/ot/ - off-topic

>>2537394
got it

I can't find this one post that sometimes appears as a banner, it goes something like "things I learned: 1) all those moids are retarder"
I would really like to see the original with context, but the search feature turns up with nothing, which is a pity because it sounds hilarious

post of a nonna talking about having a wealthy woman sponsor her throughout college. the woman is in her 40s or 50s, has no family of her own and made a lot of money off of her career. nonna lives at her house and cooks and cleans but otherwise she just focuses on her studies. no romantic/sexual relationship between her and the woman either. I think the woman said she just wants to help younger women succeed in life because she wishes someone had helped her out when she was in college?

>>2545785
Thank you so much, I can feel this anon's rage in my soul.

>>2567356
The notes are full of troons saying that the same logic applies to lesbians who won't fuck TiMs. Jesus Christ, why do people think that refusing sex with someone is discrimination on the same level as a diner refusing to serve a black person? Why the fuck do people want to date someone who they view as bigoted, anyway? According to this set, bigotry is immutable and incurable (except when a moid troons out, of course) so it's not like you can make them un-troonphobic or un-biphobic. That's also why the solution they purpose to it is always violence, not reconciliation.

>>2567352
There's nothing normal about staring at a screen for hours a day with your dick in your hand, sorry.

>>2567594
>Why the fuck do people want to date someone who they view as bigoted, anyway?
I will never understand this line of logic, either. It's so rapey and just stinks of scrote neurosis, like obsessing over the people you supposedly hate.

>>2567594
>>why do people think that refusing sex with someone is discrimination on the same level as a diner refusing to serve a black person? Why the fuck do people want to date someone who they view as bigoted, anyway?
I wish I could find that one screencap of a 4chan anon making fun of troons and calling them ridiculous for wanting strangers to "learn" how to have sex with them.
>ok so i won't because I don't want to
>you don't have to see it or use it!
>i don't like that it's there
>you don't need to top/bottom
>i don't want to have sex with you
>just learn it! it's different!
>i don't want to have sex with you
>reexamine and unpack your preferences
>i still don't want to have sex with you
>nobody's forcing you to have sex with trannies!
>rinse and repeat
This is truly a genuinely great ideology we have going on here (sarcasm) but on a serious note if somebody turned me down for a bigoted reason I'd just fuck off. It's literal retard logic. Why would I ever want to get in a relationship like that? It would definitely be a problem if you're, say, a retarded misogynistic gay man who got surgeries to try to larp enough as a woman to fuck a fraction of a fraction of "straight" men, or a transbian who only wants to date and have hot scissoring sex with real lesbians with real vaginas. Turning down a troons delusions is literal violence, so maybe it's a problem then.

>>2567646
The desire to convince someone who hates you to have sex with you seems to be common among men and rare among women. I think it's a natural extrapolation on the popular myth that a woman who says no is just "playing hard to get." A lot of men, particularly the kind of cluster B perverts who troon out, just refuse to accept no as an answer on a deep-seated level. When these men hear "no" they don't view it as a definitive statement, they view it as a kind of temporary status they can change, like
>She must only be saying no because of some conditions that need to change, which actually means that saying "yes, but only if…" and not no!
This is why so many men erroneously believe that if they "just lift" or "just earn more" they can turn every "no" into a "yes." But it presupposes that women always have a rectifiable "problem," when they reject a man, when that's often not the case. A woman might reject a man because she's in a relationship, she's too busy for dating, she's not attracted to men, or any number of things that are totally out of the moid's control, and thats why they need to grow the fuck up and accept that "no" doesn't need qualifiers or an explanation.

>>2566855
what the fuck… Googled what a "mother and baby home" is and it's for unwed mother's and their babies to have refuge and resources. That's fucking sick.

>>2566858
In this case, they were places for religious families to ship off their inconveniently pregnant female family members. The stranglehold Catholicism had on 20th century Ireland CANNOT be overstated. These institutions were mainly called "laundries" because that was the unpaid labour you were expected to do if you stayed there.

