>>134359
if it's warmer than room temperature I can't drink it sorry
>>134360
but then it is no longer real tea if it's not hot

Sometimes I want to get into drinking tea, the healthy stuff, but I just never get around to it. I even grew some stuff to make tea-like stuff, like mint and chamomile and stuff but just never got around to it. It's basically like cooking, but cooking is supposed to provide me with lots of food to eat.

>>134360
I sometimes make this using sencha teabags. It's a nice alternative to plain water though I'm not sure if drinking it before bed is such a good idea like with any caffeinated teas.

I'd recommend matcha more if it wasn't so expensive. Relaxed focus compared to coffee, and much quicker to prepare than loose leaf once you get the hang of it.

>>134499
It also attracts Japanese spirits.

>>118016
The biggest thing that's driven away people from 4chan is the cultural shift from OC is king to the current moderation's deification of their extremely narrow view of what's "on topic".
The original mission statement of 4chan has been lost. It's not supposed to be an ossified discussion forum, it's an "image"board. A great deal of why 4chan's devolved into the toilet for discussions people aren't allowed to have on the civie internet (hello every racist thrown off of reddit welcome to your new home~~~) is because that's what the mods have made the place into.
>>117978
I don't think you're all wrong. The general thread is in some respects self defense from the mods. All the traditional cultural threads on /a/ for example have been expunged in the name of them being off topic. DBS, for example, can tap the OP and say they're a thread about an anime/manga and while individual posters are frequently banned for going off topic, the general as their forum for those tangents remains. And so they evolve.
When I look at storytimes that aren't one anons autistic necrobump vigil, that's closer to what I see. A little circlejerk from ye olde days given license to not be deleted by the OP and the dumps.

>>134024
>And so they evolve.
And evolved it has. Since then it's gone through a lot of invading posters throwing their own characters into the mix, particularly Gigi, and at one point they were making edits of them getting pregnant with x-ray saiyan babies. Seems to have been effective, funnily enough. I can't say if the lolisho and homosexuality has changed in this last year, but it does look like Krillin's yabba dabba doo NTR has become ubiquitous in other shonen threads like CSM and OP.

>>117964
Sounds kinda gay

>>134478
No u, most definitely.

>>133234
That reddit thing is kind of interesting. r/anime would naturally be downwind of 4chan, so a blog thread telling people not to do the ronery thing kind of makes sense.
I remember back on 4/qa/ we'd talk about the "hima-fication" of generals- language dulling down to small words in short sentences unrelated to the thread's subject matter until a general thread becomes indistinguishable from another. I think reddit's awful UI would probably prevent that from happening, but I don't really care enough to look.
Kissu has definitely had quite a bit of discussion over its blog thread. It's a force of nature that must be corralled occasionally, but I think it's in a decent enough spot. It's allowed to exist as long as people keep it to blogging. People must do everything in their power to resist the desire to follow the path of least resistance and contain everything into one thread.

>I don't know the details of how /jp/'s originated either, maybe someone could expand on that. The only thing I know for sure is that it was already fully-formed by the time it reached /qa/.

I think it just transferred the ronery threads from /a/ with the creation of /jp/. I thought all that ironic "floor-shitting NEET" stuff is stupid and I couldn't tell you its origins.

allows web embedding but not video... anyways, yes, it's that github I posted. I think setup isn't too hard

Sadly.... seems to be less and less Cytube platform sites, and even fewer that still work from within this platform.

Thank you for the github link... I will give that a shot in the morning. :-)

It was late.. but tried to get the files loaded into one of my spare linux boxes. It kept asking for a username and password to authenticate with GitHub... going to try again today.

eh, sounds like github strangeness. You should just be able to clone or download the source code then follow the wiki instructions https://github.com/calzoneman/sync/wiki/CyTube-3.0-Installation-Guide

welcome to kissu

Preview of you're into that

>>133820
Thank you, I ended up not doing something else today so I kept watching it. I had seen up to and including episode 7 before and intended to finish it today, but didn't realise it had 25 episodes - I only had up to 11 downloaded. It's really good and I like this sort of setting and theme. I should finish reading Higurashi and Island as well.

oh shit..... it's 6am and the sun is coming out.... and i have to work.....

>>134013
i posted this in the wrong thread....

