What Are You Doing Right Now? (172 Viewers)

[GordoDeCentral]

You’re kind of proving my point.

Something about the modern psyche needs shortcuts that flip the binary bit to “all good” or “all bad” about a person, a place, an idea. There’s no room for complexity.

We’re turning into the machine bits that AI would model us as.

Come on broski, I don't need no complexity to know i never wanna intentionally live in shitholes like Naples or San Fran. Some cultures/ideologies are just doomed to fail regardless of what good aspects they may have.

 

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[swag]

Come on broski, I don't need no complexity to know i never wanna intentionally live in shitholes like Naples or San Fran. Some cultures/ideologies are just doomed to fail regardless of what good aspects they may have.

Absolutes are bull crap though. I’ve visited a number of “s***hole” countries that have a lot more to offer than supposedly far advanced ones.

SF is a great place to live if you’re there for the right reasons. Same with Jacksonville, FL, and same with Napoli or even Kirachi.

Hand-waving, sweeping judgments are always a crutch, typically employed to shield the believer in the justifications of their 1 or 0 attitudes about places, people, etc.

I get it. We as humans have evolved and survived off of low-mental-energy shorthand, which is why a darkie with a mental health problem on the streets is presumed more dangerous than a white tech bro who secretly loves sex torture dungeons.

The question is are you convincing yourself of the reality you want or of the one that actually exists?

 

[Seven]

Absolutes are bull crap though. I’ve visited a number of “s***hole” countries that have a lot more to offer than supposedly far advanced ones.

SF is a great place to live if you’re there for the right reasons. Same with Jacksonville, FL, and same with Napoli or even Kirachi.

Hand-waving, sweeping judgments are always a crutch, typically employed to shield the believer in the justifications of their 1 or 0 attitudes about places, people, etc.

I get it. We as humans have evolved and survived off of low-mental-energy shorthand, which is why a darkie with a mental health problem on the streets is presumed more dangerous than a white tech bro who secretly loves sex torture dungeons.

The question is are you convincing yourself of the reality you want or of the one that actually exists?

Oddly San Francisco is one of the places I feel very strongly about not ever wanting to live there. I think I could be happy in most parts of the world. Every place has its charm and you have to find a way of seeing it.

San Francisco though.. It is so hard to stomach. I think it's the pretentiousness of its inhabitants combined with how fairly mundane everything is. What I mean is, if you're going to be pretentious about where you're from, you'd better be from Rome, New York or Paris. I am okay with Parisians thinking they've invented sliced bread. It's Paris, they're supposed to feel better than me. But San Francisco? Good lord, it's all the way out west. Where we sent the people we didn't want.

 

[swag]

Oddly San Francisco is one of the places I feel very strongly about not ever wanting to live there. I think I could be happy in most parts of the world. Every place has its charm and you have to find a way of seeing it.

San Francisco though.. It is so hard to stomach. I think it's the pretentiousness of its inhabitants combined with how fairly mundane everything is. What I mean is, if you're going to be pretentious about where you're from, you'd better be from Rome, New York or Paris. I am okay with Parisians thinking they've invented sliced bread. It's Paris, they're supposed to feel better than me. But San Francisco? Good lord, it's all the way out west. Where we sent the people we didn't want.

I enjoyed my first 15 years. The last much less so because it became full of itself. It became the new Wall Street and all the entitlement that comes with that. Hubris came to be the primary driver, and ultimately it became an economic monoculture of tech and finance that made it a one-note town. Arts died. Kids and old people were chased out. Hyperoptimized to its own financial success.

It’s my big warning here when the Lisbon mayor opened a “unicorn factory”. Does he really understand what comes with that?

As a result, the funny truth is that native Californians are the chill ones. The worst were the immigrants who drew to the place and put on airs of radicalism. They were the social rejects.

A big warning to Miami on this, as they can easily create the same dystopian world.

 

[AFL_ITALIA]

I enjoyed my first 15 years. The last much less so because it became full of itself. It became the new Wall Street and all the entitlement that comes with that. Hubris came to be the primary driver, and ultimately it became an economic monoculture of tech and finance that made it a one-note town. Arts died. Kids and old people were chased out. Hyperoptimized to its own financial success.

It’s my big warning here when the Lisbon mayor opened a “unicorn factory”. Does he really understand what comes with that?

As a result, the funny truth is that native Californians are the chill ones. The worst were the immigrants who drew to the place and put on airs of radicalism. They were the social rejects.

A big warning to Miami on this, as they can easily create the same dystopian world.

A few lessons are going to be learned in that state in the coming years imo.

 

[ßöмßäяðîëя]

Oddly San Francisco is one of the places I feel very strongly about not ever wanting to live there. I think I could be happy in most parts of the world. Every place has its charm and you have to find a way of seeing it.

San Francisco though.. It is so hard to stomach. I think it's the pretentiousness of its inhabitants combined with how fairly mundane everything is. What I mean is, if you're going to be pretentious about where you're from, you'd better be from Rome, New York or Paris. I am okay with Parisians thinking they've invented sliced bread. It's Paris, they're supposed to feel better than me. But San Francisco? Good lord, it's all the way out west. Where we sent the people we didn't want.

You're going to be pretty angry when you hear about Australia.

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And @campionesidd thought I was dark.

I am a bad person for laughing at these. But they are something you and Andy would do.

The guy also must be from the Midwest (Menards).

All I can say is penisfacemask

I believe he was Australian. The comic was banned, because they don't have the First Amendment, then he became a pedo. I think the comic strip was his outlet for his repressed sexual anger. Which, makes sense given its subject matter.

