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2024-09-05 13:45:49

I think that the best way to handle when someone you like or respect unfollows you to just not get stuck in your head over it. Then you can redouble your efforts on the people that do care about you, that have stuck with you through thick and thin and try to find more people that do. If you have a circle of friends that you can turn to and have a good conversation with then that acts like a good buffer to bad feelings.

2024-09-05 12:55:21

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Yeah. I've been thinking about different ways to get a bit of a kick.
Chocolate is another decent one, if you know how to moderate yourself. But I don't want to turn to food too much.

2024-09-05 12:51:20

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The Republic is definitely a book worth meditating on. Even just how it is structured and my reaction to reading it for the first time amazes me. It broke so many book rules for me and showed me that a book can still be compelling even though they are just sitting around having a conversation in one room for most of it. But it felt like being transported elsewhere. Perhaps I should give the other books you mentioned a read some time. Are there other books like I mentioned that break the modern rules but turn out good? I think that is really interesting to read and figure out what worked so well for it.
I like it too. I don't want to be surrounded with lots of crap. Just a few really nice things will do well. I'll have to think about the fountain pen. And what slick paper feels like. I think high quality paper is good too.

2024-09-05 12:42:39

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So this is why you are always thinking about The Republic! Repetition is something that I have problems with because there is so much out there to read and consume.... and not enough time to do this in. But at some point I guess it is important to specialise and take the time with it.
I'll have to think about the nib when I pick up my next fountain pen. The dreaded ink spread is something that worries me with them! But I'm starting to think there is no reason that we shouldn't have really nice things even if there are fewer things.

2024-09-05 12:32:29

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Haha. Now how would the plebs abandon the US?
Imagine having so much fuck you money that the Romans put you in charge of the senate because they are desperate to bring you back from the countryside and this is the only way you'll come back.
Interesting. The main problem with repetition could be in overeating information so it doesn't stick.
I think you are onto something there. But it should be a good fountain pen because others aren't so good. What type of paper do you use? Is there a difference there?

2024-09-05 12:19:10

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I'm thinking about how to retain the information that I have read after watching something on it while I wait for something.
As for secession, I find this of interest: "Originally in a Roman historical context, "temporary migration of plebeians from the city to compel patricians to address their grievances."" I don't think we can do this so easily now.

2024-09-05 11:09:40

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That sounds like a drug dependency to me. Although I have noticed people needing caffeine in order to just function, to get through the work day or wake up.

2024-09-02 20:14:06

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I was curious if some of the accounts I heard about were this or being spiked. But they were more being really fatigued, your body feeling too heavy to move... and there was blacking out too. And confusion about what is happening to your body.
It's really sad that this leads to victim blaming. That so many get away with doing this to others.

2024-09-02 19:41:13

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What were the symptoms of that?

2024-09-01 19:06:05

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I do want to vibe in a wholesome space, watching wholesome films... but it is hard to figure out whether a film will be beforehand. There is a lot of lessons in what not to do rather than on what to do in media now.

2024-09-01 19:00:20

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In some ways, I'd much rather they were trying to follow a functional, healthy relationship model with higher standards than accept all the dysfunction that so many seek out now.

2024-09-01 18:50:19

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I don't know because aren't stories supposed to be escapism to a degree? So just being able to vibe in a wholesome and normal space for relationships is kind of nice. We see so many dysfunctional relationships in general and I wonder what that does to the psyche... especially when you are young and impressionable. What you are immersed in matters.

2024-09-01 18:45:13

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What about stories where it is depicted as healthy rather than all these dysfunctional stories that we get these days?

2024-09-01 18:27:23

I kind of feel like there are so many homosexual stories now that we don't need to insert this into every mainstream story and congratulate ourselves for being inclusive. There is already an entire genre that has done all this before. Same when it comes to the portrayal of women, even in action films. That was awkward when there are many female action figures already.... who probably did it better too.

2024-09-01 13:32:18

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I think it is the right balance while smoking remains legal. Although funny to imagine them smoking weed there...

2024-09-01 13:27:17

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I would have agreed if it wasn't dangerous to breathe in the smoke. Also, pubs are having trouble staying open now so there are fewer of them around and this would limit them. I really think that a sheltered designated smoke area outside in the pub garden is the best compromise for this instead so I am saddened to hear the government are thinking of closing this down.

