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 No.317556[Reply]

Your thoughts on coffee and caffeine?
Do you drink coffee? How much?
Is it a good idea to stop drinking coffee completely, or is there no merit to it?
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 No.319057

bad quality coffee can screw your stomatch and liver

if you drink it, make sure its at least decent quality

 No.319059

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>>319057
Do you have a single fact to back that up?

 No.319065

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>>319059

 No.319096

>>317556
I mostly drank energy drinks as I was introduced to them by my peers at around age 12.
This developed into a long time 2x250ml cans a day habit, sometimes more.
I feel like once you abuse it to that extent it becomes a detriment. I believe I used it to cope with ADHD like symptoms, but I have yet to be diagnosed.
The energy you get from them after a while barely makes you reach "baseline" and the crash or going without is pretty bad.

I had an ER emergency for extreme bloodpressure, (age 29 now) I thought I was going to die about 5 months ago which forced me to quit. (was like 195/120 or something at the time)
It's claimed that I have recurring panic attacks now, so it happens without caffeine at times.

Still a fat fuck, but I kicked the habit and honestly I feel better for it.
I might have gone through the withdrawals more easily due to fearing for my life.

Without it my energy levels are on the low end, but consistent throughout the day for the most part.

>>319057
>bad quality coffee can screw your stomach and liver
I do believe I have permanent damage to my stomach, digestive system and liver. 100%, but I hope it's nothing that will kill me in the long run.
I'm in the process of getting it figured out, but yeah don't do what I did obviously.

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>>319096
Your ER situation might have to do with being fat. On some occasions I drank 3, even 4 500ml energy drinks a day, and other than feeling hot and kind of restless, I was fine. But genetics might play a role too since I generally have low blood pressure, like 105/65.
>GERD, ulcers, random allergies as a result of murdering my gut and my liver values are shot too
I haven't tested for any of these, but my digestion is wrecked too. Reflux, heartburn, sticky semi-diarrhea, you know the deal. Alcohol doesn't give me pleasure like it used to, and I get horrible hangovers even after just 3 or 4 beers.

But quitting the energy drinks is so hard, even knowing they are specifically formulated to be addictive.


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 No.316755[Reply]

I see him being suggested around in loser-ish circles, did your videos ever help you? how do you feel about his content?
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 No.319038

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>>316759
>he just doesn't have the tools to really help you
This is why i despise him. These snakes will make people enter a depressive spiral when what "should work and works for everyone else" (works for normalfags with a bout of sadness and sub100 IQ) doesn't work for them.

>>316801
It does not. If it worked people wouldn't be lifetime customers to psychtrash.
Some people that are broken aren't in this state because they are too dumb to figure out basic shit.
Many are decently intelligent, introspective people.
If you have an objectively fucked situation and a deep understanding of it, you can't breathing exercise your way out of it.

What should be understood by most is that life is for the most part deterministic. The more you understand the more you will realize this.
What you are and how you act is a result of your genetics parsing and reacting to your environment.
If you need some psychomonkey to tell you this just read Jung.

I actually lucked out with my male psychologist, who after a couple sessions just told me that he can't fix or change me.
When you are what you are and your views are coherent and rational there is nothing left to do.

Religion works for those who can resign themselves to it, but if you are too far gone you will doubt it endlessly, seek further knowledge and spot the flaws.
Once you notice the cracks you'll pick at them until the fog clears and you are back to where you started.
The same goes for any self-help psychononsense.
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 No.319041

healthyjeet i love healthyjeet! did he ever get his loicense back?

 No.319053

>>319038
Do you believe mind control is real?
I see every now an then on chans post from people who say sissy hypno porn really messed them up on that other site's /x/ board in threads about mk ultra or the news being propaganda to keep people complicit and compulsory school being socialization to brainwash us

 No.319058

i love indian people. they are badass

 No.319060

>>319041
he never lost it. the medical board reprimanded him but it caries no penalties, fines, nor does it prevent him from practicing. apparently, after 2 year investigation, all they could say is that he "engaged in conduct that undermine[d] the public confidence in the integrity of the medical profession" during his interviews with Reckful, the streamer that killed himself. so basically he just made therapists look bad, but didn't technically do anything wrong. the interview had all the usual disclaimers, but he was seeing the guy for private sessions and those were actual sessions. i remember destiny and other streamers going over that interview with a fine tooth comb trying to find anything, but aside from some questionable spirituality crap, he didn't do anything outwardly wrong.


