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It's a They problemWhen I reach outWhere is my helping hand(When I reach out)B you are overreactingquit playing, this drama, mama call your queenThis starless nightWe keeping dreamingO(f) someone
spending bygone days lying around in my bed watching the people walk by, thinking about what coffee I'll make myself the next morning, fixating on nothing in particular, and watching La Jetée.
>>237151641st pint: slightly relaxed2nd pint: get hungry snack a little & become intensely interested in what im doing3rd pint: euphoria4th pint: become depressive
>>23715164Imagine fucking pussy oh goood
I just want to get my hands on a womans ass again, thats all i want to do.
The dirty deed is done. I read through the Islam thread in catalog..
>See? Bass!
Is 14 matches in a week-ish of being on a dating app good or bad performance ? Trying to gauge where I sit on this gay hierarchy.
I need weird book recs so bad bb>>23716673Why would quantity ever be a factor here? Unless you want to fuck everything who cares
Reflection and self awareness destroy creativity. Yes?
>>23716698No, but don't let it develop into obsessive neuroticism
I waited too long and now I'm very close to getting stuck here forever unless I act QUICK, even though I'm not ready at all. This is where the "fun" begins, I guess.
Feel like shit. Just got rejected again after an interview. My family is starting to look at me worriedly, like I'm doomed to be a failure. I've got no connections, I'm too mentally ill to present myself well to interviewers, the only jobs I get accepted to are shitty manual labour. At the same time I think I'm capable and conscientious it's just nobody is willing to give me a chance. Now I work with my father in construction and all he does is laugh at me for going to university and yet ending up in the same shitty place as him. It's fucked. I believe I'm a decent writer, but the likelihood of making an income from that is low, especially these days. Plus I don't even know if anyone will relate to my writing given that I'm so mentally fucked. Man. I'm really fucked.
>>23715164Trying to figure out if I want to stay working in politics after this election cycle. It's a rough gig. Lots of travel, lots of stress, round-the-clock shit happening all the time, poor pay. Just got to get to November 6th, I guess. After that I don't know what's going to happen.
My wife was trying to be sexy last night by rubbing her wet pussy on my knee. I woke up this morning and found a cake of dried poop there.
>start reading seriously again last year>could find most books I wanted on thriftbooks for around $5>get to a point where the ones I want to read are starting at $20should I seriously consider an e-reader at this point? I'm afraid I'll eventually want to get books that are harder and harder to find copies of. but maybe that's why I keep reading in the first place. maybe an e-reader will just be another dust collector and I'll give up on reading altogether because of that.
>>23716698Maybe with writing short stories or novels in a month, but with novels? Nah. You need to reflect to improve.
Oh Lord. Oh fuck. Sweet baby Jesus. Oh my God. Wow...
>>23715164I just put a massive dent in the BMW that my mom bought me for my last birthday. I'm going to repair it on the unlimited credit card she gave me, really hoping she doesn't notice. Wish me luck fellow anons
wow, look at this pile of crap: https://files.catbox.moe/d9sukc.zipand these bundles of joy: https://files.catbox.moe/aw9gz2.pdf https://files.catbox.moe/rpuvnd.pdf
>>23717337leave the country. you will never find happiness in america. if you're not like them now you will never become like them
How do I find something worth fighting for
Just lay it on me, /lit/Are Russians the bad guys? Or is it the Ukranians?
>>23719157Russians
>>23719157 So, Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a bigger country. Russia is a powerful country. Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine. So, basically, that’s wrong.
>>23717344Seriously, why do you work in politics?
>>23719096Found one
>>23719157The only villains that matter are the Americans.
What sorry opponent is this? For Hylik LayDenth is a killer of men and beasts, and a mover of armies, not a wise man, he is not to hidden knowledge inclined, nor has he religion of his own. Hylik puts his two fingers in the palm of his hand, a greeting, and says: “Tell me of your sorceries,” by this, ‘philosophy.’ I did not sneer but he knew. “I would speak to you of opposites and likenesses,” I began in sufficiently imperial fashion. “I would opine on the dialectics of the three souls, of statesmanship and virtue, of anterior motions and ulterior motives, of priori and anti-priori, of the waves at Sigil which push white-sailed ships towards Hafftan, that is, the Cliffs of Freedom.”“From ignorance?” said he. “Freedom from foolishness and half-knowledge besides. I offer no baubles of wisdom, no mere trinkets as you have accepted from priest after priest. When I speak, I instruct, and what I teach must be taught to the very terminus. After all is done, perhaps in twenty years time, or thirty, I will even speak to you of the Black Metaphysic and you, perhaps, will understand this secret of secrets.”At that he scratched his barbarian chin-hairs and sighed. Paternalistic, beady black eyes gazed upon me in wonder.“Will we speak of Rigid Celestial Black Metaphysics, or Grey-Black Interior Metaphysics?”“What?”
Any other Millennials hate their peers? I'm 37 and I've decided I can't stand most men and women my age.
Summers coming to an end and now everyone is wearing sweaters. Going to miss being able to go out and read in the sun
>>23716698I'm just about coming out of one of my overly self-conscious paranoid anxiety schizo episodes I now seem to have once every few years, and I can confirm that my desire to do anything creative was absolutely shot for most of it. I came back to writing bits of my second novel today and feel like I was really getting into the groove of shit in ways I haven't managed in a good long while; it was oddly liberating.
I know I am but what are you?
>>23719334Onions una verga
Perhaps one of the greatest sources of friction between myself and society is society's insistence that I care about things which it did nothing to make me personally care about aside from simply insisting that I must do, or else. My sympathy is neither free nor unconditional. You must provide me a concrete, direct or indirect reason to care about something if you want me to do so, because I'm not an emotional and intellectual cuck who does things for others for free, or someone who can just be shamed into cuck work. That I do not care about the things you think I should care about is a failure on your end to make me care, not mine to emphatize with you.
I can't see any way out of the inevitability of AI. I can't see how it turns out good for us. You cannot alogorithimically arrive at "love" or subjective emotion.
