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Anonymous 04/04/23 (Tue) 07:22:48 No.2141 [Reply]

Finally feels like Spring has come. The forecast shows that the daily high for the next 10 days will be around 60 to 70 F (15~20C)

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Anonymous 04/09/23 (Sun) 17:44:14 No.2226

>>2224
well what you can do if you don't want that is to get water boiling while having the window open and then take the lid off after turning off the stove and closing the window
you'll have a bunch of steam in there but that's a good thing

Anonymous 04/09/23 (Sun) 17:59:04 No.2227

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>>2219
When we lost power in our house (posted elsewhere) we made use of the water heater which used gas instead of electricity. The bathroom was essentially turned into an on-demand sauna by running the shower for a little bit. Pretty nice

Anonymous 04/09/23 (Sun) 19:00:40 No.2228

>>2219
>>2227
It's fortunate to live in a place with gas isn't it?
I lived in a place before where the stoves were electric, heaters were electric, and even hot water came from the municipal heating plant that got cold after 15 minutes of shower

Anonymous 04/09/23 (Sun) 21:25:24 No.2232

>>2228
I guess so, but I never really pay much attention to it. I think I'd prefer electric stuff,except for these bad scenarios where the power is out for a sustained period

Anonymous 04/10/23 (Mon) 01:06:29 No.2237

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>>2228
Iunno, my water heater is pretty shoddy. Here it is, after a gust of wind turned it off earlier today, I'm about to turn it back on.
The instructions say you have to hold down the left side of the middle thingy for 20 secs before selecting a heat setting but it often resets anyways and requires multiple tries. The stove isn't in great shape either, though it's not as finicky.
Do not envy those 15m showers though, that sounds awful. I'm very slow when it comes to those.

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Anonymous 04/09/23 (Sun) 09:41:02 No.2212 [Reply]

Anonymous 04/09/23 (Sun) 09:50:44 No.2213

At least we get to live in the part where "AI" isn't AI and it's still a fun toy (albeit one with heavy filtering if you can't run stuff locally)

Anonymous 04/09/23 (Sun) 10:04:34 No.2214

frankly I worship the sun at any point

Anonymous 04/10/23 (Mon) 02:13:17 No.2238

>>2214
This is not the hikikomori way.

Anonymous 04/11/23 (Tue) 23:39:25 No.2255

you better hope i don't figure out how to kill the sun
i've been working on it for two years now and i think im getting close

Anonymous 04/12/23 (Wed) 00:13:32 No.2256

kill the moon it's easier

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Anonymous 04/07/23 (Fri) 16:08:35 No.2166 [Reply]

ｷﾀ───(ﾟ∀ﾟ)───!!

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Anonymous 04/07/23 (Fri) 18:15:37 No.2172

>>2171
then try it out and see which is yours

Anonymous 04/07/23 (Fri) 18:23:53 No.2173

everyone wants to be Korean

Anonymous 04/07/23 (Fri) 21:33:44 No.2180

i'd rather be black than korean

Anonymous 04/07/23 (Fri) 21:45:47 No.2182

https://clickhole.com/how-well-do-you-know-this-quiz-1825124462/
too dumb for the meta quiz

Anonymous 04/07/23 (Fri) 22:25:29 No.2184

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>>2182
Heh, first try. Enlightened is the rank above it, but it's arguably NG+. Guess all the meta finally paid off.

Anonymous 04/06/23 (Thu) 18:11:29 No.2150 [Reply]

To other ESLs, does your native otaku community have any interesting idiosyncratic practices?