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 No.317147[Reply]

It's called wizchan but I've never once seen anyone talk about magic here. Do you like (real) magic?
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 No.318996

>>318990
They believe in nothing.
They think the basis for morality is nothing.
They think when you die you go to nothingness.
And where they should feel a soul, they feel nothing.
Don't worship the void or you become a zombie

 No.319000

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>Do you like (real) magic?
TWISTING OF THE SACRED ORBS!!

 No.319001

>>317147
Hook noses don't want you exploring the divine.
They want you to be void worshipping cattle

 No.319022

>>318996
>>319001
You are confusing atheists with nihilists.
Atheists believe in govt approved narrative.

 No.319037

>>319022
Doesn't refute any core belief here:
>>318996
For everything important they believe in the void.
I don't care what they say or chant when their masters tell them to


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 No.316122[Reply]

how do i know if its autism or adhd? the only thing i have to work off of is that i crave constant novelty far more than repition
i sometimes have trouble with social cues but i don't feel like its that i can't understand them, more that i'm unable to properly concentrate on the conversation
maybe its all stupid to worry about
>inb4 adhd isnt real
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 No.317192

>>317166
based

 No.317804

>>317105
>>317166
have you considered the possibility that it boils down to a complete lack of self esteem? young men just don't have it good at all anymore
>if i suffer because i can't fit into society anywhere maybe theres just something wrong with me like i'm autistic or have ADHD

 No.318220

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Same

 No.318981

>>316122
quite literally just put your phone/computer down and go for a walk to clear your mind. overstimulation you get on the internet fucks with your head. not everyone can handleit ergo all of the mental illnesses we see these days. you could also try seeing a therapist but i believe that effects of poison can be avoided by stopping taking it.

 No.319003

>>316764
I actually do. What does this mean?


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 No.316330[Reply]

Long story short, I live in what you would say is a penal colony. Fortunately I've managed to get by. But I want more form life and thus, I wish I didn't have to deal with other people on a daily basis, as it is always so troublesome, I think I've always been a schizoid, so I need my space, in my dream life, I would only have to deal with characters on a screen on a daily basis. But I know that this is not how evolution shaped most humans, so at least, I would really like to limit how much time I have to interact with others face-to-face, and some beer money job (for a first worlder) would be a godsend for me.

The minimum salary in here is 250 dollars, that's all I would need to earn on a monthly basis and I have most of my waking time free, I've looked job listings on fiverr and all those other sites but if some anon here knows like a plan for me to eventually earn more (my dream salary would be 500 dollars) programming on whatever language, that would be ideal.

If I don't get many answers here, I plan to look up mostly east asian redditors looking for scraps, just like me and then team up with them. But I figured some wizards could come up with a more helpful plan for me, I think. SQL seems easy enough and I've done hours of exercises, but I don't know if there is some more profitable language.

 No.316463

>>316330
>I wish I didn't have to deal with other people on a daily basis

that is pretty nice. i've had it like that for many years now and i don't know how else to have a peaceful life, i doubt there is another way.

i hope you find something.

if you can find someone who doesn't work for a big corporation but does everything himself, is inexperienced in computers and can not type that fast. this might be a way.

you might offer to answer emails and keep the files neat and easy to use (meaning creating folders, sorting files in the right folders and rename the files to be easy to find). assuming you can use a computer pretty fast you might be able to answer emails and create documents many times faster, meaning you could do in half an hour to an hour as much as the person would need all morning for, which would obviously lighten that person's workload so much, they would gladly pay you to help.

 No.316465

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I'm also from the Third World but not from Asia. I work as a data analyst and it allows me to have a decent life, all things considered

 No.316514

>>316463
>that is pretty nice. i've had it like that for many years now and i don't know how else to have a peaceful life, i doubt there is another way.

