Im on vacation in mexico how are the piracy laws here?
>>17389743
its allowed
>>17389785
It's not allowed, it's stupid to not have laws about piracy especially when your neighbor is the us. Laws are just not very enforced, sometimes police officers go hunt people who sell pirate cds and bags butnot online.
Download piracy? Nobody cares.
There are a lot of street vendors who sells movies and games.
Just go ham.
Hey guys,
This question isn't really within the vein of the inquiries that are asked on this board but I thought I might give it a shot.
Im thinking of making a quick detox drinkfor the next few days, my eczema and shingles is getting out of hand. I think i have a good chance of clearing them if I lay off the crap food. I'm thinking making a drink out of the following ingredients:
>Lemon
>Parsley
>Cucumber
>Mint.
I'm thinking of just turning these into a small drink I can make atleast twice a day for the next week or two. What do you think I'm missing? Does anyone else on this board have any experience juices / juicing that helped them clear up rashes?
>>17389727
Real food. Fucking eat vegetables.
Detox is a bunch of bullshit, your kidneys have done that for your body since the day you were born. Just make sure you're eating a good diet with plenty of fresh produce, and as little processed foods as possible
Yea no, there is no such thing as detoxifying by drinking a bunch of herbs. Oddly enough, I think the thought of it might actually help you more, so still drink your lawn clippings shake. Just dont expect instant health.
t. Chemist working for ag related R&D
How does one get into programming? Assume that I know almost nothing about computers (but I learned Dvorak and am a pretty fast typist)
Any links? Help plz
4chan.org/g/
Is it possible to get a Dutch citizenship if you're disabled? Or somewhere in the EU? If so, how?
I'm on a $450/mo. SSI, am deemed unemployable by the SSA, and haven't been able to work since 2008. But I want to move to Holland because I'm growing increasingly frightened by a Trump presidency (I know it's silly -- but I'm genuinely scared of this guy). Even if I got the full SSI ($733/mo), I wouldn't be able to afford rent in a city with the now-highest rent in the country; and moving else in the country is mainly out of the question for a variety of reasons I can't even get into at the moment.
But since I'm on SSI and very lower-class, the chances could not seem more unlikely. But I'm willing to give it a go if possible, since I've heard the Netherlands are pretty generous with people immigrated to it. Or any country that's willing to take someone like me and help me integrate.
>>17389680
If you do not mind me asking what is your disability?
> But I want to move to Holland because I'm growing increasingly frightened by a Trump presidency
trump will make america great again, why do you want to run elsewhere so that you dont get to experience it
>>17389684
Severe depression (past suicide attempts), anxiety and proclivity to panic attacks, PTSD, inability to handle stress so severe that it takes on physical ailments, and some schizoaffective disorder-esque traits.
Basically, it's miraculous if I can leave the house for more than two-or-three times a week.
How does an introvert get a GF if online dating doesn't work? The girls on online dating sites from my city are just...trash really, not physically attractive and no shared interests. The pretty, intelligent girls on dating sites all seem to be in far away cities like NYC, and I'm not going to even bother trying with a LDR.
>>17389663
>The girls on online dating sites from my city are just...trash
And you're just amazing or something I guess, right?
What are your interests lad
>>17389663
You're making excuses cause you're afraid of rejection. Quit bullshitting yourself and decide you want to meet a girl.
A good place to talk is a book store; the girls there are relatively 'nerdy' and also pretty cute a lot of the time.
Just walk up and say hi, poke fun at her a little and play it cool. Then say you gotta go and put your phone out and say "here put your number in I might text you later".
Are these pants slutty if you wear them in public?
>>17389658
yes
>>17389658
Yes
This is bait right
When are you supposed to stop wanting someone to take care of you, or does it just go on forever? Do you just accept that once you're shoved out of the nest you're sad and scared and alone forever and just get used to it?
>>17389649
>Do you just accept that once you're shoved out of the nest you're sad and scared and alone forever and just get used to it?
Yes?
Are you asking whether you're a child forever?
No one will help you as an adult.
Everything is your fault when it's wrong and about time when you're right.
>>17389649
Idk really, i mean birds trow their baby birds out of the nest and if they fly they fly, if they fall to their death then they fall to their death, so i suppose when you think your ready to fly
>>17389675
So it's just never going to stop feeling bad? At all? Ever?
