

comment: No clue why people still use closed models when DeepSeek R1 is available. It simply works great!

comment: Haha, you scold children for not listening? Brutal!! ;-) What art tools you been making buddy?

[User] microkorg

comment: or when it simply forgets you'd asked it to do something previously and it omits it from the latest code.

comment: and when you remind it, it's all apologetic haha.


[User] AQUTE

post:
 BYRD. pretty cool locals. all the products are decent. "THE SCENT" at the moment.

byrdhair.com


[User] utopian

topic_title: Where The Fun IS

[User] garbage

comment: 6:49 "Was up late watching Squid Game" flol


topic_title: America is Fucked

[User] rzu-rzu

comment: change name to Emily when job-hunting, noted.


topic_title: Interior Design

[User] Ianbolton

comment: 'where's the fucking money Lebowski?' (nice rug)


[User] bainbridge

post: Lucid or Rivian?

comment: The Lucid models are too long and wide for my taste. And the Rivian models are too boxy and top heavy. Neither vehicles design aesthetics tickle my fancy.

[User] Akagiyama

comment: What about Polestar?

html_comment: What about Polestar?

[User] Longcopylover

comment: Polestar is chinese. So not sure about that. I would still go for Audi, BMW or Mercedes.


topic_title: blog

post:
 USA:

Do you do your own taxes?
Or do you use something like Turbotax?
Or do you pay an accountant?

comment: is this a question to Donald?

html_comment: is this a question to Donald?

[User] PonyBoy

comment: Yes to all 3

html_comment: Yes to all 3

[User] palimpsest

comment: ChatGPT

html_comment: ChatGPT

[User] robotinc

comment: Accountant

html_comment: Accountant

comment: Accountant

[User] mxhxr

comment: a good turbotax alternative:  www.freetaxusa.commy taxes are simple so I use this every year

html_comment:
a good turbotax alternative:  www.freetaxusa.com

my taxes are simple so I use this every year

[User] monospaced

comment: If I don’t hire someone they don’t get done and I don’t even think they’re complicated. Feh

comment: accountant

html_comment: accountant

[User] Gardener

comment: ask my wife she knows eveything

html_comment: ask my wife she knows eveything


topic_title: Vid of the Day

comment: Haha. Did he do this as part of his live show too?


post:
 Done a few blurb photo books for personal/family.
Really good quality, they always have offers on so sometimes worth hanging on for one popping up as you could save 20-30%.


topic_title: Pic of the Day

comment: dad joke thread

html_comment: dad joke thread

comment: Fair

html_comment: Fair

comment: Fish & Chips!

html_comment: Fish & Chips!


topic_title: Artificial Intelligence

post:
 Is this the AI bubble popping?

Markets red in pre-market trading (NVIDIA -5%'ish)

comment: Down over 10% now

html_comment: Down over 10% now


post: Thanks guys. Lots of options there. I was probably hoping you all just said the same place to make it easy. LOL. Cheers.


comment: That was great!

html_comment: That was great!


[User] Nairn

topic_title: Elon Musk

comment: Oh shit, Moldy go there before me!

html_comment: Oh shit, Moldy go there before me!


topic_title: Video Games...

post: Some behind the scenes and new gameplay footage


post:
 One of the benefits of Blurb if you are doing something to sell is that they have a shop platform for print-on-demand.
You can also sell your books (print-on-demand) via Amazon too.


post: Kudryashov Daniil

comment: taste life!

html_comment: taste life!


post:
 I'm looking for an old video, I guess from 2010 or even older:
It shows the analogy of a good idea being made bad by feedback and client input, using a person being made up into a clown.

Can anyone remember it?

And knows where I can find it? I can only find make-up tutorials on youtube...

comment: Thanks for the effort but not quite.

html_comment: Thanks for the effort but not quite.

[User] canoe

comment: # only wrong answers

html_comment: # only wrong answers


[User] neverscared

post:
 Dani Dayan, chair of Israel’s Holocaust memorial centre Yad Vashem, has warned that Elon Musk’s call for Germans to “move on” from guilt about the Holocaust and other Nazi-era crimes was “an insult to the victims of nazism”.

“Contrary to Elon Musk’s advice, the remembrance and acknowledgment of the dark past of the country and its people should be central in shaping German society,” Dayan said in a post on X yesterday, referencing Musk’s remarks at a far right rally in Germany on Saturday.

“Failing to do so is an insult to the victims of nazism and a clear danger to the democratic future of Germany,” Dayan added.

comment: apartheid bro does no likey guilt.

html_comment: apartheid bro does no likey guilt.

comment: Musk the Mook

html_comment: Musk the Mook

comment: Bill Gates calls Elon Musk’s embrace of far-right politicians abroad ‘insane shit’

comment: 'Take seriously what the enemies of democracy preach," Auschwitz survivor warns against the rise of European far-right

[User] uan

comment: He's right. If Germanic nations could overcome their cultural guilt, they'd live happier lives. they could transcend the fear and cult of death


[User] YakuZoku

[User] utopian

comment: USA #2USA #2USA #2USA #2

html_comment:
USA #2
USA #2
USA #2
USA #2

comment: It's ok Trump will add a 25% tariff on Chinese AI and all will be well.

comment: lol

html_comment: lol

[User] sted

comment: the excess of "USA #1 in AI" got wiped, nothing interesting. nvidia lol

comment: but trump said golden age...not silver or bronze age... but looking at trumps fat face..its def. bronzer age...

comment: AI is simply the newest cash grab in an overhyped market by greedy investors.


post: Deepseek's privacy policy page is a 404: https://platform.deepseek.com/do…

[User] grafician

comment: TLDR "All your data goes to China"

html_comment: TLDR "All your data goes to China"

comment: ? not here it isn't"Last Update:  December 05, 2024"

html_comment: ? not here it isn't<br>"Last Update:  December 05, 2024"

comment: It was earlier

html_comment: It was earlier


topic_title: PHOTOCOPY

comment: I'm always looking for the perfect plugin and or filter to create the perfect halftone, dot pattern or photocopy...but I can never find one.

comment: The search for the perfect imperfect.

html_comment: The search for the perfect imperfect.

[User] skwiotsmith

comment: @utopian - check out Vectoraster https://lostminds.co…


topic_title: Earthquake Of The Day

post: anyone just feel that on the east coast?

comment: about 10 mins ago... https://earthquake.u…

comment: where are u @ Pony?

html_comment: where are u @ Pony?

comment: I'm in central New England... Benn may have felt it and anyone in / near Boston maybe down through CT... but that's probably the range in which is was felt

html_comment: I'm in central New England... <br>Benn may have felt it and anyone in / near Boston maybe down through CT... but that's probably the range in which is was felt

comment: Bon voyage PonyBoyhttps://i.imgur.com/…

html_comment:
Bon voyage PonyBoy
https://i.imgur.com/…

[User] elahon

comment: Yep, we felt it in Rockland, Maine! Made my monitor wobble around.

comment: ha... pretty much my exact experience, elahon... that and my pets both hopped right up / became very alert (weee!) :)

[User] dopepope

comment: wow. felt nothing in Brooklyn.

html_comment: wow. felt nothing in Brooklyn.

[User] duckseason

comment: Coworker in NH was talking about it

html_comment: Coworker in NH was talking about it

comment: Tell your coworker we felt it over near Keene :)


post:
 Re: Everything is so fucking tiring.

After Thanksgiving I stopped checking in with the news.

There's been a considerable amount of more time available to think about what I want to think about. Unless you're required to watch the spectacle, turn away. Thank yourself for it later.

comment: Turn on, tune in, drop out

html_comment: Turn on, tune in, drop out

comment: we can all do with some unplugging and enjoying life.

[User] nb

comment: Yep it is a good way to be. just remember that when they come for you or it comes for you, don’t expect anyone to care about your plight

comment: They won’t anyway, so you’re good. I mean, most of us “care” to the extent of getting outraged on our screens... no action.

comment: But when your house burns down or your government comes to take away your rights...thoughts and prayers have no value, anyway.

[User] palimpsest

comment: I'm lovin' it!

html_comment: I'm lovin' it!

comment: I also am on a media diet, and man is it great. Even in better times the new's angle is "everything is horrible". Drives engagement

[User] ideaist

comment: 100% @canoe; this is the way...

html_comment: 100% @canoe; this is the way...


topic_title: capitalism

comment: The economy is just people. #deep

html_comment: The economy is just people. <br>#deep

comment: yup. and dumb people coming in late that end up holding the bag

comment: Buy High > Sell Low

html_comment: Buy High > Sell Low

comment: oh and MAGATARDS that spend their life savings on worthless Trump meme coins

comment: Don't forget about investing in dem MAGA: hats, bibles, sneakers, coins, watches, NFT's, etc...Ya'll MAGA Minions gonna be rich as fuck...Get-R-Done son!!!!

comment: He thinks the economy is just marketing.


post:
I'm considering closing my $20 ChatGPT account and moving over to Abacus AI for $10 a month. Abacus AI offer so many models under one roof.

