Random Thought of the Day

[Nyctophilia]

The kids who posted this probably never thought they would be the literal definition of 2000's nostalgia ten years later.

No this is really weird/too soon etc.

if you were a teenager during this era, I'm EXTREMELY jealous of you.

Well barely since I was 19 in 2010.

Surreal.

Why was I suggested this?

The fact that YouTube recommended this to everyone 12 years later.

They really wanted to show the new generation what it looked like to be a teen back in the day..

April 2011 was not a good hair era for me.. And I have a serial killer expression in this one photo I found lol.

I think this digital overpainting I did of a photo is probably the most 'scene' I ever looked with one possible exception. I was never part of that subculture or had any interest in it though. This was sometime around 2010-2012 I would say so probably about 20-21 years old then anyway:

[removed]

Might have to remove that later...

The one time I actually had an emo haircut in August 2009 I wasn't actually dying my hair lol. It looked cool after it was cut and then it was significantly less cool after I next washed it lol because I didn't really know how to maintain that. Actually might have had a sort of emo cut before then not sure but I have a video of then so remember (I was in someone's YouTube collab video lol.. Nothing about this was something to do with the Japanese language.) It was similar to this cut but a bit longer and brown because I didn't dye my hair then:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFDCHdKbKBY

That was the last time I went to get my haircut professionally I think. After that I just started cutting my hair myself. I started dying my hair myself because I initially went to get it done professionally and the people who worked at the place I went to tried to talk me out of getting it dyed unnatural colours because they said they liked my natural hair because it 'had red highlights in certain lighting' or something like that and they thought it would probably grow back a different colour so I ended up not getting it dyed there and just later started dyeing it myself and then a bit after that bleaching + dying. It's also cheaper to do it yourself anyway. My hair is still basically the same dark colour that some people think is black and it still has red highlights in bright sunlight. As a child my hair was blond but it's pretty much been the same colour throughout my teen years onwards.

Someone who knew me at the time just described my general look as rainbow punk (this image isn't particularly representative of it.)

It is nostalgia, i love the y2k style screw the new stuff

Do they know y2k was like 2000 not 2010 lol? omg. Like this:



Actually Hackers came out in 1995 lol but I watched it in about 2001 and it's so iconic.

BEING A TEEN SEEMS SO FUN IN THIS TIME ☹️☹️

THEIR HAIR AND OUTFITS EVERYTHING IS SO COOL

Honestly everyone has been dying their hair for about 20+ years not much has changed in that sense.

Whats crazy is that this was back when emo bands were still around, but not as popular as they were in 2005 / 2006.

Emo wasn't big in the late 2000s/early 2010s at all (also I prefer stuff from like the 90s-2004 really but some stuff later than that was decent,) and most of the people in that video wouldn't really be described as emo stylistically (most of those photos are 'scene.') There was that Blood on the Dance Floor band who were absolutely awful as I've said before. I started clubbing a lot from 2009-2011~ and aside from rock/metal clubs mostly it was stuff like this. She warned us all:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ6zr6kCPj8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSD4vsh1zDA

Lady Gaga obviously:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bESGLojNYSo

2009 is when I discovered The Birthday Massacre so I was listening to them a lot in my first year of uni and thought they were pretty great at the time. This was the first song I listened to and this exact video:





This is really great:





They're still pretty great but I saw them live in I think 2016 and they were OK I guess but not the best band I've seen live by far.

Uni was fun but that era doesn't really make me that nostalgic now. Mostly I think of some time around 2002-2006~ even though I was dealing with a lot of [BEEP] in school. It's further removed from the social media era since by the time I was in uni Facebook had taken off so everyone would post and take photos of everyone in bars/clubs etc and it was fairly similar to now. Also the music I listened to in the 90s and early 2000s is the most nostalgic. Speaking of that I was eating with some of my family at this place recently (just being super vague lol,) and this song came on and it was the first time I'd heard it in a really long time. I used to hear it a lot as a kid:



There was a Radiohead song playing too lol I don't remember which one but it doesn't really matter because you know what the mood is going to be if I say Radiohead lol.

Crowded House had some great songs that I somehow listened to from a variety of albums in the 90s. I guess either my dad had a greatest hits CD (I might have heard some of their music elsewhere too like at a disco or something but I don't think so,) or he just listened to the singles or those are the only ones that stuck in my mind.





You eventually run out of personal nostalgia though if you listen to the music often enough like with Nirvana for example. That doesn't really matter these days though because everyone just develops false nostalgia.

So I wonder to what extent reactionary politics are inspired by loneliness because nostalgia is in general.

Shut up , I was born in 2013 😭😭😭😭😭 life sucks , I wish I was born in 2000

It's just weird to see someone as young as 10 posting on YouTube videos lol.

Actually no it's not just weird. This is incredibly depressing. I can't imagine ever having a thought like this as young as 10. I wasn't really online at 10 so will have to skip ahead slightly lol to when I was 11 and joining mafias in habbo hotel etc. Omg there's a video essay now lol:

You know when your online game has reached peak realism when a mafia forms and there's corporate corruption

😂

Tbf a lot of that was larping back when I used it and I don't remember scamming anyone (lots of people did though.) Got banned many times for 'flooding' in trade rooms, circumventing swear filters, and I used to break another rule about 'cloning' (think that was a rule) it was incredibly easy to make any room I wanted go to the top of the popular list I found. Oh I did do or almost did something else really messed up once on habbo but won't go into that and isn't related to the video topic anyway.

