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Anonymous Admin 39516[Reply]

Do not make threads about the following topics or you will be banned for 7 days:

NEW: Low-effort threads without original input or elaboration, e.g. "What is your opinion of XYZ?" "Honest thoughts on [topic]" or memes/videos posted with "what do you think about this?"
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- "femboys"
- (Why) do guys…
- (Why) do you like guys who [insert preference here]
- (Why) do guys like [insert preference here]
- how to get a bf/gf/platonic friend (who does xyz)
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General threads:

>>117636 Pinkpill general/complaints about men as a whole
>>44115 Where/how to meet men
>>118214 Trans general
>>114365 TERF Memes/shittalking


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Pornography should be banned Anonymous 251713[Reply]

There's no reason for it to exist. There is zero good reason at all why moids should profit off of sex trafficking women and groom minors into becoming sex slaves. It doesn't need to exist and it shouldn't.
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Anonymous 318869

>>274079
It is definitely your fault that you are this weak mindes.

Anonymous 318887

>>251790
>>251825
>>251849
Kill yourself, leftshit.

Anonymous 331965

>>314937
This is why I think the internet needs to be more regulated. It is a cesspool that kids should not have access to, or should he heavily filtered. Kids get hooked on porn at early ages too. Boys are more susceptible and since they don’t learn how to manage their feelings and emotions they become addicts and try to impose their fantasies on their RL partners

Anonymous 331972

>>331965
>i had shit upbringing and got addicted to porn as a child, that means others must lose their freedom
If you hate internet freedom so much, what are you even doing on imageboards?

Anonymous 331975

This is so dumb.

Yes there's sex traffickers and groomers but we live in a time where people can do this of their own free will while being safe and while receiving the full profits for it. And many choose to.

Sex traffickers and groomers are still going to exist if you ban porn. What's not going to exist is the outlets for models and artists to make income off their work.



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What's the most recent word you learned? Anonymous 325734[Reply]

It's never a bad time to expand your vocabulary. Share with us new words as you learn them.
My most recent word is "freshet".
>A freshet is a snowmelt, an annual high water event on rivers resulting from snow and river ice melting.
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Anonymous 325741

>>325738
>Salient events are an attentional mechanism by which organisms learn and survive; those organisms can focus their limited perceptual and cognitive resources on the pertinent (that is, salient) subset of the sensory data available to them.
i saw someone describe schizos as having deep plunges of information that they can't pull their brains out of fast enough, almost like cliffs that their consciousness dives into & gets caught. whereas normal people have plunges that they don't get stuck inside of. i think it was shown to me in a kind of graph demonstration, and i don't know if it was even close to an accurate elucidation, but interesting nonetheless, and this made me think of that. overvaluing signals against their will. must be torture

Anonymous 325743

>>325734
I have an excel spreadsheet full of hundreds of words I read that I didn't know or that I think sound nice. Recent additions:

Rankle
Sodality
Élan
Diffidence
Tawdry

>>325735

I find it's easier to remember if you think about their etymology. E.g. undulate has "und—" as the root, which means wave iirc. It's related to words like inundate and, more obviously, undulant. Not related to ululate at all, but looks similar.

Anonymous 325768

Riverine and forestine, both adjectives for river and forest respectively incase it wasn't obvious

Anonymous 331959

Scrivener

Anonymous 331974

One thing worse than living in a police state is finding out that no one cares.



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Anonymous 318574[Reply]

What is college / university like in your country?
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Anonymous 318681

Overpriced and not worth it unless youre going into some specific field that needs it. I dropped out 3semesters in and started a business with my dad

Anonymous 318696

>>318681
Can I ask what type of business? Cause it's the same story with uni here as well.

Anonymous 318717

Expensive, but the loans aren't predatory. The learning and effort curve are pretty steep, so first year is a dawdle, second year is difficult, and you feel totally unprepared for third year. Thankfully it levels out for fourth and Masters.

Having student organisations is nice for some, but they're focused around interests as they relate to degrees, so I feel like they're not social for anyone outside that specific field. Plenty of STEM degrees just don't have any reason to have a club presence, so you get groups like comp-sci who are a collection of all sorts of nerds, but they tend to naturally exclude anyone who isn't highly tech-literate. Most after-class socialising being at the campus pub is nice and casual, but it makes day-drinking appear normal, and encourages people who might not drink to start.

There's way too much support for students struggling academically, but nothing for those who struggle socially; a huge barrier for entry to the really helpful stuff. Private chats where people post everything from rumours and tips about the course, all the way to answers and guidance on assignments, are locked behind being in the cool-kid's club. You can't get an invite unless you know the right people, and unless you're willing to put yourself out there, are able to make friends with the fun attractive people who cheat, become willing to day-drink and go to clubs etc. you'll never get in. The best you can do is be friendly with someone in the know who might share with you some important details every so often.

Anonymous 331862

It's quirky and fun and not that serious!

Anonymous 331973

I had professors saying things like "it's useless for women to get a degree, it will go to waste" out loud and having a dismissive attitude towards female students, and no, nobody cared
now I remember this every time I witness moids crying about being oppressed



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Anonymous 315630[Reply]

What exactly is it stereotyped that women have a "bad boy phase"?