Abacus Models Included:

LLMs
- GPT-4o
- GPT-o1
- Deepseek R1
• Claude Sonnet 3.5
• Claude Haiku 3.5
• Gemini 2.0 Flash
• Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking
• Gemini 1.5 Pro
- Abacus AI Dracarys
- Abacus AI Smaug
- Llama 3.3 70B
- Llama 3.1 405B
- Grok

Image Generation
- FLUX 1.1 Pro
- FLUX 1.1 Ultra
- Dall-E
• Recraft
• Ideogram

Video Generation
- Kling Al v1.6
- Luma Labs
- Runway
• Hailuo AI

comment: me too, but why not just use Deepseek for free?

comment: Abacus has more stuff and image/ video generation stuff

comment: Because look at all the various models that are on this platform. You get ChatGPT, Google, Meta, etc..and all of the image and video generators as well.

comment: this one? https://abacus.ai/

html_comment: this one? https://abacus.ai/

comment: "$10 per user, billed monthly (first month free, minimum 2 month subscription Learn more)"

comment: oh shit, glanced over that, so you get the latest chatGPT as well plus all the other stuff so worse case even if you only use GPT you save 50% each month

[User] ShenanigansTV

comment: There is a token limit though. It's great if you are a moderate user

comment: That's the URL and they're a U.S. company that doesn't share data with China. They also offer the Deepseek LLM within their API environment.

[User] monNom

comment: So both OpenAI and Anthropic are allowing this company to cannibalize their margins on already money losing models?

comment: I’d be highly suspicious that you weren’t actually getting GPT-o1 but rather some smaller/cheaper model fine tuned to say it was GPT-o1.

comment: Also, all of the AI data can be integrated and indexed into: Google Drive, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Salesforce, etc.. You also can build AI agents & chatbots.

comment: According to information available on Abacus AI's website, their $10 per month plan does not have a strict "token limit".

comment: I'm probably paying around $500 a month easy for AI shit for work, probably closer to $700


post: When was the last time you were happy?

comment: Yesterday.

html_comment: Yesterday.

comment: before I read this post.

html_comment: before I read this post.

[User] Continuity

comment: Did you forget that night so quickly, pali?I'm hurt.

html_comment: Did you forget that night so quickly, pali?<br>I'm hurt.

comment: Yesterday and when this coffee starts kicking in

comment: Actually on Friday, when I discovered some AI stupid shit that helps me get days of work done in just minutes.

comment: ^nice

html_comment: ^nice

comment: when was the first time u were happy ?

html_comment: when was the first time u were happy ?

comment: Now O’Clock

html_comment: Now O’Clock

[User] kalkal

comment: Daily, it's all about outlook.

html_comment: Daily, it's all about outlook.

comment: ^ Word, that's Excel-ent.

html_comment: ^ Word, that's Excel-ent.

comment: ^^ yup

html_comment: ^^ yup

comment: I'm actually having a terrible day now.

html_comment: I'm actually having a terrible day now.

[User] monospaced

comment: I’m between the sweetest happiness imaginable everyday with my amazing kids, and absolute devastation looking for work.

[User] Gardener

comment: today when my new wall clock arrived in the post but tbh I woke up happy with tea & wife in bed

[User] PonyBoy

comment: when the ground shook this morning and my pets and I all hopped up together <3

comment: when i was at inner peace...

html_comment: when i was at inner peace...

comment: .. that was at the trump inauguration i think...

comment: every second that I'm lucky to exist. I came from billions of years of nothingness and will return to billions of years of nothingness so I may as well enjoy it

comment: When there were less elons and more melons on QBN.

comment: ^ that's you posting that shit here mo-fo!!

comment: or maybe i'm getting you mixed up with Ben lol


post:
 Had an uncle (my moms brother) die unexpectedly overnight.

He was a wild man through life, never really "took off" in life / failure to launch.

Drugs, booze, etc. etc. etc.

Heart attack.

NOT unexpected, BUT start to think about NOT making an effort to see him more, have him over for family meals these last few years, etc. etc. etc.

Just another perspective on time, family, life, etc. etc. etc. on a cool Canadian Monday morning.

I'm trying to practise awareness more these days and perhaps this is a note for you to do the same as time passes.

XO to you and yours.

comment: 66 years old SOOO again, NOT unexpected AND (generally) an age where this type of lifestyle catches up with you...

comment: yeah that always sucks. and we inevitably regret not reaching out/spending time more. It's tough. when you have kids, family, work etc etc.

comment: but even though he didn't take off, it sounds like he enjoyed the ride while he was here :) and hopefully brought some joy and good memories to loved ones

comment: @_niko I agree; he certainly did whatever he wanted whenever he wanted, which is great for him!Death (& taxes) just suck, I guess.

html_comment:
@_niko I agree; he certainly did whatever he wanted whenever he wanted, which is great for him!

Death (& taxes) just suck, I guess.


post: nice change in perspective


[User] YakuZoku

post: US AI companies right now

comment: nvidia

html_comment: nvidia

comment: nah they knew what they had, the retards are the investor bros taking these stocks to the moon,

comment: i think 1) they knew what they had 2) they knew the real costs 3) everything else was investor fugazi

comment: i just don't think they saw an overseas competitor revealing what was behind the curtain

comment: puts the whole Sam Altman board of directors of OpenAi drama in a a whole new light...

comment: for profit vs. open source... real costs vs. speculative hype

comment: also all the dank tech memes really cheer me up

[User] utopian

comment: I guess the US based AI companies did think that the Chinese were going to steal of the data and models and then recreate all of them for pennies on the dollar.

comment: I mean one could argue they are more transparent than the Sam Altman led investment vehicle called "OpenAi"

comment: Deepseek is either being truthful in their documentation and OpenAi has been lying or...

comment: Deepseek is is being less than truthful and OpenAi has been honest with their cost structure

comment: i am here for the lulz either way

html_comment: i am here for the lulz either way

comment: We've had to sit through 2 years of Sam Altman talking about rewriting "the social contract" for the sole benefit of his company...

comment: this couldn't happen to a better bunch of silicon valley lizard people

comment: OpenAi employees crying for "protectionism" is biblical schadenfreude: https://i.imgur.com/…

comment: Biblical: https://i.imgur.com/…

html_comment: Biblical: https://i.imgur.com/…


topic_title: first world problems

post: I spent two hours on TikTok because it was too much fun.

comment: comments on TikTok are so much more positive than Instagram, Insta has gone to shit, all the FB assholes migrated there

comment: The struggle is real.

html_comment: The struggle is real.


post: I'm still sore from the massage I had on Saturday.


post: The new clock for my room arrived today, I treated myself just before Christmas, only 50 made!


post:
 DeepSeek built its product using roughly 50,000 Nvidia H100 chips it can't mention because it would violate U.S. export controls that ban the sale of such chips to Chinese companies.

https://wccftech.com/chinese-ai-…

comment: Source: "Alexander Wang of Scale AI"

html_comment: Source: "Alexander Wang of Scale AI"

comment: who to trust? Western Ai Oligarchs attempting to rewrite society or test Deepseek's documentation independently

[User] grafician

comment: I doubt this claim that was everywhere do discredit these guys. They released the papers, everything points that they did it on the cheap as mentioned

comment: < so this is probably coping lies

html_comment: < so this is probably coping lies

comment: The model is really cheap TO RUN ALSO so yeah


comment: Laugh it up now, libs. Because Baron Trump is seeing all these memes about his mom and he’s probably going to be  America’s first Dictator


post:
 "DeepSeek claimed it used just 2,048 Nvidia H800s and $5.6mn to train a model with 671bn parameters, a fraction of what OpenAI and Google spent to train comparably sized models.

Ritwik Gupta, AI policy researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, said DeepSeek’s recent model releases demonstrate that “there is no moat when it comes to AI capabilities”.

“The first person to train models has to expend lots of resources to get there,” he said. “But the second mover can get there cheaper and more quickly.”

Gupta added that China had a much larger talent pool of systems engineers than the US who understand how to get the best use of computing resources to train and run models more cheaply.

Industry insiders say that even though DeepSeek has shown impressive results with limited resources, it remains an open question whether it can continue to be competitive as the industry evolves.

Returns at High-Flyer, its big backer, lagged behind in 2024, which one person close to Liang blamed on the founder’s attention being mostly focused on DeepSeek.
"

https://www.ft.com/content/747a7…


topic_title: Official SFW Thread

comment: LOL

html_comment: LOL


[User] neverscared

post:
 The Less People Know About AI, the More They Like It
You might assume that tech-savvy people are the most open to using AI, but research suggests it's actually those who are least familiar with it.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-…


topic_title: florida is whack

[User] Salarrue

comment: Patton Oswalt?

html_comment: Patton Oswalt?

comment: "you're full of beans and so is your old man!"

