/lit/ - Literature

>>20017339
Last night I didn’t attend a party because I miscalculated I would only be there for a couple of short hours. I rarely get invited to parties and this one I invited myself to only turning it down later.

>>20017339
Sir, this is a /lit/

Debating whether or not to go to this party. I really can't be fucked.

>>20017370
Are your friends gonna be there

>>20017339
Name three (3) good things

>>20017389

>>20017339
Posted this in the last one but no one noticed

I was reminiscing with an online friend about when I wrote that consent should be the hands of men, not women in relationships. since this is obviously not the case, it bears in mind why birth rates are plummeting, intelligence is plummeting, all the result of female choice theory. I might even read Lamarck and Lysenko to further my theory, since it flies in the face of Darwin and try to extrapolate this theory further and what its results might look like.

Just as a landscape painting leaves no room for the particular, so does the closeup view make people unable to appreciate the far off picture.

Things are changing, and yet my American friends seem either content to rehash the Trump/Hillery election, or too preoccupied with the same talk of equity and inclusion, that seemed stale 4 years ago.
So drunk on old resentment and prejudice that they see Putin as a hero, for no other virtue then his existing in opposition to their opponents. Or, even worse, so caught up in their minutia that they haven't notice the world shift underneath them.

People, reactions, pro and against have left me more bewildered then ever.

Is it possible to give factual accounts within fiction, or is there a problematising of each when they are brought together? Pic related is the outcome of a writer who went through something (WWII, particularly Dresden Bombing) and the failed attempt to “speak the truth” of it, but who instead embraces blending of modes (sci fi with autobiography and history) and dark humour. I think it’s an interesting case study for history and fiction coming together.

>>20017339
>war begins
>the state flies out all the women to get fucked by and marry foreigners
>men get to stay and die in war they can't win trying to protect the same state that put them in this situation
Why do states hate their male population so much, was it always like this?

Im going gray despite being thirty. People say it represents the missed opportunities.

Test

>>20017794
If you gray before you bald, be happy bro.

>>20017339
I realized that we've been fed a faulty and incomplete worldview, that has a tendency to shit on spirituality and promote unhealthy desires such as nihilism, excessive lust, materialism and other empty values. These values then proceed to bastardize and contaminate literature on pretty much all fields - both fiction and non-fiction, both radical and non-radical.

The only way to break out of this is to find spirituality, but here's the kicker - spirituality has been corrupted as well. All the holy books have been rewritten and revisisted: Bible, Quran, Torah, Bagavidgita etc.

What do bros? I feel like there's something invisible subtly pushing me towards this journey no matter how hard I try resist.

>>20017839
Perennial philosophy

last night i got mugged off like this. u lot having a good weekend?

>>20017872
Thanks anon, seems like a decent start.

The essential thing about silence is not the absence of sounds, but motionlessness. I have tinnitus. Silence should not even be possible for me. It always rings, it squeaks incessantly. But, how funny: this squeaking is itself silence.

>>20017339
Hello /lit/ please remember to:

Have sex, go to gym, be yourself, seek a therapist , take your meds, meditate, go for walks, learn a trade, learn to code, get off social media, call a friend/family, read, listen to audiobooks, invest, write a journal, write 3 things you are grateful for everyday, make your bed in the morning, leave motivational quotes around the house, walk with your head and chest up and shoulders back, stop playing vidya, sneed, stop eating fast food, stop drinking/smoking/doing drugs, maintain a proper diet, keep a routine, compliment at least 1 stranger per day, travel, volunteer, have hobbies involving members of the opposite sex, limit time on phone/internet (especially pornography), dopamine fast, sleep at least 8 hours a night, drink water, pray the rosary 3x a day, think like a winner :)

>>20017914
montaigne wrote an essay about this

>>20017918
you should do like 2 or 3 of those

>>20017918
How about I'm doing NONE OF THEM

Now tjay I work remotely, I have no idea where to live. I’ve considered traveling to various places for a year, but somehow that feels like a waste.

>>20017811
Im not sure about going bald. pretty high hairline.

>>20017919
I'll look into it. Thanks mate.

>>20017339
When your confidence is low the stings of regrets and missing out make their scars ache. How paralysing that pain can be and how clouded your vision becomes.
I’m obsessed with gathering experiences I perceive as normal and common but in my neuroticism I isolate myself, unable to take initiative. Sensing feigned enmity from those around me which in turn becomes real as my desperation manifests.
How do I cope, how do I control my emotions and thoughts that occur.

I've never had any authority or role model. I wish I had a teacher in my youth.

thinking about your mortality when you are suicidal and thinking about it when you like life are two very different things. very strange now to think this will end.

>>20018164
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn1-javV_tM

> want to spend some time traveling
> have to give up a cushy government job and pension to do it

Any femanon wanna be my gf

>>20017799
You failed

>>20018164
Yeah I recently realized that I was just thrown into the deep end. I'm definitely worse for it

>>20018164
robert graves wrote a poem about a neglectful childhood being the circumstances of every really great man ('we shall be too short-handed for interference')

Birth of a Great Man

Eighth child of an eighth child, your wilful advent
Means, as they say, more water in the stew.
Tell us: why did you choose this year and month
And house to be born into?

Were you not scared by Malthusian arguments
Proving it folly at least, almost a sin,
Even to poke your nose around the door –
Much more, come strutting in?

Yet take this battered coral in proof of welcome.
We offer (and this is surely what you expect)
Few toys, few treats, your own stool by the fire,
Salutary neglect.

Watch the pot boil, invent a new steam-engine;
Daub every wall with inspirational paint;
Cut a reed pipe, blow difficult music through it;
Or become an infant saint.

We shall be too short-handed for interference
While you keep calm and tidy and never brag–
But evade the sesquipedalian school-inspector
With his muzzle and his bag.

>>20017370
I went to the party and a hot chick told me I have the best bone structure she's ever seen and got a bunch of photos with me

I was at the library today and there were 100s and 100s maybe 1000s and 1000s of pure there is no series of words to describe the vile worthlessness I suppose sometimes shit can have value but anyway shit.

Shelves and shelves and rows and rows of spiritual death and childish retardation. I suppose to be fair it is incredibly difficult to write a work of fiction of value or importance. And i suppose it better for the public to slurp this slop from here rather than each by their own copy desecrating even more of gods paper and ink.

But to think all this dummy poison was purchased with tax payer funds, this was my communities idea of Alexandria, this the towns living museum to the written word. A conspiricy to dumb and demoralize the citizens, to mock the wretchedness of mychorts illteracy and illtaste, to blaspheme the democracy of pigs. To hate God and Nature so much as to fill my towns temple with the endless detritus of humanities most lessers. To scientifically so strongly tempt the possibility of.

Racks and racks and racks of pointless worthless aboherent deathly books. Who are these creatures that, write, these, who are these creatures that publish these, who are these creatures that read these. Guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty innocent pleasures I suppose.

My fellow man and woman are average, simple humble hard working folks, the world is big and scary and strange. Technology has crept up at the speed of light and engulfed us in it's ceaseless tear. My fellow man and woman require a refuge. Average, simple, humble, hardworking thoughts. At last I understand, and I forgive all.

>>20018733
Did you fuck

>>20018733
Did you give her a large bone to examine?

>>20018327
Don't do it. Just look at pictures of where you want to go, don't you have any vacation time? Wherever you go, there you are. Fall in love, a lover is vacation eternal

>>20018787
I'm on 4chan for a reason

>>20018405
>Any femanon wanna be my gf
Perhaps.
Height:
Weight:
Net worth/income:
Penis size:
Hobbies:
5 year plan:

>>20018802
Why didn't you try to make a move? Get her number? Put your arm around her? Kiss her cheek in one of the photos? She was begging for you to make a move.

Hopefully one learns from their mistakes and there's always next time, hm?

>>20017787
Because women aren't traditionally seen as warrior material

>>20018825
I fuck a lot don't worry - I didn't feel like it and also I have a genital wart on my shaft that I have to get removed . I have the unfortunate affliction of being hot but completely mentally retarded. Hence why I'm here.

>>20018809

I'm gonna be the first guy from this board to make it

Anyone interested in China
https://chinesenationalistmaiden.wordpress.com/
https://counter-currents.com/2017/08/chinas-sinister-strategy-for-global-dominance/
(scroll down to comment by Chinese Nat Maiden)

This person claims to be a Chinese expat and ex CCP from a well connected family and has interesting things to say about the ultimate fate of the CCP and nature of dissidence in China

>>20018809
>Hobbies
Is shitposting a hobby?

>>20018825
>>20018852
proper weirdos

My shit smells really really bad bros.