>>133420
Thank you for your recommendation
>>133428
Just whatever is worth watching

Well, getting into a a form of art doesn't necessarily mean you're going to turn into a hyper-elitist with super narrow tastes. There's a lot you can appreciate without needing to go off the deep end.

Lately I've been looking a lot at illuminated manuscripts, from the somewhat goofy Romanesque of the Codex Manesse (I'm sure you know this one) to the elaborate books of hours like the Duke of Berry's or the black books. Bible moraliseé, too, and fencing manuals a bit. Lots of scenes accompanies by floral patterns and fancy borders and marginalia monsters that inspired Bosch's depiction of hell with its hideous abominations. I'd like to be able to draw this kind of stuff one day and use them in the fiction I wish to write, though that's a long ways off for now.

Look at the difference between it and the Duke of Berry's, what a difference a century makes.

I'm not going to watch this video but why is Suigentou holding a razor?
1. How does that relate to the video or is the the infamous clickybait I keep hearing about?
2. Why does she need a razor if she is a doll? She can't grow body hair.

>>134183
Suibuntu just got done shaving some mutant bushy lolis, and no, it is infamous but not baity.

>>134184
Now you have raised even more questions. What is the backstory behind that image?

>>134186
I don't know, actually. The source is futaba.

>>134168
>There's no shortage of people joking about how they NEED to watch this two-hour video on Peruvian rodents at 3AM
Found an example while looking up how to correctly season mah skillet.

>>134123
If you're complain about posts by using an example it's probably best to use a post by a person that shows up more than once per a month. It's my post. I stick by everything said within it. I don't have to re-read it to know what it says. You need to accept that some things in life just suck and there is no harm in moaning about those things from time to time. If there was a magic happy pill or supplement without horrible side effects that actually solved the issue of insomnia I would have tried it by now and I would have suggested it.

If you don't like my tone. Too bad. I could pull the old
>I've been here longer than you
>I've been wasting my life longer than you on the internet
>I was probably using the internet before you were born
cards but I won't. Since such things are depressing to bring up anyway.

If you're accusing the author (me) or being a social media addict I have bad news for you. I'm 99% sure I'm both the only person here that doesn't have any social media accounts and also 100% sure I'm the only person that posts here from time to time that doesn't use a cell phone. I am a hermit that can type 155wpm and the main reason I even continue to use places like this is the fact that it's impossible to interact with anyone anywhere else without said cell phone. Soon I won't be able to any longer or be allowed to access my old accounts like steam. Since with each passing month more and more of them are taken away from me thanks to shit like 2fa via cell phone and all the major anti-ddos services labeling my web traffic as "suspicious". So don't get your pantsu in a twist when I notice someone doing something to promote such things and pointing out how stupid that is.

Soon the only thing I'll have left is Fidonet over HAM radio. At least until the FCC shows up to throw me in federal prison for encrypting my traffic.

>>134258
>I am a hermit that can type 155wpm
Like the ring to it.

>>134153
But can she do with SEVENTYFIVE magic points?

>>134193
me pwning the norps

>>134258
>I am a hermit that can type 155wpm
Slow.

>>134239
Yeah, you would. But that's where I'm wondering if it's ethical or not, to automate the judicial process. It feels like having no human representation is wrong.

I don't think they will ever be good enough, because AI is not actually intelligent, it would be relying on an algorithm of previous court cases instead. That might work in some cases but in many it would not as many cases throw up their own unique aspects so you can't really just rely on precedent for all of them. Otherwise you might end up with cases where somebody is sentenced far harsher than they would be because the AI could not understand the circumstances of the crime or maybe far less than they would be because of the same reason.

real dumboob hours

>>134241
Ethical is debatable. From a legal standpoint yes AI would be good. Laws are a confusing mess of codes and rules and Lawyers are already soulless automatons, what difference would a literal machine make for reading and arguing on the basis of dense legal code?
Judgment is a different story. It's easy enough to judge things in black and white. Either they broke the law or they didn't. But judges are human and can sympathize. A machine would not question the law even if it was nonsensical and outdated, a judge could throw a case out because it's fucking stupid and a waste of time to prosecute.
A judge can also incorporate the intent of the defendant in whether wrong was done. For example: speeding in a school zone. You were going through at 50 mph and you got caught. A judge may be lenient and let you off with a warning if the reason you sped was a valid concern, like rushing to your sickly grandmother's house after she missed several calls.
AI cant do this, and it shouldn't do this. Shit's already loose enough it doesn't see anything wrong with ordering 1000 cheesy rolls at a drive through kiosk, it lacks common sense.