[User] Krassy


topic_title: Donald Trump

[User] maquito

comment: of the gulf of america

html_comment: of the gulf of america

comment: lol

html_comment: lol


topic_title: The More You Know ★

comment: I knew it!

html_comment: I knew it!


topic_title: Guess Who...

comment: some tech CEO after a Trump meeting

html_comment: some tech CEO after a Trump meeting

comment: Jensen Huang net worth

html_comment: Jensen Huang net worth

[User] sausages

comment: George Michael

html_comment: George Michael


post:
New Dank Tech Bro Meme just dropped:
https://x.com/EffMktHype/status/…


topic_title: Painting of the day

comment: is that chalk or pastel? that's great

html_comment: is that chalk or pastel? that's great

comment: prompt?

html_comment: prompt?


[User] Nairn

topic_title: Scary Cool Tech Thread

post:
 sorry for naXi link

https://x.com/xmszeon/status/187…

comment: you can use xcancel.com to share the links : https://xcancel.com/…

[User] sted

comment: xcancel FTW!

html_comment: xcancel FTW!

comment: @Narin u playing Armored Core?

html_comment: @Narin u playing Armored Core?

comment: What are we looking at? Is that an ai prompt to 3d or something?


post:
 'no ai moat'. 2023

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/…


[User] yuekit

post:
Anthropic chief says AI could surpass “almost all humans at almost everything” shortly after 2027

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/…

[User] palimpsest

comment: And I'm here for it.

html_comment: And I'm here for it.

comment: How underwater is he on his H100 cluster?

comment: If Ai can replace my old toilet with a new Kohler toilet with less than 5 trips to Home Depot to fix things that went wrong during installation I am here for it

comment: lol bullshit.when it will be able to dig a hole into the ground you know its over for us, until then its just electricity powering a network for data.

html_comment: lol bullshit.<br>when it will be able to dig a hole into the ground you know its over for us, until then its just electricity powering a network for data.

comment: *We* defined intelligence.

html_comment: *We* defined intelligence.

comment: True we made it and we can take it away

html_comment: True we made it and we can take it away

comment: I don't see *what* we could take away.Nothing really mattress.

html_comment: I don't see *what* we could take away.<br>Nothing really mattress.

comment: I don't think it's a ball we can take home.

comment: Sure, it's always 2-3 years ahead :)))))

[User] slappy

comment: 'Could'

html_comment: 'Could'

[User] SimonFFM

comment: But with the steep rise in stupidity among humans, it is also becoming easier and easier for AI.

comment: thats some huge numbers... and that self driving car promised since centuries has never even materialized proper...

[User] mrAtor

comment: I bet, Ai could never smoke as many blunts as me, no way!

comment: better at making horrible mistakes... WW3 total war of the total war achieved

comment: Someday, Humans will stop innovating, thinking and inventing. We will rely on AI for everything. Human intelligence may have peaked.

[User] stewart

comment: I want an AI robot to fix my roof quick, good and cheap.


post: AI on humans


post: Did I mention I am really enjoying the Dank Tech Bro Memes?

comment: Where the fun IS.

html_comment: Where the fun IS.


[User] autoflavour

topic_title: blog

post:
 had a busy 4 day weekend first building a wall..
then painting a wall

comment: managed to rope in my wife and homie to do some fill in work for me also so i could focus on the bowser

[User] nb

comment: Build the wall!

html_comment: Build the wall!


topic_title: Graffiti art

comment: cross post from blog thread.. but am stoked on the results

comment: No Luigi?

html_comment: No Luigi?

[User] YakuZoku

comment: Timeline!

html_comment: Timeline!

[User] instrmntl

comment: Nice!

html_comment: Nice!

comment: Luigi way too controversial LOL.. resisted the urge to have bowser wear a MAGA cap


topic_title: QBN stickers

post:
 gah, just realizing now that I sent you all recent stickers.. but i should have dug out my old box and I could have sent you all old autoflavour stickers..

fyi autoflavour as a moniker is something i stopped using almost 20 years ago.. and it morphed into auto64..

but i still have boxes of autoflavour stickers..
maybe i still will..


post: just out of curiosity who has received my packs?

comment: Not me.

html_comment: Not me.

comment: I'm curious too, who has received mine? Not that mine was as impressive as Autoflavours.

[User] noneck

comment: I've received deliveries from Autoflavour, skinny_puppy, bezoar, CyBrainX, jamesbeat, _niko, and timeless.


[User] grafician

post:
 "Trump Justice Department fires officials who investigated Trump and launches ‘special project’ into January 6 cases"

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/…

[User] utopian

comment: MAGA 4 Life!

html_comment: MAGA 4 Life!

comment: CNN fake news!

html_comment: CNN fake news!


topic_title: Fashion of the Day

comment: Sup dude?

html_comment: Sup dude?

comment: Klingon, so hot right now.

html_comment: Klingon, so hot right now.

[User] PonyBoy

comment: each step sounds like an accordian

html_comment: each step sounds like an accordian

[User] OBBTKN

comment: With those boots you can light any barbecue


post: Phanlo he dead?

comment: RIP

html_comment: RIP

comment: wait wut?

html_comment: wait wut?

comment: ?? Last post a day ago

html_comment: ?? Last post a day ago

comment: Deadass?

html_comment: Deadass?

[User] PhanLo

comment: LOL

html_comment: LOL


topic_title: Artificial Intelligence

post:
 Info about the architecture of DeepSeek

https://newsletter.languagemodel…


post: So ... Deepseek goes OMEGA VIRAL and they can handle the demand on their two Chromebook's they have to use for inference? Meanwhile Anthropic cannot handle the load of their paying customers with billions in funding? Do I get this right?

comment: "DeepSeek on Monday said it would temporarily limit user registrations “due to large-scale malicious attacks” on its services."


post:
 "Janus-Series: Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation Models"

https://github.com/deepseek-ai/J…

Now they're destroying the generative text2img models...

[User] kalkal

comment: Sadly, only on paper in this case.

html_comment: Sadly, only on paper in this case.


[User] prophetone

topic_title: Hiphop like this.

[User] ideaist

comment: LOVE Homeboy Sandman!!!

html_comment: LOVE Homeboy Sandman!!!

comment: THIS is the jam:https://www.youtube.…

html_comment:
THIS is the jam:

https://www.youtube.…


post:
 We might be in a real bubble pop scenario if Trump is actually talking about Deepseek...

"Trump on DeepSeek: I view that as a positive. If it is fact and it is true, and nobody knows, but I view that as a positive."

https://x.com/Acyn/status/188402…

comment: Sam Altman hearing Trump congratulating the Deepseek team on making Ai "Cheaper":


post:
 NVDA statement on DeepSeek

"DeepSeek is an excellent AI advancement and a perfect example of Test Time Scaling. DeepSeek’s work illustrates how new models can be created using that technique, leveraging widely-available models and compute that is fully export control compliant. Inference requires significant numbers of NVIDIA GPUs and high-performance networking. We now have three scaling laws: pre-training and post-training, which continue, and new test-time scaling.”

[User] ekael

comment: now ask deepseek about winnie the pooh and chinese president


[User] omer

comment: Thanks for the drumless selection! Reminded me of that Roc Marciano one below. cheers


[User] yuekit

comment: lol so pathetic...but this is what you get when you have a nationalistic government that goes after companies for disloyalty.  It's a step in the direction of

comment: the Chinese system.

html_comment: the Chinese system.

comment: Regardless of who did it, the fact that AI can be created cheaper and more efficient is overall great news

comment: Yeah I agree...this is more about Sam Altman groveling to Trump.

comment: cheap efficient Ai that uses less resources is good for consumers and the environment. never thought bulk scale was good.

comment: SamA kissing Trump's Ass and embracing the Republican party for some sort of western Ai Protectionism only for it to go tits up a week into the administration

comment: = FUNNY

html_comment: = FUNNY

comment: Western Ai Bros suddenly crying over Intellectual Property= BIBLICAL FUNNY... Oh how the tables turned.

comment: Didn't have Chatgpt losing it's job to Ai on my 2025 bingo card...


topic_title: Social Media

post: BREAKING: Microsoft is in talks to acquire TikTok

[User] monospaced

comment: It’s not much more than unsubstantiated rumor at this point. Nothing “broke” in any sense of the word.


post: Sensing an impending, overnight, NFT-like rapid lack of interest scenario for the sexier, expensive, subscription-based, heavily-funded AI products as eyeballs focus on the improving open source solutions, and with AGI around the corner it’s going to pivot yet again, as we hopefully get closer to me getting my hoverboard.


topic_title: Elon Musk

post:
 Trump isn't giving Elon Musk the West Wing office of his dreams & the internet is roasting him.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump…


post: Wut (shaking head)

[User] monNom

comment: TSMC Japan just started up. TSMC Arizona coming online this year.

comment: but not the cutting edge 3nm/2nm stuff

html_comment: but not the cutting edge 3nm/2nm stuff

comment: Yikes

html_comment: Yikes

comment: his global point of view is comprised of things he read in TIME magazine in the 80's between lines of coke.

comment: Explaining that Taiwan is a land of magical elves whose kingdom houses 92% of the world's most advanced chip manufacturing  might pierce his dementia

comment: 92% that's a big number right?

html_comment: 92% that's a big number right?


