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So, today decided to delete like 99.9% of the porn on my HD. 4~5 TB of data has been removed. Clips and folders carefully curated for over a decade, thousands if not tens of thousands of doujins, CG galleries, hundreds if not thousands of anime episodes, all gone now.

A few folders survived, mostly those that are mostly character fanart.
Is this because of a life change, or did you simply realize that virtually everything in that porn-based mass of information was stored elsewhere on the internet more securely, and thus it was simply more worth it to clean out your hard drive?
So... the demon really did get you.

I'll get the holy water...
Make sure it's in a spray bottle and mixed with garlic, that way it can protect you from demons, vampires, and cats all in one go.
 
Is this because of a life change, or did you simply realize that virtually everything in that porn-based mass of information was stored elsewhere on the internet more securely, and thus it was simply more worth it to clean out your hard drive?

Make sure it's in a spray bottle and mixed with garlic, that way it can protect you from demons, vampires, and cats all in one go.
I suddenly had this intrusive thought today at work that I should delete all of my porn. The more I thought about it, the more sense it made, as then I realized I was just hoarding all of that porn with no earthly means to actually explore even a fraction of it in a timely manner.

Some of it was some rare stuff that's not easily available today, like works by artists who had pulled all of their stuff from the web years ago.
 
Some of it was some rare stuff that's not easily available today, like works by artists who had pulled all of their stuff from the web years ago.
Well, the only real thing is that it would have been a courtesy to ensure that said rarer stuff was available somewhere. But otherwise, yeah, it's just junk you won't look at.
 
Well, the only real thing is that it would have been a courtesy to ensure that said rarer stuff was available somewhere. But otherwise, yeah, it's just junk you won't look at.
I don't know for sure, but at least most of those would be done because their works suddenly became licensed and officially available to purchase. Don't want to get into legalities / morality of sharing smut for free that the artist could be making money from.

Like, I could've uploaded 177013, but it's now a licensed work and one could just buy it. I have a paperback copy myself, so it seems it would've been kinda a dick move to upload it.
 
I don't know for sure, but at least most of those would be done because their works suddenly became licensed and officially available to purchase. Don't want to get into legalities / morality of sharing smut for free that the artist could be making money from.

Like, I could've uploaded 177013, but it's now a licensed work and one could just buy it. I have a paperback copy myself, so it seems it would've been kinda a dick move to upload it.
"For sale" counts as available. I meant specifically the stuff that was deleted and never reposted, or was once for sale but now isn't. That's what deserves preserving.

But in almost 5 terabytes of stuff, I can't imagine that would be easy to parse out anyway.
 
I like making coffee like you would tea. I have a tea pot with a section with a wire mesh for steeping with tea leafs, and often I will just put coarsely ground coffee in there and steep it for awhile like tea. and pore it out similarly.
 
I like making coffee like you would tea. I have a tea pot with a section with a wire mesh for steeping with tea leafs, and often I will just put coarsely ground coffee in there and steep it for awhile like tea. and pore it out similarly.
How dare you, sir and/or madam. That is an affront to my senses.

It's spelled pour.

The coffee thing sounds fine, but then I don't drink any coffee anyway.
 
How dare you, sir and/or madam. That is an affront to my senses.

It's spelled pour.

The coffee thing sounds fine, but then I don't drink any coffee anyway.
How poor of me to spell pour as pore.
I assume coffee would be terrible for the pores if poured upon the skin?
It would at least be painful.
 
Shit.

Is Mars Inc okay? Because I don't think I can quit Snickers...
My understanding is that the conditions under which chocolate ingredients (mainly cocoa beans) are harvested are so awful yet so entrenched in the business structure that anyone who has ever eaten commercially-produced chocolate is supporting slavery (with extra steps).
 
My understanding is that the conditions under which chocolate ingredients (mainly cocoa beans) are harvested are so awful yet so entrenched in the business structure that anyone who has ever eaten commercially-produced chocolate is supporting slavery (with extra steps).
Damn.
 
I have come to the conclusion that I don't think I can properly take criticism. Maybe it's either low self esteem or RSD (Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria)?
 
So, today decided to delete like 99.9% of the porn on my HD. 4~5 TB of data has been removed. Clips and folders carefully curated for over a decade, thousands if not tens of thousands of doujins, CG galleries, hundreds if not thousands of anime episodes, all gone now.

A few folders survived, mostly those that are mostly character fanart.

How many hours did that take you? I have a SSDs with a LOT of manga/anime

Added in all my art books that I downloaded there, decided to delete them from it to save on space….took 2 hours to delete nearly 150 GB worth, kinda annoying


I have resolved to try and improve myself again

First step. Education. How do I make myself absorb a bunch of history books quick?
 
It's Treble. 80% of what he posts consists of attempts to piss other people off. If anyone was going to claim to be willing to overlook the shit Nestle pulls because they just like their products that much, it would be him.
Get off the internet. Nestle is one of the biggest food companies in the world.
 
Point is, nobody cares. Nobody except perpetually online people in social media sites.

I'm just saying the quiet part out loud.
Not really. The people that do care and are active are the ones reporting on the wrongs done by the company and who are involved in the class-action lawsuits that do at least occasionally make a difference in the lives of people and the behavior of big companies.

