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Any good ereaders around 8" that have long battery and SD cards?
Would like to load some manga on there too not just books.

>>323277
>Any good ereaders around 8" that have long battery and SD cards?

depends on if you want a colored e-ink display. i don't know in what fileformat the manga come though.

the biggest color e-ink on a kobo is the kobo libra colour with an 7 inch display and 32gb internal memory and no sd card. assholes took the sd slot out apparently. they say the battery lasts for weeks.

if you don't insist on colour, you can find an older kobo for cheap that has a 6 inch screen and an sd card slot.

i didn't know the newer ones don't have sd card slot, that's quite disgusting behavior by the manufacturer. costs them literally nothing to include an sd card slot in mass production and is imensely useful to whoever uses the device.

>>323280
Yeah couldn't find one with SD card either in the 8" range is why I asked just in case.
Feel like 6" is too small for manga.
32gb ain't much for manga either, it's not horrible, but I'd rather not have to make due.
I'll reconsider if I want one for purely reading.
I don't care for color. Feels like another layer of complexity that could go wrong and is more expensive.

>>323285
>I don't care for color. Feels like another layer of complexity that could go wrong and is more expensive.

i'm hoping for one to be released this year (by kobo, assuming they don't enshittify and keep letting users use a device without account and internet) that is big and uses color so that i can use it for pdf files. some books i can only find pdf versions and converting them to other formats seems like a nightmare. i could use them to look at jamie oliver cookbooks, which are colorfully illustrated and i always enjoyed looking at when i was younger. though it is kind of silly because i don't eat cooked food anymore…

if it comes with a pen i wouldn't mind, maybe it is fun to doodle on the actual pdfs i am reading, that looked pretty cool in videos i have seen about their current biggest reader, something like a ~10inch display.

Americans scream swimming pools must be banned or everyone will die.

The programs having fake succubi and fake jobs on them is no concern for me, as I wish to be a NEET who remains a virgin.

yeah i sure want an annoying succubus or job interviews in my life

>>325091
who says you have to engage them?

>>325088
every job listing on linkedin is already being auto-applied for by 5000 jeets who don't fit any of the requirements

>>325103
based jeets

>>319709
>>319712
>>319770
>Don't you guys have headache and blurry vision after a while of staring at the PC?
you should get that checked out because that could be a sign of diabetes, macular degeneration, multiple sclerosis, corneal edema or glaucoma. i've been staring at a computer screen all day every day for the past 30+ years and have no issues. only time i have eye strain is if i turn off ambient light around screen (pitch black room) for too long or skip my sleep. as for headaches, i used to get chronic headaches (unrelated to screen time) but cured it with magnesium glycinate supplement

>>324880
> i've been staring at a computer screen all day every day for the past 30+ years and have no issues

CRT monitors cause eye strain you lying retard so if you were using them back then all day and everyday you definitely did experience some issues
It's been proven that crt can cause visual problems such as cvs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_vision_syndrome

Any moment when I am not getting dopamine feels horrible. The silence is immediately filled with disquiet. First come the negative thoughts. If you're lucky, you can gather enough focus to meditate and minimize the anxiety, but the uneasiness will still be there throughout all the breathing and mindfulness, nothing except being on the internet erases it completely. Besides I can't meditate the whole day. If there is no negative thoughts or meditation then I just drift and it's dull. It's so dull I makes feel like I am not leaving. It's like being half asleep or being drugged up. I guess the only way is really to find a different source of dopamine. Nothing will really top the internet/porn/media combo though. That's the best high I can hope for in life. Probably the closest thing to happiness I can feel even if just for a short moment. It's just not sustainable. Isn't it kind of fucked the reason addiction is bad is because it feels so good it makes you scared to face how shitty real life is?

