i am very bored and not at all horny so i am making a nothing thread to talk about nothingwhat are you up to today, anon?
>>942592956I love fried chicken
>>942593039fried chicken is nice. i havent had good fried chicken in a while, mostly because its uncommon for it to be good where i live so i mostly dont bother with it. are you eating fried chicken now?
Right now enjoying a Sunday morning coffee while I browse /b/.Gonna grab a shave and a shower and head over to see my mom for a bit.Then back home to cook a West African red stew with lentils and sit down for some gaming or a movie. Wholesome.What about you OP?
>>942595315that sounds cozy, anon. whats a west african red stew like?im just chilling. the hubbys around but its a lazy day and he just wants to game. ive no new chapters on anything im reading so im just sorta posting online and reading the odd bit of data on some things. i did consider loading up a text based smut game but eeeh, theyve not been fun for a while.
>>942595395Yeah I love cozy. It's just getting winter where I am and it's set to be the coldest day of the year so far so I fancies some comfort food.Of all the places you could come to post and chill, you choose to come to the cesspool that is /b/?>West African red stew is a popular and traditional dish across many West African countries, known for its vibrant red color and rich, complex flavor. It is typically made with a base of blended tomatoes, red bell peppers, onions, and Scotch bonnet or habanero peppers, often cooked slowly to develop depth of flavor. The stew can be made with various proteins such as beef, chicken, lamb, or fish, and is commonly served with staples like white rice, plantains, yams, or garri.>The stew is also known as "red stew" and is a staple in many West African households, with variations depending on the region and available ingredients.A common version uses beef marinated with paprika, cayenne pepper, thyme, ginger, garlic, and green onions, then browned and simmered with a blended tomato and pepper mixture, along with spices like nutmeg, cloves, and bay leaves.>Another variation, known as Red Red in Ghana, is a hearty stew made with cowpeas (black-eyed peas) cooked in a tomato-based sauce with red palm oil, onions, garlic, and chili peppers, and traditionally served with boiled rice and plantains.
>>942595493ooh that sounds delicious. sometimes in the colder months i make chilli in a bit cast iron pot, usually a couple days worth for us, with a pinch of cocoa powder for a little depth to the warmth. the hubby doesnt much appreciate the cocoa powder tho so ive stopped doing that.>Of all the places you could come to post and chill, you choose to come to the cesspool that is /b/?when i first met my hubby here 10 years ago this place was very chill. id sometimes make threads like this one and ask anons about their day back then, and the conversation was always pleasant.
just jerking off to porn as usual
>>942595567Love a bit of cocoa powder in my chilli. I like to stir in some dark chocolate just before serving. It doesn't need much. But it is a nice touch. That reminds me I need to do a chilli. I live alone so I tend to batch cook at weekends and keep some in the freezer for easy weeknight dinners. Next Sunday imma do a chilli.I don't remember it being very chill here. Occasionally you get a nice comfy thread or a wholesome thread where people are /b/ros. Or that guy who posts every day telling us not to kill ourselves, he's pretty cool. Unlike the logfag, he's a douche.
>>942595567>when i first met my hubby here 10 years agopls tell us the story. would love to meet my /b/ wiafu and live happily ever after
>>942595737i suppose im really thinking of 2010 to 2015 generally, things got a lot worse around 2016. i miss my cozy hangout full of autists with less trashy /pol/ bs.you think dark chocolate works better than cocoa powder? how much do you add?>>942595776it was a long time ago on a very different 4chan, but millennial era 4chan was actually a pretty chill place and you could just meet people from here. in 2013 i met a guy in a britfag thread and went for drinks with him at my local unis bar where he ranted about how other eatern europeans had bad manners. met a guy in a pony thread for drinks on a night out in newcastle. met a guy in my home town in a gay furry thread of all places, met up for coffee and he had charm and a handsome face and we hit it off.its a shame this place went the way it did tbh, i dunno if id feel safe doing this now.
>>942595969That makes sense. I came here around 2015.I would say maybe 1-2 cubes of chocolate per portion. So if I'm doing a bit pot full it's usually like 8 pieces of the bar. Dunno if bars are the same or kinda different where you are. Start small though, it's easy to overdo it.
>>942595969Oh a fellow britfag too, nice.Yeah I definitely wouldn't be meeting up with anyone from here. I would be like 90% sure they would be a serial killer.
>>942596112I see you're a Bong. I'm talking like 8 cubes of one of the Tesco or Dr Oetker dark chocolate bars that you buy from the baking section.
>>942596112hmm. i may grate in to taste then, as chocolate pieces here can be large if youre buying high quality bars.>>942596126we used to joke about that lol. if you practice safe meeting habits its generally fine, just gotta be aware and all. its mostly the vibe here is different now, theres less friendliness, more bland gooning, less thread variety in general. moot killed a lot of the thread diversity on here by pushing people onto other boards or off site, and then hiroshimoot took over.>>942596172ohhh i was thinking lindt 90% but dr oetker makes sense.
>>942596193It soon melts if you stir it through.
I should apply for a visa to work in the us on a 3 week project, but not sure which type I need so probably just going to jerk off or play factorio
>>942596244you should do some looking into it, anon. if youre confused about where to start you could try getting an LLM to explain it for you, and you can figure out details as you go.
