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 No.308343[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

The Time God does not forget nor forgive edition. You will do this again.

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>>308928
>nuclear family wizard is mad at both parents

Been there.
Still stuck with them. However, the knowledge on serial monogamy among our cavemen ancestors - as opposed to the "cereal monogamy" of our farmer ancestors - helps me to realize my parents' marriage was the chemistry thing, not the having each other's back thing AS OPPOSED TO MY EXPECTATIONS

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Almost certain I got ingual hernia or femoral hernia.
Had ingual hernia as a kid and almost died on the operating table due to them not being able to wake me up from induced sleep.
Since then I've ruined my health in as many ways as possible, BP medication has me on really low heart rate, like sometimes below 40 during sleep, often below 50 during the day.
I don't think I'd wake up this time around.

Is this it? Am I going to die at 30 on the operating table?

I'm honestly too scared to even go get a proper diagnosis right now, because I just have a bad feeling about this whole thing. There is no nonsurgical option allegedly.
The best outcome would be "maintenance and monitoring" until I can actually lose enough weight to lose the meds and maybe survive anesthesia.

I'm terrified. Trying to cope with immersing myself in a game world for now. Despite all the misery I still wanna live another 20 or so years… Wish I did something with my life up until this point.
Wish I could just magic all my problems away…

 No.308951

>>308950
Just get into smoking weed or something that makes your heart rate higher. There was a YouTube weed guy who died of a heart attack a couple of years ago; he said he was just chilling at his computer, got up and suddenly had a 180 bpm heart rate for hours. It’s from years of smoking.

 No.308952

>>308951
I don't think that would solve the problem at hand.
I'd need to get off meds before a surgery which means losing weight and even then the whole thing is like a death gamble.

On a somewhat related note I am looking into getting a vape of some kind to help not stuff my face all day.

 No.308956

>>308950
I got inguinal hernia and I just act like it doesn't exist. I am probably making it worse because I just can't stop exercising.


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 No.70718[Reply]

Hey wizards,

Two other wizzas and I will be reading The Pastel City, a science fantasy novel by M. John Harrison, originally published in 1971.

We'll be following a schedule of one chapter per day. The chapters are about 10 pages long on average. After each day's reading, we'll come here and talk about it. I'll be posting a short daily commentary to help kick off the discussion, along with updates on our progress through the schedule. Of course, you're under no obligation to post anything if you don't want to.

We'll start on Thursday, July 2, so in just a couple of days. Check out the blurb for the novel:

A decaying world. Ancient powers long forgotten. An old warrior with one last battle to fight. The Pastel City is a mesmerizing journey through the ruins of a far-future civilization, where the remnants of lost knowledge mingle with myth and legend. Atmospheric, inventive, and unforgettable, it is a classic of science fantasy.

I'll be following along with this edition, which can be borrowed for free from Archive.org:

https://archive.org/details/pastelcity0000unse

You can choose a different edition if you prefer:

https://archive.org/search?tab=all&query=the+pastel+city&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22texts%22

To borrow a book from the Archive, you'll need an account. They only ask for an email address and password.

Come and join us for some whimsy literary fun.
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 No.70807

>>70806
I was a little disappointed (maybe too strong a word) that our old geezer friend is lusting after bar maids lol. I mean I know it's a regular book written by a normal person but I always find such overt sexual behavior jarring. The robot vulture is cool. Once again I appreciate the brevity at which we are moving through the story. The book never lingers in any one place for too long, loosing itself in useless details or self-indulgent exposition. I'm excited to learn about the mysterious wizard.

 No.70808

>>70806
This was a fun one. I really liked the atmosphere as Cromis was staying over in that dilapidated tower covered in mist, and when the bird showed up. I certainly didn't expect a talking metal bird of all things, even though it was on the cover. Very curious as to what business Cellur has with him as well.
We got some action too with the fight in the tavern, and Cromis makes a good showing yet again despite proclaiming to be a better poet than fighter.

>It was a tad silly for Cromis to refuse to believe "a Methvin" would do such a thing. Really?
Yeah, I suppose so. I thought that perhaps Norvin was a particularly honorable one of the bunch, but given how Grif and Glyn are, I don't expect him to be much different heh.

 No.70811

>>70806
Cellur should have taught the vulture to explain who the hell himself or geteit chemosit if he actually want Cromis to listen to him. If there is a limitation to the bird robot's memory or something he could have given it a written letter to deliver. I know it's playing into the folktale motif of unclear prophecy and skeptical hero but it's harder to accept inefficiency in a story of science and machines than in fantastical myths. Maybe that's why sci fi lose out in popularity to fantasy in modern times. The world of science is too logical to be a good fit for the whimsiness required in a hero story.

>>70807
I was more amused to see a perverted geezer comic relief in a western work. I thought that was more of a Japanese anime thing due to a cultural difference in how Japan treat lecherousness and sexual harassment. You definitely can't get away with writing a perverted hero in a modern novel lol. Feminists will call him a rapist.

 No.70816

people really read novels like this together? I didn't know this

 No.70817

>>70816
Book clubs go back to ancient Rome


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 No.303736[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

You will still be stuck browsing this thread in 2026 edition

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>>308820
Work has a habit of running the place at 74-79 degrees all year round for us (they have commercial AC, the bosses just never leave their 68 degree offices and don't care). That means I just work slow and always carry a small piece of equipment to 'look busy' in case they do wander out of their cushy towers.

