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/lgbt/

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erm heloure

2 months into hrt w low dose (2mg) estro and (100mg) spiro and i intend to keep it that way bc i dont want full feminization for enby purposes

what should i do to keep my pp working and my prostate good enough for anal sex? is getting regular erections good enough? is there more to it or am i overthinking it

>>5369
Using it is good. Having regular erections is better for penile atrophy, orgasms for that and your prostate as far as rule of thumb goes. The problem is that you might stop feeling compelled to do so, which means you'll spend longer getting used to changes in the sensitivity of your genitals. Or, you could find some sort of testosterone cream, though I'm not sure the specifics on that

Low doses of estrogen acrually work? I heard that microdosing estrogen doesn’t do anything because the testosterone would cancel it out.


/anime/

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Tomoko thread… why? Because I like the character… and other reasons…
Post lewds (spoilered), memes, edits, pics and anything else related to the subject
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/lgbt/

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Does anybody else not understand why they find guys attractive? I recently came across a video that said "straight men just dont understand what women and gay men find attractive in males" and it made me realize that I couldnt even identify what it is about men that im even attracted too.

I definitley know when i find another guy attractive, but I usually couldnt explain why. My tastes in men arent even very coherent, I like feminine men, but I also like buff hairy dudes, and I also like incels. My attraction to men makes no logical sense
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>>4341
The human male body is never given much serious definition for beauty
It’s always used for comedy or horror

People aren't attracted to anything. We're just deluded into being attracted to shit based on ads shoved in our faces. Take a child, pump him up on Victoria's secrets ads, and he'll grow up whakcing it off to scrawny female models that look like they survived the Holocaust. Attraction doesn't come from within you. That's why you can't explain it. It comes from the outside like a virus.

The majority of ancient greek men were pederasts who were attracted to 12 year old boys and married 14 year old girls. Why? Because they had that stuff shoved in their faces. Now look at a regular person's sexual tastes "buff hairy guys" or "twinks" or "big titted girls." These aren't things that actually exist. They are stereotypes that exist on screen that are curated by the media. They only come to life as real people through larping.

>>5499
but that's why i said
>i would think that evoking disgust does not lend itself to any kind of attraction
for me, people who act like assholes do not evoke passionate feelings but rather the same one i get when i spot some dog poop while out on my walk. is it different for women? this is why im confused. do i just need to annoy women and get them to argue with me and they'll want to sleep with me?

>>5510
>is it different for women? this is why im confused.
its basically about staying in memory, be it through exceptional looks, personality or money
>do i just need to annoy women and get them to argue with me and they'll want to sleep with me?
if you look good yeah if not youre just a chud, sorry kid

>>5500
I like lean muscles guys AND twinky girly boys :(

>>5499
God, i hate how men who are assholes get rewarded. I hate mean men so much


/music/

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Call me woke, but I do believe XXXtensioncord’s popularity is what inadvertently lead to the rise in Gen Z conservatism.

X was frequently lambasted for being a wifebeater, misogynist, homophobe, New Age woo believer, social conservative (he spoke out against anti-racist activists), and pretentious asshole. The mainstream media didn’t want to touch him because he was too controversial. Yet, the more he was “cancelled” and despised for all his ills, the more it added to his allure among zoomers. X’s image was that of a deeply disturbed troubled genius whose pain and anger lead him to violence and nihilism. He was cold and cruel but that’s exactly what made him so appealing as a rapper to begin with.

This, I believe, was the gateway drug that turned a lot of zoomers (in particular, zoomer men) into far-right conservatives and fascists. All those zoomers who were listening to X back in 2017-18 while in middle school or high school voted for Trump in last year’s election. They are the same people who listen to Joe Rogan, Andrew Tate, and Jordan Peterson. It’s identical to how all the Gen X nonconformists who idolizes Kurt Cobain went on to become a Big Tech innovators or how millennials who spent their teen years listening to emo rock ended up becoming SJWs (since the essence of emo music is trauma and mental illness/neurodivergence). It’s all because X was cancelled time and time again before he was clout martyred, then smeared over and over again after death. Zoomers who loves him saw that and began internalizing X’s persona as well as resentment towards a morally-obsessive cancel culture.

It makes perfect sense once you think about it.
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>>16124
So what do you suppose is the real reason zoomer men are so conservative?

Zoomer women tend to be very leftist-oriented by comparison.

Its not one thing persay but rather a series of things over the course of the last decade

>>16125
they're not even particularly conservative its just that the neoliberal center for all the under 25s has completely collasped so all the conservatives are either magacultists, cryptobros, religious traditionalist(the tradition is twitter aesthetic pages lol) or outright fash. The amount of conservative men didn't change but the rhetoric and beliefs got more aggressive and over the top since "moderate republicans" are nonexistent unless you count ruralite libertarians. The same thing is true in the opposite direction where all the people who would be clintonite neolibs are functionally keynesian socdems now.