OP here. I long for that kind of life, maybe one day I will get there.

>if you can find someone who doesn't work for a big corporation but does everything himself, is inexperienced in computers and can not type that fast. this might be a way.

This is a good idea, I am pretty fast with PC's, I've been on them since a very young age. I guess I will look for someone with these needs.

>>316465
Were you self-taught? I worry about a portfolio because I don't even know what language to use, I just want to interact with a PC to make money.

 No.316515

>>316465
OP here. I just want to interact with a PC to make money… and I wonder what language or IT path could be the most profitable, even if it is not the fastest, working from home of course.

 No.318982

>>316330
if you want to go the tech route easiest and hardest way at the same time is to learn by yourself but keep in mind that will take a shitton of your time. universities teach you the basics but you must still invest a lot of time to specialize once you understand which direction you want to go. look up mit ocw to get some knowledge and if it gets boring just start fucking around with python or something. there are people on imageboards who would readily help you out if you learn to ask questions properly.


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 No.317748[Reply]

I’ve given up on human interaction. It both bores and scares me. I really enjoy feeding birds because I know they are just going to go about their business quietly, like me. Recently I read crows have the intelligence of a 7 year old child in some regards. They can recognise faces too, my question to any bird watchers or ornithologists here is how do you befriend them? Gain their trust? I’d be happy to just hang outside with the crows all day, or maybe have one or two regulars at my balcony.
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 No.317751

I love crows. I catch mice in traps and put them out on hay bales by my house and they eat them fast. I also put unsalted peanuts out and they love em. They like cat food too. They're never gonna sit on your shoulder or anything like that if that's what you're hoping for. At most they might eat or hang out in a tree with you nearby if you keep like a 20 foot distance. When they see you they'll often caw at you too, I think it's their way of demanding food which is funny.

 No.317752

>>317748

Yes, it is very possible that a raven would try to pluck the eyes out of a dying human, and they tend to do so in certain circumstances. Here's why:

Opportunistic Scavengers: Ravens are opportunistic scavengers. This means they feed on a wide variety of sources, including dead animals (carrion).
Soft Parts First: When feeding on a carcass, carrion birds, including ravens, often look for the softest and easiest-to-access parts first. Eyes are precisely one of these parts. They are nutritious and relatively easy to peck and extract, especially from an animal or person who is dying or has just died and can no longer defend themselves.
Observed Behavior: There are numerous accounts and observations of ravens and other carrion birds (like vultures) feeding on the eyes of dead or helpless animals.
Intelligence and Learning: Ravens are very intelligent birds and quickly learn which food sources are accessible. If a raven has had a previous experience finding eyes as an easy food source, it is more likely to repeat that behavior.
State of the Human: It is important to note that this would occur with a person who is dying or already deceased and cannot react. A raven would not typically attack a healthy, living person to pluck out their eyes.
In summary, due to their scavenging nature, their preference for soft parts, and their intelligence, ravens have a tendency to try to feed on the eyes of dying or dead animals, and a human in that state would be no exception.

>provided by Gemini

 No.317753

>>317752
dying human, not just dead

 No.317761

>>317751
Thanks for the tips! I wouldn’t mind them just hopping about on the ground 10-20 feet away as I feed them, would be nice I think

 No.318979

>>317748
not an ornithologist (whatever that even means) but within the city crows tend to pick apart trash and look for food within said trash. you could help them by throwing a piece of bread their way every now and then. they can get by on their own so it wouldn't be a huge loss if you didn't and just observed.


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 No.310626[Reply]

Many, many years ago, I think it was 2017 I really wanted to help fellow wizzies.

So I got rich off crypto, yes, one of those early adopter guys.

In 2017 or so Ethereum was just starting to take hold. It cost around 7$ to 14$.

I did some modelling and extrapolated that it has extremely high likelihood of replicating Bitcoin's initial success due to tokenomic system.

I made a post on wizchan back in the day (forgot which domain) and told you wizzies to buy ETH as it will most likely go up 100x and you will all be rich like me.

