/siberia/ - Off-topic

>>788530
Then once again, what I said in >>788432
I used to read a lot of comment threads where there were smug and jaded teens and adults arguing their point of view with excessive wording and condemning others, especially younger people for not sharing the same intellectual inclinations as them

>>788497
This is why general education should have technical skills as part of the curriculum

I'm test playing the latest version of my Civ 4 mod.

I'm playing as the EU and decided to aid Ukraine against China, Russia, Iran, and a few other less relevant Civs. The actual diplomatic situation surrounding the war is complex, but the primary actors are NATO plus its East Asian allies versus Russia, Iran, and China. I was able to get the bloc representing Southeast Asia to declare war against Iran, but not China. Turkey is also at war with Iran, but not Russia.

All of Eastern Europe plus most of Eastern Germany was quickly leveled by Russian nukes. Brussels also got hit but it wasn't too bad. I assume Russia and China tried to nuke more targets but their ICBMs were mostly intercepted. China did hit Los Angeles though. They did shoot off all of their tactical nukes at the Pacific Rim Bloc (Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan) though. Basically ensuring South Korea and Japan were leveled to the point of irrelevancy. The entire bloc is essentially just Taiwan now. There wasn't even a land invasion following it. The US retaliated against China and nuked a few of its cities but it had minimal effect, I assume their ICBMs were intercepted too.

There hasn't been any significant military action outside of Eastern Europe, where I've pretty much rendered Russia irrelevant. I'm a bit surprised North Korea hasn't entered the war to at least annex South Korea.

Oh, Israel decided to chimp out and nuke Syria in anticipation of invading much of the region.

Since the map is massive, I'm only like 4 turns in so I'll be interested in seeing what other shit happens. Also, I think post-war will be interesting. Playing this save emphasizes how much I need to flesh out the city development process, and the civilization stability system. If I actually set it up, it would be interesting trying to politically stabilize post nuclear holocaust Europe. Also, trying to either integrate the portions of Russia I occupy or divvy it up, or whatever.

I'm in a SEA Facebook travel group and just read a long post about some local woman taking in a mentally ill Black guy and getting screwed over when he tripped out and destroyed the bedroom she let him stay in. The women literally subsidized his existence for two months. She ultimately tracked him to a hotel with another woman (probably a hooker). Making things even more interesting, the woman who got screwed over fetishized black men and has a business selling black dildos. Is this really what BBC does to the brain lmao?

If you play this song over the credits to any kids movie then it will fit perfectly https://youtu.be/CRp7qSztE0E?si=V_rwWbyF9g1_TDRn

>>789205
You could have a guy try as hard as he can to knock you up even if it is futile. Lots of handholding and eye contact.

>>789205
Hug
Kissing
Outercourse
Oral sex
Anal sex
Vaginal sex

Every drug

Extra hard mode: dominating another person in a fight and or resulting in submission, retreat or death

Fulfil biological imperative: impregnation
Fulfil class imperiative: go on strike and sabotage bourgeois

>>789308
also upload a video of it to this thread

>>789205
mmmh, lets see, what would be my bucket list
>have hot passionate sex with someone you're emotionally connected to
>take cool drugs like mdma or lsd with a bunch of friends and have a great night
>try diving in a beautiful submarine area
>try a cool flying thing, either parachute jump, hang glider, paragliding, or hot air balloon
>watch northern lights
>see a complete solar eclipse
>see a lunar rainbow
>sleep under the stars in the mountains with a clear weather
>win a competitive endeavor by a narrow margin
>get so engrossed in a story you read/watch it all night
>tame an animal
>participate in an exhilarating collective action
>cook and eat something absolutely delicious
>shoot a porkie or an imperialist politician

>>789294 i wish i could do salvia and DMT so bad…
psilocibin mushrooms are legal here in brazil, but I take quetiapine to sleep, and quetiapine kills psychedelic trips. I'd have to do a quetiapine detox for 2 weeks to see any visuals when snorting them mushrooms :C

menopause

It seems extremely obvious.

total korean cultural victory

They just love dressing like grandmas in flower dresses, I dunno man

>>789178
>Fuck the "Revolution", defend our socialist commodity production and national chauvinism

Then explain tis if they didn't try exporting the revolution

>>789325
>Finland
unironic LARP,they obliterated the finnish army and then were like yeah give us like a sliver of land bro even tho we know the nazis are going to attack from there and that's why we did it in the first place

>>789334
>unironic LARP,they obliterated the finnish army and then were like yeah give us like a sliver of land bro even tho we know the nazis are going to attack from there and that's why we did it in the first place

(I used the archives
https://histdoc.net/history/history.html#war
&
https://histdoc.net/history/velikie1939_e.html
As my sources
)

Firstly, the war certainly didn't go as in the official plan, which had foreseen the invasion of entirety of Finland in matters of 2-3 weeks!
https://histdoc.net/pdf/Doklad_no_4587,29_oktjabrja_1939g.pdf

Not only the front did stall in the Karelian Isthmus, it costed the Red Army massive casualties even though they were 'slowly' winning.

