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The Lounge / Re: I am here.

« on: August 19, 2023, 05:16:04 AM »

I don't think these will work for a holiday in the Greek islands. fish is a valid currency here. You can spend a week in a good otel with selling 100 kilos of turbot, guess.

Won't the hotel end up with an awful lot of turbot? 

It's a good fish though, I'll give you that.

The hotel can serve it !

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The Lounge / Re: I am here.

« on: August 11, 2023, 08:48:20 AM »

Turning up and quoting dead people in a dead language on a dying forum, I’ll need something more, are you signed up to Junks Penguin game?

No, I am still trying to figure out what's going on.

I am skeptic whether this Real pez or not. He did not enter wp by ignoring my invitation. Secondly, crouton told that him probably not pez, with the calculation speed 666 zegabilion per second.

Could the unexpected deaths or disappearances of members have an effect on the dying of forum, Jura?

Hey wise, unfortunately I don't have much time because I'm on vacation and always driving around, heh.

What kind of vacation is this? Like a chauffeur job at the holiday resort?

If it would be like you said, you've been on vacation your whole life. Because you already live in the Greek Islands.  Hey, it's not a vacation, man.

Hahaha yeah it's more like a chauffeur job tbh, I've driven more than 1000km this month.

Alas, I do not live in the islands, and the way things are going normal people from Greece won't be able to visit them any more, because the bastards are driving the prices through the roof while Greek people are getting poorer.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Dune Movie

« on: August 09, 2023, 01:01:36 AM »

Well I liked the first one, but I was in horrible pain while watching it. I hope I won't be in horrible pain when watching the second one.

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The Lounge / Re: I am here.

« on: August 09, 2023, 12:59:30 AM »

Damn I let many days pass before replying again to this thread... Sorry guys

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The Lounge / Re: I am here.

« on: August 09, 2023, 12:58:30 AM »

Turning up and quoting dead people in a dead language on a dying forum, I’ll need something more, are you signed up to Junks Penguin game?

No, I am still trying to figure out what's going on.

I am skeptic whether this Real pez or not. He did not enter wp by ignoring my invitation. Secondly, crouton told that him probably not pez, with the calculation speed 666 zegabilion per second.

Could the unexpected deaths or disappearances of members have an effect on the dying of forum, Jura?

Hey wise, unfortunately I don't have much time because I'm on vacation and always driving around, heh.

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The Lounge / Re: I am here.

« on: August 04, 2023, 05:29:27 AM »

Turning up and quoting dead people in a dead language on a dying forum, I’ll need something more, are you signed up to Junks Penguin game?

No, I am still trying to figure out what's going on.

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The Lounge / Re: I am here.

« on: August 04, 2023, 05:28:55 AM »

I am highly skeptical. It is known that Greece has angered the gods and is currently being destroyed.

The Mitsotakis family is known to bring bad fortune, but we didn't listen and elected them for another 4 years.

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The Lounge / Re: I am here.

« on: August 02, 2023, 04:58:14 AM »

Cogito ergo sum

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The Lounge / I am here.

« on: August 02, 2023, 01:12:42 AM »

Now.

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The Lounge / Re: Train tragedy in Greece

« on: March 03, 2023, 08:18:46 AM »

Unfortunately, when your country got into financial difficulties it was pounced on by the three furies the World Bank, the IMF and the WTO.

Here’s some aid money, now give us your infrastructure, gut your workers rights, hand over your resources, oh and you will never be able to pay the interest, enjoy.

Yeah, and the damage was so bad it doesn't look like the Greek society will ever fully recover... Every year now is worse not better. At this point there is never any money left for most people under 40 after covering necessities and infrastructure is just constantly declining, this new accident being the latest trend indicator... The population is among the most aging in the world and no one wants to have children in a situation like that.

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The Lounge / Re: Train tragedy in Greece

« on: March 03, 2023, 06:39:57 AM »

That's the really sad part, that girl looking for her friend isn't going to find her, barring a miracle. The front cars were destroyed completely and caught on fire... If they haven't found people yet then I don't think they're still alive... And it's just really sad to see people looking for them and posting pictures etc. It's just a really bad time these few days... Oof.

As far as I know I didn't personally know any of the people in the crash which is something. But some of my friends did, because it involved so many students... It's just infuriating how negligent the railway company was.