[User] Projectile

post: <a title="https://scontent.flis12-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/475016574_1018488963649633_2809908674689375227_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=833d8c&_nc_ohc=56j_MvF2tsYQ7kNvgFiuIG8&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent.flis12-1.fna&_nc_gid=AZKp3T5j4LojGNtwdTKJLwv&oh=00_AYBKp6hhj62HzadThT6Zpnrxv7o6k3UdvcWjJzvvJFXaAA&oe=679E821C" href="https://scontent.flis12-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/475016574_1018488963649633_2809908674689375227_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=833d8c&_nc_ohc=56j_MvF2tsYQ7kNvgFiuIG8&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent.flis12-1.fna&_nc_gid=AZKp3T5j4LojGNtwdTKJLwv&oh=00_AYBKp6hhj62HzadThT6Zpnrxv7o6k3UdvcWjJzvvJFXaAA&oe=679E821C" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">

[User] neverscared

comment: in aldo we trust

html_comment: in aldo we trust


[User] Nairn

topic_title: Dog of the Day

post: [ https://i.imgur.com/pod7h7g.mp4 ]

comment: lol, sound on for:https://i.imgur.com/…

html_comment:
lol, sound on for:
https://i.imgur.com/…


[User] milfhunter

[User] kingsteven

comment: lol but tbf a lot of the open source tech which both are based on is european and deepseek just popped the proprietary AI bubble

[User] palimpsest

comment: Where's the each prompt wastes 1L of water crowd?

comment: not even neverscared would defend non-removable bottle lids.

comment: i only drink champagne

html_comment: i only drink champagne

comment: french champagne and french mistral a.i.. i am just a fancy fraknophile bitch...

comment: most say whackophile...

html_comment: most say whackophile...

comment: French champagne? How sophisticated!

html_comment: French champagne? <br>How sophisticated!

comment: thanks

html_comment: thanks

comment: It's actually Chinese people on both sides.https://x.com/XH_Lee…

html_comment:
It's actually Chinese people on both sides.
https://x.com/XH_Lee…


topic_title: America is Fucked

comment: Insufferable cunt

html_comment: Insufferable cunt

comment: the joker couldnt laugh more insane...

html_comment: the joker couldnt laugh more insane...

comment: All the hallmarks of a bright stoner who probably has paranoid delusional tendencies or other mental health issues.

comment: But I think he means well, would have a beer with this guy but just one, any more and we’d spiral down a 100 crazy rabbit holes

comment: Ok just watched the whole thing, the guy’s nuts lol

comment: Good Jamaroquai impression on Jan 6th though.

[User] Ianbolton

comment: He’s so arse-wrapped in conspiracy bullshit that he thinks he’s above the interviewer in every way. It’s unbearable


topic_title: State of QBN 2025

[User] sarahfailin

comment: neat!

html_comment: neat!


post:
 DeepSeek’s Popular AI App Is Explicitly Sending US Data to China
Amid ongoing fears over TikTok, Chinese generative AI platform DeepSeek says it’s sending heaps of US user data straight to its home country, potentially setting the stage for greater scrutiny.

https://www.wired.com/story/deep…

[User] grafician

comment: Perplexity AI offers the model with data retention in the US, under the Pro version. They added it yesterday just for this reason...

comment: It's here: https://x.com/perple…

html_comment:
It's here:

https://x.com/perple…


[User] Gardener

comment: houses made of gold

html_comment: houses made of gold


[User] zaq

[User] Krassy

comment: Justin Trudeau

html_comment: Justin Trudeau

[User] Gabriel

comment: noskcaJ leahciM

html_comment: noskcaJ leahciM

[User] fooler

comment: Paul Notweller

html_comment: Paul Notweller

[User] utopian

comment: Tan mom went too far!

html_comment: Tan mom went too far!

[User] srhadden

comment: Iggy Poop

html_comment: Iggy Poop

[User] sab

comment: Warick Capper

html_comment: Warick Capper

[User] HijoDMaite

comment: Colloidal Silver Man

html_comment: Colloidal Silver Man

[User] YakuZoku

comment: Lol hijo

html_comment: Lol hijo

comment: Lol @srhadden

html_comment: Lol @srhadden


[User] neverscared

post:
Fears for ‘security of Jews worldwide’ in wake of Elon Musk AfD speech
Top US Jewish advocate Halie Soifer calls Trump adviser’s address to far-right Germany rally ‘incredibly dangerous’

Soifer said: “The salute, the message to the AfD, the fact that he is willing to joke about the criticism he is getting, it all demonstrates that [those around Trump] are unwilling to recognize how dangerous their words and actions are.

https://www.theguardian.com/worl…

comment: The idea that the right doesn't know what it's doing is a huge blind spot for liberals and the left. They know exactly what they're doing.

comment: Musk's look is gross. Cowboy boots with a damn graphic tee. Such a fake Texan, just like Ted Cruz.


[User] Nairn

post:
 Ouch. Worth a scan:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Fuckthe…

I mean, if you're in this thread it is.

If you've accidentally seen this post and don't give a fuck about melon and don't want to waste any brainspace on it (quite rightfully!) then please move on and utterly disregard this link as being wholly not worth your time.

comment: Ah, original post, on FB:https://www.facebook…

html_comment:
Ah, original post, on FB:
https://www.facebook…

comment: megalomaniac... or in this case... gigalomaniac.

[User] renderedred

comment: wow. he buried him.

html_comment: wow. he buried him.

comment: Love it.

html_comment: Love it.

comment: Oops, fp - sorry, lol.He goes to town in the comments on FB too, eg:

html_comment:
Oops, fp - sorry, lol.

He goes to town in the comments on FB too, eg:

comment: "To be clear, he is a sadist, and he is not particularly skilled other than at manipulating people".

comment: sadist on demon mode ... i think i saw the outcome of people driven by it over and over in history...especially horrible when they have authority in upper

comment: poltical echelons.

html_comment: poltical echelons.

comment: Isn't this whole thread a testament to the fact that Elmo hasn't been fooling anyone for a very long time?

comment: "I've Never Met a Nice South African"https://www.dailymot…

html_comment:
"I've Never Met a Nice South African"
https://www.dailymot…

comment: Drugs really fucked this douchebag even more than he was before.


post: The Eclipse of the Sun in Venice, July 6, 1842, by Ippolito Caffi (1842)

[User] Gnash

comment: I was in Venice during a solar eclipse and it looked nothing like this!


comment: Phanlo's sudden reappearance on QBN

html_comment: Phanlo's sudden reappearance on QBN


[User] Goldpackage

post: Because why post just one Kool G Rap track...


[User] Miesfan

topic_title: Architecture of the Day

comment: sexy

html_comment: sexy

comment: Doesn't really nail the MSM look.

html_comment: Doesn't really nail the MSM look.

[User] microkorg

comment: Some nice touches. Love the expansive almost frameless windows.

comment: Not even cantilevered.

html_comment: Not even cantilevered.


topic_title: Donald Trump

post: LOL


topic_title: It's Tuesday...

[User] theonlyengineerhere

comment: Ah, the good ol' days!Phenylpropanolamine HCLBlack BeautiesGreen & ClearsChristmas TreesRobin''s EggsAlso - same active ingredient in Contact and Dexatrim

html_comment:
Ah, the good ol' days!
Phenylpropanolamine HCL
Black Beauties
Green & Clears
Christmas Trees
Robin''s Eggs
Also - same active ingredient in Contact and Dexatrim


[User] Akagiyama

topic_title: The Nope Thread.

[User] Continuity

comment: Quite.I like my hot dog water on the higher end of warm.

html_comment: Quite.<br>I like my hot dog water on the higher end of warm.

[User] bezoar

comment: I used to treat myself to "The Sodium Shooter" in my 20-30's.

comment: Hopefully with a pickle brine chaser?

html_comment: Hopefully with a pickle brine chaser?


post:
 This is *the* salient comment of all of all of them from that Reddit thread Nairn posted just now, that we need to internalise. Particularly the last sentence:

"The most dangerous billionaires are the ones who work hard to make sure you never hear about them or their goals. Low admits that’s who he is.

I’ll be honest, this post was interesting and insightful, but it said far more about Low than it did Musk. Low is more intelligent, careful and discreet. He is not a buffoon. But that doesn’t necessarily make him morally superior; it just means that his allegiances and influence are harder to pin down.

Your enemy’s enemy is not necessarily your friend."

comment: everybody know that the standard profile of a billionaire is not a buffoon... how many are dancing on stages... trump since the 80ties..and he was always an

comment: excemption evidently...musk is chimning it since he dated grimes which is in showbiz..evidently he enjoys the  spotlight of an entertainer now.... i never saw

comment: warren buffett dancing with mr.universes...

