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IDK if Nighthawks really counts but I feel like posting it

>>316157
not really impresionism but if you feel like it why not

>>316148
The effect of lead on Rome has been dramatically overstated. Mainly by people who have no understanding of chemistry or biology. The Victorian era was far more dangerous from a envirmental toxicity perspective.

>>316149
no u
no one believed there would be mass deaths except actual schizos
there are long term negative effects of the vaccines, but mainstream media and science denies this, just like they have been doing about seed oils, high sugar low fat diet, asbestos, even tobacco was advertised as healthy

I didn't get vaxxed and rarely get sick, didn't even have a cold this whole year
but the people at my workplace, the majority of them are constantly at least mildly sick with stuffed sinuses, headaches, mild fevers etc.
some of them I got to know well enough that they told me they got vaxxed
there is also the minority of healthy wagies like me, and some of them told me they never got vaxxed, and I don't know about the rest

the covid vaccines were unnecessary for most people who took them, and they messed with those people's immune systems
i'm not saying it's any crazy conspiracy involving the jews
just that it's dirty business and abuse of the system
vaccine producers found a way to pretty much force governments to buy their product and they used that opportunity, that's all

>>316159
How would you react if the government and society tried to force you to get a lead injection, though?

>>316163
Die I guess.
High speed forcible lead injections (aka being shot) tend to be fatal.
I am not bullet proof.

You know that you live in the Twilight Zone when Americans look you in the eye and say tyranny is good because everyone who loves freedom works for a college.

Just listen to Molchat Doma and sing along, virgin bro.

I'm also forgetting my mothers tongue

>>305398
>>305399
>>305926
Take your meds.

>>305391
I have a similar issue. My parents immigrated to the country where I was born, and as a kid I learned both their language and this country's language. As a kid I interacted with other immigrants (and their children) who speak the same language, but now as an adult I don't use the language in any way other than talking to my parents (who I live with), and I can feel it corroding, particularly talking/writing. I don't particularly mind it at a personal level, but I'm very self-conscious and I think it's shameful to talk to my parents with broken language.

Is Rand Paul the only American who still cares about freedom?

>>315812
become orthodox

Wow, it's if people could use religious ideology instrumentally for personal benefit

Just go to your local SSPX chapel.

>>315827
Based

https://shamelesspopery.com/no-longer-protestant/
>Like their European counterparts, most American Protestants deny sola fide (that salvation is through faith alone). Most deny sola Scriptura. These two tenets, long considered a basic litmus test for Protestantism, are now held by only 30% of American Protestants. Another surprising stat: 30% of Protestants (including a whopping 47% of Black Protestants) believe in Purgatory.
The divided Christianities are now, as organized temples amongst the pagans were, in a state of confused syncretism. The Eastern Orthodox had to abandon their Emperor long ago but there is a vacuum in their structure where Constantine is expected to stand, and this has caused their syncretism to move towards Moscow. The Protestants are moving towards Rome. But Rome? Rome has no peers on this Earth, but nor any signs of material communion with Heaven. They appear to be unable to join with another, at least not in a coherent way, and so are simply falling apart. Their anime mascot for the year 2025 seems emblematic of this deep confusion and doubt.

it could also be both at the same time, then you're even more special!

for real tho, it doesn't matter. knowing you have autism doesn't really help you cure autism. there's no definitive test for it, it's just an "expert" or a bunch of experts listening to your self-report and making a judgement call on whether you're just a lil quirky or if your uhhh brain is somehow different i guess, wow! you're still dealing with the same issues, just with an excuse now.

with adhd, you get some meds that might help you get through your boring office job or do your college essay in the short-term, but in the long-term it just masks your actual problems and you end up wasting your life at a boring office job or in debt for a shitty college degree you thought you had to do. a lot of these psychs don't care about why you're underperforming and can't focus on your excel spreadsheet job, they certainly won't ask a simple question like is this really what you want to do with your life, they'll just give you legal speed to brute-force your soul-sucking bullshit existence. lucky you!

>>316127
>they give you legal medication to successfully mask without mich suffering and effort to hold down a well paying low risk job to finance your life in a decent housing

How the fuck is this bad in any way? Sounds perfect. Especially compared to the alternatives which are horrendous.

>>315974
thos. come to them or wait they get near you and do weird sounds, like this for exemple https://voca.ro/1zZhkAToq7hU

>People are browsing Wizchan in middle school

Goddamn, where has time gone. Anyway for the most part if they push you punch them or grab them by the hair and slam them onto something. And be ready to do it again if they push you, or something.

