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 No.322725[Reply]

i've seen a few wizards who don't seem healthy.

is too bad because being healthy is easy once you know what matters.
the practice of being healthy i have reduced to managing of habits:

you constantly manage your habits. you find out what they are by doing the opposite of being in autopilot. manual flight. then you imagine the long term consequences of each habit. then you decide if you want those, the development of a desired state. keep the desirable habits, reduce all those you don't want through constant attention on your habits.

as you do this you might stumble upon ways to improve upon the desirable habits. this is almost already doing the next thing, which is finding good new habits to practice and slowly wondering when you have time to do them.

it is up to you to be healthy, it is an option, you can make this happen if you so choose. health is one choice away.
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 No.324511

I like to go out for a run about four times a week if it isn't raining out there. Sometimes, I can only run two or three times a week. It's better to run in the morning since after doing it you can see the whole day in front of you, it's like it expands

 No.324524

>>324511
>I like to go out for a run about four times a week if it isn't raining out there. Sometimes, I can only run two or three times a week.

that's amazing. currently i am not really running but doing 2 or more 30-60min walks per day but what you do i believe to be even better because when you go fora run you sweat more.

>It's better to run in the morning since after doing it you can see the whole day in front of you, it's like it expands

yeah i have noticed the same thing, when i exhaust myself a bit early in the day, i can make way better use of the day. i am in the process of slowly adjusting myself to getting up earlier to around 7am after being a nightowl for many years, i believe this helps too because the human body is somewhat of a plant and benefits from being exposed to natural sunlight. life at night is possible but i believe humans are meant to be up during the daylight to get sunshine on the skin.

 No.324711

>>324451
i wish the dude in your picture had a more pure approach because the costumes and theatrics are cheapening the genuine ability this dude bothered to cultivate. it looks so silly and childish but the discipline necessary to become able to do the physical feats would have been impressive to me otherwise. i suspect this is done to appeal to females who are too brainwashed into relating to the bright advertisement world to care about anything that isn't obvious.

 No.324790

>>323821
Noted: a blender (usb-c portable variant) > alle.

 No.324800

>>324790
>Noted: a blender (usb-c portable variant) > alle.

other ones looked so small so i think i found a nice one … until the battery becomes weak and then i am hoping i can change it. no idea what the battery inside looks like.

i think aldi sold one once and i regret not buying it but it was probably also a small one.

i am happy to report i did use it to drink so much lemon and banana smoothie that i effortlessly reached this state of always feeling cold, which i only managed to reach through many days of eating nothing and only drinking self-made fruit juice. was unpleasant because it was winter where i was. this cooling of the body is so pleasant in the summer.


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 No.226320[Reply]

What do you guys think of Prison Planet Theory ?

Some people are so fed up with suffering on earth, so they came up with this theory to cope with reality
personally I think it kind of overlaps with the wizards philosophy

there is even a subreddit dedicated to it
https://www.reddit.com/r/EscapingPrisonPlanet/
and people seriously thinks they are prisoner in this planet
and thats their energy is being harvested by aliens
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 No.228347

>>226320
>Prison Planet Theory
Gnostic ideas reworked, right?
like the old Marxist with some things they want to explain around material things without too much proof…
Sometimes i belive Matrix films and UFO things just gave more ideas to these schizos, but still sound fun and that's matter.

 No.228354

it's more like a farm than a prison

 No.229193

>>228354
what if both

 No.229194

>>228354
>>229193
who would be the farmer and who is the warden then?

cus >>228057
it's more than just socio-economic prison. Human culture probably just mimics the same mechanism. But consciousness itself is inside the prison of existence like >>228346 says

Trying to comprehend the cosmic horror that immaterial ghost would feel is kind of overwhelming…

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>>229194
There is no alien farmer. Only elite human ones. If you're not the one earning $500m+ a year through dividends and ownership, you're the one being farmed.

If your ancestral home of 400 years isn't a 3000m2 castle with English gardens, you're the one being farmed.

If you have to work 8 hours a day to evade homelessness, you guessed it.

And nearly every fucking human alive on this planet is being farmed by said Rothschilds, Habsburgs, Grosvenors and Medici descendants and their cadet branches.

Most prisoners have to accept working for $1-10 an hour or face starving to death.


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 No.227944[Reply]

wizards, this is a truly important question. how do you tell your mom, or anyone else for that matter, that you are really not interested in whatever female they think you should "befriend"?

i know you're going to troll me, but i still kindly ask you to find a second and think about what could be the *optimal* solution. the solution that doesn't burn bridges, doesn't create bitter enemies and yet lets you maintain the high ground. i know this is not fully achievable, but there gotta be an algorithm or something.

my brain just crashes in such situations. it's like "idk wtf are you're even talking about???" i need help
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 No.228962

>>228961
All animals do and humans are animals

 No.229175

I'm lucky that I've never had to deal with this to a large degree.

The closest thing I have had to deal with is an uncle asking about succubi and girlfriends. I just said that succubi were expensive and I liked saving.