This game is a fucking incredible representation of life in a way. You can take kids with no knowledge of anything bad and they will develop everything including a mafia, scams, politics, power, currency, gambling, and everything else. This is incredible

It was never really a game it was a 3D chatroom. People created games though like maze rooms and falling furni' etc.

Kids these days whining about generations instead of joining online criminal enterprises.

Anyway even people who were miserable or edgy weren't really thinking about the past.

Oh yeah and Americans have to wait till they're 21 to legally drink. That's insane to me lol. In the UK we also mostly have 3 year undergraduate degrees (some degrees are 4 years I think rarely or have work placements that mean they go on 4 years but mostly 3.) So like you'd be finished by the time you can legally drink lol.

[Otherside]

Flying to the Carribean to fulfil your lifetime dream of "giving birth on a beach", is one of the stupidest dreams I have ever heard of. Personally, I'd rather give birth I'm a hospital, or at least where an ambulance could get to me rather than on a boat in the middle of the ocean, given that childbirth can end up being dangerous.

Bit of research on Google would have told them that -

a) You need a witness outside of the parents to get a birth certificate in that carribean island.
b) What is needed to prove that UK nationality has been passed down to the child born abroad (and if both parents were born outside the UK, they're in for a shock, the child is not a UK citizen, but let's assume at least one of them was.)
c) That flights booked at short notice during the school holiday season are going to cost a lot more than the flight you booked to get to St Lucia.
d) That a passport is needed to travel between countries and enter the UK. Actually, the last one shouldn't have needed to be researched, because it's one of those things that is obvious. (Well, apparently not.)

It's also very funny that they've gone to pretty much every single newspaper in the UK to moan about how it is everybody else's fault and they've been "abandoned" by the UK Embassy during a crisis of there own making, and pretty much everyone is slamming them for it. So, maybe it will sink for them.

And I'm fairly sure the UK Embassy's hands are kind of tied here. I mean, I don't doubt they're generally useless in a crisis, but, they can't issue out passports to people who they don't know for certain are citizens? Not to mention I'm sure there is a million laws regarding child abduction that mean they can't just issue a passport to a baby on a say so. And they're not going to give you funds to bail you out of a situation of your own making, and nor should they.

Edit - and to make matters worse they abandoned the eight year old kid they already had so they could fulfil the odd dream.

[Nyctophilia]

Actually no it's not just weird. This is incredibly depressing. I can't imagine ever having a thought like this as young as 10. I wasn't really online at 10 so will have to skip ahead slightly lol to when I was 11 and joining mafias in habbo hotel etc. Omg there's a video essay now lol:

This channel is incredibly niche lol. There are only 4 videos all from 3-4 years ago and the theme is like: crime and capitalism in video games and Habbo Hotel:

Upload some damn videos bro, man made like $10000 in one video and decided to duck out, strike while the iron is hot

I... Don't think they have a realistic view of how much money you make per view on YouTube lol. Unless they said they made that much I'd doubt it.

30,000~ views is somewhere between about 50-100 pounds ime for a 30-40 minute video.

It's somewhat inconsistent you can have a video with 24-25k~ views that's worth about 50 pounds while having another that's worth about 18k because it also depends on how many ads you place on the video. I'm using actual examples from my channel comparing low + high number of ads.

Also depends on what genre of video you make I think how much advertisers pay. This varies over time and if you look at different lists they'll have different stuff ranked in different orders. So here's a list I just found quickly from June 2023:



Gaming is 10th (his channel is prob listed as gaming for advertising purposes,) also this infographic is sort of misleading cpm isn't how much you get per 1k views. This is how much advertisers are willing to pay and it also seems a little low:

Cost per mille (CPM) refers to the money an advertiser pays for every 1,000 times their ad is displayed. Whereas revenue per mille (RPM) measures the revenue that every 1,000 ad impressions generate. Both CPM and RPM provide publishers important insights into advertising revenue and shape their publishing strategies.

My rpm atm (revenue for 1k views,) is about 2.52 pounds not dollars. So $3.20. A video I found listing stuff from 2022 has the rpm for gaming at $5. It's been about 5-6 pounds before I think on my channel, so like $6.35 - $7.62 not sure what the high end is really though since I'm not looking at that all the time.

So anyway if you have a gaming video that's about a million views that might be approx. 1650 - 3300 pounds. In dollars something like: $2,094 - $4,189. I wouldn't trust me on that though because I'm bad at maths. (No I don't have any videos with a million views lol. My brother has a video with like 2 million views in the gaming niche but that's from like 10 years ago back when people still joined networks often etc and you would earn less back then and he lost partnership ages ago because they introduced a watch time requirement.)

10k seems a bit much though generally speaking.

Even when I was on it as a 13 year old (and never spending any real money), something felt very dark about this game. The weirdest story I have is when I entered a room and started speaking old English, so people started listening to me and thinking I was like some religious figure or something and then this 18-year-old started messaging me for advice about whether he should convert to Islam in order to marry his long-term girlfriend 😂I freaked out a little and told him I was just a 13-year-old kid so the conversation ended pretty quickly after that.

Very few people who ever used Habbo don't have at least one fucked up story either involving themself or others it seems.

