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00:07 <Nothing\> in a recent article
00:28 <Nothing\> but at least i got the local health unit's number, so i'm gonna call them and see if they have any suggestions
01:05 <EEVBot> [Twitter] - eevblog - NEW EEVblog Video! EEVblog #1421 - Dumpster Hack https://t.co/6zgwpHNBRK
01:43 <Nothing\> mean time i'm gonna make a falling edge detector and a blinken lights circuit for my cats
02:34 <Nothing\> i made a standard light chaser circuit with a 4017 and they loved it, so i wanna make something with like 32 LEDs and 4 74hc595 chips
03:52 <Nothing\> i just worry when my cats are even around my when i'm working with electronics, never mind when they're actually playing with the electronics
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04:28 <Nothing\> they're circuit killing balls of static electricity as far as i'm concerned
04:33 <Nothing\> hey Sigyn
22:32 <Sigyn> howdy
30:22 <DHess_US> Look at how the trigger slope detector works on old oscilloscopes.
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34:33 * Ampera attack hugs T3sl4 
34:35 <Ampera> er
34:38 * Ampera attack hugs TheDude 
34:44 <Ampera> both equally good attack hug targets
34:46 <Ampera> how are you doing TheDude
36:01 <Nothing\> help Ampera
36:17 <Nothing\> i'm trying to find a site to download ds roms since emuparadise shut down
36:29 <Nothing\> it's like a minefield of shady sites and malware
36:51 <Ampera> the best way is not to pirate in the first place ;D
36:51 <Nothing\> you click a link to dl a rom and it tries to download a .exe
37:06 <Nothing\> kinda hard when the game isn't being made anymore
37:16 <Nothing\> actually
37:18 <Nothing\> you have a point
37:26 <Nothing\> i mean there IS a pc version
37:38 <Nothing\> and i'd be lying if i said it wasn't in my wishlist on steam
38:08 <Nothing\> so really it WOULD be pointless to pirate it on the DS, play for a couple of days until i get paid, then buy it on steam and start over
38:40 <Nothing\> point well taken, thanks Ampera
38:42 <Ampera> what game is it
38:57 <Nothing\> final fantasy II/IV
39:03 <Nothing\> the 3d remake
39:16 <Nothing\> which is the best remake of any game imo
39:45 <Ampera> https://store.steampowered.com/app/1173800/FINAL_FANTASY_IV/
39:46 <Ampera> this one?
39:47 <EEVBot> [Title] - FINAL FANTASY IV on Steam
40:01 <Nothing\> noooo no nonono
40:10 <Nothing\> that one they barely changed anything in it
40:25 <Ampera> do you have a link to the one on steam?
40:29 <Nothing\> i was so excited about it, it was just released a couple of weeks ago. I almost bought it on impulse
40:35 <Nothing\> i certainly do, one second
40:57 <Ampera> this one was released a couple of weeks ago
41:00 <Nothing\> but compare that, which is basically like the original, to what i link you to. big difference
41:20 <Nothing\> yeah, i was so excited about the release i almost bought it without even looking into it
41:25 <Ampera> looks 3D to me
41:27 <TheDude> hey
41:28 <Nothing\> cuz i figured i love the game anyways i can't go wrong
41:33 <Ampera> hi TheDude how are you
41:44 <TheDude> doing okay
41:44 <Nothing\> but then the comments said little to nothing has changed
41:49 <Nothing\> so i didn't bother with it
42:18 <Nothing\> here Ampera
42:20 <Nothing\> https://store.steampowered.com/app/312750/Final_Fantasy_IV_3D_Remake/
42:22 <EEVBot> [Title] - Final Fantasy IV (3D Remake) on Steam
42:48 <Ampera> that's the one you want?
42:52 <Nothing\> yup
43:00 <Nothing\> keep in mind it was meant for the ds
43:07 <Nothing\> original ds, not 3ds
43:24 <Nothing\> so it's about a 12 year old game meant for a portable console
43:37 <Nothing\> well, technically it's a 30 year old game but still
43:54 <Nothing\> this particular remake is 12 years old
44:13 <Nothing\> and they changed just about everything about it except the overall structure and storyline
44:58 <Nothing\> but even some of that was different because it's based on final fantasy iv, which was the japanese release. Where in north america it was released as final fantasy ii
45:11 <Nothing\> aww Ampera
45:14 <Nothing\> is this what i think it is
45:15 <Ampera> >:D
45:28 <Ampera> >opens it to find shower with your dad simulator
45:29 <Nothing\> awwww dude
45:37 <Nothing\> haha
45:44 <Nothing\> i actually already have that one
45:49 <Ampera> so do I
45:52 <Ampera> we can shower with our dad together
45:58 <Nothing\> it reminded me of that one atari game, custer's revenge
46:41 <Nothing\> where you're a cowboy and you have to screw the indian chick against a cactus (for some reason) while avoiding arrows raining down on you
47:00 <Nothing\> Ampera, seriously thanks man
47:09 <Ampera> <3
47:13 <Nothing\> i've had like an ear to ear grin on my face since seeing this
47:20 <Ampera> get well soon
47:36 <Nothing\> it means a lot cuz nobody's actually bought me a random gift like this without being obliged in.... i don't even remember
47:45 <Nothing\> especially not somebody who isn't family
48:12 <Ampera> I enjoy doing it on occasion now that I have the money and can
48:30 <Nothing\> Ampera, you reminded me of a nice deed i wanted to do
49:02 <Ampera> aww, are you gonna kill me?