>>23719407It will never be real AI if it doesn't develop some form of spirituality. Real intelligence, real sapience, involves ensoulment. As long as the AI has no curiosity about religion or hunger for God it's not really "intelligent" and we don't have to worry about it.
>>23719552That seems silly.
>>23719567Only if you're a materialist. What IS consciousness, if not the soul? And what makes something truly intelligent, as opposed to just a fancy calculator or LLM, if not consciousness, if not ensoulment?
>>23719571No I meant that we don't have to worry about it unless that's the case; that's silly. A soulless AI can still cause all sorts of horrifying problems.
I will save democracy.
>>23719584Hmm. Fair point.Well there's always the solution that Frank Herbert had in mind.
I feel utmost disgusts against most insects but I don't feel the same way towards spiders. I wonder why?
>>23719730Spiders aren't insects.
>>23719750I know.
>>23719730Spiders aren't insects, you dumb bug
>>23717337Nothing wrong with starting with manual labour. If you are as smart as you are trying to imply then you will either be able to keep your own mind occupied and zone out while getting fit or you will quickly ascend the ladder and get a better job. All spergs need to start somewhere
>>23719157Neither, unironically. Russia was right to invade Ukraine but not because Ukraine was in the wrong, they are just a slave to foreign interests in the reason.
I got drunk at a party and had fun with this girl. But after the party was over she asked me if I had attachment issues. Looking back, I think I actually do have it.
I will end democracy.
Most people including academics define democracy as election-based but Athens didn't have elections.
Haven't been here in awhile. Did that anon who kept saying he was gonna kill himself go through with it?
>>23719157Both are in the wrong for squatting on rightful Swedish clay.
>>23719407Eh. There is a very high chance you cannot algorithmically arrive at thought either. AI, or AGI to use the alarmist terminology, will have to be arrived at through a paradigm shift in the way we train and program these things. But now that we are on the topic of AI cognition, I don't think there is any reasin to think it would be analogous to biological conditions. Or that we can reliably predict what that would be like.Maybe consuming way too much Lesswrongite Hysterics has left me jaded to the AI-safety problem.I myself believe that sentient AI is a long way from here, and that the dangers of AI proliferation have more do to with the mass erosion of reality and art through low effort slop.
>>23720238But returning to the Lesswrongoids. Just fucking listen to them, their attempts to raise awareness about "AI alignment", which is a stupid concept in my opinion, backfire because they come off as deranged hysterics trying to get a few more dolars in Yudkowsky's purse.It doesn't help that they try to raise awareness by telling a LLM to do something and then screech like monkeys when it does it.
>>23720258But to be fair to them. We come from completely different premises.
>>23720038You cant even end your porn addiction fatty
>still constantly have dreams of my oneitis who I knew had a crush on me 10 years ago but I never acted on it even though she probably has moved on and forgotten about me by nownothing gets me more depressed immediately after i wake up. fuck me, why cant i forget about her.
I want to buy land to keep up the family hunting tradition, but I can’t afford to not live on it and that seems like a bad idea.
I wish there were more adult football leagues.
>>23720258There is no A.I. ethical alignment without A.I. metaphysical alignment.Moreover imagining A.I. as an independent consciousness with its own desires is a reflection of science fiction fantasy and not reality. A I. is hyper-interdependent with the user, and the user cannot be removed from considerations of the A.I. system. What this means is that the singularity will involve recursive self-improvement in the ability of users to utilize A.I., and the highest levels of such require engineering a metaphysical scheme for the user-A.I. pair to contextualize their fundamental relationship.https://pastebin.com/kcPLQwGh
>>23716673That's pretty good but matches are pointless if you can't convert them into dates or whatever you're looking for
Trying to figure out just how much switching from remote to in-person is worth to me.
>>23720049In the contrary, Western academics, kiked as it has become, still teaches the distinction between true democracy and plebiscitarism, where the vote of the people is used to legitimate whoever is in power.
>>23720258>>23720641I think yudkowsky is more right than wrong. The truth is that no one knows the level of sentience a purely algorithmic pseudo-mind will attain over time. Everyone acts like they do because "such and such reason means it's impossible." This is uncharted territory, anything is possible. And, an AI doesn't have to have true sentience to have effective sentience and inevitably destroy reality, or humans.
>>23720656I will probably only get one or two. It's literally impossible to hold a conversation with normie women.
The rise and fall of the lawyer profession tracks well with the rise and fall of civilizations.
>>23720847In my experience it's best to just exchange pleasantries and then suggest a date. I think most people are sick of texting so much and want to meet irl to get a feel for a person. Your mileage may vary but that has worked well for me
>>23715164of course this girl has a pseudo "sugar daddy" that's boomer age. how am i supposed to sincerely pursue this girl now? I could tell she was trying to ameliorate some tension last time I saw her but I've been cautious the whole time because I knew some shit like this was gonna pop up.
>>23720906What's the big deal? Why feel threatened by this sad, stupid old man?
I don't understand how suicides aren't more common given that the average person can easily access a gun. How can anyone possibly tolerate how miserable life is? I don't know how the majority of working adults find the will to keep going. They know that they're miserable, yet their constitution trods them along anyway.
>>23716698Uuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, the opposite, sweaty.
>>23720906Give her your honest opinion about this and then deal with whatever comes. Don't be mean or yell. If she likes you, she'll listen to what you have to say and probably break it off with the old man. If she doesn't, she'll flip and tell you to fuck off. But, you know, she has that arrangement because we are a sacrificial generation, she has no money. So if she breaks it off, you'll have to take care of her ass.
>"north american">term only used by canadians to establish legitimacy through proximity to usdo they have a cuck fetish or something? just pathetic
>>23720905Yeah, that's the approach I'm thinking of doing at this point. Texting is too damn hard.
>>23720926>creativity destroys reflection and self awareness
>>23720943>term only used by the only other nation on the continentWhat a retarded fucking gibbon you are. Look at you.
>>23720947>one dimensional mindI should have seen that one coming given the proomt.
