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I am a NEET in my late 20s and I want to escape it.
Ideally, I'd like to study and enter the field of electrical engineering.
What are some books to read, lectures to watch, or things to do to prepare while I'm still a neet? What can I do to prepare while I have the free time of a NEET?
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>>34399053
>I am a NEET in my late 20s and I want to escape it.
>Ideally, I'd like to study and enter the field of electrical engineering.
it's a good idea anon :D
>What are some books to read, lectures to watch, or things to do to prepare while I'm still a neet?
you can try some projects on your own
you should definitely brush up on your math, try some SAT practice tests, etc

learning the discipline to study etc. after years of NEETing is probably gonna be the hardest part, but the structure of college can help
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you can often get an electrician apprenticeship & go straight into a career, without much more than a highschool education to start, and make decent money doing that
it might be difficult if you're late 20s, but it's something to be aware of

college is good but u gotta find a way to pay for it, obviously, have a plan of some sort
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>>34399091
I've thought about this. I'm not sure how much an electrician and an electrical engineer overlap, but I'm sure they must to some degree.
My main interest in electrical engineering is being able to design circuit boards.

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I bought my 11 year old daughter an Alex Rider graphic novel from ebay and the graphic novel had Alex Rider naked in it and also had him naked in multiple other pages. Can I sue ebay or get a refund for this?
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>>34399262
>buys graphic novel
>it's graphic
Hory shiet
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>>34399262
if your daughter is being groomed, a magazine is the least of your problems
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>>34399262
I've never seen fan service like this in a non-ecchi genre. usually fan service that panders to guys will have the female characters in lingerie or swimsuits. maybe you can see them nude and covered by hot spring steam. but never have i seen fan service just straight up show you a female character's completely naked bare ass in battle stance.
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How long are you going to post this gay shit

Hi 4chan, I want to grow cannabis but I'm new to it, so I'm here to get information from experienced "bosses". Please help me with detailed information such as odor problems, how to get higher THC levels, what kind of seeds shall ı use, and soil selection.
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>>34398704
You can't imagine how expensive it is where I live; I just want to produce my own product, to hell with it.
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>>34398619
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>>34398619
I think you can find guides on that easily on the surface web. Maybe you can buy a book about it in Amazon? Who knows?
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>>34398704
>>34398892
y'alls a buncha retarded niggers

but OP probably is too
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>>34398898
>goy picrel calling me retarded nigger

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Appealing to women is gay. There, I said it.
If you're sculpting your life around appealing to women you are self-cucking
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>>34389592
Did that creep really say that?
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>>34392034
He said that taking it up the ass isn't gay and sucking cocks is a metaphor for unresolves gender dysphoria or something.
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>>34389592
anne frank
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>>34391910
How?
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>>34390646
Maga?

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Any advice? Help a younger soul with anything you've got good insight on. Morality, money, values, women, fitness, health, masculinity, sex, spirituality... I'm all ears, older anons.
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>>34398926
>Younger soul
>Young
Unc moment
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>>34399156
thread derailer
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>>34398926
Work, save money, start 401k or invest if possible, work out, pray to God, good luck.

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I need real practical schizoid advice from someone who has escaped this hell.
If I can't escape this I will die or go insane. I'm sure of it.
Some people hypothesize that schizoidism is an early stage of schizophrenia and I'm starting to believe that might be true because I am losing my grip. Schizoidism is basically like the ultimate "mask". I am very afraid of what's bottling up underneath.
When I am in social situations it's like my brain literally stops functioning. I am truly head empty no thoughts. It's such a struggle just to think of one paltry thing to say. Nothing works. I feel like I will have to genuinely fry the inhibition center of my brain with psychedelic drugs to get anywhere. I've seen what that does to people and its like cutting off your nose to spite your face. I don't think it's a real solution and I know it will make things worse for me.
There is a confluence of other factors that makes all of this much worse but I just need some kind of leverage and I feel if I can get past this one thing maybe it will all become manageable and at least I won't have a complete meltdown.
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>>34393312
Also what the guy is saying about the gym works in part. After doing very hard cardio most of my schizoid shutinness got way better. It does last for like 15minutes only though
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>>34389738
>figure out your patterns
>figure out the reasoning for your patterns
>start changing them
"empty head without thoughts" on its own isn't schizoid. Why does that happen? Figure that out. If you can't then get therapy.
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Are you an actual diagnosed schizoid?
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>>34389738
Pick every man who is disgruntled, every woman who is furious, every individual who is isolated, and every person who is disappointed with what the system and want it torn apart. You pick'em up and tell them: you are absolutely right. You are already halfway to do this, since you took your time to write this mini-essay on the angst of the people. You seem to have the talent to relate to pain, and that is precious and useful.

This is what the enemy fears the most. They do not want people to relate to the pain of others, especially to the pain of those who have much more in common with them than the enemies have.

We need discontent to fester, we need pain to become intolerable, we need to turn off the heater on this pan of frogs to +5000 Fahrenheit so we jump with claws in hand to gnaw at the cook.

There is no easy solution but the spread of horror, of desperation and of the need for immediate action.

