/lounge/ - Lounge

I haven't had access to my main PC (almost made homeless and it is now in a storage unit lol) and I miss having adblock, even had that extension on Firefox that skips ad-reads too.

Ads really do just shit all in your mind. At least before, ad breaks were considered in television, now it constantly breaks the emotional immersion. If I am doomed to only feel while watching shit, it'd be really nice if that was still sacred.

>>325463
Adblock is available for Samsung Internet in the app store I think. It might use some firewall / DNS lookup to block ads on any browser you use

>>325463
If you have an Android device, you can install F-droid then whatever flavour of Firefox Android strikes your fancy. I'm currently using Fennec, but I have no idea if it's the best one, all I care about is that I can install desktop version extensions.

>>325468
i use iron fox, i think this is also in the fdroid. then a few days later i learned i also can get brave browser via f-droid, just requires to add their repo.

>>325463
What the hell is going on in your life?

>>323856
>I use Linux on a laptop and I actually like the desktop environments, so no text-based distros for me.

i'm not saying switch to a text-based distro, i'm saying once you stepped into the arena (on a virtual machine or on a spare laptop for example) you will be glad you did it. because once you felt how nice text-based is you can cherry pick situations on which to choose text over graphics. i wish i did this sooner, don't repeat my mistake is what i am trying to say. text-based is awesome i regret staying so long on graphical. graphics are bloat!

>>323863
>because once you felt how nice text-based is you can cherry pick situations on which to choose text over graphics
thank you for informing me

Wallpaper? First thing I do on a new install is disable wallpapers and screensavers and such. I'm boring I'll admit. It mostly stems from being a Windows refugee and the carnival of widgets and icons and popups and such… I need the silence.

>>320472
I recently took a nice screenshot in my Minecraft world and now every time I look at my desktop I feel at peace.

I found this one on wallhaven the other day

The Recent Popularization of Wizdom and how a Wiz can survive such dark times.

By Anon the Doomer (Random name of a wizchan user 6 August 2026)


We are living in a gynocracy. This is the thesis has been widely discussed in online circles for a long time. However the recent popularization of crab culture, especially memes about hypergamy in jewgram reels and twitter, has seen normies adopting and romanticizing facets of crab and BP culture.


While many online voices approved what seems to be a wider acknowledgment by the normien1gger public of the BP, one must be cautious that a closer look at these voices would reveal that they are likely to be "enlightened" normies themselves. This suggest either of the two:
1. They have never experienced the bitter experience that develop the philosophy of BP, and thus these ideas aren't their own since they never have the need to cope.
2. They are grifting and take from BP culture to generate financial and social benefits for themselves.


A brief read on wizchan reveals that this recent upsurge of popularity of their culture is not received with enthusiasm nor acknowledged. The general mood on the phenomenon is grim: We are seeing the gentrification of wiz culture.

We have seen how gentrification of various culture and subculture, previously a space for wiz and crabs to thrive, being invaded by succubi and normien1ggers, and how these communities died.

While we are facing the same prospects, one must remember that the nature of true wizdom meant that it is inherently individualistic. Communities, when such exists, serves as outlet and dopamine source echo chambers. A wiz can get good advice and information from these communities that serves to further elucidate his experience, ultimately however, a wiz become a wiz due to his own experience.

Do not deceive yourself. Whatever prevailing views take place in a community, you must be wakeful to not adopt this views subconsciously, let alone consciously. Such practice belongs to the unwashed feminine, a lower existence, not to the aristocratic wiz.
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>>325390
i write a lot like that and it invigorates me and helps me distribute my time wisely on the things and people i care about. writing to me feels like doomscrolling but only with things that are positive and interesting to me. like granny in front of a slot machine i do it to enjoyably pass the time when i am uninspired. it feels like a scaffolding which i use to climb from thing to thing throughout the day, helping me to make good use of the short human life and (g)row enjoyably on my own stream of content consisting of nothing but the things i believe deserve my attention. no bloat, no spam, no advertisement, no propaganda, no psyops, no degeneracy, just puzzled stares of people who wonder why this man as unkempt as someone who is genuinely homeless can type so fast. it is both peak adult discipline and pure childlike exploration. based on that i am expecting that you are probably experience your capabilities growing.