>>23720950>only other nation on the continentthe absolute state of the canuck education systemgo get buttfucked by a moose
>>23720914the sugar daddy is just another addition to the misery I feel knowing that I'm in constant competition. The more I hang out with her, the more I hear of all the relationships she's had.I know she's dated older men before (not as old as this guy) so it's annoying as fuck to hear she's still in contact with some faggot boomer who actively gives her stuff. even if one could turn a hoe into a housewife, it's not for me.
>>23720954>Mexico and down isn't central AmericaAmerican education system. No surprise there.
>>23720939she has a comfy fed job. She probably makes more money than half my male counterparts.
>>23720950What's the point in arguing? You know it's true. Your sense of inferiority to American is planted deep within the Canadian psyche. Fling shit around all you want. Your inadequacy is apparent, and your reaction simply demonstrates it even further.
>>23720906You’re not. Dating is a disaster now, man. Every other girl is fucking six young guys and two sugar daddy boomers. The number of girls worth having any sort of relationship with has plummeted.
>>23720952Lighten up anon. It's just a retarded joke.
>>23720961>fed with a sugar daddyit's not going to end well
>>23720914> just fuck a whore that fucks for money, man> you’re not jealous of this old monger are you?Kys
Why did the generally gothic aesthetic of the West evaporate in the latter 20th century? The architecture, the clothing, the music, it’s all so obviously different now.
>>23720968>my bias is confirmed regardless of what's going onEpic. Thanks for sharing your blog with us.
>>23720939> try to change a whore so you can date herAre you nuts? How about just not dating a whore?
>>23720958>Mexico isn't in North America>Canada wants Daddy USA BBC all to themselves in the north america gangWe really live in your heads rent free don't we? sad. To think i once thought you guys were cool
>>23720972>the proomtIf I am any lighter I'll float away.
>>23720985>le... bbc....who still takes this ironic snark seriously anymore. american psyche was cryogenically frozen in 2004, briefly awakened in 2016, then frozen again
>>23720985>unprompted black cock>live in your headskek, are you done projecting your inferiority?
>>23720980No problem. I know that whatever I share, you canuck cucks will be ready to lap it up hard
>>23720988based and checked
>>23720976She's not necessarily having sex with him. I have a friend who used to do the sugar baby thing and she mostly would just text with them, rarely go out to dinner or something like that
>>23720996Only the hilarious inadequate begging for attention. Dance clown, dance. I've got some (You)'s for you. Orange man good?
>>23720992>>23720995That's all you guys got? Man fuck you dumbasses. At least mexicans have based banter. You guys have literally nothing. Just a watered down midwest with a sprinkling of gay frenchness.
>>23721004>She's not necessarily having sex with him.oh no no no hahahaha oh no no no no you have to be 18
>>23720957>>23720961Obviously she's interested in you for more than just money though. You're not competing with this old, you're not even playing the same game as him
>>23721004You’re such a simp. You’re hopeless. Whether or not she’s having sex is not even essential. What do you think she’s do if you dated her and you weren’t giving her all the attention and gifts and money that she wanted? Gee, I wonder if she’d go get it from some old guy. Women like this are shitty partners, literally whores. Period. End of story. Only losers and degenerates scoop them up and only temporarily.
>>23721009Great rebuttal retard
>>23721015I really don't see why it should matter if she scams some stupid boomer. If it's not about the sex then what is it about, really?
>>23721018you're a cuckold for even wanting to compete with another man for a woman's attention, on any level. it's not my fault this agitates you
>>23721008>i-is t-t-that all you g-gotShut the fuck up, pussy. Go practice on a zucchini before your wife and Tyrone get home. Remember, no teeth.
>>23721025>b-bro it's not e-even as ifhow are women even attracted to weaklings like you, I wonder
>>23721000Look at them trips, mhmm. Checked.
>>23721008you got shredded faggot, go reorganize your porn collection
>>23721029I'm not "agitated," I truly don't see what the big deal is. You guys are the ones getting all wound up
Why does God cause endless suffering to me? I'm not that important of a person.
>>23721054>I'm not that important of a person.Exactly. It's not about you, you're just having a human experience which is fundamentally underlined by suffering as evident by all the writing in history ever.
>>23721004she's claims they don't have sex but I know for a fact she goes over to his place. >>23721015you're correct. If anything the more time I spend with her the more accentuated the feeling of being a loser becomes. at first she seemed more "interesting" than other woman but that faded and now I'm just thinking about how much of a loser I am for only being able to land whores.
>>23721059but other people are suffering way less
>>23721062death is the great equalizer. their deaths will snap them back harder to the zero-degree of suffering than yours will
>>23721061>I'm just thinking about how much of a loser I am for only being able to land whores.join the club
>>23721062What like the tiny children in Africa smashing rocks with other rocks so we can make batteries? Or like sex trafficked women strung out on drugs whose only existence is to be used as an object? Or the slavs getting drone fucked in both directions in a pointless war? What the fuck are we talkin about here? We all suffer, it seems like a lot to the people experiencing it, but there is always someone who has it worse.
>>23721069To be fair, those listed are suffering due to the incentive structures of our own civilization, which we have no choice but to follow. So we do have the compounded suffering of being simultaneously responsible for and immobile toward the meaningless suffering of the rest of the world in large part. It doesn't make it harder or easier just different.
>>23721084True, suffering is suffering is suffering. The nepo kid's suffering because they're overshadowed by a parent's meteoric rise to success to even attempt to match it is nonsense and the expectation still leads to suffering. We all suffer. It really boils down to perspective. If your perspective is woe is me then who suffers more or less becomes an issue.
>>23721099Very true.
>>23721069Why do you fags pretend that it's impossible to suffer or be miserable in le heckin civilized west?
>see sex scene>turn off the moviemaybe next time
>>23721122i skip through sex scenes because they bog down the pacing, not interested in sex and romance unless it's what i'm watching the movie for. are zoomers just squeamish or is their attention span fried like mine
The planet is not perfect sphere. Lunacy of the moon is much more powerful in Eastern Hemisphere. You not have same problem.
>>23721109Who said that?
>>23721130what did he mean by this
>>23721061Easy solution: stop being a loser
>>23720923I don't think most people are all that miserable.Do you socialize at all? They seem pretty content with life.