2024-09-01 09:57:57

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I think that we already have a good balance for this when we banned smoking in doors because of poor ventilation and second-hand health complications. They should be able to have designated smoking areas outside in the pub gardens or outside their workplace to gather for a smoke.
Also, expecting Labour to tread more lightly on peoples lives is a joke. They are socialists.

2024-08-31 16:34:34

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Problem is, in order to protect people from the ills it requires labour and tax. It requires being able to organise properly, to having an engaged citizenry that honour their duties and responsibilities. A citizenry that want to live there, to make things better. We do not have this. There are too many competing elements set against this.

2024-08-31 16:30:42

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I do have a preference for it even if I still can't articulate it properly. The main problem is going to be what types of people we are creating in academia, that we are shaping. The Human Rights crowd seem to be overcorrecting, they are rewarding the criminals in the courts and giving them more rights even though they do not value the rights of others. So commonsense is not found there with them.

2024-08-31 16:27:16

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That sounds like something humans would do. Always trying to balance between the extremes, often losing to one extreme or another until we can correct for it. Right now, we are losing ourselves to Leftism, to the type of socialism where anything goes as long as it serves an addiction or pleasure. That it erodes boundaries. Civilisation is easily destroyed if enough people join in and enough people ignore it. Become despondent and distracted.

2024-08-31 11:12:33

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Yes, they do not seem to realise that they are squeezing the working class with socialsm. Even if you target the corporations or wealthy, the costs are passed down to the working class that are consumers. Everything costs more.

2024-08-31 11:10:35

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Is that how the English would understand it? I need to look into this properly.

2024-08-31 11:09:15

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How do you explain this one?

2024-08-31 08:25:05

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We're supposed to have common law but there is nothing commonsense about the way it works.
Also, to be fair, they are trying to copy the American style since Blair. We had a high court before, but now we have something different that holds more power. I forget the right terms as I heard it more in passing.

2024-08-31 08:16:53

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The justice system where I am is fucked. Pedos have more humanity under this system than the recent arrests for social media posts over the recent protests and riots. The working class are screwed up here.

2024-08-31 07:43:20

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That is true. Instead, we have hate speech laws which let them make an example of us, to give us a worse punishment rather than actually fixing the punishment/justice system.

2024-08-31 07:32:05

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The law should be protecting the vulnerable, now we have reached this point where we have to protect the vulnerable from the law.

2024-08-31 07:28:54

I really hope the misgendering law exempts children and the disabled that struggle with social cues or retain a child-like mentality that makes it hard for them to understand the concept of transgender and other similar concepts.

2024-08-30 12:59:46

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As a writer and general observer to this phenomenon that has been forced into modern entertainment, I find it fascinating. Perhaps one day I will write an essay about these times, but more about what it is that people want to see. We have moved away from entertainment, escapism and exploring timeless themes. What is worse is this idea that the fans are to blame and that they take established stories and change them. They break the lore which even as a writer with my own works I don't want to do. Establishing worldbuilding is important, it brings in the stakes.
On saying this, I have reached this point where I find seeing what happens to corporations like Disney more entertaining than the modern stories they come up with now. Or reading what the various media outlets say about it, how they or the celebrities try to blame the fans... hilarious but bold tactic, will it pay off for them?

2024-08-30 09:57:26

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Thanks for that description. I still need to read more into Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin. What the differences are. I have read a bit of Marxism but only really his manifesto.
Do you know of any Marxist schools of thought that describe how the communist society would actually run? I know there is more about revolution and the transition period, but I wondered whether anyone managed to figure out what a fully communist society would look like? Not just moving through socialism although the impression I have is that this is a part of that process to communism.

2024-08-29 22:36:11

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What does leninist marxist mean? I still don't know all the marxist schools of thought.

2024-08-29 18:10:39

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If it takes over your life then that is a failure of your employer. That is not a good work-life balance. Too often you become a workaholic or deal with the stress of the job through other addictions because there isn't proper support. Then you aren't as able to handle the job and burn out. I do not think our real service job workers should be put through this. Their well-being is important too, if this isn't taken into account then we have failed them and it will be to everyone's detriment.
Yeah. I don't know how any of these officers survive the job at this point. Especially when they allow so many corrupt officers to join up.

2024-08-29 11:46:11

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Did they dismantle themselves? If so, then good. I'm glad they aren't trying to represent me because they have absolutely failed. Also, what kind of name is that? What are they, 12? Grow up. Once again, bisexuals are left behind in the movement, because it is about being homosexual or trans. I'm sick of this shit.

