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I think I might be racist, I don't really like other races besides Asians, I dislike Moroccan Turkish people etc middle east the least they're very aggressive and most of the time religious fanatics, I don't like their culture either.


I went to a Indian shop today and the dude cashier wa wearing a turband and had a beard, I felt really uncomfortable, I hate to be this way but I think races shouldn't mix

I think doctors and healthcare workers in general have the most miserable, inhuman jobs. imagine not only interacting with with norpers every day, but also having to take care of them and save their stupid lives.
makes sense now that i think about it when i read on the news about nurses or hospital/nursing homes personnel going crazy and killing patients by unplugging respirators or spiking their drips. you really have to be a psychopath or mentally ill to some degree to hold a job like that.
i remember that my mom used to work in the same hospital with a doctor who made the news by getting caught breaking old patients' bones to practice his surgical skills and sell prosthetics of a multinational corporation he had a contract with

Do you ever think about how the progress of science and technology is changing everything about our society at such a rapid pace? Some of the changes are potentially quite scary to me. I just watched this video (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/the-technology-behind-understanding-how-our-br/) where a guy goes over some of the emerging research and technologies in neuroscience. Basically science fiction shit is now becoming a reality.

Scientists can map individual neurons and predict the motion of a mouse based on them. They can turn on certain neurons and change the mouse's behavior. Other stuff I've seen has AI being able to read MRIs and interpret text that someone is imagining writing and other similar mind-reading experiments. Darpa has a program where they use big ass magnets to change the function of the brain and produce fearless soldiers. So basically mind-reading and brain control are now actual technologies instead of fiction.

This is just one of many many many fields of research that are all exploding at once. Genetic modification of human embryos has started. Gene modification through medicine has started. Human cloning has been possible for ages. We have artificial wombs and lab-grown meat. Shit is getting crazy and all the while big changes that affect our day to day lives get implemented by corporations in search of profit. Possibly even the covid-19 pandemic was caused by technology progressing to the point where humans can genetically engineer viruses to be able to better infect humans. All of it is just too much. I don't really have a point or anything I guess just want to open discussion to talk about this little talked about reality of life.

any of you here have any ideas or are doing something online that's generating a passive income?
i'm not from a first world country and i live with my family so i'd be satisfied with 100-200 euros a month, enough to cover my food so i don't have to work

>Imagine
Police exist to keep society safe! Just call 911 if something happens and it'll be all ok
>Reality
Officers regularly insult, threaten or belittle suspects, hand out fines they know will lose in court just to intimidate, overstep their legal bounds and often barely understand the regulations they enforce. If they get caught abusing their power the unions will cover it all up and they are almost never prosecuted.

If you call the police to report a crime that isn't life-threatening it will take hours before they get back to you and usually they'll tell you to drop it. If your case makes it to court you'll spend thousands hiring overpriced sophists while the judge attempts to rationalize an essentially arbitrary decision rarely even connected to retributive justice. Not to mention the entire criminal justice system in the west is weighted to explicitly take racial considerations in account and downgrade punishments against minorities while exaggerating punishments against whites. People with nothing to lose like the homeless or repeat offenders can easily assault or vandalize property with little recourse.

If you think Law Enforcement exists to protect the population from anything but egregious white-on-white crimes, you have never actually interacted with them.

oh hello there wizzerds.

can anyone recommend a nice way to organize time?

i feel like i am wasting time too much and don't end up spending it on the things i want to do. i lack a system i like for keeping track on what i want to do and end up wasting time playing steam and watching retarded video game content because i am stuck in indecision on what to do. i can't even find a way to list all the things i want to do. i can't even decide if i want to go digital or paper-based.

calendars don't seem to work for me because as soon as i go out of synch with the plan then the whole day falls appart.

maybe i need something more unique.

I read it and didn't get it. it's too complicated for me, can someone explain to me what are the camel,lion 1nd children phase?

Do you believe in Aliens, Cryptids, Mythical Creatures, Paranormal Entities, etc?

this is a request for personal help,but also insight open to discussion for all.
I wont ask to be spoon-fed;but rather to ask what serious books\lectures\essays and papers, I can read about all this.

>Where can I get torough,comprehensive, lists of taxes, their functions,applications, and legal shenanigans? Same for Permits, forms of ID and goverment tracking-down of people(welfare application? for example)
>Books about internets role in global finance, crime,privacy,goverment surveillance. Im about to install like 100 blockers,time-clockers ,delete 99% of my hard drive
>discuss fiction as a "thing" ie;its effect in daily life and mass culture. what would a fiction-less day look like for a modern human man in a western city?

In order, my average day:
>some greek yogurt with raw oeatmeal, fruit and honey mixed together
>a green apple
>two cheese quedasillas with spinach, some hummus and a portion of fruit or avocado
>a snack, usually a fruit or a small portion of cookies
>a passion fruit
>protein shake
>quinoa with seafood
>sauteed veggies with some beans
>two toasts with a spread, cottage cheese and two scrambled eggs on top
>two cheese quesadillas with some pasta sauce
>one to three portions of fruit

I drink lots of water or low calory stuff, mostly water. Sometimes I eat any of those twice or more a day, sometimes I don't eat all of them.