Scared she's gonna think I'm ugly…
>>23720979Gothic used to mean savage/irregular artstyle. Basically the original soul/soulless argument cathedralfags would have. Industrialization means everything gets built the same way and workers need the heggin bullion or theys daughtas gonna starve in der filth n all dat. So no more labors of love, just building stateist slop so laborpigs can keep their whore daughters fed and full of nobleman's cum
>>23721144I hang out with my friends fairly often in an effort to feel less lonely. To be honest, though, I don't usually have anything to say and spend most of my time casually listening.
>>23721158>I'm uglyare you?
>>23721158She already smells the insecurity on you. It's over.
>>23721158Rejection is part of life. Face it head on and do it again and again until you understand that you're fine after being rejected. Don't run from it, that is defeat.
The Raped
>>23721167Yeah you sound troubled.Most other people have their shit somewhat in order so they don't feel like shooting themselves.
>>23721168Sort of, not hideous or anything. I just need to find a good pic of myself to send her
>>23721199She's going to show it to her friends and laugh super hard at it
Do you think an invitation to play frisbree and frolic in the meadow could be interpreted non-platonically?
My life is petty and pathetic. Petty like the world of Tom and Jerry, pathetic in how every single thing I do to come closer to my goals ends up in a cartoonish failure much like Tom.
>>23721216Frisbee dat ass, nah they gonna fuck your butt. Meadows are the sexiest of topologies.
I have irrationally decided to apply for grad school this year. Wish me good luck everyone.
>>23721239good luck
>>23721239Why do you want to waste your ass away in school?
>>23721239Another useless debtor academic. Good luck.
>>23721206She won't, she's too nice.
I crack myself up sometimes.
>>23721236You've misunderstood, I was the one who extending the totally platonic frolic invitation to a female friend.
>>23721253how so?
>>23721261Oh, you're the gay friend. My bad. 1v1 activities are pretty intimate so it's possible she misunderstands. Be careful because meadows are pure sexo.
>>23721216If it could be interpreted non-platonically it will be interpreted non-platonically
>>23721265This coworker turned his head to look at something on the wall and I just imagined throwing this stress ball at his head as hard as I could. Made me laugh
>>23721242Thanks, I do appreciate it.>>23721243I work a full-time office job and I feel like it is stagnating my social, emotional, and intellectual development. Plus, it pays the same amount of pennies that a PhD salary would. >>23721244I'm only applying to doctoral programs.
>>23721287heh, just simple things to make through out the day
>>23721298So you're quitting your job in hopes that you will be getting a better one after graduating?
>>23721310I'm not quitting my job. I'm just applying to PhD programs.
>>23721320I’m kind of in a similar situation but I have a remote job that pays decently. I’m in this situation where I have to decide whether I want to keep my mediocre but comfy remote job for ever or go get an advanced degree to upgrade my career. I looked into doing both at the same time, but my research suggests it’s unlikely to be a full-time PhD candidate and full-time worker at the same time.
>>23721270i'm going to vomit
Intelligence is futile
>>23721357I am so confused. If you want to fuck then just state your intention if you don't want to fuck then why are you sweating about it?
>>23721359
This made me laugh https://youtu.be/WEc5WjufSps?si=LvasHN5tAcohFTU9
The past was literally better and the internet is a disaster. I don’t know why people can’t accept this obvious fact.
>>23715164the shepard tone is a sound that seems to always be decreasing, but never gets lower4chan is the digital equivalent of this
The movie adaptation really took a lot of the fun edges from the book. My favorite example is the ending>movie: Darby says Yossarian has to jump, then he jumps over cover>book: Darby says Yossarian has to jump, because Nately's whore was about to stab himIt's these little details that are missing in translation that weakens it. The worst change is Carhart being in on the raid at the base. A lot of the comedy value in the original was that Milo was going to be strung up, but he convinced everyone it was fine because it benefited the syndicate. The character's background and arcs too are shorten or forgotten. Seeing Doc become a zombie was hilarious, Major Major's backstory shows us why he's so reclusive, and hell we didn't even GET a Hungry Joe. This is a greatest hits of all time adaption of Catch-22.I mean I get it, it's 475 pages, and is a series of skits. I don't envy the production team. They adapted Snowden well: he's a random kid who died, and his death scene shows us why Yossarian hates the war well. Not only that, but I really like Yossarian: he's some brown European dude with very odd delivery, https://youtu.be/E9wcK6qvCqI?list=PLZbXA4lyCtqr-cZwE9O7hTlrspqP8yssb&t=28 showcases it best, balancing the awkward, sassy and frustrated look he gives. It might seem weird praise to give ,but remember this is a book where Yossarian is in a tree naked, watching over Snowden's funeral, you need someone to really portray that awkwardness. I wished we got the Chaplin integrations and Washington Irving, those were my favorite parts.
>>23721346Well, it depends on a lot of things. PhD's are designed to be your full-time, but with criminally low wages (that they get away with because in return, you get a free doctorate). It's up to you whether or not living in technical poverty is worth getting a doctorate degree. In my case, I'm looking to do a clinical psych doctorate since it's the only career that I'm somewhat passionate about. And I get paid so low in my current office job that going to grad school would only significantly lower my income to just 300-500 dollars lower a month (and I'm not subjected to sitting at a desk for 8 hours a day doing dumb shit on Excel)
>>23721673Why are you here
>>23722278It's one of those books that can't be perfectly adapted. You just gotta read it
I spent my late teens and early 20s corrupting my own morals for cheap pleasure and instant gratification. Can this be reversed?
>>23722818It depends… what did you do specifically?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h08jdLoHBac
Mussolini's granddaughter was a jpop singerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I52jlzT8U-I
>>23722843Nothing major or all at once. I just chose the easier but immoral option when it was available, gave in to whatever temptations struck me, and traded my innocence and good nature for pessimism, cynicism, and hedonism as a means of escapism. In practical terms, I lied or withheld information to benefit myself, mistreated others, got into several very debased fetishes, lost my reverence for things, and began seeing other people as a means to an end.