>>325391
Its called "prole drift"

the erosion of the middle class is tossing mid/low tier normies into working class excess maledom where they are more receptive to these ideas.

grifters know that harping on these ideas will bear fruit because their is now a large audience that is psychologically primed to recieve and internalize BP ideas, whereas, say, in the 2010s, mid-tier succubi were democratized through unique and real-world social subcultures and individuals so that even band geeks got to bang band geek succubi, goths, jocks, scene/emo etc. everyone had a mate.

now that social media has destroyed that and made a horrific monoculture, where succubi can swipe endlessly on a globalized pool of men, crabdom, virginity, and poverty are more commonplace. These are ripe times for the distribution of BP propaganda, even through a contrived, normie lens like clavicular

>>325452
>now that social media has destroyed that and made a horrific monoculture, where succubi can swipe endlessly on a globalized pool of men, crabdom, virginity, and poverty are more commonplace.

it is easier then ever to meet them, i am surrounded by unwanted succubi that no man will ever want. males can live without females easily but females depend on males, as they are collectively about to learn as soon as science stops being blind to gender differences and the first studies will come out that will confirm the female idiots what is already obvious for everyone with eyes to see.

>>323892
There's probably at least one school like that out there

As for the school in general you're talking about plenty of them are going to have their students do a little critical analysis to get it out of their system before they embrace the neoliberal consensus

>>323893
how'd you know, you did not even know what inflation was, meanwhile the boss of your boss of your boss of your boss of your boss of your boss is ruining your life with it. i guess you don't mind as long as there is beer and wrestling.

this seems like a growth that far outpaces any inflation but then again, monopolies don't have budget restriction like every fair/honorable/competitive company that is not owned by billionaires for a plethora of reasons different from the ones that are obvious to the clueless surface people involved, the bunker people have defacto infinite resources. to compare this with an actual company that is subject to markets and the economy with real competition owned by non-cannibals might me ridiculously short-sighted and unrealistic.

>>323882
i ran your retardation through chatgpt for a bit of refinement

>If attention functions as a currency in the monetized internet, then it is being exchanged within a monetary system whose nominal unit—money—is inherently inflationary. But attention itself is not obviously inflationary in the same way. A person has a finite amount of time and, therefore, a finite lifetime supply of attention.
easier to understand

>This creates a tension: the internet continually produces more things competing for attention, while each individual’s total supply of attention remains strictly bounded. In that sense, attention may actually become deflationary at the level of an individual life.
i wholeheartedly disagree with this

as attention is more aggressively sought after, given people's finite capacity for it, more people will turn away/inward and stop paying attention to anything except what they've decided to psychologically silo as important.

>As time passes, the amount of attention a person has remaining decreases, potentially making each remaining unit more valuable.
again, completely disagree with this retarded premise concocted by the Gippity
Youth and beauty are instrumental in driving attention. Old people, especially single men after the age of 35, are economically irrelevant.

I would only argue a persons attention is deflationary the more valuable that person is economically, whether its wealth, connections, fame, status, ie something to offer you in increasingly exponential amounts.

>>325451
>through chatgpt for a bit of refinement

so you are not inexperienced, lazy and unable to think, you are a refined scholar because you use the the solution finder for dummies that the tech-cannibals made that creates a file about you based on everything you admit to it you don't understand and sells that file to the highest bidder.

and i thought you were an idiot, imagine my surprise to learn about your academic ability!

positivity that's something you chose. it's choice. your genes don't limit how often you are positive, your habit does, which you can override with something else and if you can hold it long enough, it will replace the old.

i would start like this: be in optimism for 1 minute every day until it becomes easy, then increase to 5 minutes.

what might help you is building systems that remember your worries for you and allow you to have worries and make decisions based on them without having to have them running in the head.

>>316786
what ended up happening op? are you optimistic now?

Damn, I wish I had parents that were like that. My parents are the most negative people I know. They always think of dozens of different ways anything might go wrong and just talk about them as if bringing them up is somehow helpful.

My parents and I got invited to go watch some music performance where children who were learning to play music performed and my parents just sat there criticizing every little mistake these kids made loudly and in ear shot of everyone who was watching them. I was mortified. I wish my parents could just be positive for one second of their lives. I think their constant negativity is one reason why I feel so much healthier when I'm not living with them.

>>325352
>I wish my parents could just be positive for one second of their lives.
This is going to sound like bullshit pseudo science, but I wonder if it's like an addition problem. Letting off steam by being critical of or otherwise whinging about something can make you feel better for a bit, but some people like your parents just keep doing it chasing a high that they won't feel again until they ease up on the negativity.