>>20018915
Aritcle is from 2017.... Sheesh anon that was like 30 years ago.

If an article isn't from yesterday is well past being old news, old hat, as was once said by the ancients

I attended church mass today.

>>20018902
I appreciate this post

I've done it. I've successfully fused Neoplatonism, Epicureanism, Taoism, Science, and National Socialism into one coherent whole. I've accounted for everything.

>>20018902
I already made it bro

>>20018799
I’ve got months of vacation time, but I can’t use it all at once. I can only use a week at a time. I also have the option of working remotely but I can’t leave the country in that case.

>>20019397
Don't quit your job and lose your benefits and stuff. The pleasures of traveling are short lived and fleeting. You have money, you have weeks of vacation time, travel for a week, work a while, travel for a week, work a while, travel for a week, work a while.

Over ten years ago I tried to escape it all and just travel and road trip, it was fun, bit I was young and dumb, and just trying to run away from myself, stress and life uncertainty, now ten years later, or even 5, I never think of those times, their pleasures arent with me. I took some cool photos, and some fun, but that could have been done for a week here, and a week there. What type of work is it that leaving that is so appealing?

>>20018915
https://schillerinstitute.com/blog/2022/01/03/interview-with-dr-george-koo-u-s-confrontation-with-china-is-destroying-the-u-s/

This is a very good read, ERI in general does mostly great stuff.

where's the guy who said he could beat me in a swordfight,

I could beat your grandpa in a fistfight, and your grand-grand-grand-grand-daddy in a swordfight, and then I'd lose the motivation to fight against you because you are the offspring of weaklings

HUZZAH

>>20019610
Finance and accounting, which I do hate but more so I just don’t like where I live, and I fantasize about going somewhere else possibly forever.

>>20018493
Im the eldest one. I was supposed to be the leader, the visionary, the shining example. Yet I fell from my throne to become a complete mockery to my younger brother. And to think he used to look up to me. What a shame.

I need more discipline.

I used to be libertarian, but as I get older and see the reach huge corporations go and the way they how nefastous they become in order to control people and increase their power and profits, I get more and more hooked on socialism.
In particular, I lked the Yugoslavian model of colective property, but a relatively free market.

I can proudly say that in my shitposting career I have not once had a basedjak posted at me

>>20020041

>>20020041
I hate basedjaks too, but there you go, buddy
There is a first time for everything

>>20019797
So why not look for jobs elsewhere? What kind of place you live, where you wanna live,? You said you can work remote? Why not just do it?

I wish I was more creative

I think I'm coming to accept I'll never truly finish this novel. It's been a concept in my head since 2017, but I'm still working on the 2nd draft today. It's too personal, I'm too insecure, too terrified of judgement and putting myself out there. Even at 55-60k words, it seems like a mountain of mistakes/errors to fix, and I no longer have the mental/emotional energy to see it through. It will have to languish on my hard drive, unfinished, until the end of time

>>20020074
it'll be discovered and become confederacy of dunces pt.2

There is is this book read when I was a child and I never found it again. I don't remember its name or then name of its author. I is the first book I ever read, the second one being Grimble.
It was a science fiction about a group of people being sent back in time using something called Element W to the dinosaur era. They tamed them and learned to live in that time and built a base with computers to aid the future humanity to avoid some cataclysm or something. I remember there was a first team that lost contact with the people back in the future and then another team was sent.
I''m not /r/equesting any help, I just remembered it out of a sudden.

I made a book club if u would like to join

https://discord.gg/qNHN8K2PP8

>watching elden ring streams
>nice window in time where people haven't figured everything out yet and it's pretty comfy
>a lot of people do a lot of casting
>many bosses are more than one foe
>just comes down to kiting and spellfighting
I'm sorry but isn't this really gay?

>>20017771
>factual accounts within fiction
You end up with Pynchon then.

my brain has been balkanized

>>20020190
He will come, he will mend the broken pieces, he will make the wrong right.
Wait my brother, the day will come when the sun will shine again.

>>20020204
we had a train station in our small town under tito,
now we have a play station

it feels so good to be me

>>20017339
I am unironically becoming convinced that I have the ability to shape reality to my will, and that kind of power horrified me so much that I have never attempted to use it to its fullest extent because I don’t want to become a tyrannical dictator. Yet sometimes it’s as if I have no direct influence over this power, and the words I speak and write end up effectuating these changes in the world without me ever meaning to. I am an unintentional wizard, and every word I speak is a spell. I feel like a vast majority of Mandela effect confusions are because I keep accidentally meddling with small details and changing the course of history. Something as simple as saying “Sex AND the city” instead of “Sex IN the city” while talking to my gf has retroactively changed the title of the show as if it was always called that. But I know for a fact it wasn’t. I can’t prove it, but I’m certain of it.

At the same time of being fearful of this power, I am well aware of the various catastrophes the world is currently approaching, and I know that my inaction could end the world as we know it.

What would you do in my situation?

My brain is expanding. Cerebral edema.

>>20020461
the only difference between a tyrannical dictator and a hero is whether he does good or bad things. Absolute power is completely neutral until you do something with it, it gives you an equal potential to do good as it does to do evil. Anyway, you obviously have delusions of reference schizotypal maladaptations which you only believe because you want to when intellectually you are probably aware of things like confirmation bias and occam's razor that explain your delusions. just stop believing delusions it's what I did

Can someone explain the hot mean girl in high school to nurse pipeline to me?

>>20020474
> just stop believing delusions it's what I did
>just don’t think about it bro
Rationally I can completely understand how fallacies and cognitive biases can deceive the mind into believing insane things. But the problem is if I talk myself into believing they are just delusions, in reality I’m just casting a spell of enchantment on myself. I’m still a wizard, I’ve just deceived myself into thinking I’m not using the magic that I no longer believe in. My powers are still there, and they’re still gonna cause changes whether I want them to or not, whether I’m even aware of them or not. If anything the spells I have no control over will likely get worse, since I won’t even realise I’m doing it, and I won’t understand what is happening to be able to contain it. It’s a burden that I can’t risk surpressing.

>>20020493
i'm not joking when I say just stop. literally look out the window and find your mind empty, it's all in your head. It's not an act of self-deception or ignoring thoughts that are there. the thoughts aren't there naturally, you are actively thinking them. you bought into the freudian crap idea of "repression" which was supposed to be about sexual deviancy not even thoughts or delusions. The thoughts aren't coming from some magical place in your subconscious that you can only change by ignoring and tricking yourself, they literally aren't there, you are making them up. don't you have a fucking window? I'm not joking when I say just stop, I do it all the time. All you have to do is realize that you CAN just stop and that it is all in your head. you don't have to talk yourself into anything, you have to stop talking yourself into things, like the idea that you are controlling reality. you only believe it because you want to believe it to cope with your lame existence.

>>20020483
Mario

>>20020483
more attractive people are usually more intelligent and attractive intelligent women got fucked by the 21st century because they were indoctrinated to hate ideas like marriage and motherhood so they find the nearest cut and dry career path that will make them money and that's accepted by society for a woman because all they care about as slightly intelligent and therefore oversocialized women is what is socially acceptable - they are raised to believe that it's no longer "in" to just get married but still see nursing as a feminine profession so that's what they do. they got good grades in high school and college but obviously they aren't attracted to any stem field and they have too much ambition to just become a high school teacher (though they don't actually care about the content of academics, only getting good grades, so they won't become a professor) so the logical choice is to do what every semiintelligent attractive woman does in order just to have a life because they were told that they needed to get a job.

>>20020540
> you bought into the freudian crap idea of "repression" which was supposed to be about sexual deviancy not even thoughts or delusions
Where did I say that? Suppressing thoughts is not the same thing as repressed desires.

> they literally aren't there, you are making them up
Sounds like somebody is jealous. Don’t you wish you could fly muggle boy?

> you only believe it because you want to believe it to cope with your lame existence.
My existence is pretty good all things considered. I have a stable job, a gf, house, etc… yes I might also have magical powers, and have to deal with all of the pressure that brings, but that’s probably the most difficult part of my life. I’m not inventing them to make my life better, if anything they’re the only thing making my life worse.

Honestly, I think you might be projecting dude. Just because your magical powers were a manifestation of your dissatisfaction with your own life doesn’t mean that mine are. My powers came from magic beans.

I'm noticing a lot of posters calling other posters 'russian bots'. It is become really common in the last week.
Like fuck.. It wasnt that long ago that anyone who said 'russian bot' was called a shareblue tranny and told them kys. Now you cant even say something as simple as the media is spreading misinformation without being called a shill.

