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[04:02:10] login I agree with ComputerTech even when he is wrong

[04:02:46] login If ComputerTech is wrong, he will recognise it, and thus we will be in agreement

[04:02:54] login ComputerTech is never wrong about being wrong

[04:03:18] login How was London?

[04:15:17] login hi sushi-chan, and sorry to hear that ComputerTech (spare tires are essentially lost knowledge at this point)

[04:16:18] login hi freewifi

[04:16:42] login doing alright

[04:17:07] login cum?

[04:17:23] login am I getting a TorS demonstration?

[04:18:02] login and so are loot boxes

[04:18:31] login isn't decaf the best?

[04:18:49] login i wonder how popular coffee water could be

[04:18:53] login *caffeine water

[04:19:25] login the prevalence of decaf coffee might be a culture indicator

[04:20:16] login i heard from another nickname on another channel that there is no concept of 'decaf' in India

[04:20:33] login and the reasoning is exactly that: coffee is pointless without caffeine

[04:20:47] login Also found that caffeine pills/powder is illegal in India due to poisoning risk

[04:21:38] login freewifi1: no, but that's what i heard from the other person on the other channel who was

[04:23:03] login i wonder if someone has tried alcohol + caffeine combinations

[04:23:54] login yeah, expresso martinis exist

[04:25:30] login have you tried making homemade wine

[04:25:48] login or whiskey if you could

[04:27:24] login what about cooking wine?

[04:27:59] login yeah, it's true, NiniGeo2

[04:28:43] login french ppl have a big presence in japan too

[04:29:17] login wrap the fish in rice and seaweed to hide it

[04:29:47] login ^ did they offer the crossword position to you?

[04:30:20] login they may not want to pay for crossword syndication, nor give the job to someone who would pirate it off some other source unattributed

[04:30:39] login you might like non-bitter alcohol

[04:30:43] login like irish cream whiskey

[04:30:50] login bailey's - that's sweet

[04:31:07] login pure alcohol, i.e. vodka, is not bitter

[04:31:33] login you can even have alcohol and milk together

[04:32:20] login cherry... sauce?

[04:32:47] login i didn't know stuff like that was made

[04:33:02] login tangerine right

[04:33:18] login ultramarine

[04:35:29] login > you're getting older by the minute

[04:36:02] login you can teach english in japanese schools

[04:36:24] login there's a japanese exam that doesn't require a degree though

[04:36:37] login a japanese language test

[04:36:52] login i don't recall the name, but i know an official one exists

[04:36:54] login duolingo

[04:37:43] login Can you read or write a newspaper article in Japanese?

[04:37:46] login or speak*

[04:37:59] login Do you wish as a child that you had someone teach you japanese

[04:38:14] login freewifi1: they are opening visas up for certain people

[04:38:38] login you'd be surprised

[04:38:55] login but they booted that nissan ceo

[04:39:21] login yet their bank account opening process is still supercumbersome and they use hanko

[04:39:25] login i.e., a stamp that is your signature

[04:39:43] login will that be a japanese uni?

[04:40:00] login meanwhile, the japanese are looking for english and korean speakers

[04:40:19] login what about optional communes?

[04:41:17] login what about uncontacted tribes?

[04:41:23] login they live in a sort-of commune right?

[04:41:35] login and they seem resilient enough, independent of the rest of the world economy

[04:42:11] login I do sometimes wonder if China would have been better today without what Mao did

[04:42:40] login the first person who mentions hitler loses the argument

[04:43:44] login Will you be going to Japanese uni?

[04:44:23] login How much money could it cost?

[04:44:52] login depends on your country's purchasing power

[04:45:32] login you know, those who advocate for a weak state, will find it in south sudan

[04:45:57] login freewifi1: it's more decentralised

[04:46:09] login weebos exist in every country

[04:46:26] login sushi-chan: you could do it online

[04:46:33] login with an actual japanese person in japan

[04:46:51] login they banned that in china though: online english tutors

[04:47:43] login if, hypothetically (hello herald), some japanese person in japan takes a liking to you, sushi-chan

[04:47:52] login what would you do?