I'm becoming a Japanese person, parallel to weeaboism and all that. I'm sick of America, and I don't think Canada or Europe looks any better. China is somehow more grossly capitalistic than the United States, and the rest of Asia is either Korea, Japan, or not so developed. I wish I was Japanese, not because of anime and shit, but because their culture makes the most rational sense to me. I like their games, I like their ethics (except the shit that is dated due to conservatism like anti-homosexuality), I assume people get rigid life-paths carved out for them so they are not wandering the streets pondering existence, I like and trust their products, I think Zen is the safest bet for a religion...
>>17389632
You don't just become a Japanese person, you must be born one. You'll never be seen as anything other than a dumb gaijin they tolerate to bring in tourist dollars.
Sorry, but your dream was over before it even started.
>>17389632
>rest of the world
wow, way to fucking ignore Liberia and Myanmar which both use imperial
have you ever actually been to Japan? First off you'll never become a japanese person, immigrating there is extremely difficult unless you're wealthy or want to be an english teacher (in which case you'll get sent out to the sticks), and even after you've lived there for decades you'll still always be an outsider. The culture may be refined yes, but refined to the point of fetishism, no one ever fucking says what they're thinking. It can be very trying at times.
They have quite a few serious problems as well, declining birth rates chief among them I'd say. Its a completely self inflicted disaster honestly, since Japan has the highest cost of living in the world no one can afford to have more than 1 kid, many can't even afford to have that. Since the expectations for how many hours salarymen are expected to put in is so ludicrously high one parent will have to take off work for 1-2 years just to raise the kid, the other parent will have next to no time with them since they'll come home from work late every night. And then when that first parent (usually the mother) tries to return to work after taking a couple years off they encounter a severe glass ceiling. To make matters worse this age bubble has created severe strain on the tax base and a crippling shortage of nurses and caretakers. Japans' extreme xenophobia has made the obvious solution to this problem (relaxing immigration for skilled medical professionals from korea, china and the Philippines) absolutely impossible, so no action has been taken. By 2050 its estimated that the population of Japan will be half of what it is today, that's a demographic shift totally unprecedented in modern civilization and there's no telling what kind of chaos it's going to cause. Imagine, all businesses having half as many customers, half the country's buildings being empty so there's no need for construction. It's quite a worrying situation.
I'll get straight to the point
>Basically I'm sad, lonely, and anxious.
>I have never had a girlfriend
>OKcupid, Tinder, Bumble etc aren't working.
I'm really laid back, kind, friendly, everybody knows me and I assume they like me as a person but I cant manage to have a relationship or hook up with any girls...ever
I have recently gone through a transformation after losing over 100 lbs. but I still fail to attract any females for anything more than just a friendship
I always get the "You'll find somebody great!" "You're a great catch!" etc... It gets depressing, where in reality I feel as if I'm going to be alone forever. Time will just pass and I'll be 30, 35, 40 becoming more and more desperate..
I'm honestly peaking currently at 25, but I'm still lonely as fuck
What do /adv/?
You dont seem to understand how women's mind work.
You are basically "too nice"
>>17389642
Fuck man. I've had a really good friend tell me something similar, and I don't know to fix it..
>>17389642
this
sorry bud, they dont want you. Your too sane and not fun enough( translation: future criminal enough) for them
keep going, make money and retire with a 18-24 year old trophy gold digging wife
remember the saying.
Men age like fine wine.
Women age like Milk.
eventually they will all look like this and wish they were dead
So for awhile I've worked as a security guard and to be honest, it's been a pain in the god damn ass. Hours were horrible, people were horrible, the whole 9 yards. But recently something happened that, as far as corporate policies go, I've never had happen to me before.
I've been living with my parents for the most part of the job while I look for an apartment, but one eventful morning, they come into my room to wake me up at 9 or so after my 9-5 graveyard shift upset and confused as to why, in fact, my boss is calling them asking where I am and why I'm not answering my phone [spoiler]although my phone had been on all the while I'd been asleep, I must have slept through the ringing and vibrating.[/spoiler] I couldn't help but wonder this myself but I was too pissed off to care after receiving a lecture of why my mom and dad shouldn't have to "babysit" me.