[User] monNom

comment: One guy’s opinion based on nothing but his imaginings of what goes on in someone else’s head. And a competitor as well. Take it with a grain of salt.

comment: We don't need to know exactly what Low is up to: you can't become a billionaire by being a good person.


topic_title: Ganja Thread 3.0

post:
 allzheimer getting fucked...

Long-term low-dose cannabis reverses brain aging in mice

A low-dose long-term administration of cannabis can not only reverse aging processes in the brain, but also has an anti-aging effect. Researchers from the University Hospital Bonn (UKB) and the University of Bonn together with a team from Hebrew University (Israel) have now been able to show this in mice. They found the key to this in the protein switch mTOR, whose signal strength has an influence on cognitive performance and metabolic processes in the entire organism. The results are now presented in the journal "ACS Pharmacology & Translation Science".

https://www.news-medical.net/new…

comment: keep smoking keep young ...

html_comment: keep smoking keep young ...


[User] Gardener

topic_title: Dis or Dat?

comment: well the Gulf of Mexico looks like it's enjoyed quite a few pleasure craft but the Gulf of America has seen lots of big tanker traffic

comment: ^LOL

html_comment: ^LOL


topic_title: tattoo of the day

post:
 Danzig Baldaev and the Art of Russian Criminal Tattoos

https://www.dannydutch.com/post/…

comment: Russia military meat grinder application forms


[User] grafician

post:
 "Can LLMs Play Chess? I've Tested 13 Models (GPT-4o, Claude 3.5, Gemini 1.5 etc.)"

https://dev.to/maximsaplin/can-l…

comment: TLDR No, they can't win for shit

html_comment: TLDR No, they can't win for shit

comment: they can't code either.

html_comment: they can't code either.


[User] BusterBoy

post: #FAFO

comment: Probably AI..but still accurate.

html_comment: Probably AI..but still accurate.

comment: stay safe Hotroddy!

html_comment: stay safe Hotroddy!

[User] utopian

comment: He be in self-deport mode.

html_comment: He be in self-deport mode.

[User] hotroddy

comment: well if this guy voted it was obviously in a blue state where they let illegals vote.


[User] elahon

[User] garbage

comment: Neck pussy

html_comment: Neck pussy

comment: Neckgina™

html_comment: Neckgina™

comment: Giblet

html_comment: Giblet

comment: Damn Captcha

html_comment: Damn Captcha


[User] zaq

topic_title: Vid of the Day

[User] YakuZoku

comment: they're getting better with their editing

comment: lol @ tate

html_comment: lol @ tate

comment: all ai? this is great

html_comment: all ai? this is great

[User] ephix

comment: tate was the best part

html_comment: tate was the best part

[User] dee-dubs

comment: That;s pretty good

html_comment: That;s pretty good

[User] stoplying

comment: ImpressAIve

html_comment: ImpressAIve


[User] cherub

topic_title: Nuclear holocaust

post: Username does NOT check out

[User] neverscared

comment: dont ignore the writing on the walls..https://www.t...

comment: i for once embrace the apocalpyse of course...


topic_title: What are you listening to?

[User] CyBrainX

comment: That camerawork is pretty annoying at the beginning of this.


[User] kaiyohtee

[User] thenohero

comment: Always had such a good sound.

html_comment: Always had such a good sound.


[User] prophetone

[User] Goldpackage

comment: Had completely forgotten about this and the og.


[User] HijoDMaite

topic_title: Show your latest Pics

comment: William Eggleston vibes in 2 and 3. Nice.

comment: nice pics bubba.

html_comment: nice pics bubba.

comment: Gorgeous stuff. Especially love the pier shots

comment: Thanks guys. I bought a big boy tripod finally and it’s really motivated me to get out and shoot landscapes.

comment: That is awesome.  I have grown to love the tri, allows to get methodical.

comment: Nice. I got a 3 legged thing for Xmas, haven't gone out with it yet.


[User] grafician

topic_title: Quote someone

post:
 "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of bogeymen, most of them imaginary."

- H.L. Mencken


topic_title: Desk Of The Day

post: Guillermo Santomà, a Barcelona-based artist and architect

comment: That chair has been through it.

html_comment: That chair has been through it.


topic_title: Interior Design

comment: needs more lamps

html_comment: needs more lamps


post:
 The Washington Establishment Isn’t Going to Protect Us from Nuclear War
They’re protecting their bottom line.

Aprimary responsibility of the government is, of course, to keep us safe. Given that obligation, you might think that the Washington establishment would be hard at work trying to prevent the ultimate catastrophe—a nuclear war. But you would be wrong.

https://www.thenation.com/articl…


comment: lol

html_comment: lol


[User] Gardener

[User] sarahfailin

comment: i'm ready

html_comment: i'm ready


[User] OBBTKN

topic_title: Drawing of the Day

post: Eduard Thöny. 1922:


comment: The poetry of brutalism is beyond most people's comprehension.

[User] lnu

comment: Look at meeee!

html_comment: Look at meeee!

comment: I hated it now I love it

html_comment: I hated it now I love it

[User] utopian

comment: brutal

html_comment: brutal

[User] Krassy

comment: prompt?

html_comment: prompt?

[User] ArchitectofFate

comment: I like it, and so glad that I don't live in a brutalism heavy country


comment: Some great comedy sketches from the Spaced series.


topic_title: Elon Musk

post:
Elon Musk Lackeys Have Taken Over the Office of Personnel Management

Sources tell WIRED that the OPM’s top layers of management now include individuals linked to xAI, Neuralink, the Boring Company, and Palantir. One expert found the takeover reminiscent of Stalin.

https://www.wired.com/story/elon…

comment: By Stalin he means Hitler.

html_comment: By Stalin he means Hitler.

comment: 'expert'Stalin's takeover of the apparat began 100 years ago, and the man died in the 1950's. Cunts act like it was yesterday.

html_comment: 'expert'<br>Stalin's takeover of the apparat began 100 years ago, and the man died in the 1950's. Cunts act like it was yesterday.

comment: it is yesterday... especially in the US

html_comment: it is yesterday... especially in the US

comment: conveniently forgetting the McCarthy hearings or the hysteria after 9/11. Big Joe continues to live like a king in the minds of Burgerland dullards.


[User] milfhunter

topic_title: Pic of the Day

comment: You have to know how to grow old, they still seem happy

[User] Ianbolton

comment: That cauliflower has aged so well

html_comment: That cauliflower has aged so well

[User] garbage

comment: John and Mary from Father Ted vibes.

html_comment: John and Mary from Father Ted vibes.

[User] bogue

comment: wow... I'm going to remember this next time I see a sweet old lady. That she was probably a smoke show 50 years ago.

[User] pango

comment: how old is that cauliflower?!?!?!

html_comment: how old is that cauliflower?!?!?!

comment: lol pango

html_comment: lol pango

comment: Bogue, that guy too yeah? Hot. As. Fuck!!

comment: good looking couple. Hell that's a sexy cauliflower

[User] monNom

comment: Not 80's hair. Fake news.

html_comment: Not 80's hair. Fake news.

[User] shellie

comment: Couple goals. They're freaking adorbs.

html_comment: Couple goals. They're freaking adorbs.

[User] misterhow

comment: Everyone wears glasses in the future

html_comment: Everyone wears glasses in the future

[User] tbgoodwillie

comment: feed the trees

html_comment: feed the trees


[User] jagara

topic_title: Food

post:
 You can say what you want but Himmel Und Erde slaps.
Yes that is blood sausage.
https://i.haasie.com/NPT.webp

comment: webp not supported?

html_comment: webp not supported?

comment: would

html_comment: would


[User] elahon

topic_title: 80's-90's MEMORIES

[User] bezoar

comment: Armpit?

html_comment: Armpit?


[User] OBBTKN

post: In my town, black beans with cabbage, blood sausage and chillies are famous, superb!:

comment: mmm love me that morcilla

html_comment: mmm love me that morcilla


post: Happy 80 Tom!


[User] Nairn

topic_title: UK is Fucked

post:
 I've this morning been informed I should expect a £12 a month increase to my water bill, this after moving to a new place about 200m over a few months back, same size family, but water bill went up £25 because there's an extra bedroom, so in less than four months my water bill has almost doubled.

Still, as long as shareholders and directors keep getting handsomly rewarded, that's all that matters, I suppose.

https://www.theguardian.com/busi…

comment: before thames water were privatised they had no debt (apparently). the cunts that bought them were somehow allowed to offload an £18bn debt onto the company.

comment: Yeah, that's in The Grauniad link.And I meant £19, not £12.https://petition.par…

html_comment:
Yeah, that's in The Grauniad link.
And I meant £19, not £12.
https://petition.par…

comment: did not read the article. apologies for stating the bleeding obvious

comment: For us here, every summer our water consumption mysteriously increases, when it really goes down, like gas consumption in winter...

comment: We heat the house with firewood. It's very simple. They are thieves! Guillotine and fire!!

comment: I'm not in the UK, I know Nairn, but there are very similar procedures here ;)I feel your pain

html_comment:
I'm not in the UK, I know Nairn, but there are very similar procedures here ;)

I feel your pain

comment: The robbing bastards... Rateable Property Value vs Meter. Could you get a meter installed? Although i hear it can work out more expensive.

comment: That's my current strategy, there's no way we use £80 of water a month. I only shower on the new moon...