[04:48:16] login they are not democratic, but not communist either

[04:48:33] login it's a weird mix of state control over otherwise private companies

[04:48:48] login yeah, no freedom of political speech

[04:49:02] login pyongyang is still urban, but like 1900s urban

[04:49:41] login if china wanted, they could have transitioned north korea

[04:49:57] login but that path is fraught with peril

[04:50:41] login You'd have to imagine that they have enough industry to create their own nukes

[04:51:03] login You'd have to imagine that they have enough industry to create their own nukes

[04:51:16] login CJK are like tri-enemies

[04:51:40] login Koreans don't like to have their country be split though

[04:51:57] login Where was the doorbell made? I rest my case

[04:52:49] login I'd say europe is more integrated than asia

[04:53:17] login Here's an article you might enjoy on writing: https://archive.is/x67TQ

[04:53:25] login but japanese have kanji too

[04:53:53] login thai writing is different due to differing history

[04:53:56] login !bang

[04:54:27] login i don't condone b*st**l*t*

[04:54:40] login latin script, yes

[04:54:58] login C and J especially have shared symbols

[04:55:13] login freewifi1: you said 'unloaded hard' even though i only shot once

[04:55:58] login how many do you have irc_standardnick?

[04:56:05] login how many official languages?

[04:56:51] login hard to naturalise in singapore though

[04:57:31] login 22?! so official documents are available in 22 different versions?

[04:57:43] login how many writing systems though?

[04:58:22] login how many japanese speakers in India?

[04:59:01] login What language do they use in university?

[04:59:57] login Isn't there a Japanese school in France?

[05:00:05] login For Japanese kids? Or something like a weekend school

[05:00:24] login I wonder if they'd allow non-Japanese-ethnic children to attend

[05:02:33] login Why do employers use such a poor signal then?

[05:02:51] login What do they use instead? Some online score?

[05:03:18] login If college could make one smart, people of all ages would be there

[05:03:32] login Yet the 'rite of passage' is mostly for '18-23'

[05:03:42] login graduate school might have more variation

[05:04:00] login freewifi1: who compensates them for the time and opportunity cost of determining actual merit?

[05:04:24] login So they have a constraint

[05:04:31] login and thus have to have a strategy

[05:04:45] login So is that why they'd use recruiters?

[05:05:15] login Yet the employee is looking for an employer too

[05:05:27] login So knowing where the employer is looking could be useful

[05:06:05] login I saw an app recently, that for service jobs, created a 'Tinder' like interface

[05:06:17] login i.e., the employer swipes right/left on candidates

[05:06:56] login The worst thing about a recession is, if it was predicated upon too much excess in the past decade

[05:07:10] login ...then the children who were born in that decade

[05:07:25] login who would not otherwise have been born

[05:07:30] login (or not conceived rather)

[05:07:45] login cannot just 'go away'... so it puts pressure on the existing people

[05:08:21] login I thought the r word was 'bad'

[05:08:39] login It just means developing slower than the average speed

[05:09:16] login being slower does impose an opportunity cost

[05:09:57] login If some japanese person while you're in japan proposes to you, would you accept if you liked them?

[05:10:05] login or would that weird you out?

[05:10:22] login The word is the opposite of acceleration

[05:10:51] login n word was more prevalent in the 2005s

[05:11:05] login spoken as a term of endearment

[05:11:10] login amongst a certain community

[05:11:22] login The word it was derived from, the five-letter word

[05:11:46] login The word it was derived from is the actual word for the colour

[05:12:05] login stupid used to be a certain range of IQ

[05:12:35] login I think in the future, questioning anyone's intellectual capability will be seen to be disrespectful

[05:12:54] login ^ that is good

[05:13:11] login You might be living day-to-day, sushi-chan

[05:13:46] login Save some money up, and decide how life should be

[05:13:56] login Japan is not kind to women, I'll tell you that

[05:14:22] login It's like that experiment where they put a rat in a white box with no scratches and it can't tell where it is

[05:14:48] login If it's very recent, it could be a sign of acute depression (though i'm not a psychologist)

[05:15:09] login nini nini

[05:15:20] login sushi-chan: yeah, that's true

[05:15:30] login in the middle east - depends

[05:15:40] login you would lose your freedom though, for sure

[05:15:45] login at least some of it

[05:16:11] login you'd lose the freedom to associate with members of the opposite sex

[05:16:38] login there are only two modes: married, or kept at arm's length

[05:16:43] login Not all middle-eastern countries enforce those

[05:16:57] login saudi arabia would, but not some others

[05:17:59] login It's not that you wouldn't, it's that middle-eastern society wouldn't allow you to

[05:18:23] login so that's the freedom you'd lose, in exchange for... lower taxes?