>>20020605
Have you performed any simple experiments on yourself or have you merely relied on retrospective ad hoc connections to prove your hypothesis? Of course you probably wouldn’t accurately interpret your own data and would misconstrue your own predictions and move the goalposts to force your experiments to verify your hypothesis, but I’m sure you can find a third party parapsychologist willing to research your mind’s ability to control reality. Of course you won’t do any of this because it would disprove you and you would have to admit you are schizo. I tried reasoning with you but you clearly have no desire for truth and no self awareness

>>20020647
Have you ever fallen for an elaborate ruse before, my armchair psychologist friend?

>>20020550
?

>>20020652
have you, newfag? anyway I'm not stupid but I'll take any post seriously because I see myself constantly saying things seriously that I know people will think is ironic.

>>20020483
I think it is about power and control over other people and being the first in line to fuck the doctor.

I think I joined a cult

>>20020712
Do elaborate. The fact that you seem uncertain as to whether it is or isn’t a cult is very intriguing.

>>20020483
Effort to reward ratio

>>20020724
he probably joined some zoomer discord server

>>20017918
>Have sex,
And how do you suppose I do that realistically? How do I got on more dates than I already am? How do I get those girls to take me home/go home with me? And if you're answer is the objectively false "just keep trying bro, you're doing great" then seriously, have sex by going and fucking yourself.

>>20019639
Isn't the Schiller Institute the Larouche people?

>>20020747
apparently you just have to say "I won't take you out unless you tell me whether you will have sex with me tonight"

>>20020461
Anon, pay very close attention, I need you to say out aloud
>that anon who posted a picture of the band Cinderella is fucking that model Farah Holt and has a development deal with HBO
you must use your wizard power for the good... the good of me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUDyxQi_SR8

>>20020776
But there is a high likelihood they could all say "none". The question wasn't "how can I increase certainty about whether I will have sex?" but rather "how can I realistically have sex?"
It's very similar to asking not "which of the chocolates have rum inside and which ones don't?" but rather asking "how can I get even more of the chocolates with rum inside?"

>>20020739
No
>>20020724
I joined a non denominational church about five years ago. I was really lonely and depressed and they were very kind and inviting. Its not like most Christian churches. For example there is no priest or minister. Everyone is ostensibly equal.
The reason I'm starting to suspect its a cult is that they're really intrusive into the members personal lives. They teach that we have to give up our individuality and function as collective agents for the Church. they teach that asking questions or acting as individuals is Satan's influence. They really take the idea of being born again seriously and say we should always be praying that God break us down and reform us. It recently dawned on me that all of those are things cults do to mind break people.
My problem is that I know a christian lifestyle is supposed to be demanding. I just dont know if these guys are taking it the wrong way.

>>20020791
what is your favorite telepath release?

>>20017794
We're in the same boat.
t. going gray at 20

>>20020874
I haven't listened to all of them yet, but interstellar love and 未来へ are my favs so far. wbu?

>>20020804
>they teach that asking questions or acting as individuals is Satan's influence
major red flag right there. All religions ask you to join a collective, you can’t have communion without community after all. But if you’re not allowed to learn about your faith by asking questions, then they’re subconsciously admitting that the religion won’t stand up to even the slightest amount of scrutiny.

Of course, there’s a very fine line between a religion and a cult, and in fact all religions rely on cultlike practises to ensure a degree of compliance. So it seems like a pretty bad gig either way imo. My advice would be to get out, whether you believe it to be a cult or not. There are far better ways to practise your faith, and plenty of denominations out there that encourage you to question and thereby strengthen your faith by overcoming those doubts. But any religion that forces you to repress them knows that even the slightest bit of doubt will bring the whole charade crashing down.

>>20020061
I would just like to leave my country. As for the job, I don’t even care but what I have now is convenient and I don’t think I’d look for anything else. I’m actually already remote as well but the thing about remote work is that while it means you don’t have anywhere in particular you have to be, you also don’t have anywhere in particular you should be. So I’ve just been staying with family these past few months and at my age, that’s not good.

I want to cry for all our fallen soldiers in the Russo-Ukrainian War, Yemeni Crisis, Tigray War, Iraq War, Cold War, Mexican Drug War, Russo-American War, War of Attrition, Züriputsch, Flower war, Battle of Crécy, Amadu's Jihad, Battle on the Ice, Basi Revolt, Rising of the North, Guelders Wars, The Troubles, Gombe Chimpanzee War, War of the League of Cambrai, WWI, Punic Wars, Kosovo War, D-Day, Toyota War, Revolutionary War, Tigray War, Kurukshetra War, First Messenian War, War on Terror, Civil War, Trojan War, Gulf War, War in Darfur, War in Catatumbo, Toledo War, War of the Ring, Saturday Night Massacre, Central African Republic Bush War, Battle of Banquan, Battle of Red Cliffs, Battle of the Ten Kings, Great Northern War, Second Ivorian Civil War, Conquest of Ha'il, Emu War, Pig War, War of the Golden Stool, Butlerian Jihad, Battle of Changping, Acoma Massacre, Second Italo-Ethiopian War, Social War, Palm Sunday Coup, Hoysala-Persian Wars, War of the Priests, Taba Crisis of 1906, Tedbury's War, The Three Years' War, Battle for Castle Itter, Battle of Fishguard, War of the Two Peters, Siege of Kazan, Infinity War, Kinmon Incident, Sheepeater Indian War, 2007 Bosnian Crisis, Cauldron War, Pastry War, War of the Seventh Coalition, Young Turk Revolution, First Wizarding War, Somaliland Campaign, If Day, Football War, First Intifada, East Prigorodny Conflict, Bahia incident, Great Conspiracy, Battle of the Frogs, Crazy Snake Rebellion, Quasi-War, Animal Revolution, Invasion of Grenada, Mongol Invasions, Battle of Mag Itha, Long Turkish War, Battle of Asakai, Unification of Hawaii, Iranian Revolution, Whisky War, Operation Traira, Vue Pa Chay's revolt, Franco-Prussian War, Beaver Wars, Battle of Corrin, Battle of Lake Baikal, War of the Reunions, War of Vesosis and Tanausis, Clone Wars, 1945 Hazara Rebellion, Mad War, Dano-Swedish Wars, Reconquista, Battle of Ramelle, Roman Servile Wars, War of the Bucket, Siege of Candia, Rákóczi's War of Independence, War Plan Red, Third Mithridatic War, Anglo-Zanzibar War, Battle of Stirling Bridge, Æsir–Vanir War, Soest Feud, Incident at Petrich, First Crusade, Intervention in Chaldia, Time War, Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War, Aga's Siege of Uruk, Eighth "Star War", Vietnam War, War of the Three Sanchos, Napoleonic Wars, War of Jenkins' Ear, Serbian Revolution, Eelam War IV, War of the Roses, Bellum Batonianum, Battle of Karánsebes, Korean War, Sargon's Campaigns Northeast of the Akkadian Empire, and the Bread and Cheese Revolt.

>>20018802
kek

>>20021003
Oops I put Tigray War twice.

I have so much nigger fatigue. I’m ready to move to Central Europe at this point.

Can she do better? That's the question she would ask herself. That's the question that I ask myself. She probably can. I should tell her that I'm sorry that I talked her ear off and that I'm more abnormal than I used to be. I'm less socialized than I used to be. I've spent too much time in my head lately. Too much time alone. The pandemic and working at home. And also, seriously, do I want a long-term relationship with her? Because that's what we're both sizing each other up for. Am I in a mental space to do that, specifically for her. ? I sort of feel like the answer is no. And that was my point earlier, that I'm weirder than I used to be, I think. Because I've spent too much time alone and such due to the pandemic and working from home. I've made everything removed and abstract and at arm's reach and calculated and quantitative. Shrewd. Calculating. I forgot to tell you about how you made me think about apparent incoherence and how one might appear hypocritical but really not be. And also about how I was thinking about and admiring your strategy of harvesting the low hanging fruit.

On the one hand I think I'm some big shot catch, on the other i recognize that she hasn't texted me in 7 hours, clear sign of disinterest. That means today was unsuccessful. Because I was trying to get her to like me, because I like her. I like spending time with her. I don't know if i want a long term relationship with her, but I know that I'd keep hanging out with her.

I'm sorry that I made her hold on to a cup for so long in the cold.

So, that's worth noting. The interesting piece is that the other girl is very interested in me, and I haven't texted her all day... Dang, I'm sorry. But that differential. Gives me a clear idea of my worth. Less than the first girl but more than the second. It is a decent, not an awful position.

Imagine democracy, but normies could comprehend the fact that rich people tend to consolidate power in cabals and exercise their power immorally and illegally. The more time passes by the more obvious how crooked and machiavellian this international regime is. But at the same time, It once our home too.