Does anyone remember dressing like a baby and getting 'adopted' and then your adoptive parents would give your furniture
Why did i do this lmaoo

Yeah I adopted multiple people at one point but then would just abandon them later lol like probably the next time I was online even because I'd be bored/finished with the game. Also this is related to the messed up thing I mentioned since I decided to roleplay being abusive at one point and pretended to rape someone as well I think (I can't remember if they left the room before then or not.) I don't even know why (I like tricked them into coming to this one room like it was this creepy premeditated thing. Like serial killer instincts. Freaks me out knowing that's inside me somewhere,) and I actually blocked that out and randomly remembered a few years ago. But because it's virtual and 3D you kind of get tricked into thinking of it like a game (or it exists in this kind of inbetween state where rules are more lax in your brain,) while it's actually sort of real because there's someone on the other side. I did this as a young teenager with other young teenagers but I'm not surprised by those news reports talking about all the pedos because it would be very easy for them to blend in.

Oh I see I wasn't alone:

i remember being adopted, them getting abusive and ultimately they made me become a dog? Habbo was wild.

[Nyctophilia]

Even when I was on it as a 13 year old (and never spending any real money), something felt very dark about this game. The weirdest story I have is when I entered a room and started speaking old English, so people started listening to me and thinking I was like some religious figure or something and then this 18-year-old started messaging me for advice about whether he should convert to Islam in order to marry his long-term girlfriend 😂I freaked out a little and told him I was just a 13-year-old kid so the conversation ended pretty quickly after that.

Very few people who ever used Habbo don't have at least one fucked up story either involving themself or others it seems.

Does anyone remember dressing like a baby and getting 'adopted' and then your adoptive parents would give your furniture
Why did i do this lmaoo

Yeah I adopted multiple people at one point but then would just abandon them later lol like probably the next time I was online even because I'd be bored/finished with the game. Also this is related to the messed up thing I mentioned since I decided to roleplay being abusive at one point and pretended to rape someone as well I think (I can't remember if they left the room before then or not.) I don't even know why (I like tricked them into coming to this one room like it was this creepy premeditated thing. Like serial killer instincts. Freaks me out knowing that's inside me somewhere,) and I actually blocked that out and randomly remembered a few years ago. But because it's virtual and 3D you kind of get tricked into thinking of it like a game (or it exists in this kind of inbetween state where rules are more lax in your brain,) while it's actually sort of real because there's someone on the other side. I did this as a young teenager with other young teenagers but I'm not surprised by those news reports talking about all the pedos because it would be very easy for them to blend in.

Oh I see I wasn't alone:

i remember being adopted, them getting abusive and ultimately they made me become a dog? Habbo was wild.

This news report was some years after I stopped using it. I think probably one of the last times I logged in I was 18 or something in 2009~ and even then it was mostly just for nostalgia purposes and very rarely.



Lol I love how there's even a debate/question as to whether some of the people interacting sexually are teenagers? Of course some of the sexual stuff is teenagers with other teenagers. That being said if they're asking for like off site cam videos etc that's sus.

Ftr my first 'sexual experiment' wasn't on Habbo it was with a boy who was in the year below me at school when I was 8. I didn't really know what I was doing then though and I didn't learn any definition of what sex was until I was 10 (initially I learnt about anal sex because some girl learnt that from her brother and spoke about it, then later piv and sexual reproduction in a clinical sense and that kind of grossed me out. My mum made me and my brother watch these video tapes since at that point I kept asking questions about reproduction etc.) So with that boy I was kind of playing around and just basically gave him a sort of lap dance I guess with no underwear but I quickly became uncomfortable a bit later when he asked me to do it again and tried to block that out. I always prefer having control I guess. Listening to people's anecdotes it seems a lot of kids do something like this in childhood like I was watching a video with this lesbian couple and this one woman said in primary school she'd shove socks down her trousers and pretend to hump people. I think it's easy to develop a lot of self disgust about sexuality because of the way culture is and because it demonises even teenagers from experimenting.

People talk a lot about why Millennials and even more so gen Z just don't have sex as adults or have kids etc and I think it was a weird time to grow up where there was a lot of alarm about everything because of the internet. This was also a time of general overprotective parenting in the 90s and 2000s following on from all the serial killer stories etc I think (and this fear got worse in the 2010s due to stuff I discuss later in the post.) Sometimes this overprotectivenss came from parents who had had unpleasant experiences or had been on the receiving end of sexual abuse themselves. We were taught that sex and sexual desires are dangerous and wrong and should be avoided. And that's just being relatively normal and vanilla potentially. If you're kind of weird like I obviously was/am with various fetishes, then you're going to internalise the idea that you're evil even more because you learn at a very young age not to talk to people about those topics and just keep it to yourself. Obviously teenagers are reading/watching porn etc as well online. Whether that's porn videos, gifs, fanart, fanfiction, original erotic stories, recreating stuff in The Sims, etc.

This video feels like it was made 07-10 yet it was was made in 2012. 2012 feels the same to me and not that long ago at all yet when you look back it you realise no one dresses like those kids anymore.

The stylistic change you're thinking about happened in about 2015/2016 so yes they would do. But also this is the UK (I don't know where commenter is from.)

Kids do a lot worse on Instagram these days. Hoeing themselves out. Habbo was innocent and perfectly safe with minor exceptions!!