 

[swag]

You're going to be pretty angry when you hear about Australia.

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I believe he was Australian. The comic was banned, because they don't have the First Amendment, then he became a pedo. I think the comic strip was his outlet for his repressed sexual anger. Which, makes sense given its subject matter.

Yeah, I reread that Australia part.

They say comedy is pain. There’s a fine line between humor and psychopath sometimes.

 

[ßöмßäяðîëя]

Yeah, I reread that Australia part.

They say comedy is pain. There’s a fine line between humor and psychopath sometimes.

 

[Seven]

I enjoyed my first 15 years. The last much less so because it became full of itself. It became the new Wall Street and all the entitlement that comes with that. Hubris came to be the primary driver, and ultimately it became an economic monoculture of tech and finance that made it a one-note town. Arts died. Kids and old people were chased out. Hyperoptimized to its own financial success.

It’s my big warning here when the Lisbon mayor opened a “unicorn factory”. Does he really understand what comes with that?

As a result, the funny truth is that native Californians are the chill ones. The worst were the immigrants who drew to the place and put on airs of radicalism. They were the social rejects.

A big warning to Miami on this, as they can easily create the same dystopian world.

I have never been in a city that had this to this extent.

To be fair though apart from that it's not a bad looking place and it's actually quite strategic for roadtrips.

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You're going to be pretty angry when you hear about Australia.

I've lived with two Australian roommates for 10 months. They were absolutely retarded. And so were all of their friends. This was in Bologna and even after half a year there they could not speak a single word of Italian. They literally went to places and asked stuff in English and then made fun of the people who didn't understand them. I wish I could say nice things about them, but I honestly can't.

Obviously this doesn't say anything about Australians in general. I believe they were all (in total this was a group of about 25) from the same university in Sydney and it was a very homogenous group of students. They were basically 25 copies of one retarded Australian.

 

[ßöмßäяðîëя]

You lived in a meat sandwich?

 

[Seven]

You lived in a meat sandwich?

Only two of them were roommates.

You know what it was? They were so clueless about other cultures and languages. Absolutely crazy.

I have to say though, they did have guts. They rented a car and drove to Naples to visit the Amalfi Coast without having any experience whatsoever with a manual car (which was pretty much the only option back then).

 

[ßöмßäяðîëя]

I drove in Montreal and I can say, it's a completely different experience with street signs being in what could be Cantonese for all I care. If I had to do it on the opposite side of the car and road, fuck that.

 

[swag]

Too many bloody rugby head injuries down there

 

[GordoDeCentral]

Absolutes are bull crap though. I’ve visited a number of “s***hole” countries that have a lot more to offer than supposedly far advanced ones.

SF is a great place to live if you’re there for the right reasons. Same with Jacksonville, FL, and same with Napoli or even Kirachi.

Hand-waving, sweeping judgments are always a crutch, typically employed to shield the believer in the justifications of their 1 or 0 attitudes about places, people, etc.

I get it. We as humans have evolved and survived off of low-mental-energy shorthand, which is why a darkie with a mental health problem on the streets is presumed more dangerous than a white tech bro who secretly loves sex torture dungeons.

The question is are you convincing yourself of the reality you want or of the one that actually exists?

Where is the absolute in my statement? I call it a shithole, you don't have to agree with me, but the flow of traffic in and out of those shitholes does.

Hiding behind relativism is for cowards who can't bear the thought of being called names or God forbid be disliked. Sorry I am not retarded enough to find mud hut dwellers who ate each other for sport on an equal anything footing with cultures that have produced innumerable cultural and scientific exploits. Oh wait but the half naked savages don't pollute, that's it! that makes them not only equal but better.

 

[swag]

Where is the absolute in my statement? I call it a shithole, you don't have to agree with me, but the flow of traffic in and out of those shitholes does.

Hiding behind relativism is for cowards who can't bear the thought of being called names or God forbid be disliked. Sorry I am not retarded enough to find mud hut dwellers who ate each other for sport on an equal anything footing with cultures that have produced innumerable cultural and scientific exploits. Oh wait but the half naked savages don't pollute, that's it! that makes them not only equal but better.

Some people like mud huts. Usually they're annoying neo-colonialists and white saviors, but they like them. Others do not.

If you can't find one thing to like about any person or anywhere, I don't think you're trying enough. Doesn't mean you want to move there though, as I surely don't want to move to Napoli -- which started this convo.

 

[GordoDeCentral]

Some people like mud huts. Usually they're annoying neo-colonialists and white saviors, but they like them. Others do not.

If you can't find one thing to like about any person or anywhere, I don't think you're trying enough. Doesn't mean you want to move there though, as I surely don't want to move to Napoli -- which started this convo.

I will find many things to like, one of my favorite places in the world is a stinky shithole, Semporna, been there a dozen times. But there's no way i am moving there by choice or thinking it's just as good to live there as it is in other places.

 

[ßöмßäяðîëя]

Too many bloody rugby head injuries down there

Nah, Aussie Rules Football I think is the reason. No one understands that game.

 

[swag]

I will find many things to like, one of my favorite places in the world is a stinky shithole, Semporna, been there a dozen times. But there's no way i am moving there by choice or thinking it's just as good to live there as it is in other places.

Then I’m not sure how we went from citing a population behavior in Napoli that shuns being militantly purist … to wanting to move there. But here we are.

 

[swag]

Nah, Aussie Rules Football I think is the reason. No one understands that game.

Fewer play it though. But as your Rick & Morty parody pointed out: there are other means of being a damaged Bogan.

 

[IliveForJuve]

Way too many fat chicks in this country, which is not surprising given the fact Brits butter everything