>>134244
Having an AI judge is a terrible idea, it will repeat whatever biases are in the training data. If, say people with French names got convicted more often (due to real-life reasons or bias), an AI judge trained on those outcomes would gladly judge someone guilty for having a French name. They're statistical inference machines and they don't care about causation, only correlation.

this series sound super interesting maybe i should read it

>>134223
If a person believes in something and acts accordingly after getting power then they were not corrupted, they were enabled.
The quintessential allegory for power corrupting is Tolkien's One Ring, where characters do greatly deviate from their original goals because of its influence. Schizman doesn't.

>>134228
The One Ring is different because it has a will of its own and is actively influencing the bearer's mind to achieve its ends. You can argue that Schizoman and Kadode were fundamentally evil and just smart enough not to show it until they thought they could get away with it, but the fact remains that they would have gone their whole lives as simple disillusioned losers had they not gained power and reevaluated their course of action based on that. I think Kadode not becoming a terrorist in the timelines where she didn't get the sonic screwdriver shows that the author's perspective is that the power is what turned her down the wrong path rather than simply allowing her to achieve goals she already had.

>>134235
With Kadode we absolutely agree that power corrupted her or at least led her down a dark path, I don't think anyone could interpret it any other way. Ten pages after experiencing the power of the blaster she's derailing a train, in the two other timelines where that doesn't happen she's fine, the correlation is statistically significant. But your response to Schizman having ill intent from the start is to shift to hypotheticals. He didn't say "if only I had a gang of people to help back me up, then and only then I would take revenge on the invaders, oh well too bad." He did it himself, actively, starting from nothing, unlike Kadode. There are prior events (reading /pol/, Kiho's death) that make him go down that path well before any change in power occurs, independently from it. Moreover, Ontan's mother going derelict is unrelated to power or acting out of a sense of justice (on the contrary, she is forsaking her child), and if you want to argue that the self-serving government has been corrupted then you have to pretty much take an anarchist stance and reach back well before the start of the story to say it's been that way all along.

I think it would be easier to say that Asano's message is that power corrupts if he had shown any of his characters as upstanding prior to obtaining it, if he had brought attention to a clearer distinction between the before and after, or if he had shown a standard for responsible usage that others failed to follow, but they're mostly flawed from the get-go. What he does explicitly criticize is justice itself, and for you or I to say that their usage of power is irresponsible we're left to do so with our own sense of justice, which he doesn't endorse.

wouldn't mind naming my son schizman
he can be warm water's little brother

>>133720
You don't want it trust me it's very painful. I had a book on all the FDA approved drugs released by 1998 I would reference at the time. In that book it said it was a good possibility that my cock would fall off and to go straight to the hospital. I was so pissed off with that doctor when I called and he basically said
>lol keep taking it it'll go away
Figured out I knew more than him pretty quickly. Was really mad considering he hands out opioids and xanax like candy to everyone in town but for some reason he refused to give me anything worth a damn. But that's how you get treated in America if you don't have health insurance.

I've taken every sleeping pill other than the ones that were taken off the market and widely prescribed before the mid-1980s. They're all bad and will just ruin your sleep cycles. You'll get dependent and have to keep upping the dose. Depending on what you're on they can kill you if you attempt to quit cold turkey. Most aren't even good. Trazodone is prescribed off label for sleep because it has mild sedation as a side effect. In reality it's an antidepressant and no one should be taking that shit for any reason.

You want good sleep? Put your ass in bed at a decent time. Turn off the TV. Don't watch a screen after dark. Don't drink a bunch of caffeine after noon. Don't drink alcohol more than once a week. Don't consume sugars. Drink a lot of water. Accept that sometimes you'll won't fall asleep no matter what you do because your mind is racing about the fact that you live in horrible times in a horrible place called hell (this is hell).

