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I'm nothing more than a fat fucking Jew.
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>>25505751
Hot
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Songs will be sung about such a man.
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>>25505751
go the gym bro
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Catberg is snuggled right up next to me :3
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>tfw prime cut
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There's literally nothing wrong with putting hobos in concentration camps. There's literally nothing wrong with concentration camps. It's a camp, with a lot of people in it, so they're concentrated. In the camp. A concentration camp. Why is it a camp? Because it's cruel to keep them in some stuffy smelly building like an American prison. So you make them a camp, with many buildings and humane outdoor time.

Bring back concentration camps. They don't deserve the hate they get.
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>>25505757
I'm jealous :)
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wigger wigger chickn dinner i got bacon grease runnin thru my veins
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>>25505747
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: Murder and rape are horrific moral violations and serious crimes. Don't rape and don't murder. THIS HAS BEEN A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
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>>25505747
I still don't know exactly why but the end of this movie had me weeping. Stalker and Solaris didn't hold a candle.
Something about those waves of wind rushing toward you, this sense of being lost but also home, I really can't put my finger on it.
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i stopped paying attention and youtube starting playing this ai generated album the other day and it was fucking good i can't front when i was zoned out reading sth and then i'm like yo this shit is fire sounds like some 90s trip hop i never heard before i put it in shazam or whatever the music identifier thing in macos is and it came up empty, then i see the little "ai" thing on the youtube description. i was like fuggg.
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>>25505770
This is how I feel about Stalker
I still don't really understand what it's about but it's my favorite movie
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>>25505770
i think i bought that movie on an apple tv sale for $5 but never bothered to watch it
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>>25505767
As a former drug addict deeply sympathetic to everyone still living that life, particularly while homeless, even I cannot deny their presence saps the spiritual comfort of an area. It's tough though, because of course you don't want to criminalize being dirty, and if someone has no where else to sleep, well, they gotta sleep where they can, but I can't help but feel bad for normal people who must suffer their souls being sapped little by little, suffer the discomfort by being around mental illness and anti-social behavior exemplified by homeless drug addicts, and suffer all the extra petty crime and littering.

I don't know what the solution is, personally.
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I really like how I can drop a PDF in Chrome and Gemini will answer any questions I have about the book.
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“Soak Up The Sun” is the most badass song name ever and it’s attached to a cheery pop song.
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>>25505776
oh nevermind it was "the sacrifice"
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>>25505785
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDaOgu2CQtI
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>>25505760
Theyre jsut like a buddist retreat where you train concentration. That is all
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>>25505787
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6FZSwtixlY
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WAKE ME UP WHEN SEPTEMBER ENDS
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>>25505790
Holy shit, thats literally me (on account of living that song but unironically)
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>>25505790
I had a lot of sex because of that song
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>>25505806
You're a giant metal worm?
>>25505808
You fuck giant metal worms?

Tfw no giant metal worm gf to read Thoreau to
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>>25505747
For some reason, this picture always makes me feel like crying.
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>>25505804
stfu
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>>25505812
Yes, and yes -A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxItkfdewA0
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Watching 4chan become a jeet colony who uses chatgpt to write replies is like like reading On the Marble Cliffs: it's a tragedy that could've been easily prevented had there be an answer instead of passive acceptance, but alas.
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remember &amp
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>>25505829
What's this data based on?
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>>25505829
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRGrNDV2mKc
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You get high on the cowser.
You find tonk of the lawn.
You monck up the rowser.
And you sink of the ron.
You pick up the basic.
You grin at the lawn.

I love you so.
I find you crazy.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4Z5Dj5Z8pM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2VhB1_x2Ac
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>>25505829
ai prompt: write about my day but in the prose of james joyce so everyone thinks i'm smart and talented
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https://youtu.be/ghD5SHuR9mk?is=mLBtmIqjP0lYpvBG
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUvA6TQrHuk
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>>25505867
Everyone who?
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>>25505872
the /lit/eri, the /wyt/ticisms, aka you all
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This disposable vape has tasted like coil the entire time I've had it.
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>>25505876
You shouldn't have bought the coil flavor then, hehe. But nah, that happens every 1 in 200 or whatever.
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Women are so adorable

>>25505829
Yes
>>25505832
Yes
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>>25505873
I think you are smart just being here on /lit...

