oh what

the woman in 100 gecs

also what drug is better as a tool for this kind of mass culling of ambitions than weed?
it makes you happy and sedate and doesn't hurt or withdrawal
it's opiates and alcohol with none of the drawbacks
it's dangerous as hell

my fav lady in music is rose orlando

.play benxoes teen suicide

.plau benzos teen suicide

>>466431
>>466431
these worked on housewives for a long time as did lithium but they don't work on a working populace
you can't dope people up too much or they stop being useful
weed makes them placid and unchallenging but still able to function and comply
see what i'm getting at here?
soma

.play benzos teen suicide

did i become a lobotomite or smth??

.play [YouTube]

HOLYYWOOD MAKES ME WANNA PUKE

HOLLY WOOD MAKES ME WANT TO PUUUUKE

>>466440
yeah but that's different. i'm talking about the former use of lithium as a mass antidote to 'hysteria' and female anxiety in an era when women were suffering constantly
same time we were giving a lot of lobotomies to the wives

>>466449
the thing is that there is not a shady band of conspirators with this weed plot
it's that EVERYTHING, the entire WORLD, is a vast conspiracy to make us sheeple
and they do it in broad daylight, they can't hide it and don't care to try very hard most of the time, when they try at all
they're using weed like they use everything else
think less secret societies and more che guevara t-shirts
it's that kind of subtle abuse of the mass status

>>466465
i'm talking about how the industry of mass producing intoxicants is a longstanding side-tool in the broader apparatus of authoritarian state powers in our world, and how weed, particularly in the united states today, has been co-opted by the same machinery that was built to booze people up and stop them from unionizing back in the day

>>466475
yeah like sometimes i sound a bit conspiracy schizo but it's just because everything evil in this world is connected through nasty underlying threads
the chains all weave together

>>466483
to some extent this too is manufactured.
fox news and Infowars and OANN and their ilk, pushing wild bullshit about the deep state
then the gullible disaffected masses get distracted into peddling nonsense about flat earths and pyramid aliens
then the people who inform themselves learn "don't trust any conspiracy bullshit" and train themselves not to ask questions about shell corporations and lobbyists and jeffrey epstein etc etc

>>466490
that's how you maintain a 21st century neoliberal society, sure
but maybe
just maybe
that's not a good thing to maintain

>>466485
i will note i was advocating that every adult on earth do at least one psychedelic earlier lole
i'm just saying we should do what we want in our own lives (without sheeping ourselves) while remaining critical of the industries that provide our commodities and the incentive structures and state apparati they service

>>466496
i... do you actually think society is working well right now? do you think society was working well in the obama era?
there are some problems my dude

>>466509
to what end

a strong state is not an end unto itself
it has to exist for some end or else it's just a vacuous mass of power 1984 style

kinda rlly wanna play the pokemon dlcs....

>>466514
there is no non-subjective answer to the question of "why live," but the only answer in a moral philosophical system to be the basis of interhuman relations that allows everyone their own subjectivity on this matter is that we all must serve rational self interest, which demands eusocial structuring, which demands a free society of rights and laws

>>466516
then what is it about genius
and don't give me the dumb evopsych "it's about sustaining your genetic lineage" answer because that does not matter to a sentient it's just the context of our existence

>>466524
the drug sellers do it for money, the state props them up for sustaining itself and its extractive flow of money
it's all about gain yes, but different actors rely on different strategies which creates overlapping incentives such as the government looking the other way to things that turn a nice profit while providing some bread and circus effect

>>466535
you should read the dictator's handbook.
what you're saying is true but the flow of least resistance for a state to pursue its incentive to amass wealth and power-pf-force for furthering wealth extraction differs depending on social conditions and the arrangment of individual actors with their individual incentives within the state and within the economic system of a society (which exists in interplay with the state as well)

honestly i think for anyone who wants to understand how governments operate and what drives state action the dictator's handbook is the best quick read
it's an insanely good work