This worldview doesn’t offer guidance, clarity, nor does it’s leaders speak of any sense of asceticism for its people, is centralizes on our vices to consolidate power for themselves in order to keep the plebs in line, by any means.

an interesting question is whether you believe there is someone above putin
is there someone out there who, if they were upset with his actions, could force him to act otherwise?

>>20020914
Not him but the first four from this album are insane in replay value
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dc7dnYGDxI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oeYIiUNlqc

>>20020483
the alternative pipeline is administrative assistant -> project coordinator -> project manager

>>20021467
Xi obviously. He must have consulted or at least warned him about what was going to happen. Russian troops left the Chinese border to fight in Ukraine. China has parroted Russian terminology (i.e. "special military operation" and condemned the expansion of NATO).
Having said that, Xi obviously wouldn't want a 1917 situation to happen again in Russia where the country devolves into civil war and breakaway states. Nor would he want a pro-western leader to replace Putin.
I believe Putin's actions are constricted by what Xi will allow, but Xi also is cognizant of how much pain the collapse of the Putin administration would bring him.

>>20021239
>I have so much nigger fatigue.
Then stop staying awake during real nigger hours bro.

>>20021650
>during real nigger hours bro
If you live in america then real nigger hours are 24/7, 365

>>20021239
I was just driving through the downtown zone of a black majority city. Cops had shut down a whole block. Three blacks were in handcuffs, some black kid was running away, and a whole squad of cops were armed with their guns pointing at a building. A group of blacks were around recording everything with their phones. This place is such a shit hole that I doubt what ever happened will make any headlines.

>>20021659
So you live in Chicago, in an apartment building full of black families, and you miss the farm you grew up on

>>20021649
Chinese media says Xi's been talking to Putin over phone about being diplomatic with Ukraine, and that Xi respects all sovereignties and peace, which is funny because Xi is planning his own invasion of Taiwan.

>>20021239
I know that feeling. I thought I had it bad years ago, but it has gotten exponentially worse since 2016. I can't go five seconds without seeing egregiously bad behavior that seems like it would have been a one-in-a-while anomaly several years ago, and it's always, always a black person. Walk a few blocks and you'll see at least a dozen cars with smashed in doors and bumpers, duct taped front ends barely holding on. Always black. Go for a 20 minute drive and you'll almost die 10 times to blacks racing, blacks putting a dozen lives in danger to cut you off, running reds, doing illegal turns. They're always screaming, they're always fighting, they're always menacing and threatening, looking to start a fight at Walmart. They harass any white woman they see. All unemployed, all walking around high as hell on weekday afternoons. Any loud noise or inconsiderate behavior is always coming from them.

They all have a massive chip on their shoulder, you can tell a lot of their bad behavior is motivated by it. Resentment, arrogance, poor impulse control. And throughout all of this the media is shoving them down your throat, have to listen to fifty adverts about how blacks created the sun and blacks invented the wheel.

>>20021649
>Xi obviously.

I knew some shit was going to happen when he came out and said that History hadn't ended yet. Didn't expect this, but it was clearly a signal that things were going to heat up.

>>20021667
To be fair, even Macaroon has been in constant communication with Putin. But the Chinese FM's repudiating of NATO expansionism is the clearest indication of their tolerance at least or even approval of Putin's "special military operation".
>and that Xi respects all sovereignties and peace, which is funny because Xi is planning his own invasion of Taiwan.
Easily reframed by means of "One China Policy". If China does invade Taiwan, they will say it is not a violation of any state's sovereignty, since they will claim Taiwan is not a sovereign state.
I see this situation as much less likley simply because there's a huge body of water dividing the two, Russia was able to simply roll in the convoys and despite surprising their own soldiers and completely neglecting the logistics, have managed to take a substantial part of the second largest country in Europe.
Managing the same feat with a huge sea between you and Taiwan is going to be logistically so much harder. I don't rule it out for the reasons >>20021688 this anon has alluded to.
Also, yes, I'm a fucking armchair general and I know absolutely nothing.

Why are we, as humans, so obsessed with female virginity? Despite the many differences between the genders, we ultimately have many of the same desires and needs. We all want to feel wanted. Why do we punish women for having the same desires as us?

>>20021682
On the morning train, I see at some stations two ads side by side, one is the typical race mixed couple, the one beside it is for some kinda herbal remedy for tiredness obviously aimed at commuters, it says in big writing "Are you tired?". Always makes me chuckle.

tell me about vaginas embedded in monkeys; is it really the best weigh too experience the universe?

>have a head cold
>sweating, hot flashes, dizzy
>feel sick all week
>still get drunk on a saturday night
what the heck is wrong with me? I need to drink water and sleep this off but here I am drinking beer all fuggin day??

>>20017787
I mean, on the bright side you get to die a glorious death and enter Valhalla. The women gotta stay in this shitty world.

>>20019358
Ok but does this complete the system of German idealism?

>>20021887
Girls give birth while men don't, so girls have to be more responsible, and sex causes more problems for girls.

>>20021887
lol

>>20021923
Bc women get pregnant. Or did until the pill. And now they can choose not too. But then we don’t have a lot of babies. And that means less people. But virgin woman means uh naive and controllable. And uh you gotta keep the woman controlled or uh they start having the wrong kind babies. Hence, hijabs. Hence, uh brazzers porn.

>>20018786
My library offers manga, graphic novels, and trade paperbacks (comic book compilations).

Pretty boss considering I only read books on my phone/tablet but appreciate physical media for visual arts.

watching people cheerlead war is sickening. cheerleaders for war, of any kind, are sickening. every person who supports war should be forced to visit a hospital for people who have lost limbs and faces in war, or watch 100s of twitter videos of dead teens with their guts hanging out and faces blown off from ukraine.

i dirnk too much.i shoud slow down.

>>20020914
yeahh those are both so goodd esspecially the first track off interstellar love. one of my favorties
i have so many favorites but this one comes to mind first
https://youtu.be/APZ4Bsu-yXk
i used to listen to this so much back when i was addcited to shrooms. i dont even listen to it much anymore because it brings back too much nostalgia. but yea this is probably my favorite.
also i love this one too
https://youtu.be/IrAerdma7PE
honestlythers so many i could link. theres too many goood albums i coudl go on forever. im pretty sure statistsiclly teleapth is my most listened to artist of all time

>>20021917
It takes two to tango. If anything, it's men who should be more responsible. They can fuck all the women they want without a condom and cum inside and ghost all of his sexual partners without having to worry about the responsibility of being a father. It's women who have to bear the burden of bringing a child into this world for years if she manages to get pregnant just once (that is, if she does not abort. I don't give a shit about abortion btw)

>>20017339
Hmm today I will pray for forgiveness
*worthless*

>>20021987
So you think girls can't take responsibility for themselves. I think I agree with you, but I doubt we can go back to how it was in the past soon. The best option we have is to teach men and women about the value of virginity.

>>20017339
>sleep
>have night terrors that advance into paralysis and false awakening loops
>wake up for real
>completely disoriented, don't know if I'm actually awake or not
>drenched in sweat but also freezing cold
>still exhausted
>roll over and go back to sleep
>more night terrors
>repeat for like 12 hours

>>20022041
Who you gonna call? Ghostbusters! (God save this mans soul)

>>20017339
I feel like I’m literally going insane. Today my good friend in response gave me seemingly cliche answers like “live in the moment” and such. But he does seem happy and god knows I’m only looking forward to something that’ll come in a few years so I might as well take his advice. Imma stop being a bum and get a job first though. Gotta being broke if I want to do anything.

>>20022090
*stop being

>>20022090
There is somethung legit about the whole carpe diem thing. Dont you ever just want that feeling of experiencing a thing? Normalfags feel this constantly. Theres a certin autism you just need to let go of. Ive been experiencing the samw thing

>>20022222

>>20017339
I've really done a number on myself

>>20021948
>every person who supports war should be forced to visit a hospital for people who have lost limbs and faces in war,
You're right. It is sickening. But if they're so heartless as to cheerlead and advocate for war I somehow suspect it wouldn't change their minds and more importantly their hearts.

>>20021966
What do you do for work now bro?

spent my last 50 dollars on 3 books ive already read but didnt own, im fucked... does paper have any calories?

>>20017339
God watches over drunks and fools, but does He forgive them?

>>20022305
Only if they ask to be forgiven.

>>20022324
Why are you so wise?

>>20022327
Im not wise.

I have a seething hatred for writers whose prose has no cadence, rhythm, or interesting sentence structure, whose plots are derivative upon derivative, who writes genre fiction at its worse, but succeed not despite, but because they do all those things. I want to be a successful writer, but writing literary genre fiction that I'd like to read first and foremost, but know this is unlikely.

