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It works fine with whatever. Western comics, novels, textbooks, whatever you want. Komga supports epub/pdf/cbz/zip/cbr etc.

It only becomes a pain if you want to automatically scrape metadata. This isn’t directly supported in komga but there’s another project, komf, that directly interfaces with the komga api and will scrape metadata providers to populate. I have multiple libraries because as far as I know this really only gracefully works with manga. It can sometimes work okay with western comics via scraping gocomics but it’s a crapshoot and if your library is large it’s definitely not a good idea to let it cook. It has no support for fiction/nonfiction stuff like goodreads or whatever so I have those in yet another library. I don’t know of a metadata provider for textbooks (Amazon? Libgen? Wikipedia?) so yet another.

But manga works great. And metadata aside all my books work and I can read them from whatever device, ereader, phone, laptop, etc. komga itself has a built in reader so if it has a browser I’m good but mihon or whatever tachiyomi fork I can use (like Tachimanga for iOS devices, though that has iap to unlock stuff like tracking and no ads (though adblocking works), gross) is preferable

Install komga, populate it with content (tip: use komf to automatically scrape sites like manga updates for content similar to how Jellyfin scrapes thetvdb), install the komga extension in mihon, point it at your server, profit.

It can even sync read history between the server and device if you configure it as a tracker as well.

https://komga.org/docs/guides/mihon/

https://mihon.app/docs/guides/tracking#enhanced-services

The documentation isn’t super well done so you’ll have to make some leaps of faith but it’s pretty simple to figure out if you can figure out stuff like Jellyfin transcoding. The hardest part to set up is komf, which is optional (though it does make it look much nicer, like you’re browsing mangadex or whatever. Just make sure you don’t point komf at libraries with novels or western comic books or whatever bc it sucks at scraping those).

Also if you setup komf there’s a tampermonkey script that gives you gui control of the setting in the komga ui, very handy, but not strictly necessary

This sucks, been using mihon on my ereader pretty much since tachiyomi died. Excellent app that improves on it’s predecessor in pretty much every way and I don’t even use it for piracy directly, I have a komga server that I read from (which tbf is filled with pirated content lmao though I do sometimes buy raws for niche stuff that’s not like chainsaw man).

Best client app around though, imo. Hope they navigate this successfully

Puts on nvidia and palantir is what he bought, basically, with palantir:nvidia at 8:2 ratio so he has far more confidence palantir will blow up (in a bad way).

Note that if you don’t know what this means, or if your only knowledge of “buy puts” is buying them via an app like robinhood, keep in mind you don’t know nearly enough about the risk involved and this could blow up in your fucking face real bad.

Especially in the unlikely scenario AI crashes extremely hard (eg palantir goes to 0) and you have a naked put - using today’s closing price of $190 if you chose a strike of $180 your max profit is $285 per contract but your max theoretical loss is like 18,000 per contract if it drops to 0 (again, unlikely, but a more realistic scenario wherein it drops to say, $150 - you’re out almost $3k per contract). With a naked put your goal is for the price to hit the target, basically, so the closer to 180 the better (without dipping below) and this wouldn’t be a good idea for what you’re asking, but just an example of how the wrong play could lose you tons of money. A naked call goes the other way and as a result can be infinite loss. Retail investors (ie you) have lost six figure sums playing with this, life ruining shit, avoid avoid avoid

Options that are safer if you don’t want to get this involved in what is ultimately literal gambling: take a degree of separation. Instead of puts directly on nvidia or palantir puts on qqq, xlk, aiq, or some other etf that is made up of AI bullshit. Spreads risk but limits payoff. Use the strategy this nerd used: long dated puts. Keep in mind this is more expensive up front and for the retail investor you’ll generally max out 6-12 months realistically. He did 4-5 years out but that came with additionally complexity (especially for the billions in contracts he held) which meant tens of millions in payments to secure the contracts each year, which made his investors furious (though they ended up eating shit because he made them 730 million and over 100 million for himself on top of that).

