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2021-02-02 at 2:55 PM UTC in Bookmarks and Favorites are an outdated concept.At least as far as i am concerned. The only reason i use bookmarks is to have a list of resources at the ready for when i need them, or to save a page that has information relevant to my interests or a current project i am working on.
Instead of having a list of bookmarks, these days i have a custom homepage, with quick links to resources i use a lot, a search bar, a clock, and all kinds of cool things. I got everything i need at a glance. Now if you're alright at web design you can customize until your heart is content. However, there's a way to get much of the same with a certain FF Extension. Which is great for members that aren't very good at web design.
Even so, it takes a lot of configuration to set it up in a way that it both looks good and is customized to your preferences and what you think looks aesthetically pleasing. Now since i have all the APIs and can create a configuration file to export as JSON that you can load into your extension. My proposal is, we here in T&T collect a number of useful resources in the form of URLs, concerning the things we find interesting, wallpapers, and name a number of features that may be cool to have as part of a customized NIS T&T homepage.
We collectively gather the resources. I will create a customized homepage with custom graphics(That you can submit as well) that includes our resources and release a config file. So everyone here can use it. All the average NIS user has to do is install the extension and i will provide the config file.
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2021-02-02 at 3:49 AM UTC in Deep state accidental info slip
The hunger that causes our pain of life,
is not a hunger of our own,
it is the hunger of our masters,
the tiny strings inside our genome.
They own us, they control us, and they torture us.
Do not reproduce, do not support them, bring them to an end.
Stop the agony of conscious life, eradicate life.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-02-02 at 2:32 AM UTC in I found a girl to settle down with.you two are going to die in some weird murder suicide and it won't be adorable
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2021-02-01 at 9:28 PM UTC in What the fuck is the point of a “wireless” phone charger?the concept of it being advantageous is that it doesn't have a port to wear down every time you plug the piece of shit in and pull it out. Kind of like wearing down your mothers vagina that all of us have done many times over.
the other option is to have a magnetic port plugin stay inside the phone all the time and use a magnet chord to attach to it and pull off without ever having to wear down the porthole. but people found out it rubbed on the porthole like your moms on shore leave for 1000 sailors and wore out anyways
so this was the new concept.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-02-01 at 8:21 PM UTC in Do you want to change?
Originally posted by netstat a part of me wants to become hyper-productive and take over the world but i haven't really put sustained effort into anything since i was about 14 so realistically i'll probably just languish in mediocrity with bursts of productivity for the rest of my life
Shit my dude. I sometimes feel the same, and it sucks, motivation issues hamper my innovative and creative drives sometimes. i need more self-discipline, and i have been trying to cultivate it. As long as i manage to power through some of the boring parts, i a hoping it will eventually become natural for me to do so. Taking over the world is on my to do list as well.
Lol, i suck at managing scope creep though, and chronically underestimate the amount of work something will take to accomplish. It's a bad habit, and i am trying to keep my creative process streamlined and focused. i know i an do it, i have done it multiple times on multiple projects. But for every functional project that comes out of me i have 10, that didn't for one reason or another. Not challenging enough, too challenging, scope creep. The expectations of my peers factor into this as well. Which they shouldn't but contrary to popular belief i am actually a human bean at the end of the day and sometimes i can't help but be affected.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-02-01 at 8 PM UTC in How will automation affect society?1. The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. They have greatly increased the life-expectancy of those of us who live in “advanced” countries, but they have destabilized society, have made life unfulfilling, have subjected human beings to indignities, have led to widespread psychological suffering (in the Third World to physical suffering as well) and have inflicted severe damage on the natural world. The continued development of technology will worsen the situation. It will certainly subject human beings to greater indignities and inflict greater damage on the natural world, it will probably lead to greater social disruption and psychological suffering, and it may lead to increased physical suffering even in “advanced” countries.
2. The industrial-technological system may survive or it may break down. If it survives, it MAY eventually achieve a low level of physical and psychological suffering, but only after passing through a long and very painful period of adjustment and only at the cost of permanently reducing human beings and many other living organisms to engineered products and mere cogs in the social machine. Furthermore, if the system survives, the consequences will be inevitable: There is no way of reforming or modifying the system so as to prevent it from depriving people of dignity and autonomy.
3. If the system breaks down the consequences will still be very painful. But the bigger the system grows the more disastrous the results of its breakdown will be, so if it is to break down it had best break down sooner rather than later.
4. We therefore advocate a revolution against the industrial system. This revolution may or may not make use of violence; it may be sudden or it may be a relatively gradual process spanning a few decades. We can’t predict any of that. But we do outline in a very general way the measures that those who hate the industrial system should take in order to prepare the way for a revolution against that form of society. This is not to be a POLITICAL revolution. Its object will be to overthrow not governments but the economic and technological basis of the present society.