>>20022334
We get it, you hate Sanderson, so does everyone else here.

It's funny how much cock an ugly chick can get just by being a slut

>>20022398
>spreading legs
truly the hardship

It's crazy how much AIDS changed sexual culture, that boomers and even X'ers to some extent were just raw dogging random chicks constantly on the weekend.
It is almost laughable when you hear about guys being in longterm relationships and never actually having felt their partner's pussy if she isn't on birth control.

I think the critique of modern day sexual dynamics is too focused on who is doing what to whom. You have this whole other dimension where even very sexually successful people are really just fucking plastic bags.

>>20022419
I rawdogged too much and now I have herpes

Twunks.

>>20021916
in the process of completing it it refutes it that's why I didn't include it

I need money, bills are coming and I don't know how to pay them and I didn't manage to get an internship, a complete failure
I think I'll drop college to work

I need a job that gets me out of the computer

I have decided to go back to smoking weed since I haven seen no difference after a 3 month break.
To compensate for it I got a gym membership and will work out no less than 3 times a week.

I really wish someone could disabuse me of my interest in Japan because the way it is now, I still want to move there even though I know it would never work out and I’d never fit in.

>>20022907
Security.

It’s the best job to work for like a year if you can afford to, especially if you’re a writer.

>>20022041
Used to have this exact problem in 10th grade, usually best thing to do is stay calm. If you can (this sounds weird but it worked for me) use your tongue and try to lick yourself to stimulate your skin to snap out of the paralysis. For some reason I was able to move my tongue during sleep paralysis. Hope this helps, if it keeps persisting at the level you described id get actual help.

>>20017339
i fucked my knee up real bad last night. it hurts

Want to write a book about the social atomization of younger people, but I don't know anything about zoomers and don't like them very much.

ATTENTION CHUDS

By spreading antisemitism, you encourage a jewish identity and a stronger jewish force that will destroy you.

Abandon antisemitism, and the "jewish problem" will disappear as jews will no longer feel threatened.

You're only hurting your cause.

You've been warned.

>>20023511
Thanks rabbi but I would give you the same advice.
Forget about your jewishness

Reminder! If there's a stranger conversing with someone else and you overhear certain phrases or words that seem relevant to your own personal experiences, don't panic! They're not stalking you! Instead, they're actually being parasitically hijacked through wireless neurological conditioning that is being controlled by trauma-induced programmed wetware that has been told it's a demon (or something) and is now toiling with your life through the mentally malleable underclass of an invisible Semitic Supremacist technocratic empire that has achieved feats of philosophical and scientific endeavors the global populace have essentially zero understanding of.

You're just a small irrelevant guinea pig perceiving a minor novel experience of the relationship of power that is silently consuming your world. The will of the world will be harnessed by this crypto supremacist elite and humanity as you know it will be silently dismantled of its agency and power. There is one thing, however, you can do to turn this all around...

Just be yourself! :)

Where the fuck did Monday go?

it's really something that all the wit in the world can't hold a candle to an unexpected and well timed fart

>>20020799
You sound like a total sperg.

>>20018786
>>20021944
To be fair one if the base grest values of fiction is to activate and excersize the visualization capabilities of the imagination. To even say; the hero leaped and tumbled and shot flames out of his hands which cascaded into the tree which lit on fire and burned the bad guy who was wearing red socks and a purple cape, who fell to the ground a squashed a squirrel

Is excersizing the imagination to conurjure visions and actions which maybe can transfer over to helping it navigating the peopley world

One of my favorite anime tropes has to be the romance MC who:
>Is unathletic
>Is untalented
>Is unintelligent
>Doesn't have any hobbies
>Either has a bad personality or keeps to himself
>Is at most a 6/10 as far as looks go
And for some reason, the hottest girls in class all have a crush on him. This type of shit gives the average viewers of these shows, who self-insert as the MC, way too much hope and will only lead to crushing disappointment later if they have yet to enter high school or unhealthy escapism if they are currently high school age or older.

my mattress has hella cum stains but one spot has become especially dark brown because i guess i've been hitting it over and over

>>20023667
just realize that japs are subhuman and stop watching their deviant virulent brain sucking mind infecting brainwashing fetish cartoons
also >>20023666

I feel like falling in love with the first woman I meet

4chan is no longer at the cultural vanguard, zoomers have moved on to Tiktok which has become the new culture-maker and epicentre of the internet. I suspect that this site will no longer attract any new blood, and I can only hope that as it fades in popularity it will retain a better class of posters. Or maybe the election was this site's final deathblow, and I should simply leave.

>>20024167
4chan was always shit

>>20024167
This would be true if zoomers weren't a new breed of troglodyte incapable of "leading" anything, they are subhuman followers who can't create, only repeat faded versions of what other people created, in broken slurred Californian English and with feminine gratuitous emotional displays

>>20022238
catering. there i said it.

I've renewed my decision to become a whoremonger. Women are too attractive to give up on them, but also I don't care about them or like them enough to put in unique effort each time.

Girls keep saying that they'll give me a makeover, but then they never do it. It's happened several time before.

>>20024203
Any time a woman says something I just hear the sound of the ocean, like putting a sea shell up to your ear.

>>20024185
Go outside

>>20024192
Dont be ashamed of doing honest work.

>>20024217
Don't downvote on 4chan.

>>20024217
>t.

>>20024221

You know what I hate? How all modern furniture is literally just worse than furniture from a couple decades ago

>>20024167
Tiktok is another ultra-politically correct den of faggotry and is basically just an app for underage teens and the pedos that want them to dance half naked to the latest vulgar negro boggie dance. It's still mostly stupid or average people sharing half-baked illiterate uninformed opinions but at least 4chan requires basic reading skills to use.

>>20024167
>It will retain a better class of posters

And why would that be the reality of it? From my years of observations, obstinate people have been the source of all of 4chan's problems, and obstinate people will be the ones who stays. As long as these obstinate people exist, you would not be in good company wherever you are.

>>20024318
Theres extremely popular right wing content on tiktok thats roping in all the young guys. I'm so tired of you clueless fags who make broad assumptions about everything based on a handful of angry schizoid posts on 4chan.

>>20017339
Been binge watching these 1950s high school exchange debates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjIg60Si3i8&list=WL&index=121

>>20024236
Yeah cause best way to measure a countries' success is what 8-12 year olds say they want to be....

>>20024347
The source of 4chan's current problems is tourists who arrived because of 'epic' meme screencaps posted to other websites during the American election, who use this site to shitpost before going to back to Twitter or Reddit. I am hoping that as 4chan becomes irrelevant to internet culture these people will move on, or at the very least we won't get any more of them, and a core of obstinate autists will once again comprise the majority of 4chan's userbase.

>>20024314
Function overfashion, profit overquality.

A table is a table. A chair is a chair.

The cheapest to make, while making the most, quickest that can be sold for the most/least, must be the best for all. If a table holds things it's the best, if it's light weight easily moveble, better. If you can sit in a chair, it is the best chair.

>>20017339
Found myself explaining the concept of false awakening loops to a none existent person I believed to be in my room in the midst of a false awakening loop. Told him I wasn't sure if any of this was real and evidently it wasn't

No way. Is this right?

>>20024523
Form over function yes of course
Everything else you just said no bad

>>20024545
I'd tell you if I had any idea what I was looking at

>>20024552
It's an R2-vector bundle embedded in a trivial R3-vector bundle.

>>20024566
Thanks for clarifying, I completely understand now

>>20022090
I go on autistic rants about any and every paradox we face today and get blank stares followed by a slogan as you described.

my friends tell me I'm crazy for loving a girl with a boyfriend. they tell me I'm crazy for wanting to experience any extreme human emotion. I talk about how I hate this person or exalt this person and they appear frightened by this overflowing of passions. I can't stand it anymore.

The anonymous puts the name in place, leaves it empty, as if the name were there only to let itself be passed through because the name does not name, but is the non-unity and non-presence of the nameless

Can you really introspect by loudly talking with yourself?

>>20024884
Yes.

>>20024784
Sounds like they're giving you sound advice. You can't exist at that kind of fever pitch for long. You sound extremely young.

Oi, eek... spounculer. Aghh! Gash, garnish, diminish! I dasheded. Sweepingly, twistingly wounds pouring, breaking dust does as goingward. Egad says spounceler. The meek weeping yonder streetlike lamp in dark breaks yonder Sun hanging. Fist bouncing like fish flapping on spounceler skull destroyer vertebraege to strips the structure spounceler lifeless.

>>20024314
Kind of. Good furniture just got very expensive is all.

