>since maybe great thinkers
s/maybe/many

>>For example, how do you know you're actually reading this, that you're not just dreaming?
Oh, that's easy.
When I dream, I cannot really feel my body.
I feel lighter than I really am, I don't sense the presence of my internal organs, I never sneeze, I don't think of checking my phone or googling something when I feel confused, I just accept mind-boggling stuff as if it were perfectly natural.

Might be that I don't dream a lot, but it's awfully rare for me to have a dream that actually feels real with a bare minimum of lucidity, and every time I realise I am indeed in a dream, I promptly wake up

Also what this anon from 2022 said >>1561

>>1560
Denouement from OP,
my problem was inability to communicate, others appearing to be insane, and I have worked out that there are probably three factors.
-One, the way people generally communicate is inherently dishonest. Responding to what they think the person intended and not what they said, and then responding not with 'the answer' but with something that might lead the person to a desirable outcome, is lying and manipulation. And when taken at face value, the logic of such statements is entirely nonsensical.
-Two, people are often engaging in self-deception. Self-deception runs on ambiguity. You can't know something and pretend the truth is something else, you have to avoid looking too closely at the whole issue, lest you arrive at a conclusion you don't like. So when I say something that *might* challenge someone's sense of self worth, they just decide I meant something else, refusing to acknowledge the question. I received a direct confession of this.
-Three, people are not sufficiently clever to realize when their interpretation isn't working. I have a lot of inconclusive little reasons to suspect so, but essentially my only decent explanation for "still think they understand the question after I've repeated it seven times in a row" is that people are dumb.

>>1872
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rationalism-empiricism/

>>1732
It's not, sadly.

Giving anime girls massive, scrotal seeming bulges in their underwear is done intentionally to make anime viewers accepting of trannys.

>>1825
Puffy vulvas are the epitome of straightness.
She's pretty much rubbing it in your face how FEMALE she is.
That's the equivalent of a guy having a huge dick

Why is this evidently sexual topic allowed here though?

There is nothing female about having what looks like swollen oversized sausage instead of genitals. If anything it's just disgusting. OPpic is sickening.

>>1866
>S.Korea
Huh? Plastic surgery does not modify your genes

>>1865
Yes.

I have had some of my best online conversations via IBs, but let's face it, not everyone here is both in good faith and mentally sound

>>1867
they do cell implants and when it comes to designer baby this year, they will probably have the highest number among the asian nation next to PRC

>>1869
Asian nation? Doesn't seem right... yet it does rhyme.

mods! why is my post deleted?

>>1847
Probably because of this rule: >>/r/7
>- Do not misuse the quoting function (i.e. "greentexting").

Kids with divorced parents should get as much sympathy as kids with dead parents.
If your parents divorce, it means the very reason why you were born is no longer valid, but you are still here.
That's a recipe for mental disorders

It's often unreasonable to call people who can afford not to work parasites.
The job they decided not to apply for can go to someone else, there aren't infinite jobs.
And the fewer applicants there are, the better bargaining power the person who did get the job has.

You're paying taxes whenever you buy something legally, income tax is by no means the only way to support society

>>1765
>>1766
I didn't hear much about the USSR in class either, it was mostly just how evil Germans were during the 30's and 40's over and over, and in passing that also Russians and the Japanese were evil too, but at least the evil Soviets defeated the more evil nazis.
I think many of the heinous things we're supposed to believe about current bad guys (Russia, North Korea, China, Iran, whatever other sand lands, etc) and former bad guys (USSR, Japan, Germany, etc) are either way overblown or made up propaganda bullshit.

These stories are the believable ones. >>1767
The young retards glorifying the USSR/communism wouldn't last a day under it. Would they even last a day during the 90's, without their damn phone.

Post edited on 25th Aug 2024, 5:15pm

>>1774
>The young retards glorifying the USSR/communism wouldn't last a day under it. Would they even last a day during the 90's, without their damn phone.

True. I'm one of them. But I'll still glorify it.

It wasn't so bad as America portrays it. Wasn't so good as USSR itself makes it to appear. Persecutions were brutal, but it's not like EU/America is much different. Not brutal, but you just try publicly opposing SJW values. You'll get crushed with not even a glimpse of mercy. Apart from that, average quality of life was more or less as miserable as literally anywhere else.

>But I'll still glorify it.
Can't you just use anime for your escapism, like everyone else?

Bit late, but I have 3 main guidelines:

1) Look at yourself in the mirror as frequently as possible. That should motivate you to remedy or prevent hungry skeleton mode, skinnyfat mode and excess weight

2) If you never feel genuinely lively at any time of the day (e.g. you feel like running through an empty hallway), you are probably inflamed and there's something awfully wrong with your diet and your lifestyle

3) When it comes to physical exercise, focus on what you actually ENJOY doing.
Try out as much stuff as you can to get an idea.
Sense of duty will only get you out of the bed for a few weeks or so, you have to be genuinely motivated, you have to feel like your body should move and struggle more

>>1834
ok

i personally do not like both sides since they both believe i am dangerous, i never voted since its invasive to my privacy and rights. people who follow sides i find it difficult to talk, and believe in whatever is morally right.

