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!!!! UPDATE !!!!
TICKET LOTTERY ENDS 24TH https://www.geekevents.org/
TICKET SALE STARTS 1ST DECEMBER
http://www.gathering.org/tg16/page/english/ FOR UPDATES

CREATIVE COMPOS ARE OUT HERE http://www.gathering.org/tg16/article/6/kreative-konkurranser-pa-tg16
TL;DR, THEY HAVE PROGRAMMING, GAMES AND DEMOSCENE COMPOS
!!!! UPDATE !!!!

Alright lains, i've found some people that would be interested in a meetup in Scandinavia, and i'm suggesting a meetup at The Gathering

>What is The Gathering?
The Gathering is the second largest computer party in the world with 5700 attending every year. The party lasts from 23-27th of April
http://www.gathering.org/tg15/

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/r/ is now for high quality topics which don't have a dedicated board. "Shitposting" is no longer allowed. NSFW content should be posted on /???/! meta threads pls go to >>>/q/-----------------------------------------

Don't go all pol/ keep it to ideas that might help shape such a project.

In time for the end of the next revolution, we need somthing new to put in place, somthing at least half ready to do its job. For if we just follow history we will end up again with rulers of one type or another.

We have had many systems of control and order, each “progression” becoming larger and more complex. We have had many systems of voting and power division.

Until recently there was no realistic way for “the people” to control or dictate the workings of government, only to vote for someone else to control and govern. This is ultimately not allowing “the people” to have a near proportional say in the workings of humanity. We just have a 2 way switch between parties that ultimately are engaged in keeping the interests of PRIVATE businesses and wealth above that of a truly equal and just society. This seems to hold true in many shapes and guises the world over, all be it with variations on voting and ruling systems, but ultimately there is deliberate distancing of the people, for the benefit of the few.

So come the revolution, as we clean the blood off the walls… What then?

I found a box of optical disks from 2009 and before. They reminded me of all the things I used to install on my WinXP box, and the stuff I downloaded and consumed with them (animu, music, etc). I wanted to get rid of all of these disks, but a parent said "hey why not give that to me, and I'll give it back sometime". Although it was exciting to sweep through all this old stuff, I still have the feeling that it would have been better to forget about it.

I have a similar feeling towards everything these days. I got rid of many acquaintances because simply remembering them while they are no longer useful for any purpose/activity was annoying. I want to be on a technological bleeding edge, and not care about old standards, backward compatibility and other burdens. I'd like to have a moderate music collection, few books and few movies bundled in one big package that I keep, and the rest of the media I consume would come and go, just like people in real life. I often feel a need to archive certain things, and make apocalypse-proof, anti-piracy-proof, complete backups. I sometimes even make notes to remind myself of the context of something. Keeping myself in an old context so I can still like the things I'm guarding is rather tiring, but if I stop, I will not see the reason why I guard them so persistently, and I'll just get rid of them.

This tendency has made me dislike much of literature and music that hold references to the present, memes, politics, concrete things. On the other hand, it helps me appreciate older/archaic things; also more abstract stuff, be it arts or philosophy. I'm uncomfortable around the sciences however, for most people that have to do anything with them can get rather dogmatic.

What are you doing to improve it? What are your methods?
Don't need to improve it? Why so? How so?
Don't know where to begin to improve it? Why not talk about it?

ITT: General mental health. Got stories? Want somewhere to just express your concerns or your problems? Why not here?

Right now, I just started a "head book" or so I like to call it. I have a lot of trouble remembering good advice, or why I choose to change something about myself (external appearance, habits, my internal talk about myself or what I think people think of me, quotes to repeat myself such as "always faithful", etc) or my life (why I wake up early, why I'm going to college).

I'm also reading psychology books such as: Invitation to Psychology by Carole Wade and Carrol Tavris, and Communication in our Lives by Julia T. Wood. If you want something to read in your spare time, I recommend the latter as it deals with communicating with others. Very insightful.

I'm 21. There's a lot that I'd like to improve about myself, like how quiet and unconfident I sound through my speech and my diction, my passivity, my temperament, and my physical being (skin tone, muscle, etc). I also hear that your diet (like caffeine and refined sugar) can really affect your mood and how you think.

Is there any other lain trying to improve their head?

>hating on Ayn Rand
>not embracing le Atlas man
SHIGGY DIGGY

Reply with your age. I'm 28. A lot of you talk about being in school so my assumption is that most Lainons are still in college. I'm just curious to know the age range of the users on here.

How does one get a lainon gf?

it must be crazy for animals that live in the city to see stampedes of cars going at 6-9am and 3-6pm.

i'm pretty sure they recognize the patterns but to not know its purpose must be frustrating as all hell.

this popped into my head as i was driving into the city for work and was seeing one of the few areas that still had a ton of greenery being demolished for new business plazas.

imagine how many animals must have been trapped in there surrounded on all sides by highways full of speeding cars.

this same city houses one of the biggest refinery complexes in the world as well. I remember living near the area as a kid, although now i've moved farther out, but reading about the side effects these places have on you is mind boggling scary.

people who have kids born without ears or massive defects, cancer rates through the roof as well. it wasn't until recently i put two and two together and realized why we have one of the biggest cancer centers in the world.

the normalacy of it all. i guess compared to yesteryear this is regulated paradise but imagine how much damage i'm exposing myself just being in the area(i'm currently parked in the college parking lot in between bouts of snoozing and internet).

you really don't need to look hard to realize the dangers yet people, such as myself, tend to forget all this stuff in the backdrop of out daily lives. sometimes I wonder if this is where i'll die one day. whether it be of old age, early cancer, a victim/perpetrator of road raqe or some other toxin of the city.
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What do you guys do for work? How is it? Any interesting stories?

I'm a part time web developer and full-time student, but I'll be leaving soon due to a full course load next semester + a general feeling of disillusionment with the boring soykaf I do for $$$.

They let me work from home but all I ever do is just log on to the company slack and proceed to play video games, I kinda wonder if my boss even bothers to check what the hell I'm doing on the internet when I'm actually at the office, too.