5. In this article we give attention to only some of the negative developments that have grown out of the industrial-technological system. Other such developments we mention only briefly or ignore altogether. This does not mean that we regard these other developments as unimportant. For practical reasons we have to confine our discussion to areas that have received insufficient public attention or in which we have something new to say. For example, since there are well-developed environmental and wilderness movements, we have written very little about environmental degradation or the destruction of wild nature, even though we consider these to be highly important.
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MODERN LEFTISM
6. Almost everyone will agree that we live in a deeply troubled society. One of the most widespread manifestations of the craziness of our world is leftism, so a discussion of the psychology of leftism can serve as an introduction to the discussion of the problems of modern society in general.
7. But what is leftism? During the first half of the 20th century leftism could have been practically identified with socialism. Today the movement is fragmented and it is not clear who can properly be called a leftist. When we speak of leftists in this article we have in mind mainly socialists, collectivists, “politically correct” types, feminists, gay and disability activists, animal rights activists and the like. But not everyone who is associated with one of these movements is a leftist. What we are trying to get at in discussing leftism is not so much movement or an ideology as a psychological type, or rather a collection of related types. Thus, what we mean by “leftism” will emerge more clearly in the course of our discussion of leftist psychology. (Also, see paragraphs 227-230.)
8. Even so, our conception of leftism will remain a good deal less clear than we would wish, but there doesn’t seem to be any remedy for this. All we are trying to do here is indicate in a rough and approximate way the two psychological tendencies that we believe are the main driving force of modern leftism. We by no means claim to be telling the WHOLE truth about leftist psychology. Also, our discussion is meant to apply to modern leftism only. We leave open the question of the extent to which our discussion could be applied to the leftists of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
9. The two psychological tendencies that underlie modern leftism we call “feelings of inferiority” and “oversocialization.” Feelings of inferiority are characteristic of modern leftism as a whole, while oversocialization is characteristic only of a certain segment of modern leftism; but this segment is highly influential.
FEELINGS OF INFERIORITY
10. By “feelings of inferiority” we mean not only inferiority feelings in the strict sense but a whole spectrum of related traits; low self-esteem, feelings of powerlessness, depressive tendencies, defeatism, guilt, self- hatred, etc. We argue that modern leftists tend to have some such feelings (possibly more or less repressed) and that these feelings are decisive in determining the direction of modern leftism.
11. When someone interprets as derogatory almost anything that is said about him (or about groups with whom he identifies) we conclude that he has inferiority feelings or low self-esteem. This tendency is pronounced among minority rights activists, whether or not they belong to the minority groups whose rights they defend. They are hypersensitive about the words used to designate minorities and about anything that is said concerning minorities. The terms “negro,” “oriental,” “handicapped” or “chick” for an African, an Asian, a disabled person or a woman originally had no derogatory connotation. “Broad” and “chick” were merely the feminine equivalents of “guy,” “dude” or “fellow.” The negative connotations have been attached to these terms by the activists themselves. Some animal rights activists have gone so far as to reject the word “pet” and insist on its replacement by “animal companion.” Leftish anthropologists go to great lengths to avoid saying anything about primitive peoples that could conceivably be interpreted as negative. They want to replace the world “primitive” by “nonliterate.” They seem almost paranoid about anything that might suggest that any primitive culture is inferior to our own. (We do not mean to imply that primitive cultures ARE inferior to ours. We merely point out the hypersensitivity of leftish anthropologists.)
12. Those who are most sensitive about “politically incorrect” terminology are not the average black ghetto- dweller, Asian immigrant, abused woman or disabled person, but a minority of activists, many of whom do not even belong to any “oppressed” group but come from privileged strata of society. Political correctness has its stronghold among university professors, who have secure employment with comfortable salaries, and the majority of whom are heterosexual white males from middle- to upper-middle-class families.
13. Many leftists have an intense identification with the problems of groups that have an image of being weak (women), defeated (American Indians), repellent (homosexuals) or otherwise inferior. The leftists themselves feel that these groups are inferior. They would never admit to themselves that they have such feelings, but it is precisely because they do see these groups as inferior that they identify with their problems. (We do not mean to suggest that women, Indians, etc. ARE inferior; we are only making a point about leftist psychology.)
14. Feminists are desperately anxious to prove that women are as strong and as capable as men. Clearly they are nagged by a fear that women may NOT be as strong and as capable as men.
