What the fuck was her problem?? Jesus Christ just take the loan and go to Europe if you're that butthurt about it.
>>25549228Women are certainly able to shoot you or stab you to death in your sleep or throw acid on you
>>25549254>she passed the same discontentment to her own child>>25549275why did the daughter become a whore when the mother didnt?what was the secret sauce?
>>25549996Current consensus is that you don’t force yourself onto someone who is visibly not happy about it, even if they don’t talk about it directly. There was this moment where he would “make love to her” as quick as possible because he has actually noticed how she wasn’t into it. Like, I know, historical context is such that this is what it was like back in time, but people probably want to highlight that the past wasn’t the happiest either.
>>25552659edith kept pressuring grace to be popular and grace figured out that sleeping around made her popular
>>25552170By marrying an insane bitch that you can't Chad around or refusing to Chad a normal bitch around you are inviting that violence into your life
AND I SAIDWHAT ABOUT
>>25549711yo mama
>anon wants to start a fight about if the book/movie/song is betterI'm in, reserving my votehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ClCpfeIELw
One of the greatest songs ever written but I will likely never hear anything else the band has made
>>25551052My vote is for the movie. One of the rare movies that’s better than the book.
>>25551872>>25552017You guys cannot be serious.. the book is a masterpiece. The movie is pretty good at best but overrated and the song is fine but laughably stupid lyrically
In the world of dead print media, are there any magazines you still buy or subscribe to, that aren't on the brink of death or going all digital?
>>25548018For the second time, no.
>>25548018ahemthe best of & AKA the best of & magazine issues 001-014 AKA &: the best of issues 001-014 AKA the best-ofwa-lahttps://the-best-of-amp.github.io/
>>25548018I don't subscribe, but Decibel seems to be doing all right.
ahem
>>25548018Famitsu, if I like the cover art.
i want to get into him because apparently he wrote creepy stuff and i am interested in that
>>25551094Start with his life, read a biography, or what his friends wrote about him.Read about his circle. I firmly believe his life and friends were more interesting than what he wrote.Once you are done with that, focus on his corpus.
>>25551133thank you anoncan i have qrd on his circle? i only know of the frankenstein stuff
His letters are pure kino. Start with the one where he found an Italian revolutionary dead outside his home.
>>25551094He was a homo
>>25551201Edward John Trelawny's "Records of Shelley, Byron and the Author" is a good start.
Why do you seethe over The Tale of Genji? How many copies of it have you burned?
>>25550125But japanese culture IS western culture.
>>25550125Kek, I forget sometimes that Japs can be ultra bitter and resentful too.
>>25550125>12.6k likesDamn I didnt know Japs still have a huge chip on their shoulders against the the west like that
>>25550125Xitter has shown the world how pathetic Nips are and that Hans are actually the master race
>>25552838thats right, chinks are never petty and resentful
What books do you pick to combat the existential dread and misery?
>>25546877Sapiens is pretty comfy since it shows how bad life used to be.
It reminds me there's always a way out.
would appreciate more recsbeen crazy depressed recently and essentially if I don't show marked improvement this week I'm checking into therapy, giving anything that might work a shot. cozy books instead of scrolling is one of my ideas. >>25546896>Dad found me the entire collection of harvard classics for free on kindle like 10yrs ago >has his two other most famous stories in there>lacking that one fuck
>>25552734Stereotypical advice endures because it actually works. What you need to do is establish a sense of agency in your life and you should probably start by identifying the cause of your depression; is it the direct consequence of something or a general ennui? Regardless, do the following:-Prioritize sleep, don't drink coffee after noon-Minimize scrolling as much as possible-Go for walks and spend more time in nature-Exercise, the body craves activity-Make positive dietary changes by reducing processed sugars and increasing fiber as well as antioxidants-Take Maca with breakfast and Valerian Root before bed if you're worried about your energy levels (Magnesium with dinner is also good but I'm not going to inundate you with supplement recommendations; start with the Maca and see if it helps)
I've listened to pic rel multiple times, and the audible version has a delightful narrator. Slocum's Sailing Alone Around the World was a nice, cozy read. Cozy literature is not my forté. >>25552808I'm not gonna ruin this nice slow board with too much more blogposting, but I've been working night shift for >5yrs. I try to make up for the sleep schedule with quantity and sleeping whenever I want. Sometimes I'm good about the scrolling and exercise, but lately I've been apathetic about even that. I don't know if I have an exact grasp on what's causing it. I recently kind of put to bed for good a lot of my negative/disordered motivators in life, and subsequently lost any other motivation to do anything. I have a valerian tincture that I bought on accident when I was trying to get hawthorne once, I'll take it when I find it. I take a top quality thiamine, as well as zinc, Vit D, and K/Mg/Ca when I'm bothering to take stuff (about half the week, generally).