>>316786
The most important thing that modern ethos gets right is that gratitude is the key to eternal happiness.

I'm thankful for having been given a life. I'm thankful for having 2 arms and legs, and I'm thankful for every day that I'm given a new day of life to wake up in the morning. Every day I'm given the option to make my life a little more beautiful, and every day I'm given a new set of challenges to overcome. I'm thankful for the good that happened in my life and I'm thankful for the bad that happened in my life. I will never lead the life of a normal person but that's OK, because I'm me and I have been given a cosmic pen to write my own story.

You have to really dig down to some central core in your being to get to this true point though. I went through a lot of suffering to get where I am today, and I'm not sure if it's possible to get there if you haven't gone the flames yet. I suppose that is the story of life though. First you're given it, then you hopefully learn to appreciate it.

>>324611
>I would call knowing someone's thoughts, feelings and life history knowing a lot about someone.

that's probably something you don't think is possible because your religion (normality) has no strong opinion about it. anyways i don't wanna talk to you anymore. i know all about normality so your words are just bloat to me.

>>324612
that's okay

when i engage in optimism and when i think that i love myself, i get a wave of positive feelings though my body as if he understands and appreciates. all you more groupminded /dep/ subscribers probably have very little reference for this.

the only place i have genuinely encountered attempts of encouraging people to self love are old business motivation tapes. other then that i can remember one meme where a female licks a mirror with the letters "nobody likes you. me:" above it.

group people probably don't know self-love is possible. they are programmed to believe in the group so they expect love from the outside unconsciously. other people are supposed to love group people, meanwhile the group ideology makes people unlovable by objectifying them into these kind of people who insist the ends justify the means. irresponsibility is a group-people invention, it does not exist outside of groups. outside of the group, you can go as far as your legs can carry. inside the group you are not allowed to walk until you are instructed to do so but you can't choose where to go.

get this, there was actually a time when there were people hard at work trying to improve the lives of others and wrote books about it and recorded casette audio seminars and self-study courses. these are awesome and they still outclass what gets released today. it could be the case that i simply have not found the good stuff of this time period but what i did find was more like self-harm then self-help.

>>325367
"self-love" isn't some radically new concept. in fact, you'll find it everywhere, from new age gurus, self-help writers, your therapist, your progressive college teacher, your priest etc. they all preach "self-love". it's just not easy to do. you can only love yourself when you don't have a disgusting body and you can make people feel good just by being around them, showing them a smile and some attention. otherwise you're just lying to yourself. maybe you can psyche yourself up for 5 minutes, but your bubble will pop and you're back to self-hatred eventually. you can't fundamentally love something that is shit.

>>325368
>"self-love" isn't some radically new concept.
not for me but for someone like you who has been first broken down by hostility and then strategically recruited by flattery and attention into illusionary group ideology it most certainly would be. the same way it is with computers it would be like finally running your body on a better operating system, not the proprietary garbage that

>you can only love yourself when you don't have a disgusting body.
you probably also have the disgusting mind of vanity and irresponsibility to match. when i try to talk about why you have that mind and that body though you want to repeat the backwards narrative of irresponsibility, which states that you are but a mistreated female and nothing could possibly be your fault. no need to repeat and bring that /dep/ filth in here.

>and you can make people feel good just by being around them, showing them a smile and some attention. otherwise you're just lying to yourself.
that's the kind of thing i mean when i call someone like you easily seduced. you are brainwashed into being controlled externally. even though you have a brain, you let the group turn you into someone who does not use it. the group does that to make you depend on it like a drug and since you never question, you will not figure it out. i don't see how you will break free from your shackles because it would require you to admit fault, which the group irresponsibility seduction has trained you to avoid, so you do it.

>maybe you can psyche yourself up for 5 minutes, but your bubble will pop and you're back to self-hatred eventually.
that's just propaganda your group has installed in you through repetition. your subconscious female mind will accept everything that is repeated loudly. you just look around and imitate whoever is currently in control. normality is a dangerous drug, one day you might understand it and regret having been tricked into it.

>you can't fundamentally love something that is shit.
let me give you the logical conclusion that from that using your language of conformity and disgrace while you insist to be too arrogant to see it: you simply can't be shit. it is a mistake to perpetually chooPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Any good ereaders around 8" that have long battery and SD cards?
Would like to load some manga on there too not just books.

