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what kind of clubs did you had in school/high school/uni? dis you attend it?
in my high school, there was a japanese culture/manga/anime club and a chess club. I'm dumb, should have joined them, anyway, what about you?

For the longest Time i had none other than my Parents to share my problems with and they Would Always say stuff like:
"Everything Will be alright, just be positive"
And for The longest Time i believed that was bull shit, to think our thoughts could influence reality and our outcomes in life, and lately After another conversationv with my father where he said the usual stuff of "everything Will be alright for you as Long You remain positive and optimistic"
I thought to my self why don't i become positive and optimistic just in order to relieve my present anxities? even if maybe it's all dogshit and the universe is indifferent about your thoughts and such, but of course when you are a life Time pessimist, it's not easy to change your mindset, even if it's just wanting to delude my Self.

I have manga and books but I don't want to read them because I'm afraid to move on to something bigger if I read. I also don't want to waste my time but I stay on internet 24/24 7/7. it is a weird effect: when I'm on internet, I see it like a virtue and something good being on internet but when I want to do an hobby (read, play video game, drawing, etc..) I see it as a waste of time…it should be contrary, I don't know why I am lile this.
I wanted to ask you, wizards, how do you make yourself read books?(mostly about the hobby: reading)

Post your results from the big five personality test.

https://www.outofservice.com/bigfive/

I suspect that many wiz are high on neuroticism and low on extraversion

Anyone else here deal with hallucinations as they drift off? For me they come in episodes, usually it's just some sudden noise like the sound of a dog shaking its fur or a loud creaking like someone is jumping on my bed and I will wake up in a panic. This usually repeats multiple times until I finally fall asleep properly. More rarely I also get these half-asleep nightmares where I will see some shadowy script moving on my walls, I can sit up and try to look at it and usually I know it's not real and then it kind of dissipates as I wake up fully. It's just kind of annoying, has anyone here dealt with this or any tips on how to get rid of it?

No politics or religion in the crawl thread, please.

>Ambient sounds to wash away distraction
https://asoftmurmur.com/

Why do Baby Boomers seem to have no taste for movies before their time? Not even before their time, but before their 20s or even 30s. In my personal life I've never seen one bother with any movie from before 1965, or even before 1970 for a lot of them, and they all speak of old movies from before then with a tone of total contempt. They grew up with old cowboy movies and seeing John Wayne, but as adults seem to have zero nostalgia for those films.

Contrast that with Millennials, and even older zoomers, who grew up watching 80s movies, and remember them fondly and still soyface over them hard. 1980 is as far away from the present as 1935 is to 1980.

Was stuff like Casablanca and Little Shop Around the Corner playing on TV all the time in the 1980s? It just seemed like the late 1960s was a hard cultural reset and for that generation, they put away their childhood to a degree Millennials never did, to a point where they don't even venture into that territory at all for nostalgia.

Like I'm sure some of it is young people are peter pan syndrome man-children who can't move on, but at the other end it's uncanny that all the fondness boomers have for culture comes from their early adult life instead of childhood.

FUCKING NORMALFAGS GET THE FUCK OFF MY BOARD

Previous thread: https://archive.is/hZ7eK

Until recently, surveillance functioned much like a modern panopticon, creating the illusion of constant observation. But with AI, we’re fast approaching a reality where it will be possible to genuinely monitor everyone, all the time.

It will become possible to instantly identify 'bad' behavior, and in some cases, even raise suspicion before it occurs. I use 'bad' in quotation marks because its definition is entirely shaped by those in power. Under the wrong circumstances, what’s considered 'bad' could be a personal opinion—or even an entire ethnicity.

Social media already allows a small group of powerful oligarchs to shape what people see—and by extension, what they believe. While propaganda has always existed, social media takes it to a new level, making it harder to recognize the source. Even worse, it's personalized, creating isolated groups with entirely different sets of information and viewpoints.

With the rise of AI, however, this influence will only grow. Not only will algorithms become more advanced in how they rank and recommend content, but they’ll also be able to generate fake content or messages, passing them off as organic.

I can’t predict the future, but I’d bet that the majority of people won’t even notice this shift. Most are tech-illiterate,and tech companies dominate the flow of information, which means any discussions about this will be limited and hard to find. It won’t be a secret, per se, but discussions about it will be few and far between. When those discussions do exist, they’ll likely be watered down to avoid sounding paranoid or extreme.

How does this make you feel emotionally? How would you react to it? The implications of this technology really bother me, but I know bringing it up in real life would likely make me seem paranoid, so I just keep it to myself.

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.