[User] kalkal

comment: Don't you have a metre? In which case what they charge will be an estimate and you could just end up paying more than your usage

comment: Yep, I want to get one installed.

html_comment: Yep, I want to get one installed.

comment: I find it abhorrent they would privatise a basic human need just to make more money for investors. It's Thatcher's legacy that keeps on giving

comment: Maybe try and role play a Dune-style life where every drop is of upmost importance - drinking your own sweat?

[User] monospaced

comment: They charge by rooms, not usage?

html_comment: They charge by rooms, not usage?

comment: The cost is based on the rateable value of the property not the number of inhabitants. So 20 people in a 2 bed house would pay lots less than 1 person in a...

comment: ...5 bed house. You can opt to have your water metered which can save money.

comment: That's because of how it's split among the residents? Or more people lowers the bill for the property? We're all required to have meters, so this is fascinating

comment: @ian I find it insane that something you're lumped with, that there's no other option about is privatised, not like you're going to find a better deal...

comment: ...dumbest thing they could have privatised, even dumber than power, but that's still up there


comment: Ha, that was yesterday, it was already cleaned. Then it was hit again, this was just posted about half an hour ago:

comment: This is dead center in SLU, few blocks from Bezos' Balls, so a lot of RTO Regretmobiles are definitely passing by.

comment: Hahahhaa love it!

html_comment: Hahahhaa love it!


topic_title: Nature of the day

post:
 Sunfish that got sick after aquarium closed has recovered — thanks to human cutouts

https://apnews.com/article/japan…


[User] grafician

topic_title: Wikipedia of the Day

comment: Someone's been reading the comments sections about Deepseek on HackerNews.

comment: Actually it was this tweethttps://x.com/satyan…

html_comment:
Actually it was this tweet

https://x.com/satyan…

comment: Aha! Satya was browsing HN then :)

html_comment: Aha! Satya was browsing HN then :)


topic_title: Meme of the day

comment: your mum

html_comment: your mum

comment: your dad

html_comment: your dad


[User] milfhunter

topic_title: Printer

post:
 Hi Fellow designers, i got the job to find a new printer for our design studio.

Should be A3 and the purpose is for printing digital work or inspiration to hang on a wall.

Any recommendations?

comment: quit from your design studio

html_comment: quit from your design studio

comment: ^Instead, install an interactive panel where you can place it. Save thousands.

html_comment: ^<br>Instead, install an interactive panel where you can place it. Save thousands.


topic_title: official sober thread

post: ^ 4 years as of yesterday.

[User] ideaist

comment: YEAH BOIII!!!

html_comment: YEAH BOIII!!!

[User] Akagiyama

comment: Awesome!! :)

html_comment: Awesome!! :)

[User] zaq

comment: congrats.

html_comment: congrats.

[User] utopian

comment: cheers!

html_comment: cheers!

[User] thenohero

comment: Proud of ya!

html_comment: Proud of ya!

[User] Ianbolton

comment: Great work. What made you finally choose sobriety? And sober from drink or EVERYTHING?

[User] palimpsest

comment: Only in death can one be sober of EVERYTHING.

comment: Not me, lol. I was pointing up at my last post about my husband

comment: "Love &/in Sobriety" ~ The story of @i_monk.; )

html_comment:
"Love &/in Sobriety" ~ The story of @i_monk.

; )

comment: drunk or sober, death finds us all

html_comment: drunk or sober, death finds us all

comment: Much like taxes.

html_comment: Much like taxes.


post:
 What do you guys do in situations when you get together with old or current mates that still drink?

Do you still go to pubs, or watch a game but drink something else?

comment: curious about family get-togethers too, holidays etc. I've always enjoyed casual. drinking with friends and family but alcohol no longer agrees with me, even 1

comment: ...drink messes with me, so I've stopped for the past month. But I don't really want to have to explain myself every time people want to grab a drink

[User] PonyBoy

comment: A quick explanation (if even needed) where you simply state 'it doesn't agree w/me lately' is more than adequate. If you need to say more... fuck 'em. <3

comment: 'fuck 'em' is harsh... but honestly you shouldn't have to explain yourself outside of 'it doesn't set well w/me lately'

comment: yeah for sure, I wouldn't have an issue telling them, but I think it's not the same, everyone having a pint and you're having what sparkling water? lol ugh.

comment: with lemon :)

html_comment: with lemon :)

[User] YakuZoku

comment: I say something to the effect of "that shit will kill you, smoke weed"

comment: Avoid situations where drinking is the focus. In other situations, usually there are some people not drinking for various reasons.

comment: Eg driving, pregnant, on antibiotics, or sober.

[User] slappy

comment: I found it normalised pretty fast for me, now my mates get me kombucha when they invite me over for hangs, which they know I like.

comment: I was once at a get together and a friends kid got into a situation. I hopped in a car and went and picked him up. If anything people are happy to have a sober.

[User] moogchild

comment: I'm a year in with NA and there's a lot of "near beer "choices available. Guiness 0 is great! especially accompanied by a micro bump of k.

html_comment: I'm a year in with NA and there's a lot of <br>"near beer "choices available. Guiness 0 is great! especially accompanied by a micro bump of k.

comment: micro bump of k Haha. I bet you leave that bit out at sharing time ;)

[User] ephix

comment: i went out with someone i was dating and they were all drinking, quite a lot, and I was having zero beers. she told me I was boring. that was the last time

comment: I saw her.

html_comment: I saw her.


topic_title: blog

post: NIN tix go on sale in 3 minutes... my summer's going to be full of midlife crisis concerts <3

comment: Nice!

html_comment: Nice!

[User] OBBTKN

comment: cabrón ;)

html_comment: cabrón ;)

comment: Got mine for Manchester on Monday. Can’t wait.

comment: fuck, I Had a goddamn calendar reminder and 3 notifications set up and somehow fucking missed the sale

[User] pango

comment: $500 fucking CAD!!!

html_comment: $500 fucking CAD!!!

[User] bezoar

comment: Nowhere near me :(

html_comment: Nowhere near me :(

comment: £201.10 for two seated tickets in Manchester, UK. Bit steep for me.

comment: Wife and I decided to not buy tix for this show... :( Way too damned expensive by the time it was our 'turn in line'

comment: it would have been $600 minimum for a pair of the low end seats in Brooklyn, NY... WTF

comment: yeah, mono... 2 'okay' seats in Boston would be just over $500 after fees (and don't get me started on parking)

comment: We got our tickets for pretty cheap compared to what other people had to dish out. Ticketmaster is the devil but the dynamic pricing is also Trent's fault

comment: There's a bit of a backlash now and NIN had to turn off their social media comments. Some people paying $500-1000 and more for tickets, yikes

[User] fooler

comment: I waited in the queue only to find $400+ tickets before service charges. No thanks Trent.

comment: Ticketmaster once again milking the music scene dry?


post: Less drinkin', more thinkin'!


[User] DaveO

post:
 While I love drinking, the product, the wines and liquids, something I'll never leave, BUT I love periods of no booze, its so nice to feel clean and clear.

The Athletic Brews for me are an AMAZING counterpoint and do a great job of quenching that feeling we all love from a beer.

comment: The IPAs are great and closer to something thats like an actual beer, rather than a 'beer flavoured beverage'

comment: I just discovered a non-alcoholic, toasted beer that is acceptable and at a good price... I no longer drink alcoholic beer at home.


comment: lol

html_comment: lol


[User] Salarrue

topic_title: SEO Q&A 2025

post: How important is SCHEMA.org?

[User] canoe

comment: its important for local seo

html_comment: its important for local seo


[User] Gardener

topic_title: What are you listening to?

comment: Despite him putting himself down in this track I think he's wrong, he's definitely one of the true Welsh punk spirited music mavericks.


[User] neverscared

topic_title: Politics

post:
 Valencia councillor ‘caught shopping for wine online’ at flood relief meeting
José Marí Olano says sorry after cameras appear to capture him scrolling through bottles of wines and spirits

https://www.theguardian.com/worl…

[User] utopian

comment: At least he was in good spirits!

html_comment: At least he was in good spirits!


comment: *contains nudity*

html_comment: *contains nudity*


[User] cherub

post:
 Short answer: I don't know, I've never seen it before.

Long answer: If I had to guess, I'd say this looks amazing IF developers, and more imporantly people, start using and implementing it.  The job of search engines is to classify, organize, and present data and things to the viewer so their search intent is satisfied.  Things like schema.org that organize everything better would probably help both the search engines and the viewer.