>>942596280Eh, it's ambigous, because temp working visa is for people actually employed by us comapnies but temporarly (I think) and bussiness visa is only for meetings or negotation (I think) but I will call the embassy on monday to be sure. I tried LLM, but it just presented the same options
>>942596244up until this summer, i would have said to just come here on a tourist visa, and then work 3 weeks, and nobody would care.obviously, since then, things have changed. if you are furnished with natural protective coloration for north america, then you can probably still do it. if not, then *don't try* - you will get deported to liberia or something.(amerifag here.)
>>942596353aah, fair enough anon. good luck.>>942596372didnt the dark souls youtuber onlyafro get deported to venezuela in spite of being married to a US citizen and there being no flights to there?
>>942592956Relaxing by browsing 4chan for dophamine
>>942596372Yeah, my boss grown up and worked in Germany his whole life, official citizen, German passport, one of the best in the very specialized work we do. But he was born in Iran, so... that's why I'm going there alone, I have blue eyes...
celebrating 319 days sober
>>942596509By cracking open a cold one? Grat anyway, alcohol is a poison our society depends on too much
>>942596446i dunno about any youtubers. but getting deported to a weird country is very possible now. no flights doesn't matter; the us government will send you on a very special flight to any of 190+ countries around the world.>>942596491from iran? go directly to guantanamo. do not pass go, do not collect $200. doesn't matter if you've had a german passport since 1970. :D
>>942596577Yeah, hope at least they accept my application, who knows these days. But the only BMW factory in the US needs me, so I hope that count's for something
>>942596632you're the only person that knows how to calibrate the machine that applies electroshock therapy to someone who uses their turn signals in a bmw?
>>942596659You can't talk about shit like this on the internet. <They> will get you
>>942596716i'm not worried about <Them>. i'm just wondering what is so unique that you have to go to the bmw factory to do it.
>>942596479comf>>942596509grats anon. booze sucks anyway, plenty of better things to have a good time with than that shitty little poison.>>942596577how wonderful, eh? US never fails to disappoint with how shitty it can be to people who it doesnt like in the moment.
>>942596757I measured the whole production line in Germany when they first assembled it. Now they will ship it, so I'll have to measure again on site, and help them in the precise assembly. A US company could do the onsite measuring for 3 times the money, and it would take a long time explaining what and how to measure
>>942596831oh, like intel's "copy exact", but getting the car/SUV production line set up exactly the same way.also, the us company would just measure the whole thing, like, "the production line is 967 meters long", and still charge you 3x for it. :D
>>942596877More like a 100m, just a small battery electronics applying thing. I guess it's a new tech which can detect if any of the individual cells has any problems or overheated or has a chemical spill, not sure
>>942592956Nothing.
But anyway, it's important to know the precise location of every machine, so the robotics techs can program them easily.
>>942596928that makes sense. i guess you're talking about elektrowagens.trivia: when toyota was trying to make the batteries for the first priuses in 1995 or 1996, they bought a bunch of cylindrical NiMH cells, welded 200 of them together, and then the whole battery they made didn't work. they asked sanyo, "what kind of failure rate do you have on the cells?" "like, 1 or 2%, why?" that's the moment when toyota realized they were going to have to build a battery factory too.
>>942596997Hah. Or at least you have to test every cell.. But yeah, these days every carmanufacturer building huge projects for a tech that will go obsolete by the time the first car rolls of these lines. But they will have to make money on it, so you will be pushed to buy them.
>>942597030the thing that shits me is the ui/touchscreen stuff. cell phones are going to have new generations for something like 3 to 6 times the amount of time the screen in the car will last, so the screen in the car will be hopelessly out of date by then, even though the car itself still runs and drives just fine.two ideas:1) ship the car with a $100 android tablet as the screen. sure, it's not rated over automotive temperature range, but who cares? replace with another $100 android tablet (instead of $2000 proprietary touchscreen) in 3 or 4 years, and keep driving. you can replace a lot of android tablets for what a proprietary screen costs.2) ship the car with no touchscreen at all. everything on the speedometer, DIN hole for the radio, mechanical controls for everything else. (yes, this sucks for the US, because you *have* to have some kind of screen for the required backup camera.)
>>942597136I like screens, because I often have to drive 10 hours for work (flying isn't an option, as I have to travel with equipment) and I can manage spoty, easily see gps and messages. But you are right, it would be so much better if it was modular or easily replaceable. But you can see in many things that actual practicality isn't the goal here. Just be cheap flashy, sellable... In the 2 year old company car I'm driving right now If you want to change the vent speed, you press a physical button to get to the menu, then mess around on the touch screen, then press a touch button to get back to android auto... it should be one of the most basic things, but no, this bullshit
oh hey OP anon; i hope you're doing well. i'm also on a bored-horny phase. i hope all goes well for you.
>>942595493That stew looks really good! I totally get what you mean OP
>>942597403whoops, apologies, i meant anon. ive just gotten off from work, its 3am at where i live so. apologies.
>>942597374i hope you find good stuff, anon. im chilling before i have to go grocery shopping, which sucks because id like to do nothing all day.
>>942597304the very best version of this was the 80s Buick Riviera. it had a (CRT!!!) touchscreen, and everything was in a strict hierarchy in the menus. four or five touches to change the radio station, three or four touches to adjust the HVAC.i drove a seat/cupra elektrowagen earlier in 2025 and it was similar. if you wanted to adjust the hvac, first hit the button at the bottom of the screen for "hvac", then hit the button for "adjust outlet", then hit the button for "dash", "windscreen", "feet", or whatever.on my old toyota, it's just click the hvac dial to the setting you want, and done.
>>942592956show vege and bob
>>942597601grim
>>942597304anyway, i'm going to bed. goodnight.
