/b/ - Siberia

Our current space technology is extremely limited. Spacecraft don’t "fly"—they’re like throwing a dart at a target. You launch them with force, and if aimed correctly, they hit their destination. There’s no real control after launch.

On Earth, airplanes can change direction easily because the atmosphere provides resistance. But in space, there’s nothing to push against. To truly maneuver, a ship would need thrusters on every side and an impossible amount of fuel. That’s why our Mars probes don’t "fly" there—they’re just flung toward Mars and crash-land.

Fuel and Physics Make Interstellar Travel Impossible
Even going to the nearest star in a reasonable time would require more energy than exists in the entire universe. And that’s just the fuel problem.

The Human Body Can’t Survive Long in Space
Without gravity, muscles and bones waste away. We can only stay in space for short periods before our bodies break down.

If Aliens Can Visit Us, Our Science Is Wrong
If aliens are traveling here, they’ve solved problems we can’t even imagine:

Surviving long space journeys.

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…poking fun at other languages and national stereotypes cracks me up a bit.

It took the leadership of the system and the economic engine of the system being destroyed simultaneously by unrelated events to end feudalism.I’m just saying that a poor understanding of the long-term effects of inbreeding mixed with half the population being obliterated by the Bubonic Plague saved Europe from Feudalism, and I don’t think the world will get that lucky again.


I also think that if there were no negative consequences to inbreeding, or that if the plague didn’t happen, we’d be having this conversation in a field somewhere instead of over the internet, which would likely not exist, and we’d probably both effectively be peasants who are the property of someone with the surname Hapsburg.

That tyranny lasted for centuries until it was wiped out by forces beyond human control. I wonder how long this one will last?
Regular feudalism was stopped by a mixture of the plague killing half of Europe, spiking the value of labor, and the ruling class becoming so inbred they could no longer function.

I just want aspiring plebians to do something else with their lives until so many of them make this choice that the system either collapses or reforms.

I don’t know what it will take to stop neo-feudalism. It took forever for the original one to collapse and that one was nowhere near as powerful or resilient as neo-feudalism is."

a new study by Yale finally admits that the covid vaccine has caused immune system problems, aka AIDS, in many of the people who took the covid vax. This is pretty fucking serious considering that 6 billion people worldwide took it.

https://news.yale.edu/2025/02/19/immune-markers-post-vaccination-syndrome-indicate-future-research-directions

did stonetoss actually make this?

Leftychad dance party.
Post gifs to celebrate.

I was working in psych in the 90s and that’s when tattoos exploded on the scene, in a huge way, people were getting them on their face even. I was working with women who had Borderline Personality Disorder and they LOVED tattoos because of the pain and self-mutilation aspect.

I started asking average people about why they got their tats, what they meant, and so on. Studies started cropping up, and they proposed what I thought about the topic. There’s a phrase, “wearing you heart on your sleeve” which can have good and bad meanings, but I’ll go with the bad, it means you’re a shallow person who projects shallow emotion. A person with serious feelings and passions can’t wear them on his sleeve, and typically restrains them to maintain dignity, so you cannot tell the passions he has.

The most interesting study I read indicated that people get the EXACT OPPOSITE tattoo from what they are feeling. People who are depressed and negative will get positive tats, like a bird or teddy bear. People who are scared will get “macho” tats like devils, skulls, etc. They are doing some shallow false advertising to project the opposite of who they really are. That’s because tattoos are driven by ANXIETY and that goes with self-mutilation behavior, pain reduces anxiety.

The other type of tat, the tribute tat, like a picture of Jesus, your dead kid, live kid, etc indicates the same thing. You feel little toward the person, god, etc and need to advertise you have great feeling, because you don’t.

I agree with all of that and have asked people about it. Usually their reasons are much like I explained, or an “I dunno” then, “Maybe I shouldn’t have…” because their decisions are shallow and nervous. Certainly not the worse qualities in the world, but as we know, tats have sigma, they mark your body, and are very expensive to remove. Also, if the person is sad, stuck, and confused in life it’s way better to unstick yourself through making meaningful relationships than getting a picture of a Devil Chicken on your chest.

I feel bad for all the “trump stamp” girls I’ve met. Almost universally, they explained they wanted the guys they had sex with to look at the design during doggy style and remember who they were. How helnously sad and pathetic is that! It literally makes my heart, literally, hurt thinking about it.

Some really nice looking girls told me that.

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The Occupy thing disgusted me because the poor people had a point, about student loans, then they camp out like hippies and beg the oppressors to listen. Why the f@ck would that ever work?

France is an even better example of that where they dragged the rich out into the streets and killed them.

Gandhi was clearly great and nonviolence would be awesome, but he had a huge number of people indoctrinated into a way of thinking behind him. So, he could get like 50k people to show up and they all knew what he meant, and they would insert themselves into situations to frustrate the British. Most societies, especially in the West, have nothing like that and so you can't do it.

those who were born of poor families told their whole life to go to school, become slaves and work till the day they die, but somewhere along the lines, some of those 'slaves' wake up. Most of them too scared to act against this corruption, since they have no means of fighting the top of the pyramid (no money, no outside help, no gun, etc).

every time the rich push people until they get slaughtered. It happens over and over because sociopaths don't know when to quit.

how we accelerate the incoming slaughter?

How well do you treat your wife, /b/?

I'm dealing with a real life situation that's made me re-evaluate how most people think about sex and 'rights' of sex. Basically: my friend of 13 years was seeing this girl (having casual sex with) for about 3 weeks, developed unreciprocated romantic feelings, and was then broken up with. They broke up in mid December. Around April he got the impression he might have a chance of getting back together with her and started bringing me with him to go see her and her friends. I got along with that group of friends far better than he and he decided to stop seeing them as much, said to me he didn't want to try and get back with this girl anymore, but made an offhand comment basically along the lines that he would be mad if anyone had sex with her (I thought this was a joke). A bit over a week ago me and this girl confessed to one another we had romantic inclinations towards one another. The day after we had (very good) sex. The day after that we both left the country and probably won't see one another for 3 months. My friend though found out we had sex and has decided he no longer wants to be friends anymore and is denying my requests to speak with him in person.

This whole situation has me thoroughly puzzled. On the one hand, I can understand someone being upset i.e. sad that someone they thought of romantically has moved on, and that those feelings might be compounded by it being a friend that was moved on to. On the other, I can't imagine being so angry that one would end a 13 year friendship over it. Either way though, it seems to me to imply a weird 'possessive' attitude over another human being such that sex is something someone has rights to and others do not. I find this attitude to be really gross honestly, it's a weird pathological objectification imo. To be fair, I am autistic and often misunderstand these value systems many people seem to hold dear. Can anyone help me understand the dynamics of what's going on here? My other friends seem to universally think I'm an asshole, with only two exceptions.