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>>789341(me)
Oh, there is also a wikipedia page about it!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-British_plans_for_intervention_in_the_Winter_War

Also,
Precedessor to Molotov-Ribbentrop pact

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_alliance_negotiations

The USSR firstly tried to build up a coalition with the UK and France against the nazis to ensure their border security ( Poland, Czeslovakia etc. to be a buffer between Nazi Germany and the Union, as the Red Army was no ready for a war against Germany at that time)
Yet all the diplomatic overtures of the Soviet Union were rejected or ignored by the Allied powers, pushing the Soviet diplomacy to reconcile and restore relations with Germany in hopes of extending peace.
Molotov-Ribbentrop is a direct result of Allied rejection of anti-nazi coalition.

>>789098
But I love Stalin

>>789328
Seems like a local class conflict between petit porkies and lumpen porkies. KGB should arm lumpenporkies with explosives because they are historically progressive.

>>789082
Well it used to be if you were poor you could take scenic drives but when gas is so expensive you can't even do that. Time to get those two seater bikes I guess. Also damn movies are expensive and popcorn is highway robbery. I remember when pizza deliveries and Chinese food was dirt cheap now it's a borderline luxury what are poors gonna do now rice and bean maxx.

i dont even make that much in a month. why di treatlerites waste that much money in a day

>>789085
>and Chinese food was dirt cheap

Yeah what's up with that? When I was in the States, I used to enjoy Chinese takeout all the time. I visited again recently and fucking Panda Express now mogs them all in both cost and quality.

>Fox News sexual relations propaganda
I prefer gore spam to this

The bourgoise are shizo abe-maxxing (blaming the populace for not wanting to reproduce in the hellscape they've been forced to live in)

This is the assessment of Jean Bodin, Louis XIV, & Voltaire–the Popes (in respect to the Orthodox bishops)–& also Gaius Caligula said, "Let there be one lord, one king" to all his vassal kings at a banquet–so I agree with them.
…Monarchists… on the other hand… are always snarling at absolute monarchy, the vast majority of them being constitutional monarchists… and bickering about centralization/decentralization, and arguing on behalf of Aristotle's notion of a partnership of clans, either for the Nobility of estates (without the preeminence of one royal estate) or for multi-party democracy (without the preeminence of one party corporatism…)

Emperor Tiberius often used a phrase – Auribus teneo lupum – "holding a wolf by the ears" to describe ruling the Roman Empire.
A great deal of people think a ruler is overthrown on account of good or bad of a ruler, but there is a great indifference overall, and like the standpoint of Hobbes… the tongue of a man is a trumpet of war and sedition – no matter how good or bad of a ruler – and civilization is not something to be taken for granted, but may easily be broken – no matter how integral – and dashed to pieces.

Don't take anyone's loyalty for their word or think it will come naturally with the gentle breeze. It takes a lot of effort. And even then… By default, don't consider people reliable that way. Seek out the opportunity, but definitely don't take anything for granted.
Like Machiavelli suggests, there are many counterfeit loyalties. When the heat is on, people bail.
…
As for revolting, Tempest Shadow (from the MLP movie) & Hobbes are more accurate: people revolt either when it is opportune or when their discontent foments from personal harm to them directly as to kill them. They don't revolt because it is their duty. Their natural state might as well be revolt (war of all against all)–no need for Aquinas to tell them.
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People don't care. –They don't really care if USA is bombing and killing other people far away or if others they barely know suffer–and they'll bring up the suffering to take advantage of it against their opponents to shame them, not out of compassion for the suffering.
…
When it comes to resistance theory, and in particular Aquinas, another factor Hobbes has over them is that while they anticipate people will revolt when there is injustice – I think what Hobbes has over Aquinas here is that civilization is not a free gift of the human spirit, or a political animal, and that people are naturally inclined to stick together for the benefit of their body-politic – rather, ruling the people is like ruling wolves, who are ready to pounce and bite at any instance, unjustly or justly, they'll pounce if you stick your neck out and give them the opportunity… and among the reasons they don't revolt is because there is an influx of doggy treats holds off discontent and fear for their livelihood if they do–but this view, that people are predisposed to revolt, basically unravels pulls the rug from underneath resistance theory by changing the perspective, as Hobbes says, that the tongue of a man is like a trumpet of war, and this pessimistic tone that civilization is fragile and can fracture at any moment puts more stress on security and stability in spite of this.
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I'm not altogether sure I would say people are totally motivated by self-interest/life preservation, but I agree with Hobbes that people aren't born apt for political society (which Hobbes states against Aristotle) – at least, if anything, people aren't born ready for royal monarchy – instead they have to be reared and ePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Opinion on work / life balance
Ideally, on the level of comfort, you wouldn't have to work constantly to survive, but have some level of subsistence if you wanted a break.
My friend had a nice life / work balance by occasionally working every few months to rake up money, then after his job… taking his own time off to have free time.
He could only get away with this lifestyle thanks to living with his parents.
Work probably wouldn't be as grating if it wasn't something you were shackled into by a number of forces like make you have to stick to the grind.
If people had security to join and leave the workforce every once in a while and bide their time, kind of like a part time worker, that would be better.