>t cross eyed nubile girl sticking her tongue out involuntarily
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>>25505878
It's cherry ice flavour but it tastes like the coil is ALSO burnt. It's weird. I believe that statistic though, this shit comes straight from sweatshops in China, I don't think they're that safe for you.
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>>25505881
I don't understand the cross-eyed, tongue-out pose that's so popular amongst zoomers. It makes the girl look literally retarded. Is that the appeal? That she's so horny and lustful she's lost her mind?
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I'm fat but I fucking hate most fat people.
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>>25505881
Very cute post

>>25505883
>That she's so horny and lustful she's lost her mind?
You've convinced me to like it.

But no, I think it's more just accidental conditioning from hentai as their primary encounter with sex. I have similar things in me but I'm a 32 year old boomer so it's from different sources. We're so doomed lol.
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>>25505883
>she's so horny and lustful she's lost her mind

That´s the ticket

>>25505888
Thank you
>>>/hm/2713719
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>>25505892
HOT
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>>25505888
>>25505892
It's just such a turn-off for me. I'm clearly in the minority however.
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>>25505884
Whatever happened to the funny fat guy?

Its like people do´nt have to deal with their shortcomings by developing a personality anymore
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>>25505894
You better believe it
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>>25505897
I think it's almost sexy in the way I think tacky latex outfits are sexy. If I turn off my coomer brain I can't help but laugh.
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>>25505898
He got on ozempic
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As with the 'four worlds' concept outlined above,
there are a number of different interpretations as to
how the Qliphoth-or 'world of shells'-should
be mapped onto the Tree of Life. The traditional
view seems to be that the ten Qliphothic worlds
are an adverse and demonic shadow-Tree that exists
beneath Assiah, the lowest of the four worlds, and
thus beneath the lowest and most earthly Sephira,
Malkuth. In this construction, the black and most
material quadrant that is bottommost of Malkuth's
four coloured quarters is seen as the gateway to the
underworld of the Qliphoth. This makes a certain
amount of philosophical sense, as it could be argued
that it is often the most material of human urges
that lead to the most hellish of human outcomes.
Another relationship between the Tree and its
Qliphothic counterpart is suggested by Crowley's
siting of the Qliphoth at 'the eleventh Sephira', by
which he would have meant Daath. Developing this
idea, Crowley's follower Kenneth Grant proposed
that Daath, the 'invisible Sephira', was actually
an open hole in the metaphysical substance of the
Tree, giving access to the Tree's flip side. Here, in
this mirror-reverse of the diagram, each Sephira is
replaced by its Qliphah, and each of these counterspheres has its own species of demonic entity:
t.hose at Geburah, for example, are known as 'The
Burners', while the sublime unity of Kether has its
Qliphah in the dualistic conflict of 'The two contending Forces'. The Golden Dawn's magical system
suggests that both the preceding examples are to be
found in the Qliphoth that is below Assiah and the
black quadrant of Malkuth, while for the Qliphoth
that is the mirror-image 'rear' of the Tree, a hierarchy of demonic regents is proposed. This situates
both Satan and Moloch at Kether; Beelzebub at
Chokmah; Lucifer at Binah; AsTaroch at Chesed;
Asmodeus at Geburah; Belphegor at Tiphereth; Baal
at Netzach; and Adrammelech at Hod. As mentioned
earlier, the demon Lilith rules the tenth sphere of the
Qliphoth chat is beneath Assiah and Malkuth, while
she rules the ninth sphere of the Qliphoch when we
consider the adverse mirror-image on the reverse
side of the Tree of Life. This makes Lilith the only
demon-regent co rule the Qliphoth of two Sephiroth,
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an innocent soul condemned to eternity! poor thing!
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>>25505920
If i would try to read all that, written by you, id pass out
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>>25505919
Sign of the times
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>>25505935
First time?
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>>25505952
>Good god, great Scott, gahh!
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>>25505952
Im a big guy
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>>25505944
I am reading it, right fucking now!
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>>25505953
always has been
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I am a sissy.
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My father worked at the sausage factory.