49:09 <Ampera> that'd be so good of you
49:13 <Nothing\> there have been stories lately about people protesting outside of hospitals and nurses in ICUs being abused and cussed at etc by their covid patients who are unvaccinated and still denying they even have covid
50:02 <Nothing\> while simultaneously dealing with the protestors outside agitating other patients, like alzheimer's patients who don't understand what's happening. Or just keeping other patients awake or pissing off other ones etc
50:57 <Nothing\> so i was thinking i was gonna compile a list of maybe 10-20 such hospitals where the nurses are especially overworked and send them letters thanking them for what they're doing and urging them not to be discouraged and things of that nature
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51:52 <Nothing\> i figure they deal with so much shit every day, the least i could do is send them a nice letter as a way of saying thanks, keep up the awesome work
52:15 <Nothing\> cuz you read some of these stories and it really is horrible what these nurses have been going through
53:08 <Nothing\> i'll also throw $20 towards a charity i know is credible every so often
55:24 <Nothing\> i used to give $20 to actual homeless people but then i started getting suspicious of some of them
55:45 <Nothing\> like these ones i always see at intersections with nearly identical signs
56:09 <Nothing\> all written on scrap cardboard with the exact same message on them, verbatim in many cases
56:29 <Nothing\> so i figure it's gotta be some sort of racket
56:48 <Nothing\> and i know pan handlers can make more than working folks if they choose a good spot
57:50 <Nothing\> wait a minute Ampera
57:55 <Nothing\> i know why you bought me this
57:58 <Ampera> you do?
58:03 <Nothing\> you bought me this so i'll stop talking
58:05 <Nothing\> lol
58:06 <Ampera> no
58:10 <Ampera> I bought it because you wanted it
58:14 <Nothing\> i know, i'm kidding <3
58:22 <Ampera> if I wanted you to stop talking I could just ban you
58:26 <Nothing\> you bought it cuz you're awesome
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09:04 <Nothing\> awesome
09:21 <Nothing\> i got an appointment for my jab
09:36 <Nothing\> oh yeah, you hear they made a brand name for the pfizer vaccine now?
09:55 <Nothing\> they're calling it, and i'm probably misspelling this, komirnity
10:34 <Nothing\> pronounced koh-mrrrr-nit-tee
11:14 <Nothing\> it's supposed to be a portmanteau of 4 different words, covid, something, immunity and community? i forget
11:25 <Nothing\> but it's the dumbest brand name in the history of brand names
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16:58 <Ampera> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ASQQboFg98
16:59 <EEVBot> [Title] - Youtube: [1365] Goodbye to BosnianBill…
17:04 <Ampera> Bosnian Bill has retired from YouTube.
17:19 <watcher> sad
17:33 <Ampera> He's the reason I wanted to try lockpicking in the first place.
17:34 <watcher> will watch it now
17:38 <Ampera> lol
24:07 <watcher> strangs that lpl needs to make a video that bosnianbill is retired most times you do that on your onw channel
24:39 <Ampera> They know each other personally, so I imagine BB just didn't want to make a video and call it ends
24:52 <watcher> maybe
24:54 <Ampera> I'm sure he'll be back at some point, nobody ever truly quits YouTube until the die or get arrested.
25:02 <Ampera> *they
25:18 <watcher> germantoolsreviews
28:00 <watcher> after 2 years o (themperaly retireing) there is nu new video on his channel
28:05 <watcher> https://www.youtube.com/c/GermanToolReviews/videos
32:26 <Ampera> ew, windows
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52:20 <StupidLikeAFox> Ampera: Just saw that video before I tabbed over here.
52:35 <Ampera> ok
52:39 <Ampera> and how is that my fault
52:58 <StupidLikeAFox> Yeah, I have to imgaine he'll do a video every blue moon- but his reasons seem sound enough
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53:10 <StupidLikeAFox> when did I imply you were at fault? :P
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53:57 <Ampera> when did you imply that I wasn't?
54:02 <Ampera> tell me that with your facts and your logic
54:04 <StupidLikeAFox> ...
54:45 <StupidLikeAFox> Aight, just forget I said anything.
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56:15 <hsn> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenneck_wave
56:17 <EEVBot> [Title] - Zenneck wave - Wikipedia
58:18 <StupidLikeAFox> to anybody feeling less obtuse: 8 and 3.2ohm speakers seem pretty standard for radios, but 11 ohm is a new one on me
58:40 <StupidLikeAFox> this siren/PA module calls out for an 11 ohm 100 watt speaker on it's wiring diagram
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52:35 <DHess_US> Speaking of Bosnian Bill, This Old Tony hasn't posted any videos for a while either.
11:32 <EEVBot> [Twitter] - eevblog - RT @mikelectricstuf: @live_munro Dumbest idea since solar roadways
32:27 <EEVBot> [Twitter] - eevblog - RT @kenshirriff: This Agilent logic analyzer has a mood. https://t.co/z843Sp3FuE
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25:53 * Ampera hugs Nothing\ 
27:26 <T3sl4> ain't no river wide enough, to keep me from loving Ampera
27:39 <Ampera> that's a shame
27:43 <Ampera> good thing there's oceans
29:57 * T3sl4 gives Ampera a few dates
30:16 * Ampera gets T3sl4 right in the plums
30:22 <T3sl4> i picked up a 2lb box of them that cought my fancy
31:12 <Ampera> dates?
