>>1084450 >Star Trek philosophy where everyone will become gods through technology and enlightened by space travel. I always took one of the key points of Star Trek to be that even though they're out in space, all these people are still fundamentally normal people. Yes, it is a bit utopian, based on the politics of whichever writers were involved at the time (I don't think Roddenberry would approve of all the religious stuff in Deep Space Nine, for example), but ultimately the characters are all just normal people. Kirk is just a normal dude. Spock and Data are just normal dudes with autism. Geordi is just a normal dude who is a regular nerd. Quark is just a normal dude who is jewish.

>>1084447 You just know these girls are going to end up miserable and alone in their 40's, still chasing after their perfect "HVMs" who have long since moved on to fucking younger girls. We can say that is the true... LOL

>>1084464 Yeah, that's pretty much how it works out by the end of the '90s era. I'm thinking of particular season 1 episodes of TNG, which were heavy with the moronic "humans are dumb and backward and maybe we don't even deserve to exist" trope, but in tandem with that was a confidence that we would eventually become like Q. I'm in the middle of S2 now and a lot of that shit seems to have been axed.

>>1084277 >How do you people balance this shit out? It's a question I've been coming back to over and over again recently. There's gotta be some secret to life that I'm not getting. It can all be boiled down to: what is the kind of life that YOU want to live? What are your dreams, goals, and desires? After you find that out, the next question you have to ask yourself is: are you the kind of person that deserves or is capable of utilizing that kind of lifestyle? If not, what are you doing so that you can develop yourself into becoming that type of person? The problem with a lot of philosophical questions and work is that much the content that exists was produced by people who never actually did anything. They just sat on their ass, thought a lot, came to a conclusion based on jack, and wrote it down. So if you want to be ahead of the curve, just get out there and do something. Once you start doing and start living, then you can begin to ponder life's questions.

>>1084480 >I'm in the middle of S2 now and a lot of that shit seems to have been axed. Yeah, the first couple of seasons were pretty awkward (the one where they visit planet africa, the one where they visit planet femdom, the one with Riker's dad, etc.) but it finds its stride in S3 and that lasts until about S6. S6 is a decline and by S7 the writing is basically on life support.

>>1084626 what about for the palworld dating sim salt

>>1084627 That should be posted here, some of them are insane

What was my dream trying to tell me about the largest dips in US birth rates? The periods before y2k and after 2008 seem self-explanatory but what does boomers growing up and birthing millenials have to do with libertarianism?

>>1084680 I don't see how the 90's dip is obvious acktually. Neither the JAP boom'n'bust nor the dot.com pop explain why the men of Iowa refuse to impregnate their wife (that they all share) and post-08' takes about two years to manifest as well which idfk

>>1084691 I thought everyone was expecting a global computer crash causing a market recession, so many put off having kids.

Also the trend local high point was 08 and the immediate decline was 09. Considering a december birth that year would have had to have impregnation at least 8 months earlier it makes sense to me, the news broke and caused close to a 2% decline.

>>1084441 >every single scientific study ever done on the topic, at any time, anywhere on Earth, shows the same results <LOL NO IT'S JUST BUZZWORD FOR WOMEN WANTING YOU NOT TO PORN KEEP "GOONING," GOYIM! Do you think this works?

Kinda a LOLish read https://hilariusbookbinder.substack.com/p/the-average-college-student-today

>>1084742 lmao I didn’t need to read beyond the second paragraph to tell this was written by ChatGPT.

>>1084742 Helicopter parents, Ipad babies, CPS taking away children at the slightest hint of "neglect", and common core. You know the drill.

>>1084752 you forgot that most kids nowadays in college are mixed race mongrels that worship nigger culture and brown people themselves that have no buisness being in higher education. They have no ambition, they just want to "chill" all day staring at their phones with the billie eye lips fluride stare while they dream of being famous for famous sake.

To all of the foolers of april: please see picrel i accidentally let out a single chuckle

>>1084839 Ecclesiastes chapter 1 (NKJV): <1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. <2 "Vanity of vanities," says the Preacher; "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity." <3 What profit has a man from all his labor In which he toils under the sun? <4 One generation passes away, and another generation comes; But the earth abides forever. <5 The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, And hastens to the place where it arose. <6 The wind goes toward the south, And turns around to the north; The wind whirls about continually, And comes again on its circuit. <7 All the rivers run into the sea, Yet the sea is not full; To the place from which the rivers come, There they return again. <8 All things are full of labor; Man cannot express it. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, Nor the ear filled with hearing. <9 That which has been is what will be, That which is done is what will be done, And there is nothing new under the sun. <10 Is there anything of which it may be said, "See, this is new"? It has already been in ancient times before us. <11 There is no remembrance of former things, Nor will there be any remembrance of things that are to come By those who will come after. <12 I, the Preacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem. <13 And I set my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven; this burdensome task God has given to the sons of man, by which they may be exercised. <14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and indeed, all is vanity and grasping for the wind. <15 What is crooked cannot be made straight, And what is lacking cannot be numbered. <16 I communed with my heart, saying, "Look, I have attained greatness, and have gained more wisdom than all who were before me in Jerusalem. My heart has understood great wisdom and knowledge." <17 And I set my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is grasping for the wind. <18 For in much wisdom is much grief, And he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.

>>1084839 who cares what a cuckchanner has to say? that post is probably fake and taken as a screenshot so it gets more attention outside of cuckchan.

April fools is over. No more lol.

Switch 2 Direct actually bring up something lol worthy

>>1064115 I'm over 3 months late but your wish is granted. Sauce is lemondude. Lol

>>1084840 Are there any religions out there that aren't wordier than a leftwing meme and full of "yay spaketh the zoabites unto the city of the labians: Hark ye, the double circumsized sons and daughters and wheat and bees of the phallusites shall dance amoung thouest gardens and high places and coveteth not the girdles of ye lions"?

>>1085589 Uhh, Scientology?

>>1085589 >can't comprehend anything that isn't in the form of a 1-second meme ADHD and the internet was a mistake

>>1085589 Something from ancient egypt, maybe? They wroted with pikchurs. Honestly though, the demands of braying jackasses have always been gratified with increasingly corrupted branches of the local religion, in which everything noble is brought down to the level of the semi-literate mass man, and then buried under layers of idiotic fanfiction. Don't like following precepts? No problem! Just put a dollar in the box and all shall be well with your immortal soul. Your demand is somewhat more modern than that of the well-to-do man who is both in and of the world, and soon the Church of Tiktology will spring forth to accommodate. So just sit tight; someone is doing your thinking for you as we speak.

>>1085543 There was the wheelchair basketball game.

>>1085589 you have to be 18 or older to post here. go back to grammar school or something

>>1085543 >physical copy is just a download link Why even bother at that point.

>>1085589 No, because that's the whole point of religion. It's all a bunch of intentionally confusing nonsense that people believe in because they want to believe in something. They want to seek deeper meaning within a pile of incoherent bullshit that was spewn by some ancient schizos thousands of years ago and then mistranslated dozens of times. That's part of the fun that draws them in. If you tried to omit that and start a cult with teachings in clear and precise language aka "do X", "don't do Y" it wouldn't get any following. Philosophy works the same way too.

>>1085601 >>1085680 I think you dropped this.