>>213 Wishing a happy dipawali to all of you. May this coming year peace and prosperity

>>8203 Thanksanon belated same to you too as well.

>>8224 My responsibilities have increased a lot. Need to reduce my hobbies/projects to get time to talk to myself. >>6959 Who is this ?

>>8210 My guide gave me ultimatum : > Either bring funding from somewhere or get lost. Like if I was a business/entrepreneurial person, why would I choose academia?

>>8238 This is mostly standard though. In a way as an "Academic" you really are an enterpreur. As a result, most of academia in west is smooth talking, smart sounding frauds. There is more intellectual honesty in a plumber or welder than there is in an academic. The really interested one's fund their own research through odd jobs or side gigs and publish once in 3 or 5 years. Meanwhile, academic mills expect you to teach , do admin and write minimum of 2 papers a year. https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-blue-collar-jobs-of-philip-glass

>>8122 It is tough to make friends. Depends on your age too. After 30 it takes high level skills to make new friends.

I thought discipline was conditioning myself to work through pain but I realized I don't care about pain because at least pain is something to experience. Real discipline is working through boredom and knowing you will never see the result of your work.

>>8199 This is based post. It is not universally applicable but it gets the spirit right.

>>8201 Meltdown in Canada over this shit. Appears to be a last desperate attempt by the liberal government to gain domestic support. Trudeau loses and the whole thing is swept under the rug. The whole ordeal is showing how little impact the Canadian government has abroad. Riots outside Hindu temples by literal terrorist sympathizers.

>>8231 HOLY SHIT LOOOL. >>8232 Not that the canadian opposition is any better. Canada is a proper buck broken Colony of USA and regardless of who wins, things will get bad there. Even Mexico has more independence than Canada. Which is too bad because the people seem nice. USA is going to use Canada and other small nations to cushion its recession and crash.

>>8231 A lot of blue pilled American Indians I know, voted Trump, even though publicly they did not admit it.

https://daily.bandcamp.com/album-of-the-day/planes-mistaken-for-stars-do-you-still-love-me-review I never like Hardcore vocals , but this album sounds nice to my ears .

>>8229 Haven't heard this in a LONG while. Good stuff. Listening to Made in Abyss OST. Fucked up anime, great sound track.

>>8153 Check the battery health using those battery health apps. 3 year old batteries dying is not uncommon.

Now that the FOSS movement has chosen geopolitical sides, I think its high time the BRICS fraction should just fork Linux and start making our own Kernels and OS's. China is already doing it and honestly not doing a bad job.

>>8116 >>8116 This bothers me a lot. I can pirate a lot of books, the ones I want to support, I can simply order the paperback. But there are many , especially Indian authors which can be hard to order out of India. Indian publishes think android apps are a good idea to tell sell digital books to people who want a digital copy. Then Indians complaint that google as a platform exploits them. We learn nothing from east India company fiasco.

Academiabros can you please help me get these papers? https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/722178 https://academic.oup.com/ajlh/issue/63/2 https://brill.com/view/journals/me/29/5-6/article-p521_7.xml https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10609164.2024.2311607 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00219096221131995

https://youtu.be/S51c77Jt1AM?si=O0e1LYDjfQmhF0cu One of the greatest fights in boxing ever.

I only watch fights to see men get their shit wrecked. I support whichever side is more handsome and young.

I have the sense of humour of a child, where I still find this funny and amusing.

Finally got the action cam of my dreams. Few observations 1. Normal camera's allow you to focus on a subject. Action cam sucks for this 2. In theory you can VLOG with this, I don't like the look for it. But that is my preference 3. The saturated HDR bright look is not for everyone or every situation That said, I am happy. It is small , very tough, works in cold climates etc. I can go swimming with it, can click good pictures, can record excellent video while in motion. In terms of photos, I mostly will use it for landscapes. For other photos, I will stick to my Instax camera, since it is lot of fun to dial in pictures manually. I do appreciate photographers who setup a proper shot with a DSLR, a friend of mine comes up with stunning shots. But it is just not for me.

https://fstoppers.com/landscapes/apples-secret-upgrade-iphone-16-pro-yields-incredible-results-682936 Not the thread for it but whatever. Picrel is why analog rules.