>>323277
>Any good ereaders around 8" that have long battery and SD cards?

depends on if you want a colored e-ink display. i don't know in what fileformat the manga come though.

the biggest color e-ink on a kobo is the kobo libra colour with an 7 inch display and 32gb internal memory and no sd card. assholes took the sd slot out apparently. they say the battery lasts for weeks.

if you don't insist on colour, you can find an older kobo for cheap that has a 6 inch screen and an sd card slot.

i didn't know the newer ones don't have sd card slot, that's quite disgusting behavior by the manufacturer. costs them literally nothing to include an sd card slot in mass production and is imensely useful to whoever uses the device.

>>323280
Yeah couldn't find one with SD card either in the 8" range is why I asked just in case.
Feel like 6" is too small for manga.
32gb ain't much for manga either, it's not horrible, but I'd rather not have to make due.
I'll reconsider if I want one for purely reading.
I don't care for color. Feels like another layer of complexity that could go wrong and is more expensive.

>>323285
>I don't care for color. Feels like another layer of complexity that could go wrong and is more expensive.

i'm hoping for one to be released this year (by kobo, assuming they don't enshittify and keep letting users use a device without account and internet) that is big and uses color so that i can use it for pdf files. some books i can only find pdf versions and converting them to other formats seems like a nightmare. i could use them to look at jamie oliver cookbooks, which are colorfully illustrated and i always enjoyed looking at when i was younger. though it is kind of silly because i don't eat cooked food anymore…

if it comes with a pen i wouldn't mind, maybe it is fun to doodle on the actual pdfs i am reading, that looked pretty cool in videos i have seen about their current biggest reader, something like a ~10inch display.

Americans scream swimming pools must be banned or everyone will die.

>>319709
>>319712
>>319770
>Don't you guys have headache and blurry vision after a while of staring at the PC?
you should get that checked out because that could be a sign of diabetes, macular degeneration, multiple sclerosis, corneal edema or glaucoma. i've been staring at a computer screen all day every day for the past 30+ years and have no issues. only time i have eye strain is if i turn off ambient light around screen (pitch black room) for too long or skip my sleep. as for headaches, i used to get chronic headaches (unrelated to screen time) but cured it with magnesium glycinate supplement

>>324880
> i've been staring at a computer screen all day every day for the past 30+ years and have no issues

CRT monitors cause eye strain you lying retard so if you were using them back then all day and everyday you definitely did experience some issues
It's been proven that crt can cause visual problems such as cvs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_vision_syndrome

Any moment when I am not getting dopamine feels horrible. The silence is immediately filled with disquiet. First come the negative thoughts. If you're lucky, you can gather enough focus to meditate and minimize the anxiety, but the uneasiness will still be there throughout all the breathing and mindfulness, nothing except being on the internet erases it completely. Besides I can't meditate the whole day. If there is no negative thoughts or meditation then I just drift and it's dull. It's so dull I makes feel like I am not leaving. It's like being half asleep or being drugged up. I guess the only way is really to find a different source of dopamine. Nothing will really top the internet/porn/media combo though. That's the best high I can hope for in life. Probably the closest thing to happiness I can feel even if just for a short moment. It's just not sustainable. Isn't it kind of fucked the reason addiction is bad is because it feels so good it makes you scared to face how shitty real life is?

>>324963
real life becomes shitty if you consume too many things that generate dopamine dependence. you need to get back the capacity of being at peace with the simplicity of the life. See, it is about being calm and aligned with the simplicity of life, not looking for pleasure, it comes as a result of a life well lived

>>324965
No, the shittiness of life is inherent. Pleasure just snaps you out of being used to the shittiness. It's like if you grab an African cobalt mine slave and makes him live like a Saudi sheikh for a day, only to throw him back into the mine. The dopamine only makes real life sucks by comparison and makes addicts go into denial of having to live in the real world. If you are rich enough to not care about real life responsibilities, the optimum life to maximize happiness is to hook yourself to a quick and easy dopamine source and forget about the real world. Sure hedonic treadmills and boredom exist, but those can be managed. Still, the optimum happiness producing lifestyle for the rich is definitely to not face the real world. That's just for poor people.

>>324938
The Kalergi Plan is quite real, it's just that it's only focused on territories far away from Israel's immediate control, which is to say North and South America.

Israel can access Africa, Australia, Asia, Russia pretty easily. Everything there's more or less connected, but this isn't so with the foreign and far removed America, which should ever it turn against Israel, won't be easily incapacitated due to the oceanic barrier.