>>1834
People being afraid of his second presidency is just more proof that democracy needs to be taken back behind the shed and shot.

>>1841
>i personally do not like both sides since they both believe i am dangerous

Why is that?
Are you a registered sex offender?
That's the only thing I think both GOP and Dems could agree about, when it comes to defining "dangerous individuals"

>>1791
Rule 5

>>1790
>I prefer brownies that are nicely crisped at the edges, and not cloyingly sweet.
Yeah, this.

Negros and Indians I don't mind as long as they stay in their own countries. Just like the My Little Pony fans, that's one community who seemingly learned to keep to themselves and not bother or invade others. They used to be a pest in the very early days, but it's nothing you ever think about because you hardly ever see them now.

What few episodes I saw of Friendship Is Magic I remember were mediocre, but I agree it's better than most modern cartoon garbage.

In a way they are lucky, their culture isn't being actively diluted like otaku culture is. If you meet someone else who claims to be a brony, there's a good chance they can actually have an in-depth discussion of stuff, which is more that can be said for "anime fans" these days.

>>1843
I don't think it's comparable. It's a lot easier to have in-depth knowledge about a single series than to have it for hundreds.

>>1811
Sure, like I said they are technically in the wrong. But practically does it matter? It is historical software, and despite the fact that no one bothered noticing these violations for several decades now they start a witch-hunt over its dead corpse. What do they expect to gain out of that, extracting a settlement from a dead company?

The only practical effect of their actions is that now no company is going to bother open sourcing stuff that might have skeletons in the closet, no matter how historical or important it might be. It perfectly embodies the smug lawyer fine-print attitude of the ardent "free software movement" folks, sometimes unable to see the forest for the trees.

>>1813
>But practically does it matter? It is historical software
They thought it mattered enough to cook up their own idiotic license which prohibits making forks. They'd probably cease and desist anyone with a popular fork. If they viewed it as historical software, none of this would have been a problem.

>now no company is going to bother open sourcing stuff that might have skeletons in the closet, no matter how historical or important it might be
Maybe companies should stop being lazy, greedy and retarded. Don't fire people who are capable of reviewing code before releasing it to the public. This whole thing was a pr stunt and way to get volunteers to work for free.

Post edited on 21st Oct 2024, 6:13am

Some other thing I wonder about, is whether in theory it would make even sense to use legal documents such as a licenses, if you are publishing your software under a pseudonym only. Assuming the license wouldn't be valid due to one using a pseudonym, it would be probably futile to even add a license to your code. In practice of course, nobody thinks about that, nobody (or at least myself) would go to court, because of that anyway, and therefor it seems to me the license stuff, when it comes to pseudonyms, is more or less an imaginary protocol, that everybody abides, but is not really enforced in places where somebody doesn't. This of course, is just an educated guess of mine and I'm no lawyer, but it makes sense to me, that a legal document is not valid, if signed with a pseudonym or anonymously.

You're wrong. Even if you went to court you'd probably run out of money before you got anything. The idea behind licenses is that it allows corpos and companies to watch each other. Should one fuck up somewhere other will destroy it. This is a self enforcing thing, driven by the nature of modern market. In countries like those that have a lot of land or a lot of people it doesn't matter, they don't care for licenses and you wouldn't be able to go to court anyway. Tl;dr licenses aren't for you. They're for the big daddies to kill each other over them.

>>1758
I'm surprised it wasn't Ranma ½. Or I guess recently OniMai, that surely must have caused a stir among the susceptible.

Interestingly enough the /a/ threads for OniMai were great and somehow managed to not become a spamfest. There were some threads where the appeal of genderbender was discussed (e.g. desuarchive.org/a/thread/254065359), and some broad consensus that it's mostly either about wanting to explore the feeling of being a different person [not necessarily sexual or gender-related], perhaps slightly linked with ability to redo your life. Of course for OniMai in particular it's mostly a CGDCT with a twist, so that childhood life that is relived is a warm happy one, with lots of cute emotion – which makes it an appealing fantasy to either self-into or passively yearn for. Latter could probably extend a bit to yuri or CGDCT as well (but it's surely more passive there).

I don't have much to add to the discussion as everything that needed to be said has been said, but here's an interesting infographic that shows that regardless of whatever causes some anime fans to become trannies, they're still a very small portion of the community. Before anyone comments something about this being from Reddit, that's exactly where trannies hang out, so...

>>1821
I'd prefer poltards think anime is for trannies so I don't have to be around the obnoxious faggots.

>>1821
They're just the loudest, as usual.