>>301887
G- G- GR1?

Finish high school and don't shoot it up, anon!

mooch some cigarettes off of a family member or something and offer a few to them so they'll think you're cool
befriending my bullies back in middle school was probably the best thing that could've happened to me socially, although by highschool i was just a slight weirdo again with a small clique of friends

of course there is a sound in my head when i read texts or type/write, but i cant decide if i have the same sound when i think.

if you are able to self-reflect and ask such questions, then it's safe to say you're not an NPC. not caring about politics and current news cycle? yeah, i'd say even more so.

>>316110
I record my thoughts quite often and don't care about mainstream news, but I barely feel sentient at times.

I don't have strong opinions about anything. Like if I did a movie review show I would probably rate everything an 8/10. I don't have a strong love of anything or a strong hate of anything. Sometimes I pretend to have strong feelings about things so I can fit in.

But I don't think that has anything to do with not having an inner monologue. I often have arguments inside my head, going back and forth on both sides of any point. I can never decide which is the "correct" side or proper opinion.

i have noticed that some people just say opinions just to combat akwardness and start a converstion. This can be as small as telling someone else who is waiting in an line and you are too "ugh i hate standing in long lines" people hope to get an answer that way so they can talk about something

>>316035
>We tested the extents to which height was associated with having a certain number of children, and with having a certain number of children survive infancy. Multinomial logistic regressions were used. In terms of findings, height’s relationship to fertility outcomes was curvilinear: being shorter-than-average (0.75–0.5 standard deviations below the mean height) was associated with a higher probability of being married and having five to seven children, while being moderately tall (0.5 standard deviations above the mean height) was associated with the lowest probability of being unmarried.

>If paternal fertility played a role in the secular growth trend, we would expect to see very tall men have the most children, and clearly have the most children surviving infancy. Given this study’s findings, it is unlikely that this was the case.

This is from a dutch study

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1570677X22000685

Seems like tall men consistently get into stable marriages, but short men sire more children. It makes sense, because the underclass is actually pretty midget and they proliferate like locusts.

>>316036
Yeah, if you look at Mexico most big families are with 1 midget guy and 1 even shorter succubus.

If you see the rare tall man, they often have kids with multiple succubi but not enough to make their genes "mainstream" in society.

Due to sheer numbers, the short underclasses will always be the majority of the population in any country.

Are shorter succubi not more favored? Short mother/tall father is more likely to create shorter offspring than tall mother/short father.

>>316097
Only by creeps and weeaboos. Like you said, genes are inherited from both parents.

Only a sadist weirdo wants his son to be even shorter than himself by breeding with a very short succubus.

>>316097
>Are shorter succubi not more favored

Not really honestly. For all the quirky "I'm smol" things succubi do, guys are pretty indifferent to a shorter height and just want a partner a little shorter than them. In the abstract guys will go for "tall busty blonde" as their generic sexual desire.

succubi obsess over being small and short because they're often auto-pedophiles and enjoy feeling like literal children.

http://infinityplus.co.uk/stories/cpunk.htm

This is "Cyberpunk!" - a short story written by Bruce Bethke in 1983. William Gibson actively rejected using the term in early interviews about the Sprawl trilogy. I believe there are interesting parallels to be drawn between Gibson's and Bethke's work.

One of the most important is the approach to and interest in language, specifically technological language. Bethke was fascinated at the realization that some seedy-looking kids on mopeds were able to commit cybervandalism beyond his comprehension at the RadioShack he was working at. Bethke is humble but was no slouch–later in life he went on to program on Cray supercomputers, not something that every RadioShack hackerman of his generation could say. Bethke's stroke of innovation was at the idea of the linguistic aptitude of youth (and the linguistic inventiveness of youth, such as teen slang) merging with the advancing material importance of human-unreadable programming languages. A cyberpunk, as such, was a punk kid who grew up speaking a modem phreaker's argot as his native slang, and who put it to the same uses as contemporary motorcycle punks put their hard acceleration or contemporary phone phreakers put their own skills - to commit crimes of various magnitudes and vandalism with varying degrees of purposefulness. We often lose sight of this when we talk about cyberpunk in the more restrictive and proscriptive terms of grand epics like Neuromancer or The Matrix. Bethke's cyberpunks were not concerned with whether or not the system is in any way damaged by their crimes, or even with whether or not the system is in the wrong at all. They care little for whether or not something is right, in the system or in themselves. Their primary concern is more regarding whether or not it is possible, whether or not they can use the language of technology to craft the spell that will bend the system in ways that will leave Cray maintainers scratching their heads and wondering how the hell they did that and whether or not it can be undone for long hours into the night.