Guess what happened next? Admin deleted the thread for no reason. I tried to help and admin just deleted the thread and warned me.

Of course ETH did 100x at least. All what I said happened over the course of next few years. If any lucky wizards read the thread before it got deleted you'd be rich right now.

It's really sad and kind of disgusting moderators did this and shot community in the foot. I really wanted to help and nothing more. For wizards like us getting rich is the ONLY redemption we can hope for.
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 No.317756

>>310626
Of course. Because when cryptoscammers come around (probably mods theirselves) with their shitty taunts, they are fully allowed to post.

 No.317830

>>317655
damn you staked your life on it. skill unlocked: god hands

 No.318626

>>310626
Thoughts on xrp? What does your modeling say about it?

 No.318915

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>>310626
Not making it rich off of crypto is one of my biggest regrets.
I could have bought into bitcoin for 20-50-100-200$ a pop, I've known a lot about it, I just didn't have the will.
Didn't have my own money and the little I got randomly I spent on nonsense.
If only I worked a supermarket job for a couple months and spent it all on bitcoin…
I would have a house and enough money to relax for the rest of my life.
It's actually insane in hindsight.
Like, I was handed the golden keys on a silver platter and I just couldn't be fucked to pick them up.
Not going to kill myself over it, but damn if I unlock wizard powers next May I'll try my hands at chronomancy lmao.

Then again OP, you aren't the only one who posted about this. Information was readily available for anyone who had the ears to hear and eyes to see.
I'm sure most wizards have a similar story to mine.
Wonder how many of you also wasted your meager allowances or whatever spare change you had lying around at the time like me.

Still pains me that to this day I see no path to returning to NEETdom now after working for 2 years.
I buy a scratch off ticket or a lottery ticket every now and then, but that's a pipedream compared to the very real opportunities missed.

The more I think about it, 2012~2020 was such magical window of opportunity, with the advent of AI and looming threats on the horizon I don't think I'll ever have another in my lifetime.
If I want to be more realistic, the masses wont have such a chance for financial freedom EVER again.

 No.318967

>>318915
I was playing poker with bitcoin back in 2011/12, sealswithclubs. They were doing freerolls for 1/20th of a bitcoin which is funny in hindsight. I don't really have regrets though, because even if I bought back when it was $5 I'd probably have sold when it was $10 or max I coulda held is $100. 0% chance I could hold anywhere close to even $1000.


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 No.317891[Reply]

Any wizzies playing on the stock market? There is currently a pretty big crisis because of Trump's tariffs. Might be a good time to get into the game when everyone is panic selling. I bought 100$ worth of s&p 500 etf today. I am prepared for it's value to get even lower so I am not going all in yet.
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 No.317899

Mostly just index funds and a little bit of stock in the company I work for.
When the markets went to shit I moved my stuff over to a money market account and now holding my stuff there as 5% interest going to me until things settle down. Likely after the upcoming recession.

 No.317900

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>>317897
You won't know until you try.
I'd like to get into stocks because I can predict trends in the world pretty well. But I'm too lazy for how it is - you need a special account in a special establishment and it's all a convoluted mess of bureaucracy. If only it was as shrimple as logging into a website and clicking up and down…

pic rel is literally me except the money

 No.318947

I rather invest in real stuff and knowledge.

 No.318954

It’s a scam. I don’t want to engage with it

 No.319115

>>318954
Most of life is a scam, isn't it?


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 No.316470[Reply]

Have any wizards did intermittent fasting before? I am planning to do a 24 hours fast only drinking water.I do the 16:8 fasting routine daily as well as having did 20:4 fasting before and a handful times of a 24 hours fast, it's relatively easy and gets further easier with the time, best thing is to start easy and build your way up

 No.316472

>>316470
I did a 5 day water fast this month, I've done it before but not for this long (usually I do it for 2 or 3 days)
I wanna recommend it for three mains reasons, for one I have some acne issues and fasting helps a lot. In 5 days no new pimples showed up and all the ones I already had dried up or disappeared.
It also helps a lot with my mood. I have some issues with depression and social anxiety, and fasting improves my mood for a good amount of time. After I finish it I feel a lot better about myself for some reason, at least for a couple of days following it.