Being a miser is more acceptable than beiny a misogynist. Just say you are a traditional guy that thinks you should take care of a succubus, but you aren't at a point in life to do so or something.

Just keep making excuses and pushing it back until the interested parties feel their interest die, die themselves, or you die.

 No.229190

>>229175
Nobody truly cares, it's just a primitive status test. Once you fail it enough times they just label you as low status subconsciously and stop asking.

 No.229196

>>229190
He should just be honest and say he's too poor to ever be in a relationship

 No.229197

>>229196
More of a looks and personality thing than a money thing. My dad was an absolute normie sexhaver with 6+ kids, only one of which was my full sibling. All the moms are infinitely richer than him. He even went to prison for 3 years.

I don't understand why I had to draw the genetic short straw with autism from my moms grandfathers side. My half siblings also all have kids by now while I'm a virgin at 35.


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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.
How would this affect the world or evPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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 No.324662

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>>324657
I find it more likely that the government would force succubi to have children through artificial insemination and then ask the male population that does all the useful work to foot the bill for the single mothers, a child with a father figure is someone who won't depend on the government and elites don't want that.

 No.324665

people aren't reproducing in first world countries
while the government has a lot of power forcing people to reproduce against their will seems very unlikely if not impossible to me

 No.324668

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>>324662
It's honestly incredible that this advertisement is real and actually existed. Stunning and brave even

 No.324791

>>324668
I can't help but think the white pair of lips belongs to a gal while the black pair of lips belong to, well, a male.

 No.324797

>>324791
Mutt's law


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 No.8907[Reply]

Post soothing or calming BGM tracks from visual novels. It may have tones of joy or melancholy.
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 No.10945

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>>10943
I'll post MP3
From Tomoyo after

 No.10948

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Anonymous;Code

 No.10949

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 No.10967

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Z.A.T.O.

 No.10968

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From The NOexistenceN of you AND me


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 No.324786[Reply]

I've been seeing this stated over and over again where people are saying large swaths of the kids these days are literally illiterate. Do you buy this? Is it really that bad?

If it is, what do you think will be the implications for future life? Are we wizards actually going to be better off simply because we are literate, or will that not even matter anymore because AI will now do all the thinking for society? I feel like people of all generations are becoming even more like cattle just being herded around by the tech companies these days. Are the zoom zooms and alphas their final product? A permanent underclass for the elites to exploit and rape? Really if people can't even read anymore, I shudder to think what might happen.

 No.324787

Nonsense. Literacy in developed countries continues to be 99% or higher and the world at large is quickly becoming more literate. Globally, literacy is almost at 90%.
https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/2025/Goal-04/

 No.324788

Zoomzooms are much more politically and socially aware than the boomercattle who spent all their lives watching television. The real problem is not that kids don't read, but that tiktok and other social media is frying their brains. There will be an underclass for the elites to exploit but that underclass will be created by mongrelizing and replacing whites with browns. The future West will be a close copy of China, maybe to a lesser degree in the USA since their Constitution still grants them actual human rights. Social engineering by tech companies was always limited by the freedom of the Internet but that's why governments worldwide are just stepping in to ban VPNs, wrongthink and anything against their agenda. I must say though, this doesn't really apply to females, who already are extremely easy to herd.

 No.324789

>>324788
Good point. Oh, that explains the fearmongering regarding this or that kind of surveillance "already here", "it's literally 1984 now", "Palantir" meme and such.

 No.324793

>>324789
Did you really miss the part where they just rolled out mass surveillance with ring and flock cameras? They are everywhere now. We literally already have China style mass surveillance.

 No.324795

>>324786
Everybody, zoomer boomer whomever, doesn't read anymore. Newspaper, magazine and slop novels were the Tiktok of old. People read newspapers outside in the train and park as a some form proto-doomscrolling. When affordable TV came, most people ditch reading for the new shiny brain distractor. When the internet and smartphone came, people switch even faster. Now nobody is reading anymore and its not just the zoomers.


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 No.308343[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

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

Previous: >>307210
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 No.308992

>>308989
I don't think so, I see people outside leading active lives.

 No.308994

>>308992
some are lucky, yeah

 No.309004

>>308991
Contra intuitive but true.

 No.309007

>>308990
I finally hate the world more than I hate myself and my urge to an hero went away (for the most part).

 No.309012

My libido reached an all time low due to magnesium supplements, like i force myself to goon to porn once a week yet i still fucking hate it. think i'm gonna quit for good and just jerk off without it if the need arises. Also i think this shit is just poison for your soul and mental wellbeing.


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 No.314169[Reply]

we write a book paragraph by paragraph.
I'll begin.

