>>317050
>She's fat but the weight is carried well
>I'm skinny but my shape is gross and I have severe hip dips
Exactly, I used to be overweight and after losing it all I still look like shit because my shape is so bad… Wishing you the best

I will forever gatekeep my clean, walkable, affordable American city. You foreigners will never catch me here.

>>316740
stuff like this scares me because the other two empires are objectively worse.

This is a gun.

Brazilian channers made me 100% sure rightwingers are legitimately mentally ill.

I didn't even know Brazil still had a relevant channer scene. What exactly are you talking about and where are you from?

>>317017
I can relate and I also have to confess that the site helped me overcome a lot of my own internalized misogyny back when I was going throuogh a difficult time. The site was way more comfy years back. I don't think I had ever even gotten a single ban until last year when the new jannies who constantly have a stick up their ass took over. The bans that are implemented are so arbitrary at times and there are other times when massive issues are just outright ignored. The user base is also absolutely insufferable like you mentioned. /ot/ has turned into an absolute dumpster fire of infighting and politisperging. Don't even get me started on /g/. The only board I can stand posting in is /m/ nowadays but I don't know, maybe it's time for me stop using the site altogether.

>>317172
Good. I wouldn't mind if they just banned VPNs site-wide, I only feel bad for thirdies who can't access lolcow without VPN. The site could use a user purge, threads are completely unusable because the most active users spam everything up with their unfunny shit like bored middle schoolers typing away under the desk during class.

>>317176
Absolutely me too, it really helped me out of a period of my life where I was blinded by internalised misogyny and tranny ideology. It helped me discover radical feminism and talk to other women who actually seemed to understand how I felt as an isolated autistic girl. In a time where I was so so lonely it gave me an escape. I also used /snow/ and /pt/ as an outlet for the bitterness and anger I couldn’t express in real life. It’s embarrassing but it really changed my life and now it’s close to unusable. I also mainly really stick to /m/ these days as it feels closest to the vibe the site used to have, sometimes I venture onto /ot/ but you’re right about the incessant politisperging and pointless infights. I literally can’t remember the last time I laughed while reading a thread on lc but I know I used to. I hate to see its downfall as there is a dire need for (vaguely) sane exclusively female spaces on the internet and for a while that’s what it was for me. It’s such a shithole now

I looked in the Winx Club thread on /m/ and it's just full of a bunch of anons sharing their fantasies of teenage anime girls getting incest raped, good god Lolcow is a shithole these days

come on scrote come back, did you leave? Nooo

>>317273
no gay shit no points scrote haver

>>317276
Please no im shattered

There’s a line between being cute and being annoying and pushy, come on anon

>Name/Alias
jas
>Age
27
>Preferred age range for friends
doesnt matter
>Hobbies & Interests
i like playing gta:sa, old retro games via emulator and ttrpgs. forestry, biology and ecology is rly interesting to me. i also watch anime but i got particular tastes about those tho i found myself liking yaoi quite a lot
my top 3 ranked yaois are Dakaichi (manga) banana fish (anime) and heavens official blessing (the manga, i didnt like the anime)
>Social Media accounts (tumblr, twitter, instagram, discord, snapchat, line, snow, skype, etc~)
dont rly use anything but discord: jas691
>Any other relevant details (location, language, timezone, triggers, boundaries, etc~)
im looking to just hang out and be friends and stuff like that

Does anyone want to play videogames or something
Could be something chill like stardew valley or maybe terraria or deep rock galactic idk

>Age
26
>Preferred age range for friends
20-30
>Hobbies & Interests
videogames, some reading, taking psychiatric pills, drawing
>Social Media accounts (tumblr, twitter, instagram, discord, snapchat, line, snow, skype, etc~)
just reply and ill give you my handle
>Any other relevant details (location, language, timezone, triggers, boundaries, etc~)
eastern european timezone

>>311922
Just kill yourself at this point.

>Name/Alias
Niet

>Age
Just shy of mid 30s

>Preferred age range for friends
22+ Preffered

>Hobbies & Interests
Typical Nerd shit: Vidya, Sci fi, Staying up all night to trick my brain into forking over good chemicals and Those days I'm above water.
>>Lesser shit I'm into when brain is awake
Pseudo debates for the sole reason of perspective swaps, Banter and shitposting mates, Anime kinda (more oldschool stuff), TV/Movies, Socializing in general.