 No.308845

I would recommend a technical sales gig. All my co workers detects the autism, and gave the natural reaction normies gave to autists, especially the wom*n and feminized "men". But fortunately I managed to held on to this gig. Overall a very comfy pseudo NEET job. You need to make rather frequent visits to customer, which paradoxically I can do really since without any lingering personal attachments, it appears I have internalized such interactions the way a gamer approach a conversation simulator.


I might even say I do be better in a sense than some of my co-workers in building relationships with customers, for some reason the opposite is happens when it comes to customers, I could shut my mouth most of the time, merely picking the correct conversation options, and they just seem to naturally like me for some reason.


The ultimate perk of this job is technical conversations blend with a bit of a personal touch increase that affinity bar as well if not more than casual conversation. Anyway, as long as you do reasonably ok to maintain your accounts and keep up appearances, you should be ok.

Anyway, you do need to accustomed yourself to replying to messages confidently, and drive to places. Which is comfy, I can listen orthodox saints/ schizotube/ crabtube/ history-geopolitictube/ 40k tube on the way. A lot of decision making responsibility fell to you, but this is still managable, as long as you're fine with management, they were the ultimate fell guy if things go wrong.

Since you are basically your own boss day to day, its more forgiving for neurodivergents. The chanllenges of a white collar job for adhd is still there, but you have more room to mitigate these.

 No.308937

>>308764
I would kill to be 23 again and not make the wrong decisions which impacted my health. You are but a baby, try walk the right path

 No.308953

Have to go to a course to get some liquor license on the 20th. I shouldn't have agreed to it but it's so hard to say no. Of course it's on my day off, and I'll be attending it with mostly succubi. What a nightmare, in my country the culture is basically singing and dancing and games for these courses. The actual legal information needed takes 20 minutes to learn, but the course will last 8 hours and filled with games just to fluff up the salary of the course sellers. Gonna fucking hate it.

 No.308955

Botcoin > work


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 No.229108[Reply]

Has anything you've ever played, watched, listened to, or read ever truly changed your life? No matter how much I experience nothing changes. I used to walk 2 hours a day and I never felt any better mentally than I do now as a neet who never goes outside. My baseline mental state seems impossible to break out of.
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 No.229112

I guess Robert Sapolsky's Behavioral Biology lectures on youtube probably forms the foundation of my worldview. Basically it's just an atheist materialist worldview that posits our thoughts and behavior are determined by our biology and environment but there's also no clear answers to life because humans are complicated.

 No.229114

Define "Truly changed". I have read many books and played many games that in the least completely change my tastes and what I enjoy for entertainment.

Playing Fallout 2 when it came out completely opened my eyes to the postapoc genre. I had no idea it was something that existed. I became one of the biggest fans of the franchise. Playing dnd in middle school gave me a passion for medieval fantasy and to this day I spend a lot of time reading novels and playing games with a sword and sorcery and fantasy themes. I've been reading comics since I was 4. It's also a huge part of my life.

There are many, many other such examples I could give you. I would say it did changed me significantly. I don't know what you mean by 'truly'. It didn't change my genes of course but there are many games/books/movies that completely changed how I see the world.

 No.229118

Employment involving the public: humans are self-centered/self-important to the point of being irredeemable.

>>229112
Lawrence Krauss for me (YT and books). The deep dives into physics are over my head though.

 No.229119

Nothing you play, watch, listen to, or read will change much in your life because those are consumerist hobbies. Instead of playing, make a game. Instead of watching, make a short film. Instead of listening, compose a music piece. Instead of reading, write a book.

Doodling awful shit on krita and writing on my notebook pretending that I'm Tolkien reborn when I actually can't string more than a few sentences in English when speaking, learning a new language even if at snail's pace. These things feel much more meaningful than consooming pretentious philosophical pieces of media that only tell you what you already know.

 No.229121

A piece of media cannot change one life, it is just a mental image it doesnt influence material reality.
But music and games are one of the rare pleasure i got in life so i'd say yes, it is important.


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 No.308794[Reply]

It kinda sucks knowing that people hate you, wherever i go i am met with this endless negativity that i am just supposed to ignore. Even when i try to be friendly and polite i still somehow find a way to fuck up and make people hate my guts. I am sick of it to be honest, sick of fuckinh everything. God hates me and i hate him back, because why wouldnt i?
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 No.308942

Normies have a 6th sense I swear to god. Especially succubi, I work with several and I'm nothing but professional just do my job exactly as I should, even making it easier for them "Dont worry i'll handle it". They give me death stares. It's the same facial expression I'd probably give if someone told me they raped a minor. Utter disgust and venom, why the hell are they doing to me when there's literal crackheads in our store abusing them daily, shouldn't someone like me just be written off as a nobody that isn't a problem??? I don't care if they don't like me, it's the visible disgust that gets me because that indicates they would very likely throw me under the bus or purposely sabotage me in some way just for fun, or even because they deem me deserving of punishment for some reason. I can't stand it

 No.308944

>>308942
If you don't mind me asking, what's the job? What class of people are we talking about?

I've always enjoyed the pure look of contempt mixed with concern and disgust when I'm floundering in a social situation. I try to not look people in the face and feel they're weighing me up when they do - this might be my insecure interpretation, though.

 No.308945

>>308942
>shouldn't someone like me just be written off as a nobody that isn't a problem
They can sense you aren't like them.