Just keep in mind that options trading has ruined many people who know what they’re doing and it’s ruined way way more who have no fucking clue but think they do (I’m in this category). For every dipshit that makes millions off of gamestop there’s probably a hundred people or more like the people from reddit that post shit like this

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Don’t end up like that person. There are so many of them on reddit. They succeed with a few trades, get up 5k, 10k, 50k, then get greedy and have mad hubris and believe they’re now “elite traders” so they piss it all away, often in a handful of trades over a few days/hours because the loss causes them to panic and try to recover with foolish long shots. The sad thing is you’ll read some where it’s like “I’ve been poor my whole life and I finally got a 30k inheritance, got it to 45k” and then a screenshot like that where they pissed it all away in a day to functionally hand it to some 1%er nepo baby hedge fund manager who is worth 15 million and has never wanted for anything in their life. Then they talk about all the debt they could’ve paid off and it’s like “what the fuuuuuckkk duuuudeee”

Don’t buy naked puts and absolutely do not ever buy naked calls, which have unlimited risk, though I don’t know why you would in this scenario (or ever really). If nothing else please at least read this part.

Expiration and strike price were not shared so unclear what his play is. For reference “the big short” was about 1.3 billion in total placed in 2005-2006 with an expiration around 5 years later around 2010-2011. It was somewhat standard for burry/scion capital and possibly still is so they could be playing this assuming the bubble will pop no later than 2030 (and paying 10s of millions a year to maintain those contracts) or they possibly have data to suggest an earlier expiration is worthwhile. They obviously won’t share this and public disclosures aren’t required

Well divorce was significantly more difficult depending on region. The primary benefits a spouse would have over a mistress are marital ones. the ability to visit in a hospital, transfer of estate, and in the case of divorce things like alimony, child support, and division of the marital estate.

However, those last ones are predicated on the ability to get divorced. We take for granted the ability to get married and then just be able to break off a marriage the way one would break up when dating (no fault divorce. It wasn’t always like this, and it was fairly recently that this changed in many areas.

It used to be though that one had to go to a judge and prove some kind of fault. Adultery, impotence (meaning your husband couldn’t give you kids), addiction, abandonment, etc. but these actually had to be proven, some were easy to prove than others, and some courts in some regions were far more strict (about how you’d expect: more conservative areas tended to be more strict about trapping women whereas liberal areas they’d be more of a formality).

These laws again were changed relatively recently. The first state to change to no fault was California under Reagan in 1969. The last was New York in 2010.

Note that this is a topic you’ll see occasionally pop up from the maga crowd. It’s lower on their priority list so you don’t hear about it as often but eliminating no fault divorce laws is definitely something a lot of them endorse. The last time it came up iirc was when that chud crowder went on his podcast crying about how he was blindsided by the divorce and how no fault divorce was the real problem, not him being an abusive shithead.

Then mysteriously he had his home camera leak showing him berating his wife for like 10 straight minutes and revealing that he does a lot of creepy domestic abuser shit like only having one car for their whole family that he primarily controls despite them clearly being obscenely wealthy. Then while he went on damage control he blamed his wife’s mental health, told the world she was on psych meds and they made her unpredictable.

Marriage was a contract for slavery for a lot of people. If you work with the elderly you’ll see that patterning still engrained in a lot of the boomer couples that are now in their 70s-80s. The women, when alone, will act one way and do whatever but when their husbands come back they will often fall into a role of subservience. They will essentially be a caretaker. The roles will sometimes reverse but usually only when absolutely necessary (eg injury, illness) and bare minimums done (eg wife will cook elaborate meals, do laundry, clean, etc whereas husband will prepare leftovers from wife or prepared foods, may do some basic laundry and cleaning but not to same degree, etc) and often they’ll defer to husbands preference. Watching tv together? What does husband want to watch? Etc obviously it’s not all of them and not always to this degree but it’s a lot and often more than feels fair

I have a 200tb nas with all kinds of shit on it. Shows, music, books, manga, llms, software, etc

Keep in mind everything you use the internet for.