>t.zoomer male who was literally in a HS cafetaria when X died and watched his fanbase react to it(very cringe, parasocial bonding bad)

>>16196
Oh Christ I was confusing him with this other pedo rapper with the same look. Does the CIA make these guys in a lab or something?

>Call me woke
Your woke


/games/

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I hate all of it. The fans, the retarded looking oversized armor. Most of all I hate that it’s heavily focused on the American military. You never get to play as the Russian orcs or anything. No you always play as the US marines. Because it’s meant to be pro us military propaganda. Just like Starship Troopers hides behind fake bullshit “anti war” veil that doesn’t mean anything because it’s still a pro us military movie. Do you get to play as the bugs in the Starship Troopers game? Nope. Yeah it’s all chinlet us military propaganda. Same with that gay Helldivers game.
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>>45248
How can they be competent when they're devoted to the gods of retardation from the lolsorandumb nebula

>>45250
At least they dont worship a corpse

>>45251
Not an argument

>>45252
Neither is "gods of retardation"

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>>45248
I havent read those books, but I did read one about Iron Warriors. Now my first exposure to WH40k was Dawn of War, there I fell in love with joyful band of murderous lunatics that composed Chaos forces, in a stark contrast to bunch of angsty edgy losers they were portrait as in the book. The problem with Chaos is that the writers misguidingly attempt to give characters depth, which goes completely against their fundamental concept as cartoonish evil. Ironically in the process writers even made them evil in ways they shouldnt be. Like in the book Chaos warriors were still xenohobic and discriminated against protagonist due to his gene seed not being "pure". Which, how the hell do you square those beliefs with praying to extra-dimensional entities to reassemble your DNA helix?

>>45250
They shouldnt even be competent in conventional sense of the word, just have their lolsorandom retardation backed up by demonic powers.


/music/

 

Material explanation of the “6 7” phenomenon?

This song has gained huge popularity with Gen Alpha kids. Apparently, the rapper behind it (Skrilla) is an Afro-Mexican from the Kensington area of Philadelphia AKA Zombieland. “6 6” is considered one of the worst songs ever made. Someone even said it makes “Gucci Gang” look like “Bohemian Rhapsody” by comparison.

So what are your thoughts?
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>>16440
The piano riff in that song is dope though.

>>16444
The song is a banger yes. Even the "rap" is good. But if we're talking about shittiness in terms of they're not even really rapping. Yeah he mostly just accentuated the dope beat. I heard him talk about the story of the song. The producer played him the beat in the studio, then he just got on the mic and adlibbed that whole thing. People think "freestyle" means adlibbed but it doesn't. That's called "off the dome." So it was a truly off the dome song and it became a pretty big hit. He was channeling the spirits.

>>16445
I guess the freestyle misnomer was already popular back then. Back in the 90s, freestyle just meant when you recite some verse you already wrote on some random beat played for you.

https://thehundreds.com/blogs/content/ogmaco

OG MACO INTERVIEW :: "'U GUESSED IT' WAS THE DUMBEST SH*T I EVER MADE"

>Yet frustratingly, he’s seemingly found himself pinned to the success of that first hit by the general public – a song which he unapologetically calls “the dumbest shit I ever made.” “I can make a couple more “U Guessed It’s,” and I can make millions off of those,” Maco shrugs. “But that was never what I wanted to do and that’s not what I want to push for all these kids who look up to me.”

<I was just thinking about what you were saying with your process of writing, how you’ll usually start out writing first and then do the beat. Obviously, on “U Guessed It,” you wrote it to the beat?

>No, no, “U Guessed It” was actually – I didn’t even hear the beat; I never heard it before. For “U Guessed It,” I walked in the house and I was drunk and I slapped the headphones off the edge of my [producer’s] head and I was like, “Play a beat.” And before he could play it, I was just so frustrated like, “You know what? Fuck it, the beat’s going to be trash, I don’t even want to hear it right now. Press record.”

>So, the first time I heard the beat, just like if you were to turn on the song your very first time, you heard that little piano [part], I heard it live and recorded it live at the same time. So I never heard the beat, I had never had a concept for “U Guessed It,” none of that shit. It was just, “Press record, I’m hearing this shit and it’s what I’m going to say right now.” So it was really raw.

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Skrilla does Santeria and that’s how he made his song go viral.

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Gen Alpha brain rot is truly saddening.

https://youtube.com/shorts/h2i3cGyzNKo


/tech/

 

and other technical industries which are slowly being impacted by AI.

If people are forced to move due to not being able to service their loans, house prices will become affected.