Trooperbill hasn't really been around much but he may chime in to give a more complete answer.


topic_title: Greenland is Fucked

post: Nice move ;)


topic_title: Europe is Fucked

post: the neanthertaler back in his cave... far right wing germany..

comment: Neanderthaler rising...

html_comment: Neanderthaler rising...


post: Does SEO actually work? Or is just a money grab and shell game promoted and sold by Google?

comment: It works but there are no controls on the industry and because google's algorithm is secret, there is LOTS of smoke and mirrors, and secrecy on both sides.

comment: The lack of controls means you don't need a license to be an SEO pro, bcuz how can that be when google wont admit we can influence their algorithm?

comment: So what you end up with is, an industry where you have to do a fair bit of 'educating' the client.

comment: To make all these problems worse, google changes their algorithm just enough to keep everyone guessing (and to keep the scammers at bay)

comment: years ago I made a blog and I kid you not, having my keyword in the URL (mostly by accident) BY ITSELF got me on the 1st page of results for a certain search.

comment: back in my seo days client asked why a certain topic wasnt showing results, I did some magic, submitted via webmaster tools then they had a top result in 30 min

comment: so it used to work 100% not sure these days though

comment: I did ZERO seo besides that, and it was enough.  These days, scammers have ruined all the "easy" SEO tricks.

comment: It's harder now, but by no means is SEO not useful, it's more important now than ever.  I read that the 1st result gets like 30% of clicks...  If u can convert

comment: off that, that's money in the bank.

html_comment: off that, that's money in the bank.


post: Red White & Blue Land

[User] CyBrainX

comment: MAGA Tundra

html_comment: MAGA Tundra

comment: Federation of Frozen Fascists

html_comment: Federation of Frozen Fascists

comment: Iceberg Idiocracy

html_comment: Iceberg Idiocracy

comment: Frozen Felons

html_comment: Frozen Felons

comment: ^has a nice ring to it

html_comment: ^has a nice ring to it

comment: Climate Change Conquerors

html_comment: Climate Change Conquerors

comment: Crime Family Colonizers

html_comment: Crime Family Colonizers


[User] yuekit

topic_title: Artificial Intelligence

post:
"They copied us"

OpenAI says DeepSeek trained on their models

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/a…

comment: You mean to tell me User-agent: CCBotDisallow: /Doesn't work?

html_comment:
You mean to tell me
User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /
Doesn't work?

[User] monNom

comment: Pot, meet kettle.

html_comment: Pot, meet kettle.

comment: How could they have copied a secure and closed platform like OpenAI? More likely, someone who worked there sold them all the data models.

[User] Beeswax

comment: Good! At least it's really Open now.

html_comment: Good! At least it's really Open now.

comment: I really hope it was the old "honeypot" flim-flam it's a classic...https://i.imgur.com/…

html_comment:
I really hope it was the old "honeypot" flim-flam it's a classic...
https://i.imgur.com/…

comment: They are complaining that deepseek might have used prompt/output pairs from chatGPT to train it. But all these companies say you own the output, so boohoo.

comment: It would do the same simply by using web scraped data. So much ChatGPT out there now.


topic_title: Guess Who...

[User] YakuZoku

comment: Mr Pink & Weird Al

html_comment: Mr Pink & Weird Al

comment: Thom.Yorke and Brian May

html_comment: Thom.Yorke and Brian May

[User] Krassy

comment: &Walsh

html_comment: &Walsh

comment: Lol krassy

html_comment: Lol krassy


[User] Akagiyama

post:
 Phony Soprano wants Greenland in case of Covid 20 and airborn bird flu.

He'll go for Madagascar next.


topic_title: Punches For:

[User] garbage

comment: yes

html_comment: yes


post: Nobody tell him about Antarctica the Greenland-ier place at the edge of the earth-disk


[User] uan

post: Is it yellow branding technology, or is it just not intelligent yet?


topic_title: Pic of the Day

[User] Knuckleberry

comment: "Our culture is suffering, we need you back in the office 5 days a week!"

[User] OBBTKN

comment: Neo?

html_comment: Neo?

[User] aliastime

comment: The work is mysterious and important

html_comment: The work is mysterious and important


[User] autoflavour

topic_title: Ganja Thread 3.0

post:
 ooooops.. guess im fucked

https://studyfinds.org/memory-pr…

comment: less is more... u gain other stuff though https://futurism.com…

comment: greed... def. the strongest force on the planet...

comment: the study below suggests your brain stays fresh longer.in age.. so that woul nullifiy the suggested memory loss in youth... i guess.


post:
 Copyright and Artificial Intelligence (Part 2: Copyrightability)
A Report of the Register of Copyrights
January 2025

Here are the main takeaways:

- Al-generated content alone cannot be copyrighted - there must be meaningful human creative input

- Simply writing prompts is usually not enough to claim copyright

- Using Al as a tool as part of a larger process does not prevent copyright protection

- You can copyright the human-created parts of a work that uses some Al elements

- No new laws are needed right now to handle Al copyright issues

https://copyright.gov/ai/Copyrig…

[User] sausages

comment: I always modify AI outputs prior to production but I still feel dirty when I do it

comment: So if you use Photoshops generative fill you're fucked

comment: ^ its actually the opposite. The report says the human-created portions are still copyrightable, just not the bit you genfilled. Essentially, it's a derivative.

comment: They talked about an AI comic where it was copyrightable because the author wrote the script, then used AI imagery, but controlled the placement and captioning.

comment: So prompted image: no copyright.Prompted image in a composition or ensemble: the composition or ensemble is copyrightable

html_comment: So prompted image: no copyright.<br>Prompted image in a composition or ensemble: the composition or ensemble is copyrightable

comment: Not a lawyer, do your own research. No warranties express of implied. Not valid in the province of Quebec.

[User] sted

comment: that's writing.

html_comment: that's writing.

comment: It’s a worthwhile read. The gist is that copyright exists to protect human output. Copyright still applies to the portion of the work a human creates.


[User] utopian

topic_title: Zuckerberg on dumb fucks

comment: Meta said it would pay $25 million to settle a lawsuit from President Trump over suspending Trump’s accounts after the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.

comment: pissweak

html_comment: pissweak

[User] bainbridge

comment: Why are reports so giddy?

html_comment: Why are reports so giddy?

comment: Will library have any books?

html_comment: Will library have any books?

comment: Zuck has no morals

html_comment: Zuck has no morals

[User] monospaced

comment: He owes nothing

html_comment: He owes nothing

comment: Zuckerberg is a little weasel, everyone on both sides hates that fucker


topic_title: Tweet of the Day

comment: The human being is evolving backwards

html_comment: The human being is evolving backwards

[User] microkorg

comment: Remember decades ago seeing a photography exhibit at ECA. Was macro photos of piercings. Most were easy to guess what was pierced...

comment: ..but one had a few of us perplexed. Until it suddenly dawned, was a pierced ass hole.!!!How the f*ck do you live/wipe with that?!

html_comment:
..but one had a few of us perplexed. Until it suddenly dawned, was a pierced ass hole.
!!!
How the f*ck do you live/wipe with that?!

[User] Ianbolton

comment: Wow, maybe we're not as liberal as we need to be to understand this shit. Nature finds a way or whatever


[User] hotroddy

topic_title: canada

post:
 Will you accept Merikan migrants?

https://x.com/i/status/188473198…


[User] grafician

post:
 "The largest study yet into the effects of cannabis on the brains of 18- to 36-year-olds has found that the drug can reduce brain function during cognitive tests. The findings will help people to make an informed decision about the pros and cons of using cannabis."

https://newatlas.com/brain/young…


[User] Beeswax

topic_title: America is Fucked

post:
 Except for the immigration issue, almost everything looks like the nightmare I lived through when I was in Turkey under Erdoğan—misogyny, nepotism, anti-meritocracy, cutting funding for social services, dismantling NGOs that hold opposing views, polarization, and cheap populist tactics.

A key part of this playbook is stripping resources from social services and NGOs, only to hand out cash to the public as if he were a benevolent father.

I'm also expecting a massive credit injection and forcibly lowered interest rates. Naturally, most of the newly printed money will go to wealthy supporters, while the rest of us bear the cost.

[User] Continuity

comment: Well, re: the immigration issue, it seems to me Erdoğan was _more_ than happy to weaponise migrants. So maybe not entirely the same thing,

comment: ... but migration still became an issue there, too.


[User] yuekit

comment: Trent Reznor and Peter Murphy - Warm Leatherette


[User] neverscared

topic_title: Donald Trump

[User] Gnash

comment: If you want cheaper eggs get a fucking chicken


post: inside the old  wormchamber...


comment: lol so not only is the photo altered (which we already figured), but it's also from 2018.I give up. I'm skipping reading the news altogether.

html_comment:
lol so not only is the photo altered (which we already figured), but it's also from 2018.