 No.308949

>>308942

100%. I'd rather be marked as harmless. I've seen some people have some success becoming a "dog person" or other "in" with the normies but I'm not changing for their approval.

 No.308954

>>308944
It's a supermarket and the succubi I'm referencing are highschoolers/uni students and 25~50 y/o succubi. Older succubi are fine I've noticed. They're probably just happy to be dealing with a White man lol.

>>308945
Oh for sure they can sense it. Shouldn't I be less of a threat than a literal psycho criminal though? It's not like these criminals are handsome or sociable either, they are weirder than I am but they still get better treatment than me. It's so weird.

>>308949
I like the idea of a normie camouflage. I also agree not changing for their approval but I do want to be written off the hit list. I just don't want to be attacked and harassed and I'm willing to make certain changes to ensure that. All within reason. I remember in my 20s when I had to walk everywhere I had to act a little off putting around the ghetto types to get them to leave me alone. I'd scratch myself a lot, sniff loudly, and scream every 2 minutes or so lol. They wrote me off as not worth interacting with. If I acted "normal" it's just constants bombardments of "got a dollar bro?" or other variants.


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 No.324657[Reply]

I had a strange bizarre dream
>People stop having children but jobs are plentiful
>for some reason, a crisis related to a rare disease breaks out
>there isn’t as much immigration anymore (to bring in cheap labor) bacause of fear of this rare disease, the robots and AI tech are too much cost to use in favor of jobs.
>The world government establishes a totalitarian regime in which it forces people to marry and have children (in an absolute non-religion context just a state owned thing maybe based in laws)
>furthermore, if people are unable to do so on their own, the government steps in to ensure it happens by assigning you a partner (regardless of your sexuality) and guaranteeing you a job at some facility or specialized work related to your first years of studies, knowledge or a factory job.
>as well as housing, and you’ll likely have to move from your hometown and daily routine to a working-class neighborhood or related structure to the working force that the economy need if its the case of your job
>The entire scheme of life now is related to you get a partner and a job and a family and sons to keep repeating the cycle, they dont have interest in family problems or wathever you do with your life, they just want to you to just to have job, sons and give more to the raise the economy.
>If you oppose the government or don't have a partner or children, you are arrested and declared a social outcast and a good-for-nothing
>In this process, a digital credit system begins to be used, in which there are the married, those with children, and the outcasts. Logically, the latter have no rights to anything, and the former enjoy more benefits—although in reality there isn’t much difference in benefits beyond the typical economic gains associated with modern social class.
>Outcasts can reintegrate into society under certain conditions regarding work, children, and family—if they meet those conditions.
>Adoptions are made easier with even greater oversight by government officials and agencies, even for infertile individuals or even for other schemes of families.
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 No.324659

How would a dream affect me
Not very much

Open a window when you go to sleep sounds like you need to get some fresh air


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 No.227831[Reply]

I think that today, autistic and witchy people have a huge advantage over neurotypical people. We have extensive knowledge on a wide variety of subjects, we are determined in the face of adversity, and even if we are socially awkward or find it difficult to talk to people (this is my case, I am socially isolated) we can come together in these spaces and stop forcing social contact with neighbors or parents who ask us for the umpteenth time why we still don't have any friends or a girlfriend. Personally, I'd rather go online to investigate the Epstein case than have friends, and I think that's the case for many of you here. The others are completely ridiculous with their social codes to follow. They restrict themselves in terms of intellectual capacity in a completely stupid way to appear socially acceptable because the norm prefers a dumb athlete to a brilliant intellectual. That's why most people prefer athletes like soccer players or basketball players to Gregori Perelman, who solved Poincaré's conjecture. This whole circus is completely ridiculous. People make fun of their neighbors when they themselves are stupid, but to reassure themselves, they say that others are stupid and criticize us because we are not “within the norm.” We do not accept the social contract imposed by popular dogma, which wants us to we criticize to reassure ourselves without accumulating knowledge. Also, do people really compare their time spent on TikTok or Instagram to the knowledge in books, articles, and other sources before criticizing others? Maybe we should look in the mirror and accept that we are trash in order to change and follow a virtuous path that respects others. That's why we're here discussing this: we need to create a close-knit community and distance ourselves from the idiots who criticize us, keeping only those who understand us.And besides, it's not AI that's going to save these idiots. They need to rediscover what it means to read books, to dream, and to use their brains.
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 No.228991

>>228986
Because back in 1930s the cases of autism were ruled out to be a form of early presented schizophrenia

Only in late 1940s, *they* realised a rather peculiar form of weirdness among kids, that goes without hallucinations
DOESN'T REALLY ALIGN WITH
the mental illness that comes in many types yet is known for causing hallucinations, "voices in your head", and alike.

 No.228992

>>227831
>Personally, I'd rather go online to investigate the Epstein case than have

The 1990s "•f•r•i•e•n•d•s•" staple of topics to discuss is long gone from being hot, mate

Basically, the "we should fix the society somehow" motto is already enough to make friends. It used to be the case in 2000s Russia, in a sense.

 No.228993

>>228990
I'm talking about multiple characteristic behaviours and traits on the same person, not only a few.

 No.229013

>>228993
Multiple? Heh. Zero, despite being an even number, is not a natural number.

 No.229120

If you feel your efforts aren't being rewarded as much as you think you deserve, then perhaps try something else. Intelligence isn't the only skill you can cultivate; there are plenty of other things you can do.
Life is long you have plenty of time to learn and experience lot of different stuff, it would be sad to limit yourself to just one thing for some reason.


