>Hampshire College Will Close Amid Student Enrollment Declines>Other small private colleges like Hampshire have closed in recent years as financial pressures and competition for students increase.https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/us/hampshire-college-closing-amherst-massachusetts-enrollment.html>By Mark Arsenault>April 14, 2026>Hampshire College, a small liberal arts school in Western Massachusetts, has succumbed to years of financial struggle and will close permanently after the fall semester.>A multiyear effort to refinance debt, raise funds, pursue land development and increase enrollment failed to produce a viable path to saving the 56-year-old college. On Sunday, its board of trustees voted to shut down, according to the school’s president.
>>25214466I think what they'll do with the SUNYs is just merge them if it gets too bad.
>>25214616suny is free for anyone who lives in ny state for like a year, i doubt they'll have a shortage of students any time soon
>>25212977People have been predicting mass closures of colleges in the US since the financial crisis of 2008, but it never happens. Only a tiny handful of the 4,000+ post-secondary institutions have shut down, and others have opened.
>>25211738I went to public uni in Europe and then did a PhD in the US and got paid, so not only I am not in debt but I made money out of this.Finding job afterwards is tough but at least I don't owe anything to anyone.
>>25210741in university news this happened recently:https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/04/03/ohio-state-investigating-epstein-payments-to-gynecologist/
>The first consideration that influences our choice and feelings is age. . . .>The second consideration is that of health: a severe illness may alarm us for the time being, but an illness of a chronic nature or even cachexy frightens us away, because it would be transmitted.>The third consideration is the skeleton, since it is the foundation of the type of the species. Next to old age and disease, nothing disgusts us so much as a deformed shape; even the most beautiful face cannot make amends for it — in fact, the ugliest face combined with a well-grown shape is infinitely preferable. Moreover, we are most keenly sensible of every malformation of the skeleton; as, for instance, a stunted, short-legged form, and the like, or a limping gait when it is not the result of some extraneous accident: while a conspicuously beautiful figure compensates for every defect. It delights us. Further, the great importance which is attached to small feet! This is because the size of the foot is an essential characteristic of the species, for no animal has the tarsus and metatarsus combined so small as man; hence the uprightness of his gait: he is a plantigrade. And Jesus Sirach has said (1) (according to the improved translation by Kraus), “A woman that is well grown and has beautiful feet is like pillars of gold in sockets of silver.” The teeth, too, are important, because they are essential for nourishment, and quite peculiarly hereditary.>The fourth consideration is a certain plumpness, in other words, a superabundance of the vegetative function, plasticity. . . . Hence excessive thinness strikingly repels us. . . . The last consideration that influences us is a beautiful face. Here, too, the bone parts are taken into account before everything else. So that almost everything depends on a beautiful nose, while a short retroussé one will mar all. A slight upward or downward turn of the nose has often determined the life’s happiness of a great many maidens; and justly so, for the type of the species is at stake.
>>25214781You're right. But I didn't read either.
This fucker. I bought volume 1 of The World as Will and Representation and the preface told me I had to buy another of his books, something about roots, to understand this one. He was smug about it too.
>>25214864Smug is what he does best, I love him for it. After reading Kant who’s harder to parse but is awfully kind to the reader in spite of that, as well as humble (as much as he can be, after all he’s still dogmatic), it’s refreshing.
>>25214875He is fun.>KantKant can be a cunt in the prolegomena too. He says that the people too dumb to recognize his novelty are too dumb to recognize any novelty and should stick yo the history of philosophy instead of philosophy.
>>25214892Ah, I think I recall that, I forgot about that, since CPR seems to have a somewhat cocky, but guiding tone. I feel he was directing that statement to his contemporary naysayers who didn’t agree with or “get” CPR.
Foid simulator
Essential leftist literature?
