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    Coronavirus COVID-19

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    7 minutes ago, Alcofribas said:

    the deniers and conspiracy theorists are still captured by the big other with this; they're clinging to the sense that there is a big dad running things. in reality the ruling class are just a bunch of rworded assholes who largely have no clue what they're doing. they're experts at consolidating wealth, that's p much it.

    yeah i think this is part of why conspiracy theorists tend to be associated more with the political right, if we take the right as "prefers central authority" (i'm treating things like libertarianism & anarcho-capitalism as mutations of liberalism). the conspiracy theorist subconsciously wants there to be someone calling the shots, even if that person is out to get them. whereas in actuality a lot of modern chaos seems to emerge from the fact that there really isn't any sort of elite authority or organizing principle holding things together (in actual fact we inhabit a world in which those who most ruthlessly pursue their individual interest tend to rise to the top)

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    Coronavirus COVID-19

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    2 minutes ago, Alcofribas said:

    the fact is pandemics are bad. there’s not a chill and cool way of dealing with them.

    the pandemic has been a good lesson in

    A. the fact that there probably isn't a secret global elite calling the shot

    B. actually maybe things would run better if there was

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    'Global Warming's Terrifying New Math'

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    3 hours ago, thefxbip said:

    I think we're gonna see some wild shit in our lifetimes.

    Next 100 years will be something.

    yeah i honestly don't feel like things are going to "go back to normal". it's all just going to keep compounding - the environmental stuff, the political tension, the disintegration of cohesive social structure etc. It feels a bit disingenuous (perhaps wishful thinking) when i see news articles now going "face it folks, it's time to get back to the office". to me that just feels like big financial capital trying to squeeze the last bit of toothpaste out of the tube so they can secure their gated farming communities & armed bodyguard militias before shit really starts to fall apart. things aren't going back to normal imo. maybe we'll have a year or two of "kinda" normal. like being on an airplane with the engine stops but it hasn't gone into a nosedive yet, it's just coasting. Like being at a party where everyone can feel some sort of violent confrontation building, but it hasn't occured yet. everyone laughing a little too loud, being a little too jovial, trying desperately to disguise the nervous energy.

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    stupid first world problems you're dealing with

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    9 hours ago, Zephyr_Nova said:

    Can't find a Hackers stream anywhere.  Unbelievable.

    i feel like it's gotten quite a bit harder to torrent films/shows in the last few years, which is the opposite of what i would have expected/hoped for. Music's still pretty easy to come by though

    Spoiler

    speaking hypothetically of course

     

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    Write something random

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    Do you guys remember that british kids' show that used to air on the disney channel, called Shart Attack? I used to watch it all the time. I remember how every episode the host would say "it's time for a really big shart attack", and then usually they would go out to some public location (like a cafe, an airport, a mall food court etc) and secretly spike a random uknowing person's drink or food with laxatives & film them reacting to it. yeah so i was wondering wht happened, why the show just stopped airing one day. turns out that something had gone horribly wrong once while filming an episode. the host had made a special shart whistle, it worked too well. you guys, i recomend not looking up the footage, its pretty fucked up. a man sharts all of his internal organs & turns inside out. i could see why the disney channel only aired this episode a couple of times

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    Climate Emails Stoke Debate

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    1 hour ago, KovalainenFanBoy said:

    my only wish at this point is my parents are gone before shit truly hits the fan

    yeah that's basically my feeling. and i mean i feel bad for people who have kids or plans for the future, but personally my whole life so far has mostly felt like a prelude to/anticipation of some kind of massive collapse. i wouldn't want to force that on the rest of the world but

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    Black Dog Productions "Otaku"

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    one of my favourite tracks from any genre or era. basically a perfect experienc, even moreso for how simple it all is. it's like being on acid for the very first time, staring at some grass or a concrete sidewalk or a patch of old fence. kinda track that you listen to it & after you feel like you can appreciate the hidden symmetry in everything

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    stupid first world problems you're dealing with

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    8 minutes ago, drillkicker said:

    I feel like I'm just an afterthought.  I'm a background character who nobody really thinks about. 

    this is something i felt strongly at various points throughout my 20s. eventually i started to get the sense that most people felt that way, and indeed in a certain sense it's even true: people are my nature always concerned with their own lives first & foremost (possible exceptions are having a kid, or shortly after falling in love). life is a long slog & generally speaking you are going to be by far the person who is most concerned with your well-being. It isn't something about you in particular, that's just the way the world is. Maybe it'd be different if you were living in an ancient agrarian farming village & only knew like two dozen people your whole life, but that is no longer the case

    I think for me internalizing this helped in the long run. I came to feel that this sense of isolation/existential emptiness wasn't something that was going to become fixed one day. And yet, I didn't feel the urge to give up on life. Life became less about feeling "good" again, and more about finding a sense of determination. Life became an ongoing process of trying to develop my own framework of meaning, my own sense of valuation, something personal & internal that would give me a sense of fulfillment via my own constant efforts. The thing is is that when I moved forward in this way, the existential malaise didn't just go away. I had months & months (multiple years, recurrently perhaps) where it all felt pointless - just a distraction from the emptiness of it all. But even that became a sort of affirmatory process, choosing to endure against all reason, just as an act of willing

    imo the will to live isn't somethng that exists out there in the world. it's something you have to build up out of nothing. and it's not that no one wants to help, it's that ultimately no one can help. it's wholly unique to you. it comes in a way only you can recognize.. imo

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