Anonymous 315637

people cling to those they find similar or align with their values

Anonymous 331863

Moids projecting their whore-madonna complex



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How's It Movin', Nonas? Anonymous 317879[Reply]

What are some things you've been enjoying, or just generally doing lately?
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Anonymous 325699

>>325691
Smart people are the opposite of a hivemind, so you'll just have put in the extra effort to know your gift recipient close enough as an individual to really know what to get them.
Also consider alternatives to giving gifts, like spending quality time together, offering compliments and encouragement, acts of service to ease their burdens or showing affection through physical activities like holding hands.

Anonymous 325700

>>325699
I'll find a smart person and gift them 2 hugs, 1 pet mouse, 3 geraniums (2 white, one red), a ticket to Norway, horse riding lessons, an eel, 5 bars of dark chocolate, a drawing tablet, 10 notebooks, 10 juicy no-smudge pens, a gentle tap on the ass, an hour's worth of back scratches, and an invite to tour the hivemind

I realised i went straight for physical things, regardless of the last suggestion, but i can't let go of the eel gift. which is clearly the only one i can sacrifice

So, for next year
I will get a smart person
A hug

Anonymous 325708

>>325682
Money lol but aside from that I've always wanted a telescope. Never got around to setting one up

Anonymous 327543

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I went to the gym to work on my glutes and legs, and now I'm going to prepare fish and salad for my dinner. I hope the other grandmothers are lifting some weights too.

Anonymous 331966

Been enjoying matcha, walking, and playing guitar lately



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Anonymous 318850[Reply]

>people are going to a psychiatrist
>in the days of chatGPT
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Anonymous 320359

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>>320356
I can't believe it. I thought you were joking.

Anonymous 320365

>>318850
ChatGPT can't make the taxpayer pay for mind numbing pills that will make you more miserable.

Anonymous 320405

>>318850
I need meds to keep my bipolar brain from melting so I do need to see a dr to prescribe them

Plus all them somatic traumas from years of abuse, you don't just stop being reactive from being reinforced by a bot! Sorry sum of us are fucked up

Anonymous 320409

>>320365
Exactly
>>320405
Okay, but most people that go to therapy don't get meds. In fact, a therapist can't prescribe meds, they would have to refer to a psychiatrist, so ChatGPT has almost the same level of ability

Anonymous 331964

Does anyone have good experinces using AI for therapy?



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anyone else avoiding going to a psychiatrist or a psychologist? Anonymous 318828[Reply]

i want to or more so i feel like i need to go, but i hate the idea of having to pay for someone to listen to me and understand me. nobody in my life wants to hear out my problems and it sickens me because thats the first thing i would do for them. i know therapy is more than that, but ultimately i would only go just to be heard for a little and be understood without anyone judging me. but it feels so not worth it. i dont even have a job why should i spend so much money just to talk to someone for an hour. isnt that what friends are for…

Anonymous 318830

I got to therapy and it's cool but expensive and I dont talk about nearly half the stuff I want to because all the other things take up all the time and there are other times when something i say just sounds weird but mostly one specific thing over shadows everything

Anonymous 318831

>>318828
Right. My sentiments exactly. But psychiatrists don't deal with that, their business is drugging you with pills.

Anonymous 318836

I dont trust psychiatrists/therapists at all. Unless someone has schizophrenia or something I feel therapy is largely unnecessary and self indulgent

Anonymous 331962

I have been going for a year but I think I need a break. It feels like another task now and I feel like I say things to get kudos and praise even if it’s not true. I hate being a people pleaser.



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I want a pet rat so bad Anonymous 318517[Reply]

I am so sad I'm not able to get one. It makes me emotional. I am neet and poor as a result so I can't afford to own any animals really. But I really fucking want a pet rat. They are so cute. My only cope is watching YouTubers that own them so I can live vicariously through that. I am also learning as much as I can about them and I can't stop. I so badly want a pet rat and a pet pigeon. Oh my god, it's my dream to own a pigeon too. This is genuinely my only motivation in finding employment right now.
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Anonymous 326867

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rattos are the best pet and you should get one

Anonymous 331961

I had two royal rats in high school. I remember they spent like 90% of the day grooming. As long as I kept their cage clean they were pretty clean little guys.



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Anonymous 330230[Reply]

I am addicted to doomscrolling and it’s ruining my life. The misogyny and beauty standards online are so vitriolic right now; it affects me deeply so I should just unplug right? yet I’m more online than ever. I scroll for hours a day. I don’t think I’ve ever known a life offline. I get rage baited SO easily, always had anger issues I had to repress…I can’t help but interact, so of course I see it more and more. I even made a pathetic fake account just to go to war in comment sections. I guess I feel I’m not allowed to be angry irl so many I turn to online discourse as an outlet. But Is the world ACTUALLY this stupid and misogynistic right now, or is the awful algorithm I curated only making it seem that way? Is anybody else as stupid as me doing this? Fuck my loser hiplet life
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Anonymous 330253

>>330248
Fuck yourself

Anonymous 330256

>>330254
Suck your mom's dildo homo

Anonymous 330258

I have a SECOND fake acct to agree with my other fake account LMAO

Anonymous 330289

>>330238
Unplugging absolutely does work but you have to go cold turkey. Just stop paying your phone bill or get one of those non smart phones if you can. I feel amazing when I stop paying my phone bill for a month or two and just spend my time exercising, reading, cooking, and living life

Anonymous 331958

Doomscrolling is like smoking cigarettes with your brain. I hope the younger generations realize how bad it is for you.



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