A few years ago, a new practice developed in Spanish-subbed OP/ED videos: rather than keep the subs at the bottom and/or top, they were instead both moved to the center of the screen. Large, bold italic sans serif for the translation, with smaller non-bold romaji below it. In many cases they are AMVs as well, rather than using the pre-existing video or a static image. Pic is a good example, which on top of the above has a watermark and is at 360p max, because of course it is. Compare it to these other three traditional English lyrics videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq6VhQGz-no
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeRksGNmk0w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6JB3monBI4
I searched for OPs in Portuguese, Italian, French, Indonesian, Thai, Arabic, at a glance it doesn't seem like they do this. The Chinese do have something like it, it appears:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9IaLy7IN9M

Rather innovative imo. It looks like it started to hit the mainstream about four-five years ago, in great part thanks to a certain "meena♡" who had already been using the formula back in 2014:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlLVz75Ag_s
They've got nearly a total of two hundred million views spread throughout a hundred and four videos, the most popular of which is Naruto's OP3 from five years ago standing at 64M views:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-hzTmeCqN0
You can see it's a more primitive form because it doesn't yet feature romaji like the current standard. Neat.

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Anonymous 04/06/23 (Thu) 20:00:00 No.2152

The Spanish/Portuguese around this stuff does seem to be notably different from the others. They seem far less reserved and it gives them their own cultural identity. It kinda reminds me of the English internet 20 years ago to a degree. Well, at least this is my interpretation from what I've seen, I don't speak the language.

Anonymous 04/07/23 (Fri) 01:07:16 No.2159

>>2152
If I had to sum it up, I think I'd describe it as "less miserable".
People are much more forthcoming with their interests, fanfic is surprisingly more mainstream (at least with Dragon Ball, DB AF came out all the way back in 1999 and everyone knows about it, also see El Hermano de Jiren/Gohan Blanco), the attitude around loli is a lot laxer than in the anglosphere, and there isn't as much of a focus on refined taste, elitism, or fighting normalfaggotry (for better or worse). You don't have nearly as many hardcore 2D lovers as Japan's, but you don't have Anglo moralist crusaders either, and the concept of ironic weebs doesn't exist. East/west divide isn't as strong, as you can see with artists like Alkemanubis, perhaps because it's all foreign anyways.

Anonymous 04/07/23 (Fri) 01:11:29 No.2161

(ps the XD in the thumbnail is to telegraph that the video is funny, we do have an ironic version of the emoticon but it's actually more like "xd")

Anonymous 04/07/23 (Fri) 01:36:41 No.2162

>>2151
Also, there are like only 5 million of us, so people who are into wota stuff are few and far between, and I think most of them only hang out in English-speaking communities.

Anonymous 04/07/23 (Fri) 01:41:10 No.2163

>>2162
Yeah, I guess that's a bit of a problem with Europe.

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Anonymous 04/02/23 (Sun) 18:18:05 No.2137 [Reply]

The nice thing about spring is that the sun is (usually) still up when I wake up. The downside however is that it's bright as hell outside when I go to bed.

Anonymous 04/02/23 (Sun) 19:39:29 No.2138

Uh... do you sleep the majority of the day?

Anonymous 04/02/23 (Sun) 20:18:21 No.2139

Nocturnal, huh? Yeah, I end up that way most of the time, but I like winter because if I stay up way too late there's still a good chance the sun is down when I go to bed at like 6AM

Anonymous 04/02/23 (Sun) 20:33:08 No.2140

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>>2138
I am a son of the moon. The tranquility of night runs through my veins, the illuminating stars guide my soul (to moe).

>>2139
8 to 9 for me. Midday at worst.

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Anonymous 03/29/23 (Wed) 10:49:03 No.2121 [Reply]

Is spring a season of fat or slim?

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Anonymous 03/29/23 (Wed) 22:26:56 No.2131

summer -> being slender
autumn -> gaining
winter -> being hefty
spring -> shedding

Anonymous 03/29/23 (Wed) 22:43:09 No.2132

>>2131
yeah that seems about right for my cat

Anonymous 03/29/23 (Wed) 23:38:29 No.2133

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Spring - Watching your weight (increase) to get beach body ready
Summer - Eating to replenish nutrients lost when sweating
Fall - Temperatures starting to cool, eat more to prepare for winter
Winter - It takes more calories to maintain warmth when it's cold, so you need to eat more

Anonymous 03/30/23 (Thu) 01:23:42 No.2134

>>2133
So what you're saying is you need to constantly eat more and more.