I'm not trying to brag. It isn't anything to brag about. But when it comes to insomnia I'm sure I've got it much worse than any of you. Considering I have a legit reason to have it (mild brain damage aka slowly progressing CTE).

Whatever you do. Do not take a drug without researching it first. Do not trust doctors. They will give you plenty of bullshit just to pad out their numbers and got those sweet sweet kick backs. Most of them have never read a whitepaper and give no fucks about your health. To them it's all about the almighty dollar. I've also discovered that the vast majority of them are borderline retarded. They do not question authority. The few that do learned a long time ago not to go against the system. Least thePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>133721
Oh another thing. Don't listen to all this horseshit about what good sleep/sleeping habits are. Before the invention of artificial light here is how people slept;

- In bed at/just after sunset
- Wake up around midnight for a couple of hours to do night work (stoking fire, checking on animals, stuff like that)
- Back to bed around 1-2am
- Sleep until sunrise/hour before sunrise

That's the natural human condition.

Another thing; I said to avoid using screens after sunset because it screws up your natural sleep cycle. This is also true for more sources of artificial lights. These modern LEDs and CFL bulbs are especially awful. Yes the same applies to your screen with redshift/blue filter. Incandescence bulbs are still bad but not as bad as more modern bulbs. Pretty much all sources of artificial lighting trick your brain into thinking it's still day time.

That is the main issue for more people other than lack of exercise. They laze around most of the day or work an office type job or NEET it up playing video games and watching screen until the wee hours of the morning. Then they try to go directly to bed and wonder why their brain won't shut off until the sun is almost back up. Your brain won't shut down because you've tricked it into thinking it's daytime nearly 24/7. Not to mention that you're stuffing your face full of stimulants like caffeine most of the day, consuming processed sugars in nearly everything you eat and not being active.

Live and eat like people 200+ years ago and watch your sleep issues vanish in 2-3 weeks. Guaranteed.

not hard to fall asleep when you don't enjoy being awake

>my brain resists the urge to give up precious time to be doing other things besides lying still
In the same situation right now, have been slowly embracing the fact that I don't need to get everything done in a single day, as long as I stay consistent and continue (what ever it is that I'd rather be doing) the next day.
Instead of living every day like it's my last, I leave notes/hints for my tomorrow-self to continue where my today-self left off. That was always a problem for me, the thought process I have right now, that lead me down a certain path in be it programming or learning something new, I almost completely forget about it the day after. Now I leave hints on my thought process for the tomorrow-me, like having a certain series of tab open, or a video paused and full-screened so I know where I left off yesterday, etc. Sometimes even adding sticky notes to my monitor for more long-term goals, or alarms on my phone. Helps me live in a thought span of multiple days, rather than a single day.
Also helps to know that not having a fixed sleep schedule will just hamper your ability to do any tasks, but I guess you already have that down.

>>133681
Try using your imagination to focus on something like cutting diamonds or bouncing a ball or even a location like a beach on an island and try walking around. But don't get distracted and keep focused on the imagined scene. Don't do the bare minimum either, try to imagine the scene as vivid as when you're awake, as if you were seeing it with your physical eyes. Without building any tension in the body, ignore the body, just pure imagination.
Eventually you'll reach a point where the body starts falling asleep and you'll go unconscious.
Try doing this while leaning on an object for support. Watch when you start falling asleep your legs will begin giving way and you'll get to a point where you can no longer continue without falling down. After doing this a number of times you should get an understanding of what it's like falling asleep and then you just repeat this method in bed or wherever.

you know I've been thinking for a while that those uniforms remind me of another overlooked gem from a few seasons back and on checking they really do look similar

This show is a scathing social commentary of people becoming reliant on handheld technology and losing touch with geometry

>>134192
I still have my compass in my bag.
At the school I studied there was a legend of a kid that was killed with a compass to the neck in a fight with students from the rival school in the same street. All the teachers would make jokes whenever we used the compasses...

Circle plus triangle, thought Kurumi with deep satisfaction, is water, and I don't need a notebook to tell me so. The notebook is in my own head.

And it was amazing the feeling of power that gave her.