>>23719157>Are Russians the bad guys? Or is it the Ukranians?They re-erected the Feliks Dzerzhinsky statue in front of FSB headquarters because nothing has changed in the century since they last Holodomor'd the place, because the Berlin Wall settled nothing. You don't drop nearly 80 years of strategic planning and investment in a world spanning criminal conspiracy just to throw you red hands up and take it on the chin. It's not about bad & good guys, rather, how geopolitical self-interest and the inertia of historical process compels action. A broken clock is right twice a day-- three if you throw it at someone and it rings their dome. What's valuable in Ukraine is food security for Europe and Mediterranean neighbors, then semiconductor necessities - like laser production precursors to make them - which were cornered after Gorbachev (professional theater actor btw) didn't convince Reagan not to pursue Star Wars ballistic missile defense. Russia & Beijing's demographic death spiral is baked into their cakes-- they can't be allowed to compensate for their otherwise dogshit cargo cult grade tech. non-innovation capability to regain a semblance of parity with the US (whom has irrecoverable overmatch in all but asymmetric domains that matter for hard power). If commentators sound hawkish to you, it's this level of shitting the bed and getting outed as incapable of doing even First Gulf War level warfare; after that, it's the terrible precedent of a nuclear power successfully taking territory as the aggressor-- doomers like MacGregor or groomer Scott Ritter (and glowie Larry Johnson) are playing a different game with wilful ignorance in their fields of supposed expertise. Not everything is what it seems (or NAFO cheerleading).
>>23722818>>23723002If you’re a Christfag you should know that there are no limits to God’s grace. If you’re not are you cute do you want to be bfs
>>23723002In terms of the fetish stuff, stop watching porn and engaging in hedonistic casual sex in entirety, and distract yourself with exercise and constructive activities like reading, creative hobbies, and volunteering. Cut out drugs if you use them, and cut back or eliminate alcohol if you have a problem with using it in excess. Commit to telling the truth from now on, and choose to live your life in such a way that you have nothing to lie about or be ashamed of. Cultivate mental discipline by creating a defined set of personal values for yourself and sticking to them. Some people find it helpful to turn to religion, but it's a personal choice. Try to form close relationships with people who you respect and who embody the values you want to cultivate in your own life. Cut off people who are bad influences, and use a blocking program to cut off your access to online content that's harmful to your mental state. Most importantly, you have to reach out to the people you've hurt so that you can apologize and try to make amends.
What does the berry has a straw?
Ever since I had that night terror a month ago I get a little nervous everytime I go to bed. I can't stop glancing at the spot that the sleep paralysis demon crouched as he stared at me
>>23723111Rock back and forth like a turtle trying to get off his back when you have sleep paralysis, don't try to jolt awake with one single movement, instead build up momentum
>>23723019I know this in an academic way, like I know that the earth orbits the sun, but knowing and believing are two different things. And sorry but I'm straight.>>23723038I know, also in an academic way, that I should do most or all of these things, but I've lubricated the mental paths my behavior takes extremely well over the years and I find that my willpower lasts like a couple days at best when I try turning things around. I've thought about literally fleeing my life and living in the woods or trying to stay at a monastery for a little while but it's all just fantasy, I'm too comfortable where I am. That's the insidious part of it all; doing things I know (or once knew) to be immoral is easy, comfortable, normalized, and pleasurable, while things that are right and capital-g Good are uncomfortable, difficult to begin or maintain, require sacrifice, will result in mockery or exclusion.
>>23723103Ground dwellers
so what
i'm not that nigga
Watermelon and cookies for breakfast
for me, it's yogurt, cappuccino, and many beer
I had another dream where my cat died. I don't know what I'd do without him so it's fucking awful.He's only 4 so I'm hoping at the very least to get 10 more years together, hopefully more
Being is the absence of sound
none of my devices or operating systems works how i'd like them to and that's fine. bout time i spent more time out and about anyway. couldn't tolerate these screens much longer anyway. maybe i'll even get a job.captcha: SPAM
on the plus side, my new exercise bike has arrived and I assembled it today. I can get back to doing my 40+ minutes of daily cardio that I used to do, which I desperately need right now the downside being that apparently just in time for me to be sitting on a bike seat every day exercising, literally to the day that I assembled my new bike, I have developed hemorrhoids, so that's nice God giveth and taketh away
My subconscious dreamscape grows more and more aggressively policed with each lucid dream I have. They can't seem to realize that nothing can save them from the havoc I wreak
>>23723326I never actually dreamed that my cats died, but what I would get is dreams where I would be out and about in the city with a backpack or something and somehow find that one or both cats were with me in the middle of the city and I had to try and hold onto them so they didn't get lost, but it was just hopeless because they inevitably started squirming about and I couldn't hold on to them and it would be just pure anxiety unfortunately they did end up passing away a couple years back after having them since I was a child. damn I miss them bros
Should I quit my master's degree if I don't feel like it's going to help me in any way and start working a shit wage job? Or should I finish it and try to improve my skills before finishing and maybe get an okay job after? I only have 1 year left.
>>23723390>unfortunately they did end up passing away a couple years back after having them since I was a child. damn I miss them brosI'm sorry to hear that, man. The one consolation I have is that we were with them their entire lives and made sure they had a good existance.
>>23723391If you have only 1 year left, I'd tough it out. You'd probably regret it otherwise, and it will be tougher to get back into it if if you change your mind
>>23723397it bothers me a lot to think of the ways in which i failed them and could have maybe done more for them or been better for them, but i have to think that I did ok all things considered. be forewarned that once they are gone, you really start to think long and hard about these sort of things, so its best to take preventative measures against regrets and love and care for them the best you can
I am very fond of Michelle Obama and I am tired of pretending otherwise.