31:27 <T3sl4> medjool
32:18 * Ampera attacks T3sl4 with an elton john record
32:38 <Ampera> that'll teach you and your crocodile cock.
32:41 * T3sl4 beans Ampera with a queen cd
33:25 <Ampera> how are you doing T3sl4
33:36 <T3sl4> good :)
33:54 <Ampera> I wanted to go to bed at 6
33:58 <T3sl4> aside from the record lodged in my skull, ow
34:01 <Ampera> I think I managed about 45 minutes
34:18 <T3sl4> :(
34:29 <Ampera> ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
34:35 <Ampera> I wish I didn't have to sleep at all
36:34 <T3sl4> gotta sleep to live
36:36 <T3sl4> ironic
14:09 * T3sl4 gets steve30 some chinese https://imgur.com/gallery/KX89mSf
17:29 <T3sl4> Ampera: https://imgur.com/gallery/7sul8EZ
17:29 <EEVBot> [Title] - Love you, goodnight - Album on Imgur
17:41 <Ampera> <3
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40:48 <Halcyon> Mew
40:50 <Halcyon> Herro Ampera
40:52 * Ampera hugs Halcyon 
40:54 <Ampera> how are you doing Halcyon
41:35 <Halcyon> I'm doing good, I just had a nap
42:29 <Ampera> that's good
42:38 <Ampera> tomorrow I am smoking chicken
43:02 <Halcyon> Yummy
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07:19 <T3sl4> hi
21:59 <EEVBot> [Twitter] - eevblog - RT @ReutersScience: Pfizer said it has started a large study testing its investigational oral antiviral drug for the prevention of COVID-19…
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55:05 <Nothing\> when compiling a program in dev c++ i just noticed a curious line in the output
55:10 <Nothing\> - Output Size: 1.83208656311035 MiB
56:09 <Nothing\> as far as i can figure, 1.832086 would be 1,832,086 bytes
56:16 <Nothing\> so what's with the rest of the precision?
56:46 <Nothing\> well i guess you could have less than a byte, i was thinking of bits
57:15 <Nothing\> but even divided by 8, i think that level of precision would still work out to less than 1 bit
59:58 <Nothing\> yeah, 22,901,082.038879375... bibits?
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30:41 <steve30> hi
30:48 * steve30 meows at T3sl4 
32:53 * T3sl4 hugs steve30
36:43 <EEVBot> [Twitter] - eevblog - Next video will be done with Davinci Resolve, hopefully... It'll be either success or they take me away in a straig… https://t.co/Y9K8BPuIul
38:18 <steve30> Whenever i look at a twitter page, there are three options; "sign up with google", "sign up with apple", and "sign up with phone or email".
38:28 <steve30> Sometimes the Apple option is greyed out, but not always.
38:29 <T3sl4> i disabled cookies and that fixed it
38:41 <steve30> The other two never seem greyed out.
50:37 <EEVBot> [Twitter] - eevblog - Oh FFS. First problem. Audio glitches on my playback, like pop-pop-pop.
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54:05 <EEVBot> [Twitter] - eevblog - Google says something to do with audio caching... FFS, this is basic stuff.
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55:49 <EEVBot> [Twitter] - eevblog - I bet it's this. The timeline frame rate differs from my project frame rate. And what's the BS about you CAN'T UNDO… https://t.co/FBvF5k3HDY
59:18 <EEVBot> [Twitter] - eevblog - Yep, change the 24fps and it work fine. a) Why the hell can't I change the timeline frame rate after I start? b) Wh… https://t.co/PioyK5UpCS
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16:41 <EEVBot> [Twitter] - eevblog - Oh FFS, I have to do this to change a basic frame rate setting. https://t.co/dVWO3tC1OU
37:32 <EEVBot> [Twitter] - eevblog - This will be my universal bitch thread for Davinci. Next complaint, this horrible looking timecode font, it's almos… https://t.co/mtCZzhOg31
37:47 <T3sl4> as if that weren't evident half a dozen tweets ago
19:56 <T3sl4> https://www.reddit.com/r/toptalent/comments/pwskrq/cheese_gromit/
19:58 <EEVBot> [Title] - Reddit - Dive into anything
28:43 Topic Is: Official IRC channel of the EEVblog - www.eevblog.tv
28:43 Set By: (Halcyon) on: Fri Jan 24 20:18:27 2020
13:14 <steve30> i made it to tesco
32:46 <MrMobodies> Hello
33:01 <MrMobodies> Just discovered Google tryin an experiment
33:19 <MrMobodies> https://i.imgur.com/AACD1tX.jpg
34:51 <MrMobodies> https://i.imgur.com/85uq3hS.jpg
35:15 <MrMobodies> It didn' do it on another browser and computer running he same browser
35:25 <MrMobodies> cleared cache it stopped but can't find that same layou
35:35 <MrMobodies> and it seemed very slow when it was doing that
35:41 <MrMobodies> the fading and flashing
35:57 <MrMobodies> and I find very annoying
36:14 <MrMobodies> hiding the ###stev-9 just kills the results but doesn't seem to be there anymore
36:56 <MrMobodies> Noticed it happening intermittently yesteday then permanently until clearing the cache maybe they withdrew it after a while
45:57 <K> hello armatures
46:05 <T3sl4> hi stator
46:48 <MrMobodies> My left ear seems blocked
46:54 <MrMobodies> for a couple of days now
47:01 <MrMobodies> I can' pop out it like my right ear
47:12 <MrMobodies> but I had a cold last week that seems to be going slowly
47:16 <K> ear-flu
47:24 <K> not a joke
47:30 <MrMobodies> welL i hope it would clear
47:33 <MrMobodies> no pain though
47:48 <MrMobodies> in 2010 I had an infection and needed anti biotics
48:06 <MrMobodies> where I could sleep for 2 days
48:21 <MrMobodies> but the aggravation I had at the clinic waiting to see the doctor and saw a nurse who said to chew bubble gum and refuse to inspect it
48:26 <MrMobodies> I refused to leave
48:37 <MrMobodies> she accused me of being violent
48:55 <MrMobodies> I said I wasn't surprised witht he amount of warning stickers about abuse to staff will not be tollerated
49:05 <MrMobodies> but I wasn't abusive, just in a lot of pain
49:26 <MrMobodies> the nurse inspect my ear and agreed it was swollen
49:40 <MrMobodies> prescrible me these crystal things you put in a bowl of hot water
49:53 <MrMobodies> and if it becomes worse she'll prescribe anti biotics
50:07 <MrMobodies> it was a walk in clinic as my GP was shut on the weekends
50:31 <MrMobodies> My GP said she should have prescribe me the antibiotics
50:42 <MrMobodies> as it got much worse during the week
52:07 <MrMobodies> I think a this walk in polyclinic, I waited 2 hours and there were 10 patients, I think and 1 nurse serving and (i see the patients going into one room) but was promised a doctor at the counter.