>CHAPTER 1
I woke up in my dream…or I fell asleep in reality. I don't remember it anymore but my eyes were wide open. In fact, I didn't really know because it was dark, I didn't know if my eyes were closed or open. To find out if I was awake, I decided to get up. In this dark, dark room, I realized where I was. Now it all comes back to mind, I remember, unfortunately…
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 No.322318

>>322316
selffix

- "A site for (/_/17U23|) h4><><orz doesn't need "rules", - I thought. My old "rebel without cause" self was telling me to avoid checking the clearly visible "ru13s" button of the site.
- "In modern terms, a button for rules of the site could have been a honeypot…"

To my surprise, I suddenly heard my own voice going all boomer:

- "Bak in mah days, "rulez" had a very different meaning".

 No.322345

>>322316
>>322318
"How far back are you talking about here?" chirped the cassowary.

I felt a lump in my throat form—coagulated from pure nostalgia—and replied "Too long, man… too long."

"Well, I don't exactly know what you are referring to by 'rulez', but check them out, they'll be useful for you."

"I think I prefer to do things my own way." Wow, I can't believe I said that. I could notice the intensity of my heartbeats increasing, but not following rules rulez.

"Look, I was assigned to guide you, but I'm not some babysitter. Tell me when you give up."

Fucking bird brain. You think I can't crack this site? I'll have you know I've…umm…well, I've made a few scripts and designed my myspa—wait, why the hell was I chosen for this?

I defiantly chose not to reply and continued frantically rushing through pages and trying to interact with every element. As my desperation began to grow, that toilet roll's presence began to irritate me. Just the same animation again and again, making that stupid face, at the exact same pace. Hold on. That time it took a bit longer. It isn't a basic loop, the two states mean something deeper—1s and 0s! It can't just be 10101.. though, maybe the length determines the length of how many times a binary digit will repeat before it alternates.

I opened up a spreadsheet, a Wikipedia page for ASCII representation and started to track the times.

"You're still trying?"

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 No.322358

>>322345
Sounds like a good ay to startt chaper 2

Or chapter 0 with a negative count of pages (into -1, -2, -3, -4 and so on).

 No.322368

>>322358
Yeah, I'd say so as well. As the writer of the spy and worm post, I want the next person to feel free to take this story in whatever direction they want and have fun coming up with a name for the cybernetic worm thing.

 No.324792

>>322345
Note.

The face puzzle could have been transmitted from *another site*.


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 No.229116[Reply]

how do you feel about aging alone? no children, no wife, no family, minimum pension.
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 No.229183

>>229182
Who are you betraying here?

 No.229185

>>229183
Anyone who antagonizes hell. Humanity itself. All the cute loli who don't want to be raped by hell demons with fat red cocks.

 No.229186

>>229185
What made them your allies to begin with?
I don't get the sense of comradery just because we are all in hell. Not to mention the heat doesn't seem all that bad for lot of my "fellow humans".

 No.229191

>>229182
How many kids do you have?

 No.229192

>>229191
This is what I wanted to ask him too, but I didn't want to be an ass.
Thanks for doing it instead lmao


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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.70845

>>70844
I frankly don't really get that chemosit explanation either. So they wanna kill all the time and they don't really care who they are killing so long as they get to take brains. But they are smart enough to be integrated into an army (Moidart was marching south for a few weeks at least, plus they were probably just sitting around gathering the army for a while, are you telling me they just sacrificed Northmen to the chemosit on the daily to keep them from going off the rails?). So there's some kind of control mechanism but it only works so long as you have something to aim them towards I guess and so long the chemosit think they are moving towards that they won't kill whoever is controlling them? But then what keeps Moidart from just inventing a new enemy once the southeners are dead or conquered and have the chemosit go on an endless goose-chase to keep them busy?
And yeah, the whole reason why they have to extract brains seems far fetched as well. He probably came up with the concept of brain eaters first and just wanted to keep it in the book even if he couldn't come up with a convincing explanation why. Frankly, they could've just left it open to interpretation. The chemosit are eldritch old tech that nobody truly understands, Cellur's memories don't reach back that far. Simply say they are gathering or doing somthing with the brains but nobody knows what. That would be better imo.

 No.70846

>>70844
I praised the author's descriptive writing on the natural landscape before but it's really getting old. It's just all weird geological terms or plant names. This is at least the second time where he describe the landscape in terms of how it was formed through erosions and streams or whatever. Was he a high school geography teacher or something?

As for the geteit chemosit, you're right that it didn't make sense but I have a prejudice of very old (70s and before) sci-fi to be very loose with logical worldbuilding and just see technology the same way as magic. I think it may be a symbolic feature. Like if leaving the brains lets you live again and someone is cruel enough to go out of their way to destroy your brain that is extra petty evilness. It's like destroying the soul so you can't reincarnate or go to heaven. It's probably just to paint the chemosit as more evil and inhuman. The way the chemosit was programmed to be unstoppable in killing reminds me of how A Canticle for Leibowitz treat nuclear weapons. Maybe they're the cause of the previous civilization's collapse too and now humans' folly and greed will cause them to repeat the same mistake just like in Leibowitz. I wonder if the author had an anti-war messaging in mind too when he thought of this.