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 No.8728[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Just a random general where you can post and discus whatever music stuff that doesn't quite fit into another existing thread, but you don't feel like making whole thread for it.
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 No.10933

Let me tell you how it go in here, boy it's kinda cold in here, you ain't got nobody make a stove in here

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 No.70742[Reply]

Hello Wizards,

In this thread we talk about Formula 1. I got into it this season, curious if anyone follows it.

Who is your favorite driver? What do you think of the current season?
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 No.70749

>>70748
The FiA will always put profit first before the competition, that's nothing new. My hope is that the switch to V8 engines by 2030 will shake things up a bit. And that Max Verstappen drops Red Bull.

 No.70773

I watched the first race of this season and have had zero desire to watch any more. The new aero regs are interesting, but the current hybrid powertrain setup leads to bullshit yo-yo overtaking where drivers are just swapping positions based on battery charge. The FIA think that viewers will be impressed solely by the sheer quantity of overtakes, and unfortunately they seem to be correct based on the number of fans defending the current regulations.

>>70749
It would be interesting to see Verstappen at another team, but I'm not sure who could take him. The other top teams already have solid driver lineups, and Verstappen would only leave RBR for a better car so I don't see him going for the midfield teams.

 No.70786

>>70773
I've never thought about it that way, but it makes sense. But I don't think I've ever seen anyone defending ERS superclipping. They should make the engine/battery split at least 60/40. I'm personally liking this season, but maybe that's because I'm new.

I had heard a rumor that Max was going to make the switch to Mercedes, since his contract permits him to switch teams next year, but now that I dwelled on it more it seems very improbable that a better team would take him in.

 No.70791

>>70786
The ICE/electric split being 50/50 would be fine if the cars had an additional source of battery recharge. IIRC, the current situation is the result of the FIA dropping the MGU-H to entice Audi to join in (since Audi would be at a disadvantage compared to the existing teams and manufacturers in developing that tech), then the existing teams torpedoing front axle regen (because Audi have a lot of experience with that tech from endurance racing). So now the MGU-K is doing all of the recharging, hence the super clipping. To be fair, apparently they made some reg changes a few races ago that improved the situation, but I haven't watched any of the recent races myself to compare.

 No.70815

>>70773
>I watched the first race of this season and have had zero desire to watch any more.
If you don't find something stimulating you should stop watching it.


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 No.229116[Reply]

how do you feel about aging alone? no children, no wife, no family, minimum pension.

 No.229117

Hopefully I'm gone before the time comes, even if by suicide, life is unnecessarily long for what it's worth and if it's already gotten dull from a young age the more unbearable it will become. I do wonder how the other gen-z will go about it, they are the first generation of people that overwhelmingly won't have children either because of choice or impossibility, politics change fast so you might see mandatory euthanasia for those who are not wealthy enough just so that the government can save money on taxes, or retirement age increased to 85. Maybe in the 2050s those living in the West and China who are deemed a bit too old will be forced to fight in the 100% spontaneous and unplanned war for the independence of Taiwan.


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 No.307994[Reply]

The day of Armageddon has inched towards me in just 2 hours. I completed a worthless degree in IT, by completed, I mean gave the final exams of the final semester just 2 hours ago, and I returned home, which is in a third world country. And the results are as I expected, as a matter of fact, when I came back I could literally feel the tension inside my house mounting.

I was expecting one day or another, for this to happen but it's surreal how quickly it has happened, my parents had a massively heated argument with me, and honestly, it took me a few years back when my parents used to abuse the hell out of me, I can for some reason, literally feel the terror of abuse in the lower half of my spine and in my kidneys.

The question is obvious, which is what will I do next? Because I am about to graduate completely unemployed, in this little third world country, and of course the parents aren't happy, as it is in the nature of everyone maybe mine as well to be pissed seeing a man wake up at 9AM and ask for breakfast, and take it back to the Air Conditioned room, the resentment is off the charts for obvious reason of what my parents would consider "stealing" from them because I am not paying back in any meaningful labour, seems like I will have to wake up at 6AM in the morning tomorrow and not use Air Conditioner at all.

It was honestly, a massive argument, I just few hours ago got back to my house from a scorching 42C temperature and now I am being cooked internally. At this point, I have started to prepare for the worst, any day in "my" house could be my last, I am trying to gather all the IDs, gather all the documents for eventual kick, and a kick in a country like this is extremely close to death. Certainly slightly different from other countries where you can live in your car, given that in this country the car ownership rate is 8%. So there goes living in a Honda Fit out of the Window.

I must get a job, I have tried getting a job online, from microtasks, to annotation for OneForma, to trying to act like an agent for PornStars online, to chat on their behalf, and I have earned no more and no less than 0 in any currency of this planet. The jig is coming to an end. While I am not familiar with the thoughts of life in the Christian Theology because I wasn't born in a Christian Family, but my Judgement, rather Execution is near. Fuck me. There is very real chance that I will have to take a permanent dip into a Holy River. I meaPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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 No.308116

>>308107
What happened with Sri Lanka is that the IMF and World Bank rushed in and gave them gibs to restart their agricultural industry in a more free-market fashion. I think it was something like a 5 billion dollar grant, which also allowed Sri Lanka to leverage itself with more debt and get the ball rolling again. In exchange for that, the votebank shit of farmers just voting for gibs was made to stop, but there's a lot of pressure there to return to the old ways of unsustainable subsidies.