>>25213674People will suggest anything but Capital by Marx himself. It's not really a critique of capitalism by the way it's more of an analysis
>Essential leftist literature?>Mostly Marxist bullshit and a sprinkling of socdem and CIA psyop pressYour thread stinks.
Dialectic reading group>>25214473
>>25204296Nobody has read Capital.If anyone tells you they've read Capital, they're lying.
>>25214888They might not have read every volume but plenty have read volume one, which was all that was published in Marx's lifetime
Ἔαρος νέον ἱσταμένοιο edition>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·>>25151591>Μέγα τὸ Ἑλληνιστί/Ῥωμαϊστί·https://mega dot nz/folder/FHdXFZ4A#mWgaKv4SeG-2Rx7iMZ6EKw>Mέγα τὸ ANE·https://mega dot nz/folder/YfsmFRxA#pz58Q6aTDkwn9Ot6G68NRg>Work in progress FAQhttps://rentry dot co/n8nrkoAll Classical languages are welcome.
>>25212516>Turning now from the Hindu teaching to the more familiar field of the Bible, we find ample evidence therein that Moses and the priests of Israel knew about the Great Life-Breath. Egypt, of course, was the great source of their knowledge, as the Bible tells us. "And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and deeds. " (Acts, 7:22). "Words", in Greek, is Logoi, and this is a technical term referring to the power of sound-forms, in the use of which the Egyptians excelled. The Logoi are the same as the mantra of the Hindus. No great penetration is required to read between the lines of many Old Testament passages. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8B_BLtpxQM
changed a couple based on the digits from the past threads to keep it fresherComposition challenge:write a 50 words(minimum) paragraph, roll last digit for theme:0 - talk about a hobby you have1 - describe a country of choice2 - describe one of your favorite books' theme3 - go on wikipedia, click on random article and describe what it is about4 - comment on a recent political event5 - describe a trip you took or would like to take6 - talk about the plot of a movie you like7 - write about one of your favorite historical figures8 - describe one of your favorite meals/dishes9 - whatever you wantComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25209995poetry makes it worth it
Why am I so uninterested in Shakespeare and company and Chaucer and company but some anonymous guy writing in anglo saxon is so captivatingI wonder what my brain is picking up on there. Maybe I'm just stupid
Did Hesiod write in the same greek as Homer or what
Anna's Archive lost.It's over.
>>25214750But getting into a pt is annoying and I don't want to put in the effort
>>25214092The good news is that the Second Great Depression is steam rolling its way to everyone. Wall Street is already starting the smash and grab. Don't be left out!Keyhole all the little scribblers that would impose their laws against ye, mates!
>>25214750Fuck gatekeepers. Elitist snot.I want Libgen back
>>25214092Why did they do it? Sounds impossibly dumb
>>25214092There's an infinitely better site, that allows you to download directly from your kindle, and has even more content than anna's archive. Just saying.
I lived like a luddite for many a year. I did not even have a smartphone, at one point, much to the amusement of the town's literati. What else would I do, other than scroll on my phone? I would read physical books, of course, and spend my evenings drinking wine and smoking, as was my custom, hand-rolled cigarettes. But I obviously have a computer now. I was gifted it by my mother. It is a workstation and handles games well, and now I am back in the webways that I swore I would never again use technology...Luditism. That is my belief. We should go back to the time before we ever used electricity, before we ever dedicated our lives to worshipping 0s and 1s, electron-charge.
>>25214351It was a literary allusion to Picture of Dorian Gray. None of the OP is real. It’s fiction.
>>25214147https://voca.ro/1dulCACSw7Zo
>>25214374Belongs in a literary salon.
