/siberia/ - Off-topic

it was a good vid, already watched it
>TL;DR babies arent born with religious beliefs but by 3.5 they develop a theory of mind, including a theory of mind for dead things
>they have to be socialized into believing specific religious ideas
>non-religiosity is surprisingly "sticky" and persists across generations in the same family through socialization even if the person themselves wasn't raised to be explicitly nonreligious. This is because modern 1st world societies subconsciously indoctrinates new generations into secular humanism.

it's a bit more nuanced than that but i'm going off memory here. watched it like 4 hours ago

>>801380
theres a part where he talks about superstitious beliefs and their link to childrens brains having difficulty to discern objects from agents, and that this is actually an evolutionary hiccup we have from prehistoric times, that made me think, if scared superstitious people are more likely to survive in nature, could it be that humans naturally evolved to be more religious? it mustve had at least some impact on our society right?

>>801429
superstitions are really just pattern recognition making false associations because of not having enough information, pretty much. other animals can be pretty readily develop similar "superstitious" behavior, not specifically a human thing. religion is though, because it entails having a narrative passed down through language which no other known animals have.

>>801429
that's probably just one of many reasons

>coping with death
>keeping the community together through shared belief
>ritually burying the dead instead of just letting their corpse lay around prevents disease
>ritual prayer and meditation reminds you to stop think about your actions and the impact they will have, and to consider the other people in your life and what they are going through
>you are more motivated to do complex social things like build temples and record the history of your society and ancestors if you believe the gods want you to do it
>if you think the gods are watching you and judging you morally then you can't really hide your bad actions even when you are by yourself and nobody is really watching. so you act as if the gods are watching at all times, and hold back your more cutthroat animalistic instincts to crush others for quick gain
>if humanity has some kind of ultimate purpose then you have a reason to care about future generations after you are gone, and to "plant trees whose fruit you won't be around to taste" so to speak
>the origin of the universe, matter and energy are genuinely confusing and so hypothesizing that matter came from the ultimate mind is actually pretty intuitive and it's unsurprising materialism is less intuitive at that pre-scientific stage of history
>religion enables you to abstract and symbolize things beyond the literal, leading to the invention of numbers and writing.

Where's the RWBY posting OP

Legitimately kill yourself subhuman filth

>>802022
No, you.

Isn't burning down your house, for insurance, fraud? Were those landlords killed?

>>801946
It's only fraud if you get caught and they can prove it. If landlords were killed it was probably by organized crime for getting to greedy and not paying the arsonists properly.

>>801940
wtf ben this an anti semitic stereotype? in the 70s it used to be called 'jewish lightning'

>>801950
Lol I'll remember this

>>801946
>Isn't burning down your house, for insurance, fraud? Were those landlords killed?
Those landlords was innocent. This is blood libel. They were victims of antisemitism.

>The first true "headline" of landlords committing arson would likely be the arrest of 8 landlords, detailed in the New York Times in 1975.[31] Among these were the highly-publicized case of Imre Oberlander and Yishai Webber, two Brooklyn-based landlords who were caught driving to one of their buildings whilst wearing blackface, explosives in tow.[32] Critically, none of these landlords were black or Latino but were Jewish. The landlords profited greatly off their insurance policies; Oberlander, for example, had collected $125,000 (over $750,000 in 2026) in payouts from twenty-one separate fires between 1970 and 1975.[5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970s_South_Bronx_building_fires#The_fires

>>801511
Thanks Comrade (the drawing is really cute), I have always thought that Short Haired Women are much more attractive then Long Haired Women, and thankfully in the future Global USSR all Women will have Short Hair, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚀☢️ 💇‍♀️👩‍🦲!

>>801473
Why does that map make all of Latin America except Brazil and most of Sub-Saharan Africa single republic, yet India and Europe get a ton?
And why is ISRAEL there??

