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fascinating to watch this all unfold from both a social perspective and an economic perspective. implants have become more available to the masses, but certain versions of the procedure are still very expensive. im watching people i know get expensive surgeries, only to undo them not so later on. sometimes the implants are paired with a whole-body transformation and sudden interest in appearance - tanning, botox, fillers, etc. and now the tans are fading and fillers are being dissolved. is this indicative of a cultural vibe shift? is this indicative of a change in their mental state, wherein they care less about appearance? hard to say, but its been curious to watch.

Hop on the tube home after a long day at work, endure the rattling and the guy's armpit you're squeezed up against. Get on the bus, two teens are playing tiktok out loud, some middle aged bloke blathering in some foreign tongue on the phone. Get home, try to unwind. Some relaxing classical, maybe? Oh yeah here's a million sensory inputs to maximise engagement before you even make it to gymnopedie no. 1 or whatever. Oh and mum called, hope it's not something serious. Hey hey build your app with ai.

Venting but holy crap calm is so far away sometimes.

Edit: I called this on myself with some poor choice of words, but I dont care to debate the nature of slop and wether x or y is slop. I am sure that watching a Yale lecture on youtube can be fruitful to some and certainly doesnt constitute as slop. But just haphazardly cramming randomn information in your brain is something I started to notice myself and it isnt really helpful that way.

I used to trust my own sense of curiosity and discovery and follow it whereever it leads. But at least in this attention-economy hellhole I have come to believe that this stuff just makes you creatively rudderless and scatterbrained. Doesn't really matter if I have a sudden brief interest in Byzanthine history or whatever if it doesn't translate to anything useful in my life and will be forgotten about in a week (as in: It earns you money, helps you connect with people, make art, or anything that remotely feels precious and memorable).

Like most people here I am a bit of an annoying contrarian/self important intellectual and I used to believe that I had this really healthy media diet of listening to informative podcast/video essays instead of the radio and watching reality tv. I tought that I could translate leisure time into some form of passive learning. So a lot of listening to podcasts while doing other stuff and the like. This was back in 2018 when the whole 'slop' terminology was birthed, which will be my excuse for holding such a reddit-opinion back in the day.

Background noise is innocent enough if it helps to get you to focus but it is all slop if you get down to it and shouldn't be sold as 'educational'. And it annoys me when people in comment sections of these sloppy video essays suck each other off for being smarter than others even if they are watching it alt-tabbed and probably cannot reproduce the argument later on.

Curiosity is a healthy thing but I think it should be tamed like a horse or something gay like that. I try not to clutter my brain with useless information and chatter and keep my headphones off more. Instead turning my effort into creative project that other people will actually get to see.

The internet is so huge that it probably has something that can snare you interest for a while but if you just follow those whims than you'll end up listening to podcasts you can't remember and a stack of books that have been read for a quarter of the length. I dunno that stuff gives me a sense of dread.

Anyone can relate?

One of the biggest secrets that caused me the most shame in my last relationship was that I low-key preferred my gf's sister over my actual gf. Both were extremely pretty but the sister had more of an athletic, rugged charm and was more charismatic and knowledgeable about things I was interested in (native plants, mostly). Meanwhile my gf was a web of insecurities and CPTSD adjacent anxieties that frequently caused her to lash out. Over the course of the relationship I had started to, I kind of want to say idolize, the sister as she gave access to the same resources (mainly her family all of whom I really liked) with far less emotional terrorism.

Last night's dream was a long, continuous one where me and the sister bumped into each other and took up a relationship. Brief scenes of all our escapades (and our efforts to avoid informing my ex and the parents) flashed by like it was a romcom before the end of second act bad event that always happens in those movies. I have to be honest it was the happiest I've felt waking up in a long time, perhaps since the breakup.

Even ignoring the morality of all this happening IRL I know for a fact it's a complete pipe dream. The sister lives in a different city and has likely forgotten my name at this point. Even when she knew it I had my doubts as to how much she liked me. I half suspect she was the one who whispered in my ex's ear to end the relationship (which honestly makes me like her more, she saw something dysfunctional and called it like she saw it).