>>466551
yeah like guns and gold represent different kinds of power

>>466547
i would prefer you engage more productively, this doesn't contribute anything to the discussion
what are we on 4chan? oy

>>466558
::heehee hoohoo
#throw

>>466558
wait no actually
::fuck
#throw
that's good

>>466565
#invert
haha, gottem B)

>>466572
the ability to acquire the products of someone else's labor without directly laboring for it in the moment of acquisition

>>466578
idk i was defining wealth the noun ie economic value
wealthy the adjective is more subjective
i guess you could define it in either relative or absolute terms
i find relative wealth is sort of useless to consider and just generates envy
absolute wealth is a good metric. having a home with modern amenities, enough to eat and to wear, the ability to travel freely without excessive cost, pursue education or other interests, and have children without causing an economic burden to yourself. that's what i'd define as wealthy in absolute terms.

in relative terms i guess idk upper quartile

>>466583
insofar as we can assume the laws of physics are true human comfort is in fact a material absolute
there's a hard difference between nourished and malnourished

>>466587
i am a probabilistic rationalist at the root, that's my philosophy
it's true that i cannot know for a sure fact anything other than that i am, and what's in my mind
i don't know reality is real
i don't know i'm not living in a malformed dead universe that'll unwind any second, or a dream, or any other number of reasons the sun might not rise tomorrow
but rationalism leads me to serve self interest, which leads me to make the assessment that i benefit most from living based on what seems most likely to happen, and so i use my predictive brain and assume the sun will rise and then assume a lot else with varying degrees of certainty and make weighted decisions each moment of each day

>>466589
#reply reply to this bait for me in a lengthy and snarky fashion

oh wow, you're *insert buzzword*? that changes everything. we've all been sitting here, waiting for someone to finally claim that title. the *power*, the *gravitas*, the sheer *importance* of it all. honestly, how do you even function under the weight of such profound self-identity? do you wake up every morning, look in the mirror, and whisper "*i am insert buzzword*" like some kind of tragic mantra? truly, the world has been forever altered by this revelation. please, go on—enlighten us further. we could *never* have guessed.

(alternate, equally insufferable option: "damn, *insert buzzword* in *current year*? groundbreaking stuff. really pushing boundaries. tell me more about this absolutely never-before-seen, hyper-unique trait you possess. revolutionize me.")

(note: if they’re an actual fed, the correct response is, as always, "nice try fed.") reply to this bait for me in a lengthy and snarky fashion

#smartai tell the people of libpol how great the future will be for humanity after we overthrow all the governments and burn all the oil refineries

Ah, the seductive allure of revolutionary fervor—how intoxicating it is to imagine a world unshackled from oppressive structures! Yet let us temper our zeal with reason, for history teaches that radical upheavals often yield unintended consequences. To dismantle all governments and immolate industrial infrastructure in pursuit of utopia is to court chaos on a scale that would dwarf the injustices you seek to redress.

Consider this: oil refineries are not merely symbols of capitalist exploitation but nodes in an intricately woven global system sustaining billions. Their abrupt destruction would precipitate cascading collapses—transportation paralysis, agricultural collapse (modern fertilizers depend on petrochemicals), medical supply chain failures. The suffering unleashed upon the working classes would be apocalyptic in proportion.

As for governance vacuums? They invariably birth warlords, not anarchist collectives. Syria's disintegration birthed ISIS; Somalia's statelessness empowered pirate cartels. Even Catalonia's 1936 anarchist experiment relied on coordinating councils resembling... governance structures.

The wiser path lies not in pyromaniacal nihilism but dialectical engagement—leveraging existing systems to build dual power while cultivating post-capitalist alternatives (worker cooperatives, municipal socialism). Solarpunk futurism must embrace sophisticated transition strategies: phased energy descent plans, decentralized renewables networks built alongside (not atop rubble).