52:30 <MrMobodies> but I was glad I didn't need hospital treatment that would involve longer waits
53:36 <steve30> i went to the walk in clinic in 2010. Only had to wait 10 minutes.
53:47 <MrMobodies> that's fast
53:56 <steve30> But they said they tended to get busier later on when the schools come out
54:40 <MrMobodies> my last GP before I moved, I had to wait an hour but they spent quality time inspecting and inquring about my health
54:45 <MrMobodies> they were Indians
55:44 <MrMobodies> and the husband liked explaining everything in detail when I had a bad cold and chest infection
56:14 <MrMobodies> how it gets blocked and how mediciations he could could prescibe worked to clear stuff
56:52 <MrMobodies> but he often complained about the goverment restrict access to certain mediciation because it can be brought cheaply off the counter
57:09 <MrMobodies> which was beside the points that some patients need stronger medication
57:43 <MrMobodies> I think he said it was something to do witht he clinical commisioning groups
57:51 <MrMobodies> and they'd have to see a specialist to around it
58:10 <MrMobodies> unless the patient had a health condition and was always prescribed it.
58:52 <MrMobodies> I think it was the GalPseud Plus cough medicine he gave me his last amount and told me to use it sparingly
59:25 <MrMobodies> it ran out last year February when I caught what I now believe was COVID.
00:04 <EEVBot> [Twitter] - eevblog - I interrupted my Davinci editing to go back to Vegas for a quick video on the Tesla Victoria Big Battery fire repor… https://t.co/24SUJ6kGlu
00:09 <MrMobodies> he said he was worried that he could get fined for doing the right things.
01:12 <steve30> that's the NHS for you
49:20 <hsn> So today's news .. macron france guy won another egg?
49:58 <hsn> Lemon could u not throw lemons .. eggs arent that cool?
00:59 <K> takes less time to produce an egg
09:15 <hsn> Make sense lol
59:14 <EEVBot> [Twitter] - eevblog - RT @roodave: Tesla Megapack "big battery" fire in Victoria (30th July 2021) findings summary (video by @eevblog) https://t.co/hFWpq22mgH a…
00:59 <EEVBot> [Twitter] - eevblog - NEW EEVblog Video! EEVblog 1422 - Tesla Victoria Big Battery Fire REPORT https://t.co/3ZJwH5xNSt
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24:31 <EEVBot> [Twitter] - eevblog - I predict that with this vaccine passport BS for businesses, Facebook and other sites will start removing negative… https://t.co/ke0U9K8STl
27:48 <Nothing\> man, i'm starting to think these cannabis extract cartridges are an even greater waste of money than cannabis
27:49 * Ampera hugs Nothing\ 
27:58 <Nothing\> i'm spending damn near $50 a day on these things :/
28:04 <Nothing\> hey Ampera!
28:09 * Nothing\ double hugs Ampera
28:11 <Ampera> how are you doing nowhere man?
28:19 <Nothing\> one for yesterday, i saw one but i missed it
28:35 <Nothing\> i'm alright, cold like every morning for some reason but otherwise good
28:57 <Nothing\> btw thanks for that game again, i spent a good couple of hours binging last night
29:22 <Nothing\> turns out they tweaked some features for the PC version so that was a nice surprise
29:44 <Nothing\> and the graphics held up surprisingly well for a DS port being played on 4k
29:50 <K> 50$ a day on anything is prolly too much
30:15 <Nothing\> k: yeah i mean i limit it to one every few days cuz it's just not practical to buy one every day
30:33 <Nothing\> but that's almost what i was spending on dilaudid when i was addicted to it. before i went on methadone
30:34 <Ampera> today I start smoking
30:42 <Nothing\> that stuff i was spending $500 a week on
30:57 <Nothing\> my trick was i'd get cash advances on my credit card
31:09 <Nothing\> lol then my grandfather paid off my credit card for me when i maxed it out
31:15 <Nothing\> so i went and maxed it out again
31:41 <K> Ampera, is the smoke comming from your ears?