Another main reason is you lose weight pretty fast, if you're worried about that. I'm already a bit underweight but even then I lost around 4 kilograms (8lbs) in this 5 day fast - so I'm guessing around 1kg (2lbs) of fat lost. And if you're overweight you'll definitely lose more.
Online there's people mentioning other benefits related to fasting, but these are the main ones I can experience immediatly.

Now there's a couple of downsides. One if you've never did fasting before you'll feel lethargic, at least for one or two days.
Also the hunger can be very bad sometimes, if you're not used too fasting. But after you've done it for a few times it gets a lot easier.

So I recommend you guys giving it a shot. I haven't experienced any real downsides other than maybe losing too much weight.

 No.316475

I do this everyday without realizing it was called "Intermittent fasting". I hate leaving my room so I've learned to just eat once per day. Honestly I've never noticed any health benefits. If anything it's probably hindered my digestion.

 No.318260

Probably a good idea to help healing. Just don't fast for too long. A middle ground time-wise is ideal.

 No.318918

I do 3 days a week while I don't drink any coffee and sleep all day. Then I do my job 4 days a week.

 No.318922

>>316470
How good IF is largely depends on how good your digestion is. Someone who struggles to digest 1k+ calories in a single setting will feel much better with multiple meals spread out during the day.


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 No.317865[Reply]

AI-generated Ghibli art is straight-up nihilistic, man. It’s like, back in the day, you needed *years* to master that hand-drawn, insanely detailed animation style, right? People put in blood, sweat, and tears—countless hours, all that heart and soul. But now? AI cranks out the same stuff in minutes. You just type a prompt and boom, it spits out something that looks like it took a team of animators a decade to make.

It kinda feels like it makes all that hard work *pointless*, doesn’t it? Like, what was once this sacred art form now just gets *diluted* by tech. And that’s not just the artist’s problem—it’s everyone’s problem. AI’s coming for jobs, man. People in creative fields, animators, illustrators? Pretty soon, they’re all gonna be irrelevant because some program can do it faster, cheaper, and without giving a damn. The whole idea of *earning* your living with skill and craftsmanship? Gone. Just like that. Feels like we’re all being replaced by machines, and for what? So we can sit here watching a bunch of soulless art get churned out? It’s depressing, A part me is happy with the through normgroids are going to suffer and lose their jobs.
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 No.318903

>>317865
>AI-written post
lol. Lmao. Is it only obvious to me? So many tells

 No.318905

we need to replace the entire foid species with ai sexbot dolls.

 No.318913

AI art still terrible. Im almost sure this is near the best it can produce when it comes to "drawing"

the only AI that is remotely good is sora which costs a little fortune each month

 No.318914

The name of the game is to buy as many robot slaves as possible if you want to make decent money.

 No.318916

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>>317865
>>317877
This killed all my dreams I never pursued.
I could be like this wiz: >>317866 and laugh at others misery to ease my pain for never having pursued my own creative dreams.
Never spent the time to learn to draw, model, anything…

>The whole idea of *earning* your living with skill and craftsmanship? Gone.
It's a real shame only the things that feed the human soul, and jobs that didn't suck AS MUCH are the ones to go…

>A part me is happy with the through normgroids are going to suffer and lose their jobs.
Again I really wonder how many actual wizards here are NEETs.
I spent almost 10 years as one, but at 28 I had to get a job. Couldn't escape it.
My job felt like a miracle, home office, just have to do basic help desk stuff.
Now obviously it's ripe for being automated by AI.
I'm worried, yet I don't consider myself a "normgroid", will turn into a full fledged wizard in less than a year now.

I'm genuinely terrified as my current job is already a miracle. Anything I might learn in the meantime, get a CCNA or something to get a bit higher up wont help I fear.
It all feels futile.
Nothing to look forward to, nothing worth pursuing. All I can await is to be culled in WW3 or a pandemic or whatever else they have prepared to remove the "useless eaters".
I have to ask, what do wizards who have only themselves to depend on do nowadays?
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