I feel that modern America is closer to the spirit of Ancient Greece and Rome than any other country is, but most people would say that's ridiculous. But take away the worship of aesthetics and they're not that far apart. Especially with Rome.

>>20024295
Americans have a pathological disdain for labor

>>20024314
i recently paid $600 just to get a VERY basic desk
all i wanted was a wooden desk with four legs
everything is grossly overengineered with useless clutter or looks awful or is made of absolute garbage
it is a nice desk/table though, and i would recommend it:
https://smartfurniture.com/products/rectangular-everywhere-table-by-herman-miller/

I love little girls. Two eggs. Two pieces of toast. That's what I had for breakfast. I usually only have 1 of each, but today I was doing a lot of manual labor and decided that my body could use the extra food.

>>20024951
Doesnt talking take the energy away from thinking?

>>20024784
Interesting perspective. Humans do have such emotions and to deprive yourself of the human experience is a strange one.

>>20025026
Not American. Also i was just having fun with some tradie propaganda. While I am a lazy person I do not hate work and I'm happier than I've been in a long time since I started working again.

When I get too anxious, sad or angry I just hit myself in the head and body very hard. I't been a good time I didn't do it, but it happened today.
I just hope I haven't caused any brain damage with this.

>>20024784
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limerence

You should read Brave New World. It's exactly about that.

>>20025155
For me the talking allows me to get into a kind of flow state where my thoughts come out incredibly easily and far more developed than usual.

Living with strangers kinda sucks but the upside is that it forces me out of the house a lot more in order to avoid them.

Its interesting that a lot of author's first novels didn't get published until after their deaths - usually because they didn't think they were any good and were a bit embarrassed by them. It takes some of the pressure off. Your first novel might be shit, but the act of writing it is still worthwhile. If nothing else it teaches you discipline and proves to yourself that you can do it.

All I ever wanted
All I ever needed
Is heeere
In
My
ArmsS
Words are very
Unnecessary
They can only do haaarm

>>20024951
I'm 24. Since birth I've only known work, discipline and 'rationality'. The past 6 months have been the most spectacular and alive I've ever felt despite the debilitating lows and lack of productivity. It feels as if slowly submitting my mind over to this person has unwound me and has opened my eyes to my own self and the world which I am made up of.

Now imagine if I took their advice from the start. I'd never see the effects of my gnawing mind, or my state of maximizing economic utility at all costs. I'd never experience the scenes of tension and insane theatrical gestures I pulled in attempt to win her over. In short, I'd continue in the calm and let the ink and screen give me the conflict. I know its killing me but in a world that attempts to deny death, it is paradoxically the only thing that smells of life.

don't waste your time on me you're already the voice inside my head

>>20025624
We're the same age but you've lived a very different life than I have. Meditation is what opened my eyes up to the depth of feeling that is possible but I seek it out in meaningful things.

>>20025674
if my voice was in your head you wouldn't be such a retard (or a faggot)

>>20024295
I have a bullshit job, but I tell other people I "type on the computer" for a living and it makes me sound humble and down-to-earth. Hopefully they don't catch on.

now that i've realized my problems are physical and not mental (located in the amygdala, basal ganglia etc rather than the frontal cortices) it should be quite easy to remove them

I have a degree in political science and philosophy, concrete skills in data analytics and visualization, and a foreign language as a minor. I'm a summa cum laude graduate for a top public university. I have a portfolio of projects and essays, multiple academic awards and scholarships, and an extensive work history.

I have probably applied to 300 jobs in pretty much every related area in the year that I have graduated, I have gotten 3 interviews and 2 of those employers ghosted me afterwards, the other rejected me. I regularly hear back 6+ months later from jobs I applied from. The vast majority of applications I submitted I simply never receive a response at all, or even an acknowledgement the application was received.

The only people employed in their field who I graduated with that I know, which is a small sample but still, majored in computer science. That's it. That's where all the "high paying" jobs are that are open to entry level candidates. For all the other "open jobs", it's either gas station or construction tier manual labor shit for 15 an hour, or it's positions which are usually filled due to nepotism or internally but have legal requirements to be posted externally. At least that's what I tell myself. I've tweaked my resume dozens of times, wrote cover letters, heck even lied and exaggerated my skills: no dice. Is it because I'm a white guy? Is it because I don't have social media so the roasties at HR filter me? Is it because I'm not hitting the magic secret keywords in my resume that I need to not be filtered by bots? I have no idea. But all I know is that there is a giant disconnect between the "labor shortage" that is talked about and the actual reality of hiring right now.

I'm going back to school to be a teacher because that field is so in demand and brutal that I know I'll at least have a job with some security and benefits. It's insane out there. I think affirmative action in some fields has gotten insanely out of control, that's my guess

How I should spend my day
>Practice programming for my job interviews
How I spend my day
>Look up musical instruments popular in antiquity
>Watch British man talk about video games for an hour
>Drink 3rd cup of coffee for today
>Pass entire day dreaming about random cool stuff I could be doing instead

Some years ago an anon here recommended I read the well of loneliness. Now I'm a lesbian... Thanks anon.

>>20025801
Exactly the same story anon. Graduated top of my class at a prestigious university - did internships etc. Doesn't mean shit. Hundreds of job applications, lucky if I even get a rejection email 6 months later. Every job I've ever got in my life (aside from like shelf stacking) has been because I knew someone in the organisation. All my friends with jobs in their fields are the same. I have some connections now that I'm trying to leverage but to be honest I will probably end up teaching too. There's a massive demand for it in my country and the security appeals to me. As you say, it is a brutal and often thankless job, but fortunately I have done a lot of part time teaching in the past and I know that I enjoy it so it's not like I'm signing up for something I hate. The goal is to specialise in an in demand subject and then you've got a better chance at landing a decent school. Plus, if you've got good grades in undergrad that is genuinely desirable and gives you better options too.

Ultimately I've come to accept that my fortunes in life will be different to my parents and that's ok. Life is life.

>>20025801
Studying EE instead of geopolitics/history(the closest thing I have to a passion) for this reason. I'd like to marry my girlfriend before it's too late.

>>20025801
>>20025861
At least you can both rest easy tonight knowing that many of the jobs you applied for were given to diversity hires and incompetent women because nothing is done according to merit anymore and the entire world is a Snakes and Ladders game of shuffling mental retards around.

>>20025872
What's EE? Early education?

>>20025801
>>20025861
I don't know how true these stories are, but I wonder how you guys feel about those who don't try as hard. Would you tell them it was worth all that effort to be top of the class? What would you tell the next generation? I'm curious. It's weird to see extremely hardworking people get such a slap in the face.

>>20024203
You do two things. Scoff at them, "no you won't" so she feels the need to double down with some stuff about how she's always good as her word. And then when they protest say "is Saturday afternoon okay" ask them for details which store to meet at. until there's an appointment no one really is committed. Especially with regards to women.
>>20024314
Cars too
>>20025674
say it ain't so. turn the lights off. carry me home
>>20025801
>Is it because I'm a white guy? Is it because I don't have social media so the roasties at HR filter me?
It's not you. It's systemic. You've already hit the nail on the head: most employment is made from inside their current circles. HR needs to justify their job, recruiting agencies need to justify their contracts by broadcasting these open positions. It's the iron law of corporate: no one can measure when you save the company money, but spend 40 manhours writing a report on how to save the company money, you've produced something tangible.
This is why the frustrating thing you'll hear over and over again is: network. network. network.

>>20025807
how i should spend my day
>sort out my bank account fiasco
>text dad back about grandmas funeral
>maybe work out for an hour
how i spend my day
>pounding coffee and cigarettes and starting a new "artistic project" while listening to comedians doing satirical ad reads on their podcasts simultaneously wondering if my cat ran away or now

i have fallen in love with a little cartoon girl originally from a 1960s book which i also read when i was little but i never really thought about it again until recently and i'm sad that she isn't real and even if she were we'd be separated by both time and space.
she is a literal angel in both personality and appearance and i want nothing more than to spend every waking moment with her.
she's also a /lit/friend and wants to be a writer when she grows up
i want to do little stupid goofy romantic things with her and then cuddle while watching tv
shit i even carry a little photo of her around with me along with a small piece of paper that has quotes from her book on it
is this autistic?

>>20024549
>Form over function yes of course
Makes no sense and is not what I said: form over function would be "I really love the form of this perfectly completely spherical knife, the function as a knife is a bit challenging but the form is so pretty and I believe in form over function so"

Time's out, gonna rope myself tomorrow

>>20024566
>>20024545
What defines it's triviality, and where is the source of this image being a proposition? What spured this images proposal if relevancy?