I give up. I'm skipping reading the news altogether.

comment: @continuity I don't think the edited version was in any news articles. Twitter mainly. Maybe we're not there yet?

comment: All the same. This whole thing is really getting untenable, now, and AI will only make it worse.

comment: Was this used on a post on X? I'm sure it was only used ironically to show the fucking ridiculousness of the fat orange cunt

comment: @ian https://factcheck.af…

html_comment: @ian https://factcheck.af…


[User] jagara

post: So, gave Deepseek a try:

comment: No surprises there (¬_¬ )

html_comment: No surprises there (¬_¬ )

[User] webazoot

[User] uan

comment: that leetspeak hack is cool.

html_comment: that leetspeak hack is cool.

comment: it censors content after the response, it's a filter that allows it to operate from china.

comment: > https://www.qbn.com/…

html_comment: > https://www.qbn.com/…


[User] Gardener

topic_title: Fail of the day

comment: Such shame to bring on his family.

html_comment: Such shame to bring on his family.


topic_title: Ad of the day

[User] inteliboy

comment: good idea, shit as performances and script

comment: Not good. Generic bollox. Just change the last 60sec to your brand of choice.


topic_title: UK is Fucked

comment: any chance of it working seems to have been destroyed by utterly useless governments and dumb bureacracy

comment: ^the things everybody wanted to escape from - No control from Bruxelles and no EU bureaucracy

[User] dee-dubs

comment: So lot of reform voters think it was a success..? what by the falling numbers of migrants??


[User] milfhunter

topic_title: Logo of the Day

[User] Nairn

comment: Oh.. jeez. I don't hate the new one, but the old one was so good. Mind you, it was a decade old... /s

comment: the old one was shit, but looked very zeitgeisty (?) back then (intentional bad letterspacing). of course as a result it now looks shit,

comment: so they're forced to have a new shit logo that will last even less time.


[User] palimpsest

topic_title: religion

post:
Why Bishop Mariann Budde Wanted to Speak to Donald Trump
https://www.newyorker.com/news/t…


post: RFK took a beating.

[User] Ianbolton

comment: Wow! Bernie tore the lad a fresh new arse piece

comment: Fucking clown, Warren ate him alive

html_comment: Fucking clown, Warren ate him alive

[User] hardhat

comment: Love em or hate em, you have to admit that these senators are great orators and sharp as a tack

comment: They’re great. Vive la Résistance!

html_comment: They’re great. Vive la Résistance!

comment: Like rubbing a dog's nose in his own pee.

[User] YakuZoku

comment: I'll never forget what Warren did to Bernie, cunt.

comment: Or when Bernie dropped his pants for Hilary

comment: bitches hate the Bernie lol

html_comment: bitches hate the Bernie lol

comment: dont be so petty... forgive her...

html_comment: dont be so petty... forgive her...

[User] DaveO

comment: Fucking love Bernie. Cooked him.

html_comment: Fucking love Bernie. Cooked him.

comment: "ARE YOU SUPPORTIVE OF THESE ONESIES?!?!"

comment: She sold out to big pharma for over 5 million


[User] elahon

topic_title: Elon Musk

post: I love this shit so much!


topic_title: Trailer Of The Day

post: Black Mirror, so much to answer for


post: Iraqi immigrant Man who burned Quran 'shot dead in Sweden': https://www.bbc.com/news/article…


[User] grafician

post:
 Tesla sales down 13% in Europe last year, so yeah...

In germany 41%!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/techno…

comment: Stephen Fry said on the Radio "Real Nazi's built decent cars."

comment: ^lol, ouch

html_comment: ^lol, ouch


post: Wim Crouwel

[User] sarahfailin

comment: fonts pin-up calendar?

html_comment: fonts pin-up calendar?


topic_title: State of QBN 2025

[User] Continuity

comment: Excuse me, sir ...

html_comment: Excuse me, sir ...

[User] OBBTKN

comment: Hands and noses

html_comment: Hands and noses

comment: Needs more hair pulling.

html_comment: Needs more hair pulling.

[User] neverscared

comment: can i buy this as a nft ?

html_comment: can i buy this as a nft ?

comment: Only if you invest in the QBN coin.

html_comment: Only if you invest in the QBN coin.

comment: Find out more on qbnpro.com

html_comment: Find out more on qbnpro.com

comment: forever thankful .gonna unlock the future of art right there....

comment: If you're downvoting this, it's too late.

[User] cotton

comment: Jesus and Spiderman, but no black people.

comment: Welcome to QBN.ohhhhhsnap!

html_comment: Welcome to QBN.<br>ohhhhhsnap!

comment: looks super ghey

html_comment: looks super ghey

comment: Only if you're deeply closeted.

html_comment: Only if you're deeply closeted.

[User] PonyBoy

comment: something about the only two legible words being: 'gibberish' and 'paradise' brings me comfort

[User] pango

comment: oh no! jehovahs got their hands in AI now!


topic_title: The World is Fucked

post:
 Asteroid triggers global defence plan amid chance of collision with Earth in 2032
Hundred-metre wide asteroid rises to top of impact risk lists after being spotted in December by automated telescope

comment: right at the end  of donald dorks 3rd term

comment: Earth: Making of a Planet2011 ‧ Documentary ‧ 1h 36m

html_comment: Earth: Making of a Planet<br>2011 ‧ Documentary ‧ 1h 36m


comment: thats no woke

html_comment: thats no woke

comment: And I'm here for it.

html_comment: And I'm here for it.

comment: Relationships, not entities.

html_comment: Relationships, not entities.

comment: if that's the kind of wordspacing we're going to have to suffer then i'm all for an earlier strike

comment: Your body is ready.

html_comment: Your body is ready.

[User] maquito

comment: Not sure if I'll even make it to 2032

html_comment: Not sure if I'll even make it to 2032

comment: JUST       END   IT        AL READY

html_comment: JUST       END   IT        AL READY

comment: no  DEI no Meteor ... its that easy...

html_comment: no  DEI no Meteor ... its that easy...

comment: mush is gonna build a rocket and blast the meteor...

comment: saved civilisation again..

html_comment: saved civilisation again..


[User] Gardener

comment: Do not try to fry the bacon. That's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth: there is no bacon.

comment: Shut up and take my money!

html_comment: Shut up and take my money!

[User] dee-dubs

comment: Finally!! A religion I can get behind

html_comment: Finally!! A religion I can get behind

comment: Praise the Lard!

html_comment: Praise the Lard!

comment: god gave me cancer...

html_comment: god gave me cancer...

comment: My middle name is literally 'Bacon' (thanks, Dad) ...does that make me your God?

comment: Your dad was an admirer of the great philosopher and statesman Francis Bacon, right? Right ... ?

comment: Haha...  I’m actually related / in the lineage of Sir Franky and family. :)

comment: It’s my grandma’s maiden name

html_comment: It’s my grandma’s maiden name

comment: Phew! Thank god, cos you just saved me from saying, 'So, okay, what's your sister's name? Mortadella?'


topic_title: _Randomize Me

[User] palimpsest

comment: Can't go against the classics!

html_comment: Can't go against the classics!


topic_title: Idle Thoughts

post:
 who owns qbnpro.com?
'tis most genius

html_comment:
utopian
https://www.qbn.com/…

[User] Knuckleberry

comment: hahahaha

html_comment: hahahaha

[User] maikel

comment: I hear if you ask nicely, you can get an invite faxed. Not sure it allows people to build their portfolio with pork, tho.

[User] ephix

comment: i wish i could see those "swiss" designs again. anyone know if theres an archive of it?

[User] ArchitectofFate

comment: It Stays™

html_comment: It Stays™

[User] Gnash

comment: ^ epic thread

html_comment: ^ epic thread


comment: lol

html_comment: lol


post: new 4 gear Tesla Swasticar

[User] YakuZoku

comment: lol

comment: is that the new Tesla SS model?

html_comment: is that the new Tesla SS model?

[User] utopian

comment: Knopf Großfresser

html_comment: Knopf Großfresser

comment: lol @ niko

html_comment: lol @ niko

[User] Ianbolton

comment: Why do American's say gas, when it's not actually gas they're putting in their cars?

[User] Krassy

comment: lol @ niko


topic_title: Toilet of the Day

comment: When you need the ones and twos

html_comment: When you need the ones and twos

comment: ^ *golf clap*

html_comment: ^ *golf clap*

comment: ^ bravo!

html_comment: ^ bravo!

comment: ^^^ bravo!

html_comment: ^^^ bravo!


[User] Akagiyama

post:
https://trumpgolftrack.com/

Golf of America


[User] prophetone

topic_title: Car of The Day

post: Gawd Dammmmm


topic_title: RIP of the day

post: Marianne Faithfull - singer/actress 78

[User] hardhat

comment: :(This one makes me so sad. Listen to The Ballad of Lucy Jordan if you don’t know her music

html_comment: :(<br>This one makes me so sad. Listen to The Ballad of Lucy Jordan if you don’t know her music