 No.70850

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Chapter 09

The vibrations of the battle above died away. "We are beneath the estuary. It is the underside of the world, where the dead men lose their bones." They were forced to ride through a column of cold fire. They discovered these things: The white skeletons of a horse and its rider; a sword too big for any of them to lift; an immense web; the mummified body of a beautiful princess. Sounds that were not echoes followed them down the twisted corridors. "I could believe we are out of Time," said tegeus-Cromis.

Cellur has given them their final quest, and they are on their way. I feel like the novel could have used Cellur a lot more. Then again, he might be the type of character best used sparingly to maintain an air of mystery. Some plot points work much better when they are merely alluded to rather than shoved in your face.

We are heading into the final act now. How do you all like it so far?

>>70845
It seems like a weak red herring to me, your idea is certainly better. We'll see.

>>70846
I have been reading fantasy/scifi for a very long time and it's the rarest thing to have a writer that have something fresh to say after 200 pages of a story. That's why I prioritize plot over world-building. Get your idea in there and wrap it up ya know?

 No.70851

>>70850
> The white skeletons of a horse and its rider; a sword too big for any of them to lift; an immense web; the mummified body of a beautiful princess.
Yeah what was that about? A symbolism for how they could die in their mission I know, but why does Cellur have dead people in his tunnels? Is it even real and not a metaphor or something?

We are entering the last stretch now. RIP Cellur.

>How do you all like it so far?
Honestly much less interesting than Leibowitz. I don't feel a curiosity of what will happen next because it's easily predictable and simple. At least it's really fast paced.

 No.70852

>>70844
I might be wrong but the way I understood it is the chemosit weren't built specifically just to have something that can destroy people's brains, they were just the ultimate weapon in every respect, and incidentally had the function to destroy brains to deal with that technology that could revive soldiers. But yeah, I'm not sure why it looked like they were harvesting them instead of just destroying them…

>>70850
Sad to see all those birds get torn to shreds, and presumably Cellur himself will die as well in the end… so much lost knowledge.

>How do you all like it so far?
I don't care too much about illogical stuff and the like so I'm enjoying it a lot so far. It's gripping. I wonder what the mechanism to shut down the chemosit is… couldn't they just destroy the brain controlling them? Although perhaps it is too big for that and it would take too long.


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 No.308999[Reply]

Are there people here who don't have a job or don't get NEETbux and have to live with parents who are abusive and stupid as fuck but you just can't beat the crap out of them because you're dependent upon them?

 No.309000

yeah, i live with my mom. she has a decent pension that she inherited from my dad (she didn't work a day in her life) and she's really bad with money. buys way too much stuff and she's also the kind of dumb-arrogant where she never listens to advice, so she accrued a bunch credit card debt and just keeps digging the hole deeper. of course, if i dare criticize her, she just tells me to get a job because she can't possibly make ends meet. i never ask for anything and i just eat whatever she gives me, i'm very frugal and like security, having savings on the side and also very conscientious when it comes to debt. i constantly have to remind her about dates when the loan and credit payments are due and when the checks are cashed so she enough money in the account. the worst is when she gets crazy project ideas like wanting to renovate part of the house and you can't dissuade her from it because she's stubborn as fuck. she buys stupid shit she sees online, falls for every marketing trick in the book, supplements, special walking shoes, those stupid chinese box fans where you put water in and it has a tiny fan, we have like 3 of those.

my dad was also retarded with money. we were good the first week after payday and then not have money for food at the end of the month. when i was working, i saved more than half my paycheck and had a bunch of savings when i had became a NEET but she blew threw that in a year and thank god for the pension otherwise we'd have no income. i can't work cuz i'm mentally ill and i can't go outside or talk to people.

 No.309008

I highly advise you to wage slave or find some way to make enough money to buy a car to live in, specifically an EV. Living in a car is infinitely preferable to living with bad parents. It's even better than living with non-abusive parents.

Why an EV? Because it can provide A/C and/or heat when needed, and can supply power for stuff you will need. I have a toaster oven and an induction burner that I do all my cooking on and also use to heat up water for my showers which runs off of an inverter that I mounted under my hood. Some EVs have features built into them to provide AC power, but generally they are the more expensive ones so I use an inverter hooked up to the 12v battery which gets charged by a DC to DC converter from the main battery and supplies a little over 1000w continuous without draining the 12v battery. I also have a supplementary LFP battery and a solar panel to run my heated blanket and laptop.

There are still free chargers around in many places which can make living in it really cheap. I sleep in a tent on public land 90% of the time rather than in my car, but every once and a while when it's hot enough to need A/C having the EV be able to run it overnight is a godsend.

My only problem at the moment is that I haven't figured out a good source of income while living in the car so I have to come home to live with my parents periodically to wage slave for a while and I hate every second of living here even though my parents aren't nearly as bad as yours.

I did the "van life" thing for a while in a class B RV that had a shower and stove and everything and living in an EV is vastly better for many reasons, chief among them maintenance and fueling costs. It's like having a generator that is silent. Big upgrade despite the smaller size.

