>>39691
Man, this shit is so disgusting. It makes me glad to be chaste. Even women these days are disease-ridden. I'll fill the void with 2D and not sticking my dick into the great unknown.
Even if it's mostly an issue with the gays, somehow I think it's not going to be so isolated as HIV was.

>>39691
I'm more fearful of the government response to it than the disease itself...

>>39701
same for covid

>>39691
The smallpox vaccine is already 85% effective, and a vaccine for that specifically came out last year. It's a total non-story.

>>39466
It depends on what you mean by cheap. I was referring to around 300k-400k. 40k is about the cost of a new car these days, of course you won't find a house for that much.

I learned that the house we sold near the start of covid is, at least according to zillow, estimated to be worth around $100k more than what we sold it for.
At the same time, I hear the town it's in has only gotten worse since we left. It's bizarre to me that crime/culture wise it's going the way of East LA, but with housing prices skyrocketing like that. It's not like there's any jobs there either. Businesses were and apparently still are closing down due to all the vandalism. The numbers really don't make much sense.

>>39656
I think investors are pushing up prices by buying up literally any property way above what a private homeowner could afford for what it is.

>>39657
Institutional investors are a part of it (see the whole zillow automated home-flipping thing) but also note that "investors" here can also be individual investors, usually those who got in early during "cheap money", rented it out, and then used the surging profit from the rent to rinse and repeat. (In California the property tax grandfathering makes this uniquely profitable in a way that I think others states don't allow).

Hopefully the rising interest rates will correct things a bit, but from what I've read there still genuinely is an issue of demand exceeding supply in most urban areas, so I don't think it will completely go back.

>>39531
I've never spent even a penny on gatcha even if I like the game so I don't really see it that way. But a fool and his cash are soon parted as they say so certainly it could be an issue for some people.

>>39531
I've never paid for gachas either but these things also take a lot of your time and emotional investment. I've foolishly fell into the gacha trap twice and one of the game eventually shut down. The 3 years and all the emotional investments I've placed into it amounted to nothing.

>>39530
>the comparison between vtubers and idols are quite fitting
Yeah, in a bad way. Heed the timeless wisdom.

>>39525
>most people would accept that FGO for example is part of the otaku subculture
I hope time travel is possible so that when rokos basilisk is eventually created it will torture the people who tolerated FGO for all eternity.

テスト

テストするのは私の番だよね。
かわいいかわいい、殺すことが楽しい。
五年が掛かった私はまだ出来なくて残念ですね。
Also check out the doujin thread on /mp3/, it seems all japanese posts before a certain date have been affected.

SSF2X

妹くれ！

https://fxtwitter.com/ted90909/status/1453073498172280839
Priorities...

>>39371
>japanese people twittering their postion while an earthquake is occurking
lol

>>39425
Cool, don't worry about it.

https://twitter.com/IncorrectNisio/status/1509790767266549771?s=20&t=vqqmxnz9hnWZCyvYYogW9g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrAHD1GZApI
Will Nobeta ever finish her journey?

>>39424
The prank was that there was no prank.

>>36485
Because there's not much to discuss because it was fairly obvious what the goal was.
It wasn't some Aum or Heaven's Gate insanity, it was just a man manipulating heiresses for his own gain.
A bizarre active one that is almost never talked about is the rainbow family. They're little hippie parties but attract violent types and have been linked to a disappearance

>>36373
Do you have any recommendations for reading about Aum Shinrikyo and how they managed to get so many very educated followers? It seems like a fascinating topic to me, since the kind of technological backbone the had is rare in cults (especially fairly localized ones).

>>36560
There's probably plenty in Japanese.

I watched bad vegan the other day. It's not about a cult per say, but basically some crazy ex-military dude using cult-like techniques to brainwash an eminent raw-food cuisine chef and restaurant owner. I think some of you might appreciate it. The meat suit part is fucking hilarious.

>>39374
How's the weather in your bedroom? Cold or Hot? Do you have a fan or air-con? When these dreams happens? Middle of night or last dream? Do you wake up at the same time always?