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The Lounge / Train tragedy in Greece

« on: March 03, 2023, 02:48:28 AM »

2 days ago two trains collided in Greece. Officially there is more than 50 people dead, and about as many more missing. There's probably going to be more than 100 deaths: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64820085

These days have been terrible. My partner is panicking because she used that line a lot, and her friend is looking for her friend who is missing. Many if not most of the people in the wreck were students because they commuted from one city to another to go to their universities, and a lot had gone down to Patra for the carnival so they were returning.

The infuriating thing is that it was completely and easily preventable. The government is trying to pin the blame on the station master for forgetting to press a button or whatever. The media is playing the same game for the most part. But that is just ridiculous.

The state owned company in charge of the railways was privatized after the crisis and sold for less than 43 million euros, and since then the state has granted the Italian company in charge hundreds of millions to keep operating some less profitable train routes. It was basically theft. The new private company also bought some shit trains that Switzerland had abolished because they were too unreliable and dangerous and advertised them here as ultra modern and amazing. These were not the trains involved here (although they have broken down multiple times), but it just goes to show the degree of abandonment and cynicism. Even more importantly, the fucking signage just plain isn't working, neither are any of the automated systems that are supposed to be in charge of routing the trains etc, and nobody is bothering to fix them, so it's all basically down to one dude pressing buttons, and if that dude forgets to press one button or if it breaks or whatever apparently the trains collide, because the drivers can't tell if another train is on the same line due to signage not working. Furthermore, the personnel is now far less than legally required, less than half the European average per kilometer of line, and not even close to what it was before the crisis and privatization.

The railway worker unions had attempted to strike many times and had given warnings many times, including about 20 days ago when they said there would be more accidents if nothing is done. But they were ignored and their strikes are being deemed illegal according to a new law.  Even the strike they are doing right now, after the accident, is being deemed illegal, despite the fact they have literally every reason to be doing that. After all many of their coworkers just died doing what they will have to be doing every day.

Greece has the deadliest railways in the EU:
https://www.balcanicaucaso.org/eng/Areas/Greece/Warning-No-Signal-199483

The privatization of the lines was a joke, and the new owners are practically mocking us:
https://www.investigate-europe.eu/en/2022/etr470-train-switzerland-greece-italy-trainose

This is criminal but the people in fault will not be prosecuted, only the mostly irrelevant immediately "responsible" people (if they're even really responsible and the system didn't just malfunction which is very likely) who should never have been put in the position to have so many lives depending on their simple easy to make errors in the first place. It's highly unlikely that anyone more responsible will be touched since, get this, the Supreme Court Prosecutor who has been put in charge to investigate the disaster has a son who recently got hired in the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure. It's just all bad.

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Technology, Science & Alt Science / Re: GPTChat

« on: December 25, 2022, 11:37:37 AM »

I never got a coxsackievirus vaccine. Or a GI infection vaccine. I wasn't surprised it didn't protect me from either.

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Technology, Science & Alt Science / Re: GPTChat

« on: December 24, 2022, 02:36:55 PM »

Potential complications of myocarditis may include:

Heart failure. Untreated, myocarditis can damage the heart muscle so that it can't pump blood well. In severe cases, myocarditis-related heart failure may require a ventricular assist device or a heart transplant.

Heart attack or stroke. If the heart muscle is injured and can't pump blood, the blood that collects in the heart can form clots. A heart attack can occur if a clot blocks one of the heart (coronary) arteries. A stroke can occur if a blood clot in the heart travels to an artery leading to the brain.

Rapid or irregular heart rhythms (arrhythmias). Damage to the heart muscle can change how the heart beats. Certain arrhythmias increase the risk of stroke.

Sudden cardiac death. Certain serious arrhythmias can cause the heart to stop beating (sudden cardiac arrest). It's deadly if not treated immediately (sudden cardiac death).

Well no shit, good thing none of these things happened to me though.

Anyways, I'm guessing you want to insist that somehow the vaccine I got a year ago was the cause of my myocarditis, not the enterovirus (Coxsackie) that I was diagnosed with and sick with for more than 10 miserable days before I got the myocarditis, which is known to be one of the most common causes of myocarditis and the same virus that gave one of my closest friends myocarditis about 5 years ago (before covid and the vaccines). So no, it was neither the vaccine, or covid (which gives a lot of people myocarditis).

Believe it or not people still get sick of other things that are not related to covid or vaccines. I know, shocking. Last week I got a GI infection from my gf. Do you also have a theory about GI infections being because of vaccines?

