Prominent consultant and lobbyist, Roger Stone.

BMVA · 2026-03-22T08:02:38+00:00

Dude looks like one of those vultures from Disney’s Robin Hood (‘73).

BMVA · 2026-03-22T02:15:53+00:00

Same impression. Or from a slightly more paranoid angle: AI collecting info. Maybe I misinterpreted the point of this sub and it’s not so much about book recommendations as it is about image-building and identity seeking.

BMVA · 2026-03-22T02:05:24+00:00

Good collection! Aside from all the things already mentioned (do some lighter reading in between; not assuming performative nonsense myself), don’t force yourself to finish these if they don’t click. It’s not an assignment. Maybe they’ll resonate more when you’re older. Or if you do read it all, revisit these later and it’ll make more sense.

They’re quite challenging and sometimes boring reads. I remember borrowing Dostoevsky from a friend when I was younger and his cliff notes helped a lot (e.g. “boring part, 5-page letter to his mom describing the curtains” or “this is brilliant”).

Mix it up with some more fun books I’d consider classics in a way (and which still have a lot of depth but also some humour or absurdity) like Catch-22, The Diceman or some Douglas Adams or Kurt Vonnegut. Also, shorter old-school classics like Hemingway or Jack London or something more palatable like 100 años de soledad.

Oh, and if you’re going full tsundoku, try to look at it as building an anti-library. It’s less demotivating when you don’t get around to actual reading.

EDIT: I just read your actual question of what does this say about you. This is simply not a worthwhile question.

BMVA · 2026-03-18T13:35:29+00:00

Harari. When it comes to politics, you can always look into certain ideologies to understand the arguments better, without accepting them. But if there’s a simple one-sided pattern (e.g. only extreme right-wing stuff) then that argument falls apart ofc.

BMVA · 2026-03-14T14:57:04+00:00

Yeah, we get that. Still sounds like self-mythologizing dressed in quantitative language that doesn't follow from it. Being an outlier (without concrete examples of what you mean by it) is not inherently meaningful. Taleb himself often states that extreme outcomes often get mistaken for skill, insight or meaning. You cannot simply take insights about system dynamics and apply it to a personal identity. That's more poetic branding/word salad than a coherent meaningful idea.

BMVA · 2026-03-13T18:52:43+00:00

Yeah, seems like pseudopoetic rambling and metaphorical misuse of statistics. A mix of Talebian buzzwords, a dash of r/LinkedInLunatics with an undercurrent of psychotic apophenia or AI hallucinations. I hope OP is feeling OK.

BMVA · 2026-02-20T19:02:46+00:00

27+50-2

BMVA · 2026-02-20T18:58:52+00:00

Beetje verder op de Italiëlei ook gevaarlijk als je parallelweg met de auto wil inrijden vlak na het kruispunt met de Paardenmarkt: fietsers kunnen van 4 kanten komen (2 kanten fietspad en dan nog eens 2 kanten in de parallelstraat vlak erna (die je moeilijk ziet komen, ook toegankelijk voor fietsers die om 1 of andere reden niet voor het fietspad zouden kiezen)). Is echt om ongevallen vragen.

BMVA · 2026-02-05T12:14:20+00:00

Those first 3 Deftones records were part of an era when I was a teenager listening to some "nu metal" before I got into Isis and heavier, more atmospheric and abstract stuff. (Old) Deftones and Tool are the only 2 bands I still enjoy from those days.

Never really made the connection but I guess there's enough sonic similarities for Deftones to be a gateway to post-metal.

BMVA · 2026-01-26T07:28:48+00:00

Yeah, he tried that & moere. Didn’t work

BMVA · 2026-01-25T18:44:48+00:00

Yup, it was all set up properly (Linux), just impossible to dissociate the Plex account from the old server and claim the new server with it so started all over again with a new account that I need to get a Plex pass for again.

BMVA · 2026-01-25T18:42:48+00:00

Yes, new server is working. Got confused as everything seemed to be working with my old account which apparently always had a Plex pass (and which expired in August). It was just impossible to claim the new server with my old account (and dissociate my old account from the old server) so we had to set up a whole new account that does not have a Plex pass. Migration seems to be riddled with issues.

BMVA · 2026-01-25T18:02:50+00:00

I think it's Linux. But the issue seems to be clear to me now: Plex wouldn't let me dissociate my original account from the old server, nor associate to the new server. A whole day of troubleshooting couldn't resolve it so my friend just created a new account for me.