Anonymous 03/31/23 (Fri) 14:11:58 No.2135

>>2134
That about sums it up, yes! Don't forget to drink water and other delicious drinks!

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Anonymous 03/29/23 (Wed) 12:50:15 No.2122 [Reply]

Most images of megamouth sharks are incredibly cursed

Anonymous 03/29/23 (Wed) 16:33:49 No.2126

herp derp

Anonymous 03/29/23 (Wed) 18:26:29 No.2127

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That might be the least disturbing image of a megamouth shark, yeah. It almost looks like a moray eel there, and their dopey appearance is kinda cute

Anonymous 03/29/23 (Wed) 18:50:42 No.2128

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>>2127
herpaderpa durhpuh

Anonymous 03/29/23 (Wed) 21:01:19 No.2129

>>2128
this eel looks like it's going shilling a product on youtube and this is their thumbnail pic

Anonymous 03/29/23 (Wed) 22:25:46 No.2130

>>2127
https://youtube.com/shorts/4y2FWGyRd3c
The video of two discovering a boat was non-disturbing

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Anonymous 04/07/22 (Thu) 03:35:43 No.1392 [Reply]

My springtime maids

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Anonymous 03/29/23 (Wed) 04:43:16 No.2117

Wonder how good robot AI maids are now...

Anonymous 03/29/23 (Wed) 04:49:43 No.2118

>>2117
Good enough to take over

Anonymous 03/29/23 (Wed) 07:06:46 No.2120

>>1513
What the heck that's adorable.
The way her eyes track is so lifelike.

Anonymous 03/29/23 (Wed) 16:21:35 No.2124

>>2118
This man has been at it for five years. On the one hand, it makes me feel aaaaaaaaaa, but on the other, God bless him.

Anonymous 03/29/23 (Wed) 16:23:26 No.2125

The nice part is that his project could actually be in a pretty complete state by the end of his lifetime. He just has to hook up a GPT chatbot with it

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Anonymous 04/24/20 (Fri) 17:46:53 No.45 [Reply]

what are your opinions on the spring season?

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Anonymous 03/29/22 (Tue) 22:13:52 No.1344

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I wish I had a microphone so I could record the birds outside. For some reason they've been having big parties in a nearby tree the past few days and I love listening to them.
SPRING IS GREAT! until the bugs wake up

Anonymous 03/29/22 (Tue) 22:44:47 No.1345

I don't like the cold so spring is good in my book.

Anonymous 03/26/23 (Sun) 17:08:18 No.2101

Great for growing plants

Anonymous 03/26/23 (Sun) 17:16:05 No.2102

I like the cold so spring is bad in my book.

Anonymous 03/26/23 (Sun) 19:03:24 No.2103

>>2101
This seems like a nice channel. Good second monitor material as I try to learn gardening. Maybe I can have tree trunks for forearms if I do what he does

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Anonymous 03/25/23 (Sat) 17:44:12 No.2095 [Reply]

Anonymous 03/26/23 (Sun) 05:34:40 No.2096

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whew... I'm safe.. won't be hunted

Anonymous 03/26/23 (Sun) 06:16:11 No.2097

don't think I've ever seen a cat sleep on its back like that. They're very protective of their stomachs generally

Anonymous 03/26/23 (Sun) 07:49:52 No.2098

>>2097
They are but if they are in an environment where they feel secure then they will expose their bellies.