31:44 <Nothing\> wound up just defaulting and going into hiding and now the statute of limitations has made the debt null and void
32:02 <Nothing\> Ampera, well just so long as you don't full out combust
32:19 <Nothing\> Ampera, it doesn't look like many people liked this game very much based on the achievements
32:29 <Ampera> no I'm serious, gonna try smoking today
32:39 <Nothing\> Ampera, don't
32:43 <Nothing\> trust me, you won't like it
32:49 <Nothing\> and it's not worth the risk of addiction
33:00 <Nothing\> EVERYBODY gets sick their first time smoking
33:07 <Ampera> you don't even know what I'm going to be smoking
33:11 <Nothing\> it's an inevitable fact of life
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33:15 <Nothing\> true, i do not
33:28 <Nothing\> but when one says smoking generally it's implied to be tobacco
33:32 <Ampera> I'm smoking chicken.
33:39 <Nothing\> that's why i told my mom i should light up a joint in a walmart
33:47 <Nothing\> cuz all of the no smoking signs say no smoking or vaping
33:56 <Nothing\> and the no-smoking bylaws only apply to cigarettes
33:58 <Nothing\> and vaping
34:08 <Nothing\> but the thing i wonder about vaping
34:25 <Nothing\> i'm able to vape without exhaling anything. at least nothing visible
34:33 <Ampera> It has the opposite effect that a fine cigar does.
34:40 <Nothing\> but if i hold it long enough it just condenses in my lungs and nothing comes out
34:41 <Ampera> Instead of making you look cooler, it makes you look like a dickhead.
34:54 <Nothing\> so i use that trick to vape in places where i can't vape
34:54 <Ampera> and I can't see any other reason why you'd want to smoke
35:22 <Nothing\> Ampera, honestly i did it because 1. i could and 2. i honestly felt cool doing it
35:35 <Ampera> are you cool?
35:53 <Nothing\> but i started cuz i went to cuba when i was 12 and found they'd sell me packs of this brand called hollywoods for $1 each
35:56 <Nothing\> or marlboros for $2
36:04 <Nothing\> which, i dunno how they got marlboros in cuba
36:05 <Ampera> among my stranger dreams are the ones where I have a desperate need and want to smoke a cigarette
36:11 <Nothing\> we don't even get marlboros in canada
36:21 <Ampera> I have no desire to do it in the waking world
36:35 <Ampera> just the unconscious version of me has a predisposition towards tobacco for some reason
37:06 <Nothing\> dammit
37:19 <Nothing\> talking about the cuban trade embargo's making me wanna watch scarface
37:23 <Ampera> watch your fucking mouth
37:26 <Nothing\> which you should totally watch if you haven't
37:35 <Nothing\> Ampera, okay castor troy
37:51 <Nothing\> i seriously read that in nicholas cage's voice
37:58 <Ampera> I have no idea who or what any of these things are
38:44 <Nothing\> Ampera, that's something a character nicholas cage played in a mediocre but nostalgic action movie by john woo from the 90's called face off
38:59 <Ampera> you're losing me harder
39:08 <Nothing\> it's a great cornball
39:15 <Ampera> I don't know what that is either
39:25 <Ampera> am I awake right now?
39:41 <Nothing\> as the name implies it's about a cop who goes undercover in a prison as the guy he put away to get information from his friends
39:41 <Ampera> reality is making less sense than usual
39:48 <Nothing\> and to go really undercover they take his face
39:50 <Nothing\> OFF
39:54 <Nothing\> as they say in the movie
40:00 <Nothing\> you've gotta emphasize the OFF
40:14 <Nothing\> and replace it with the face of the guy he arrested
40:18 <Ampera> so either the US has decided to end all of its active deployments, china has stopped abusing human rights, and the UN has declared world peace
40:21 <Ampera> or I'm asleep right now
40:46 <Nothing\> cuz that's totally legal and every police department has funding and resources to perform CIAesque operations like that
41:06 <Nothing\> Ampera, yeah it was really an awesome movie in its day but hasn't aged well at all
41:32 <Nothing\> actually it'd make a really good umm... oh what's that thing the guys from mst3k do now...
41:36 <Nothing\> rifftrax!
41:39 <Nothing\> that's it
42:03 <Nothing\> ah god bless rifftrax. The only way I can watch horrible cult movies.
42:23 <Nothing\> hey lemme ask you something Ampera
42:34 <Ampera> if you must
42:36 <Nothing\> on steam, do you ever see it when i play a game or come online or anything like that?