>>8155 If you say this because of the pollution thing that's just not relevant. Diesels have marginally higher NOx, sulphur and PM emissions but they fixed it in bs6 with their particulate filter and catalytic thing (adblu) also to push the blame of le pollution on random citizens is stupid. Trucks, coal fired power plants, industries, stubble burning and marine engines they account for a large, large percentage of air pollution. Diesel will be truly dead when all trucks run on CNG and the government removes subsidies and stars taxing diesel like they do with petrol. Not that I want it to happen. If a car runs well, keep it running. Pretending to care about the environment to kill off perfectly working cars is criminal. They (government, auto industry) do it for the money, if you haven't seen the pattern yet.

>>8156 Diesel pollutants are particularly notorious and have serious health concerns. Don't believe the filter bullshit, car companies push lot of money in Germany to suppress studies. It is a citizen issue if everyone does it and if it harms everyone. They should just have let diesel cars die natural deaths and stop registering new Diesel or ban their sale/manufacture. > Pollution Fully agree. We just need to take care of stubble burning and stop with the GMO and 3 crops a year nonsense. This is a deeply frustrating thing where govts refuse to put their foot down. The rest is all noise. < CNG I have terrible experience with CNG, so kind of biased against it. Car with CNG can barely climb a small hill, let alone intense driving. Fully agree that impounding good cars does more harm to the environment than letting them run when the harm is marginal. > Back to Gadkari Un necessary intervention does more harm than no intervention. There should be an award for people who do good by doing nothing. Cops who let street justice happen, judges who keep their mouth shut , doctors who don't prescribe medicine for no reason etc. Gadkari doesn't belong to that group. He should have used his brain somewhere else.

Anyone who says they hate good interiors and smooth rides, is a liar. Plus Interiors and excellent suspension is worth it if you drive a lot. The issue is, a lot of luxury cars - Use exotic parts i.e. maintenance takes a long time in India and parts take time to come. - They break down since they are not designed for India. India only makes things for middle class and lower class. India hates people with wealth. So owning a luxury car in India quickly becomes a pain. Best is to get a good performing car and spend money on interiors instead.

>>7346 his story is fake as fuck, still funny tho

>>7348 It got me lol'ing. Hence I wish it were true. Though I can believe people so autistic.

>>4306 >"except some random talk for 5 min with someone from college" you do have friends, just not close ones so try to make them close through shared interests and plainly lying about everything about your life and do it again and again till everyone believes it. i did this in 1st and 2nd year after which i did not have to lie anymore since i had made enough friends and had gotten my social skills back after covid.

>>8083 > But it is shit because it isn't real https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYvMOf3hsGA Replug this essay from 9 years ago.

completed cowboy bebop yesterday, just too good, is all i can say.

>>8110 It is a very heavy show that has stayed with me throughout all these years.

There are lot of job openings on websites, that are - Already given to a candidate - Th job doesn't exist These will waste your time. Finding a job nowdays is a full time job.

>>8004 I hate this dumb shit. Company waste so much time when they just want to hire internally

Wagie fatigue , exploitation and meaningless work are very real issues. Career decisions have a lot of impact on your life. You spend more time at work than you do at home

>>256 https://vx-underground.org/ - malware repository https://tmpout.sh/ https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/author/phineas-fisher https://gitlab.com/brn1337/phineas-fisher-collection https://maia.crimew.gay/posts/how-to-hack-an-airline/ https://mango.pdf.zone/finding-former-australian-prime-minister-tony-abbotts-passport-number-on-instagram https://web.archive.org/web/20160417195320/https://ghostbin.com/paste/6kho7 https://mega.nz/file/gWMCUYDQ#xZBeBeZmyMw3t6zK2xRjIoaJ-cEGFsrVH3PpcfutAF0 https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1F7D5c30nP-y_Q7SFqoRTRvJ7tl0UcY3q File list -https://pastebin.com/VUTddUqx

https://zerobin.net/?89e460f2f80bae5a#/M0PMe9u4irOyNpf8hzMcwPJJhzwpSEs4+FP/rxBwDM= a few doxxing/OSINT tools

>>8043 https://zerobin.net/?69e8e5ed7820a799#Botc/hVxEvrhPbRHO4CJ+qP5J88RsFS4LwnQREQqeqk= cont.

>>8009 >>7992 The disturbing part is, these TV's only scan for the personal stuff you watch. Not the normal TV content. It is impossible to buy a non Smart TV non. Even the Tizen ones are pure spyware.

>>8009 I will post it here eventually for sure.