 No.309009

cutting off all contact with bad family is the best move

 No.309011

>>309000
Brutal man, do you get NEETbux in your country, I mean if you cannot work even if you want to then at that point you ought to be at least paid enough money to live a basic dignified life.
>>309008
You're right about EVs, they are extremely great in terms of value for money, and let me tell you what, it is literally my dream to buy a car, sadly I live in a country where ownership rate of cars is less than 9%, so you can probably guess what those cars are probably like.
>>309009
You're absolutely right but what do you do if you're born in a shithole where there is absolutely no way to survive if you don't have parents. I mean I will go as far as to say this, I want to see my father legitimately get hit by fucking lightning and thunder or slip from the edge of the cliff or something. That's how bad it has truly gotten tbh. It is a horrible thing to wish death upon someone but I truly do wish death upon him. He himself does nothing most of the day but keeps on living because my grandfather made a some money back in this day, and he keeps on living off of that, I truly wish that he dies so that I can have the money for myself. He is a massive faggot, he shouts, and berates me all the time to the point that I can literally feel terror in my nerves and a literal heavy feeling in my gut that persists for hours. For some reason stupid sons of bitches refuse to die, while good people die like flies on this planet.


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 No.64175[Reply]

anyone do this?

i burn discs, title them and then put them back on the spindle, so they stay in good condition

external hdds/sdd don't last very long
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 No.70710

I remember this seemed like a fun thing to do back in 2010.
However I can easily store my stuff on 512 gb microsd cards now.
Using discs to archive seems tedious and retrotechy to me

 No.70793

>>70710
>microsd cards


They're more susceptible to the "random bull" kind of errors compared to HDDs

3-2-1 rule, hope you use it

 No.70828

>>70793
okay

 No.70838

>>70699
i think this is bullshit. bd-rs are more durable than cd-rs

 No.70849

I think the fragility of storage media is highly overstated. I have cheap USB flash drives that are 15+ years old that still work perfectly fine. I have a Nintendo DS and a PSP that I bought back in the day, that still have uncorrupted save files and images/videos I put on the SD card.
A while ago I transferred over some photos from an old ass digicam just fine. I have harddrives that are 15 years old that still work. I have burned CD's and DVD's that are 20 years old that still read.
I don't use these things regularly and they're all essentially stored away, no doubt that has something to do with their longevity, but the point is that I managed to access the data when I needed to.
I'm not saying all of this will last forever (and I've transferred over the important stuff to newer harddrives) but there's this idea among certain people that anything except a gold-plated M-disc will die on you within 5 years which is a bit dramatic.


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 No.322610[Reply]

happy new year and all of that.

treat yourself to some sesame paste if you never head any. i regret learning about this so late, i can't help but want to warn others on not missing out on this goodness. it is just one ingredient crushed industrially into paste: sesame seeds.

when you buy it in the store it is separated and the separation is strong. when you stick a spoon in and try to stir, the bottom is so strong that the spoon can not stir. and you have to shake it and keep it in a shook state.

the sesame paste hides behind a bit of effort but the reward is worth the extra work.

the taste is amazing. mild and nutty. the nice thing about this is that it has a high fat content but it is not as impossible to digest as oil is. it still has it's fiber.

i use this to make sauces without oil. i just put tomatos and herbs into a blender and then i add a few tablespoons of this stuff and it turns into a nice creamy sauce but a sauce that the human organism has the chance to actually digest reasonably.

this stuff is so good, i wonder why it is not sold in regular supermarkets, i bother to go to the muslim markets just to get this goodness.
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 No.324106

>>324042
>not much? to me that is a lot. when you eat everything at once you never know, if you only eat the same you know after a few days.
this shouldn't be necessary in the first place, this situation where most of the food in the supermarket is toxic slop shouldn't be here in the first place
I believe food safety laws were invented in the 19th century because they started adding detergents to bread which killed people, same situation now basically

 No.324140

>>324106
>this shouldn't be necessary in the first place
i don't see the point of you arguing with reality. you either understand the nature of reality or you cling to what reality tries you to tell you it is even though you have eyes to see that this isn't true.

>this situation where most of the food in the supermarket is toxic slop shouldn't be here in the first place
yeah but since it is you better become expert supermarket navigator and understander of the human digestive system since the people who pretend to look out for you don't.

 No.324213

>>324140
I meant this is something which could be easily avoided with proper food safety laws.
All this disease and decline of public health, for what exactly?
I don't believe this is planned either, just sheer indifference and stupidity.