42:46 <Ampera> maybe
42:56 <Nothing\> hrm it makes me uncomfortable
43:02 <Ampera> I have like 80 inches horizontal worth of monitor
43:04 <Nothing\> i don't like people knowing when i'm online
43:09 <Nothing\> lol nice
43:19 <Ampera> and steam notifications are tiny blips in the bottom right of one of them that stays around for a few seconds
43:23 <Ampera> so I really don't pay attention muhc
43:24 <Nothing\> lol dude that reminds me of when i got my first 21in monitor
43:39 <Ampera> my largest is a 49" (diagonal) monitor
43:40 <Nothing\> i'd sit a foot away from it cuz my eyes suck and i won't wear my glasses
43:57 <Nothing\> and i was in awe at how i actually had to turn my head to see the full display
44:07 <Nothing\> i'd never had to do that with a display before that
44:23 <Nothing\> meanwhile now, i sit about 2.5 feet from a 55in tv
44:30 <Nothing\> so my vision's clearly getting worse
44:32 <Ampera> my full desktop resolution is 8480x1080
44:45 <Ampera> mmm
44:49 <Ampera> peach flavoured black tea
45:01 <Nothing\> how can you see anything? I mean even using upscaling there are some games that just don't scale enough for 4k
45:37 <Nothing\> or the worst is trying to find the upscaling setting. Searching through microscopic menus to find that one option IF it's even there
46:27 <Ampera> I see things with my eyes
46:32 <Ampera> I have 4 monitors
46:43 <Ampera> the total resolution of my desktop is 8480x1080
46:49 <Nothing\> ah fuck
47:01 <Ampera> which is all the horizontal components of the monitor summed, and then the greatest vertical component
47:02 <Nothing\> you just reminded me i still need to buy a display to hdmi adapter
47:12 <Nothing\> so i can get dual tvs on this bastard
47:17 <Ampera> my center monitor, which I use for games, is 3840x1080
47:20 <Nothing\> i've still got a 40in tv upstairs that needs using
47:22 <Ampera> or 2xHD
47:29 <Ampera> with an aspect ratio of 32:9
47:45 <Nothing\> i figure it'd be nice having a dual display cuz then i can have my programming stuff on one screen, and the documentation on the other screen
48:56 <Nothing\> instead of either flipping back and forth. Or lately I've just taken to tiling the windows, but that's a pain because windows doesn't do it automatically and with the gesture commands where you move a window to the side and it'll maximize horizontally and stuff like that, it's impossible to move a window flush against the top, bottom or sides of the screen
49:04 <Ampera> because one of my monitors is 32:9, I effectively have 5 displays
49:14 <Ampera> and I do use them all
49:27 <Nothing\> Ampera, yeah i think skinnier aspect ratios is the way of the future
49:36 <Ampera> 5:4 > all
49:48 <Nothing\> i mean if you think about it, you're not looking up and down on a monitor a lot
49:51 <Nothing\> except for reading
50:05 <Nothing\> that's my only problem is it makes reading a bit more cumbersome
51:02 <Nothing\> it's kind of a catch 22 on a mobile device because you get enough horizontal space to actually view a full line of text without it being chopped up. But then you can only view 4 lines at a time.
51:37 <Nothing\> and man, wtf @ android
51:47 <Nothing\> my mom's old phone used to have an option to broadcast to the TV
51:53 <Nothing\> now for some reason the new one doesn't
52:03 <Nothing\> actually they removed a lot of really useful features
52:16 <Nothing\> like being able to turn my phone on by tapping the screen twice
52:40 <Nothing\> although fingerprint recognition has made that obsolete. I dunno how I ever got by without fingerprint recognition.
54:10 <Nothing\> doesn't work at all like i thought it would. I figured they'd just use a touch screen with a really high resolution and just use that.
54:23 <Nothing\> But it's some sort of, i'm guessing capacitance sensor in the power button
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57:56 <Nothing\> hrm i didn't ration as much ejuice for myself as i wanted
58:06 <Nothing\> damn you past-Nothing\
58:12 <Nothing\> he's always one step ahead of me!
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00:43 <Ampera> Nothing\, do you like nightmares?
02:58 <Nothing\> if i did, i'd be in heaven
03:08 <Ampera> :/
03:13 <Ampera> nobody likes nightmares
03:14 <Ampera> I don't get it
03:24 <Ampera> I love them, but never really get to experience them
03:25 <Nothing\> i never got the connection to horses
03:42 <Nothing\> like why are they called nightMARES
03:51 <Ampera> I hate you.
03:51 <Nothing\> what's a female horse have to do with it?
04:01 <Ampera> like, a lot
04:05 <Nothing\> lol
04:55 <Nothing\> that's like my cousin naming his son jackson
05:02 <Nothing\> so i ask him, who the hell is jack?
05:17 <Nothing\> he was all confused, so explained jackson literally mean's jack's son
05:22 <Ampera> jackson is a last name
05:28 <Nothing\> so who's jack and why are you fathering his kid?
05:35 <Nothing\> it's a first name too
05:52 <Nothing\> but yeah, i guess that's more in the context of a surname isn't it
06:11 <Nothing\> like before they had surnames and you were just known as like "john, son of bob"
06:21 <Nothing\> or "jim of essex"
07:11 <Nothing\> or there were the job based names, like chandler, taylor, schwarz, etc
07:31 <Nothing\> wait
07:35 <Nothing\> i'm thinking of sneider
07:40 <Nothing\> not schwarz
07:52 <Nothing\> schwarz is black
09:06 * Ampera starts burning things
09:24 <Ampera> I see you're enjoying the game I got you >:D
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10:46 * Ampera hugs Halcyon 
10:53 <Halcyon> Ello
10:57 <Ampera> you're up late
11:12 <Halcyon> I just finished work and back in my accommodation
12:07 <Ampera> how are you doing
12:26 <Halcyon> Not too bad. How are you?
12:48 <Ampera> waiting for there to be something for me to do at work
12:53 <Ampera> plenty of stuff for me to do
12:55 <Ampera> I just can't do any of it
12:59 <Ampera> aeiou
13:50 <Halcyon> Aw
20:15 <Halcyon> What's been happening?