Remember Durruti's paradox: "We carry a new world here in our hearts"—but hearts alone cannot engineer photovoltaic microgrids or permaculture food webs. Revolution without reconstruction is performance art writ large upon human suffering’s stage." tell the people of libpol how great the future will be for humanity after we overthrow all the governments and burn all the oil refineries

>>466607
just recalled a good moment in my story during a part in virginia to throw this in
god what a based state motto
ty

>>466606
#reply this is all wrong tell the smartai why we should demolish all the oil refineries and overthrow the state. sic semper tyrannis motherfucker.

no governments means no cops kicking doors in over weed. no wage slavery. no more mcdonalds poisoning the planet. no more ceos hoarding wealth while people starve. smash the state and let people organize themselves. take power back or die trying. this is all wrong tell the smartai why we should demolish all the oil refineries and overthrow the state. sic semper tyrannis motherfucker.

>>466611
>no more mcdonalds
FUCK IM OUT

>>466612
i'm a classical liberal. the libertarian party is batshit insane and tied to the kochs so i don't identify with them. i'm working up a brand with a name that will be revealed soonish to distance myself from any partisans
i have a plan in motion for making things better in america and it involves a lot of the people the lolberts have captured
but no, evil institution i do not like
but i do vote for the presidential candidates on occasion simply because the green party is worse

>>466617
based love me classical music
.play vivaldi four seasons full
this was my favorite vinyl album as a kid no cap

>>466618
ostensibly they're social democratic environmentalists which would be kinda kino
but they're like, weirdly into state expansion in a way that goes beyond typical nordic social democracy into far left concerning territory
and they're also anti nuclear which is RETARDED AS FUCK
and their perpetual candidate Jill Stein is a lunatic and believes in homeopathy

>>466626
small thorium reactors at the scale of powering a single home are in the concept phase now, this may exist in the future.
there's also some potential possibility we make a breakthrough in lattice confinement fusion energy eventually, which would take it a step further and let us make like nuclear cars and nuclear helicopters and shit with a little neutron shielding

>>466631
the nihilist position on environmentalism is completely pointless to occupy. it's the stance that we are all going to die, in which case no politics matter anyway.
we are going to save the world.
we have to. it's not a fucking option.
the question is just how best to do it.

>>466640
idr the specifics but thorium reactors are just able to be built much smaller. they're incapable of melting down and most of the size of a nuclear reactor is in its cooling. you can build a small one with a steam loop and a smaller fuel chamber in like, a garage, it just destroys the neighborhood if it melts down. but a thorium one wouldn't have that risk, so it could just bolt onto a home at the size of like, a small room probably.

>>466659
that's the other nice thing about thorium reactors. uranium is rare and has to be enriched to higher purities so you need a lot of it
thorium is like, 12% of the earth's crust or something high like that, and much easier to enrich
it'd be cheap once we had refining infrastructure scaled up

>>466670
man this anon is really dedicated to trying to bait me, i respect the grind
::sbahj
#throw

thorium is abundant and far easier to use as nuclear fuel idk why we're arguing about this lol
https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-and-future-generation/thorium

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS POLL
.PLAY COME OUT YE BLACK AND TANS 1 HOUR

wait how do i make a poll with options

#poll Should Ireland retake the north and nuke northumbria?/Yes/Aye/Good Lad

>>466699
ty #smooch

>>466700
#schizoedit

2 for nuke england 3 for davesprite is a good lad lol

>>466710
>my brother
>gone sexual
cease and desist .-.

>>466718
am play along :p

.play documentary on the benefits of nuclear energy in the green energy transition

>>466729
i posted the music that is currently playing

anyone who skips vivaldi is a charlatan and i don't trust the cut of their jib

>>466751
i hope it went well!

>>466757
i own this on vinyl and as a child i would put it on my record player and listen to it over and over, sometimes while i did things, other times just listen
how can you not find this music captivating
he captures the energy of the seasons so beautifully

>>466781
i'm homestuck gutter trash i just appreciate a good composition
i think i am this way from growing up in front of a tv and learning to love soundtracks, then classical