>>2566863
This kind of stuff was happening well into the 21st century

>>2566855
Religion is fucking evil. I've NEVER met a highly religious person who wasn't violent and extremely selfish. this level of cruelty isn't rare, it's the norm among believers of any kind.

>>2567349
I have Irish friends who's not-so-distant family members have had experiences with these homes and the Magdalene laundries. There are women alive today who survived these places, who were sent away for little to no reason, and it's heartbreaking.

>>2566911
I mean what I don’t understand is how a human can reach the point of alcoholic intoxication to the extent of their memory just going blank. I always thought people who thought they were “blackout drunk” just ended up getting so drunk they fell asleep?

>>2566931
Nta but it's actually pretty easy for most people. Just keep drinking. It also depends on what type of alcohol you are drinking, if you ate or are eating, and if you're drinking water. But yeah if you go at it carelessly you can easily get blackout drunk.

>>2566812
I was just talking to my mum about this the other day. I’ve never been less inhibited when drunk, maybe slightly more confident and less autistic, but never enough to become unaware of my surroundings and act like an utter histrionic retard, and mind you I’ve had to get my stomach pumped from drinking too much when I was 14 and have been drunk to vomiting point many times. Slurring my words and stumbling is the most unhinged I get, and I honestly think people who go on about being crazy drunks are just using the drunkness as an excuse to be crazy and be given immunity for it

>>2566931
>>2567308

1000% agree with you Nonnas. The only people I've met who act like complete retards while drunk are complete retards while sober too.

>>2567308
>>2567333
>>2566812
Well then you’re lucky. Maybe not everyone is like this but my personality becomes completely different went drunk. I also become hypersexual and attracted to people I was never into which fucks things up. I’ll act like I was I was always into them romantically too when I just wanna fuck. It’s messy. I end up hitting on close friends and everything, it’s insufferable. I am also usually a very moral person but when drunk my morals fly out the window, I basically become some sort of mild psychopath. This is the biggest difference between drunk me sober me. All in all I just become a straight up bitch, not loud or even noticeably wasted but just sooo different. Someone brought up a good point in regards to this on reddit and I agreed with it - that alcohol changes your prefrontal cortex and decision making skills, and your decision making skills are part of who you are. They are an essential component of your personality. Even how and what you think as well as your reactions can be different. Which is why people who say that everything you do drunk is what you want to do sober are incorrect.

I’m sure it probably varies from person to person. But my solution to my particular situation is just to not drink. Some people looove to beg you to drink for some reason, but I refuse.

>>2564922
Just because an institution (that runs like a business) gets some public funding in addition to the fees it charges doesn't make it not a business. If (one of) its main motivation(s) is making more money and employing more (non-academic) staff with top admin making increasingly high pay rates (like millions), it is a business imo. You can split hairs about these definitions but I'd like to see an example of a university that doesn't run essentially like a business, and doesn't view its students (or their parents) as 'customers.' If universities in general didn't view students as customers we wouldn't be seeing the massive grade inflation people were talking about earlier in the thread, or stories like this one >>2535909 where most of the majors in an English department at two public universities are functionally illiterate. Next you're going to tell me a bank that gets bailouts from the government is a state-funded service and not a business.

>Your point of view strikes me as distinctly American
That's funny because I'm not American and I did not get my degrees at American universities. American universities also make up a large proportion of the world's research universities, so even if this was only true of American universities, it would still be a dire situation since most of the highest-impact research comes largely from them. Unfortunately many research universities in other countries are much likelier to do the things I'm describing and publish fraud than US universities, especially universities in China, India, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, etc.