>>324963
real life becomes shitty if you consume too many things that generate dopamine dependence. you need to get back the capacity of being at peace with the simplicity of the life. See, it is about being calm and aligned with the simplicity of life, not looking for pleasure, it comes as a result of a life well lived

>>324965
No, the shittiness of life is inherent. Pleasure just snaps you out of being used to the shittiness. It's like if you grab an African cobalt mine slave and makes him live like a Saudi sheikh for a day, only to throw him back into the mine. The dopamine only makes real life sucks by comparison and makes addicts go into denial of having to live in the real world. If you are rich enough to not care about real life responsibilities, the optimum life to maximize happiness is to hook yourself to a quick and easy dopamine source and forget about the real world. Sure hedonic treadmills and boredom exist, but those can be managed. Still, the optimum happiness producing lifestyle for the rich is definitely to not face the real world. That's just for poor people.

>>324938
The Kalergi Plan is quite real, it's just that it's only focused on territories far away from Israel's immediate control, which is to say North and South America.

Israel can access Africa, Australia, Asia, Russia pretty easily. Everything there's more or less connected, but this isn't so with the foreign and far removed America, which should ever it turn against Israel, won't be easily incapacitated due to the oceanic barrier.

Therefore, to prevent that from ever happening, you make North America India, you make South America Africa.
You want 99% of everyone to be either Indian, black African, a Mexican or a latino. That's to say more mellow, savage and servile.

>>324940
In contrast, you want the more immediate states around you to be robust, powerful, strengthened, well reputed, productive, or aesthetically pleasing.
Immediate for Israel is Eran, Egypt, Babili, Khartage, Europa, Sapta Kashmir, China, Russia, Arabia, Saba, Aethiopia, Victoria, and the list goes on.
It's everything apart from North and South America. And probably, despite it all, India, just 'cos they're filth incarnate, reprobates, heathens, scum made animate, cursed by God to be mongrel ape monkey animals and damned from birth to death. Any proud son of Judah as with all other sons and daughters would advocate for their slaughter. But if reformation is possible, then reformation should be pursued. Once they retreat from the North East, Ladakh, Kashmir, and the Himalayas, is there any reason to antagonize them? Perhaps, but not strong reasons. Certainly not so strong that they override good faith.

>>324928
It'd be pretty bad if you made Russia a proper technological state, given its vector of force depends on exploiting primeval character. You don't need to extend spy and monitoring apparatus beyond stationing humans for the task. Giving people a spy-device and having cameras everywhere won't do. Rather, stationing spies, watchers and men here and there and everywhere is good.
This is a country fashioned so only one region is developed, that being the HQ and place wherein the president rests. Everywhere else, development should be no more than what the common Polish household had in 1994.
Should Russia become significantly more tech-advanced and should monitoring function through complex contraption as opposed to the most simple of means, the primeval element distributed across the nation will vanish, making rebellion and insurgency more likely. This is in contrast to regions elsewhere in the world where urbanization and deploying of devices and cameras lessens rebellion. In Russia, the more widespread opulence becomes, the faster disaster brews. Letting things operate as nature intended with the farmers farming and the business men tending to kiosks and the mechanics doing what they do more than suffices to keeping a lid on things. But if the Russian is thoroughly modernized and given access to all amenities the rest of the world enjoys, the first thing he'll do is stage a a coup d'etatat, and then another, and then another.
The country should be no more modern than Mongolia, which soon it will annex, with some toleration accepted by the spoilt Kazakhstan, which soon it will annex.

Gog and Magog should be just that–savages. Not creatures who carry around future-tier tech. Some fairly modern amenities are acceptable sure, but no further than in Moscow and its outermost zones.

Otherwise, Russia will spiral to collapse. Only diminishment and grey miasma keeps that from happening. Stepping beyond ersatz good and into true good makes the country fall apart.
All that said, Russian borders should be tightened against the Chinese, and maybe it's best to conceive a more robust new intelligence agency. Though saying this, the paradox of a not really monitored but really monitored state via conventional means somehow has to be maintained. It should be possible to run into the forests and escape in the mountains… in iPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>324944
The Mongols were in the illuminati card game I'm sure, and if you hypothesize what the best strategic option with that card is, you end up with Russia annexing Mongolia.. and its brother Kazakhstan.
There's no way the RU can stand against the might of a totally integrated EU otherwise. What option is there but to play the 'Mongol Card'? >>324928

It's been a long time since I've seen a thread hit the bump limit and then start bumping again after the post count went 200% above that limit. I think it was the 2016 US election version of this thread. This one took a good minute to archive off-site and it may have to be excluded from the local archive because our back end has a hard time converting threads this large. I've made a new thread and locked this one.