>>25214374
Punctuation Edition/wg/ AUTHORS & FLASH FICTION: https://pastebin.com/ruwQj7xQRESOURCES & RECOMMENDATIONS: https://pastebin.com/nFxdiQvCPlease limit excerpts to one post.Give advice as much as you receive it to the best of your ability.Discuss the written works below for practice; contribute, and you shall receive.If you have not performed a cursory proofread, do not expect to be treated kindly. Edit your work for spelling and grammar before posting.Shitposters should be ignored and reported.>Beginner guides on writing:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHdzv1NfZRM [Embed] [Embed] [Open]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whPnobbck9s [Embed] [Embed] [Open]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAKcbvioxFk [Embed] [Embed] [Open]Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25209021>>25209022>>25209304Added another chapter and submitted it.
>want to write a series>plan out for months>do research on how the querying would even look>agents don't want series they want solo books with series potential>already planned to end on a cliffhanger for the first bookMakes perfect sense in hindsight but fuck, I guess. Maybe I just self-publish or make a VN.
>>25213642kitsch>>25213620fine narrative, awkward prose. ESL?>It was what people said to do, however—provided you could no longer take care of your children.awkward use of em-dash>did not trust me to be a good judge on who to give my children to, so they ask me to go to a shelter which they’re obviously blithe to.the repetition of 'to' here feels stiff and unintentional. the use of 'blithe' is odd >Jerti with an assertive and frontal gazefoward-facing?lots of awkward turns of phrase like these which seem to indicate that you're uncomfortable with the languagethere are a couple contentions I have with the pace. I felt the internal diatribe after the encounter with the homeless woman extended a bit overlong, and I found myself intrigued by the scene of the train cabin. I suggest distributing some of rumination from after the homeless woman to within the cabin, whether that be restructured into dialogue or passing thoughts while viewing the scenery/other passengers or whatever. just a point of personal contention, not a real stand out issue or anythingI appreciate the symbol of the hungarian man with the chinese man's nike's. honestly, I don't entirely understand what his story is meant to provoke, but it really made me think.tm and I found it iconic and charmingsolid piece overall>author of wheel and wingComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25212086Why not write heretofore?
>>25210281Name yourself LIMITED TIME 50% OFF!!! so people always think your books are on sale.
Made my way through most of his books and his philosophical aphorisms are the only thing I want to read half the time… he’s kino. Just take a look at the style and density here.
>>25214804yes. please do.
>>25214817Have a parting gift.
>>25214821enjoy your ban
>>25214823Why are you letting him get to you kek
>>25214525>>25214816nta but it's not a kind of nihilism you're supposed to take too seriously. For me Cioran is a deeply ironic living - it's like hanging out in a coffee with a philosopher friend who's constantly depressed and speak in hyperboles. Some philosophical takes are comical, others can strike deep. But overall it's not a philosopher you read to have life explained to you - it's a philosopher you read to examine a certain mood. Extremely nice read if you are in despair btw, it never fails to make me feel better - it's like hearing my own negative ruminations parodied, it has a calming effect and makes me think that in the end I'll be okay.
>swift-footed Achilles>looses to Hector in three laps around troyHector won
Hector seems like the kind of guy to have a wife’s son and say “I’m the dad that stepped up”.. whereas Achilles is the average virile high test homosexual
Who cares, this isn’t anime. Well, it is, kind of.
>loosesEsl
>>25214492ahhiyawan cultural memory, illiad and odyssey was dark age pr campaign of telling the dorians that they, the achaenas, were they real prototokoi
>>25214436>average virile high test homosexuaWhere do I meet those? All the homos i have ever met are of the effete effeminate poof stock. Even the tops while prone to outbursts of violent rage are pussies concerned with neutral health and constantly numbed by medication
Was he onto something?
>>25214680It's not forcing at all. It's like prostitution, but for the joy of sex not money.But ideally, we raise most to not be "incels".