>>801682
The Hispano-American SFSR includes all the Spanish-speaking Multiracial regions of the Americas, Sub-Saharan Africa is only lumped into one giant Black African SFSR out of convenience because Mapchart always crashes once I get to that point, the Indian subcontinent and Europe are partitioned along Ethno-Linguistic lines and a Jewish SSR is created inside the 1967 borders with 1:1 Land Swaps (Stalin supported the Two-State solution) based on the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist principle of Self-Determination for all Oppressed Nations in their own SSR as articulated in Stalin’s “Marxism and the National Question” https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1913/03a.htm and Lenin’s “The Socialist Revolution and the Right of Nations to Self-Determination” https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/jan/x01.htm , along with the National Delimitation Policy of the USSR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_delimitation_in_the_Soviet_Union , by the way what do you think about my Dialectical Materialist Marxist-Leninist-Maoist solution (Forcing all Women to have extremely Short Hair, No Dresses/Skirts, No Makeup/lipstick, and to wear Mandatory Mao Suits) to eliminate Bourgeois Femininity in the Worldwide Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in the future Global USSR, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚀☢️ 💇‍♀️👩‍🦲🤔?

>>801974
So the self-determination of Israelis on stolen land matters more than the self-determination of Indigenous Americans in their own land? Makes no sense.
>what do you think about my Dialectical Materialist Marxist-Leninist-Maoist solution (Forcing all Women to have extremely Short Hair, No Dresses/Skirts, No Makeup/lipstick, and to wear Mandatory Mao Suits) to eliminate Bourgeois Femininity in the Worldwide Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in the future Global USSR?
Extremely based. I love tomboys.

>>801976
Native Americans get ASSRs inside of the Anglo-American SFSR and the Hispano-American SFSR, though if I make a new version of my Map of all the SSRs and SFSRs of the future Global USSR, I may upgrade some of the larger Native American ASSRs to SSRs, and the reason for the existence of the Jewish SSR is because all borders are drawn based on the current ethnic demographics of every region, on another note more relevant to the subject of this thread, I am happy to see that many other Comrades on this website support my Dialectical Materialist Marxist-Leninist-Maoist solution (Forcing all Women to have extremely Short Hair, No Dresses/Skirts, No Makeup/lipstick, and to wear Mandatory Mao Suits) to eliminate Bourgeois Femininity in the Worldwide Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in the future Global USSR, and agree that Short Haired Women are much more attractive then Long Haired Women, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚀☢️ 💇‍♀️👩‍🦲!

>>801912
>>801943
people acting surprised by this like it isnt the same thing for americans and europeans

>>801960
LMAO

>>801960
maybe euros but the only consistent way to get a strong social safety net from the federal government in burger land is join the military. They basically have their own welfare state.

>>801945
I wrote a lot about this but the site deleted my shit when I tried to post it.

It's funny you would ask this because I was in the region as a security guy and my academic studies vaguely cover this area. I've written one or two papers on it and have an interest in learning about it.

In general, being an air force pilot or military officer is prestigious in the GCC, so I doubt any state has trouble finding them. As for intel, I have no idea. But when I've run into those types, they tend to look like local and one thing that's clear is that they're all good at internal suppression, so whatever they're doing works.

But yeah, most of the GCC outsources their security services. Kuwait is a notable exception, presumably because of the Iraqi invasion. They seem to only take locals, and they have conscription. They have questionable training. I recall reading a news story about a cop being murdered during a traffic stop while his partner was hiding in their vehicles. Also, while not necessarily common, they have tribal cops in the national police they don't even trust to carry guns, and the department as a whole was only armed with maybe the last two decades. Probably because of the war idk. Kuwaitis are notoriously boisterous but soft. I recall witnessing a fight once that resembled shit we'd see in an elementary school in the US. I'm talking literal Naruto kicks.