>Would it solve all humanity's problem?
It's not only for profit and necessity that people are constantly working.
Government begins with the economy and workplace itself. That is where the business of government takes place, to tidy you up, and begin to influence your life. It is really like the 2nd layer after compulsory education in a long series of events to rake people in and discipline them and take time to preach whatever the regime wants to teach the populace, which also happens through employment because the government can also have its gospel carried down through the employers to teach the employees how to behave… is one way employers and the government work together to enforce an agenda in coordinating how the public is taught to behave.
There is a saying, Unworked hands are dangerous hands.
If people were unemployed, a concern is they'd take time to break into rebellion or commit petty crime constantly like hoodlums. That is another reason why from the governor's perspective it is better to have the general populace working, since ample leisure time not only inhibits their capacity to discipline and mold you, but also generally speaking gives people time to rebel and do petty crime, especially if they aren't hooked, and a plethora of other problems if people are interacting more.

>It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor [so they keep working]… the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting [or revolution]

• Aristotle, Politics
  
  

I honestly agree more with Hobbes than Aristotle… people are more inclined to bitterly fight and compete against one another than be kept by ties of companionship, so fundamentally a concord of hosts or partnership of clans fails to take heed and deference ultimately goes to an arbiter to keep the wheels turning functionally.
That is nothing to parade about, but do people revolt for justice or injustice?
–No, they revolt when it is opportune or due to harm–people do not revolt when it is their duty, but again when it is opportune or they are in harm's way.
If people revolted because it was their duty, which many people are mistaken to think is the case, and that the masses are incorruptible judges… well… they would have moved to overthrow during the Epstein files–the reality is people just don't give a fuck in general. They don't care if the US bombs brown people or atrocities are committed, and they gladly also eat the spoils of war like fledgling birds with their mouths open.
People are also far easier to play divide and conquer with–than to unite–and naturally, any government (not only a dictatorship or tyranny, lest you only scruple them) has a keen interest keeping the general populace employed enough to not revolt, as is the case not only for so-called tyrants but republics and democracies like our own.
The natural state of people is already a revolt… that what keeps that revolt at bay is an influx of dog treats… and subsistence… it takes layers upon layers of training to achieve the state of society to keep the people's loyalty not only to a regime, but also loyalty amongst themselves, and they are far from born loyal, but have to be reared and taught like Xenophon says,
>But never think that loyal hearts grow up by nature as the grass grows in the field

Hobbes writes, in denial of Aristotle:
>1st. For first among them there is a contestation of honour and preferment; among beasts [such as ants or bees] there is none: whence hatred and envy, out of which arise sedition and war, is amPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>787926
Porn, music, cooking, art, hiking, etc

>>786294
I've never heard anyone say women want shy nerdy guys, but if they did the woman's idea of it would probably be quite different than what you have in mind. Think Hollywood ugly.

>>787968
Most pop cultural portrayals of nerds in chick flicks are often hunky studs with glasses
But the real problem is the stereotyping of nerds as aesthetically challenged

>>786490
what the-

>>789246
That's mean :(
Can't you have sex in a wholesome way?

>>789274
It used to be word-filtered to "fun" for a long while, dating back from 8chan days, but somehow a few years ago some mods decided it should be reverted because Trotskyists talk about "degenerated worker's state" every once in a blue moon. I think it should be filtered again, it was funny.

this but i don't leave her and we raise a loving family

>>789281
then u fuck the daughters?

>>789283
obviously

>>789150
Jarvis, pull up what % of my erections are caused by hetmoids.

>>788886
Reminder gay misandrist is a masc and het passing looking moid who got doxxed in bra and confessed being quite aggressive as a kid

>>789152
Yeah? What a stupid smug reasoning.

>>789152
You people would 100% misidentify me as gay.