 No.324378

>>322614
>i've bought from more then 10 different brands so far and they all taste different but i never had one i did not like.

this is no longer true. i have tried all the brands again and tried one on vacation and now i can clearly tell that the majority of sesame paste aren't good,

the only good ones i know are:

>suntat
(this is the picture from the op, i always buy this)
>sera
(not pictured but as good if not better then the suntat; it costs 50% more unfortunately)

 No.324785

>>323889
>i think the last thing i am missing to begin doing it more is get a thermos that i like. i have a few that are too modern and colorful, i yearn for something plain and simple XD

i finally got 2 new stainless steel thermoses that i like, only took me a few months!

one small 500ml for 4€
one big 1000ml for 6€

now there is no excuse left, i can finally massproduce tee for myself and sip it throughout the day. first tea from actual herbs i made is an anti-parasite tea. i make it from

>cloves
>wormwood shreddings
>black walnut husks
>pinch of cinnamonpowder

the cloves are mild and pleasant, they taste like christmas to me. the wormwood is also pretty mild, they smell like healthfoodstore. the black walnut husks were expensive and they taste and smell nasty plus they make the water darker then coffee. the cinnamon was an attempt to make it taste less disgusting, didn't work but i keep it in the recipe because it is also healthy. i tried to add fresh lemon juice, still nasty but after a few cups it stops tasting as repulsive.


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 No.314827[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Hitler's thread:
Paintings or things related to him or to national socialism.

- Painting of a castle.
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 No.324295

>>324145
didn't some jew buy the original and paint a rainbow over the middle of the canvas?

 No.324746

>>323972
(((They))) won't be able to keep up this tyrannical pace forever

 No.324779

>>324746
I wouldn't really call our current society tyrannical. More like slowed down, soulless, stasis and lack of activity, more characterised by the complete abscence of something rather than what is present
no one really seems to actually care

 No.324783

>>324779

surely nothing tyrannical about jewish govts faking pandemics and forcing deadly depopulating drugs into the bodies of their slaves.

>no one really seems to actually care

because they are goyim?

 No.324784

>>324783
that event was dominated by people's collective reaction to introduce a not-working medicine for a non-existent pandemic
I guess you could say the government promoted this dysfunctional non-behavior which produces nothing valuable
tyrannical doesn't really describe it, more like soulless and inactive
the tyrants of ancient history at least send their people's to war or introduced strange rules in society like only wearing certain colors of clothing


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 No.228496[Reply]

Thesis:

Engagement with structurally advanced texts and excellent rhetoric trains and temporarily optimises the mind into recurring modes of organization, attention, abstraction, and inference; repeated exposure can temporarily or semi-durably bias cognition toward those modes independently of propositional content.

Or in simpler terms, in the same way that algebra & calculus trains the mind towards logical and methodical thought in the long term, I believe it's possible for works of illustration, music and literature to do so in the short term. If this is true, then it's advantageous to catalogue such art-efacts and optimise exposure to them.

I'm not talking about the first order; "no duh, I read something that told/reminded me of facts and now they're at the front of my attention" or involuntary emotional responses, I'm talking about the temporary mental structure. Meditation or such like, if it works, seems to work by selecting for facts and details, voluntarily emphasising inputs to get desired outputs. It should notionally be possible then, to exercise the mind in such a way that one or more patterns of thought and emphasis can be either cold stored, or reliably reconstructed with inputs on demand. I think genius lies in being able to do this at will and not rely on outside props, but i'm not a genius.

The inspiration for this idea came from reading Robert Carlyle in the morning and consequently having a very organised and effective day at work, but I've noticed it much earlier in the second and third novel of Kai Lung. In the later case, the pleasant but none-the-less non-trivial effort of very complex English usually leaves me in a "well spoken" state for quite some time. I originally put this down to simple mimicry but perhaps there's more to it.

Thoughts? Examples of useful material?

If this is true, consider the darker side - that it's possible to artificially construct and reinforce dysfunctional frames of mind, not just overloading the memory and attention with noise and conflict, but actually implant a structure of thought - at scale. If this was so, how well does it explain modernity.
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 No.228785

>>228518
People learn by doing.
Reading alone won't get you very far.
You won't learn math just by reading a textbook unless you become capable of solving problems and writing proofs.
You won't learn computer programming just by reading a textbook unless you make some practice coding your own programs.
You won't become a chess master just by reading books about chess.
And so forth.

The obsession with reading alone is the mark of the pseudo-intellectual. (The actual intellectual usually appreciates the importance of writing as well.)

 No.228787

>>228748
>What I'm not really understanding is what you would try to get out of it. Snap your finger to be more outgoing an eloquent on demand?
>Learn more efficiently?
>Get into the "zone" for whatever task at hand instantly?

Exactly that. I've done it by accident enough times to notice a pattern and get meaningful comparisons when it comes to task outcomes.

Finding the structure of the phenomena, sourcing tools or procedures that support it, is what I'm looking to do.

It does appear to just be a branch of psychonautics, but I'd never heard of the concept before so thank you to those who responded.

>>228749
Not I

 No.229187

>>228496

i very much appreciate the topic of improvement but it seemed to me like the language you have chosen to communicate it generally did more to distract from it then to support it given how the average wizard is not a level-headed present-minded intellectual but a panicked bundle of worries. you may have hidden your message of improvement behind a wall of complexity from those who could benefit the most from it, which i doubt was your intention.

>Meditation or such like, if it works
you have never felt benefits of meditation? think of it as slowly turning the volume of an annoying background noise down that you were too absent-minded to notice and to realize that it has been the source of an irritation you have experienced and could not make sense of.