[05:18:41] login economically, new zealand might be the best place for you sushi-chan (other than japan)

[05:18:50] login but rent is sky high there

[05:19:12] login Some things are unexplainable

[05:19:27] login But you write english at a native-speaker level

[05:19:47] login Express them in french then, s'il vous plait

[05:20:30] login is your keyboard azerty?

[05:20:47] login The french style of speaking english is just as valid

[05:21:28] login how do you read english?

[05:21:45] login how does subvocalised english sound in your head?

[05:22:41] login The way it sounds in your head if you pretend to speak it while reading it without actually moving your vocal cords

[05:23:23] login How fast are you at frenchized english?

[05:23:28] login if you actually vocalise it?

[05:23:41] login yet you can read faster?

[05:23:54] login Do you subvocalise while reading?

[05:24:12] login yeah, i've been told

[05:24:18] login i ask too many Qs

[05:24:36] login it's neurodiversity

[05:24:50] login The fastest readers don't subvocalise

[05:25:01] login they say it slows them down

[05:25:34] login Save some euros and go to japan for vacation

[05:25:49] login unless the idea is that the language interchange program can be financed with a loan

[05:26:18] login i imagine it's annoying to be psychoanalysed lol

[05:26:39] login What's your router brand?

[05:26:57] login free -> included

[05:27:07] login Did you read the Economist article I linked? mais je parle lentement

[05:27:44] login That brain space would have been allocated to something else

[05:28:02] login not everyone can divide in their mind - i'd say less than 20% can do it fast

[05:28:28] login brain plasticity

[05:28:48] login you're spending most of your time studying a language, with a lot of interest

[05:29:13] login They might give you a memory test

[05:29:31] login You not remembering what you did last week could be okay if you didn't do anything of note

[05:29:44] login it can happen

[05:29:58] login could you do simple math before?

[05:30:09] login Yeah, the resources of the world are maldistributed

[05:30:27] login jesus hasn't loved anyone since he's died 2000+ years ago tbh

[05:30:39] login but i've been warned not to discuss religion

[05:31:20] login yeah, even the metadiscussion of brainworms might soon be deemed a source of badness

[05:31:54] login My bet: n

[05:32:01] login and brand: huawei

[05:33:09] login what about sex, herald?

[05:33:15] login that's the third of the trifecta

[05:33:41] login no sex, no religion, no politics = happy celibacy?

[05:34:06] login i guess no graphic sexual descriptions

[05:34:25] login i.e., no words that can create an image of a sexual organ in the mind of the reader

[05:34:33] login unless it's a plant's sexual organ = flowers

[05:35:04] login imagine gifting a plant's sexual organ as a gift to someone else

[05:35:35] login imagine touching one's nose to said organ and exclaiming "smells nice"

[05:36:09] login A plant has both the feminine and masculine sexual organ

[05:36:49] login it can

[05:36:56] login early-onset they call it

[05:37:15] login memory skill loss is a symptom, but the cause may or may not be those

[05:37:33] login if you don't have an eidetic memory, doesn't mean you have alzheimer's or dementia

[05:38:52] login one risk factor is lack of exercise

[05:39:11] login you can start

[05:39:27] login it could also be some kind of diet problem

[05:39:30] login maybe a certain vitamin

[05:39:39] login deficiency can cause things to happen too

[05:40:09] login How expensive is a nutritionist where you are?

[05:40:43] login >

[05:40:44] login What is a nutritionist? Nutritionists do many of the same things as dietitians, specialising in general diet advice, feedback and encouragement. However, unlike dietitians, nutritionists are not qualified to provide medical advice or work in medical centres and hospitals.