>Social Media accounts
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>Name/Alias
cerruano
>Age
15y
>Preferred age range for friends
13-30
>Hobbies & Interests
gaming, computing and hardware, geometry dash, and math, winter and summer are goated af

>Social Media accounts (tumblr, twitter, instagram, discord, snapchat, line, snow, skype, etc~)
@cerruano99000 in discord
>Any other relevant details (location, language, timezone,
triggers, boundaries, etc~)
english, spanish, i like pepsi

>>315831
Amusingly we now know that fraternal birth order actually leads to drastically increased homosexuality (in men). Jury's still out on women.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraternal_birth_order_and_male_sexual_orientation
Like this is something that BOTH SIDES agree on, just with different amounts of glee.
It makes me sad, there's so much we don't know about the human brain. There's probably a very simple way to block this social contagion, but we won't know about it for decades

>>315831
because it isn't yet possible to determine which parts to what extent cause dysphoria, because fMRI's aren't definitive enough and the proven areas appear in too many exceptions where it isn't the case according to self-report

>>317186
I don't want to contribute to a hostile work environment. We mostly interact via zoom so it's not a big part of my work life. My worksona is a bubbly normie girl and I don't want to break character. But his entitlement astounds me.

>>317198
I too saw that on /v/

>>309316
TIM helped ruin my friend group too a few years ago, don't really remember most of what happened (probably mental suppression) but I do remember that she made a Deviantart journal trying to defame me even though I didn't even use Deviantart anymore at that point. Even tried to DM me on a website that she knew was only for a monthly event to try and dig deeper at my skin, and when I tried to DM her back to tell her to fuck off, that's when I find out she blocked me. Before she went full TIM, she basically made being an asexual tomboy her whole personality. Does trooning out corrupt people's brains or something?

>>313032
same here

>>313032
I use Brave on my phone because my friend’s military dad makes her use it. I need to get back into Tor but I am bad at using it.

>>312086
>Privacy
For anything privacy related, I like to check out privacy guide's recommendations.
https://www.privacyguides.org/en/search-engines/
https://github.com/pluja/awesome-privacy?tab=readme-ov-file#search-engines
I personally like to use Startpage for its similarity to google, Brave for its AI and DuckDuckGo because you can watch youtube videos on there without having to open youtube.
(I also watch youtube videos via invidious instances https://docs.invidious.io/instances/ or just use peertube at https://joinpeertube.org/browse-content )
I looked a bit into https://docs.searxng.org/ and tried out SearX instances, but the results don't seem as relevant to me compared to other engines' and setting things up would take some work. If I was at a point where I'd need secure privacy to this extent, I'd be using Tor and a different device anyway. For .onion sites, I've used Ahmia at https://ahmia.fi/
>more engines
I've been looking for different search engines myself; my go-to to search for site and program alternatives is this site: https://alternativeto.net/software/google-search/
Now I don't know how privacy focussed they are, but I like to use WolframAlpha for technical searches https://www.wolframalpha.com/ and I recommended https://www.factmonster.com/ to a parent before.
I also use AI search engines like https://www.perplexity.ai/ for random stuff and https://consensus.app/ to loPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>314344
>privacy-focussed AI
That's an oxymoron. They all sell your data.

I use brave

I really want to have whiskey cokes tonight…

>>317023
I ended up buying dry vodka because it was half the price. Cheers!

Vodka time!

I'm getting fucking drunk tonight. I bought three dry vodka drinks thinking I'd stop there, but I just bought three more lemon vodka drinks. All hail queen vodka.

strawberry milk but its booze

>>316627
I’m glad some nonas here were onto it. I was a university researcher at the time and what got me was that there was so much censorship of scientific studies saying anything to contradict the story being pushed. So much damage control behind the scenes too. I talked to one professor who had found that the vaccines caused hundreds of gene expression changes but didn’t publish the results as he didn’t want to cause hesitancy. I lost my job because of the mandate but fortunately I was able to get a better job with double the salary and better work life balance where no one cared about the jab so jokes on them.

>>316666
>the vaccines caused hundreds of gene expression changes
>vote with our wallets
shalom

>>316666
>nervous system disorders this high
can't imagine the experience I'd get if I took the jab with how fucked my cns is

Spent 12 weeks trying to get a rental. Applications and then even offering 2 months rent straight up after the usual bond and so forth paid out

My Indian neighbours have like 12 people living in a 4 bedroom house they bought recently

Streets are now full of cars because everyone has to rent out all their rooms just to make rent these days

The insane thing is there's almost no difference between house and apartment rental prices now. Supply is fucked no matter what you're looking for

>>317177
Women's Weekly are really artful in their recipie cards. Honestly looks like they used spakfilla for icing tho.