Tbh I wouldn't say so for the reasons outlined in that other guy's videos it's just a different kind of unhealthy viewpoint it pushed. Like it encourages gambling and exploiting people in general but it's interesting to note that that wasn't really top down it's just how people behave without rules and guidance. It's true that you don't post images/videos etc of yourself and you were always anonymous. At least that was true for most people and during the 2000s people were constantly warning kids to be careful of people online in a way that I doubt they are as much now since people just post photos everywhere. That would have been advised against when I was younger. Although I did post some photos of myself on a fashion livejournal community when I was 16. But also I wasn't on Habbo during it's peak if 2012 was it's peak.

Actually I talked to people I met irl on Habbo too. I had this long distance friendship with this boy I met in France who I'd talk to on Habbo for a few years. That was complicated romantically at times too. He wasn't from France but we lived significantly far away in England (97 miles,) that we never met and it's this image again:



"The difference between America and England is that Americans think 100 years is a long time, while the English think 100 miles is a long way."

Comments are all like the ones below lol. I have no idea what happened because wasn't paying attention to this at the time + they deleted my account around that time anyway because I wasn't checking an old email account and they delete inactive accounts after a while. Sucks because I had a lot of furni etc and a virtual pet cat lol.

The media ruins everything.

June 2012 - The month channel 4 news destroyed Habbo Hotel. R.I.P.

You killed Habbo Channel 4. It was safe, you just muted or reported players and got them banned. Thanks for ruining our childhood, this hotel was amazing

I'll never forgive you for this. Killed almost the entire fanbase, most switched to retro. It'll never be the same again..

Thank you for ruining habbo

I'll forever hold a grudge against C4 for this

Olowe07 was an idiot. The girl was saying that Habbo has sufficient facilities to simply block and delete people that made you feel uncomfortable and he went on to say that they could use pictures against you. If you were to block them straight away how would they get any revealing pictures?

That emo kid does my absolute head in!

same, the way he was so against it yet he played since 2007, clown

Honestly I was trying to be sympathetic/understanding but he's irritatingly cop brained lol.

This is around the time gamergate happened and there was an increasing puritan backlash about sexualised characters in video games and situations happening in video games (like pretending to rape people etc.) As this Shoeonhead video shows with 'eerily realistic' I do think stating it was realistic was going a bit far at the time lol:



This was happening before then but the focus was more on violence than sexuality before and it was also mostly traditional religious conservatives behind it while in the early 2010s feminists and progressives took over.

Puritans always ultimately win though so it's difficult to navigate the topic without seeming evil and deeply taboo. I was told to kill myself over and over for a solid month and to go and do porn merely for posting a study without comment that the issue with porn addiction for most guys was their own guilt about it rather than genuine addiction. You're not really allowed to talk about this sort of thing with some people without being Satan himself (but she was a terf troll and had personal issues with me anyway lol.) Obviously it's not OK for adults to be trying to get images/videos of underaged people and shouldn't be trying to interract with underaged teenagers in this context anyway but I feel that people get really hysterical about this topic. 'Shouldn't you be innocent and desexualised until you magically hit 18?' No that's not how Humans work.

Do you think perhaps in a virtual sense you were sexualised before you ever would have been irl?

You say there's lots of places like this on the web and you can't regulate it anyway isn't this stealing your innocence? You're having experiences in the Habbo Hotel which me at 15 I mean I can't imagine.

Young people being sexualised I think is a very big part of this and whether it's right to have two young people even of the same age engaging over an avatar to try and- [he gets cut off then]

I just don't think it's very realistic with biology to expect teenagers not to experiment at all? You know considering the increase of sex drive during these years.

Also there's a kind of weird gendered thing going on here in this interview like I don't remember anyone sexualising me in Habbo and I often had a female avatar. I was the problematic one as described (I mean this wasn't something I did all the time it was a couple of occasions,) despite being genetically female too. In fact even my first experience with 'experimenting' irl was initiated by me. Any discomfort that came later was really my own fault. The only person irl who initiated sexual stuff or made harassing comments in that vein + groped me before university was this girl who bullied me for most of my childhood trying to 'prove I was a lesbian' etc. Any harassing comments I got weren't sexual more of the 'you worship Satan because you look alternative' variety lol. There were only 2 guys throughout my entire teen years (well before 18/before I went to uni,) who were into me as well. One of them was autistic and kept touching my leg at one point when I was 16 I think? Which made me uncomfortable.

Definitely there were girls at my school who were obviously getting a lot of sexual attention and wore thongs to school etc that they showed off, but I wasn't ever doing that because I didn't want attention. I'm not saying it can't happen otherwise for example if you seem gender non-conforming girls might sexually harass you instead. Also girls will do really weird [BEEP] like at one point in secondary school this girl was going around try to ping people's bra straps through the back of their t-shirts to see who was wearing a bra. After that I had to start wearing bras to P.E. because it was seen as a huge deal and I didn't like wearing them at that age. Imagine if that was a guy and how inappropriate that would be viewed. Plus guys sexually harass gender non-conforming people to try and 'correct' them and because it's a kind of powerplay but I was lucky in that regard.