I wouldnt touch that job with a ten foot clown stick
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FUCK, this vape is defo cashed. Had it less than a week, 10K puffs. These things never last long enough.
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>>25505972
Is that you, me?
Is that me?
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>>25505985
>t steam punk
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I AM THE TRUTH THE WAY AND THE LIFE

THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA

THE FIRST AND THE LAST

THE BEGINNING AND THE END

AND ALL THAT I CAN DO -YOU CAN DO

AND MORE
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I like how sobriety can feel like its own type of a high.
In certain circumstances, it's a very comfortable feeling, so I don't mind going long periods without using.
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>>25506007
Very convincing, double ´O´ seven
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I am a sea wolf
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Israel crushing Iran and establishing total hegemony over the entire Middle East would honestly be a good thing.
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I miss you.
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>>25506041
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASJslJHe494
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>>25505897
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaUHQPRbgF0
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Just shattered the guts in my ass
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what will I use to reproduce
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>>25506064
Your fuck ASS dick FUCK!!!!!!
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>Jazz is sazz
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Invoking Asmodeus
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>>25506070
Thats your answer to everything
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Don't be tempted co skip chis sphere. Instead, meditate upon the spectacular intricacy of physical earthly
reality from every conceivable perspective-historical,
geographical, political, mythological, astronomical,
scientific, symbolic-before acknowledging that this
titanic and unsurpassable Drama of Being is a composite of your sensory impressions chat is, effectively,
occurring nowhere save in the well-equipped theatre
of your consciousness. Thus, although it is the whole
of material and bodily existence, Malkuch is ultimately
a level of awareness and zone of consciousness just like
all the ocher Sephiroch.
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Dreams, visualisations, imaginative art or writingsall of these are excellent means of approaching chis
lunar Sephira. Keep a dream record and experiment
with a Kabbaliscic analysis of your dreams. Remember
that Yesod is a 'Sphere of the Gods'; a place where
direct encounters with divine entities are possible. If a
talent for lucid dreaming can be cultivated, chis could
prove an ideal means of accessing the other Sephiroth.
Above all remember the dangers of Yesod, that can
become an enslaving quagmire of fantasy if the Will
of Tiphereth is not brought co bear upon it. With the
Will thus engaged, however, the imagination is a bottomless treasure-trove of enriching ideas and visions.
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Really just wanna bend Emma Watson over and rail her you know
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Badly need a new bed.
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My, my. A body does get around.
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There are SO MANY jeets who speak zero English posting on this board recently who are using mtl to translate & read posts and then make posts.
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>>25506100
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I just woke up, I hope I still have some good times ahead of me.

>my thoughts
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>>25506101
Do not buy from bedbugs
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Any recommendations for which Mircea Eliade to start with?
Or if you've only read one, what are your thoughts on it.
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>>25505967
I can't believe its been nine years since I watched TYP for the first time.
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>>25505747
Coreless incense sticks are so much better than ones with a core.
I don't think I will ever by ones with a core again.
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>>25506141
I haven't read him at all but own sacred and profane and believe that is a starting point.
(I also own shamanism, which I also haven't read, but that's not the starter)
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Does anyone else here have a snail mail pen pal - how would you make one? Basically you’re starting a conversation with complete stranger, what would you talk about?
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>>25505897
this shit, fake tits, twerking... it really has nothing to do with it, but i cant help thinking being into this stuff is an indication of low iq
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THE MIND IS A FACADE THE BLIND IDIOT GOD WILL GUIDE TO YOUR DEMISE SO FINE LET IT BE GONE
> THE MIND IS A FACADE THE BLIND IDIOT GOD WILL GUIDE TO YOUR DEMISE SO FINE LET IT BE GONE
THE MIND IS A FACADE THE BLIND IDIOT GOD WILL GUIDE TO YOUR DEMISE SO FINE LET IT BE GONE
> THE MIND IS A FACADE THE BLIND IDIOT GOD WILL GUIDE TO YOUR DEMISE SO FINE LET IT BE GONE
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>>25506101
I got a new bed, I went from queen size to twin size and now I really miss being able to use half of my bed as a table even though it took up more space in my room. I knew this would happen too.
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Londonfrog has been frogotten. Only been mentioned on this board tentimes this year. It is over for the frog of London.
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6AM is the perfect time to wake up and recite memorized lines of poetry to my wife who is trying to get ready
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>>25506371
I wish I was someone who recites poetry on occasion
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i can't believe there are still tards on /biz/ shilling crypto
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hungary is proposing a wealth tax? i thought they were supposed to be based
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>>25506439
>postsocialist eastern european shithole populated with literal mongols
>supposed to be based
You fell for a psyop, dumbass.
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>>25506444
i was joking hungary is ass
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>>25506371
Helen, thy beauty is to me
Like those Nicean barks of yore...
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>new ipc set drops
>he has the same double chin as silba bumpa now
bruh is this becoming a trend are the uk ravers going to be doublechinmaxxing soon
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Carve the flesh, seperate it into piles; this and that. You, of course, are the other. The ringmaster who divides and labels is a troubador of convention, the categorical explitive. Speak reality as you hew but be sure not to gouge or you'll need to make another category for chipped spines and femurs with gnaw marks. Dont feel bad, mistakes happen, and you're only human.

