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Canada got rid of the D-glucuronolactone in the original Monster and Monster Zero Ultra. How does this make you feel wizzies? Imo that was one of the defining ingredients in the Monster energy blend, and taking it out makes Monster not too dissimilar from every other energy drink on the market. (It was what caused that specific feeling of stimulation in your cerebral cortex that you don't get with other beverages.)

Also energy drink general I guess

Like many spergs, I was interested in politics since I was young. How ironic, autists study politics, but sociopaths do politics. Anyway.
Most of us are pacified by the elites and given copes to stop complaining. I do believe that nerd culture (bibeo games, Fanko Pops, Star Wars, all that shit) in the 10s was astroturfed by the CIA or some other agency like that to shift the zeitgeist from actually important questions to "Kennedy ruined muh Star Wars" or some other shit. There is no other reason for normies to be interested in fucking Marvel movies, which are such a clear psyop to brainwash the population.
You could see it in popular media too. The goal is to make us live through the rebellion on the screen instead of doing it ourselves. Take the Hunger Games, Star Wars, any piece of media made in the 10s, it's all about sticking it to the big man. It must be inspiring, right? No! We basically see it on the screen, our sense of righteousness is satisfied, and we can go back to gooning to trap porn or whatever.
Additionally, GamerGate (yes, we are going to talk about that) was a way to create controlled opposition on the right and on the left both. They took gamers and forced them to "care" about politics, but this "caring" extended only to shitting on boobs in video games/lack of boobs in video games. It is as if the political charge of the youth was diverted to arguing over the latest balwashed character in YouTube comment session.
There is just no reason for normies to care about video games, but video games are at their peak of popularity. Why? Before, they were the domain of nerds. Now, norms sweat in DOTA 2 or whatever for 3000 of hours. It's clearly a push to divert their attention in the virtual world. And by virtual world I don't mean communities where people can connect and plan together.
Ever wondered why "for you" page exists and why its so different for all people? To divide the population. Nowadays, the algorithm exists to create those small bubbles where people barely interact with anything that doesn't fit their worldview and creates safe spaces of familiar information which doesn't challenge but dulls the mind.(READ THE RULES)

Redditors are anti-human. Their speech is akin to corpo babble, their draconian rules would make the most ruthless dictator on Earth flatter, their mannerisms are passive-aggressive and very feminine in nature. Reddit is like a mix of the HR team from a Silicon Valley company, the most rabid antifa member, an army of socially awkward unhinged manchildren and all the Cluster B succubi in the world.

It’s funny how they act both like a hivemind but also like mindless drones, as if they lacked any semblance of individuality. If you strive just slightly from the norm, you will get downvoted, your post removed and (if you’re lucky) they will ban your account, freeing you from the hassle of interacting with the site. The karma system only serves the purpose of silencing dissidence and rewarding virtue signaling. Like a contest to see who loves mainstream western narratives the most.

What Reddit ultimately reveals is a social pathology created by its own architecture. The platform incentivizes conformity over thought, performance over sincerity, and compliance over conviction. Expression is filtered through an ever-present fear of sanction. Under those conditions, users learn quickly that it is safer to repeat approved thoughts than to think for themselves. The result is a population trained to self-censor and to police one another, lest they offend advertisers.

This is why discourse on Reddit feels less like conversation and more like corporate risk management. Opinions are hedged, emotions are pre-approved, and disagreement is framed as harm. People don’t argue to discover truth but to demonstrate moral alignment. The karma system functions as a behavioral reinforcement loop, rewarding consensus and punishing deviation, until originality itself becomes a bannable offense.

In that sense, Reddit is less a forum and more a training ground for a particular kind of personality, as I described above. The passive-aggressive, feminine nerd who’s more invested in appearing correct rather than being honest, that’s the most common type of user on the platform. It is not surprising that the website feels exhausting to anyone with blood running through their veins and, I will be honest here, anyone with a soul. The system is hostile to actual human beings. It’s no surprise the web is filled to the brim with bots and shills. I’m sure that, except for the small minority of redditors with a pinch of self awareness, most users wouldn’t be aPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

No politics or religion in the crawl thread, please.

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

I'm actually worried about the OS needing ID to even let you use your computer. How TF do you even get around it? Use a non-mainstream OS? Can we even prepare before this happens?

i've seen a few wizards who don't seem healthy.

is too bad because being healthy is easy once you know what matters.
the practice of being healthy i have reduced to managing of habits:

you constantly manage your habits. you find out what they are by doing the opposite of being in autopilot. manual flight. then you imagine the long term consequences of each habit. then you decide if you want those, the development of a desired state. keep the desirable habits, reduce all those you don't want through constant attention on your habits.

as you do this you might stumble upon ways to improve upon the desirable habits. this is almost already doing the next thing, which is finding good new habits to practice and slowly wondering when you have time to do them.

it is up to you to be healthy, it is an option, you can make this happen if you so choose. health is one choice away.

Hitler's thread:
Paintings or things related to him or to national socialism.

- Painting of a castle.

How do you fellow thirdie NEET survive and cope? I am Neet in third world country, I really don't want to return to the call center I used to work from last year ;-; the town I live in went to hell too so virtually no local jobs either, I want to be a NEET all day every day but I am forced to work since I live in a third world country and NEETbucks don't exist here, I also can't afford nice things and hobbies so even NEETing is not really fun but a lesser evil compared to the cagie life to me, not to mention the wages are extremely bad, my former job paid less than 200 USDs a month and I had to work 6 days a week (most people in my country work 6 days a week).

I'm curious what the covid-19 vaccination rate is like among wizards.

Personally, I was the only one in my immediate and extended family to not get the vaccine or boosters. No doubt influenced by the normie propaganda, I faced a lot of harassement and pressure from my mother.

Knowing my family, I would also probably have been uninvited from family gathering for not having the vaccine but since I stopped seeing them 2 decades ago, it was a moot point.

PALESTINE OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZED AS A STATE OR WHATEVER. U.N RECOGNIZES THE INVASION OF THIRD-WORLDERS UPON EUROPE. YOUTUBE ANNOUNCED IT WILL BE RE-INSTATING CHANNELS BANNED BY BIDEN'S ORDERS DURING COVID AND 2024 ELECTIONS. ANTIFA DECLARED A TERRORIST SECT. ISRAEL "ONLY NATION CAPABLE" OF PLANTING CELLULAR MASS-DISRUPTION DEVICES OUTSIDE OF UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY. TIKTOK TREND SHOWS PREGNANT SUCCUBI DOWNING THERAPEUTIC LEVELS OF TYLENOL IN PROTEST OF ANNOUNCEMENT THAT DOING SO CAUSES AUTISM IN CHILDREN

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