>>308112
There's two parts of British rule, the EIC and direct crown rule. From what I understand (my knowledge of this part is more patchy) is that the EIC was on its way to becoming a typical extractive empire, utilizing the same mercenary castes to maintain its rule, and playing divide and conquer. They gained power initially by offering a less-corrupt alternative to the Mughals, and Indians themselves turned to them, it was a bottom-up selection choice in a lot of ways. After the ball got rolling and they blobbed over the sub-continent, they started to utilize the same dirty tactics the Mughals once used. It started to embarrass the British crown and lead to PR issues when some of these renegade mercenary castes took it too far and started looting Indian cities.

British crown rule was very expensive for the British, but was managed like a standardized administrative Empire. The actual British Raj people generally have in mind only really came into existence for the last 70 years of colonial rule, it was a relatively short period of time. They tried in the 1930s to squeeze a profit out of their colonies and do what the Marxists have always accused them of doing, applying protectionism and locking their entire empire into a common market. It just didn't really work and they were still haemorrhaging money. The entire reason the British fucked off in the 1940s with barely a fight is because exponential population growth in India made the situation financially and logistically untenable.

I do think the British are responsible for formalizing caste in a way that didn't help anyone, and institutionalizing it. It was done for two reasons. The first was that they asked the local powers how caste worked, and the people in charge at the time gave the most aPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

 No.308125

>>308116
>They tried in the 1930s to squeeze a profit out of their colonies and do what the Marxists have always accused them of doing, applying protectionism and locking their entire empire into a common market. It just didn't really work and they were still haemorrhaging money.
This is where I will disagree with you, Britain, as much as I respect the country and it's people, they are not the kind of country to give away a single sterling in charity. There is so much literature on this online, in books both British and Indian, the country was for most part the Crown Jewel of Britain, apart from last two years, which thanks to the war were an anomaly and bankrupted Britain, and even in that war which was not ours or concerned us in anyways we paid with our treasury of money and paid in blood for which we got nothing in return and nobody remembers us for that and in a war that was not ours to begin with. India was throughly a major asset for them, and they milked it well. It's not a romantic time for us.
>It's their kids that are the worst for this behavior
Damn, that surprises me a lot, I know a few of them, and almost all of them detest India. And not only that all succubi date out, I don't think men will date out, because the blackpill dictates that being an Indian is as bad as being a 5'3 male in the dating market. And in both Indian Men and succubi born there, I have heard nothing from them except disdain for India and even greater disdain for newly arriving people, they call them fobbies or fobs or something. This is surprising. But then again as I set it doesn't interest me much what goes on there, because I mean, once you change the country, and you have kids there, those kids as far as I am concerned are Americans and in their eyes we're backward people responsible for ruining their reputation and for the racism they face.

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>>308125
>This is where I will disagree with you, Britain, as much as I respect the country and it's people, they are not the kind of country to give away a single sterling in charity.

You could be correct on this part. I have read a little on the British Raj but not too much, and most of the sources I have are right wing Austrian economics perspectives and /pol/tard chuddery. The idea mainly being the opportunity cost for the British and that the money spent on colonialism could've been invested elsewhere and generated a similar or better return. Although for what it's worth I think colonialism in India was a massive mistake either way, and I wish the British were never involved there.

But even many of the academics that are critical of the marxist claims that colonial Europe looted the third world carve out a slight exception for India. Many of the more mainstream books I've read on the 19th century second wave of European colonialism talk about how India was strangely an exception to the moneysink thesis. The book "Oxford University's Short History of the 19th century" (pic related) had an assortment of academics all saying "yeah the British Raj was profitable, a few east indies territories were profitable, the rest really weren't". Africa absolutely was a moneysink and there's so many cabinet meetings government officials in Germany and France held talking about it. The German government wanted their own version of the East India company for Africa, so they could offload the colonies onto them, but no private investor was willing to get involved.

>Damn, that surprises me a lot, I know a few of them, and almost all of them detest India.

I can't mindread but I guess they just have a diaspora identity and feel they don't belong. Maybe it's their way of pushing back against or coping with the increasing racism and they don't really believe it? And I don't know man, people genuinely get along better than you read online. I'm an older guy that went to school when there was just one token pakistani guy and one token sikh succubus, and now it's like 15% of my city is indian. If there's a group of four or five teens doing something after school downtown, it's common for an indian to be in the group. The online talk about it only being succubi and the men being sexless virPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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>>308126
>What do I know though, I'm a sexless virgin myself just judging friendship groups I see on the street. But yeah, it doesn't really impact you where you are.
I there's one thing that unites wizards here, I only used to read about relationships when I used to be an angry and rageful person back then who just discovered blackpill and terms like involuntary celibate but at this point, I think most of us are trying to accept or working towards living with our fate. Hopefully, though I hope Indians don't cause you much trouble but hey, I have lived in India since birth I know how truly horrendous the people from this country are, and I guess it was a mistake for Western Countries to accept so many immigrants from India, although still baffles me cause I thought it was very hard to immigrate.
>Anyways, thanks for replying to my excessive rambling. I hope things work out for you man.
No problem wiz-bro, if anything I quite enjoyed talking to you whether we saw eye to eye or not on things, but I am you know typical loner with no friends, no internet friends so it's always so nice to talk to you and other wizards like you on this forum, unless of course normies and co will try to shut this place down as well.