[05:40:54] login it's one of those things that can make such a large population-level impact, but is being gated

[05:41:26] login You could go to a dietician too

[05:41:41] login If they give you a food plan, that would be good

[05:41:56] login a food and exercise plan

[05:42:25] login well, or you could go the full route and hire a personal trainer

[05:42:37] login You could do it on your own, but it would require study and experimentation

[05:43:01] login Motivation to never forget

[05:43:16] login you could go swimming

[05:43:27] login that would exercise your whole body

[05:43:38] login you could track your laps etc.

[05:43:46] login being a pedestrian is dangerous business

[05:44:07] login is it because of how it moves your body?

[05:44:09] login running

[05:44:14] login or the impact on the knee?

[05:44:31] login low endurance, could be iron deficiency

[05:44:45] login have you done a blood test?

[05:45:00] login and unlike some other places, i don't think france allows you to carry a weapon

[05:45:19] login and thus a potential serial killer is emboldened even if you do carry a weapon

[05:45:48] login freewifi1: don't look it up, what is the full form of TGV?

[05:45:58] login they have no use in society, they are just a chaotic element

[05:46:14] login who are exercising their personal freedom outside of the bounds of the social contract

[05:46:25] login train grande vitesse

[05:47:03] login i guess i missed à

[05:47:08] login how do you type accents?

[05:47:19] login are there dedicated keys on the azerty keyboard?

[05:47:39] login so it's not ` + a = à?

[05:47:57] login but an actual key with no modifier for à

[05:48:29] login same key + some modifier?

[05:48:34] login or different keys?

[05:48:53] login what about the capital letter with the accent?

[05:49:33] login lol

[05:50:01] login I'd say you're alright, but if you find out you've forgotten how to type, that's a definite thing to go to the doctor for

[05:50:35] login How ironic, that a web app is working better than a native client

[05:50:46] login How do you know your web app is not recording your conversation?

[05:51:21] login That the web version works better than hexchat proves it's not wifi, right?

[05:51:36] login Find a wifi reflector

[05:51:58] login There is also a thing that can send it through electricity

[05:52:17] login you connect an ethernet cable from your router to the power line

[05:52:31] login And then a receiver in your room's power outlet

[05:52:54] login What do you think I'm suggesting?

[05:53:20] login I don't suggest jamming an ethernet cable's wires into the port

[05:53:26] login there is a device one can buy

[05:53:49] login there is a device that can convert those signals

[05:54:07] login you can piggyback off your power line to get a reliable connection

[05:54:13] login with a certain device

[05:54:28] login that can use the 60Hz as a 'carrier wave'

[05:54:32] login yeah

[06:00:44] login freewifi1: i don't remember

[06:01:08] login i should stop asking too many questions - it makes the wrong impression on the receiver of the questions

[06:02:30] login nobody else got called out on having a stick up one's ass more than i did (while also not being kicked or kick-banned)

[06:03:16] login 1. crovax /ignored tr, 2. ct agreed that i like to argue a lot, 3. someone else said 'why do you argue so much'

[06:03:51] login it breaks social norms, and that puts people off - i am not a sociopath

[06:04:45] login Someone who hasn't learned how not to be annoying evokes a visceral reaction in others

[06:05:15] login They want to, just through something deep in their limbic system, get away

[06:05:30] login They are forced to read

[06:05:41] login And it takes up space in their channel

[06:05:50] login herald: you wouldn't believe how many times i've heard that

[06:05:57] login even in real life

[06:06:16] login well-meaning instead?