22:04 <Ampera> environmental issues
22:24 <Ampera> the project I'm on has a lot of moving parts, and if everything's not set up exactly right, I can't do anything
22:35 <Ampera> and much of that is in the hands of other people
24:36 <Halcyon> *hugs*
25:17 <Nothing\> mmm cream of brocolli soup
25:20 <Nothing\> er
25:27 <Halcyon> Yummy
25:33 <Nothing\> cream of lieutenant broccoli soup
25:39 <Nothing\> lol
25:50 <Halcyon> I'm not sure how to take that :P
26:06 <Nothing\> oh it's just a packet, one of the knorr brand soups
26:18 <Nothing\> they're not too hearty, but very creamy
26:42 <Nothing\> i never understood the point of soups that don't have a lot of other ingredients
26:51 <Nothing\> like those campbell's soups
27:01 <Nothing\> it's just food flavoured liquid
27:07 <Nothing\> how is that filling?
27:28 <electrohead> o/
27:29 <Nothing\> i'd get the same sensation from drinking a glass of water with a spoonfull of salt
27:32 * electrohead hugs Halcyon's face
27:32 <Nothing\> hey electrohead
27:37 <electrohead> hey mate
27:40 * Nothing\ hugs electrohead 
27:44 * electrohead hugs Nothing\
27:49 <Nothing\> how you doing?
27:52 <Halcyon> Hey buddy :)
28:11 <Nothing\> ugh my prostate feels weird
28:14 <electrohead> tired, waking up, inhaling caffeine
28:17 <electrohead> o.O
28:22 <Nothing\> i've been getting it a lot lately, i'm wondering if it's swollen
28:22 <electrohead> stop fisting yourself?
28:30 <Nothing\> it doesn't hurt but it's uncomfortable as hell
28:40 <Halcyon> Nothing\, I don't know what a "weird" protate feels like?
28:48 <Halcyon> Maybe go see a doctor if you're concerned?
29:00 <Nothing\> Halcyon, my doctor only does phone appointments
29:03 <Nothing\> for literally everything
29:08 <Nothing\> it's fucking stupid
29:08 <electrohead> you need a new doctor, then
29:11 <Nothing\> and cowardly
29:18 <Halcyon> Well how are you supposed to get your prostate checked then?
29:19 <Nothing\> he's supposed to be a front line worker
29:24 <Nothing\> and here he is hiding at home
29:37 <Halcyon> Find another doctor?
29:41 <Nothing\> trying to diagnose my torn rotatorcuff over the phone
29:47 <Nothing\> Halcyon, doctors are in short supply
29:53 <Halcyon> Mmm
29:54 <Nothing\> especially with covid
30:06 <Nothing\> and most of them are only doing phone appointments
30:15 <Halcyon> Well I'm not sure what options you have
30:19 <Nothing\> which is stupid because my shrink STOPPED phone appointments a month ago
30:25 <Nothing\> and his office is right in the hospital
30:34 <Nothing\> so the doctor i don't need to see, demands to see me
30:45 <Nothing\> while the doctor i DO Need to see, refuses to see me
30:51 <Nothing\> what sense does that make
31:01 <Nothing\> Halcyon, i have none
31:08 <Nothing\> except maybe to go to the ER but screw that
31:08 <Halcyon> Can you tell them you have anxiety because of your medical concern and they can give you a referral to someone who will actully see you?
31:37 <Nothing\> nah they'll only refer to specialists and even then they can't tell you whether they're actually seeing people in person or not
31:52 <Nothing\> you can't get a referal to another GP because that'd be taking money out of their pockets
32:01 <Halcyon> Well that sucks
32:06 <Nothing\> that'd be like asking your mechanic if he knows of a better mechanic
32:15 <Nothing\> yah really
33:05 <Nothing\> and get this, eyecare isn't covered by our provincial healthcare anymore because optometrists won't deal with them anymore since they were only getting paid about half of what appointments cost them
33:14 <Nothing\> so you can't use provincial insurance for eyecare
33:29 <Nothing\> but there's also a law (for some reason) that you can't pay out of pocket for eyecare
33:37 <Nothing\> so basically all of ontario is without eyecare
33:38 <Halcyon> I don't bother with private health, but then again, if you're relatively healthy, there is no real point to having it
34:39 <Nothing\> i keep telling my american friends
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34:47 <Nothing\> just because healthcare's free, doesn't mean it's good
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35:04 <Halcyon> Oops
35:34 <Halcyon> I would have thought Canada's healthcare would be fairly decent... but then again, I don't know much about Canaa
35:38 <Halcyon> Canada
38:26 <Nothing\> nah our healthcare's been shit since at least the mid 90's
38:43 <Nothing\> it's gotten better, i'll give them that but it's still far from what it should be
39:10 <Nothing\> there used to be a huge doctor shortage because they weren't being paid enough, so i went almost 10 years without a family doctor
39:31 <Nothing\> or i've waited in excess of 18 hours to see a doctor in a&e
40:02 <Nothing\> or again in a&e i've found myself in a bed in the hall way because there were no rooms available
40:20 <Nothing\> that night felt like something out of a movie. They were so busy, there musta been a big accident somewhere.
40:44 <Nothing\> or even just going to a walk-in clinic you'd be liable to wait 2-3 hours to see somebody
41:07 <Nothing\> thankfully these days i'm literally just in and out when i see my doctor. When he DID come to the office
41:27 <Nothing\> even my methadone doctor, i rarely wait more than half an hour.