Also if you're in the care system you're more likely to be sexually abused and there were several scandals of rape gangs and pedophiles in the UK which imo was a much bigger issue that was just being covered up at this time honestly in favour of talking about.. Video games? I think some of this period overlapped as well though and kind of increased the attitudes I'm talking about and fear. But it's ironic because most of this was not happening in games it was happening and organised irl, being covered up by authorities. Video games have just always been something people displace their fear and anger onto. Perhaps because it feels easier to control I don't know.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rother...tation_scandal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochda...sex_abuse_ring

Unfortunately in response to this you just have increasing fascism like I say.

[Nyctophilia]

Honestly weather wise this has been the worst summer I can recall in living memory. At least I went to that Porcupine Tree concert at the end of June and the weather was decent but after that it's been [BEEP] most of the time aside from like 1-2 days. I'm hoping it picks up soon so I can go to a beach/sea. It's supposed to but the weather is really unreliable. At this point I might just go anyway one day and say [BEEP] it as long as the temperature isn't too bad and there isn't a thunderstorm I'll just go in the sea anyway.

At least we're not dealing with this in the UK atm:





Apparently 1000+ people are missing.

Les Munn went outside to take out the trash. He chatted with his neighbours about the "strange wind", the gusts growing so fast and so loud they could barely hear each other speak.

They speculated, incorrectly, that the dust and ash in the air was due to construction. The group separated, peeling off into their separate units in the apartment block.

Suddenly, the building's smoke alarms began ringing. Residents emptied out of their apartments. Outside, embers had begun igniting the brush around them.

"At that point everybody started to panic," Munn said.

Munn ran back inside and tried to grab his wallet, but the heat and smoke forced him to flee with nothing but the clothes on his back. Everything went black. Choking on smoke, he fled to the only thing he could see, the blue lights of a police car, and dove into its back seat.

Munn hadn't heard a siren alerting him to the fire, and he hadn't received official notice to evacuate. Of the more than two dozen Lahaina evacuees who spoke to the BBC, no one did.

Tenison watched as a friend's large home was incinerated. "His house went up in 10 minutes. Two-storey house, eight bedrooms? poof," he said. "It just levelled the whole town."

As he ran to safety in the town's Safeway grocery store, Tenison saw three bodies. "People were already dead," he said.

For Tee Dang, a tourist from Kansas, the first clue that her vacation had taken a deadly turn came in the form of an Airbnb host barrelling past her door and telling her family to run.

As the fire intensified, Dang sat in traffic on Front Street with her husband and three children. "It was only 3:30pm or 4:00pm and everything was pitch black," she said. "Everywhere was exploding."

Tee Dang was in a rental car with her three children and husband on Lahaina's Front Street when she saw the flames inching closer and closer towards them.

But when the vehicles around them began catching fire they decided to grab their food, water and phones and run for the waves.

They had already watched others trying to flee the rapidly moving flames do the same, including an elderly woman who was helped into the ocean.

"We have to get to the ocean," the Kansas mother told BBC News on Thursday. "There was nothing else because we were cornered in."

With their children - ages five, 13 and 20 - they at first stayed close to shore. But as evening approached, and the tide rose, the water started smashing her into the rock wall of the harbour, severely cutting her leg.

When the line of cars on Front Street - "at least 50" of them - started exploding, they were forced to move into deeper water to seek shelter from the "shooting debris".

They were in the water for nearly four hours, she said.

It was a Tuesday afternoon, but the sky behind them was pitch black from the wildfire smoke.

There have been increasing news reports in the UK over the past few years about wildfires here because they've become relatively speaking more of a problem but honestly not really a thing here and it just feels ironic talking about it. Like some news reports a couple of months ago even lol. The UK media is always freaking out about heat and snow etc but the real issue is mostly flooding here from all the rain. There are people who have had to rebuild their houses and businesses etc 3+ times due to flood damage and living in areas particularly prone to flooding.

Also people really need to stop with this bs:

It is more to do with the pole shift which is why this has occurred and that is why our climate is changing as Magnetic north is currently on the move alot faster than anticipated. Also earth is being battered as our Schumann resonance protecting earth from cosmic radiation is weakened due do the solar cycle being at the minimum and our Schumann resonance has reached an all time 200 year low and it is reacting with our atmosphere causing these abnormal weather anomalies as our sun.

Has sod all to do with man made climate change yeah it doesn't help but it doesn't cause a 4000 mile long jet stream reaching from Florida to Scandinavia I think you will find and it has more to do with what's going on outside our planet.

The pole shift is causing the jet stream to move and slow down. We may see the beginning of the next ice age! Ooh but don?t mention co2! Lol

it didn't seem like a train was actually coming and the toddler wasn't terrified just more aware than the others about the possibility that they might get run over by a train if they continue to stand where they are, but it's pretty stupid to just decide to hang about there in the first place. There's plenty of other places to be it's like deciding to just hang out in the middle of a road for no reason, and then to just stand there texting instead of paying attention to your surroundings is also a stupid example to set when you're in the middle of a trainline.

Also one of the kids is just walking on the actual tracks which I think is trespassing.

Also those kids at the end who are just putting rocks on the track. Not smart but they probably know that.

I wonder if there is a special Darwin Award for those who encourage their kids to do stupid things.

Yes it's called your kids die.