15. Leftists tend to hate anything that has an image of being strong, good and successful. They hate America, they hate Western civilization, they hate white males, they hate rationality. The reasons that leftists give for hating the West, etc. clearly do not correspond with their real motives. They SAY they hate the West because it is warlike, imperialistic, sexist, ethnocentric and so forth, but where these same faults appear in socialist countries or in primitive cultures, the leftist finds excuses for them, or at best he GRUDGINGLY admits that they exist; whereas he ENTHUSIASTICALLY points out (and often greatly exaggerates) these faults where they appear in Western civilization. Thus it is clear that these faults are not the leftist’s real motive for hating America and the West. He hates America and the West because they are strong and successful.
16. Words like “self-confidence,” “self-reliance,” “initiative,” “enterprise,” “optimism,” etc., play little role in the liberal and leftist vocabulary. The leftist is anti-individualistic, pro-collectivist. He wants society to solve everyone’s problems for them, satisfy everyone’s needs for them, take care of them. He is not the sort of person who has an inner sense of confidence in his ability to solve his own problems and satisfy his own needs. The leftist is antagonistic to the concept of competition because, deep inside, he feels like a loser.
17. Art forms that appeal to modern leftish intellectuals tend to focus on sordidness, defeat and despair, or else they take an orgiastic tone, throwing off rational control as if there were no hope of accomplishing anything through rational calculation and all that was left was to immerse oneself in the sensations of the moment.
18. Modern leftish philosophers tend to dismiss reason, science, objective reality and to insist that everything is culturally relative. It is true that one can ask serious questions about the foundations of scientific knowledge and about how, if at all, the concept of objective reality can be defined. But it is obvious that modern leftish philosophers are not simply cool-headed logicians systematically analyzing the foundations of knowledge. They are deeply involved emotionally in their attack on truth and reality. They attack these concepts because of their own psychological needs. For one thing, their attack is an outlet for hostility, and, to the extent that it is successful, it satisfies the drive for power. More importantly, the leftist hates science and rationality because they classify certain beliefs as true (i.e., successful, superior) and other beliefs as false (i.e., failed, inferior). The leftist’s feelings of inferiority run so deep that he cannot tolerate any classification of some things as successful or superior and other things as failed or inferior. This also underlies the rejection by many leftists of the concept of mental illness and of the utility of IQ tests. Leftists are antagonistic to genetic explanations of human abilities or behavior because such explanations tend to make some persons appear superior or inferior to others. Leftists prefer to give society the credit or blame for an individual’s ability or lack of it. Thus if a person is “inferior” it is not his fault, but society’s, because he has not been brought up properly.
19. The leftist is not typically the kind of person whose feelings of inferiority make him a braggart, an egotist, a bully, a self-promoter, a ruthless competitor. This kind of person has not wholly lost faith in himself. He has a deficit in his sense of power and self-worth, but he can still conceive of himself as having the capacity to be strong, and his efforts to make himself strong produce his unpleasant behavior. [1] But the leftist is too far gone for that. His feelings of inferiority are so ingrained that he cannot conceive of himself as individually strong and valuable. Hence the collectivism of the leftist. He can feel strong only as a member of a large organization or a mass movement with which he identifies himself.
20. Notice the masochistic tendency of leftist tactics. Leftists protest by lying down in front of vehicles, they intentionally provoke police or racists to abuse them, etc. These tactics may often be effective, but many leftists use them not as a means to an end but because they PREFER masochistic tactics. Self-hatred is a leftist trait. -
2021-02-01 at 1:51 PM UTC in Wrecked My Truck Last Night
Originally posted by Kev explain to us retarded masses the mechanics of this
Short version is that big hedge funds gambled on Gamestop tanking and committed to buy shares in such a way that that the lower stock value is in a week, the more money they make.
People on Reddit have been buying up shares and drove them from like $5 to $350.
What Sophie's saying is that most people aren't cashing out to make a profit, they're holding onto those shares and buying MORE to drive the price up further and put those kikes out of business. -
2021-02-01 at 1:21 PM UTC in FBI Creates 'Right Wing Terrorism'It is my ultimate fantasy to create a fake terror group on discord or facebook and have the FBI infiltrate us and give us all a bunch of money and then we ghost them and go to Vegas and they are in the bushes watching us get table service and lobster like "Wheres the bomb? They brought the bomb right?"
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2021-02-01 at 11:34 AM UTC in FBI Creates 'Right Wing Terrorism'The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-02-01 at 7:31 AM UTC in FBI Creates 'Right Wing Terrorism'Original story:
https://oklahoman.com/article/5658375/jerry-drake-varnell-sentenced-in-okc-bomb-plot-caseAround 1 a.m. on Aug. 12, 2017, the FBI arrested Varnell after he attempted to detonate what he believed to be an explosives-laden van he had parked in an alley next to BancFirst, 101 N Broadway.
The explosives were inert and the public was not in danger.
FBI agents had received information that Varnell initially wanted to blow up the Federal Reserve Building in Washington, D.C., with a device similar to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, because he was angry with the government.