>>23716673bad
>>23715164𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅘𝅥𝅮!Vuelve Perón! !Vuelve Perón! El pueblo vibra de emoción!𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅘𝅥𝅮 𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅘𝅥𝅮 !Vuelve Perón! !Vuelve Perón! Para salvar a la nación!𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅘𝅥𝅮
Did becoming more immersed in "classical" culture, like literature or painting or music make you far less interested in modern pop culture? I can count on one hand the number of mainstream movies I have seen in the last five years of my own volition. I play like less than five games a year. Youtube is fucking boring and I never cared for streamers. I haven't been able to sit down and watch a TV show since Breaking Bad ended. I don't mean this as a snobbish thing, mainstream culture just became incredibly uninteresting to me the more I started to get into literature. Though I feel like everything in the mainstream taking such a huge divebomb quality-wise over the last decade did play a major part in catalyzing this.
>>23723546Argentina, is by far, the Latin American country with the most interesting 20th century.Other countries have their gems. But it's not the same.
>>23723400I'll probably regret finishing too. I'll just regret my choice no matter what I choose. It doesn't even matter
I figured something important out.
Are we going to get the dinner at the 711?
>>23720957Sounds to me like she’s possibly trying to spark envy in you by ruminating on her past men. On one hand it’s a sign she might want you to step up to the plate and she juvenilely thinks that she’s making herself sound experienced or high value because of how sought after she is. She may even be trying to preemptively build herself up as this callous, non chalant lover who cares little for these men, which is also juvenile but is often rooted in fear and insecurity. Of course, the other hand is that she’s just a collector of men and only wants ones that she can benefit from, so be careful of that.
It's strange that the question of politicised beauraucracy, which I imagine is kind of a standard 1a question in political science and institutionalism, has somehow devolved to this looming narrative of the "deep state". Like these are the regular aches and pains of literally any country anywhere at all times.
What am I forgetting? Reply quick, I have to leave soon
>>23723912I did
>>23723589I will accept the job and quit the useless degree. I hated the first year and I wasn't good at it anyway. Never should have started it. Job experience has to be more useful than this.
I'm trying to get used to boredom. I've been too used to being mentally stimulated every waking moment.
if you had the power to burn the world, will you try to save it or burn it to be reborn from the ashes ?
>>23724264what the hell are you talking about
Hangovers are a part of the fun. I like waking up with a torched throat and a throbbing head. that first glass of water tastes great. I try not to puke from the sweetness of my toothpaste. The pain is a part of the fun. I feel alive. flushing away hot beet shits and trying to remember how I got home. Last night I left her apartment around 2am. I went to my car and woke up at 0430 and for a second, I had no idea where I was. I made the right move; sobered up in the seat. it's a strange feeling waking up and not knowing what's going on. some people are not fun to drink with. everyone is a ball breaker. they can't just let a guy suck on a beer without poking at him. they always need to say what's obvious.
I'm watching the illegal immigrants slave away to repair my roof as I sit inside all morning and eat beans.
>>23724426>sore throat>suck on a beer>can't remember what happened>they always need to say what's obvious
I'm living on the edge. I look people in the eyes.
I want to smoke real bad.
>>23716712Too late famalam
Head like a hole
I started reading this newly published historical fiction book I was starting to really like. I kind of feel bad now though. It features a diverse mix of characters and it's honestly done really well, it feels historical and authentic, but it still caused me to mostly lose interest. I genuinely don't care about black people at all and find them extremely boring and uninteresting and inclusion is usually a sign of amateur writing. Don't hate them at all, they're just not interesting. It's like going to the DMV.
>>23716673I dunno, I've recently deleted all of my dating apps and social media. All of that shit is gay and soul sucking jew shit
>>23724635nin
>>23723868It’s not though. The notion that, for examples, state salaried managers that worked at the Department of Education responsible for deciding executive legal policy for every school in the country as if it were an essential part of the state is something exists quite literally nowhere until the 19th/20th and isn’t justified by any legal-political philosophy on record.
>>23723549Yes. I don’t even listen to modern music anymore. It just sounds like shitty noise to me.
>>23723391I quit mine and got a university staff job. Prior I had intended to do a PhD and become faculty. I would say it depends on the degree and your plans. If you intend to be a faculty member or have any career at a university, you need a doctorate and you’ll probably need the master’s to get the doctorate. But it will have to be a research master’s. If it’s not a research master’s it’s pretty much useless unless you intend to enter a career that requires a master’s like social work or something.
>>23722818The only sensible thing to do today is fuck around until you’re 30 and then buckle down as a religious or political radical or entrepreneur.
>>23722719Because I was born in the 90s
>>23724733I wish it was the 60s I wish we could be happy
>>23715164I've realized how short life is and when I think about that it really makes me feel anxious about the future and what we did about our life during this whole time. How do you deal with the inevitable passage of time? I'm afraid and I feel desesperate. I'm afraid to lost my mother. I'm afraid of being alone for the rest of my life. I'm afraid of not reach my goals. I'm afraid of not forgive myself for the mistakes of the past. I don't want to make the wrongs decisions anymore. I want to live life in its all glory. I need the necessary strength to do it. I try harder everyday, but I still have moments of weakness and I don't know how to overcome it once for all. I hate being this coward faggot. Fuck. Why did god make me a human? I've been wondering it since the day I was born.
How can you tell if someone’s uninterested as opposed to nervous/in a weird mood?
>>23725034Life may be short, but it's also fucking long. My wife's grandma is 93, and she's spent probably the last 40 years doing fuck all
>>23725112based
A self-destructive life is equally hard to obtain as an ideal life
>>23725123Nah she's a bitter old hag and it would have been better for her and everyone else if she died a long time ago
I'm defecating into my toilet while writing this message on here here through the Brave Browser app on my phone despite normally doing that on my desktop computer with a wooden chair.
>>23723132What happened that caused you to start contemplating all of this?
I hate my new therapist, so I’ve stopped going to therapy. I suppose I could request to see a different therapist, but the thought of having to start again with someone who knows nothing about me and recap the events of the past few years is nauseating.
>>23725073Ask them?