You aren't saying the quiet part out loud so much as being a dismissive jerk about an issue that this particular web space is not normally structured around discussing anyway.
 
At any rate, this isn't something I want to debate. I just wanted to talk about coffee preferences among Americans.
 
Not really. The people that do care and are active are the ones reporting on the wrongs done by the company and who are involved in the class-action lawsuits that do at least occasionally make a difference in the lives of people and the behavior of big companies.

You aren't saying the quiet part out loud so much as being a dismissive jerk about an issue that this particular web space is not normally structured around discussing anyway.

You aren't going to be avoiding all of these.
 
You aren't going to be avoiding all of these.
*Checks*

Not only am I avoiding all of them, I'm doing so entirely by accident. Not a single one of those is a brand I partake in. With possible exception to kit kats. Apparently Nestle owns that, but only when not in the USA?

Oh well, been years since I last had a kit kat anyway. I don't know if they changed the recipe, or my tastes have changed with age, but they just don't taste as good as my childhood seems to think they did.

Same with hostess.
 

You aren't going to be avoiding all of these.
This is funny, I started 100% agreeing with you and went through the list(including checking elsewhere since different language here) just to prove how many things would have to be avoided thus how few people would even bother to try. Then realized within the past years I bought all of two products from the list both because they were on sale and only one of those for me.

This is why it is important to check assumptions, turns out it is really easy to avoid Nestle's products huh.
 
Oh well, been years since I last had a kit kat anyway. I don't know if they changed the recipe, or my tastes have changed with age, but they just don't taste as good as my childhood seems to think they did.

Same with hostess.

You've probably tasted a lot of better-quality chocolate after childhood.

But also, they might be using lower-quality ingredients now.
 
*Checks*

Not only am I avoiding all of them, I'm doing so entirely by accident. Not a single one of those is a brand I partake in. With possible exception to kit kats. Apparently Nestle owns that, but only when not in the USA?

Oh well, been years since I last had a kit kat anyway. I don't know if they changed the recipe, or my tastes have changed with age, but they just don't taste as good as my childhood seems to think they did.

Same with hostess.

This is funny, I started 100% agreeing with you and went through the list(including checking elsewhere since different language here) just to prove how many things would have to be avoided thus how few people would even bother to try. Then realized within the past years I bought all of two products from the list both because they were on sale and only one of those for me.

This is why it is important to check assumptions, turns out it is really easy to avoid Nestle's products huh.

Fair enough. I remember making use of a good chunk of those... while I was in italy and germany.
 
By finding books that keep it short, to the point, and entertaining. So basically the opposite of how most history books are written.

I suggest you watch this instead.
If you like biographies and such and want to have a lot of fun, A cool thing can be to grab one of the more boring history books, or maybe wikepedia or something and start looking for primary and secondary sources that actually describe what happened. In terms of secondary stuff. Analysis on a particular micro-area tend to be more fun. And you can learn cool stuff, and there are often more of a story element. Either when it comes to particular people.
Or like looking for videos of books on typical food and daily life of the era. Wikipedia isn't the best source, But it can be good for helping build up an idea of the context of other events that happen before and after the period you are focusing on. I usually don't try to memorize exact dates but rather focus on orders. And then use major ones as benchmarks to try to compare things one a generation-like time scale. (So like 40-50 years or so.)

Another thing that can be cool is to look into the history of particular major cities, it can give a really interesting, and more local and personal perspective on a period in history. People often learn about boston, or plymouth or whatever a little, but usually such things only cover a very short period of it.
Looking at maps of how such cities grown, major citizens even after they got founded. and other major events that happened there.

The history of a lot of the cities around the great lakes area, as well as Lousianna are particularly interesting ones I have looked into. Since they correspond to a period of significant growth and are intertwined with the conflicts with the natives, french, etc. And kind of directly connect up to what happened in the revolutionary war later. Those are more American history stuff. There is also a ton of cool stuff in Asian and South American history.

But more generally picking a couple really micro things over a longer period of time(City, or perhaps biographical history), Some big picture reading(Video, or typical textbook stuff.), and then maybe diving deep into a couple really interesting events can be a good three part process to understanding a part of history
1. and 3. tend to be the most fun. Trying to get a rough timeline and history of important technologies is also an area of the big picture that can be pretty useful particularly if you have any interest in military history, it can also make it a little bi easier to lump areas together in a more gradual way than like "modern", "Colonial", "Medieval", and "ancient" or something similar. (Or maybe even a little bit zoomed in.)
I personally find the transition periods of change in technology and social structure to be some of the most interesting Some changes happened faster than others.

Also just picking up biographies can help you learn a lot about history more generally. Although, having a little bit of context can help too.

Videos are great, particularly "overview" type stuff. Since those tend to get you more mileage. Video essay types can be fun too, but you have to be careful there since they can sometimes give you a really biased perspective on stuff in history if you don't have context. Video essays are more likely to be biased or inaccurate about really old stuff we don't know much about or about things that are really recent because they are more politically charged in most cases. (like anything during the cold war or newer at least. Or on the other end, stuff that is before the Romans.)
 

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