/draw/

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Alunya Art thread
(Draw or showcase new Alunya art)
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>>5573
Couldn’t of said it better myself

>>5569
proletarianizing artists is historically progressive
>thinking art can be "stolen"
spooky
this said, AI slop looks incredibly generic

>>5576
>proletarianizing artists
Are you giving them salaried jobs doing art?

>>5576
1. not the thread for this
2. Artists are already proles for the most part.
3. Communists should be seeking to de-commodify things like art at this point
4. Nothing "historically progressive" about silicon valley scams

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>>5479
https://x.com/ladydakka/status/2000684428603834373


/labor/

 

Just go be around someone more miserable and weaker than you are. You'll notice that aching pang of contempt and disgust in the pit of your solar plexus, gnawing at you every time you hear them whine and complain like a baby, especially when you know their own problems are exacerbated by their own stupidity. Now imagine you are asked to date them. You'd say no. That's why it's important to make sure you put effort and work into yourself before considering dating.


/tech/

 

Computers can totally tell if you are confident about using it or not. They can also tell if you disrespect them or treat them poorly.

I've seen this several times. User complains that computer is slow, common functions don't work, random and unpredictable failures, etc. as soon as a tech joins, the problems disappear. This isn't just a matter of idiot users not knowing how computers work, because I have hung around with those users to observe the behavior. They are not lying, the computer will exhibit random and unpredictable problems. But as soon as a technician touches the machine it behaves well.


I've also done more than my share of after hours on-call rotations. I've learned that if you believe that you will get no calls, you will get no calls. If you believe you will be swamped by calls, you will get calls out the ass. Discovered this by accident when I came in one Monday to discover I have been on call for the last week and not received a single call. This actually led me into LoA and how your consciousness shapes your reality. I would have dismissed it all as bullshit if I didn't have first-hand experience.


/ufo/

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Doing tarot readings to grind divination EXP points and because I'm bored as fuck.
Post any dream you remember having (ex: "I dreamed of a giant lady tied upside down to a tree in the middle of the ocean") and a picture you like.
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was at a U.K. water park under grey skies. After the show, when area was empty, I stepped onto a grey hole and entered into a blue void. Inside was a door. Opened it to see a birthday party and I stepped back out. In the blue void, three others were there and debated if we return, would it be to the same time or another dimension? Suddenly everyone was trying to escape. Each entered the void's bright blue spot and evaporated.

>>366
I decided to lay the cards out in something i call "the dialectical vector":
form: VII of pentacles
content: Page of cups
past: III of swords
future: The Emperor
VII of pentacles is associated with hard work, so i think your dream is an attempt to distract yourself from work or a long-running task, in the form of remembering activities you did when you were a child and more emotionally vibrant (Page of cups). Your trajectory from III of swords to emperor may very directly suggest you're in the process of controlling your emotions, but it may also hint towards assuming a leadership role or fatherhood as a reaction to people-related suffering in the past (also possibly being the task your working towards). The last part of your dream suggests you may crave the stability of family, out of fear of being in a toxic friendgroup (the people in the blue void? maybe they're incels).

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>>368
Thanks for the dialectical, here are some pepe tarot cards. Sorry about the delay.

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Dreamt my dog upon a glass table, shifting into an arctic wolf, then a polar bear. This occurred in a very light green-white room, faint light entering one corner.

Awhile back my girlfriend did a ritual using Tarot cards to gain insight into the thoughts of people she knew. Ever since she has had horrible nightmares with those same people.

What should we do? Would doing a ritual to remove this work?

The original ritual worked, she has been having dreams from the perspective of her old friends as if she can see into their thoughts but it’s causing the nightmares. Can this be reversed? Should she seek some kind of exorcism? Do some sort of cleaning ritual? Sorry for typos my phone is broken


/ufo/

 

Anything from actual redpills to unheard of science to unhinged conspiracy theories. Just as long as they're an interesting read.

I don't want echochambers, I want an audio nightmare of discordant in conflict sound.


/latam/

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No encontré el hilo anterior así que hago uno nuevo porque es necesario

que con todo y todo Estados Unidos no ha parado de intentar meter las narices en el país y me esta empezando a cansar y mas si en el 2030 planean poner otro titere de mierda en especial si es el puto de Salinas Pliego que planea ser literalmente un Milei Whitexican.

Alguien seguia la campaña de Manzo?
Que opinan de Morena en pleno 2025?
Que nos queda por hacer?
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Por Día de Muertos, este pueblo de México desentierra a los difuntos

>Pomuch, México, es uno de los últimos lugares donde los habitantes limpian los huesos de sus familiares. Ahora se enfrentan a un nuevo reto: los turistas.

María Luisa Euan miraba con ternura cómo su segundo marido limpiaba suavemente el montón de huesos que una vez fueron su primer esposo.

Con un paño blanco, Jorge Jurado limpió un fémur, quitó el polvo de las vértebras y pulió uno a uno cada uno de los dientes dispersos del difunto marido de su esposa.