 No.308948

Fast fact.
There is "industrial grade equipment" that has its electronic components to be programmed. I don't know if you can code in UART or Ladder or have experience making flowcharts as part of visual programming, but here's the thing. Look for industrial stuff to programm. No StackOverflow, no neuroslop, it's supposed to behave flawlessly so they aren't going to let LLMs in *that* easy.

That's where your real degree in computers - once combined with your wizardry - comes in handy: you get trusted with "real" equipment and not some CSS/PHP/Java/'script let alone the non-language. Besides, industrial shit isnt prone to massive anti-hacker updates, unlike, say, Chrome.


Cheers and take it easy.


/wiz/

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 No.228138[Reply]

Stepped on the scale today and realized that despite the initial "push" from a medical crisis a year ago, I basically regained all weight I lost (minus 5-10kg).
I also realized I've been working for almost 3 years now, going to be 30 the same week I'll hit my 3 years of work too.
3 years… of wages wasted.

I don't even know what the fuck I spent most of it on. It just escapes me.
Still live with mom and all my necessities are taken care of she takes nothing from me.
I had a blessed opportunity these past 3 years to save up for the dogshit future that hit the world now and I wasted it on toys and basically indulging all I couldn't as a NEET with no money.
The worst is that since I'm an impulsive retard I mostly have nothing to show for it either.

Health is even more fucked then ever before since I never took action.
Rather every action that didn't prove fruitful or flat out failed resulted in my absolute surrender for another month or three or six…
Absolutely defeated at the starting line basically.

To get to the point of this thread. Those of you that live a decently structured, responsible and stable life, how?
I barely have a sense of time. Kinda like when I was a NEET, just instead of 12-16 hours of sleeping and then PC stuff I'm forced to work a rather easy, blessed job.
Once it passes I just feel like I'm teleported to the next shift until I get to sleep through a weekend and months pass.
Even chronic pains don't make me act much. What does one even do to live?

The worst part really is that so many years went down the drain and I really have nothing to show for it. Not even memories.
I want to at least look back on SOMETHING fondly when I'm dying someday.
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 No.229008

I think all those people you see doing "hard" or "boring" goals are still doing exactly what they want. It's just that their unique psychology is structured to make productive tasks coincide with their wants. Like the chad who grows up in a sports family and his father always talks about discipline or whatever. He builds up this model of physical hard work. He ends up becoming this fitness freak, again doing exactly what he wants.

Then there's wizards. they are doing what they want already. It just doesn't usually coincide with what a normie calls "productive." we are not machines. so you can't just be like: these goals i will achieve no matter what. in reality, you'll only do the things you really want. So like, people who lose weight… maybe they end up having others look down on them to such an extent that the desire to prove them wrong is greater than the desire to eat pizza. Still, doing what you want. I don't think human can really do anything outside of what they want. you need a reason that isn't bullshit. most people don't have any reason to do stuff so they just stagnate.

anyway, my reason is to hurt niggers, and thats what keeps me going.

 No.229009

>>229008
>I don't think human can really do anything outside of what they want. you need a reason that isn't bullshit.

being healthy isn't bullshit. your proud tradition of living outside of responsibility is though.

just think it through all the way and experience it once and you will know that being healthy is worth the price of admission. no pizza tastes as good as being healthy feels, no candy can come close to being thin and feeling light as a feather. the feeling of ability outshines every tasty treat that the factory can come up with.

you just live your life wrong and you will say everything not to look like the fool that you are behaving like. probably the advertisement that filled your brain with wrong images. like good-looking thin people eating garbage, that's one of the worst images that is clouding your perception because outside of advertisement, the unhealthy food is eaten by people who are visibly unhealthy and this would otherwise repel you if you weren't drip-fed lies by advertisement how there are healthy people eating trash. there aren't, those are actors.

 No.229026

>>229009
I agree with you but you have to understand people's psychology is different. like right now im working on multiple projects to hopefully make lots of $ again. i just lay in my bed all day doing research. i work from the time i get up to when i sleep. i dont have time to even cook properly so i just eat crap. my priorities are different to yours. id love to do fitness stuff but not everyone wants the same things. thats kind of what i was getting at with the op. you cant force your priorities. either you want to do something and you do it, or you don't. most fat people have other priorities over getting healthy even if they say they want to do it.

 No.229053

>>229026
>I agree with you but you have to understand people's psychology is different. like right now im working on multiple projects to hopefully make lots of $ again.

stupid reason but whatever

>i just lay in my bed all day doing research.

why you are lying in the bed though, a human body that is properly maintained will be more able to to research, how do you even type a keyboard when you are lying in bed, aren't your arms in all the wrong places?

>i work from the time i get up to when i sleep. i dont have time to even cook properly so i just eat crap.

you shouldn't cook food anyways. that's a modern invention that the body does better without. i only eat fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds and i don't cook, i just cut, blend and/or spice.

>my priorities are different to yours. id love to do fitness stuff but not everyone wants the same things.

yeah you want money because you think you can throw money at problems and you will believe that right until the point you understand that people want to tentacle you in monetary transactions.