Gibson has spoken at length about the limits of his technological knowledge at the time he wrote Neuromancer. The long and short of it is that he immersed himself in the poetics of technical language without connecting it to any practical knowledge of the specific funPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>316065
Having argued the intersection between language and technology as an important but overlooked aspect of what gives cyberpunk its particular flavor, I think we may have lost some important quality of cyberpunk. I will even go so far as to say that loss does reflect on an important loss in our current society. But if so I do not think that quality is "rebellious struggle against authority" and it is certainly not a matter of righteousness within that struggle. I very strongly doubt it is a matter of modern cyberpunk carrying insufficient vaguely left anarchist sentiments regarding capital and the state.

No, I think it's far worse than that. There are two very important things that I think we've lost.

Firstly, I believe we have lost the linguistic cyberneticization of the phreaker epoch. This is because technology and the way we interact with it has changed course. Legal and social restrictions turned out to matter more than most cyberpunk authors thought they would. The most eerily accurate cyberpunk dystopian vision of the future is "The Right to Read" by Dr. Richard Stallman. Younger generations no longer outpace older ones in terms of adaptation of or aptitude with communications technologies, or the weaponization thereof. All important, technically innovative cybercriminals from 2012 or so onwards are state actors and presumably late-20s through middle aged, like Jia Tan. Exceptions may go to crypto scammers, but those are just financial criminals who happen to have e-mail addresses. Even in adoption of user end technology we do not see the incline or separation of userbase that would suggest a thriving punk scene. TikTok is full of Millennials as their primary demographic base and the millennial generation is now 40 fucking years old. Growing up immersed in next generation technology has not created a lingua technica amongst the next generation, nor granted them the digital agility to outmaneuver a stodgy rigid system. Nick Land may be right, the system may be more flexible, agile, adaptable than its human substrate.

Secondly, and more importantly. What I think we have lost as a society is the concept of a separate and specific cultural and more importantly linguistic boundary reserved for teenagers. Some of you will probably argue this point, but guys. Gen Z doesn't use that stultifying tiktok slang any moPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>316066
>>316065
so if I get it all, cyberpunk without the punk is not cyberpunk? punk associate with youth, right? also knowing some technical words and knowledge about technology is required, right?
is akira the most iconic juvenile punk in a cyberpunk dystopia?
also blade runner was like a noir movie or hardboiled hero (I think its the right term: hardboiled , I forgot).
what do you think of cyberpunk 2077?
your posts are very good, you serm to know a lot about cuberpunk and a good analyzing

>>316064
thank you I added it in my folders
>>316058
you're right, before cp2077, when you were searching for cyberpunk musics, you got a lot of stuff from different genre. now all you have is cp2077-like music (synthwave)

>>316044
Cyberpunk music was described in Neuromancer. It's Jamaican dubtrap with heavy bass.
https://www.thestranger.com/music/2014/11/12/20991030/neuromancer-rastas-and-the-end-of-the-world
>>316071
Akira's a very solid choice. Like all possible choices it is flawed in some ways. Akira doesn't show its suits or how suits engage with punks often enough to show them as having completely different ways of looking at and engaging with the world, and the punks are only brought into the process of merging with technology through the distant schemes of uninterested suits instead of because it is the sort of thing that exists in their environment. There are similar problems with every other possible candidate for first place, like Alex DeLarge and his crew in A Clockwork Orange (proto-cyberpunk rather than cyberpunk, but referenced by Bethke, Stephenson and Gibson as influences).

>>316095
so…the most cyberpunk music to exist is skrillex featuring damian marley https://youtu.be/BGpzGu9Yp6Y?si=NxRi5vyax_95-hu3 ? haha didn't know electro reggea was the music of the future haha

>>315857
what a coincidence? I also happen to have old HP monitor

>>315857
but I got it from my grandpa for free

I found a github for a linux Distribution called Exodia OS and downloaded their Wallpaper Repo and made this my default. Quite nice if I do say so myself. But thanks for the heads up anyway.

https://zwz.cz/
I've discovered this one some time ago. It has literally hundreds of early 2000 era anime wallpapers. I really like them, they are tacky in a cute way

Keep in mind though that owner is a massive coomer, but thankfully you can disable porn if you don't wish to see it

httP;//konachan.com/
http://konachan.net/