“Es con amor y cariño”, dijo Jurado, de 66 años, retirando la suciedad de lo que parecía ser un dedo. “Cuando ella se siente alegre, yo me siento alegre igual”.

Euan estuvo de acuerdo. Días antes, habían limpiado los huesos de la primera mujer de Jurado.

“A nuestra edad, no tenemos celos”, dijo Euan, de 69 años. “Y con los finados que se fueron a descansar, menos”.

Aquí, en Pomuch, Campeche, un pueblo de 10.000 habitantes de la península mexicana de Yucatán, la exhumación es un acto de amor.
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>>14076
>>14077

pfft esta todo lolmuerto xd

no habia wignats ni morenazis?
nadie pinta nada ahi lmao

Las redes de la ultraderecha en América Latina: periódicos digitales, ‘bots’ y noticias falsas para propagar la “guerra cultural”

Brasil fue el primer laboratorio de las nuevas armas digitales de la extrema derecha latinoamericana. El éxito fue tan rotundo que un diputado provocador y casi desconocido llamado Jair Messias Bolsonaro llegó en enero de 2019 a la presidencia. Cuatro años después, fue el turno de Javier Milei, un vociferante economista argentino de pelo ensortijado. El fenómeno de la ultraderecha crece ahora en Chile, de la mano del candidato presidencial Johannes Kaiser, e intenta hacer pie en México, donde busca aún al personaje que lo represente. La estrategia es siempre la misma: ejércitos de mercenarios digitales propagan la hiel por fuera de los medios tradicionales. En X, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, programas por streaming y periódicos en la web llaman a la revuelta y la desobediencia civil —cuando no a un golpe de Estado— y organizan manifestaciones “espontáneas” para derribar lo establecido. Como la que se celebrará este sábado en Ciudad de México contra el Gobierno de Claudia Sheinbaum.

En México, la extrema derecha ha tenido hasta ahora poco eco popular y nula presencia institucional. Existen únicamente dos proyectos que aspiran a ser partidos antes de las elecciones intermedias de 2027. Uno de ellos lo encabeza el actor Eduardo Verástegui, de buena relación con el argentino Milei. El amor entre ambos duró poco: un inesperado cruce de insultos en X a finales de octubre consumó la ruptura y llevó a la cancelación de la cumbre de la Conferencia de Acción Política Conservadora (CPAC, en inglés) que se iba a realizar en México en noviembre.

Ante la falta de representación electoral, la presencia del movimiento conservador mexicano se concentra, por ahora, en las redes sociales. Allí surgió la polémica convocatoria a una manifestación atribuida a jóvenes de la generación Z. Aunque se presenta como un movimiento espontáneo similar a los que agitaron Nepal, Madagascar o Marruecos, una investigación de Infodemia —la unidad del Gobierno mexicano dedicada a analizar desinformación— sostiene que se trató de una “estrategia digital articulada”. El informe pone detrás a influencers, figuras de la oposición y cuentas vinculadas a Atlas Network, una organización ultra fundada a principios de los años ochenta con presencia en más de 100 países. Según el informe, en el último mes y medio se habPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

¿Así que los únicos reaccionarios "serios" dentro de la democracia liberal en México son el exnovio de Ricky Martin y el viejito evasor fiscal? lol.

No me sorprende, la autodenominada "derecha" en México en apariencia no tiene tanta fuerza ni popularidad, principalmente porque (México siendo México) los movimientos reaccionarios no necesitan capturar ningún poder del Estado para ser efectivos, ya tienen sus propias instancias judiciales, legislativas y ejecutivas privatizadas en el narco, sectas y cultos, caciques, empresas ilegales y organizaciones criminales paramilitares.

>>14189
Mi tesis día uno es que los actores políticos reaccionarios realmente efectivos están dentro de Morena y son precisamente los gestores actuales del narco, p.e. Omar Harfuch o Pedro Haces.


/lgbt/

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help me out here /lgbt/. I was hanging out at the local anarchist book club the other day and, because it has a high concentration of trans people, there was a discussion about trans issues. since I don't really care I was just listening
one of the people there, who is a trans man, was talking about how they're a lesbian. it's at this point that I feel like an immense boomer, because in my head lesbian = women fucking women. can someone please enlighten me how this is supposed to work? does gender stop existing when SEX is involved? or is it just calling a spade a spade?
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>>3998
>fascism is when words have meaning
>>5496
>i can use big words so maybe this nonsensical thing will make sense someday in wayd scientists have yet to discover
>>3944
is bro on T or not?

>>5493
why so angry? can't handle the slightest challenge to your worldview? the etymology of a word doesn't explain why it becomes popularized and maintains popularity?

>>5453
first off, you spelled it wrong. second off, why sapphic? what does that mean? is a trans man a man or not? can straight men be sapphic? can bi ones?