2024-08-29 11:31:48

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I just don't think we should expect officers to put their own health at risk in this way when they already put their lives at risk to solve crime. I want my officers to have the time to eat well and healthily so that they can do their job properly. Likewise, I want them to be at their peak. I want them to be able to sleep well, to exercise well, to be able to use commonsense and think clearly... to be healthy and well. Making them skip food because something happens is not conducive to solving crime overall.
It's not about it being a paycheck but letting people have the right balance between work and living their lives. So they can have healthy relationships and unwind and do all the other things you need to do in order to live well. Of course you'd want to help other people in need if you can but it shouldn't come at your own expense. You can endanger their lives if you aren't well so it works both ways.

2024-08-28 20:08:26

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So much for work-life balance.

2024-08-28 19:52:37

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I think it is reasonable for them to report the crime to an on-duty officer. But not handle the situation themselves necessarily. They need to be able to eat well in order to serve properly too.

2024-08-28 19:31:13

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To be fair, those officers were likely off-duty and we shouldn't expect them to always be on duty just because they are somewhere. They do need their lunch or dinner breaks too. At this point in time, they were her customers and not officers on duty. They could have responded better, of course. Perhaps contacted the police themselves so someone on duty could handle the case.

2024-08-28 19:11:29

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Why are the Left giving up the weird ground by handing it over to the Right? This makes no sense because the Left are supposed to be the outcasts of the system which would automatically make them the weird ones. It should be a badge of honour to be called weird. They were advocating for the people that would be called the weirdos.

2024-08-27 13:09:03

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They have the wrong socialism.

2024-08-27 13:07:03

It's always funny listening to revolutionaries talk about other revolutionaries or socialists/leftists.

2024-08-25 19:16:13

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It used to not be difficult to find. Then globalism and mass-immigration of all kinds came along and squeezed us dry of funds. Made it hard for the native working class to start businesses and keep them going. That is who I want to support more.

2024-08-25 19:11:36

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Yes. I'm tired of foreign owners and businesses taking over everything here. So hard to avoid now.

2024-08-25 17:16:09

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I cannot fathom it either but our system is seriously broken when these people are allowed to walk free. To prey on others. This shows a complete lack of justice.

2024-08-25 17:11:51

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How is he still allowed to carry on and not be put in prison?
He is a threat to everyone.
Also, this brings into question the material he has put out there. Is it appropriate?

2024-08-24 18:29:15

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Am I going to regret starting this thread?

2024-08-24 18:27:33

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Uh... that wasn't where my thoughts were going at all. Lol.

2024-08-24 18:17:53

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I know what you mean. I'm just a bit nostalgic for the older stuff.

2024-08-24 18:11:52

Disney had some banger songs, didn't they?

2024-08-24 16:30:08

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Yeah. The governance doesn't really change. Mind you, I wonder what was up with what happened to Truss?

2024-08-24 16:10:36

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It wouldn't surprise me if they've done the same to men. Pulled the ladder up after them.
One thing I don't understand is how toxic women fail upwards. They must have connections.

2024-08-24 14:22:37

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Yeah. That is the challenge. I also want to send the right message to people, especially when I start to write YA.
Also, as an aside, it's tough being in the head of people that manipulate, are abusive or are basically sociopaths. Being the abuser and the abused to figure out how they might react to each other.

2024-08-24 13:58:29

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What if your character doesn't reject the salubrious? Is there a better word to describe their role?
Those are some interesting points and stories, maybe I should give those a watch as I don't think I have seen them yet.

2024-08-24 13:48:06

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That does feel a lot like the arc that my characters are going on. Like they become sacrificial symbols.
How would you describe them as symbols?

2024-08-24 13:41:28

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I'm curious what your views of this are. It's a dilemma that I'm in for writing.

2024-08-24 12:48:35

Is there a way to write an antihero essentially, where you aren't justifying or glorifying their bad behaviour but you give them a chance for a redemption arc?
Am I a bad person for giving them redemption?

2024-08-24 12:01:21

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Is this the nature of power itself? It corrupts people into the worst versions of themselves, to take on traits that we typically associate with masculinity? To play the game and get ahead, you lose a lot of feminine graces and sensibilities or masculine kindness and wisdom. I say this with great reverence for femininity and masculinity, and I think there is a difference between them which I am still trying to understand.