>>39381
Thanks for responding – in terms of temperature/seasonality I have felt that it's worse during the colder winter months. But I'm not sure if temperature alone is the factor responsible, since I've experimented with no heater vs. running heater and using thin sheets vs. thick sheets and I have not found too much of a difference. That said, I will try logging temperature vs. intensity of dreams to see if there is indeed any correlation here.

In terms of time of day I'd guess it happens around 5am or 6am, which is closer to the end of the sleep cycle (I go to bed at 12am and wake up at 11am). Yes I'm usually jolted out of bed at around the same time every day.

>>39391
>But I'm not sure if temperature alone is the factor responsible, since I've experimented with no heater vs. running heater and using thin sheets vs. thick sheets
Maybe relative temperature would have been a better term. Based on my experiences my dreams tend to get fucked up when the relative temperature is cold. By relative temperature I mean the temperature and weather and absence or presence of ventilation your body will be subject to while you're asleep. Per example, a person using thick blankets all over her body with no fan on a cold winter night will have a relative temperature that's warmer and better than someone in a very hot summer day going to sleep with minimal clothing and no blankets right under the fan, maybe this person feels hot when the night starts, but as her body is subject to direct ventilation and the night gets a little colder the situation changes.
>In terms of time of day I'd guess it happens around 5am or 6am, which is closer to the end of the sleep cycle (I go to bed at 12am and wake up at 11am). Yes I'm usually jolted out of bed at around the same time every day.
I did not understand. You have them around 5 am, but then go back to sleep and wake up at 11 am?

>>39409
>Based on my experiences my dreams tend to get fucked up when the relative temperature is cold.
Yes, this matches with my observation that the nightmares are worst on days when it's not quite cold enough to use a heater but also not warm enough where I can forego the sheets. Particularly whenever I have to try to sleep in a position that conserves heat (e.g. knees tucked up, hands wrapped around, etc.).

>I did not understand. You have them around 5 am, but then go back to sleep and wake up at 11 am?
I go to sleep at ~1am, and will sleep well until about ~6am. From 6am to 11am I will have back-to-back nightmares, waking up sweating after each one. This might be because sleep tends to become lighter (and dreams more likely?) as you progress throughout the sleep cycle though. It could also be because 6am-9am is the coldest parts of the day though.

I guess with these observations I will see if I can try to avoid the conditions that are conducive to these nightmares. But I think that's still not solving the root cause, because the content of the nightmares is too specific and recurring to be dismissed. E.g. just this morning I dreamt I was having the kitchen sink of weapons being thrown at me – knives, bullets, arrows, etc. The nightmares also seem to be a relatively new phenomenon since I remember in the past I used to sleep in far colder weather without a heater on just fine.

Post edited on 27th Mar 2022, 2:19pm

>>39411
http://n-gate.com/software/2017/07/12/0/

TLS is unnecessary for an imageboard. If your threat model is that you're being monitored, you are personally welcome to tunnel your traffic through a known good endpoint. But otherwise, all adding tls on websites that don't need it does is enforce planned obsolescence on devices, whether through root certs or protocol upgrades. Yes both of these can be manually upgraded on the client, but again it is adding a roadblock for no good reason (and some perfectly good clients can't be upgraded).

>>39411
I believe kusaba-chan it to be blamed for that, and there nobody willing to fix her.

>>39413
A nice compromise would be to enable SSL but not require it.

>>39416
Wouldn't it be the web server (apache or nginx) not kusaba-chan? The imageboard software itself should be agnostic to whatever transport protocol or wrappers were used since by the time content arrives at the php process it should already be unwrapped and just be a regular content bytestream.

>enable SSL but not require it.
Yes this would be nice (serving on both 443 and 80). I suppose it might theoretically leave you open to downgrade attacks but the browser would still indicate if you're using tls or not so it should be fine.