[06:07:29] login i did say here i was a troll, and Mikoolo said 'that explains a lot'

[06:08:22] login yeah, sometimes i do feel that some already have silently done that

[06:08:55] login if it weren't affecting my in-person interactions, i would be okay with it

[06:09:03] login but it does show

[06:09:25] login it's not as bad as online, and i don't ask so openly or even ask

[06:09:34] login but i just don't know what to say

[06:10:46] login the banter is the main thing that people expect and are surprised that i do awkwardly

[06:12:07] login i wonder how professional politicians keep things civil

[06:12:19] login when the average person is not able to

[06:13:09] login yeah, catching them in candid discussions where they aren't fully aware they're being filmed reveals that their positions are so fluid

[06:13:35] login they have only a few non-negotiables, and they do change their tack with the winds

[06:15:55] login yeah

[06:16:19] login one can tell from the conversation

[06:16:29] login after enough conversation

[06:16:41] login yeah

[06:17:24] login yeah, meanwhile it comes naturally, just like walking to just talking in general

[06:17:30] login people don't realise they're doing it

[06:17:57] login those to whom it doesn't come naturally are then deemed 'introverts'

[06:18:18] login I think they miss having a conversation

[06:18:24] login and have too few people to talk to

[06:18:44] login Good banter skills might be a prerequisite to reaching old age successfully

[06:56:08] login smurfs

[06:56:35] login blue is the colour of uniformity, d'you reckon?

[08:03:55] login Mikoolo: have you watched demon king II?

[08:04:29] login weren't you watching it before starting your new job?

[08:04:58] login Yes

[08:05:35] login i watched s1 too after you mentioned it here

[08:05:43] login s2 stopped at episode 6

[08:05:58] login you might enjoy Log Horizon

[08:11:48] login but it's horror

[08:25:55] login I saw a website a while ago where the female founder was described as a "Foundress"

[09:21:40] login yournamehere: have fun in vegas, slowly ;)

[09:28:51] login and if you're playing the poker tables, then you might come out net positive!

[09:30:47] login well, you'll share some winnings with the house

[09:33:30] login warren buffet said it best: https://youtu.be/bY7rxmq0lFA?t=78

[09:50:20] login i shouldn't ruin the situation when someone's got a 'good thing going'?

[10:55:58] login hello Miggy-kun

[10:56:06] login how's your friday gonna be?

[11:00:54] login I can't be the one giving it to you

[11:01:00] login I don't have the ability to do it

[11:04:07] login thank you so much, wez

[11:38:46] login Wow, FireWire was such a saint that it caused one to question whether they even saw the message

[12:00:31] login congratulations on the graduation

[12:02:44] login love the tiger video

[12:04:46] login it sounded just like a conspiracy theorist

[12:05:10] login even though there was no conspiracy

[12:05:30] login it's just chatgpt-like nonsense

[12:07:10] login $tell ComputerTech thank you for being you

[12:07:13] login aw

[12:07:15] login it doesn't work

[12:07:33] login i agree, Bulleit is better

[12:07:56] login it's very smooth

[12:08:34] login b

[12:09:03] login de Villiers?

[12:16:26] login remember that KFC ad with AFC, BFC, CFC, DFC all the way to ZFC?

[12:17:10] login This one: https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/use-media-items/94/93463/upto-700xauto/5d456128/20140-2-Chicken-Town-OO-972-x-468px-Edinburgh-V1-2.webp

[12:18:07] login Man, Colonel Sanders made a real lasting thing with that brand

[13:06:22] login correct ^

[13:06:31] login which one?

[13:07:10] login toki whiskey?

[13:08:55] login wow, that's expensive

[13:21:57] login internal cleansing

[13:25:16] login !bang

[13:25:23] login fuck yeah!!

[13:25:41] login what a superb return

[13:26:03] login 3.34 xp cost, 36xp return

[13:26:26] login (gross return)

[13:26:58] login how is it that your explosive bullet only caused -2 and not -3?

[13:27:44] login economically, the interaction might have been negative sum

[13:28:01] login you lost 25 xp + the cost of two bullets

[13:28:19] login 25+14 = 39 xp lost

[13:28:48] login i gained 33.36 xp; the interaction as a whole reduced the amount of xp in the DuckHunt world

[13:29:27] login oh wait, the bullets came out of previous xp, so they shouldn't be counted

[13:30:13] login it's just 36-25 net xp = 11 xp inflation... all is good in the duckhunt world

[13:30:33] login The duck pays for its own bullet, so to speak

[13:34:38] login how come your ammo is out of 4?

[13:34:52] login !reload

[13:35:03] login oh haha, mine is too

[13:35:09] login 20/5 = 4 xp per bullet

[13:35:16] login i thought it was 6 before

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