>thats kind of what i was getting at with the op. you cant force your priorities. either you want to do something and you do it, or you don't.

i hope your research will someday lead you to the conclusion that your priorities are short sighted.
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So.
I've been working for several years already.
>>228138
… of wages wasted
In my case, those were my immediate relatives who would siphon my money. Cannot blame them too hard for that since there both on pension with no savings.
>health
>even
I saved my health in okay condition… by nagging my boss into buying me a useable armchair instead of my basic crappy chair.
My leg get fu…nky, though. I managed to deal with its funkinness by replacing my shoe soles with

A) orthopedic soles (foamed resin in my loafers/Oxford shoes)
B) orthopedic soles stickered to my basic leather soles from said Oxford shoes (makes wonders in sneakers)
C) fixed my bicycle

>on toys and basically indulging
Huh. Been there too. However, now I have cyber toys that can be used as my sleep improvers.

>how to become more functional
We somewhat managed to patch up our home(s), using my money. I replaced a lot of old "quality stuff" with some decent basic stuff that would fit the season. I also got a lot of broken stuff fixed or maintained.

So here we are. No savings, because I really needed to fix a lot of issues that kept me down in the first place


/hob/

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 No.66929[Reply]

Post rare/interesting pdfs

Does anyone else have a huge library of pdfs that they have collected over the years?
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>>70117
I'm trying to find testimonies of hikikomori but can't find

 No.70124

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>>66929
I like pdfs

 No.70734

Does anyone have the cookbook some wizard posted ages ago?

 No.70812

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>>70734

 No.70813

File: 1783270735938-0.pdf (2.08 MB, alone forever.pdf)

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>>69750
Not exactly that but similar enough maybe.


/dep/

 No.307554[Reply]

another day another computer broken, no matter how hard i try i cant stop my explosive anger issues. im tired of how angry I get, it keeps me from enjoying things in life and forces me to avoid things I should enjoy. once the dust settles in, guilt crawls onto me. the cycle never stops. for the life of me I want this anger to stop, it keeps sabotaging things i enjoy.
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 No.308935

>>308406
Do you mean that angry outbursts can lead to heart problems

 No.308936

you will need to hate it, and hate it for many years before you can really stop. a good reality check is often helpful too. I won't go into much detail but I had similar issues as you are describing, I narrowly dodged a 10 year prison sentence and every since I've been a lot better, not perfect, not even good just a lot better

 No.308938

I like the adrenaline boost when I get angry

 No.308946

>>307554
OP *probably* could use a punching mannequin to beat / 2practice_fighting_skillz@get_exhausted@relax_a_bit

 No.308947

>>307554
What triggers your anger? There has to be a cause.


/hob/

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 No.68295[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Book discussion. Tell us what you're reading.
Previous threads:
>>64932
>>60032
>>54504
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 No.70714

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>>70713
Well, holy shit, pardon my French. I didn't expect a response, and certainly not one just minutes later. Nice, thanks for that.

Let's give it a couple of days so more wizzies can see this post. Meanwhile, I'll be putting together the spreadsheet with the chapters and dates so we can all follow along. I'm already looking forward to it.

HEY EVERYONE. WE HERE AT THE WIZBOOKCLUB DO BE READING THE PASTEL CITY, STARTING IN A COUPLE OF DAYS. DON'T MISS OUT! JOIN NOW!

Check this thread if you want to know how it works. We did it with A Canticle for Leibowitz. It's quite simple: I post a spreadsheet with the reading schedule, and we all follow along. We talk about the book, but you don't have to post if you don't want to. Let's have some fun.

 No.70715

>>70712
>>70713
>>70714
The Leibowitz readalong was just the guy suggesting it and me so it was not much of a book club. Are you the Leibowitz guy? I thought you hated the readalong from your posting tone because it was awkward with just two people. I'll probably join another readalong though because I like that it gave me a routine.

>do we wait until more wizards show up?
This place is dead but I think the reason you missed the readalong was because we were posting in the general reading thread. Maybe if we make new thread with eye-catching picture and kept it bump to the top of /all/ everyday you'd get one extra wizard.

 No.70717

>>70715
Yup that's me. I didn't hate it at all, it was a nice experience. I had tried before with another book but nobody showed up. Leibowitz was a success as far as I see it.

Well if you guys want a thread just for The Pastel City I'll do it. We'll start this week. Maybe more people will join.

 No.70795

>>70715
>this place is dead
Unlike /dep/, he-he

 No.70810

finished reading 'à rebours' from Huysmans. the book is about a rich guy who lives alone with it's maids and butlers and hens basically a NEET and has a lot of intellectual ramblings but hens also sick. doctors say because he's a reclusive lifestyle and what he needs is to go out like normalfags do but he don't want to and at the end he must go and interact with other people
I was lost when I read the beggining but the ending chapters were more understandable. it's a ok book. I think it would belong to wizard core books with NHK


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/wiz/

 No.229036[Reply]

This is basically most potent weapon against saturn worshippers, especially succubi (the jew of the gender), jew (the succubi of the races), and shabbos goyim (normieniggers in general). None of their magic will work, on the contrary the powers of the natural world will be yours to utilize. Meme magic is one iteration. Ascend more, and the light of God Himself will be yours.


If you read about monks, they are basically IRL wuxia cultivator.
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 No.229081

>>229080
So what? Should we talk about Friends, Taylor Swift, nigger music, Marvel movies and TikTok dances just because they're mainstream? Ebonics have been popular among the wiggerfied normgroid population for a while now and yet you won't catch any self-respecting person with a three digit IQ talking like that.

