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 No.1196974[Reply]

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Holy hell, it's August already! The reapers are ready for the fields, the sun is starting to dip, the nights are drawing in.. The end of summer is upon us.

But are you ready for the very last month of sunshine?
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 No.1196981

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The sunshine can last till October, but at least September. I hope August will not be too bad.

 No.1196988

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indeed, a dreadful shamble as I've truly enjoyed summer. only weeks now remain until the September equinox rebalances the sky.

 No.1196991

Well I for one just had an unexpectedly positive (and profitable) beginning to August, so I am pretty stoked so far.

From there, we'll see what happens. I am doing a bit of work for my uncle starting next monday, my TTRPG group starts up again soon and whatnot - but all the real interesting shit happens in September.

 No.1196779[Reply]

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As someone who has always been into mysteries and unexplained stuff Youtube keeps suggesting me this video and although I have not watched it I already know the answers so here goes

Top left; Real. It's her mother accidentally photobomibng, you are seeing the back of her

Top right; Real. Some bloke with a nasty skin disease who only went out at night.

Bottom left; Real. Some random kid running around a house accidentally photographed and for some reason people thought it was a spooky ghost

Bottom Right; Fake, classic photoshop
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 No.1196855

>>1196852
I would think that a large number of those cases involve people dying of accidental causes, such as individuals being hit by motor vehicles, and the bodies just don't get identified in a way that's linked to anybody in a concrete way.

Which is, of course, not 'mysterious' but sure as hell still is pretty scary in an upsetting and unhappy way.

 No.1196874

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>>1196854

Whenever you hear about people being kidnapped and held hostage in basements for years and in some cases decades it does rather worry you thinking that right this very second there are probably many more people who went missing currently stuck in such awful nightmare conditions

Right now around 93,000 people are missing unsolved cases in America

>>1196855

I mean here in the UK london is a big place thats always busy everywhere but people still just drop off of the map and go missing

Although quite a few end up being suicides. Sadly quite a few bodies tend to get dug up out of the various rivers around London every year

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>>1196874
I remember this one really interesting episode of the British TV show 'New Tricks' in which this young boy has mysteriously disappeared for years and years, with not just the police officers for decades baffled but neighbors from the area feeling confused as all hell in a scared, worried way.

It turns out that the kid was literally picked up and hoisted away from the neighborhood by his biological father who'd just kind of showed up out of nowhere and then left Britain soon-ish afterwards, away from the child's other family, his classmates, his friends, and so on.

While fiction, of course, it does demonstrate the truth that sometimes people just sort of seemingly "poof", and then learning the truth is depressing at a level to where you wonder if it helps that much.

 No.1196743[Reply]

Why is the void of the internet and social media so popular? Why do ponies type and post images into the void, their thoughts and feelings disappearing into a screen, never (perhaps), to be seen or felt again? Why do pony cons primarily use "Discord" to communicate with each other -- why not "Harmony?" ...seems paradoxical ....

There is even a sub-culture of void characters who wander around Pony Town. Can somepony explain? (Or would that be doing the same thing?)
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 No.1196745

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>>1196743
I'll put the economist hat on and say that runaway cost disease and runaway hyperinflation coupled with runaway inequality, all from about 2000 to 2025 or so, has meant gigantic social and cultural changes:

>People used to be able to move from place to place easily.
>People used to be able to travel easily.
>People used to be able to go to amusement parks in person easily.
>People used to be able to go to deluxe restaurants easily.
>People used to be able to have 'social services' in terms of parks, playgrounds, libraries, malls, and the like that they could just 'hang out at' easily.
>People used to be able to contribute significantly to charities in person easily.
>People used to have psychological safety and security in their healthcare when just being out and about easily.
>Et cetera.

When life itself changed so that literally not dying became a struggle that's an order of magnitude harder in 2025 compared to when it was in 2000, then what used to be a simple social activity in person like "Let's have all of the co-workers at a certain place go out to see a movie together! It'll be fun!" went from being a normal thing to a fantasy scenario. It's quite a massive economic change. Leading to quite a massive social change in turn. I still have trouble dealing with it all.

