They do have some access to external info, people smuggle media into the country from South Korea, of course there will be blind believers but there are probably a lot of them putting up an act so they don’t get killed. If they were all brainwashed, none of them would risk their lives to cross their border and escape NK

Hot take almost everything you own was partially or fully made in China or other Asian countries

Goverment funded research is paid for my public money via taxes but the research information is not publicly accessible, I can understand this if it’s defense or other secretive research but there is no reason someone should have to pay for access to other research fields information when it is publicly funded

I already have shitty companies ask questions in their job form about which AI tools I use to write software and how much percentage of my final code is from AI, fuck me like this job didn’t suck enough now I have to prompt the fuckin AI multiple times to do something just so that it ticks a metric that upper management can use to justify spending money on AI and firing actual engineers

If there was a market for it I’m sure some fashion company would jump on selling pants with pockets to women. It’s most likely women want to complain about this but won’t actually buy clothes with proper pockets

I mean if this was a legit thing and someone wanted to leave but didn’t have the financial means then this is good, but most likely anyone who uses this will just get raided by ICE and thrown in prison instead of what it says, because that’s exactly how low and pathetic people are

What facing religious homophobia will do to a gay man with billions of dollars to burn the world

There can be any number of pathologies involved like hormone levels etc. It doesn’t necessarily have to do anything with trauma. But it’s good that you are talking to a professional now, maybe once other things are sorted you could be free to look into this as well, best of luck

Have you tried talking to a therapist about this, maybe it’s just the way you are but it could also be something that could be fixed with medication and therapy

What went wrong in your life

Maybe that was the case if you buy everything from legit sources, when I grew up in the 90s my dad bought me some Chinese console and I could buy bootleg cartridges for it for pretty cheap, I have fond memories of playing contra and ninja turtles, Mario etc with my siblings and using an erasor to wipe the connectors of the cartridges. Once online games became popular that couch coop style of gaming just disappeared and the world’s lesser for it.

I’d tell myself to start investing my money and hit the gym, but I’m unemployed right now and I know once I’m employed again finding the time in this rat race is gonna be difficult but I’m gonna start valuing my time more seriously, I’ve uninstalled doom scroll apps like Instagram and I’m working on time blocking my tasks, hopefully that pays off

Man I hope he lives to a 100 at least, why am I always late to the party, I learn about Limewire and it dies the next year, I get access to my sister’s Netflix account and Netflix goes to shit, I’m finally able to afford a gaming laptop and buy Steam games and now I’m too busy and tired from work to play them and Gabe is getting older. I wish I could go back in time and do things differently

Didn’t know steam even had a family option, it’s good to know

No one’s talking about Israel though, also many other communities are insular like that in the US try moving to a small redneck town or just being any shade other than white and you’ll see how groups behave differently around you, I don’t support it, but as I said that’s their right, you can’t force people to socialize anyway, and taxes should be paid by everyone, you can’t call out one group and then ignore the others

How do you find these in person gatherings, most of my socialization with other Americans happens through work and I cannot be my authentic self at work because that has negative consequences in my experience, the American work culture is kind depressing, where everyone seems to be in some rat race to be the most busy and most productive or at least pretend to be so, most of my interactions lack human warmth and it all feels fake and performative, I have to be guarded about what I say so that it doesn’t come back to bite me even with colleague’s of the same level and I am tired of the expectations of overwork and constant threat of being laid off of the right people don’t have a high opinion of you.

Every person alive is doing that, how are they breaking social contract, is that because they don’t socialize with people outside of their community, well that’s their perogative, are you saying they don’t pay taxes, neither does the church and clergy, so what social contract are they breaking?

You seem to be pissed about something you can’t even articulate well, maybe reflect on that

I feel a lot of people keep up with the news just so they gave something in common to talk about, but since all the news these days is so depressing and realistically a average person is very much powerless to do anything about most of it, so I think people just ignore it, at least that’s what I’m doing

Lisaan Al Gaib!