>>5503
>fascism is when words have meaning
asserting that words have primacy over material reality is fascist-adjacent, yes

next you're going to tell me that the words "man" and "woman" exclude trans people because [merriam webster]

>>5504
>the etymology of a word doesn't explain why it becomes popularized and maintains popularity?

Yeah I'm sure you are right, it's not like Ancient Greece or Rome were vast empires that influenced all of human society or anything.


/lgbt/

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MadoHomu Exedra edition
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>>959
>Alot of these "exception" tend to be more common than you think

>>5373
Not to be hugboxy, but did you get second opinion on your looks? Self perception can be biased.
>t. spend years thinking I am repulsive goblin creature

>>5458
I can second this. I've met people who insisted they were ugly when they were actually insanely cute. I myself always thought I was meh but a number of people have found me really attractive.

hello lot. aap poonah visiting from /tttt/. board's going to shit so some folks said to start checking this place out instead. what's y'all's deal? i kinda expected it to be like /tttt/ but without the neonazis but this just feels like edgier tumblr. can't say it isn't kinda nice tho, i've been starting to explore leftism and it's nice to be in a board that's not full of random white chuds calling me the nword.

>"Femboy" eceleb
>look inside
>woman
Should be illegal tbqh. I'm not normally a fan of gatekeeping labels but if you're going to call yourself a femboy you should at least be AMAB or identify as a man.


/latam/

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Qué pasa en Chile y porque han elegido un nazi como presidente? Are they stupid? ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎

Probablemente. But that's most people I think


/hobby/

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🎭📽🎬📼📺
>Argue about dvd commentaries, Post your thesis on King of the Hill, Reminisce about a tv show you used to watch but don't quite remember it's title. Just about anything related to shows. Post your highscore on those Ben 10 CN flash games. Anything goes.



OLD THREAD
>>3012
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>>46973
The producers seem to mock americans in this way.

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At first I kept thinking of the Pluribus or the Joined or whatever you call it as a virus or some kind of alien lifeform that is controlling or possessing human beings, as Carol seems to believe, but after rewatching the first episode and noticing the radio signal being described as a kind of "technology" I'm beginning to think what it really is is like a sort of teaching instrument which unlocks the full empathic capability of a conscious mind. The connection between all humans was already there from the start, always has been, our latent empathic ability which connects us to other human beings and allows us work and communicate as a collective to a limited extent - the encoded RNA sequence is a firmware update which awakens our full empathic potential and the Joined are literally everyone in the world all at the same time, a spectral personality of 7 billion formerly-discrete personalities all voluntarily existing in perfect harmony with each other. The question is, why are 13 people unaffected? It seems extremely unlikely that this would be a mistake of some kind - this technology is obviously the work of a highly advanced alien civilization or entity which can build megastructures the size of Africa and broadcast a radio signal 600 light years away, doesn't seem like they would make a mistake like that. Maybe the 13 "immune" people have just been randomly chosen as the pupils and the Joined are the teacher - these 13 people are the future of the world and they have the opportunity to communicate with other 7 billion people in the world all acting as one unified intelligence that can teach them everything, and if they do not squander this opportunity they can learn from the Pluribus and work in tandem with it to solve every kind of problem and be the pioneers of a new era of human civilization where they can create any kind of future they want.

Should I believe the hype and start watching Pluribus? AppleTV usually produces decent stuff, it's from the creator of Breaking Bad, etc. but I've read the synopsis of it and reads so ridiculous…

>>47003

If you like science fiction, actual subversive science fiction that asks scary difficult questions and challenges our understanding of reality in interesting ways a la Twilight Zone, Philip K. Dick, Stanislaw Lem, and other things of that nature then I think Pluribus thus far has been a pretty spectacular return to form for the genre.

If you don't like thinking about stuff and you just want a constant onslaught of explosions and bright colors and music to keep you mindlessly entertained then you might find Pluribus boring.

The Joined represent collective responsibility, empathy, and honesty; the Others represent critical thought, individualism, and creativity. The key thing to remember is that humanity needs both to survive - the Joined cannot live without the Others and the Others cannot live without the Joined. If Carol gets sick or injured for example, none of the other 12 Others are doctors or have any medical training to treat her and she will die. Conversely the Joined cannot eat anything except for detritus and there can never be enough detritus in the world to feed 7 billion humans and they will starve to death without the help of the Others. Either the Others and the Joined must learn to coexist peacefully together and learn from each other to accelerate our cognitive evolution, or one or more of the Others could decide to destroy the Joined at any moment and kill 7 billion people to destroy the "woke mind virus" once and for all. The choice is entirely in humanity's hands, these 13 unjoined people. E pluribus unum; out of many one, 13 colonies, etc.


