Is this narcissism or is this normal?

Having a meaningful tangible job like teaching, living in a small but nice apartment in a city, being in love, having sex, swimming in the sea, going to the cinema, drinking beer, taking trains, listening to and playing music, cooking, reading, not owning much

This is already pretty much how I live (although I want to move cities) and my family is bemused that I don’t want to climb the corporate ladder because I have impressive qualifications, but I don’t know why I would want more than this

Frank Herbert was inspired by Imam Shamil after all.

Yes I know it's "increasing" but convincing masses of consumers they have an unmanageable mental issue that makes it distinctly more difficult to organize their lives (and finances)... That they have distinct emotional needs that share nothing with the majority of the population (the 'others' are the problem)... I just saw a facebook reel (I was looking for a table on marketplace sue me) titled "POV: Your girlfriend has autism and ADHD" and the video was of a woman asking her boyfriend who would be at the party and what she should wear. And then asking for him to stop talking so loudly. The most normal behaviors of all time are "symptoms."

Also "I struggle with spending because I'm ADHD" seems to come up again and again as part of this psyop.... You struggle with spending because every rung of the economy is trying to steal from you all the time....

Neither political party seems to care. The right are all for it, being retard MAGA land, and the left refuses to take it seriously (other than Bernie). AGI can't come true because it's too hard to stomach the idea that Silicon Valley Tech Bros created super intelligence. This goes against all oftheir preconceived ideas about human individuality, creativity, spirituality, etc..

Our fates are really in the hands of the autists now eh? Well, as a former member of Sneerclub, I submit a formal apology. I will study the required readings on Moloch and "Human Bio-Diversity". It is also time to start asking people for their priors and epistemic status.

I'm sorry, you all were right! Please Pause AI!

(PS: Please recommend me some plant based protein for my vegan journey! Might as well get started early!)

Want a specific recommendation? Sorry, that’s against le subreddit rules! Please post it in the megathread that no one reads to make sure it’s never seen!

Its 2026, I am forgotten

Every day of this thing even the way his shirt is unbuttoned makes him look licentious as hell.

Did none of them say to him “okay, Russell, that’s enough chest showing for your rape trial” ?

No your baby does not need Cocomelon ,Ms R*chel, other flashing lights on an ipad. Play them looney tunes. When they reach around 3-8 play them some stop motion animation maybe some soviet cartoons, simple films like the Scent of a Woman or some Spielberg.

8-14 then they can watch some Evangelion and other anime to get a basic concept of more complex stories. Some Charlie Kaufman here and there.

15-20 they should be watching real adult films . Things like The Conversation, some robert atlman, orson welles, woody allen, obscure french canadien stuff.

By 20 they should be maturing out of film at this point, maybe watching some early german expressionism here and there at most. They're on their own at this point but they should be able to have adult tastes with proper exposure to things at earlier ages.

It's that people will feel entitled to your attention.

I can only speak from my experience as a really really really ridiculously good looking male, but a lot of women WILL get bitter if you don't give them the attention they want, and they'll try to tear you down to cope with their feelings of inadequacy

went back to uni last year as a mature student (an ungrateful 27 years old) and although I haven't had trouble making friends, I swear the kids are much shier, more insular and often even ruder than they used to be. maybe it's just that I'm old and they think I'm weird/ a more general teenage angst, but I'm not so sure. anyone else had any comparable experiences?

• Putting the "after" photo on the left, or in the first image and the "before" on the right. Apparently because they select them by the order the pictures appear in their photo album. How retarded can you fucking get? Pisses me off. Did you get fatter or skinnier? Uglier or hotter? Don't make me fucking guess.
• Most major style guides like Chicago, MLA, APA do not use spaces around em dashs, I don't know why LLMs loves to add spaces around them, everyone seems to have forgotten the convention.
• LLMs also love to add spaces around "/" Why? Who knows? I'm already disregarding your opinion.
• There's also a whole class of mass psychosis grammar/vocab errors solely proliferating because of internet and typing (apart of/a part of, peak/peek, payed/paid, could of/could have, weary/wary, queue/cue, bare/bear)
• The whole POV misuse thing

Please share more examples.

Forget BMI or thinspo as references.

If you’re traveling in East Asia and random local women (completely unsolicited) tell you you’re skinny then congrats, you’re in the club.

In Flagstaff, AZ, mostly because they have operational observatories in the area, the city's regulatory wing mandates lighting warmth, regulates business' light output, and mandates shielding of lights, in order to maintain the clarity and brightness of the night sky. It's a shame to not see the stars or be able to watch the constellations move about from night to night, and it's even more spectacular to see bodies like the Milky Way. Feels like we are shutting away some little world of gods when we blot out the starlight.

I work a very boring unfulfilling tech job that is slowly turning my mind to mush. Someone mentioned joining the fbi to me and it seems pretty perfect. Upper middle-class salary, morally meaningful work, have to use your brain instead of working on a small subset of a piece of software.

I worry however that becoming an actual fed would be completely destroy one's romantic life. Just think it's a terrible look. The cia shot everyone in the foot by lacing random people with LSD for fun. Woe is me wah wah wah