I talked this over with the therapist I usually visit for reasons I won't go into detail about and he tells me that this is against the law and is considered to be a Breach in Confidentiality.
I thought it over for a few days after the incident and decided to, after much consideration, quit this job and move on to another. I asked my boss if he could drive over to the site I was stationed at and confronted him on both the matter of me quitting and why he broke confidentiality because I was told by my dad that if I had to quit, to do so in person. Well things didn't go so well as he started to get upset and start yelling at me for not just calling him up and telling him before I got to work, but when the breach came up in conversation, he completely ignored me, continuously interrupted me after every attempt I made to CALMLY discuss it only to be met with a rolled up window in my face while he called other employees to take my place. I left that night and never went back.
I don't speak Legaleeze very well and I definitely don't want to get ahead of myself when it comes to Law but I have to ask: Should I sue?
I didn't know if I should ask /biz/ about this or /adv/ [spoiler]or even /pol/[/spoiler] but I just went with my gut on this one so I'm sorry if I broke any rules I'm just a bit confused right now.
Addendum: Didn't know spoilers don't work here. Whoops.
>>17389630
the advice you get will be the same
grow a pair, move out, and forget about it
lets say you are dumb enough to sue your parents
your parents are within their legal rights to kick your shit out onto the curb and let you be homeless until you find a place
suck it up buttercup
TL;DR: I'm 22, mentally ill, college dropout, have since gotten healthy, hit rock bottom, but I have some resources and parental support, where do I go from here?
Post 1/2
My story's a little complicated. Since about 2007 or so (age 13) up until a few months ago, I had some pretty bad mental health problems. Diagnosed with depression, generalized anxiety, and a rare neurological condition called organic hypersomnia. I graduated high school in 2011, with poor grades but 99th percentile SAT scores that got me a full ride to a big-time school. I left school in 2013 after having a mental breakdown, attempting suicide, and spending weeks in several mental hospitals. I've been trying to get healthy since then and get my life back together so that I might be able to attend school again by fall 2017, if I apply by next winter/spring's application cycle, but it probably might not even be that early because I haven't done much since I left school and would like to build up a bit of a resume before I return.
Right now I live with my mother, who my past therapists have called abusive, though for a few months or so she's expressed her desire to help me get back into school. I work in a restaurant and make about $250/wk busing tables. I don't currently see any physicians/therapists or take any medication, and haven't for several months. I have about $1500 saved up and plan on spending about $1000 soon on fixing my car, a new computer, desk, books, and other things I consider essential, along with workout equipment to get back into shape (in college I was about 195 lbs and was invited to a walk-on tryout at my school's D1 football program, now I've dropped down to <160 lbs).
Post 2/2:
Right now my priorities are:
1. Securing my mental health and preventing any relapses back into where I couldn't work nor attend school. I no longer have things like panic attacks, hallucinations, sleeping for 20+, lack of appetite, however, I still ruminate on thoughts for hours and feel very awkward, nervous, isolated, and detatched in social situations and would like to communicate with people better.
2. Securing my job and hopefully finding a better one that pays more. I make minumum at a restaurant, where I used to make 10.50 Wal-Mart, before I quit because I couldn't stand my co-workers.
3. Begin participating in and enjoying hobbies I used to do. As I mentioned, I played football, along with tennis, and I grew up playing video games and reading and writing. I'm a published essayist and was state-ranked in both those sports in high school, but I have not done any of these things in years and lack most of the resources to do so. This is also why I'm looking to get a new computer (gaming, movies, music), and workout equipment. These things could also help me get back into college, I think, especially the writing.
4. Studying and self-learning. I have outlines of topics I want to study to refresh my high school and college studies and build on them.
5. Cleaning and redoing my living space, i.e., I need a new mattress, computer (what I'm typing on now can't play most youtube videos), some basic furniture, and I need to fix old holes in my drywall and clean carpet stains.
Do these things even sound achievable? And how can I best work my way back to achieving them with my current circumstances? I can provide more info if asked.
I was abused physically and verbally by my mother and dad since I was a little kid to the point where my school counselor called cps on my parents. I'm now 26 years old. My life has been full of hardships. I went through two rapes, one by a stranger, one by someone I knew. I got into a car accident one day as I was crossing the street after going to therapy due to the rapes and child abuse, basically therapy for my fucked up life. I now suffer from physical pain every day (nerve pain) and have been suffering for 3 1/2 years since that accident.
