/b/ - Random

>>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

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

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.

Been enjoying matcha, walking, and playing guitar lately

>>331966
Post a recording of you playing guitar

>Lolcow's Melanie Martinez thread is cringe, milkless and thinks women can rape.

Don't be retarded, anon. That thread is boring as hell but women absolutely can rape

>>331868
>I'm in the majority here
Herd animal mentality.

>>331872
Yes this site is mainly used by misandrists if you couldn't tell

If debt doesn't matter, why not just send every American a monthly check for $900 trillion?

>>329650
It's pretty much what's Obama did, but with less money. It was used to buy made in China crap and German cars and America must live with the debt.

Americans voluntarily buy coffee and then scream coffee must be banned.

>>325831
>she can't lucid dream
What a pleb!

>>325781
3 is the weirdest. If you are capable of imagining a detailed object in your head, then why not make it the right color? What kind of person can't imagine colors? It's actually taking me more mental effort to imagine 3 than 1 with my eyes closed because it feels so unnatural.

>>326985
Freedom of speech implies some freedom from consequences, namely from the government. Otherwise it isn’t free speech.

>>326870
she cute

>>317343
It's only cringe if it's not reciprocated, in which case, even unstated acts of romance can be very cringe.

hands you a single rose
mwah.

>>319705
omg ty blushes

>>317343
>>317574
Ew. I remember when a few hideous scrote "friends" did this to me. It made things so uncomfortable. The answer is obviously no.
That's why women shouldn't be friends with men. They pull this shit pretending to be our friends to get in our pants. Be work or school buddies and that's it.
>>317574
Also this. Add "Well he loves you SO MUCH! Just give him a chance!" and its once again trying to manipulate women into sex.

>>320184
women and men just were not made for each other

>>318228
>>317574
>>318183
this is such essentialist garbage and ironically pseudopatriarchal
yes of course porn is poisonous objectification but we can't just go around assuming that women aren't capable of enjoying sex with a man and desiring him for the emotional connection and mutual care they provide each other
If you're lesbian that's awesome but you don't have to drag the rest of us down with these types of narratives that sometimes sound just like red-pill chuds and could even be used to justify their harmful views as if "that is just how men are"

>>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

>>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.

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

Scrivener

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

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

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

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.

It's quirky and fun and not that serious!

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

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

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

>>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

>>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

Does anyone have good experinces using AI for therapy?

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

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

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

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.

rattos are the best pet and you should get one

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.