Upon completion, you'll have created The Labyrinth, a lexical winding and untangling where semantics are the breadcrumbs, pecked at by time and blown about by the wind. Do not plot your course, a morass is not a steppe, although it's still a great place to hid a body. Let the fingers of the loam carass the zealous, and be sure to rise above the rabble on wings of sinew and bone, perpetually screaming your disjoint. We both know there is only everything, and what you're doing is sorting nothingness, but being empty and being full are matters of perspective, so as you empty yourself you fill the hollow around you while hollowing yourself into something spectacular: godhood. Or, a crude immortal flux as long as your icons are perpetuated, so be sure to create your dripping fetishes with care.
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Sometimes I'll notice a very mid girl checking me out in public so I'll feign interest in her by making my surreptitious glances and stares at her really obvious and excessive, so I make her feel good about herself.
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just by looking at the numbers, there's going to be an enormous population crash later this century and the remaining people will be the extreme upper class that were able to secure resources with their wealth with the people who are no longer around being replaced by robots and AI, who will effectively form a servant army
i'm so glad the good guys won world war two to secure this amazing future for us
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big dicks will rule the world
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>>25506616
So what you're saying is major in Finance and secure your future.
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In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo.
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I have this recurring fantasy where I'm at a party with my extended family and my long-lost love, whom happens to be a Walmart heiress, shows up and rescues me from a life of monotony.
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Sometimes think I'm missing something for skipping classes, but then see what we are studying in these classes and realize it's just a waste of time.
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>>25506616
Every other faction would have been far worse, the allies were the only ones who had any sort of regard for human life. Do you really think the "one people, one realm, one Leader" guys would have blinked at replacing people with robots and letting the rest starve?

But yeah that seems likely.

>>25506676
That's not hwow you use hwom
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>>25506439
Fidesz lost the recent elections
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ML is still not back up... I'm really never gonna have porn again for the rest of my life, huh? I knew I should have saved some of those videos.
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>>25506616
Look at birthrates, the world population will be growing in Africa and Muslim countries shrinking everywhere else
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A common situation in fiction is a character will see something, generally in nature, and find symbolic truth relevant to their own life circumstance, and come away with a new outlook or decision. Does this ever actually happen in real life? Am I simply not sensitive enough?

Here's a cheap example. Let's say a character is afraid of commitment and unsure whether to ask his girlfriend to merry him. He goes to the park to think, and there he sees two very old trees, standing side by side, and he has an epiphany. "I saw, in those two trees and their undergrowth of intertwined roots, our future family and contribution to the world." something like that, and then decides to propose that night.
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I'm just an awful person
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>>25506832
at least you finally realized that.
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I am a good boy and I will swallow it all, swallow it all
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>>25505747
A Semitic group does in fact control global affairs. It just happens that the group is Arabs not Jews
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>>25506301
Alright. Thanks for the advice.
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>>25505747
The contrast between how pilate is portrayed in the Gospels and how other sources portray him is pretty funny.
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If you really understand this image you understand the future. This whole AI thing is real. I don't want it to be real either. But it is.
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>>25506894
May you please explain to me what this graph means?
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>>25506894
Nah. Shit's capped; garbage in garbage out. They're at the point of saturation and it breached containment, becoming self referential and incestuous. It's just a chatbot with google attatched. Calling any LLM "AI" is just techbro hype.

>>25506904
As dataset goes up, shittiness goes down, in essence. But the dumbasses havent figured out qualitative data and are going to fuck the whole thing.
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I wish there was somewhere good online to really discuss literature