>It should notionally be possible then, to exercise the mind in such a way that one or more patterns of thought and emphasis can be either cold stored, or reliably reconstructed with inputs on demand.
this to me sound like the commentary of a half-conscious artificial intelligence currently in the process of receiving an update that is supposed to install agency.

yes you can store thoughts. why is that even worth mentioning to you? you could invent a long number and then learn it like a poem and then later you could recall it.

>I think genius lies in being able to do this at will and not rely on outside props, but i'm not a genius.

this very much sounds to me like you are unconscious to such a high degree that you don't even understand that there are unconscious parts to you. unconscious of unconsciousness itself. like a child that doesn't understand that behind a wall reality does not end but that it is simply not visible from the current perspective. that's something children understand while playing hide and seek. i am saying you might benefit from playing hide and seek with someone for half an hour once or twice.

 No.229188

>>228518
>I believe there is some higher order function that such a process of reading and understanding something either requires, or constructs. And that it is temporary or otherwise transient as the mind resets to a baseline. If so, learning is essentially an outcome of said structure's operation and I think that without the structure you only get rote knowledge.

there are a lot of factors that will influence your ability to make sense.
-your experience. you get better at anything you do repeatedly. if you have a history of already having made sense of things it becomes a quick and efficient process of looking at whatever you are dealing with from as many perspectives as you are able to view from and ask all the questions about it simultaneously. the more you do it, the more of your brain will light up.
-the health of your brain as an extension of the health of your organism ranging from how glued your brain is to how much electricity is available to your brain for this nervoussystem activity
-the amount of energy based on priority your body will unlock for the query, from a shallow quick search to a deep long constant thought-process
-how busy the brain currently is
-how active or inactive other processes are that might interfere, override or prevent nervoussystem activity
-how willing you and your body are to spend energy on the process

 No.229189

>>228585
>How wonderful would it be if by adding 20 hours of pre-learning exercise or self configuration

other then experiencing meditation, which you would very much enjoy, you would love how higher levels of human health feel in terms of mental clarity.

compared to a normal average person with normal industrial age habits: someone who knows how to optimize the health of the human organism is basically feeling super sayan without the exciting visuals though changes in hair color can be part of it.


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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.229172

>>229169
The rest of your post are really good and aligns very well with what my wiz friends have told me, I just came here to explain the last bit.

>Perhaps I'm missing something, but I'm not sure I grasped what you meant to convey in the later parts of your post. (The passive state part, holding onto things you don't like. Drifting around something as in surface level indulgence?)

Not superifically. Let me explain using an example. Imagine you're drawing or you want to draw, but you're having immense difficulty with the concept of intentional beginning. Well, you don't have to be intentional. Passive drifting in this case would mean opening your phone or bringing a notebook in bed and doodling some figures you have in mind, or shitposting oekaki in an imageboard with a basic touchscreen pen. Thats it. You'll be surprised by how long you spend time doing this. You could even become infamous in that imageboard doing this, but thats not the goal.

Passive drifting really means, doing something so stupidly easy you dont have to think about it. You're passive drifting through life without putting much thought into whatever you're doing, your thoughts are focused on what you like. Thats it.

 No.229177

>>229155
>Your goals don't align with mine yet you argue as if mine are wrong. It's like saying that someone's favourite colour is wrong.

i don't think this is true. i interpret the little information of you that i can see thought this window of the wizchan, i make a most likely simulation in my head where you will be in the near and distant future and then i look at the place where you end up and then i call this place wrong but not "absolutely wrong" (that'd be too big of a leap), only "most likely wrong" because i could be wrong in your specific case.

based on what you said the place where you are trying to go sucks and i hope you stumble so that you don't end up where you are trying to go because it sucks there.

 No.229178

>>229170
>Every choice made, every path taken closes of dozens if not hundreds of others.

interesting that you see so many paths because i see so few that every time i do see a path the decision for me is so easy to take it.

 No.229184

>>229178
I used to think once things get bad enough I'd experience the same.
Things simply aren't bad enough, fire under my ass is not hot enough I thought.

Rock bottom is hard to hit if you go at it with a pickaxe I suppose…

 No.229195

>>229177
it does suck but i kind of dont have a choice. I have to wagie again because i have so many bills to pay. hopefully i can get back into fitness when things calm down.


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 No.307650[Reply]

I have become increasingly depressed at the state of discourse about almost any subject. Look at the opinions of most people and discuss their reasoning with them; they do not really have reasons based on experience or logic. They are just saying things they think are normal to say. They imitate others. They understand the world through memes. Zero actual curiosity or critical thinking skills when it comes to discussion of politics/culture/history/science/art. Everyone just parrots what they think others think. They think in memes. Partly to fit in and achieve social acceptance and partly just monkey see monkey do like a child or animal.

Democracy is a failure because most people have no idea what they are voting for or what the consequences will be. They just follow the cultural memes. The internet has exacerbated this. Most people’s political views or views on the culture are just glorified SIX SEVEN repetitions - people have no good justification for any of the ideas they follow.