There is no such thing as good or evil, only actions and the consequences thereof.What is good for one, may be evil for the other.
>>25552537He never anything like this. Read picrel and “Wittgenstein: a religious point of view” by Norman Malcolm. Both drury and Malcolm were students of Wittgenstein and record in their books discussions with Wittgenstein annd remarks from him and his letters about morality and religion. Drury even asked Wittgenstein for advice, when he was thinking about becoming a priest.
>>25552651You are right, I just met you (a jew) and now I hate themWHY ARE YOU FUCKING JEWS LIKE THAT HOLY SHIT FUCK YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>25552651You must have met many jews
>>25552657>Drury even asked Wittgenstein for advice, when he was thinking about becoming a priest.At least he wasn't planning to become an aeronaut.
>>25552537that's a good argument
Bought a copy of picrel recently. What should I expect? Also can we get a discussion going about neo-Nazi-inspired science-fiction in general?
did you get lost on the way to /lgbt/?
Some Harold Covington books are kino
>>25552635You encounter many travellers on the way?
Why are hired hand writers so terrible? You would think if writers got paid a salary and their entire job was just to write a show or a game or articles for a magazine they could produce some good stuff but it has literally never happened
>>25552303You’re like those Linkedin lunatics posting about why people aren’t frothing at the mouth to work hard and do unpaid overtime for some soulless dead end job. If you really can’t figure out why people aren’t doing extra shit at your workplace you belong in middle management or HR. Seems obvious to everyone else.
>>25552303Looking back I took these shows for granted. As a child you assume it's so much more simple, that one person could just sit down and write something so incredibly dense and tightly crafted, but then you learn it's actually gargantuan task of creativity from a whole team of incredibly motivated, very funny people stuck inside a pressure cooker. Same goes for all those classic series. I therefore always assumed I could bang out the equivalent of an episode of that kind of calibre, no problem. Maybe I still can ;)
>>25552718Bob’s Burgers writing is crazy creative, how talented one must be be to come up with all of that stuff.
>>25552718It's amazing how sharp the decline is in the quality of cultural products between the latter half of twentieth century America and now. It seems that every sphere of human activity was just bursting with creativity and novelty. Makes me sad to be living in the shadow of that bygone era.
What do AI tech oligarchs actually believe? What books do they read? Where do they get their purported batshit insane ideas that we're going to replace humanity with robots and find eternal life uploading our brains inside galactic supercomputers?
>>25552527Also the null hypothesis is simply power--they want power or egomania. Musk I could see fitting this description, and perhaps Altman (albeit stealthily). The problem is that the politically powerful still checkmate them, being powerful in tech still has a limited horizon. Other centers of power are driven by more primal things, which tech does not tap into. Maybe they are too deluded to realize this, or maybe they have different motivations.
>>25549030>People at /g/ are the most affected by this technology and you can literally see how scared and desperate they areLmao... /g/ here. I am not anti-AI, I use AI everyday but I am very familiar with its limitations. AI just generates more code at a much faster rate. More code in the world has always resulted in more demand for software engineers.In 1996 you got hired if you knew html. At this point in 2026 html has been auto-generated by templating/frameworks for over two decades. Yet web developers have grown to the largest cohort of software developers in the world. Were "html coders" replaced? No, they just learned the new frameworks and adapted, while millions more entered the industry in the meantime and the webdev demand still couldn't be filled.AI is not a "nothing burger" but if you think it's replacing humans or a civilization ending technology you've fallen for a literal marketing/ad campaign.
>>25552480When did I speak of a social contract? Hegel btfo‘d social contract theory 200 years ago. Your first sentence reads: “the state is not a thing, it’s a sort of thing.” All you guys can do is spout thinly veiled Fox News tier propaganda lines; you didn’t answer my points because they fall outside your script. Regardless of the merits of our respective positions you are objectively poorly read and low IQ and you people demonstrate this in every single thread.