[Otherside]

Honestly weather wise this has been the worst summer I can recall in living memory. At least I went to that Porcupine Tree concert at the end of June and the weather was decent but after that it's been [BEEP] most of the time aside from like 1-2 days. I'm hoping it picks up soon so I can go to a beach/sea. It's supposed to but the weather is really unreliable. At this point I might just go anyway one day and say [BEEP] it as long as the temperature isn't too bad and there isn't a thunderstorm I'll just go in the sea anyway.

At least we're not dealing with this in the UK atm

Yep. It's raining and milder than it was last year (still remember 40c hell), but at least we're not dealing with wildfires like Hawaii or Rhodes, or the 50c hell of Spain.

I think I am glad I am not travelling to the continent right now. Probably would consider cancelling if I was.

I'm on an annual plan, and travel insurer has been sending out texts and emails roughly saying "don't expect to be covered if you go to Rhodes or Hawaii, we only cover unforeseen disasters and at this point, its been in the news, you're on your own if you holiday there."

[Nyctophilia]

Yep. It's raining and milder than it was last year (still remember 40c hell), but at least we're not dealing with wildfires like Hawaii or Rhodes, or the 50c hell of Spain.

I think I am glad I am not travelling to the continent right now. Probably would consider cancelling if I was.

I'm on an annual plan, and travel insurer has been sending out texts and emails roughly saying "don't expect to be covered if you go to Rhodes or Hawaii, we only cover unforeseen disasters and at this point, its been in the news, you're on your own if you holiday there."

Yeah I saw they were telling people not to travel to Maui which makes sense. I can't imagine why people would still plan to go there now unless they need volunteers to help or something.

[Otherside]

Stop naming children after British cities and counties! : tragedeigh (reddit.com)

"So, this is my darling son Luton, with his friends Milton Keynes, Leeds and Scunthorpe, and Scunthorpes wife Stoke-On-Trent.

"Oh, and they've named there daughter Llanfairpwllgywngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantyiliog ogogoch."

[Doseone]

Stop naming children after British cities and counties! : tragedeigh (reddit.com)

"So, this is my darling son Luton, with his friends Milton Keynes, Leeds and Scunthorpe, and Scunthorpes wife Stoke-On-Trent.

"Oh, and they've named there daughter Llanfairpwllgywngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantyiliog ogogoch."

One of the coolest band names (Portishead) is named after a British city.

[Doseone]

I was thinking about demonic possession and how it seems to conflict with the Christian idea of free will. How exactly are people free if a demon can get inside you and control (or influence) your behavior? That doesn't make any sense. Doesn't the bible even say that Satan entered into Judas?

It's almost like the God of the bible lets Satan do whatever he wants. But somehow it's fair to demand people be killed in the Old Testament for not following his laws.

[Nyctophilia]

OK so here's an actual example of how that went down for me lol.

I went to this house party (while I was at uni.) The host was actually a woman although also her housemates but we were all pretty much invited by her. It was mostly guys too because our course at uni was mostly guys. Everyone was drinking and this guy said to me and this other guy 'you can tell if a girl is drunk if she kisses you back.' Then kissed me so I rejected him. But it's better when guys (or anyone really,) are hopeless than successful manipulators.

Ftr I've been so drunk before I couldn't walk (and possibly developed something resembling alcohol poisoning afterwards, hard to say but I was very ill for a week+ after that) and still would have been easily able to psychologically reject people. There was this guy I was into and I was consciously aware of the fact that I should not tell him that as he'd just started dating someone else we hang out with lol and I was completely drunk. I could barely walk and I threw up in the street. My thought process was almost exactly the same with maybe the tiniest amount less anxiety and in general when drinking it was like that I'd get a bit more excitable and more likely to express boredom if I'm bored things like that. Obviously if you're drunk someone can rape you but I wouldn't have wanted to have sex with someone just because of alcohol it's not powerful enough. Which is quite hilarious. Alcohol isn't getting in the way of those schizoid defences and sexuality/gender [BEEP] really lmfao.

We'd have to try MDMA lol.

Jordan discusses this topic as though parties are a one sided thing designed by men purely to trick women into having sex that they don't want to have. Like sex is inflicted on women somewhat. Also imagines that men aren't also drinking lol or that alcohol has a different effect on men so women can't take advantage of men and such. His focus appears one sided. I assume because most people complaining are women.

I was talking to a woman years ago who could only enjoy sex while high. Not sure if being drunk worked as well can't remember. Part of the issue came from the fact that all her sexual fantasies were from a male pov with a woman and she couldn't get off unless she imagined that, but in real life she was only attracted to men and wanted relationships with men. I suppose being on drugs helped a bit. Bear in mind this was with her boyfriend who she must have been attracted to somewhat and wanted to have enjoyable sex with.

Also - and I'm not really endorsing this just stating a fact - gay men are often having sex on drugs or 'chemsex' (at least it's talked about more with that group probably cause the drugs are more extreme.)

I have never really been able to have sober gay sex and then I think eventually what happened was crystal meth, and getting so out of control. There was then all the guilt about what I was doing on the drugs. I could not escape from this cycle of guilt around sex and the drugs. And it just goes backwards and forwards. [Aged 24, last tested HIV negative]

Facilitating sexual confidence

• Increased sexual desire and libido
• Enabling sexual longevity and partner turnover
• Facilitating sexual adventure

• "The thing about crystal is it desensitises you so that you can do stuff
you wouldn’t normally do. […] Fisting. Double fisting. How much can I
get up their [BEEP]? If you didn’t have any of those drugs, your body
would be feeling stuff and you wouldn’t be able to do such extreme
things." [Aged 48, diagnosed HIV positive]

I'd never do crystal meth thought that shits insane. Though alcohol is actually worse than most illegal drugs lol.