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Technology, Science & Alt Science / Re: GPTChat

« on: December 22, 2022, 12:03:09 PM »

You're doing it easy mode in Australia, I managed to not get covid all this time until about a month ago despite everyone around getting it, because I work with a bunch of little children that are always sick. So I still think I beat you.

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Technology, Science & Alt Science / Re: GPTChat

« on: December 18, 2022, 01:08:34 AM »

This has turned into the stupidest thread ever, a title which it probably won't hold very long from the way things are looking around here.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Is 1+1 Equal to 2?

« on: December 08, 2022, 06:53:41 AM »

So... you are using a summation that isn't really a summation as a summation and got nonsense. Profit?

Well summation of convergent infinite series isn't really summation either.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Is 1+1 Equal to 2?

« on: December 03, 2022, 08:55:58 AM »

Well my myocarditis was because of enterovirus after all, not covid, I had never gotten covid up to that point (though I did get covid after my myocarditis). I had a friend who had the same thing a few years ago. But I don't have scarring, it's good now.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Is 1+1 Equal to 2?

« on: December 02, 2022, 02:41:02 PM »

Hi wise, what's up? Fun thread.

Glad to see you're fine. Hope things have gone well, or corrected.

They have gone pretty damn well actually, thanks!

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Is 1+1 Equal to 2?

« on: December 02, 2022, 02:40:19 PM »

Hi wise, what's up? Fun thread.

My heart overflows.

I'm glad you are OK Pez.

We can't divide by zero because there would be nothing to divide.

I didn't say anything about 0, idk where that came from... I was talking about dividing with 3. Maybe I made a typo.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Is 1+1 Equal to 2?

« on: December 01, 2022, 11:39:22 AM »

Hi wise, what's up? Fun thread.

Welcome back, buddy!
We thought you died and we were ready to teabag your corpse.
Dip dip.

Wait who are you now? The name changes confuse me.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Is 1+1 Equal to 2?

« on: December 01, 2022, 11:38:17 AM »

You know what occurred to me the other day and low key blew my mind. You might enjoy it.

Theoretically it is possible to divide a block of given size into three equal parts. There is no magic stopping this, in theory it's absolutely possible although in practice we only go to a few decimal places.

Yet our mathematics can't divide 1 into three equal parts. Why is this? What are we missing?

But you can divide 1 to 3 equal parts.

However what you can't do is divide an angle to 3 equal parts according to a certain ruleset.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Is 1+1 Equal to 2?

« on: December 01, 2022, 11:32:54 AM »

Hi wise, what's up? Fun thread.

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The Lounge / Re: Tropical Storm Nine

« on: October 02, 2022, 05:20:03 AM »

I'm so glad we don't get this shit...

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The Lounge / Re: Dabbing on the Americans by being hospitalized for myocarditis without paying

« on: September 29, 2022, 01:55:11 AM »

I'm out of the hospital now. Finally, I really wanted to shower properly.

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The Lounge / Re: Dabbing on the Americans by being hospitalized for myocarditis without paying

« on: September 27, 2022, 07:27:17 AM »

And put that ice-cream down.

You can't force me.

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The Lounge / Re: Dabbing on the Americans by being hospitalized for myocarditis without paying

« on: September 26, 2022, 09:36:29 PM »

Oh no! I hope you will be okay.

Well I hope that too, I think I'm fine, I don't feel something wrong right now... Sooo I hope troponin goes down soon.

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The Lounge / Re: Dabbing on the Americans by being hospitalized for myocarditis without paying

« on: September 26, 2022, 02:10:07 PM »

No exercise or alcohol for 6 months. Damn. It's too soon to be acting like a grandpa for me.

Oh fuck that noise!  Next they're going to tell you that you can't play video games and masturbate!

Apparently, masturbation or sex may not be a good idea for some time either.

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The Lounge / Re: Dabbing on the Americans by being hospitalized for myocarditis without paying

« on: September 26, 2022, 11:19:23 AM »

Also I'm sick of people coming into my room to take my blood. Let me die in peace

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The Lounge / Re: Dabbing on the Americans by being hospitalized for myocarditis without paying

« on: September 26, 2022, 11:14:47 AM »

Myocarditis?  Did you get Covid?

Glad you're doing well.

I don't know what I got, it may have been covid but results were negative. I also did a PCR now, results are not out yet I think, but regardless it may be tooate to show covid. I had swollen lymph glands in the neck so it may have been mononucleosis or something. It causes myocarditis sometimes.

No exercise or alcohol for 6 months. Damn. It's too soon to be acting like a grandpa for me.