>>25549065Can someone elighthen me on why this such a wrong view? If AI writes a great book it is no different than stumbling onto it in the library of Babel, really. So yes, I think it's not real literature. There can be no value in discussing the intention, because there is none. And discussing meaning and intention is what we do most with the great works.
>>25544501An incoherent combination of whatever makes for a convenient narrative to investors and the state, roughly based on whatever ideas are floating around in the general cultural sphere of the silicon valley sycophants. I get the sense the foundation is still a sort of neo-liberal dream of futurism and post-scarcity through market innovation from back when silicon-valley culture was significantly more liberal. That has been mixed with some lesswrong bayesian/rationalist stuff, some accelerationism, and now that they have decided to fully bend the knee to Trump, some market-interventionist stuff and some anti-democratic stuff adjacent to whatever Thiel has been cooking up in his little reactionary intellectual bubble. Importantly though, they have no consistent beliefs besides making sure their company makes money. All of these believes are adopted and abandoned purely based on what makes for a convenient narrative or alliance at that particular moment.
The logical endpoint of Nietzsche’s nihilism is theism, specifically Christianity. When everything is deconstructed and all truths made subjective, when there is no meaning or purpose to anything, then religion is automatically optimal à la Pascal’s wager. Nietzsche would say that this is life-denial or the result of weakness, but this entirely hinges upon the assumption that atheism is true. But if Christianity is true, then the psychoanalysis game works in reverse: atheism is a convoluted rationalization to justify sinful behavior. But it’s not as if Nietzsche is completely opposed to a Christian lifestyle, either. He praises the character of Christ and sees the value in asceticism , even saying that the will to power has so far been the highest in abstinent priests and monks. Nietzsche never solved the problem of the “death of God”, certainly not for his own life, which was riddled with drug abuse, suicidal ideation, masturbation addiction, and being cucked. He wants to command to others “the Overman shall be the meaning of the earth” but doesn’t explain why anyone should care about what happens after they die or even why they shouldn’t kill themselves. He literally says the overman is his version of God, and expects everyone else to have the same faith for some reason.
>>25550269The choice is obvious. You know it in your heart
>>25550279sure i'll just trust you bro
>>25550263Atheism does not require you to die without children, although you can make an argument that the atheists, due to higher intelligence, are statistically more likely to be from wealthy nations while the religious ones remain in the poor nations.Poor nations outbreed the wealthy nations - that's not in dispute here.Moreover, the worshippers of the god(s) you oppose reproduce just fine as well.I have a feeling that you are angry because you saw the word "Nature" instead of "God" as the adjudicator of truth. Is that what's driving you insane?
The entire purpose of Pascal’s wager was to force the reader to confront the reality that a purely self-serving strategic approach to faith does not work and that the barriers to faith are rooted in your conscience
I like this thread because I love Pascal. But I also believe Nietzsche was a genius.>>25546510>couldn’t stop gooningfucking kek, you can't be serious.
does there exist anything like this for Shakespearean English?
Yeah, I got it
>>25552777>cum equator No I lost it
>mfw reading an average Tolstoy sentenceWhat other authors are like this? Proust and Nabokov come close, but not quite.
>>25548577>that make you close your eyes?Kek, snarky bastard.
https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Pastorales_de_Longus/Livre_premier
>>25548577So you consume without understanding? Sad.
>>25548538Kierkegaard haters are soulless automatons
>>25550538Correct. He's a marvel.
The main MEGA folder containing the board charts (mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J) has been terminated. See attached image. Does anyone have a working mirror, a local backup, or a torrent magnet link for this exact archive?
https://gofile.io/d/dUi2R2tE will continue to work as long as someone downloads from it at least once every ten days.
>>25549593The /lit/ wiki has been up for over a year, man. It was re-made pretty quick after Fandom axed all the chan wikis.>>25547138>>25547232>>25547632The /lit/ wiki exists for this type of stuff:https://lit.trainroll.xyz/wiki/Main_PageFolders are good because they're easy to mirror, but the wiki is the right place to have a public collection.
>>25547138what questionable stuff?
>>25552222Should I download this >>25552222 or this >>25537744 ?
>>25552530Definitely >>25552222. It has a lot more.