Purely general relativity? Or is this attempting more fundamental? Is this a statement regarding fields, a particular field? Plank lengths? A particular substance? Relavant for all possible material quanta? What exactly is the suggestion being made by that image

>>20025927
>Would you tell them it was worth all that effort to be top of the class? What would you tell the next generation? I'm curious

It's difficult to answer this anon because I'm still figuring my life out and I can't yet really reflect on what I would have done differently. But I'll try to give you an answer. I would say that there a number of interconnecting factors at play here and that you need to think carefully about each factor and how they interact when weighing up your options. These would be:
1. How in demand are your skills / job?
2. How important are grades in your degree?
3. How important is networking in getting a job?
4. How stable is the industry you're planning to enter?
5. How demanding is that industry?
6. Do you actually enjoy it?

As everyone says, for most jobs it's all about networking. You can't really rely on marks alone. If you don't already have connections through nepotism, then your fellow classmates are your best friends and you should try and get connections through them.

There is a bit of a double bond at play here though: if you're forcing yourself to do a degree that you have no personal interest in, it becomes a lot more difficult to find the motivation and enthusiasm to pursue all those extra networking opportunities, unpaid internships etc. etc. that are necessary to find a job. However, most of the fields that people are passionate about and that you might be enthusiastic about pursuing have incredibly tight to non-existent job markets.

I don't know, I don't feel like I've really given you an answer but I spent a while typing this so I'll send it anyway. Like I said, I'm still trying to figure things out for myself.

>>20025993
please dont

>>20026008
Typo - meant to type *double bind

I wonder how difficult it would be to teach a painting class. I mean, what, do I shell out the money to rent a studio once a week, and say, teach like five kids at a time and charge their rich goofy parents out the ass? I'm not saying I wouldn't be worth it, but why not go all the way, you know?
Or I could just teach one-on-one, which sounds amazing. Sounds like a fantastic way to network, too, and I could probably advertise myself and sell a lot of my own work this way.

>>20025861
I feel you man. I'm not sure if it's nepotism, or affirmative action, or both. I'm not sure if you're American but here many jobs have informal racial/gender quotas, same with college scholarships and admissions (which has been an open secret for a while). I try to look at it this way: maybe we're actually meant to go into teaching (or whatever) and we'll look back at this time years from now as a blessing in disguise and a large positive. It's a sorry state that I (and maybe you) will probably be worse off than our fathers and grandfathers, kek, but then again life isn't all money. In all honesty I ended up hating working with data all day anyway so maybe this is a good thing.
>>20025884
Yep. I have come to terms with the fact that being a straight white male with a very stereotypical white male name and employment history has probably hurt me. Nothing I can do about it.
>>20025927
I'm the first anon. I would tell people what this guy say >>20025949. It's not about what you learn, or your grades, or your skills, or your ability, or your intelligence, or your potential: it's about your gender, the color of your skin, and who you know. I busted my ass in school to graduate early with extremely solid skills and grades: doesn't matter because I didn't make connections with people outside of my professors. I'm still honestly pretty bitter about it and frankly it's infuriating to see the 10s of millions of dollars my university and their "corporate partners" pump into "diversity and equity pipelines" and "minority hiring initiatives" and "trans representation in STEM taskforces".

Honestly half jokingly my plan at this point is to marry some rich minority diversity hire woman, while being a comfy private school teacher working outside of the higher academic/corporate insanity spiral. It's a bit sad to think back on the jobs I applied genuinely thinking I had a chance, especially the ones I was excited about. Oh well. Maybe this is a good thing in the end.

>>20025885
Electrical Engineering

>>20026118
Additionally, adding on to that, I would tell most men to avoid college. There's a high chance you'll be miserable and even in STEM American college graduates have about a 55% unemployment rate. I'm one of the rare guys who enjoys writing but for most dudes I'd say take a job in a mechanic shop or construction crew or HVAC or something. You'll get to be around the bros, you won't be around toxic women non stop, and you'll save enormous amounts of cash and make decent money right off the bat. The current female to male percentage at American colleges is 61% to 39%. I say sit back, take a deep gulp of schadenfreude, and wait for the "marriage crisis" which is coming down the line w/r/t the economic disparity between what women make and what men make (and status-wise as well). You think the marriage rate is bad now? Just you wait.

>>20025026
Lol what it's the exact opposite.

>>20026135
>around toxic women non stop
This is one reason I can imagine college being notably different today. I can't tell how much of this is just normal generational gap shit where you think the generation just after yours uniquely sucks, but you really did the same shit and just can't see it, and how much of it is that the zoomers really are THAT BAD, but the zoomers seem fucking terrible. Everyone who isn't a white guy is a nightmare mixture of insane self-satisfaction/complacency and insane entitlement, very stupid and shallow with no idea who they are or where they're going but extremely "content." But somehow also very self-pitying and not embarrassed to beg for sympathy and handouts. And most of the white guys are faggots too, from constantly being around this. I see more and more young white guys who look like what I can only describe as faggot internet people, like streamers. They act like queers.

I don't know how to quantify any of this but if I had a son nearing college age I'd be doing some real thinking.

>>20026139
allow me to translate
>americans are whatever i think is bad
rent free

my multiplexicalative intertransnetwork geobrain has been neuropsychosurgically hemispherectomized

for me pepper i put it on my plate

>>20026139
No its not. Americans look down on blue collar workers.

>>20025801
Huh, gues dropping out was the right decision

>>20025960
You're insane

>>20026135
>STEM American college graduates have about a 55% unemployment rate
This is interesting. Can you direct me to a source that elaborates on this

>>20026118
>I try to look at it this way: maybe we're actually meant to go into teaching (or whatever) and we'll look back at this time years from now as a blessing in disguise and a large positive.

This is my attitude too - maybe it's cope but I really don't have many regrets. Each decision I have made has put into sharper focus the things which are really important to me. I am a good teacher and I find it rewarding. By contrast I have suffered through every other job I've had because I was only really doing it for prestige or money at the end of the day. I have no illusions about the difficulty of being a teacher, a lot of my friends already are and they are very honest and the realities. But if you are good at something and enjoy it, then there are worse ways to live your life.

You ever be at a such a loss in regard to what to do with your life, or at a crossroads and don’t know which path to take knowing you can’t take both, that you end up wasting years and realizing all possibilities are dwindling?

>>20025801
>>20025949
Study hard, they said
Give your best, they said
The world rewars competence, they said

>>20026323
This is a confusing graph. Not sure what the categories are supposed to mean.

>>20025801
Blah, blah, blah take an unpaid internship/grunt tier menial job and wait until there's an opening in the company. Your pride is keeping you unemployed desu.

>>20026186
Oh okay I thought you meant labor as in working, not as in as a class. From what I see if any thing americans fetishize working to an excess.

genocide is a feature of democracy not a bug

>>20026152
I am American. That's just my observation that many very much value working hard. Not saying its a bad thing, just an observation.

>>20026363
>just work as the janitor son, then give them a nice handshake and they'll hire you to be a junior analyst!
for your sake I hope you're at least 50 years old.

>>20025861
This is honestly really scary to me cause I'm fairly smart but have zero social skills so I haven't networked at all. Maybe I'll just settle for some easy office job. Cause if you go through all that work and see nothing for it I don't see the point.

>>20026425
you ain't getting a "easy office job" unless you network

>>20026447
Not even a grunt level job?

>>2001733
i constantly invent new ways to rediscover that i'm autistic and won't fit in with ordinary people.
i don't resent the autism, i've never known any different, but it was sheer cruelty to combine it with self-awareness.

>>20026456
These can ironically be harder to get because you'll just be one of a hundred near identical applications and you'll be lost in the mix. Not saying it's impossible, but you have to be lucky. Honestly everyone I know who has made it in white collar had a parent who worked in an office and got some low tier experience because of them that got them in the door other places. It's a matter of knowing someone inside the company that can speak to a manager who'll then go "yeah no problem, we can just have them in the office 3 days a week and give them some papers to shuffle around" as compared to having to sift through hundreds of applications for a job you could train a monkey to do. If you've got friends who have parents that know you / like you that work white collar then I'd try reaching out to them.

What do you think when you see this, anon?

>>20026351
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/survey-reveals-85-jobs-filled-061300330.html
There is a complete explanation in the article I too it from, but in short, the graph is how people got their most recent job, being that the first group got them while being unemployed and the other three are people that got it while under employment.
for the employed, active means they were looking to quit and actively trying to get another job, tiptoer means that they were casually looking for a new job and passive means they weren't looking but the opportunity came by chance

How do I network if I've already left college, or is it a lost cause now?

>>20026473
Damn I don't know anybody that works in an office and am too much of a social retard/hermit to network. I was thinking I could just make a nice cover letter and resume and spam my application to a million different places.