>>39417
It's not the encoding, as you're right, the httpd does the heavy lifting there. If I remember with any correctness, kusaba-chan will render documents whose links explicitly specify the scheme (HTTP in this case), and she might also be routing via scheme as well. So, if you connect via HTTPS you'll be getting nearly everything via plain ol' HTTP (at best), and some confusion will ensue on the part of kusaba-chan--maybe. I'm not 100% sure.

>>39396
Yeah no, Putin had nothing to do with it("mainly"). It was some shadowy group of evil people and not the guy who's been in power for decades.

Post edited on 24th Mar 2022, 8:59am

>>39396
Do you mean the oligarchs? I can understand why that might be the case on the Ukrainian side, if Ukraine did join the EU it would open up huge markets and opportunities for them. But I don't see that as being the case for Russia, this war is terrible for Russian oligarchs, not only are they getting heavily sanctioned(and often personally sanctioned as well) but the businesses they have interests in are being run into the ground by all of this. The Russia that we are going to see after the war is going to be far different than what we saw before it as well, it's likely many of these oligarchs will be purged(as well as anybody else that shows any inkling of rebellion).

>>39397
It was all Putin, well him and his fellow KGB/Military circle. He has been working on securing Russia's borders for a long time.

>>39400
From what I can tell by browsing /pol/ and reading whatever few contrarian opinions there exist, I get the impression that while this war was indeed instigated by Putin, it's not necessarily irrational since there had supposedly been talks of Ukraine joining NATO. So I suppose in a game-theoretic type of view if he had ever planned to strike, now was the best time (and conversely if there had been reassurance that Ukraine would never be part of nato, then the incentive would have been diminished). The real winner here is China though since they now become the dominant power in that region, and can basically do business with everyone (and gets especially favorable terms for trade with Russia) while the rest of the world is busy implemtning useless sanctions. So even though Putin's move might have been rational in short-term from a "secure the borders" perspective, it doesn't seem like he played the long-game here. Conversely China seems to excel at playing the long-game, and knows precisely when not to strike and to instead sit back and let time play out (e.g. Hong Kong), esp. given how the west is basically making a fool out of themselves.

>>39405
Yes, it's not irrational. Russia does not want to share such a large border with a NATO country and wants them as a buffer state instead, that is why he took parts of the Donbas and also why he did the same thing beforehand in Georgia(because there was talk of Georgia joining Nato as well). Ukraine can't join Nato while it has territory occupied by Russia and is fighting a proxy war with her, to do so would mean that Article 5 would instantly be triggered and there would be WW3.

That situation had been left as it was since they took Crimean and parts of the Donbas, however, ever since then Ukraine had been arming and preparing for war and the west had been aiding her in that while at the same time Russia had been building a war chest and preparing to whether any sanctions that further action would bring. Putin is also getting old and may feel that a successor would be unable or unwilling to finish this. So that brings us to the present, Russia felt that they had to strike now before Ukraine became too strong.

China is both a winner and a loser, yes this benefits her strategically, it turns US attention to Russia and ties Russia to her economically. Yet at the same time, she is the largest importer of Energy in the world, economically this will hit her hard. China can get a discount from Russia but a discount on astronomical energy prices will still be expensive and she can't get all her energy from Russia. Other commodities are being hit by this as well and China is a major importer of pretty much every commodity. This has also shown to China just what the US is willing to do in order to punish a threat to the current global order, any idea that they could just walk into Taiwan and the west would do nothing is a fantasy now.

In some ways China plays the long game well, in others she is terrible at it. Just look at the mess she is in now with her economy and demographics. Not only that but politically she has ruined her relations with the west when she did not have to, 10 years ago the world was more than happy to work with her and more than happy to ignore anything that she did internally, now she is a pariah on the global stage and western companies

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>>38911
>and my room isn't that spacious.
Why would you need space for such a net? I believe we are thinking of different things. It's a window-sized frame, you just put it in your window and rest it against the wall when not in use.

How in the fucking hell is it so hot in autumn? This is even worse than summer.

>>39384
Imagine how summer will be!

>>38911
haruhi face