 No.229082

Maxxmaxxing XD

 No.229085

>>229079
>>229080
>>229082
The original less retarded term is minmaxing.

 No.229086

>>229081
Aryanmaxxing oldcel

 No.229107

magic doesn't exist


/wiz/

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 No.229061[Reply]

Kotava (artifical auxiliar language) is the best for wizards. This language is ultra-neutral (there is no similarity to natural or artificial languages) and it sounds magical or from another reality. I even added the Shavian alphabet to make it more interesting.
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https://www.kotava.org/index.php
https://kotava.org/ravlemak/ravlemak.php?
https://www.shavian.info/alphabet/

 No.229106

sounds cool


/hob/

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 No.70652[Reply]

A slightly unusual hobby for a wizardly man, but I've always had an attraction to it.

What I like about it is the extremely large variety of tricks that can be learned. It's like the Path of Exile skill tree in the sense you can pick a direction and learn that way. You can build up your foundations, or you can go the straight and narrow all the way to learning your favorite trick. The large variety of tricks also mean there are a ton of easier ones to learn, and learning these tricks provides such a strong feeling of accomplishment.

Cruising is very nice too, I intent to get a bigger old school board with soft(?) wheels for nice and easy transport.

The art on skateboards is also quite nice, there's something for everyone. Also you can buy blanks and draw on it yourself. I think the level of creativity in all aspects of this hobby is so amazing.

All things skating related welcomed, I'll try my best to answer with great care to everyone.

Thank you for participating
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 No.70675

I remember playing these skating games on GBC/GBA as a kid. They were fun.

 No.70683

>every kid on my block has a solid skateboard that glides effortlessly.
>everytime I get a skateboard it wobbles like crazy and stops after 3 meters.
what fucking parameters am I picking wrong? Is $80 for a board just something I should expect?

 No.70684

>>70683
Maybe it's your stance. Your body should weight more on the front. Try to bend your knees.

Maybe it's the trucks that need to be tightened.

 No.70803

>>70683
Wheel hardness might play a role. it ranges from like 73A(soft)~103A(hard). softer wheels are way smoother and designed for rough concrete, will still go well on smooth. Hard wheels will slow you right down on bumpy concrete. Also good bearings, most branded types are good. reds or bronsons are the cheaper good ones where I live. If those aren't issues for you perhaps the board hasn't been assembled correctly? Sometimes people tighten the wheels on way too tight and its like you have disc brakes constantly on.

 No.70809

>>70803
0_0

A wizard of skating, what a world


/hob/

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 No.65927[Reply]

Here we discuss and speak of dreams that we had or the kind of dream that we would want.
We don't discuss of lucid dreaming.
I wanted to make this kind of thread as i do control them in how they will work but once inside i let the dream go and work his own doing.
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 No.70577

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>>65927
I once had a dream i fucked you mama

 No.70688

Sometimes, I dream about cheese…

 No.70731

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>>70577
pff pff pff

but i would never ever ever ever hire one

 No.70802

I often dream of flight. I have big wings, like an archangel from Heroes of Might and Magic 3.
It feels so realistic. I feel wind on my face, humidity of clouds. Just soaring high and then resting a bit in high places just to continue on.
And then I wake up. No wings. Feel bad man.

 No.70804

I've mostly been dreaming about work


/wiz/

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 No.229038[Reply]

Have you been neglected in you yearly childhood too? I've come across pic rel some time ago by accident and scrolling to this pic made me think I was actually fundamentally broken not by aspergers which wasn't actually that bad but rather by being neglected by mom which didn't even want to hold me when I was crying or talk on difficult subjects. Every stage presented does so perfectly wrap up all my developmental disorders it makes me feel like this framework was made just for people like me (except last 2 cause I'm too young to experience maturity and middle adulthood). Maybe some anon would consider it interesting. I've been to therapy actually and it helped me a lot but I lost my job and I don't have any money left, I'm just neeting at parents place

https://www.verywellmind.com/erik-eriksons-stages-of-psychosocial-development-2795740
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 No.229090

>>229049
In the 19th century teenagers married, started families, became medical doctors and naval officers, cooperated in various scientific and technological breakthroughs, worked alone in factories or as servants, practiced religion.
Compare this to the current average confused twenty-something and you see this isn't really true

 No.229091

>>229090
>Compare this to the current average confused twenty-something and you see this isn't really true
You are really overestimating the confidence of the average 19th century young adult. People were not confident, they were forced. Even Nietzsche was lamenting how german education forced young people to choose one career for life too early in life when they are still clueless (he was talking about early 20 somethings!). In that respect we haven't changed the least. We just have more room to wiggle in since college is easier to get into and is now adult daycare.

>cooperated in various scientific and technological breakthroughs
You're probably thinking about post-war US. The 19th century name-of-the-game was humanist academia (history, philosophy, philology..).

 No.229092

>>229090
You could also make a good case that the majority of people were confronted with non-artificial necessity at a much earlier age.

 No.229104

>>229091
I dont think you really have an argument, 19th century people definitely lived their lives quickly and efficiently, lots of people don't even live this trajectory in the 21st century but live this extended childhood (compared to back then)
>>229092
homeownership, quality of food and immaterial things like sense of community were better back then, all we have is tech and less rigid morals/ less strict social hierarchy

 No.229105

because in 19th century there were things to be done, in 21th century all western manufacturing is done by jeets and chinamen, so westerners just turned into a civilization of manbabies.


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