>>20026177
your post has been dubzersized

>>20026488
I'm not trying to be mean but that is unfortunately incredibly naive. Think about it, if that's your plan then it's also everybody else's plan. Again, I don't want to be too much of a downer and you could always get lucky, but it's an uphill battle with that approach. You don't necessarily have to be a networking genius for what it's worth, you only need to know one person in the right position and that can be the difference. Are you studying at the moment?

>>20026473
I'm not in the USA, but most of the successful lawyers here are people who had some relative that also was a lawyer and who hired them as intern and later gave them their first actual employment.
From there they built a network of clients.
Networking can make you quite cynical about a career and putting effort into anything.

>>20026488
>I was thinking I could just make a nice cover letter and resume and spam my application to a million different places.
this is how everyone like you gets a job. you should tailor slightly though depending on the job posting, hit all the buzzwords so you don't get filtered literally

>>20026224
how?

Anyone here have any experience using fet life? Wondering if its worth a try

>>20026486
1. Tell everyone you know socially and through family what your qualifications and skills are.the self help book explanation is: Your uncle may not hire you, but maybe he'll find out the guy he goes to the bar with is looking for someone like you.
It's literally a numbers game where you try and play that 6 degrees of separation thing.
2. Scuttlebutt and gossip. Invite friends who are in the industry out for coffee. Ask them what they know about their company. Get google alerts on companies you want to work for, and see who they have recently hired and who has recently left. If a new position or department is created, at some point they will look outside the company for new recruits. How can you 6 degrees of separation that to get in on the ground floor. Basically turn into a OSINT ex-girlfriend on Facebook: stalk the shit out of where you want to work.
3. Host dinner parties. You don't even need to do them at your house, you can just invite people out to a restaurant although that means you have to fork out more. Curate the guest list so that people will actually want to come and turn them into very chill networking events with no actual pressure to make deals or connections. However if you pick the right people you'll sort of create this little mafia of connections that will later on put you in a position for a job
>or is it a lost cause now?
Similar situation. My theory is, it's not a lost cause, but it is way fucking harder. You can look at it as: you only need to get hired once.

They say men end up marrying their mother but my mother was largely uninvolved in my life. What the fuck will I marry?

>>20026596
Either an emotionally unavailable woman who leaves you feeling neglected or a woman who matches what your 'idea' of a mother would be, as you've absorbed by osmosis from media and friends.

>>20026603
I think I'll just stay single instead

>>20026576
just imagining a boomer 50 years ago having to jump through hoops to get their inflation adjusted 22 an hour entry level job right out of high school is hilarious. no way in shit they'd do even 1/5 of the stuff needed today to get employed.

>>20026534
You're like the dude from this twilight zone episode. He becomes obsessed with a doll. Great episode, i think you'd like it
https://youtu.be/ZDmwc_V2-Jc

>>20026611
Your choice. However, at the risk of sounding like a Tarantino film, I wouldn't put too much credence into what 'they' say anon.

>>20026627
Ahh yes, the LSD like earth shattering look on their face when they see that the firm handshake isn't enough

>>20026647
People joke about this but Satan revealed masturbation to me in a dream. Sometimes you really do get stuff revealed to you in dreams.

>>20026627
>no way in shit they'd do even 1/5 of the stuff needed today to get employed.

It really is the hoop jumping that is so demoralizing. Each application takes forever to complete and the demands are ridiculous. It's OK if you only have to do it a few times, but completing that process over and over again only to get either no reply or ghosted is really what grinds a man down.

>>20026668
It took satan giving you a personal visit to learn that touching your pp feels good?

>>20026680
>but completing that process over and over again only to get either no reply or ghosted is really what grinds a man down.
Right in the fucking feels anon!

>>20026680
>It really is the hoop jumping that is so demoralizing.
For me it's just the endless wading through of managerial speak in every fucking job posting and ad

>We are looking for someone who is dynamically actual and capable of multiple simultaneous synergistic deep strikes in the realms of efforts to conclude and initiate over several a day. You will be expected to construct and convene at many possible interventions of expansive and maintain dynamic portfolios with several possible of experiences available for responsibilities and do you know excel.

>>20026668
>6668
>666
Nah you're right, it was the only meme I could find ready to hand that dealt with the idea of nebulous or dubious sources, and I should have looked harder. The shape of the Benzene Molecule and the Period Table were both revealed in dreams I'm sure is something you'd hear in a TED talk.

8 posts until the next edition

There was a news story in my city about an architect who had a masters in architecture, applied to over 200 jobs and didn't get a single reply. So he stood on a busy street corner with a piece of cardboard asking for a job and someone saw him and he got one. This is the state of the world today.

>>20026496
Yes I'm finishing my lit degree cause like I said I'm a retard with zero plan to my life. I have no friends and have only worked shit jobs in kitchens, but as a result have a decent amount saved up and invested. I pretty much have no plan atm and zero real skills. Networking is out of the picture cause I am a friendless hermit without any social skills. I just figured if I spam enough places and be really aggro about it eventually I can land something. If worst comes to worst I don't mind settling for a kitchen job for a few years.

>>20026705
Watch Butterfly make it with a grainy picture of some ugly bitch, from one of the three movies she's seen

>>20026715
I thougjt butterfly disappeared

>>20026630
name of the episode?

Suppose that we have a cat named Tibbles. Let us name the part of Tibbles that consists of all of Tibbles but her tail, ‘Tib’. Now suppose that at time t, Tibbles meets with an unfortunate accident, and loses her tail (which for clarity let us say is completely destroyed). Tibbles presumably did not cease to exist in this accident, nor did Tib. But after the accident, Tibbles and Tib, distinct material objects, seem to occupy exactly the same region.

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>>20026753
My folk psychology answer is that while Tib is defined by material qualities (in the same way that 'tail' or 'leg' is), Tibbles is not since it is the complex cluster of behaviors that equally define Tibbles which will largely be in tact despite the destruction of her tail.
My evidence, when someone substantially changes in manner and behaviour the cliche is to say
>I don't even know who you are anymore
>That's not the man I married
>What happened to the joking boy I used to skate with?
Continuity of identity is associated with behaviors and patterns of action, not with material composition.

feel short of breath after drinking 4 shots of vodka. this is new. wtf. ?? ??

>>20026681
No, I just had a dream where I had two dicks for some reason, they got hard, and tugging on them felt good. I know it was Satan because it was an obvious temptation to sin that I even recognized in the dream, but I still fell for it. Oh God forgive me for my cooming ways.

>>20026702
Oh I wasn't knocking your use of the meme, that was fine. I rather like all of those memes about sources. Just felt like sharing about things being revealed in dreams in particular, and give a bit of a warning that not everything revealed in dreams is good for you.

>>20026804
>and give a bit of a warning that not everything revealed in dreams is good for you.
Thank you for your warning anon. It is duly noted.

>>20025119
>i recently paid $600
>https://smartfurniture.com/products/rectangular-everywhere-table-by-herman-miller/
That link says $395 and it looks like $70 or so of materials you can find at home Depot. Hopefully the company name is printed nicely and visable

I think over the next 2 days I'm gonna text all the girls I've been on a date with but fallen out of contact with over the last 6 months and ask them a very non-committal "how are you?".
If none respond. That's the breaks.
If they're dating someone else, that's just how it is.
In all likelihood I expect a huge spiel about what at least two are currently doing professionally that I'll have to somehow conjure a emotionally appropriate reply for.

>>20026828
>texting 'how are you' to girls
lame-o alert. say whats up. or ask something specific. 'whats up this weekend' nothing dries up pussy more than 'sincere' questions.

>>20026740
Miniature
Season 4 episode 8

>>20026841
I shouldn't have used the quotation marks.
>or ask something specific.
Fuck no. I don't know what they're up to, how can I ask something specific?

>>20026008
Have you tried applying to places all over not just in close proximity to you? Larger surrounding cities? Or even other side of country, other countries?

>>20026008
>>20026488
You guys try job hosting networking sites like like Linkdn and ziprecruiter there are others I don't know the name of

>>20026918
What I do is I have a massive bookmarked folder titled "jobs" and I just bookmark any potential job offers I come across online, job and gig sites. Within the folder I have them sorted into different categories of jobs I'm interested in. I probaboy have 50 or more bookmarked in my folder.

>>20027015
Have you tried the sites yet?

It's like dating. People don't want to give into dating sites and dating apps, but probably 70% of relationships are made on such apps, I'd imagine a large percent of jobs are gotten on job sites and apps

>>20021458
Is that screen shot real?

>>20025801
>he didnt realize that university was all about making the right friends and connections
I realized that too late.

>>20027086
it actually is, it was the first result