In this complicated times, we need simple solutions. The two solutions are the destruction of the existing system, or the destruction of all those who cannot live in it (increasingly, every single person). Canada has given up already, and they'll tell you to kill yourself if you are struggling with rent. Modern countries import foreigners, they do not care that their youth is giving up on life. The system has given up on us already. So either we die through our own means, or we just rally every loser like us into the greatest Hail Mary civilization has ever experienced, the last manifest of the faustian spirit: the ultimate revolution that destroys Enlightenment civilization.

In short, your retirement plan is now winning the next civil war.
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>>34391076
Then why are you still friends with him

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I don’t have family or friends except one person and my mental health is shit. It used to be way better, idk what happened.
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>>34397848
Are you "thinking about the rope and slitting wrists" or are you like "I don't have motivation to do anything"?
What do you mean by "my mental health is shit"?
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>>34397916
Both honestly on a pretty equal level.
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We are your family, anon.

Let's be friends if you want to.
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>>34397848
>I don’t have family or friends except one person and my mental health is shit. It used to be way better, idk what happened.
gotta force yourself to get a snowball rolling in a certain direction, and you'll start meeting people again
it's true it's a fucked up position, but people have recovered from it plenty of times
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there are also support groups if it's really bad, those might be better than nothing
but please stay away from the temptation to socialize online, it won't lead anywhere

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Can I use hangers on this shelf?
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Yes, it's what the bottom rail is for.
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Stick a box underneath it first
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>>34396580
Not without fucking it up. Maybe if you keep it light. Not if you are a stupid girl.
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>>34396580
You could hang, like, Tshirts
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>>34396580
I have those exact shelves and I hang my clothes on them. I have about 15 shirts, 6 pants, and some other outfits like suits all hanging from them and they don’t show any strain.

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I'm currently taking multiple-choice exams. Sometimes I have no idea how to answer a few questions say, 5 out of 30. Since I'd just be guessing blindly and might even be biased, would I have a better chance of getting at least one right if I just picked 'A' for all of them?"
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>>34397777
Assuming they were randomly generated - that is, that the test-maker didn't have an unconscious bias for making B the right answer, your chances would be 1 in 5, or 4-to-1 that you'd be wrong.

You can do better than that with a little thought. Typically in any selection of 5 possibles, one will be an obvious outrider and most likely wrong and one will be the answer you'd get if you made the most obvious mis-reading of the question or the most obvious math error. That narrows your guesswork down to 1 in 3.
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>>34397777
If you've actually run out of time and can't think about the answer at all, just pick anything at random - all A's is fine. But as the other anon said, it's often the case that if you think about it even a little, one or more of the answers is obviously wrong, even if you don't know which one is right. Choosing at random from the not-definitely-wrong answers improves the odds.
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no fag. Being able to correctly answer the questions when you don't know what the answer is, is what separates high IQs from diligent retards who just study a lot. You need to be using logic to eliniate any wrong answers and at least be giving yourself a 50/50 rather than 1/4 guess.

Mentally cross reference words with other similar words and speculate on what the latin or other roots mean and see if you can surmise some estimation for what shit means. Or if its math then its even easier to elimate shit by working backwards from the answers or just know the answer must be less than X etc.
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>>34397777
Congrats on your lucky digits.
Multiple choice exams have a fun exploit that they tend to leak a lot of information about the answers. So for example, if you have no idea how to answer one question, you can look at the other questions to find some that cover the same concepts. Then you can look at their answers to see if the questions have any answers that are consistent with each other. If so, those consistent answers are much more likely to be the correct answers for their respective questions. Alternatively, you can look for answers that are obviously inconsistent with each other and eliminate them. It's a simple technique but a powerful one. Interestingly, the more comprehensive the test, the more information that tends to leak out of the choices.

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I've been having pain in the orange circled area for 3 days in a row now. It seems to only occur when I move (including breathing). I don't think its an anxiety issue, I've had anxiety attacks before so I'm familiar with how those feel. Also pain in the red area when I twist to the side, a very strong burning feeling that goes away after 10 seconds or so. Whereas the orange area is more of a sharp pain that goes away after a few seconds of being still. My blood pressure/heart rate are good.
How can I tell when this sort of thing is an issue I should see a doctor about?
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>>34397851
It's the dreaded Lurghi.
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>>34397851
>How can I tell when this sort of thing is an issue I should see a doctor about?
You should *always* talk to a doctor about unexpected chest pain. It might possibly be costochondritis; but no one on here is qualified to make that diagnosis at long range. Talk to a doctor.
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>>34397851
Ignore it. That is what the doctor would do.
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>>34397851
Have you tried doing stretches? Usually a good one for that area is to lie on your stomach, then use your arms to lift your chest up and lean back while your legs still lie flat on the ground, but you may have to experiment with other poses and stuff.
If it isn’t a muscular thing, and you’re also pretty sure it isn’t misplaced digestive pain, then see a doctor.
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>>34397851
Could be costochondritis maybe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costochondritis

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>At the store w/ my loser older sister
>"That woman's a gangstalker she's trying to intimidate us"
"I didn't notice"
>"Get your head out of your ass Anon, these people are trying to undermine our family!"
Everyone who gets directly behind us in the checkout line, drives like an asshole, makes any unprompted reference to [famous dead alleged relative], or does one of many other mundane things, is one of "them". And the fact that she's an unaccomplished loser is even more proof of it (rather than proof of the opposite: they wouldn't waste resources harassing a nobody). In other words, I definitely shouldn't rent a house with my sister out of pity, right? She's gonna drive me nuts.