>>25214693How do you handle multi-ethnic populations in these fuck-houses
>>25210930Nigga browsing Incel Wiki
>>25214680It's equality, not liberty
>>25214812Nigga faking ebonics
AI is here, and studies prove that it writes better prose and poetry than humans, and humans prefer things written by AI.AI is the perfect tool to break the pmcs. Those leftists who get 100k for writing a shitty essay every week will soon be begging for food on the streets. And we will laugh at them and throw feces at them and film their sorrow for our amusement.Money spent on art is money wasted. With AI, "writers" will now be free to work the fields for minimum wage. They deserve nothing more.Leftists had only one thing they did, "art" and AI has broken them. There has never been a leftist that has worked a day in their life and not become right wing. We need to destroy human made writing, that woke shit that infests.
>>25214782Kill yourself.
>>25214785No.>>25214789Shut the fuck up. Scared of AI taking your useless "job"? You should buy a sleeping bag, you'll need one soon, leftist.
>>25214790>>25214782>wah wah leftists >I love AIThis is one of the funnier reversals of history as the braindead right champions soulless machine “art”, when only a couple years ago (and many decades prior) they would defend the indomitable human spirit creating the only meaningful art, even as the evil leftists created their soulless electronic music and /digital/ art. Would you believe painting on a tablet and taking a digital photo was something only a humanity hating leftist would do, and it’s not even long ago. Waah said the right, what about classical art, real paint, chopping at marble blocks? It’s not even a generational shift either, as I get older the same talking head cunts from 30 years ago are just saying the complete opposite of their previous positions and acting like nothing changed. People don’t have any values or principles at all. Lacking even the ability to observe their own programming changes they might even lack sentience.
>>25214790lmao, get back in the wage cage. You are the leftist. You are the socialist.You are the prole Marx spoke of.You are the uncreative Untermensch.I can't believe YOU even have the gall to demand I do a single day of work in my life. just try and make me, faggot.
>>25214782>studies proveWhat studies? Colonoscopy?
I'm losing hope that there will ever be a great zoomer novel. Literature might just be over. Where are the male zoomer writers trying to create bold new art, where are the zoomer intellectuals?
>>25214656Yeah, this is just the usual bullshit post redditors generate by the bushel. It's a forum for liars to cater to each other's sense of righteous indignation.
>>25214663DFW is proto Gen X anyway. IJ concerns Gen Xers and has that same pomo ennui typical of them. I’m just being pedantic.
>>25214389No, but they have at least produced popular writers that made an impact in the culture somewhat. So far, the crowning achievement of zoomers is AI memes mocking Charlie Kirk.
>>25214656Is this teacher retarded? Got his kids to read BNW and then gets surprised when he gets dystopias instead of utopias?
zoom zooms were raised by iphones and never saw pre-9/11 America. their whole existence has been a manufactured CIA psy-op from the beginning. they never had a chance.
You can easily read the entire New Testament in 30 days.
>>25214682What he >>25214697 said. Unless that is, you don’t care to make your own exegesis, or study others’ on more specific parts of it. It can work as a tool to help you look into it more thoroughly.
>>25212762you can read it in a day if you skip all the boring parts
>>25214682>chatGPT, read the Bible for me and tell me if I'm saved
>>25214710Dasha has a sex tape with a jeet.
>>25212796Whenever I feel the itch that maybe I should read Ulysseus, I just go and read the Odyssey instead
Any more books like this that explain normalfags from an outsider perspective? I read this entire thing in one sitting and it seems to mirror a lot of my observations of them over the years. Redditors don't seem to like it at all which is good sign in my opinion, it means the author is hitting some uncomfortable truths and doesn't sugarcoat things.
>>25214095What is the autist supposed to answer? Do they say the box because the marble was moved there even though Sally doesn't know and autists can't put themselves in other people's shoes?Is this like the low IQ breakfast thing?
>>25213131 thats literally me, i'm not an autist but never thought of myself as a normalfag
>>25214724It's a theory of mind thing. Young children will say the box, since they don't understand other people have their own set of knowledge and experience.
>this threadThere is a difference between autistic and unlikable, you can't all have high functioning autism...
>>25213135>dogshit vaguepostKill yourself, newfag NIGGER.