Without the pol slop, try-hard trolls, and bots that shit up this board, but not full of obnoxious redditors and their mod overlords who go too far the other way and ban all non-approved speech.
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>>25506909
>Shit's capped; garbage in garbage out
I've been hearing this every month for the past two years, and yet the models just keep getting better. In principle, you take the code-generating robot, get it to generate a bunch of code, reject the bad code, affirm the good code, keep doing this over and over. This is very tricky to do correctly, but in principle this works
>>25506904
10,000 foot view: a LLM gets better on every axis if you give it more computational power, more data, or both. The relationship between capability/dataset size/computational power is remarkably stable. In principle, this means that a LLM can get arbitrarily good provided you give it enough computational power or enough data and ideally both. AI companies are currently building out enough computational power, and they're finding/creating more data. They have very, very strong incentive to figure out how to generate more data and find/use more computational power, because rendering white-collar labor (or even just coding labor) obsolete is very, very profitable. This means that "AI" as we traditionally think of it isn't a philosophical problem, or a theoretical problem, but an engineering problem. (No, this doesn't mean "AI=sentient" or "AI-conscious," necessarily. Easy to imagine a very capable, very powerful machine that isn't sentient or conscious.) They're going to figure it out sometime within the next 10 years, perhaps within the next 5.

I know this sounds insane. I also used to think it was insane. If I was in your shoes, I wouldn't believe me either. The problem is that reality is occasionally insane. The near future will be fast and scary and potentially very good or potentially very bad.
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I'm sick in the head
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Why do retards keep saying "aesthetics" instead of "esthetics" here? Aesthetics isn't a word.
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It's serendipitous The Great Gatsby and Citizen Kane tackle similar themes, as they're both pillars of American art and extremely overrated, though still pretty good.
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>>25507001
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aesthetic-concept/
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>>25507006
>t.dumbass
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>>25505751
Don't be so harsh on yourself, Jonah
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>>25506959
I dont think you understood my criticism.

You could have a massive data set of the letter "a" repeated; aint gunna improve your bot no matter how many times you copy it. The stupid thing relies on novel information, and the curve is logrithmic
Eventually the effort to make new data is too great. So, these faggots lie about their metrics. There is no benchmark for functionality; it's exponential forever to infinity. And to top it off, when they start doing self referential bullshit, it all is immediately garbage because there is no authority on the validity of the data, particularly when the model cheats to produce results that impact the metrics with high token allocation.
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what does /lit/ think of Conrad?
love him or hate him?
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>>25507097
I tried reading him and my head ended up hurting. It upset me tremendously for couple of days. Now im back to just slurping my soma in the form of smartphone with an internet connection
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>>25507103
which book was that
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Woke up feeling a bit weak today, I was lacking my usual rapist energy, I just didn't feel the "buzz", drank a Red Bull but it didn't help either. Decided on walking my dog for an hour, after a couple hours of doomscrolling; that raised my energy levels, I feel a lot more rapey now.
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What causes monkey to rewire angry to rapey? Literalurally speaking.
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>>25507165
inceldom
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>>25507050
>there is no authority on the validity of the data
This is what I'm saying; there's no authority for "soft" things like (just to take an example) novel-writing, but there is authority on "hard" things like math proofs, or code generation -- is the proof right, does the code compile. So you don't actually need the LLM to get really good at soft things, you need it to get good at the hard things, and the hard things are the things that are easily verifiable
>The stupid thing relies on novel information, and the curve is logrithmic
Yes on the log curve, diminishing returns start to bite really, really hard. But again, "diminishing returns bite hard" doesn't gloss as "the robot stops improving," it's more "the robot continues improving but less quickly than before and to a lesser degree than before." Maybe on the novel information; this idea holds for some fields, but I don't think it holds for fields like coding, and coding is really what you need more than anything else. (Building an LLM that does everything out of the box is very very very very hard; building an LLM that codes perfectly and then getting that to build another LLM that does everything is merely very hard.) I think you can generate novel information in principle, because after all, we generate novel information even though we can only draw on our own "training data," so to speak. Understand I'm not saying "person mind=LLM mind," but instead I'm saying something more like "in principle this isn't a limit for us, so I don't see why it's a limit for LLMs."
>Eventually the effort to make new data is too great... [can't get validity because] the model cheats to produce results that impact the metrics
The first part of this is describing a very, very, very difficult engineering problem, and saying that it's too hard to be solved so nobody will do it. I doubt this; like I said, AI companies have very, very, very, very strong incentive to figure out how to make new data. They already do do this, just at small scales and in very narrow fields, so I don't think this is a barrier. (Consider chess engines; they're better than any human could ever be by playing billions of games against themselves and training on those results. Obviously a chess engine isn't exactly the same thing as a LLM, but the principle's the same -- neural network training on its own data.) The second is describing another very, very, very difficult engineering problem, and the same incentive thing applies here
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I would only lick an asshole if it were paired with salt and a lime.



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