>the only thing that would happen is people with barely a high school diploma taking research and the author’s words out of context and using it to fuel some conspiratard theory
Right because when nobel prize winners and leading scientists in academic fields write substacks, the only people who read them are people with 'barely a high school diploma' and outside of the 75% fraudulent articles published by Oxford Press and SpringerLink and T&F, scientists are incapable of making any sense. They only say smart things when they're talking to the fifteen Superior People with institutional access who deign to read their paper in plos one, but they bPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2565654
Sorry but I find your line-by-line type argumentation to be a bit exhausting so I'm not going to reply to every point. I agree that some of the differences in our experiences are due to the fact that we work in different fields, but to me the fact that you are willing to conflate a state-subsidied business (with the main goal of making money) and a state-funded but autonomous not-for-profit institution like a university, as well as pretend that something like Searle (1979) (lol paywalled, but I found the PDF) is 1) aimed at the wider public in the same sense that a random blog today would be, and 2) borne out of something vastly different from the university system currently in place and not based on the very same kind of exclusionary, jargon-filled specialist studies that you object to, just in a world pre-internet, makes me think there is no point in continuing this argument. RE: popular vs. specialist writing, I think what people often do not realize is that in order for someone to explain research to them in language that makes sense, said research needs to exist first. Popularized articles are only the end product of a long project or a series of projects, where the level of detail at which researchers look at things inherently requires a lot of jargon, and I think it would be unfair to assume every non-specialist normie to be willing or interested to acquire the vocabulary needed in order for them to understand research. That's what popularization is for, and I'm all for that, but to suggest that simplified, popularised takes and 10-minute read blogposts can replace research entirely sounds insane to me.

Paywalling sucks, absolutely, but I don't think the solution is to demolish the entire system of peer review, which should not be some kind of a "I scratch your back you scratch mine" type of thing between colleagues but a real quality check and a method of gatekeeping sloppy research from being published on the platform. Like the other anon said, anyone can have a blog. How would you check its quality? In fact, some researchers on my field already have blogs, where they tend to publish their initial ideas before writing a more detailed paper for journal publication, and people see their blogs as trustworthy because they are experts themselves and can judge the quality of the arguments, but what about someone who cannot do so? Without peer revPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2566015
I don't know where you're getting the idea that 'a random blog' by a researcher is by definition short, stupidly simple, intellectulaly bereft, or takes ten minutes to read. I also never said it can replace research entirely, you're hallucinating.

The entire system of peer review is broken and already on its way to being demolished whether you like it or not. It is not fit for purpose in the current cronyistic research environment to convince people that a paper is 'good' because someone read it without checking any of the premises, methodology, or mathematical analyses were remotely correct. This system is already collapsing, the question is do you want to stay on the sinking ship in the hopes you can fix it or do you want to do something else. I, and most of the people I respected the most that I personally knew in academia, decided it was time to do something else while we watch the boat sink, even if we still kind of love the boat, and still deeply hope it can be rebuilt.

>How would you check its quality?
Presumably the same way a peer-reviewer would. I have enough knowledge to do so and a functioning brain. As to a person who cannot judge the quality of something, and has no idea who they can trust, it doesn't really matter if they're reading a paper on pubmed or a blog by the author describing their science in layman's terms, they will be lost anyway. That's not a good reason to keep information away from the entire lay public.

>Without peer review it becomes a popularity contest
Here's where you're wrong. Peer review (as it currently functions) IS the popularity contest. You don't seriously believe reviewers actually confirm the stats and original data, do you?

The thread's picrel has been mentioned in a recent article by The Economist. Sometimes I really do regret going to uni…
https://archive.is/1SndB

>>2564922
>First off, in most countries universities are government-funded institutions, not business
>Your point of view strikes me as distinctly American
I'm really sorry nonna but this is a pretty silly take. I've studied in an English and a Dutch university and both struggle with increasing bureaucracy and its demands. It doesn't matter that the government funds them, the wolf of bureaucracy demands that it needs to turn a profit. In England especially, we rinse our international students dry because we need their money. Universities are big business. That is not strictly American.

>>2549045
ayrt, i just used a 10 minute email to sign up.