Therefore, to prevent that from ever happening, you make North America India, you make South America Africa.
You want 99% of everyone to be either Indian, black African, a Mexican or a latino. That's to say more mellow, savage and servile.

>>324940
In contrast, you want the more immediate states around you to be robust, powerful, strengthened, well reputed, productive, or aesthetically pleasing.
Immediate for Israel is Eran, Egypt, Babili, Khartage, Europa, Sapta Kashmir, China, Russia, Arabia, Saba, Aethiopia, Victoria, and the list goes on.
It's everything apart from North and South America. And probably, despite it all, India, just 'cos they're filth incarnate, reprobates, heathens, scum made animate, cursed by God to be mongrel ape monkey animals and damned from birth to death. Any proud son of Judah as with all other sons and daughters would advocate for their slaughter. But if reformation is possible, then reformation should be pursued. Once they retreat from the North East, Ladakh, Kashmir, and the Himalayas, is there any reason to antagonize them? Perhaps, but not strong reasons. Certainly not so strong that they override good faith.

>>324928
It'd be pretty bad if you made Russia a proper technological state, given its vector of force depends on exploiting primeval character. You don't need to extend spy and monitoring apparatus beyond stationing humans for the task. Giving people a spy-device and having cameras everywhere won't do. Rather, stationing spies, watchers and men here and there and everywhere is good.
This is a country fashioned so only one region is developed, that being the HQ and place wherein the president rests. Everywhere else, development should be no more than what the common Polish household had in 1994.
Should Russia become significantly more tech-advanced and should monitoring function through complex contraption as opposed to the most simple of means, the primeval element distributed across the nation will vanish, making rebellion and insurgency more likely. This is in contrast to regions elsewhere in the world where urbanization and deploying of devices and cameras lessens rebellion. In Russia, the more widespread opulence becomes, the faster disaster brews. Letting things operate as nature intended with the farmers farming and the business men tending to kiosks and the mechanics doing what they do more than suffices to keeping a lid on things. But if the Russian is thoroughly modernized and given access to all amenities the rest of the world enjoys, the first thing he'll do is stage a a coup d'etatat, and then another, and then another.
The country should be no more modern than Mongolia, which soon it will annex, with some toleration accepted by the spoilt Kazakhstan, which soon it will annex.

Gog and Magog should be just that–savages. Not creatures who carry around future-tier tech. Some fairly modern amenities are acceptable sure, but no further than in Moscow and its outermost zones.

Otherwise, Russia will spiral to collapse. Only diminishment and grey miasma keeps that from happening. Stepping beyond ersatz good and into true good makes the country fall apart.
All that said, Russian borders should be tightened against the Chinese, and maybe it's best to conceive a more robust new intelligence agency. Though saying this, the paradox of a not really monitored but really monitored state via conventional means somehow has to be maintained. It should be possible to run into the forests and escape in the mountains… in iPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>324944
The Mongols were in the illuminati card game I'm sure, and if you hypothesize what the best strategic option with that card is, you end up with Russia annexing Mongolia.. and its brother Kazakhstan.
There's no way the RU can stand against the might of a totally integrated EU otherwise. What option is there but to play the 'Mongol Card'? >>324928

It's been a long time since I've seen a thread hit the bump limit and then start bumping again after the post count went 200% above that limit. I think it was the 2016 US election version of this thread. This one took a good minute to archive off-site and it may have to be excluded from the local archive because our back end has a hard time converting threads this large. I've made a new thread and locked this one.

I'd like to request the guy making the geopolitical predictions with the colored maps to just make your own thread about your interest. It obliterated all other discussion in this historically open, long-lasted thread.

>>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.

>>324791
Mutt's law

>>324662
Wow… I cant believe its been so long. I think I'll look back to the 2016-2025 as the surreal lolcow DEI era…

>>324668
Same as you. I'm looking back and realizing how surreal and ridiculous this was, when back then I just kind of dismissed it as nothing significant.

Mark my words, this will be a real thing in China within a decade. At least for succubi.
They're still at the "we will pay you to have kids" phase, but once their succubi keep being succubi, married to and dependant on the state while chasing an unrealistically high standard in their extramarital dating life, they will move to the stick rather than the carrot.

>>324820
china will try to solve the aging crisis with robotics. other countries will flood in third world migrants