“The investigation of Varnell was the result of the tireless efforts of the FBI Oklahoma City Joint Terrorism Task Force and nearly 100 of our partners from federal, state, and local law enforcement,” said Melissa Godbold, special agent in charge of the FBI's Oklahoma City Field Office.
Family's statement:
https://oklahoman.com/article/5560334/attempted-bombing-suspects-family-issues-statement?What the public should be looking at is the fact that the FBI gave our son the means to make this happen. He has no job, no money, no vehicle, and no driver’s license, due to the fact that he is schizophrenic and we; his parents do everything we can possible to keep him safe and functional. The mental health system has consistently failed us due to the lack of establishments and health care coverage for a person like him. He has attended college and just enrolled in welding school. His medications allow him to be somewhat functional but he will never be completely functional in life. His brain does not work like a normal person and never will due to the nature of his mental illness. He has suffered through countless serious full-blown schizophrenic delusional episodes and he has been put in numerous mental hospitals since he was 16 years old. The FBI came and picked him up from our home, they gave him a vehicle, gave him a fake bomb, and every means to make this happen none of which he had access to on his own. We know who their informant is and what the public should know is that he is that a drug-dealing criminal. On June 15, 2017, Jerry’s Father told the criminal informant “that he was not allowed back on our property and if he returned we would have him arrested for trespassing and drugs”. Apparently, he continued to sneak onto our residence. The FBI paid him to continue this operation and I believe they have cleared his criminal record.
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2021-01-31 at 5:38 PM UTC in thats freaking ridiculous guysThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-01-31 at 5:25 PM UTC in The Man Who Put It In Lanny's inbox should be blackballed for being a snitch...I've reported one single post since I joined this site and I dont remember what it was. I was probably drunk and it was probably Julio the camera. I xouldve reported hundreds of off topic posts in my tropical threads but I sucked it up buttercup and let the faggotry ensue because whatever. Nothing matters anymore. Nobody cares about anything. Every thread is shit. Everyone is shit. We're all dead. Long live the goddamn motherfucking Queen.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-01-31 at 5:06 PM UTC in I killed myself and was brought back to life by GodFuck blockers. Lynch all blockers. Blockers are beta. Beta blockers. God wants you here to suffer for being blocker.
Love you OP.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-01-31 at 5:05 PM UTC in I killed myself and was brought back to life by GodHe wants you here because He has a greater purpose for your life than you could ever imagine and blah blah blavThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-01-31 at 2:31 AM UTC in Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez...I would Love to see Tulsi Gabbard aggressively scissor AOC. You could really make a whole porno movie that builds to that one event. It would be "who's nailin Palin?" on steroids, viagara and methThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-01-29 at 4:24 PM UTC in Kev aka Stupid retard Noncesometimes contributing nothing is better than contributing nothing but gay drama spamThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-01-21 at 12:58 PM UTC in Can we have a jailbait thread? And other things of great import.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-01-19 at 2:37 AM UTC in anyone else in ChainLink Gang 2021?Legitimate use cases for cryptocurrencies:
1. Buying illegal shit
2. Tax evasion
Which is ChainLink good for? -
2021-01-11 at 1:50 AM UTC in the state of redditThe first time I heard of reddit I went with a friend of mine to sell weed to someone who lived in my friends building. It was a skinny guy with those stupid washer looking stretch things in his ears. We smoked weed and he put reddit up on a projector and we watched videos, some of which were gorey I remember. I remember hearing his girlfriend left him for a woman and they were still living together and the apartment was likely paid for by one of their parents. He gave the "I would suck your dick" vibe and aspired to move to a more liberal and arrogant city. I think he was a barista or possibly worked in a kitchen. I would later find out he is actually 98% of reddit users.
I remember one of the disgruntled tech devs from "The Social Dilemma" said he was addicted to reddit and my mind was blown that could happen.
There used to be good specific subreddits that were troves of useful fringe information they are all ghost towns now. I hate sounding like an old fogey in whose day things were "better" but reddit used to have a marginal use that is now completely defunct. I haven't found anything useful there in forever. I have to admit their model is kinda interesting but now its just funny how they managed to get away with so muchThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-01-11 at 12:39 AM UTC in Rioters vs Peaceful Protestors - Another lesson in progressive english
Originally posted by Technologist I really don’t give two shits what you think bunny boy. These people will forever be known as terrorists. Hell, some guy that was identified as one of the terrorists, couldn’t get on a plane to go back home, because he is now on a terrorists watchlist by the FBI. Do stupid things, win stupid prizes.
notice how she doesn't actually give any reason for them being listed as terrorists or added to the (completely unconstitutional) no-fly list, just that AuthorityDaddy has made the decision for herThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