Unfortunately llms and tariffs have caused storage to shoot up in price quite a bit. It was quite a bit different a year ago or even better 3-5 years ago. There was a time where I’d add a drive to my NAS every few months when I had an extra hundred bucks but now I only generally only replace a drive when absolutely necessary because it’s pricey. And then on top of that each new drive means more electricity used which is also going up in cost

Hot ice cream was a thing that was done a few times during the sciencecy food craze in the early 2010s (“molecular gastronomy”, the most mastubatory name of all time).

It’s remarkably easy to do. There are gelling compounds like methylcellulose that come in a host of variants like F50, which makes a semi firm gel between 62-68C, or a4c which makes a firm gel between 38-44C, etc. As a result you can create an ice cream base fairly traditionally with 0.1-3% methocellulose dispersed (more for firmer, though it can become “chewy” like gelatin if you go too far).

Then to set you can heat a water bath (or simply boil water) and prepare it much in the way one would prepare dumplings. Spoon in the base and it will quickly set as it comes to temp that you can immediately serve. They are the same base of “ice cream” but hot, and they “melt” as they come to room temperature.

This technique has existed since at least 2013. It’s fairly lackluster unless you adjust the ice cream base significantly to work with a hot preparation. Further, it appears she’s doing something mediocre here that’s more suitable for mass production and more akin to a warm milk shake, which is basically just melted ice cream? That’s easily possible with modern ice cream loaded with stabilizers but that compromises texture (which is another problem with the methylcellulose approach: if you don’t absolutely nail the percentage it will taste like a gel and not an ice cream)

Unironically

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn72ydj70g5o

the state is inevitable

I am well aware of Lysenko.

The vaccines are only mandatory in public schools because we once again value personal liberty over collective responsibility. So much so that it is something indoctrinated into us from birth and culturally ingrained; being asked to wear a mask is seen as an act of violence by a significant portion of the population.

I again agree that education is the long term strategy. But two big things: again, key word is “long term. Second, what does this look like? You seem to think it’s as simple as presenting the benefits and reasoning and suddenly they’ll “get it” after being indoctrinated by disinformation campaigns. These people need to be deprogrammed. And further, what do you do about the populations until they’re “ready” to be reintegrated into society. You’ve now run into chinas Uyghur dilemma. What’s the solution? Optional education that they can simply eschew or easily find loopholes around, making the entire effort largely meaningless as they strengthen their own system of beliefs and recruit followers?

You mention popper’s paradox of tolerance; does that not apply here? Sure it is easy when it’s a Nazi but how does it work when it’s your aunt that fell for facebook memes about the Covid shot? Does that intolerance count? Because that intolerance literally kills people. Or do you just not care about that because you are a young adult who is healthy and unlikely to be a statistic in that epidemic? Sorry to the 3 kids that died preventable deaths and the 1648 that have gotten measles just this year alone; they have to wait for your “educate people and hope it works” plan. Well, except for the dead ones, they can’t

Okay the data is that our complete lack of teeth within our regulatory bodies have led to year by year declines in vaccinations, consistent lack of an ability to hit herd immunity targets, an 88% increase in financial loses due to crypto scams in just the year 2022 (couldn’t find newer data), etc.

This doesn’t touch upon the corruption that has infiltrated regulatory bodies and PASPA was overturned in 2018, allowing stuff like fanduel to advertise constantly and everywhere legally leading to sizable increases in addiction, because god forbid we not allow capitalists to maximize their wealth accumulation even if its demonstrably harmful

So something needs to be done to restore trust in institutions. If we do what you suggest, education, how does this work? People don’t have trust in those institutions to allow them to have an effect! Unless your solution is to exterminate Trump people and moderates that “don’t trust the clot shot and would homeschool their kids if they had the time and money”.

You need an interim solution that may be drastic. And I’m not saying this is the right solution, but it is a solution, which is better than the nothing we are trying while our institutions continue to erode. Perhaps the solution is a complex solution of regulation with verified experts that still allows free speech that can be countered or suppressed if truly extreme (essentially twitter in theory when they first started the verified accounts but with higher bar for verification). I don’t know but I do know we need better solutions than “increase education and reap the rewards in 20-50 years”. How will that even take hold??

Again - defeatist attitude, predicting outcomes without data

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