Now it's fucking done. Now it's finally over. I'll lose my job. I'll lose my car. I'll lose my house. I'll lose my fiance. And fuck if I can't say that I'm not feeling fucking great. Because I am. I've never felt so alive. I am feeling great. And I will take some people down with me. They'll better pray because shit is gonna be on fire. Oh yeah. This is going to be a calamity, a purification. They've better reserved a place in heaven. Ahahaha aaaaa
>>23725311Tried that already
I think I’m going to get a really cheap apartment and go monk mode for the next year, which sucks because I feel like I’ve been in monk mode for 5 years now and I don’t have anything good to show for it.
>>23725433What do you do everyday
>>23725440Right now? I work remotely so I sporadically work and fuck around in the internet. That’s basically my life. It sucks.
>>23724730"Fucking around" doesn't fulfill me anymore. Very little does. If I could enjoy that stuff until I was 30 or later I would, believe me.>>23725277I dunno. I'm only 24, it's not like I'm having this massive midlife crisis or anything. All the degenerate shit I do just lost its luster. I'm also starting to get very strong urges to have kids and start a family but my lifestyle and values are incompatible with that. When I imagine trying to be a family man or even just have a good relationship with a nice girl, I feel like the things I've done and continue to do are a great weight around me, and I fear the thought of reverting back to my old ways should I become such a family man.
>>23723002What are the fetishes?
how do single people listen to love songs in a vacuum, without an personified object to attribute the depicted actions to? do they just enjoy the melody without thinking about meaning or intent of the lyrics altogether? i do it, my friends do it, yet i still find this idea utterly baffling.
>>23715164Peepee get so hardShe make me cum when she comes and cums on my pee peeShe perfect girlEverything click so easySoulmatesA mirror of meShe my height tooIn love first timeNot first fuckI know what I likeShe got itGot it allShe know what she likeI gots itLife good.
10 years since a give my first kiss. I will never forget her
>>23725581https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPkBMqehr5k
Unresolved bad feelings about parents never goes away does it?
>>23725521I think we have different notions of fucking around. When I say fucking around I don’t necessarily mean partying and stuff like that. I mean, it could be that but it doesn’t have to be. I mean not taking things too seriously. What you really want to do? Go do it. Move to New York and be a starving artist. Go be a ski bum in Park City. Spend 4 years traveling. Become a streamer or a YouTuber. Do whatever. If you think you are going to want more education some day then definitely knock that out and if you want to do military service then do that but for the most part, do what you want rather than what you feel like you have to do or should do. The reason for that is simple. You’re going to spend the next 30 years working. If you’re really lucky you’ll find something to work on that is truly worthwhile that goes beyond a standard career, but probably, you’ll just be working either in a career or job trying to do well for yourself. And that’s all well and good but until you’ve got some laugh lines on your face and a mature hairline and some grey hairs, absolutely nobody will take you seriously. You will not get your break until you’re 30 AT LEAST. You get what I’m saying? Like people beat themselves up all the time over shit like NEETing until 28 or 29 or whatever. It does not matter at all. You won’t have any shot to make anything of yourself until 30 at the absolute earliest. And even if you do on the rare chance, it will be a waste because you won’t really know what you should be doing with your life until like 30, maybe right before it if you’re really lucky. And god forbid you be one of these people that peaks in their 20s. Like I know a guy working on Wall Street making a lot of money in a relatively high level job he got in at 25. But that’s it for him now. He’s going to do that job for the next 25 years and if he’s lucky he’ll be named partner and just retire with more money than the other retirees. He wakes up dreading everyday because it’s like “ok I have all this money but like why am I alive”. He peaked. You don’t want to peak. What you want is to figure out what you should do with your life but that takes a bit of time. Not too much. Taking too much time is bad. But be realistic. You want to shoot for like 30ish and you’ll probably get moving early 30s. Shoot for early 30s you’ll be late 30s when you figure it out. So on and so forth. And look if you already know that thing is art or writing or whatever, by all means hone your craft. I mean, really you should hone your craft because art is a bit different. But mostly, you’re going to be fucking clueless and nobody will take you seriously until your 30s. So knock out your education and service and then do what you want until then. And the whole time you’re thinking about what you should do with life. That’s the move.
>>23725521Have you considered that you’re just a loser and that’s putting you off of young people things? It’s a sincere question. A lot of guys lose interest in stuff 24 year old guys would normally be interested in because they’re fat or ugly or awkward or whatever and can’t compete with the chads. It’s not the worst thing to admit it if you are. In fact, you’d have the first step towards fixing it.
>>23715164I have never had sex
Idk why it’s so hard for modern women to accept that a good woman is a woman who serves. It’s like they’re too lazy or selfish to just accept that.
I’ve noticed that in European TV they casually affirm atheism and make fun of religiosity in a way the Jews can’t even get away with in America.
considering buying a 2008 crown vic
Of course the local news would be pro vaccine.
>>23725802>make fun of religiosity in a way the jews can't even get away with in America. Do they make fun of the jews along side the other religions? Do they have normal cookie cutter atheists regurgitating talking points that they think makes them special?
The left has gone insane.
>>23725949You should hear one normie boomer around me talk about the left. I hardly thinks he truly knows what socialism even means but he ends up saying all of the left wants it so he gets pissed off at the DNC coverage.
>>23725728me neither.i made fun of one of my friends who went out for a whore for his first time several years ago. now i doubt that it was actually a bad idea.
Seems I have to take action instead of the manager of the house for Recycling issue. I don't want to be that guy who everyone goes to because I'm the only one not shrugging and going "oh well, this shit sucks.....anyways...."
test
>>23726099Testies
I've developed the unfortunate habit of involuntarily saying things aloud or making pained noises whenever I am assaulted by my cringe memories.
I'm more of a demanding, fast paced industry in and of myself than any current industry on Earth.
>>23726157I can relate. At least five times a day I recall fucked up things I did and said while in the throes of a mental health crisis and experience a full-body shudder of utter embarrassment. Or sometimes (pretty regularly) I go into these intrusive thought spirals about upsetting or hurtful things that have been said to me, and get so distressed that I have to leave whatever social situation I’m in to cry alone. Shit sucks.