Mexico has a lower birth rate than the US

More people were born in Congo than the entire EU in 2025

The lowest birth rates in the US are among African Americans, and non-hispanic white children are growing significantly as a fraction of all children in US cities

Currently, there are a little over 400k amish in the world, and South Korea has a population of 51 million. If you are younger than 40, there’s a good chance you will be alive the year when more amish children are born into the world than South Koreans.

More children will be born in Afghanistan than China every year, within less than 30 years.

Thailand is currently the 23rd most populous country in the world, with a little under 66 million people. If trends continue, in 200 years Thailand will have a population of around 2 million, smaller than the Cleveland metropolitan area.

Japan is currently 98% ethnically japanese. If they try to maintain population levels with immigration, they will, in 200 years, be 95% ethnically non-japanese, and 5% japanese.

Japan is actually not that bad, relatively speaking. Compared to other east asian nations they are doing great.

And of course, they are often the same person

I currently work a fake email job where I do almost no work every single day and mostly read books/watch films instead. Last night my dream had me waiting tables at an unfamiliar restaurant but I was right back in my old groove of taking people’s orders, prepping their drinks, checking on their tables, etc. Genuinely miserable, I think the dream ended with me breaking down crying and begging for my old job back. I was suicidally depressed near the end of my tenure waiting tables, broke as a joke with literally no upward mobility. Honestly didn’t realize how hard I was getting fucked by my employer until after I found something better.

Also I’m pretty sure I was only in my underwear, in the dream. Very embarrassing!

Not just talking about women glazing each other in their insta posts but in general, the huge circlejerk on social media about being a "girl's girl", with all the rhetoric about how women are these beautiful angelic beings whose natural state is forming a divine sisterhood where everyone holds hands and sings kumbaya (I'm sure you've seen all those Tiktoks where women talk about how the world would become a utopia that's all sunshine and rainbows if only men all disappeared), plus the insistence that it's every woman's responsibility to be a girl's girl by essentially being a misandrist who stays loyal to the sisterhood first and foremost (and any girl who deviates from this gets bullied and shamed as a "pickme").

Examples of "girl's girl" behavior I see: never criticizing or calling out other women, only hyping them up regardless of how regarded they're being; always siding with the woman in a conflict (between a male and female) regardless of who's in the wrong; putting female relationships first to the point of letting your friend group control your entire dating life; etc.

However, while being "girl's girls" is indeed how women behave on social media, I'm not sure to what extent that carries to irl, because I've also seen some women claim that it's all fake/performative.

So to what extent to women actually do the whole sisterhood / girl's girl thing irl? Is the online rhetoric real or just performative? Or does this vary a lot by e.g. demographic?

Humiliating trait honestly. My dumb face has subtitles. I wish I was sly, mysterious, and subtle person. I’m chronically embarrassed, even if whatever happened wasn’t my fault, so my face is constantly betraying me

How do I TURN OFF the subtitles ?

Fucking enrages me so much. It's more than a simple mistake. People have to actually utilize their feeble minds to write "could of". The lack of brain activity to replace "have" with a word that isn't even a verb is staggering. Any native English speaker who is half alert should have their brain trigger numerous alarms during the process of typing that out and yet I see it several times a month. I try to remain optimistic but it just beats me down when I see this. It becomes clear that this world is filled with illiterate dullards unable to differentiate language from some meaningless blob of noise.

Racist pmc texan, 30yo fat runner incel, stalinist Twitch/discord addict, salafist, porn addicted gooner, EU4 player, married bi pervert, pattaya frequenter, carpenter with a kid i tutor around exams and then the guy who left seminary half way.

Only the salafist texts me on a daily basis. The almost priest went MIA. Met them both on grindr.

90% of the hate towards trans and fat people is because they look bad. You’re mean to them because they disgust you. Stop lying to yourself. You don’t care about women’s sports or their health.

This post was inspired by own mean thoughts today

DON
(writing as he speaks)
“I love smoking.” That’s very good.

BUSBOY
My wife hates it. “The Reader’s Digest” says it will kill you.

DON
Yeah, I heard about that.

BUSBOY
(shrugs)
Ladies love their magazines.

DON
Yes, they do.