I so badly need to get SOMETHING from a private ig. All I know is that shitty first digit of an email thing from that github code but it’s not even good, like what does will that do for me? Nothing.

>>2566355
Github code?

>>2469996
>There are apps that show you who viewed your Instagram profile
Is that true? I was told that was a myth

>>2566355
It’s not possible. Your best bet is making a convincing fake account. Some people will accept ten follower random accounts, but it really depends on the person. If you know anything about them, you could try making a meme account of one of their nicher interests, posting a few memes and getting some mutuals, and then requesting.

>>2567117
You can do it anon!!

>>2567117
as someone who struggles to make time for work instead of play, it’s good for you to do vice versa. keep at it nona

I need encouragement to get back into the swing of things with my novel

Was on a good run of 1k a day but I seem to have lost all motivation. I've got a really lovely agent who helped me workshop it and probably a comparably good chance of getting a deal. Still keep falling behind and I feel so hopeless and desperate atm

Need to be done by end of summer, I've estimated 50h more of work until the end of my first draft so I guess just take it a few minutes at a time?? I'll update here

TBH I think it's because my work life is otherwise going so well that I'm out of motivation, I fought so hard to get basically midway, became satisfied with the optics of becoming an agented writer, I know a book deal is not in my control so I'm struggling to fight the rest of the way

>>2568226
Samefag, I typed this and broke my procrastination streak with 500 words! (It's so nice to think of that as breaking a streak).

Today
>English reading 1h
>Commonplacing 1h
>Novel - try for 2k overall

So far I've showered and already read for 30m

>>2568635
Update! I wrote over 2k today, when you factor in the 500w spurt in the early hours it means I spent 3.5h on the novel. I also spent 2h taking critical book notes and am set to go to bed at a reasonable time. Very happy and proud of myself, back on track!

Have to work my conventional job tomorrow and so done with it but it's very quiet and there'll be some downtime in which I can write a bit more.

>>2541246
What are half these words?

straight up pedophilia

>>2566692
>wahhh the moids!! the precious moids!! wont someone ignore that female idols also go through all of what i just said and more?
you are retarded, get well soon

>>2566692
>dating scandals
Memories of Slime Man entertainment paying an employee to sit in some bushes and photograph Baekhyun and Taeyeon kissing in a car, waiting for fans to finish burning their Exo merch, and then debuting Red Velvet.

And then Baekhyun and Taeyeon were never seen interacting again.

SSR+ tier acting.(kpop is a banned topic)

>>2566727
>There's a phenomenon in Korea where office workers are thrown away when they reach a certain age

How and why did this develop? I know that in Japan it's the opposite problem where salaried boomers just calcify up every major corporation. You had instances of Japanese office workers in management in their 60s insisting that the company still operates with fax machines through the 2010s.

Even in China there's salarymen getting basically tenure. I thought the model for Chaebols/Zaibatzus was in exchange for total commitment to the company, they'll provide for you for life.

>>2566692
WKing for gross, india tier korean moids because of your kawaii aidoru fetish is an interesting way to spend your free time. Oh i feel so bad for the rich as fuck 00.3% of the population…

>>2567004
Nta, I need more info on this…Taeyeon claims to developing depression from this and she made tons of songs and MVs about it.(kpop is a banned topic)

>>2556429
Damn I wish she had a dick to ram in me. I'm straight tho

>>2555331
Ummm makeup is rape by deception and women should be fined for wearing makeup!

>>2556429
Stop falling for jew propaganda bro. Racemixing is evil and betraying our pure European genetics. And there are plenty of aryan waifus here, just avoid walled hags (over 20) and make sure she’s naive and submissive, to avoid the whores. Your blonde haired blue eyed goddess with natural E cups is out there bro you just gotta ignore these shitskin and yellow foids otherwise you’re a good goy who’s being cucked by ((them))

If her age isn't on the clock she's too old for my cock kek am I right fellas? Are we men of culture or what

>>2555341
too old. gross roastie hag