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The USA is a bankrupt warmongering police state, but nothing will change because Americans think everything is just fine.

>>325210
>Phones are why nobody have kids anymore
I doubt it. I would say the cost of life, in particular housing cost are the major factor. It cost 3 time more hours of work for us to buy a home than it did for our parents.
The culture is a big thing as well. When every media tell you that it's cool and rebel to not have kids, obviously it play a role.

The quality of our social interactions is also a factor but screens are only one of the cause of that.

https://youtu.be/094y1Z2wpJg?si=MpLH20Odys8gkGsa
I remember watching math related content like this when I was younger Idk why I stopped

I wish we could debug the human brain. That would be so cool and scifi.

Apparently we’re now making lab grown brains now and organic robots. Sick.

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

Moids projecting their whore-madonna complex

Moids automatically assume that attractive men are "bad boys"

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

>>326870
she cute

>>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?

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.

>>325583
I would take that

Ok here's a new job idea
Fursuit maker

>>325612
i was going to reppy to this thread and say
>id like to do fursuit making full time
i do it as a hobby but its not lucrative enough to be a career. what a funny coincidence

Real patriots wish that they could stay awake 24 hours a day spreading freedom.

yuri smut artist

>>324798
Duck I meant early but earthly…

Libertarians think that they should give up defending freedom because Americans hate liberty, but Libertarians should keep resisting tyranny for selfish reasons.

While the elites control the money, government, and media, the 99% have the numbers.

One Libertarian may not be able to resist being sent to the concentration camps, but one million people might.

Damn, nordic countries are living the dream. Assuming "young adults" there don't have to share their house with shitty roommates or stuff like that. That sounds like hell

We'll all be living in caves after everything is outlawed, but then you can be sure that living in caves will soon be banned in order to protect endangered bats.

>>296675
No I hate all of you and don't relate to you at all

>>331716
I watched quite a bit of Disney growing up. I have very fond memories of Lilo and Stitch, Brother Bear, Little Mermaid, etc.

thank fuck she stayed free of him

for me, it's Cinderella

>>331716
He gets a gf in the sequel

>>331716
What he needed was another movie where he gets taken to task and is raked over the coals until he's made to realize that he is not entitled to ANYTHING from women. Esmerelda doens't even owe him a smile and if he's sad because he rejected her then FUCK HIM! He can grow up.

>>331844
That's a child…