/lgbt/

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How do I get over my hatred of masculine men? All throughout my school years I was relentlessly bullied by jocks and such because I wasnt into typical masculine things and because i was too emotional. Ive felt extreme resentment towards masculinity ever since.

The only men im able to be attracted too are other feminine boys like myself, aswell as older men. Meanwhile it seems like the vast majority of gays feel attraction almost exclusively to hyper-masculine men, and talk about their attraction like being attracted to masculinity is an inherent part of being gay. It has made me feel so isolated and made me feel invalidated in my sexuality.

Part of me feels like masculinity is inherently evil, I feel like it encourages meanness, arrogance, and cruelty by its design. Plus, seeing masculine guys constantly get praised while every other type of male never gets anywhere near as much love, it just makes me even angrier. My resentment is so deep-seated at this point that im not fully sure if I can even change it.
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>>5362
>However, I dont think that masc men tend to bully softboys because they feel threatened. I believe its moreso a barbaric urge to hate things that are different and the masculine desire to dominate the weak.


Are you familiar with how women bully other women whom are not feminine?


>>5449
The only music and art men are allowed to enjoy is trap, rap and heavy metal
Anything else is a subject of bullying and scrutinity

>>5481
Again this doesn’t ring true

If anything, I meet more men whom are into indie, old school R&B, classical, and jazz

>>5449
>Really? Men don't enjoy music or art and aren't nuanced?
>I've never experienced that.
sure, you'll find plenty of men who are into niche interests, but the male tendency for aggressiveness and competition often turns conversation into pissing contests. the key point i was making is that women are less judgemental and often better listeners. men make snap judgements about everyone they meet, but women are less quick to assume things, on the whole. this also makes women more nuanced in practice, even if lots of men are capable of it.

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>>5490
>women are less judgemental


/labor/

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There's no thread for service/fast food workers specifically and I just wanna bitch

I work at this combination fast food place, kfc & taco bell, somehow it always feels like everyone who comes here hasn't ordered fast food in like 20 years because they somehow ask for shit from other restaurants or shit we haven't had since the 90s
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Service workers gotta be the most class cucked workers in my experience
>Coworkers would chronically work themselves to exhaustion for pennies
>Kiss up to management and business owners despite constant abuse from them
>Put up with being denied breaks by management because "it's too busy," despite it being against the law
Glad I left that shit industry. Front of house always had some baddies though


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>>1382
it's very easy to move up in the ranks if you take a risk once in a while and make friends. you wont get anywhere staying at fast food and complaining. you need to actually do the boomer thing and walk into places and apply, or ask your co-workers about openings. one of the easiest fields to advance in with no training or background if you're not afraid of actual labor imo. within 2 years i went from working at a rinky starbucks knockoff making 11.50 with shite hours to sous chef at a local brewery on salary. i make roughly 40k a year which isn't anything to write home about but it's a big improvement considering the timeframe. of course i work my ass off but that's just how it is. depending on how things go id like to get a degree and do something in academia, but if that fails i see myself becoming a fat little porker owning a nice little bar and grill unless the revolution comes first. it'll be commie themed and ill have such sort of art on the walls and ill play black flag and bebop jazz. might have a little dancefloor for djs too.

>>1457
That's great and everything but not everybody is going to have the level of dedication you have. You seem to have greater dreams than the op may have. Every bodies built differently I guess and there will always be winners and losers. Some people won't make it but maybe op will if that's what they eant.

>>1382
The fact that most of our labor market is customer service is disheartening


/tech/

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I have been continuously paranoid since years about corporations and the government. I am an active militant and I like very much to keep my head low although sometimes I can't escape getting in the fray and involved with the media or the police. So my big threat vectors are the police, the government and to a lesser extent the media and the little fascist groups of my western European country.

Now I got windows out the way, I'm running arch and I wipe my laptop and desktop computers once or twice a year. I have Tails on a USB drive for critical operations, I have a riseup account but I never use it because I feel it could be a honeypot so I prefer Proton which is less political.

I used lineageOS build on my last phone but now I have a pixel with Graphene, Obviously I never post on leftypol without using a VPN or TOR.

Can I get better than that? I thought about using a 8 numbers pin on my phone on which I set up a reformat code if I'm forced to enter something but it fucking sucks to type so much each time I unlock it, I feel I'm not high profile enough to justify the hassle. And no I am never giving my digital print to any device.

you don't give enough info about your activities and what level of scrutiny you think you're getting and what they know and you don't care about compromising so u get generic advice

1. email:
- you could do e2ee with p2p
- if you don't want your emails tied to you then make sure you made the acct over tor and only access it over tor. Also extra leet points if you use a bridge, vpn, or access from someone else's wifi so that the fact you're on tor at that given time isn't known
2. physical:
- car could be bugged
- always have internet connected devices put away (e.g. in a safe or freezer) or unplugged when speaking around them
- everywhere you go by car is monitored
- all your purchases are watched
3. social:
- your security/privacy is only as strong as the weakest link (between you and the people you talk to)
4. encryption:
- make sure all your devices are full disk encrypted in case they get compromised
5. devices:
- don't mix your normie devices with your clandestine devices unless you're running qubes. qubes could replace both arch and tails unless you're gaming, in which case have a separate gaming device. qubes could already replace tales and have your files persist

my phone pin is 7 digits and i can type it in like 2 seconds


/edu/

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What's the leftypol take on this book? I'm not trolling - it's existence has haunted my life. I was raised catholic… Christianity has both ruined & saved my life and my opinions on it have only gotten more complex.