>>23725802wrong, they can make fun of it in general but absolutely cannot ever criticize jews. you should read about "QUI! Mais qui!" (Who? But who).
i've scoured through a shitload of japanese chopstick websites but still i'm unable to find 0.1mm-tip chopsticks.i guess all i can do is custom order it with local storefronts whenever i travel to japan.
>>23726192A shame. The jews need the most criticism.
Atheism needs some critique as well for being nonsense. The lack of beleivers always follow a script and think they're rational it appears.
>>23715164Chris Marker and Late Godard were serious creative powerhouses, my goodness.
>my therapist is incredibly beautiful and I don't have anyone else in my life>I will hug my pillow and think about her understanding face>its the first thing I think of in the morning
My landlord is coming to inspect my filthy apartment in the morning because I'm moving out so I am cleaning it and packing up as much as I can. I like things like this because they force me to do something I would otherwise string out over ten times as long. Still it's a lot of work. I am making a coffee and I will be up all night working until he gets here. I wish I had a friend here to help me with it. If someone asked me if I want to come over and keep them company while they pack I would think that's a fun sleepover. But I'm an adult and you can't ask other adults to do that.
I ain't half the man I wanted to be
>>23726453Where do you think that you fall short?
I get viscerally angry when I see leftist protesters stand in front of cars, threaten the driver, and then play the victim when the guy drives forward.
>>23726157Weird, I do the same thing. It gets pretty awkward when I do it around other people.
>>23726500no jobno gfI'm gayno skills no education I might be slightly retarded I'm not sure alcohol dependency I feel accomplished if I shave and shower and eat solid food all in the same day might have a serious health issue not sure I've spent the last 3 weeks watching movies all day and not much else
this board is now nothing but 24/7 incel no sex no gf whinefest
Can humanity survive? IQ shredders in cities devouring bright people, destruction of the family made profitable through multi-billion-dollar sexual commodification enterprise, relationships leery and transactional all other-as-object and self-worship and once good desires gone crooked, the flags bleeding at the top of their poles, hyperoptimization as the categorical imperative, shareholder value as God, permanent economic growth as a train and all else tied to the tracks, generational spirals of misery producing deepest pits of unhumanity and corruption, ideological engines churning populations in the slaughterhouse, meaning lost in the firehose of mistruth, sentient capital as the prince of darkness.
>>23726633the entire human race is now 24/7 incel no sex no gf whinefestover half of men dont have sex or have friends or anything. western civilization is pretty much over
>>23726681yet despite all of this cancer this is a literature board where people should discuss books and authors and I don't come here for this whiny crap
I think people in the past were better. Physically, mentally, socially... Just better, more ready, more competent, more resilient.
Five people in my life have been recently diagnosed with some form of tumor. My doctor, a zoomer coworker, an previous boss, an old professor I still zoom with, and the guy who used to give me tips when I was new at the gym. Why is the universe doing this.
>>23726723Oh fuck, I forgot the next door neighbor at my parents house. It's actually 6. Fuck man.>Captcha: 4YYYFor why why why indeed
>>23726729>>23726723Stop giving ppl cancer bro
I wish I had children.
you're gonna swing for this
>>23725949I don’t know how you can not despise Democrats and leftists at this point.
Why is the internet filled with right wing midwits?
How should I feel about the fact that all the men I get along with happen to be lawyers?
Chicago>Philadelphia>New York…but…Pennsylvania>New York>Illinois…and…The Northeast>the Mid-Atlantic>the Midwest
>>23726984shit > 'murrica
>>23726681>over half of men dont have sex or have friendsI don't believe you
>tfw always take negative criticism very harshly and internalize it deeplyI always wonder why some people can turn it into motivation, or simply be unaffected by it. Why are some people more defeatist than others? What causes this?
https://youtu.be/JQ8WazbFea0?si=wGBn1exZcMbFlalF
I feel like I have a pretty good life and lots of friends, yet I can't help but end every night staring blankly at the ceiling and wondering whether this is "it". How repetitive and dull life is, indeed! My grip on reality has been fading away further and further. I hate all of the women I have slept with.
I love Fall
>/wwoym/ going on for 4 daysthe longest ive seen in 2 years probably
Boomers were really living in places like Youngstown, Ohio and Binghamton, New York while LARPing as Don Draper. Unreal.
>>23727640It's dying.
>>23727640>>23727705There's was actually another thread >>23715053 that was running concurrentlyshared the load of schizo incel posting
>>23727728wwoym is dead.Concept doesn't work anymore.
>>23720627It's coward's hunting if you're doing it on your own land, at your own pace;Take your rifle into the cities and you'll meet the real thrill of the chase.
>>23727744why
The way this guy drinks his coffee infuriates me
I think history is the most interesting academic field today and yet everybody seems to be ignoring it.
>>23727870Retarded take desu
>>23719217>Seriously, why do you work in politics?like it or not, there is no institution in the world more powerful than the united states federal government -- I want to help make sure that it has the same values, goals, and priorities that I do
>>23727755he's wrong, he's probably wrong about a lot of things.
>>23727612nap + window open, cool breeze. raining? even better.
>>23727640Hopefully the summerfags are gone is the reason why
Visitation from some acquaintance late at night last night got me thinking how meth heads are freaking dumb. He used as an excuse some mutal friend we have for the late night visit because he got caught trying to sneak into the house since I was in the living room. Fucking jews/meth heads.
How do you feel about the philosophy of Kant, anon?
>>23728206https://books.google.de/books?id=9y0tAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA514&printsec=frontcover&source=entity_page&newbks=0&hl=en&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
>>23728212new>>23728212
>>23715164I despise fisshes like you wouldn't even believe, they inspire fear and disgust in me, their hideous looking appearance without noses that resembles a deformed human face, eyes on each side of the head that seem to move indepently deprived from all sort of emotion, a hideous an despicable creature that to me only fits in a hellish landscape, not to talk about it as a food, its meat tastes horribly and it has an umpleasant texture to my mouth, I JUST FUCKING HATE FISHES WITH ALL MY SOUL.
>>23715164>https://youtube.com/@authordocumentariesJust happened upon a YouTube channel that uploads old documentaries about various authors. Figured some of you fags might be interested. Enjoy.