/b/ - Random

>>297603
i can't believe that it's even worse now. being full of ai slop on every board and no genuine/funny interactions does that to you i guess

I was born in 1995 (so, just barely a zoomer) and I remember early 4chan from when I was a kid. It was even worse than it is today - far worse, in fact. You would see CP posted every single day on many boards.

>>297634
I still think 2007 was worse in this regard, but the same cp site with the same picture is posted a dozen times a day on /b/ now. It's probably a honeypot, but it's disgusting either way.

>>301449
Do they still run the kik honeypot? When in there once because I was curious and immediately got flooded with illegal shit, was paranoid for weeks that I was gonna get a knock on my door. Mods didn't do shit about those threads being posted every day, that was probably 5 years ago

>>301765
I forgot about the kik stuff. No, it seems to be all signal now. It's the "activist's choice" messaging app run by former Google execs and only available from Google Play.

Yes. Its kinda depressing. I was never the kinda person to be addicted to social media but once I started wageslaving I started winding down every day watching YT. Then I hated myself for letting myself fall into it. So I disabled youtube. Im afraid for the children though. I grew up on screens, but I feel like it wasnt as bad because there was no tiktok when I was a kid. Idk. It makes me sad to think about.

For me, it's music. I've had to consciously prevent myself from getting bluetooth headphones so I don't always have music blasting in my ears all the time, which means I can go outside and listen to silence and birds occasionally. Otherwise I'd lapse into the old habits of not talking to anyone for weeks on end and just listening to music all the time. It does mean that I don't dance as often as I would with headphones, since I live with other people so I don't want to crank my speakers too loud.

As far as internet goes, I've essentially decided to identify as a netizen. I'm much more "from the internet" than I am from either the country I was born in or the country I live in. I'm happy to be addicted to technology, because as a millennial I remember when it was kind of a cyberpunk futuristic thing to be online all the time. But since I don't use normie social media most of the time, I get to learn a lot. It's nice to still be on the frontiers.

>>302045
Music rarely noticed but its effect is huge. Sounds constantly eliciting mind states and emotions. This is self-brainwashing, I feel.
I've dropped reddit and music (three weeks). The result is more reading, actual writing, lucidity, and I've been able to follow some train of thoughts further away. I also spend some time on smaller websites (nothing compared to the hours lost on the big R).
Time will tell, but it feels like things are getting worse in terms of content manipulation. Now looks like a good time to quit, yesterday was better, tomorrow will be harder I suspect.

>>302186
What about music in public spaces?

>>299587
#2's not that crazy in a world where people ghost multi year relationships and friendships - it can happen at any time, to anyone, for any reason

They are both fat so sympathy is limited, but he is significantly fatter, uglier, bald and retarded so like what was he expecting. It's like "retaliatory" violence after getting knicked while playing a carnival knife game where the carnival makes you sign a waiver stating that you understand you might get knife related injuries in their knife games.

>>302175
what do you think of the all-female jury who gave him just 10 yrs ? Keep in mind this is in Texas, where there's death penalty for 1st degree murder.

>>302176
As states go Texas is the drunken neighbor who accidentally killed his own dog when he backed up his pickup truck five years ago and is desperately trying to spend just one night too drunk to remember burying his barkie buddy.

>>302178
idk if i should love or hate texas after this. i love guns though

From things I have read secondhand, I was more saddened to hear she apparently took money that was supposed to go to her kid for college.

What's a good Linux distro for someone that's never used it before?
I'm moderately computer literate and mostly use my PC for web browsing, vidya, and occasionally programming

>>289448
I tried Ubuntu for a while a few years ago. I hope you can manage cuz mine couldn't play videos and the guides they write for Linux users assume you're a computer nerd when I despise computers.

Does anyone here likes birdwatching?

>>289448
OpenSUSE.
+ Well supported, well maintained, large corporate base - you don't want to start out on a distro that isn't used by professionals in the workplace, and SUSE is the oldest Linux corporation in the world.
+ YAST is the closest you're going to get to an equivalent to Mac OS Preferences or the Windows Control Center in a graphical Linux environment, and it runs and can be used to manage your software in text mode through a terminal/TTY login in the event that something goes catastrophically wrong with the graphics environment without requiring you to learn every name for every controls command or kernel module. So if you can only start in textonly safemode and need to connect to the internet you can just enter yast, follow a few simple menus to get to networking controls, and enable networking in order to download whatever is necessary to fix the system.
+ easy install
+ Lizard mascot
+ RPMs
+ huge library of games in repo - people use the suse build services even if they don't use sue itself.
+ an officially supported distro for NVIDIA and other large manufacturers who make Linux drivers.
+ an actually useful wiki that describes problems that real people have in real life with real examples and solutions.
+ officially supports an ARM/embedded variant, will not die if/when x86 desktop loses ground to newer or different technology.