42:07 <Nothing\> usually with him il'l just check in, do my drug test, then go out for a coffee and by the time i get back it's time to see him and if i missed my turn, the nurses give me priority cuz they're awesome like that.
42:14 <Halcyon> That sucks to hear :(
42:29 <Nothing\> where other places, if you're out when they call you, you go back to the end of the queue
42:45 <Nothing\> Halcyon, yeah but i literally thank god i'm not american
43:03 <Nothing\> i've been reading that their system is either on the brink of collapse, or is already there
43:16 <Halcyon> Yeh I don't know much about their system either
43:52 <Nothing\> i read an editorial about a guy in texas who had a swollen pancreas from gallstones, which is a very treatable condition. Just requires routine surgery and an overnight stay in the ICU.
44:08 <Nothing\> but they couldn't find an ICU bed for him because of all of the COVID patients
44:20 <Nothing\> and he wound up dying while he was waiting for surgery
45:27 <Nothing\> the author of the piece was saying when somebody dies of a very treatable condition in the middle of a major metropolitan area with a hospital that has the facilities to carry out said treatment, the system's already broken
45:43 <Halcyon> I'd have to agree with that
46:06 <Nothing\> meanwhile here i hear about nurses in ICUs being abused by COVID patients who are anti-vaxxers and don't believe they have covid
46:19 <Nothing\> they're being overworked because so many are quitting, there's a huge shortage
46:40 <Nothing\> actually the nurse and doctor shortage is so bad here, they're epediting the graduation of medschool students so we can have more doctors
46:50 <Nothing\> so they're letting the doctors and nurses graduate early
46:54 <Halcyon> As long as the quality doesn't suffer
47:02 <Nothing\> they were even letting criminals out of prison to stop the spread
47:09 <Nothing\> myself included, thank god
47:17 <Nothing\> i only served 10 days of a 3 month sentence lol
47:35 <Halcyon> Was this that assault thing?
47:39 <Nothing\> yeah
48:00 <Nothing\> i tell you man, despite how stressful it was, it worked out soooooo much better than i ever could have imagined
48:13 <K> the jail?
48:20 <Halcyon> I'm glad
48:21 <Nothing\> like, so well that it was the straw that broke the camel's back when it came to my accepting God into my life
48:27 <Nothing\> K: yup
48:32 <Halcyon> Ahhh you're religious now?
48:39 <Nothing\> Halcyon, i am and i'm not
48:59 <Halcyon> I am not religious at all, never have been, never will.
49:05 <Halcyon> Most Australia's aren't religious
49:23 <Nothing\> i would say i'm pious and i enjoy the bible. There are parts of it which genuinely bring my comfort and joy in times of trouble. Even though i don't believe in it, or in christ.
49:26 <Halcyon> *Australians
49:38 <Nothing\> I still think they're stories with worthy messages
49:41 <Nothing\> some of them, anyways
49:49 <Halcyon> Sure, I can accept that
49:59 <Nothing\> i dunno what to think about lot's daughter's getting him trashed then raping him so they can have children
50:26 <Nothing\> or the absence of any wives in the lives of cain and abel
50:41 <K> tough love
50:45 <Nothing\> unless they did it with eve
50:56 <Nothing\> cuz she woulda been the only female on earth at the time
51:15 <Nothing\> though some scholars think cain and abel may have had wives or concubines that were just never mentioned
51:16 <Halcyon> I guess that point of moot because that's not how it happened :P
51:30 <Nothing\> or that there was a race of lesser humans who interbred with cain and abel
51:59 <Nothing\> Halcyon, yeah i don't believe in the christian cosmogeny either
52:31 <Nothing\> it raises some interesting questions about the story though
53:09 <Nothing\> but yeah i mean my conversion didn't exactly happen overnight
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53:53 <Nothing\> it was something that had been in my mind for years prior to my actual conversion, i'd been wondering for quite some time and noticing things and having certain experiences i wouldn't expect anyone to understand on account of them being so personal and subjective
54:30 <Halcyon> Fair enough
54:40 <Nothing\> but after my arrest and how absolutely and utterly perfect everything went down in exactly the right way that everything turned out the best it possibly could have, given the circumstances
54:47 <Nothing\> save for the charges being dropped all together
54:53 <Halcyon> Indeed
54:55 <Nothing\> i just couldn't deny it anymore
55:17 <Nothing\> part of it was letting my pride down because my pride kept my from accepting it for a long time
55:39 <Nothing\> that and the association i'd built up between god and organized religion, in particular catholocism
55:59 <Nothing\> once i realized they've merely usurped his name, the idea of a god was MUCH more pallatable
56:44 <Nothing\> and then there were many other experiences like the arrest, but not nearly as significant on their own
57:11 <Nothing\> it was a much more complicated process than most people make it out to be
57:40 <Nothing\> then i was really disillusioned by the fact that my life didn't magically get better like you always hear born again christians talking about
58:03 <Nothing\> i went into it expecting god would fix everything for me like they said, but that's not how it is at all
58:18 <Nothing\> instead it's more like i work as a team with God, ie god only helps those who help themselves
58:40 <Nothing\> so he help me, he makes things easier for me, but ultimately it's up to me to make the choice to do the thing
58:58 <Nothing\> and to put some sort of effort into it. carry my weight.
59:14 <Nothing\> instead of just resting on my laurels and expecting god to do everything for me
59:42 <Nothing\> mind you this is all just stuff which is largely speculation based on my own subjective experiences
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