>>134026
god I love gif peanut butter

It used to be called jiffy penut butter before the reality shift

>>134028
They should run the large hadron collider more

jiffy weenus nutter butter

Hmm, well, at the very least the original 8 first makes sense. Rei right after the original, yeah. You should also watch stuff like Kira which has stuff not in the VNs and is kind of like Rei so you should probably watch it after that. The console stuff... I actually kept procrastinating forever and never got to those. Maybe I should get around to that around Halloween since I did get a nice setup going for my bed.

Do you remember when you stopped reading it originally and why? Once I got to a certain point it was impossible for me to put it down.

>>134012
Thank you, I suppose that makes sense. I think I'm just going to do the release order more or less; I read a very brief synopsis of the console arcs and it sounds like they are intended to be read after you've completed the main story. I read the first little part of Matsuribayashi up to and including some of the puzzles and just finished rereading Onikakushi; it's funny what I notice now with that extra knowledge compared to before, and I think I'm starting to get why the series is so well spoken of apart from just the story being engaging.

>>134045
My last saves in Minagoroshi were from around this time 3 years ago, so I don't remember too well. I didn't start Matsuribayashi after that, only starting it a few days ago. I have something of a problem where, when I near the end of a game, series or story that I'm enjoying I'll slow down my progress of it because I don't want it to end, which ironically ends it for me. If the console arcs and other content are as long as the main 8 however, I think it will take a while to get through everything.

Do either of you know if I can watch the 2006-2007 anime after reading the main 8 arcs? I recieved it many years ago from a friend via file transfer and I remember he said something about the anime being out of order and containing spoilers for later VN content.

I eat pasta and rice almost every day and I'm not fat. How do Americans explain that?

>>133848
ULTRA processed is what you should avoid more accurately. It basically means modern industrialized supermarket food.

https://www.raypeat.com/articles/articles/unsaturated-oils.shtml
http://raypeat.com/articles/articles/vegetables.shtml

Falling into the Ray Peat rabbit hole. I wonder how much of what he says is legit and how much is bullshit. One of his big things was eating food that would promote longevity, and yet he died at like only 82. I was surprised that he says lard is bad, apparently because (at least in the United States) pigs are fed a lot of corn and soybeans nowadays, so a lot of the toxins in those end up in the pigs' fat as well.

>>134064
My immediate issue are his citations range from 30 to 80 years old. Nutritional science has advanced a lot since then. It's true that food companies managed to change the accepted wisdom for decades and people that were saying stuff 80 years ago were proven right (like fat not being the enemy), but things have changed a lot. Many different organizations, government and private, research things constantly and the internet has connected the entire globe. Things look very iffy in an extremely active field like dietary nutrition when someone purposely avoids any information found in the past 30 years. Or is this a page from 30 years ago?
>© Ray Peat 2006.
Oh.

I think the "seed oils are toxic to the body" thing comes to the wrong conclusions. If you're getting too much of it, it means you're eating lots of junk food and everyone knows that's bad for you for a host of reasons. You're eating lots of fried food, or super processed stuff with an ingredient list that takes an entire page. Are potatoes unhealthy because of potato chips? Many things are bad in excess, and sure, many "seed oils" are one of them. But, stuff like this is telling people that it's the seed oil itself and not that an extreme amount of it is used in junk food. Lots of people sing the praises of eating flax seed, but if you listen to this guy then you're ingesting poison.
Hydrogenated oils are definitely something to avoid outright. Although, this guy says seed oils are so bad that you should take the option of hydrogenated oils. Yeah, oil taken directly from corn is toxic as opposed to than corn oil that has been sent to a factory to have hydrogen bonded to its atoms to produce an artificial oil stable at room temperature. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogenated_oil
I was told hydrogenated oils were bad in a nutrition class back in like 2003 so the information was out there.

He also says fish oil is bad, so you shouldn't eat fish. Someone tell the people in Asia that soybean, sesame and fish oil is killing them prematurely at age 98. Since his fish data is from "fifty years ago" he's unaware of the actual danger of fish caused by environmental pollution accumulating in larger fish.
I'll read the vegetaPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>seed oils
i like the term /fit/ uses for them
https://desuarchive.org/fit/search/text/%22sneed%20oil%2A%22%20/

You can tell by the colour of your urine, if it's dark then you should drink more.

just drink water, there's literally no downside

I know I'm dehydrated when I'm thirsty.

i'm just always drinking water