I'd like to request the guy making the geopolitical predictions with the colored maps to just make your own thread about your interest. It obliterated all other discussion in this historically open, long-lasted thread.

>>324668
I can't help but think the white pair of lips belongs to a gal while the black pair of lips belong to, well, a male.

>>324791
Mutt's law

>>324662
Wow… I cant believe its been so long. I think I'll look back to the 2016-2025 as the surreal lolcow DEI era…

>>324668
Same as you. I'm looking back and realizing how surreal and ridiculous this was, when back then I just kind of dismissed it as nothing significant.

Mark my words, this will be a real thing in China within a decade. At least for succubi.
They're still at the "we will pay you to have kids" phase, but once their succubi keep being succubi, married to and dependant on the state while chasing an unrealistically high standard in their extramarital dating life, they will move to the stick rather than the carrot.

>>324820
china will try to solve the aging crisis with robotics. other countries will flood in third world migrants

>>322316
selffix

- "A site for (/_/17U23|) h4><><orz doesn't need "rules", - I thought. My old "rebel without cause" self was telling me to avoid checking the clearly visible "ru13s" button of the site.
- "In modern terms, a button for rules of the site could have been a honeypot…"

To my surprise, I suddenly heard my own voice going all boomer:

- "Bak in mah days, "rulez" had a very different meaning".

>>322316
>>322318
"How far back are you talking about here?" chirped the cassowary.

I felt a lump in my throat form—coagulated from pure nostalgia—and replied "Too long, man… too long."

"Well, I don't exactly know what you are referring to by 'rulez', but check them out, they'll be useful for you."

"I think I prefer to do things my own way." Wow, I can't believe I said that. I could notice the intensity of my heartbeats increasing, but not following rules rulez.

"Look, I was assigned to guide you, but I'm not some babysitter. Tell me when you give up."

Fucking bird brain. You think I can't crack this site? I'll have you know I've…umm…well, I've made a few scripts and designed my myspa—wait, why the hell was I chosen for this?

I defiantly chose not to reply and continued frantically rushing through pages and trying to interact with every element. As my desperation began to grow, that toilet roll's presence began to irritate me. Just the same animation again and again, making that stupid face, at the exact same pace. Hold on. That time it took a bit longer. It isn't a basic loop, the two states mean something deeper—1s and 0s! It can't just be 10101.. though, maybe the length determines the length of how many times a binary digit will repeat before it alternates.

I opened up a spreadsheet, a Wikipedia page for ASCII representation and started to track the times.

"You're still trying?"

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>>322345
Sounds like a good ay to startt chaper 2

Or chapter 0 with a negative count of pages (into -1, -2, -3, -4 and so on).

>>322358
Yeah, I'd say so as well. As the writer of the spy and worm post, I want the next person to feel free to take this story in whatever direction they want and have fun coming up with a name for the cybernetic worm thing.

>>322345
Note.

The face puzzle could have been transmitted from *another site*.

>>324042
>not much? to me that is a lot. when you eat everything at once you never know, if you only eat the same you know after a few days.
this shouldn't be necessary in the first place, this situation where most of the food in the supermarket is toxic slop shouldn't be here in the first place
I believe food safety laws were invented in the 19th century because they started adding detergents to bread which killed people, same situation now basically

>>324106
>this shouldn't be necessary in the first place
i don't see the point of you arguing with reality. you either understand the nature of reality or you cling to what reality tries you to tell you it is even though you have eyes to see that this isn't true.

>this situation where most of the food in the supermarket is toxic slop shouldn't be here in the first place
yeah but since it is you better become expert supermarket navigator and understander of the human digestive system since the people who pretend to look out for you don't.