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinio...ed-ncna1144576

In September, an eight-month investigation by BuzzFeed News and Channel 4 Dispatches found an "epidemic" of drug-fueled gay sex in Britain. The epidemic came with an array of harmful consequences: addiction, violence, sexual violence, overdose, death and suicide.

But it's not just a British problem. The combination of sex, crystal meth and GHB (gamma-hydroxybutyrate, sometimes just known as "G"), which has been called "chemsex," is intensely addictive. Users are consumed by soaring highs and then swallowed by the darkest lows. Crystal meth use is itself a growing epidemic across the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which reports that the rate of meth overdose deaths more than tripled from 2011 to 2016.

OK but if you told me it was I'd believe you.

"Every gay man that I've worked with in therapy that has used meth, GHB or both has reported that they were first introduced to using in the context of sex," Craig Sloane, a New York City-based psychotherapist who has treated gay men in his practice for 18 years, told me last year. "I've often had clients tell me that when they experienced sex on meth, GHB or both for the first time that all the negative voices in their heads about shame, not being good enough, not fitting in and other traumas disappeared, albeit temporarily."

I can see why that is since I've read anecdotes about people having sex for like a week or something insane while on meth? I guess at some point you'd have to use the toilet but presumably not sleeping or eating really or at all during that time.

So far I can only really enjoy kissing while dreaming.

[Nyctophilia]

YouTube:

Stroke of genius
Join calligraphy creators as they showcase the visually compelling beauty of an age-old artform

Oh OK that's a bit underwhelming. I was hoping it was some weird Medieval larp event or something.







And of course my all time favourite - Hieronymus Bosch Butt Music:

Music printed on the butt of one of the tortured souls in the 15th Century Hieronymus Bosch painting "The Garden of Earthly Delights" , Played on (What else?) Lute, Harp, and Hurdy-Gurdy by James Spalink. The melody is based on the transcription by Amelia Hamrick. The intro and outro employ the "Devil's Interval", and the last couple of measures are conjecture on my part. You could say that I just "pulled them out of my"-well, you know.....

[Nyctophilia]

I was just suggested this film by YouTube lol:

I Am Number Four

You know I think I actually watched that film once presumably at the cinema... I don't remember any of it lol. I just remember the title. Completely forgot about that. According to wikipedia it didn't do well and received mostly negative reviews. Also the thumbnail makes it look like a CW TV series suffering from the same kind of 'everyone's a model and it's jarring' vibe that those shows suffer from.

[Doseone]

I got a $31 Amazon gift card for redeeming my microsoft rewards points (Yeah, I use Edge). Cool. I bought a guitar capo and melatonin. lol.

[Nyctophilia]

Enlistment is down because private militias are coming to dominate. The army is no longer a place of nobility, it's just another job. Wont be long before national armies disappear and you just join a private military operation where they teach you the basics of firearms use and other essential skills based on specialization.

Or who knows, drones and robots may make even that redundant.

The problem with the right is that we seem to be clinging to ways of living that are pretty much dead and gone and are unable to find modern equivalents.

Most right wingers will say army recruitment is down because people are soft or whatever, when the reality is that most military engagements in the world rn are being carried out by militias. In my country, for example; they seem to have started the slow process of disbanding the army completely and instituting some new system where you sign up for 5 year contract periods.

Private military organisations might be the closest we could get to piratical organisations or the return of a military social elite ruling the battlefield and therefore society. This is what I hope for.

👀 I don't like them. We have to move them all somewhere where they can have control over each other and nobody else. (Tbh most of these guys are probably American lol but yeah.)

This is unlikely to happen anytime soon though they're just larping.

They do realise that most people only put up with rule from government(s) because they can't take them on though? Many such cases. If you reduce society into bands of unruly pirate boys you'll have no proper authority and it will just descend into chaos. Which is really what you want so I'm not sure why you think you'll be able to 'rule.'

edit: Also lol 'the problem with the right is that many of them are conservative.' Uh yeah they do trend that way. Besides the extreme social darwinist Nietzschean types, which is obviously very novel.

Possibly worse than ancaps (tm)



Lol I love ancap memes:

There were swarms of dandelions seeds floating around all over the place here recently it would have been armageddon:





I can't find my favourite one it was involving space and got really insane lol. I think it had something about living inside someone's dead body and it being private property?

Nothing sounds worse than the matriarchal village life. Idk if you know AA, but he made a "positive vision for the Right" video, in which he pretty much lays out his dream for the matriarchal, pathetic, boring village.