2024-08-21 02:26:28

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Yeah. I'd like to meet people that are interested in the classics but outside of academics this is hard to find. Then I run into the problem that academics is hostile to my viewpoint now, so it is harder to find people that share my values. Guess I was born in the wrong generation even though it has never been easier to gain access. They just gatekeep in a different way now.

2024-08-21 02:12:07

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Yes, I was also going to point out that they often discuss what they have been doing in their everyday life, perhaps complaining about something that happened. Which gets a bit harder when your everyday is niche interests.

2024-08-21 02:00:09

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That is a good point. I'm not a genius but my interests aren't common for normal people so I tend to be more solitary with them. It can be better that way.

2024-08-21 01:34:05

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How are they at forming healthy relationships with those around them?

2024-08-21 01:24:35

The main problem with really intelligent people is that they tend to lack in other areas of their life like in socialising so it is harder to maintain a healthy relationship with them.

2024-08-19 20:25:14

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Yeah. I don't understand that either. Because it can be turned against them.

2024-08-19 20:22:31

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I am beginning to think that is better framing for it. At least I need a better framing for understanding feminism and women's rights, where the aim is better spent.

2024-08-19 20:09:52

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Yes. I don't understand why they aren't listening to her. Isn't what happened to her everything they should be fighting against?

2024-08-19 19:47:25

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Honestly, my heart goes out to those like Lola that have to deal with the violence and continuing to be silenced on matters that are important. We need to have these open conversations. The muslim community needs to be having those conversations, to stop shielding domestic violence, rape and the men that perpetuate this. This is not Islamophobia to point this out.
I do agree that the letter shouldn't have been edited too. That is wrong what they have put people that signed it under.

2024-08-19 17:39:25

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Now I do wonder... being egalitarian for women legitimises the movement because it is the fight for equality. The problem feminism has is when egalitarianism replaces or erases women. When it is placed above women in the movement. On saying this, not all issues that women face are related to equality and so it doesn't have a good answer in those cases.

2024-08-18 15:15:15

It is ridiculous how we are driving more young boys towards figures like Tate by making them a taboo. You don't counter this by sending boys to prevent programs.
We should be countering this with better influences in society, giving young boys a chance to thrive in society and to feel that they can contribute positively. You do it by fixing the sex divide but failing that then giving them something else that helps them to feel they have accomplished something. Stop alienating young boys in this country.

2024-08-15 22:37:49

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I don't really understand what is so bad about dressing formally, actually dressing well and at your best. Except for the unwanted attention it brings.

2024-08-06 20:20:07

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I want to become strong pillar man. Thinking of getting back into strength training again but not sure when atm.

2024-08-04 23:38:49

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A bit of self-promotion, eh?

2024-08-04 22:25:09

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This does sound disturbing to me. Hard for it to sink in. But I won't let them succeed in making me blame the far right for this, not when their own actions fan the flames.
Once again Starmer, how many more children must pay the high price until you address the actual problem?

2024-08-04 21:36:32

"When politicians quickly tag people as far right and ignore their problems, you leave those people nowhere else to go but straight into the arms of the people you have already tagged them as.
Does Starmer want a far right?"
They have wanted this for a long time. This has been their greatest fear, the justification for shutting down investigations in the grooming gangs. For keeping things hush.

2024-08-04 21:33:48

"You forgot to mention a muslim was at the vigil with a machete in Southport that's why the mosque was targeted."
Is this true?

2024-08-04 00:08:38

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Not in Merseyside, they haven't. Gun crime is a problem there.

2024-08-02 22:57:47

The protest in Sunderland is a 'mostly peaceful' protest.

2024-08-01 16:45:06

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In Women's Boxing, no less. There are two males in it this time.

2024-07-31 23:37:24

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They could start by doing their jobs properly. To uphold the law, to prevent murders, rapes and thefts. To not cower to minorities or waste money. To address the problem behind the mass murder that happened and to be open to us that this is a problem that they understand. To support the people, especially those impacted by this.
Also, answer this: How many more children?

2024-07-31 23:28:14

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So why were they there I wonder? To be target practice? To increase tensions?

2024-07-31 23:15:35

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I guess we will see how this goes. But this is the problem when the police and government have enabled the destruction of social cohesion and law and order. It leaves me uneasy for the future.

2024-07-31 23:12:09

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The police have shown that it works for minorities or for foreign issues. They set the standard doing this.