Some of the greatest art of all time has been religiously motivated. But the question of Christianity specifically is a big one. On one hand all manner of brown people are more sincerely christian than a lot of white people have ever been. It might be the one thing saving Africa right now!

But on the other hand The first Roman Empire & Greek empire were polytheistic & they might have achieved a civilizational peak that surpasses the situation we live in right now. Christianity is very homophobic & a huge portion of Europe/UK demographics are atheist & seem to be some of the happiest nations on earth. Christianity might even be the reason that the Roman Empire fell & is responsible for a lot of really bad imperialism & colonialism.

What am I supposed to make of it? Jesus was surely a good man, no? The word of god has saved homeless, sick, and morally corrupt. Where does the justification to do evil come from when people read this?
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>>25447
A product of its' time, among many axial texts such as those of Buddhists and Confucianists. Some modern philosophers of science have proposed that they make better sense as a collection of 'sacred metaphors', that is, truthisms that let readers (or listeners, as before the Protestant Reformation the Bible was recited among a crowd instead of read privately: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lectio_Divina) break frame and connect themselves to their lived world. In this sense, there's a lot of evidence of an Aristotelian methodology within the Bible, which is something I typically talk about with the LW Protestants (Lutheran, Episcopalian, Eucharists) in my city to make the case for commie politics.

That being said, I don't believe the Bible is literally truthful, or even reliable, historical text. I think the prevalence of a literal interpretation comes from the myth-fetishism (folk theories) that most people have to shortcut understanding how the meaning of a thing relates to its' literal expression. Though I wouldn't doubt that's a holdover of religion in general being used as the locus of social control for millennia.

If you're interested in this, I ended up learning this framing of sacred texts in general from this one (sometimes annoyingly liberal) CogSci doctor from UoT. It's a 50-hour long web lecture series. I'll link the playlist here: https://johnvervaeke.com/series/awakening-from-the-meaning-crisis/

>>25470
that is just anglos being protestants

The idea that humans are innately evil is the most toxic idea you could ever implant into civilization, to indoctrinate people into believing that their lives have no intrinsic value and take away their self-awareness and agency and consciousness and everything else that makes them human, and turn them into passive dummies who only seek external validation. It lays the groundwork for totalitarianism, acclimatizing people to the idea that only an outside authority figure can tell you who you are; you can never know the answer yourself and you should never try to find out.

>>25495
Humans are inclined to evil but the problem with Christianity is that Christianity wants people to be infantilised patrons for Jehovah and Jesus.

“Not by my will, but HIs Will”
“Without Jesus, my life has no purpose”

It reeks of vulnerable narcissism, using God as your ego shield

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>>25501
only a life-denying, nihilistic religion like christianity can convince people of martyrdom. the idea that being tortured to death by rapists who will conquer your land is better than fighting them is peak psyop shit;
>oh, please crucify me upside down!
this is why peter holds the keys to the kingdom lol


/edu/

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Esochannealogy: esoteric chan culture
- Information Warfare;
- Psychological Warfare;
- Cognitive Warfare;
- Memetic Warfare;
- Psychological Operations;
- Second Generation Memetic Warfare (SGMW/2GMW).

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>>25429
Use these PDFs in AI. You will see the magic.

Bump.

Based.

>>25430
This is liberal garbage on par with something I'd read from Alex Karp.

>>25492
This is literally neutral. It is a Memetic Warfare System integrated with AI.


/latam/

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El mejor thread de Chile

No se si hayan muchos compañeros chilenos por estos lares y menos que quieran hablar de la telenovela que es nuestra política, pero no creo que haga daño tener un hilo para hablar de ello, o realmente de cualquier otra weá que tenga relacion con nuestro país.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILOGjVUEhP8

CORRELE CORRELE CORRELÁ

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4 años del Kakas gobernando con chipe libre y con los pacos más empoderados que nunca gracias a todas las leyes que aprobó el Boris y el resto del FA.

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por que la araucania simpre vota tanto a la derecha? no es la region mas indigena y la derecha esta contra los derechos indigenas?