Anyway failed states turn into 'matriarchies.' (Per your circle's strange definition of the word.) Something to do with how you act like 5 year old boys I think:

Unable to tolerate any more fighting or killing, a small group of Liberian women made a decision that would eventually change the country. These women released a campaign that called for non-violence and peace. Their leader, Leymah Gbowee, stated that they would "take the destiny of Liberia into their own hands," declaring that "in the past they were silent, but after being killed, raped, dehumanized, and infected with diseases, war has taught them that the future lies in saying no to violence and yes to peace."[5]

The women of Liberia became a political force against violence and against their government. Their actions brought about an agreement during the stalled peace talks. As a result, the women were able to achieve peace in Liberia after a 14-year civil war and later helped bring to power the country's first female head of state, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.[7] When President Ellen Sirleaf first came into office, she made women's rights one of her priorities. Her administration focused on the condition of women in Liberia and their needs.[8]

Some of the changes she made involved: putting more women in office, establishing the Women's Legislative Caucus, a multiparty committee in the House of Representatives that ensures a gender-sensitive approach to the legislature, and creating The Inheritance Act, an act that made rights of inheritance for spouses of statutory and customary marriages. Under President Sirleaf, rape, a prominent weapon of war, was also made punishable with a maximum sentence of life in prison.[8]

I think the only way you can stop this is if you kill all or most of the women, which you can only do if you adopt apocalyptic nihilism (which maybe you've accepted as an end days ideology in which case it's logically sound.)

However. I can tell many of them are delusional because they haven't accepted their homosocial ends and actually think women - especially progressive white women - aren't going to destroy them:

The first guy to invent many things such as fire or tools was probably looked down upon by the women of his day for breaking the cycle. Women lean towards the complacent.

you can't get everything you want. 'Well I want to live in fight club and I want to be a leader and I want all women to love me' pick one, at best two.

A hyper-sexual, collectivistic, industrious milieu characterized female supremacy in the archaic horde.
Once the male supremacy established by the horse-riding knights is gone, the individualistic and warlike society of the last millennia returns to its sticky primitive womb.

■ Nicolas Gomez Davila.

Lol what is the source of this people keep saying who supposedly wrote that, but there's no text source.

I don't accept kratocracy as legitimate. But if I have to I'll try to [redacted] as many of you as possible until I get killed lol. I'll probably be killed really quickly lol but I'll do my best. 頑張ってよ

Absolutely correct. The only examples of matriarchal societies today are all primitive societies that are locked in time. Where is the matriarchal empire that builds roads and civilization? It does not exist. You can fine few examples of exceptions like the Amazon's who were likely a tribe of women warriors who managed to keep their matriarchal system in tact (but they did not have an empire or a state as we would compare to ancient Persia or Greece or Qin) but the exception proves the rule.

If a matriarchal society survives for 10000 years and is still primitive it is not a testament of success but rather luck that they were not wiped out.

They probably had to after a bunch of idiots destroyed whatever culture existed beforehand. Anyway I think you're all talking past each other. 'kratocracy of pirate warbands/warlords' and 'society that builds advanced technology' are mutually exclusive.

Also I know this is funny:



But I think maybe the point is you're not going to rule without female approval or killing all the women.

The Lady of the Lake (French: Dame du Lac, Demoiselle du Lac, Welsh: Arglwyddes y Llyn, Cornish: Arloedhes an Lynn, Breton: Itron al Lenn, Italian: Dama del Lago) is a name or a title used by several either fairy or fairy-like but human enchantresses in the Matter of Britain, the body of medieval literature and mythology associated with the legend of King Arthur. She plays several important roles in many stories, including providing Arthur with the sword Excalibur, eliminating Merlin, raising Lancelot after the death of his father, and helping to take the dying Arthur to Avalon. Different sorceresses known as the Lady of the Lake appear concurrently as separate characters in some versions of the legend since at least the Post-Vulgate Cycle and consequently the seminal Le Morte d'Arthur, with the latter describing them as a hierarchical group, while some texts also give this title to either Morgan or her sister.

And they're not backing you. Obviously they're backing BTS:



Technically teen girls don't get to decide ever but well while we're all larping I may as well because it's funny. ✨Manifesting.✨

Most cults have mostly female followers but they all operate by giving them some amount of power which ends up appealing to them. 'WhY iS tHe FaR RiGhT So DiSeMpOwErEd' dunno you're terrible at this game when you can't use violence I guess? This is this journalists theory:

Now, let's scrutinize the gender, race, and power dynamics of Jonestown more closely: While the overall population of the settlement was about three-quarters Black, Jones?s inner circle was almost entirely composed of young white women. This is a pattern of cultish power abuse: The Peoples Temple, the Manson Family, NXIVM, Bikram Yoga are just some examples where an older man presides at the top, and is perceived as all-powerful. Just below him are a tier of fair-skinned young women who exchange their sexuality and whiteness for slightly more authority (or the illusion of such). At the bottom lies everyone else.

This power structure is by no means exclusive to "cults"; it?s the structure of most major corporations, mainstream churches, and patriarchy in general. "Which, to me, has always underscored how non-radical many of these communities actually are," comments Koa Beck, author of White Feminism. "It's often just misogyny without electricity."

https://www.damemagazine.com/2021/07...ible-to-cults/

Seems to reflect this also:

How did my life get to this point?

But it doesn't matter some of you are probably Europeans but the video uploader is Australian and a bunch of you will be Americans. Your states have probably just failed (but it could be a longer, gradual process,) because they're new and most states do. Most empires fail eventually too.

Try not to nuke the planet bye~

These comments (not on the BTS video on another video) still crack me up:

What do you conquer in the modern world? The gym? Is this the same as conquest or just a pressure relief valve before you return to their modern society.

I regularly launch raids on my local Pizza Hut.