It might sound arrogant and supercilious to say these things. I worry that I am not that different and I just copy things sometimes by instinct. Makes me wonder if the self even fucking exists and we are just biological self replicating robots copying things.

Depressing. Enraging.
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 No.308047

>>308046
My ego is very fine, don't worry. You avoided my point though

 No.308106

yea everyone pretends to fit in, that's the God of the normie, social approval.

 No.308903

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>Conformity and imitation drives human behaviour

Yeah, read René Girard

 No.308922

>>308903
Before I read an "in-a-nutshell" explanation of his ideas and some of the examples maybe…





…i would like to say I do find myself in the situations when the very feel of being pushed to the limit creates strong emotional feedback within my mind.

 No.309003

>>308903
Thank you for this recommendation. This is fascinating. Listening to a podcast about him. Yes, the theory of desire being mimetic makes sense. As does the idea that the subject of copying becoming a rival. This being a basis of violence. Therefore competitive violence is, for want of a better word, natural or inevitable. Scapegoating becomes the way of attaining stability. Makes sense. One can see it in schools.


/dep/

 No.297753[Reply]

How do you guys fight anhedonia? Do you have any experience with it?
I basically don't feel pleasure from anything except food, maybe. Stories, games, art don't really touch me at all and it sucks because I remember how much I loved escapism before and how it brought excitement, joy, sadness etc. Now it's all blank. I want to bring emotions back, want to bring excitement, joy, even sweet sadness would do honestly, I miss being profoundly sad.

Have any of you managed to revert to your older non-anhedonic self?
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 No.305617

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>>297753
>How do you guys fight anhedonia?
Have you tried nicotine?

 No.307413

I fight anhedonia with high ABV beer. But I only get drunk on Friday evening. I'm sober the rest of the time.

When I'm drunk (not wasted), I enjoy playing videogames, I enjoy music.

 No.307442

>>301975
>Life with anhedonai feels pointless. No pleasure, no point? Like why do anything. I just end up doing nothing

This.

 No.307449

>>305617
I tried it. It kinda works, but the nicotine burnout was unpleasant and accidently overdosing on velo pouches is worse than any hangover i've ever had

 No.309001

>>297753
Intense exercise in the heat followed ice baths/having icy water thrown on you. It is hard and sometimes I just want to stop because stand up grappling can be temporary hell.

Muay Thai in the heat is fucking fixing me right now. I am not great but endorphins/dopamine/fat loss/muscle mass increase and self esteem from getting better is the only thing so far that has improved my brain so much. Feel myself enjoying music so much more. Just sparring to the beat they play in the gym. Makes me want to shadow box all the time because I just want to get back to the gym.
My biggest regret is not doing this like mad when I was a teenager. Instead I waited until 31.


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 No.308918[Reply]

How to get over the fact that you can't freely decide over your own body? Like I always wanted to own a gun because I could decide to shoot myself with it but I don't know how to buy or use it.

Being so powerless in front of the events is utterly disgusting and I don't know how to cope.
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 No.308929

>>308925
Darn I wish I had a gun to shoot myself with.

 No.308977

Are you sure it isn't just survival instinct? I tried to hang myself in january but backed out at the last moment.

 No.308979

>>308977
there are better methods than hanging so no reason to do it that way unless you're in a hurry, the risk of not doing it properly and suffering a slow and painful death or surviving with brain damage is too high

 No.308993

>>308979
still better than overdosing or jumping

 No.308998

I remember seeing that on family guy, the talking dog speaking about having a gun as last resort which gave him comfort. First time I've ever truly agreed with something that's a little taboo. If I had a sure and quick way to die if things ever got too much I'd live a little more carefree. A goodnight switch is how I like to call it. Sure I could just jump off a tall building, but that's really hard to overcome the instinct, and also the natural fear of heights. I've looked down a stairwell that was 18 floors high and I hated the visual and sensation it gave me.


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 No.303736[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

You will still be stuck browsing this thread in 2026 edition

previous>>296811
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 No.308958

Jews are not human

 No.308960

>>308958
lucky them

 No.308995

We now have an entire storage building filled with cardboard and trash because everyone is 'too important' to deal with it. We could have hired temp workers and this would have been handled in a day tops. On the plus side I get to spend most of my shift alone breaking down cardboard for the next week.

 No.308996

>>308953
That's almost as bad as team building camp, I pray to the stars I never have another one of those. Godspeed anon.

 No.308997

>>308995
I work in a supermarket and the self important floor staff are all the same. Too busy socializing and neglecting actual food health practices. Many of our shelves have actual mold BUSHES. Not just mold, but BUSHES of mold, whenever I've cleaned it (took hours) I'd get written up for wasting time and not putting out more stock because having 500 drinks on the shelf is better than 250 and that means we are losing sales even if only 50 sell the entire day!! Everyone is a dumbass there.

>>308996
Thanks hope it's not gonna be like that. The general culture of my area is very social though. Think stereotypical Philippines or Brazilians. everything must be a party


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