Anonymous 03/26/23 (Sun) 08:12:44 No.2099

mussing up the kittys belly and psychologically ruining it for everyone permanently

Anonymous 03/26/23 (Sun) 14:57:57 No.2100

>>2096
sakura birb

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Anonymous 03/24/23 (Fri) 23:09:02 No.2091 [Reply]

If while reading Animorphs you spend a lot of time imagining what it would be like to be controlled by a Yeerk, getting to know it and its circumstances, empathising with it even as you are aware that it is a soldier of the enemy of Earth, and showing it human experiences... doesn't that make someone an M? Like a really, really, really big M?

(pic unrelated)

Anonymous 03/25/23 (Sat) 00:01:08 No.2093

Instant painkillers, someone that always cares about you, more power because you and the Yeerk can coordinate together, happy meals with extra happy. What's not to like?

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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Accept the Singularirty Anonymous 03/21/23 (Tue) 09:12:59 No.2006 [Reply]

At one point I was worried about AI being able to replace the capabilities of other people, but upon using it and adapting it into my lifestyles I've found that it behaves in a similar way to the hypothetical brain-computer interface where you can upload skills into your head or be able to directly interface with technology.
Through introducing a chatbot Q&A style interface it's much easier to acquire information, much like you could as a kid and you could ask your parents simple questions like "why is the sky blue"(and they would say Rayleigh scattering of course). Instead of having to hunt for knowledge in books you can pick it out and have it read out to you in numerous styles.

ChatGPT lets me learn a lot of concepts which I've been unable to figure out on my own. Though I might have figured them out through working with industry pros who picked it up from other pros I've been able to put the knowledge in my own hands solely through autodidacticism.
It's ability to write out examples helps greatly for people who pick things up better through written examples than they do from reading documentation and you can ask it questions and it will do it's best to answer.

So to put it in a simply, AI seems to be a tool which is best to draw out the latent potential of humanity and push people into situations where they're capable of learning anything that their brains allow them to.
At which point we can ask the question of what is done more efficiently by human and computer... since we are fundamentally different engines... one based on computation of electric signals and the other chemical transfers between neurons.

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Anonymous 03/21/23 (Tue) 16:42:42 No.2017

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stochastic parrots!

Anonymous 03/23/23 (Thu) 11:18:25 No.2055

i'm not sure, but I think I'm noticing a massive flaw in the system where it sometimes refernces articles which were never written and are no recollection of.

I ask it for a source to some information I'm skeptical of and it provides a URL of which it points to a 404 and archive.is doesn't have the URL for.
Concerning that it can't correct itself.

Anonymous 03/23/23 (Thu) 13:00:18 No.2068

>>2055

Anonymous 03/23/23 (Thu) 13:05:56 No.2069

>>2055
in the future, AI will procedurally generate sites to quote for the sake of supporting its own arguments
this will hopefully delay the arrival of the singularity

Anonymous 03/24/23 (Fri) 12:24:07 No.2080

>>2069
very humanoid

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Anonymous 03/22/23 (Wed) 12:52:57 No.2038 [Reply]

The path down the route of the picture book otaku is a treacherous one, but it's a route that must be walked on...

Anonymous 03/22/23 (Wed) 12:59:30 No.2039

Anonymous 03/22/23 (Wed) 16:34:59 No.2041

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What the heck.
What is this madness?

Anonymous 03/22/23 (Wed) 16:48:28 No.2042

>>2039
cha chohn chachachachohn
pipii ririr piriipripiri

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Anonymous 03/21/22 (Mon) 01:49:26 No.1145 [Reply]

Welcome to Spring,

Spring Wheat planting begins late March to April.
Don't forget to get started before it's too late!

This season Spring ends on Monday, June 20.

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Anonymous 05/20/22 (Fri) 13:16:41 No.1829

One month until spring end.

Anonymous 06/13/22 (Mon) 15:05:03 No.1967

One week until spring end.

Anonymous 06/16/22 (Thu) 04:04:10 No.1973

The weekly forecast has highs of like 95-100 F (35-38 C) for the entire week... Spring is ending...

Anonymous 06/17/22 (Fri) 17:52:40 No.1976

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