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It's Paperboy 4K Arthouse Edition.

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Ever since I stopped smoking my wife has mourned the fact that we cannot smoke joints any more (jazz cigarettes, whacky tobacky, whatever you young people call it).  She dislikes the taste of the pure pipe I bought.

From a trip to Hamburg she brought home a solution. It's an e-cigarette liquid called "Premium Organic CBD E-Liquid" and it's sold by "Breathe Organics". The seller told her there were varying types of concentrations. But he was kinda vague on their effects, saying: You can vape this all day and that is only good in the evening before going to bed, etc.
Me, I was surprised she got cannabis infused e-liquid legally in shop and therefore a bit sceptical. 

It turns out "CBD" stands for Cannabidiol which is one of the many components of hemp and the closely related marijuana plant. But it's not psychoactive, it doesn't get you high. Instead a whole laundry list of other positive effects is ascribed to CBD that can be boiled down to relaxation and anti-inflammatory effects. CBD is a quickly growing industry (in Europe) because it is sold as a dietary supplement and therefore doesn't have to undergo all the costly tests of a medicine. It also means sellers cannot recommend dosage or advertise medical effects. But obviously word of mouth serves that.

In the articles linked below you'll find that Süddeutsche describes Cannabidiol as the relaxing Yang to THC's psychoactive Ying, while the Guardian outright calls it a scam. Finding out the truth isn't helped by the fact that its legal status is disputed, the sale is mostly unregulated and the CBD percentage is often misleadingly labelled (according to both articles). Time for self-experiments. 

• Der neue Hype um CBD - https://www.sueddeutsche.de/gesundheit/cbd-oel-gesundheit-rechtslage-1.4413846
• Cannabis has great medical potential. But don’t fall for the CBD scam - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/01/cannabis-medical-cannabidiol-cbd-uk-consumers

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Seems like smokers are becoming an endangered species. I completely get why (health reasons, lung cancer etc etc). I still enjoy it and have no plans to quit. It's my night time thing.

[6744fdc3e03afvoodoo47]

smokers are becoming an endangered species

can't say I'm sorry - the less accidental gulps of vile fumes I take on the street the moment I stop paying attention to my surroundings (seems like the dummass that walks a few steps ahead always waits for this to light his piece of semi-rotted dry plants, so he could share his first, deepest pollutant exhaust with me), the better.

it's almost statistically impossible how often this happens, especially if you consider that I only go outside when absolutely necessary.

[6744fdc3e07f7Kolya]

Seems like smokers are becoming an endangered species. I completely get why (health reasons, lung cancer etc etc). I still enjoy it and have no plans to quit. It's my night time thing.

You do that, buddy. I smoked for 30 years and it gave me a lot of joy, punctuated my day with relaxing breaks and helped me to meet and get friends with a lot of people.
I've replaced it with vaping which hits the same spots with less health problems and less social stigma. Works for me, but it's not for everyone.
Just stay away from those health fascists and their virtuous outrage. Theirs isn't a healthy way to live either.

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aand I'm suddenly reminded that worse smelling things exist in this world.

question - is there any man on this planet who can tolerate a woman drenched in perfume made of this vile shit? it makes an open sever feel like a spring garden.

[6744fdc3e0bceKolya]

I don't know about patchouli fragrants but a whole generation burned down patchouli incense sticks. Often to cover the smell of weed from their parents, but it was also used outdoors in get-togethers, sit-ins, etc. It's basically THE hippie smell. Hippie shops often still use them sticks. I actually kinda like it, even if it's not my favourite smell in the world. But it brings back some good memories.

[6744fdc3e0d24voodoo47]

well, it does bring tears in my eyes, but not in a good way. also awful headaches, if exposed for long enough.

never associated it with hippies (or any other cannabis consuming congregation), I just think it's the foulest smell ever devised by man. nothing comes close.

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There are various different variants and quality grades and  I happen to like many of them. It has been used by more then a few hobos, hippies and punks for covering up bad body odor from not hitting the shower quite so frequently. It was later adopted by goths too, who added a morbid twist to it by reminding people, that it has been used for covering up the smell of cadavers in earlier centuries. I'm pretty sure, that's one of the main reasons, some people have bad associations with this note.

Objectively, it posseses a very complex scent profile with earthy, green, woody and, depending on age, fruity/minty to ambery/leathery facets.

Used in moderation and in combination with other notes, there's hardly any classic men's, as well as huge number of old and new, women's fragrances around that doesn't have it. The same people who dislike it on its own, do like it in some form of combination without even realizing it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stinkor

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Stinkor was chemically treated with patchouli oil to smell musky.

[6744fdc3e121dvoodoo47]

ok gotta admit that was funny.

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheele%27s_Green

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Not sure how well (or bad) the auto-subtitles of YT are at the moment but here's an interesting new documentary about Blackrock I want to share. Unfortunately it's in German (and there's a French version to be found also).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR_UyV32Ba4

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxtWVkAJTKY

Painting in VR, apparently done in a program named TiltBrush: https://www.tiltbrush.com/

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Memory: The Origins of Alien Review: A Deep Dive Into a Classic
A movie like Alien doesn’t just come out of nowhere. There’s the screenplay, the director’s vision, and a massive combination of artistic endeavors from people who do the costumes, the lighting, and everything in between. And that’s the basic knowledge of filmmaking where most dissections of a movie’s origin end. Memory: The Origins of Alien goes so far beyond that it borders on excess.

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What is beautiful is usable | Interacting with Computers | Oxford Academic
An experiment was conducted to test the relationships between users' perceptions of a computerized system's beauty and usability.

Summary: Analysis revealed that aesthetics affected the perception of usability, whereas actual usability had no such effect. The results resemble those found by social psychologists regarding the effect of physical attractiveness on the valuation of other personality attributes.

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GitHub - adblockradio: An adblocker for live radio streams and podcasts. Machine learning meets Shazam.
An adblocker for live radio streams and podcasts. Machine learning meets Shazam.

I gotta say on this, if you just wrote a program that notes sudden volume increase you'd have a working radio ad blocker, I think. But it's a cool idea and one of self defence really.

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Apparently, German police raided a 'bulletproof hoster' today that was located in an old 5-story NATO-bunker complex outside the town of Traben-Trarbach. The number of seized servers is expected to be around 2000. Sounds quite spectacular.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_OoCHBGliY

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Related heise-article:

Darknet-Server vom Netz genommen – sieben Festnahmen | heise onlinen
Mehrere hundert Einsatzkräfte haben am Donnerstagabend erstmals in Deutschland einen "Bulletproof-Hoster" ausgehoben. Untergebracht war er in einem Bunker.

The hoster was allegedly involved in drug and gun sales as well as child pornography on the darkweb and large scale attacks on routers.

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It's one of several sites operated by a "company" (not sure about the legality of it all) called "CyberBunker". Reading up on that yields some pretty wild stories.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdbRU1JbcEA

 

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Just another "DeepFake":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZRUZzZPGto

From the comments section:

If a civilian can do this, imagine what the gov can already do.

[6744fdc3e2b8cicemann]

Not great deepfake work on that one. You can see Jack and Jim's face's switch quite a bit. Now if this had been a "The Mask" Deepfake, would have fared better .

[6744fdc3e2d20voodoo47]

a bunch of guys used the deepfake sw to fix what might be the worst cgi scene that has ever defiled the big screen - the Scorpion King emerging from his tomb in The Mummy Returns.

https://youtu.be/KH1V6CHO1Jk?t=555

I actually wouldn't mind seeing some sort of platinum edition of the movie with this patched in.

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Ok that is MUCH improved.