Omani military officers have a good reputation and are sought after in the region. I've heard they often find work in Bahrain after service. Seeing the Omani security services in person, they seem well-equipped and competent. I think this trickles down from their work ethic in general. Omanis and Saudis are the only GCC citizens you'll see working regular jobs. An Omani checked me into my hotel when I visited and I found it so novel.

Bahrain is unique in that its security services being mostly foreign is a state priority. Their leadership is Sunni, but since a lot of their population (maybe a slight majority, I think) is Shia, they stack the security services in their favor. A lot of their military and cops are visibly Pakistani. They're armed and seem professional, and they have a track record of suppressing dissent well. One of the few ways to get Bahrani citizenship is to serve in the military for like 20+ years.

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Oh, and also GCC states tend to give their security services nice benefits. Like they often have military/police officer association clubs, hospitals, sports stuff, and the like sprinkled throughout their cities.

I bought a new pair of headphones that were probably made in china desu. god I hate this life.

Hello? Not gonna post a review? A demonstration? You fuckin serious?

i bought from shein again

China is a porkoid state tho

>>797674
i just ordered a combo deal from pf chiangs

>>800110
I dont know any bands or DJs by name, I like industrial sounding stuff, but I dont really listen to it on my own, its just one of the handful music genres I vibe with and dance to, so once or twice a year I attend a party or music festival. I too need to touch grass more often…
I heard popular local psytrance festival was ditched this year because organisers were focusing on Brazilian edition instead.

>>799621
It does not, very flat country. Also hiking isnt really an interesting activity, literally just walking.

>>800363
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest_mountains_of_the_Czech_Republic
Sounds pretty good to me, they are all higher than the highest we have here.

my arm fucking hurts I can't fap like this

>>801932
do you have another arm? if not, I could give you a hand (no homo)

>>787687
do czech girls like americans??? asking for a friend (my alter ego, he can't come to the phone right now, he's too busy writing his 'gamers rise up' manifesto)

>>800130
>>guy, then same guy with slightly yellower light
Pretty sure that's intended to be a visual gag, mate

i'm a mouthbreathing chudtuber and i have no idea what the cia does outside of pentagon funded hollywood mov- WOOOOOOAOW CHINA BAD AND SCARY I BETTER CLICK THIS

clickbait pattern on the same channel:
>two serious videos that interview real people about their subject matter expertise (few views after several days)
>clickbait thumbnail video (several more views than the other two after less than 1 day)

i know it's not clickbait, but i wanted to show you this legendary thumbnail

>>801956
VENEZUELA IPHONE BOTTOM TEXT

this should be on >>>/tech/

Thanks

>building ardour from source
uygha this isn't niche software like ams or impulsetracker. even my snowflake musl distro ships a recent version of ardour

>>801922
idk mang, my distro didn't come with it and I had to build it from source cuz otherwise you gotta pay. just passing that info forward, to help a uygha out nah'mean.

>>797850
You say that but I got visibly skinnier over the course of last three weeks just by not sleeping properly, waking up in the afternoon and skipping meals.

>>797876
being super skinny isn't a good look, it's not the 2000s

>>797876
well as long as you aren't binging more than you would normally eat in 1 day when you finally do eat, I suppose it's fine. But if you want to lose weight it's better to eat regularly, but in smaller amounts, and exercise and stay hydrated.

use a BMI calculator to find out how many calories/day you should be eating to maintain your current weight, and eat about 100-200 fewer calories than that consistently, while exericising a moderate amount. You will lose a couple pounds per month, and maybe 20-40 pounds in a year if you are consistent and disciplined. If you need "faster faster faster" I supposed you could use GLP-1 drugs, but the goal here is to change the root cause, not just smother the problem in expensive substances.

>>797889
Yeah I know, I have a meal plan and everything, I was just spiraling out at that time.
Although 100-200 kcal deficit is super low, given variation in food preparation and metabolism and labeling you cant even be sure you are losing weight at all. 500kcal is my target.

>>797875
well i assume he died because he stopped replying