>>14499
La centro izquierda también ha mandado a las fuerzas armadas a la Araucanía y a una parte importante de los mapuches no les interesa la política chilena y ven a todos los partidos como sus enemigos (based).


/edu/

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ITT: Simply post screenshots of passages you found interesting. Also share the source of the screenshot so anons can read whatever they find interesting.

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/edu/

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drop them PDFs, we will rebuild edition
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>>23649


/hobby/

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Seeing how there’s multiple /co/ related threads on the board. I think we should just put all of them into one general just for clarity’s sake.

Discuss anything related to comics and animations from comic recs, leftist animations to comic writers’ attempts to larp as leftists.

Seriously is there a worse anarchist in the UK than Alan Moore?
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>>46366
Quite possibly one of the most evil people in entertainment today period

>>44148
The bigger problem problem is Vivzie is stuck in the same mode of writing as other Tumblr-adjacent media where their style of dramatic writing is just characters talking about their feelings in upset monologues. Her drama is not that interesting and it's silly that every story that crowd makes about superheroes, alien warriors, and literal murderous demons is just about the same mundane problems of grief, trust, relationship trauma, sexuality and mental health.
I'm not saying the show should only be about violence and sex jokes and nothing else, but idk, seems

The success of some of the Absolute titles has strengthened my conviction that cape comics would be much more popular if they just stopped looking bland and indistinct and embraced a little formalism for flavor.
People talk about the relatability of early Spider-Man and so on but a big, possibly bigger part of the reason comics were popular with adults in the 60s was that people could easily see how visionary Kirby, Ditko, Steranko, etc. were as artists. They used their talents to sell the strange and superhuman nature of the characters and their worlds and that had an inherent appeal in the climate of the time.
I checked out the last few issues of Action Comics. I'm not saying the art is bad, but holy shit is it unexciting. People standing around in offices, houses, streets, talking and making faces at each other. This is a Superman story? Yes, the human side of the character is important, but come on.

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So, logically speaking shouldn't Superman and Kara Zor-el/Supergirl get it on to ensure the survival of Kryptonians? And why'd they pick such a strange looking girl to play Supergirl. I'm not saying she's ugly and I like Marvel more, but you wouldnt cast a girl like that for an Emma Frost or Mrs. Marvel type role would you?


/music/

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Post stereotypical music from whatever country you live in.
I live in Amerikkka so here are my choices
The body was too short The body was too short The body was too short The body was too short The body was too short The body was too short

This is the embodiment of American culture


/edu/

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Dr. Asad Haider, editor of Viewpoint Magazine, died yesterday.
https://thepointmag.com/politics/politics-without-guarantees/
https://viewpointmag.com/2015/10/28/making-a-living/

RIP. Millions must read miataken identity, one of the best criticisms of identity politics within the left while being committed to black, queer and female liberation.


/lgbt/

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really really retarded question but it’s whatever

is it true most of the LGBTQ+ community are now filled with middle class individuals or not? i remember when i saw a reply mentioning that on /siberia/ and now im wondering if its true or not

Anon there's a reason you thought the question is dumb.
Think about the world population. How many of them are poor? And how many of them are middle class?
Using basic statistics you can figure it out. Leftypol is unfortunately full of reactionary retards who make the dumbest arguments possible.

Transsexuality and homosexuality are innate, so there shouldn't be any difference between classes. The only thing is that the poor can hide it to avoid being persecuted.

bump

op you already got two good answers to your retarded question, no need to bump
I guess you're fishing for a reactionary to go on a homophobic screed

No, most LGBT people are poor and marginalized, because they're systematically oppressed, duh.

But as with anything, the economically empowered get to have their voices heard.


/games/

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>Metroid Prime 4 is open world with a motorcycle
Literally everything is open world slop now. Even a series that named the genre where you explore intricate interconnected levels.
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>>44262
>lots of characters
>lots of dialogue
>no sense of isolation
>no sense of wonder
>poor immersion
>shitty ending
The game is mediocre at best. Why is it even called Prime?

>>45174
I've heard fans of the series generally say they enjoy it while decrying specific parts of it as shit.

Damn, Metroid Prime 4 was pretty much the only reason I've considered getting a Switch.

>>45176
Original Metroid Prime was named for the final boss of the game, and the name stuck for all the 3D metroids.

>>45174
There is a lot of bandwagoning happening. It’s really not the that bad. Mckenzie is about as annoying as Otacon from MGS to me. The desert portion feels tacked on a bit because it’s basically used to collect gems for a later part of the game. That might be annoying for some players but I collected them while traveling to different locations so it wasn’t a big deal. I think people were expecting more modern elements like an actual open world rather than a hub, but I knew that was never going to happen while the game was being held back by the switch 1. If your expectations aren’t that high and you like metroid it’s a good time. People are complaining about the story but I would still rank it higher than Other M despite it being paper thin.


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