>>324140
I meant this is something which could be easily avoided with proper food safety laws.
All this disease and decline of public health, for what exactly?
I don't believe this is planned either, just sheer indifference and stupidity.

>>322614
>i've bought from more then 10 different brands so far and they all taste different but i never had one i did not like.

this is no longer true. i have tried all the brands again and tried one on vacation and now i can clearly tell that the majority of sesame paste aren't good,

the only good ones i know are:

>suntat
(this is the picture from the op, i always buy this)
>sera
(not pictured but as good if not better then the suntat; it costs 50% more unfortunately)

>>323889
>i think the last thing i am missing to begin doing it more is get a thermos that i like. i have a few that are too modern and colorful, i yearn for something plain and simple XD

i finally got 2 new stainless steel thermoses that i like, only took me a few months!

one small 500ml for 4€
one big 1000ml for 6€

now there is no excuse left, i can finally massproduce tee for myself and sip it throughout the day. first tea from actual herbs i made is an anti-parasite tea. i make it from

>cloves
>wormwood shreddings
>black walnut husks
>pinch of cinnamonpowder

the cloves are mild and pleasant, they taste like christmas to me. the wormwood is also pretty mild, they smell like healthfoodstore. the black walnut husks were expensive and they taste and smell nasty plus they make the water darker then coffee. the cinnamon was an attempt to make it taste less disgusting, didn't work but i keep it in the recipe because it is also healthy. i tried to add fresh lemon juice, still nasty but after a few cups it stops tasting as repulsive.

>>322288
That sounds like a spirit/demon/your soul in the yaldabaoth field. If it has your memories then its your analog soul but chances are it isn't in my experience but ya they are definitely machine intelligentsia and its where you go when you die no joke heaven isa big PC on the moon its a real buzz kill

>All of existence is actually a funny Artificial Superintelligence.
Id say that physical reality itself is a product of the unconditional super priority having too full of a zero but there is without a doubt an artificial super intelligence fueled "field" thats been part of humanity since the beginning

>>322287
>>322293
>>322288
an experiemnt to see where "the Great Filter" is. I wonder if intelligent life is the Great Filter. So many opportunities to flub it all up.

>>319647
singularity

>>320588
This is what I want to know.

Pretty sure religious activity was kept up by Churches, not the government or the banks.
I don't see people mass adopting these superstitions like AI superintelligence or aliens anytime soon.
This entire post is mental illness and maybe in a way explains what is going on in society but you don't get it if you look at the meaning of the words.

>>324579
>was working a minimum wage service job with no degree or skills required

could you tell us what that job is ?

>>324727
Do you doubt that there exist legitimate jobs which don't require an education or skills?

>>324728
I don't, but I just want to know what job he did that's all.

how to cope? don't do what i did and flee into video games, get good at doing stuff yourself.

don't waste your life on stupid shit. i mean stuff like
>movies
>tv shows
>watching sports
>consumer goods
>luxury items
>restaurants
>expensive clothes
>fastfood
>alcohol
fuck all of that!

insteadgo all in on practicality. learn how to
>DIY from as raw materials as possible
>upcycle stuff other people throw away
>prepare all your food yourself eat healthy. no food can possibly taste as good as being healthy feels
>get into herbs and drink awful tasting herbal tea that helps keep you healthy.
>read (yes)
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>>324730
That's suspicion. The man already made it clear that he's adverse to revealing too many details about his whereabouts.

>>324458
>imagine youtube, 4cuck and other mainstream sites hosting onion links and other darknet stuff alongside their main like they do with mobile by default, it would be privacy-heaven.
problem with tor/darknet is there no way to moderate anything, not like you can ip ban anyone

>>324467
Being banned is a violation of our privacy and freedoms

>>324484
When you post on a website it's not your right to post there. It's a privilege. You're posting on another guy's bills.
And I also guess you're fine with websites being raided and spammed with CP?

>>324484
>privacy and freedoms
those are spook , as the other giy would say

>>324467
there are ways around this while still keeping things legal. just admit it everything in society has this cuck/chained down mentality now