Negatives:
- German. (This used to make the distro nearly unusable due to their Erlangen.DE repo servers lacking a North American mirror–they have mirrors now and had them for years but the reputation is still impacted).
- Poor audio support on ARM devices, if you're running a raspberry pi just use raspian.
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>>301194
cute hobby

BUMP!!!

Drinking cider and snowballs tonight girlies….


I hope my palette can mature to drink wine more often.
i dont mind white but red tastes like VINEGAR

i never drink and never intend so i know my parents and i don't wanna end up like them

>>301982
But wine can be so good, what cider are you drinking? I have jammy red because I'm a filthy red wine drinker. It's honestly quite nice with some dark chocolate to balance it out

I used to drink years ago after I went through a few bad relationships and some other bad experiences, I used it as a cope

I can't stand alcohol anymore, even just the smell puts me off, it negatively impacted my health as well

I'm glad I quit but I wish so bad that I could go back and never fall for the alcohol meme, the people who treated me bad don't even matter anymore, I wish I never let them affect me

>>301879

I found this appropriate to respond to after having some gin. I haven't had too many, but the best I've ever had is Hendrick's. Incredibly smooth and worth its price point.

These gins are good and ones I rotate between drinking (in no particular order): Beefeater, Tanqueray, Bombay Sapphire, Broker's

St. Augustine's has a slight orange taste and is only available in Florida. Not quite my favorite but it might appeal to others.

Worst I've had is Seagram's. Tastes like poison and makes you feel horrible the next day.

>>302071
women in muslim countries make me sick, stay in your lane male worshipper

>>302071
Must be sweaty in that burka, huh 9 yr old Aisha?

>>302072
Because only in muslim countries women aren't equal before the law, feminism should be declining after equality is achieved, but instead it became a club for radicalized lesbians who aren't motivated by justice, their misdirected hate over their individually failed lives has done substantial damage to cohesion of society. That's how see it living in my East-European shithole. Frankly feminism has been nothing but cancer here, most judge positions already were occupied by women ~25 years ago, even before feminism started to be introduced to us by various NGOs, we got our first woman president in 1999, those women got there via their own merit. Now there is this absurd thing called "affirmative action" and men no longer trust women get high positions through hard work and talent, ironically feminists interpret it as an indication that they must push their retardation even harder.

>>300933
Why is every radfem I meet a CSA victim? This isn’t something I take “issue” with but a worrying amount of them seem to have been diddled.

People ITT who think that feminism isn't needed because women and men are equal in law are very naive

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/new-details-bay-area-zizians-death-cult-20165754.php?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
>"Death Cult"
>full of trans-thems
>murder folks for perceived antitrans "vibes"
what a strange and unexpected thing to have developed, which nobody could have seen coming.

I've drawn terf Kuromi, hope it's okay to post here.
Should I draw more?

>>302192
i’m in the same boat, it’s so hard to unwind and enjoy my womanchild activities when it always feels like i’m being watched by HR thanks to the TIFs.

>>302210
she’s so cute, !! i’d like to see more, are you sticking to sanrio or will you be doing cute characters in general?

>>302224
>>302202
I wanted to stick to Sanrio characters for now since they're simple to draw, but maybe I'll be willing to accept more cute suggestions in the future!

Here's another one ^^

>>302073
Filet o fish is the closest thing to fish tacos.

>MLP pic
>blogposting

tell me you're a troon without etc.

yes, you should be dipping them in peanut butter

>>302041
I don't like peanut butter

Yes, I've never heard of dipping fruit in ranch dressing.

I like apple slices with cheddar cheese.

It may be weird but eat whatever you like. What do you like about the apple and ranch together? It's such a different combination.

>>302059
Apples and cheese are fucking amazing together


>>302059

>>302085
I like the ranch flavor mixed with the tart flavor of green apple slices

I was absolutely obsessed with it i childhood. I recently got into paleontology, so obsession is coming back! Have you heard about recent discovery of homotherium cub?

>>302066
kewl