Because I was born in 1988, myself, I have direct, physical memories of what Earth was like during the 1990s and 2000s economic and socio-cultural eras. Or, at least, the United States. And it was better. It just was fucking better. It just was. In basically every way you can imagine.
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 No.1196746

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>>1196744
I see.

>>1196745
Interesting. That does seem to help explain the paradox. (I think I would rather not be turned into a pony if it means I get put in a jar.)

 No.1196761

>>1196745
>>1196746
There's an academic piece that's related here with pondering.

https://www.chicagobooth.edu/review/diagnosing-william-baumols-cost-disease

"Cost Disease is used to explain why prices for the services offered by people-dependent professions with low productivity growth— such as (arguably) education, health care, and the arts— keep going up, even though the amount of goods and services each worker in those industries generates hasn’t necessarily done the same."

"Chicago Booth’s Initiative on Global Markets asked its panel of U.S. economic experts to evaluate Baumol’s most famous theory, and it fared strongly: 59 percent of the experts polled agree that 'rising productivity in manufacturing leads the cost of labor-intensive services— such as education and health care— to rise.' When the responses are weighted according to how confident respondents’ are in their responses, 88 percent agree with the statement."

It's a tough world out there, since some men and women face skyrocketing changes in what $$$ means to them!

 No.1196714[Reply]

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Help a brother out
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 No.1196718

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'ello there.

 No.1196721

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welcome! hope you have a good time ^_^

 No.1196735

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So.
You like...
Ponies?

 No.1196541[Reply]

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It's 98 days till Halloween, but it's 0 days till CHRISTMAS!!! (in July)

so on this most festive of Holidays, let's have a Chatroulette to throw caution to the wind, and see what is in our stockings this fine day!

rules are simple! roll a 1d10 die, and do/answer the prompt you land on!

(to roll a 1d10, type <1d10> but replace <> with []  )

Let the jingle bells roll!

1. What is your most christmas movie moment you've ever experienced?

2. What would make you happy to recieve today, whether it be from friends, family, or santa?

3. Uh oh! santa is too sick to fly his sleigh! Chrismas will be ruined! What will we do?
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 No.1196707

1d10 = 2

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>>1196707

 No.1196719

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>>1196675
>>1196673
why not? if potatoes make you feel festive, then may it bring you the holly jolly spud vibe!

>>1196677
>>1196676
honestly that is the best thing i've heard soembody say! enjoy the best parts of christmas when the weather is nice and warm; and then hibernate through winter!

that sounds like the best plan!

>>1196684
awww <3 that's so beautifully hallmark <3 i am so happy you got to have a proper snowball fight with your cousins and uncle! they are sort of a rite of passage for the winter months!

and that ambiance sounds perfect <3

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 No.1196700[Reply]

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FLUFF

 No.1196703

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>>1196703
>*Squeaky noises*

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 No.1188202[Reply]

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trotcon soon
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 No.1196667

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>>1196650
Hope you're having a good time!

 No.1196681

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>>1196664
...well, i did say anything... -anthro, feral (no half-anthro), crotchtits (nothing big), nothing particularly special going on in the image -- subtlety is more attractive than the grotesque

>>1196667
thx. i took a lot of videos. the hotel choice and setup made it particularly unique

 No.1196693

>>1196689
heresy. i mean, it's fine -- the cartoon version doesn't have them either ...until you stop to consider that artists go out of their way to draw the other part but don't bother with trying to be anatomically correct? why? it's just more logical to have both parts.

 No.1196626[Reply]

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The non British will never understand (Maybe Mexicans will) but I just had a jacket potato with beans and melted cheese and it was the best food I have eaten all year
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 No.1196640

>>1196638

Also as a Texan, I absolutely get the love for beans

 No.1196653

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>>1196632
Stop appropriating my culture

 No.1196655

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beans are underrated, at least state side, they are awesome!

>>1196632
ooooooooooooh those look so goooooooooooooood <3 i'm hungry now!