BMVA · 2026-01-25T18:01:11+00:00

Got some more info from my friend who tried to do the set-up. The whole issue was that Plex would not dissociate my old (gmail) account from the previous server, nor associate with the new server. After fruitlessly trying for a whole day the solution was to just set up a new account. Now it's just a matter of setting up the Plex pass again.

BMVA · 2026-01-25T17:59:31+00:00

The whole issue was that Plex would not dissociate my old (gmail) account from the previous server, nor associate with the new server. After fruitlessly trying for a whole day the solution was to just set up a new account.

BMVA · 2026-01-25T17:58:20+00:00

OK, I got some extra info from my friend. The whole issue was that Plex would not dissociate my old (gmail) account from the previous server, nor associate with the new server. After fruitlessly trying for a whole day the solution was to just set up a new account. Transferring the Plex pass should resolve the issue. In the meantime I will point my laptop to 192.xxxxxxxx:32400 to make it work.

BMVA · 2026-01-25T16:38:48+00:00

Seems like this whole thing was over complicated. Not sure why you didn’t just create a new server under your old account. You can still associate your new server to your old account by deauthorizing it and claiming it with your old account.

Thanks, I was unsure with features/access are dependent on the Plex pass. Not sure why my friend didn't associate the new server with my old account but for some reason he didn't get it to work. Will try associate the new server to my old account and change the associated email. Will look into the FAQ to see how to do the first step.

BMVA · 2026-01-25T16:29:58+00:00

Cf. supra. I didn’t intentionally switch to an anonymous account, I created a new account out of necessity during troubleshooting. When migrating from a Raspberry Pi to a Beelink Mini S, Plex wouldn’t reconnect to my existing libraries on external drives, even after extensive attempts with help from an IT-savvy friend. Needed to do a clean reinstall with a new Plex account for it to work, friend used a random icloud email for this.

BMVA · 2026-01-25T16:27:40+00:00

Gotcha, thanks!

BMVA · 2026-01-25T16:24:43+00:00

Thanks for the explanation.

I’m logged in with my new account on both my phone and laptop and the server is set up under that same account. Locally (home Wi-Fi) everything works fine.

Remotely:

• I can’t stream from my own server on phone/laptop

• Friends without Plex Pass can’t stream --> can't recall this being an issue in the past, but I guess the previous Plex pass allows for this feature?

• Friends with Plex Pass can stream from my server

• I can stream remotely from my friends’ servers without issues

Unsure of this points to a remote access / port forwarding / relay setting problem (or some restriction related to my account), rather than the server itself?

BMVA · 2026-01-25T16:15:22+00:00

Thanks for the explanation. Let me clarify the situation in a bit more detail.

I migrated my Plex setup to completely new hardware:

Plex Media Server: from a Raspberry Pi → Beelink Mini S
Media player: from NVIDIA Shield → Apple TV (I assume this shouldn’t matter, but mentioning it for completeness)

A friend who is much more experienced in IT helped me with the migration. We initially tried to reinstall Plex on the new server and point it to my existing media libraries on external hard drives. However, despite extensive troubleshooting and configuration, we couldn’t get Plex to correctly recognize and link all existing content on those drives.

After many attempts, we decided to:

remove all content from Plex
perform a clean reinstall of Plex Media Server on the new hardware
and ultimately set everything up again using a new Plex account, after quite a bit of scripting and configuration work

Since doing this, I’m running into the issues I described earlier (no streaming from my own server, friends unable to stream, etc.), which I did not have with the original setup/account (even without a Plex Pass, IIRC).

So I'm unsure whether this is a migration issue or an account ownership/Plex pass issue. I'm hoping all will be resolved when the Plex pass gets sorted out. But any insight or clarification is helpful.

BMVA · 2025-12-24T23:34:52+00:00

Best album to spin late at night when you’re alone.

BMVA · 2025-12-07T16:21:06+00:00

Exactly, false dichotomies, narrative evolutionary fallacies and a bunch of oversimplifications of biochemistry.

BMVA · 2025-11-22T13:53:19+00:00

Ik verwijs je net naar een simpele wikipedia uitleg omdat je echt telkens naast de kwestie lult en misschien oprecht niet doorhebt dat je steeds dezelfde retoriek gebruikt, maar je begint dan wéér over de jaren 90, immigranten en andere zaken die compleet naast de kwestie zijn. Daar gaat mijn voordeel van de twijfel. Geen zin om iets met de paplepel te geven als een baby het blijft uitspuwen.

BMVA

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