And there's also no way to convince her to stop stressing out about gangstalkers is there? To her it's 100% real.

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I went on a first date, and I thought it went really well, but she doesn't want a second date. Make me feel better.
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>>34396482
Rejections are an essential part of the process of finding the right person. I'm happily married now. Before I met the woman who is now my wife, I rejected a few women, and was rejected by quite a lot more. I broke up with a few women, and was broken up with by a few more. If any one of those rejections or break-ups hadn't happened, I would now be UNHAPPILY married to the wrong person. To find the right person and be happy with them, you have to filter out a whole bunch of people you wouldn't be happy with; rejections and break-ups are how you do that. It's a vital part of the process.
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>>34396566
Make an effort to actively change that then
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>>34397308
I didn't mean to leave that name in, that was meant for a tranny
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>>34396482
Alright, what did you do anon ? Tell us how your date went.
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>>34397712
she hugged me at the beginning and at the end. we just chilled for a while and i felt like we were getting along great, but i texted her the next morning and she said we weren't compatible. i don't know why.
>>34397300
>It's a vital part of the process.
This isn't necessarily true. You probably wouldn't be saying this if you had met your current wife BEFORE any of the other women. Maybe if, by being rejected, you learn something about yourself and what type of person you're looking for, then the rejections would be valuable. But otherwise, they're just wasted time. In the end, getting rejected doesn't mean you're one step closer to finding the right person. If you're incredibly lucky, you could theoretically find the right person on your first try.
>>34397285
>So you had a pleasant few hours with someone - that's a success in itself
If I'm never going to see her again, I'd rather have just saved us both the time and stayed at home playing vidya or something.

how tf do i get better i cant overcome this Symbiote of a personality i treasure the worst in everything lifestyle, relations, wtv wtv. i treat myself to the shittiest thing i can find

you know the crazy girls whom only interact to insults? lowkey im like that 10 comments on a single thread i would kms if i had to reply to a good one i figured it out before
i probably see anyone who treats me okay ish as a liar, fake person or just out right pathetic needy
cause why would you give me the time of the day if you had anything better going on
so i figured it im (not a good) person and im being generous here i dont wanna insult myself infront of yall, ofc sadly ik i look ugly and im not healthy and wtv wtv thnx but yeah its like a self fluffing prophecy at least replying to the shitty people ensures that they wont change i know them for who they are

how can i stop being attached to shitty people in general and wtv fix whats going on w my life
for anyone gonna say get better go gym make friends stop being pathetic just think if it was that easy we all would be the same, itried i just regress into doing the same thing i only feel happy hurting myself i love doing it its the only thing that gives my life meaning lol

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well sometimes you can just tell someone is a loser and figure out his insecurity bad odor ugly face big nose etc etc
last time i was texting a girl and she was very self aware of her bad looks and i kept pushing it until i almost actually cried idk why but the people i bully actually stay friend with me

i hate having to do this i love just reassuring them and actually making them feel better than me but they just probably use me as a safety net then ditch me
i stopped interacting with anyone unless its a necessity for this fuckass reason, since the dumb idea keeps reinforcing itself and proving itself right
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no, you don't actually need to be a deranged abusive psycho to have friends
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>>34398442
>>34398325
Autists can't understand concepts such as banter and state of play.
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>>34398442

how come they stay when i just become abusive i am not talking about "light playful stuff" i just bother them until they just give in and do what i want, lowkey very bothering shit. i found out that wat i do somehow aligns with the redpill stuff ig?
i cant connect stuff together im just saying if i called you an idiot i can get extract more interaction time than just being "nice"

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Hello, thanks for having me.

I have a problem. What should I do if I invited a guest into my car and they accidentally defecated on the seat as they were leaving?
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>>34398897
>I have a problem. What should I do if I invited a guest into my car and they accidentally defecated on the seat as they were leaving?
that depends
who was the "guest", are they a friend?
how bad is the shit on the seat? did they NOTICE they did it, or did they just walk away?
is it a nice car?

there's probably not a lot you can do
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Professional cleaning, send them the bill. If they're a minor, send their parent the bill. If they're someone who needs a caretaker, send their caretaker the bill.
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>>34398900
Well...
>>34398902
Um...

>>34398905
No, not a friend. Huge and smeared all over. It leaked through their pants somehow. I don't know if they "noticed" it but they definitely just walked away like as if nothing happened.

>is it a nice car?
It's a Toyota.
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>>34398921
Okay
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>>34398928
ah, that's fucked
and yeah, this >>34398921 might be a good idea

worst case scenario you can probably just replace the whole seat


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