 No.1196163[Reply]

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>tfw the day after you ate a ghost pepper
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 No.1196208

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>urge to tongue the wall rises.

 No.1196311

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>>1196208
>Posting Aileen
Incredibly based.

 No.1196500

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https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pMFhiQJBe7Q

 No.1196484[Reply]

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"Muffins aren’t typically measured in gallons, unless you’ve pureed them into some kind of muffin slurry."
t. ChatGPT

 No.1196491

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Muffins are 3D objects, so they have a volume, which makes them measurable in gallons.


From the other side, the batter used to bake the muffin can be conventionally measured in gallons.

Anyways, humans rule, AI drools

 No.1196445[Reply]

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Alright lads I'm off to Greggs for a cheeky one you want anything?
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 No.1196483

What is the difference between a jam donut and a jelly donut?
🍩

 No.1196489

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>>1196483

Well here in the UK most jam tends to be strawberry while the Jam one is apple and raspberry

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 No.1191256[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

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Imagine being in this relationship? Best thing ever? Or greatest thing ever?

Anyways, huh, I'd voted to try dating again in May... but... well... I've not tried to... yet...
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>>1196059
That's just with hamburgers

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>>1196053
He likes traps, but he appreciates treasures!

 No.1196178

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Fred is just a cool guy and people should shut the hell up in criticizing him so much.

 No.1196350[Reply]

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Well, this year I have discovered the /topcharactertropes/ sub on le Reddit which is always a fun thing to go through when I'm bored.

Anyways, when consuming media

What tropes turn you off from a piece of media?
What tropes turn you on get you hooked on a piece of media?
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 No.1196402

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like Esh said >>1196355

there are no good or bad tropes, they are merely tools and observations made by others

with that being said, one trope i don't care for is when somebody is getting publically embarrassed as a comedic bit; it literally makes me cringe in empathy, and more times than not i have to leave the room or turn the scene off. i hate how it feels and i just feel awful for them. it has it's time and place, but unless done well, i don't care for it

as for tropes i do love? one trope i actually really enjoy is your classic "freaky friday" body swap scenario, where two or more characters are swapped, and have to impersonate eachother in order to get through their ordeal unnoticed. bonus points if they keep the voice actors to the bodies, but they are able to act as somebody else acting as them

it's fun! it's funny! and can be a really great insight to how others view that character, and can also be a great tool for empathy if they learn about those other characters struggles and triumphs

can it be done bad? absolutely it can! but i find that it's mostly been a good time!

 No.1196404

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The trope that literally everybody literally all of the time drinks alcohol, or otherwise that getting utterly wasted is a normal thing to do like every few days. That trope. Now that I hate.

Image somewhat related. I still laugh at this.

 No.1196407

Pinball scoring is a longtime favorite. I'll happily have my numbers go up to 30 digits for no reason.

 No.1196207[Reply]

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The legendary, fabled Dragoniteite.. It's real
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 No.1196390

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>>1196207
So, Charizard is "the male Pokemon fan", Dragonite is "the transfemme Pokemon fan", and Mega Dragonite is "the ascended, post-gender-binary transfemme Pokemon fan"? I guess?

 No.1196393

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>>1196390

 No.1196394

>>1196393
I'm trying to logically understand weird internet memes from Reddit and other places.

I probably shouldn't do that.

 No.1196133[Reply]

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Something from my e-mails today still sticks in my mind...

Do you regularly drink coffee?

If you do, or even if you don't, what do you think of coffees with chocolate, cinnamon, vanilla, and other flavors added in there?

And, as well, what do you think of the AI based fantasy of coffee being on fire and you drinking it as its on fire?

Does that seem like it'd be badass? Like it'd be a horrible idea? Maybe? Maybe not?

Do you wish that AI based "MAGIC COFFEE" was real?
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 No.1196198

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 No.1196200

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>>1196198
it really is the worst fuckin thing

well, aside from like murder and stuff

but it's still awful

 No.1196360

Finally. Found the YouTube clip that I wanted to get a hold of.

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