I hate my life. I have constant anxiety. I'm in pain. If I wasn't scared of the act of committing suicide, I'd be dead by now, too chicken shit to do it. Instead, I constantly think about how much I fucking hate my parents for selfishly bringing me into this shitty existence only to abuse me and my brother. He's in prison.
I never talk to my parents. Do I have the right to hate them and wish I was never born? Or is that childish thinking?
>>17389595
You have the right to hate anyone, for whatever reason you want. Hating someone is easy to do, but takes continued effort. Forgiving someone isn't easy to do, but takes no continued effort.
Find out which option you want to take. Do you to continue allowing them in your head or do you want to move on?
But I digress, if you want to understand why you were treated as such, look at your parents' childhood. Were they mistreated? Were they products of bad environments? It's difficult to break such cycles, and although people would like to take the easy route and lay blame to one or two people, it's usually a lot more complicated than suggested on the surface.
>>17389595
I have a very similar story, except I was raped by an ex-boyfriend who took advantage of my selective memory loss (trauma related) and he fact that i was terrified of losing my only friend and love.
>PER ARDUA AD ASTRA; through adversity to the stars.
There is talent in surviving adversity. I believe that great things lie ahead, and my courage is testament to that being a reality.
And, OP, I love you. I can say that because I have shared what you have gone through, and I know that I love you.
>I never talk to my parents. Do I have the right to hate them and wish I was never born? Or is that childish thinking?
If your hate was impacting others, one could argue that you have an obligation to stop. But the kind of hate you're holding onto is your business, it's not hurting anyone but you.
You'll probably be happier if you find a way to move past it and live a good life despite your upbringing, but whether you do that and the method and speed by which you go about it is entirely for you to decide, and no one can tell you that you're obligated.
And moving past it doesn't mean you weren't wronged, it doesn't mean that you have to like the people who hurt you, it doesn't lessen what they did. But you can't make them make it up to you.
Everyone's journey is different. Giving yourself permission to feel this way despite how others might judge you might be an important step in yours - accepting and owning the fact that you were hurt, maybe that's a step towards finding strength and dealing with old wounds so you can leave it in the past.
Or maybe your important step is weening yourself off these feelings and climbing out of a spiral of cathartic negativity that keeps you unhappy, maybe you need to hold yourself more accountable for the opportunities you turn down to feel good.
Maybe you'd benefit from empathising with the people who hurt you to understand how it happened and how it wasn't your fault. Maybe you'd benefit from just saying "fuck them" and never devoting another moment of your thoughts to them.
No one can tell you how to be, no one can tell you what will work, no one can tell you you're doing it wrong. Only you know what it's like to live inside your head. Don't live for anyone else. When you live for others, you risk destroying yourself just to spite them. When you live for yourself, there's no logical goal other than finding peace.
I'm talking to this girl. We've known eachother in the past, and were on again off again friends in high school (we kinda hooked up once). Now we're talking to eachother again and I just had her over to chill and smoke. Nothing happened, we just kind of awkwardly watched netflix, and she just left. What are my next steps? I wanna date her really bad, and she's really cute but kinda quirky
>>17389593
Ask her out on a date. Go to a restaurant, park, etc. Anywhere kinda quiet you two can just talk. Kiss her by the second date.
Just smoking and Netflix = Friendzone
We used to this old cam recorder. One of those typical vacation cameras with the small cassette on the side. Thing is ( i was like 12,13) i used it to record porn in it, from the TV. Almost all the cassettes have porn. Im pretty sure i recorded myself masturbating in one.
The camera was lost broken, forgotten. Now my man found it and she wants to fix it to watch the family vacations and shit. The camera is broken in such that a cassette is stuck in it.
See my dilemma ? What the fuck do i do.
>>17389590
Fucking get it when they're not around. Throw it away. Easy. Tell 'em your mother asked noticed it missing or asked for it back and didn't want it touched. Or say you were taking it to someone and on your way there or back you forgot it on a bench and when you went back for it, it was gone. There it's easy. Now was that so hard?
Or alternatively, tell them, you recorded pornography and there are no home movies and then throw it away. You're 100% serious and not joking. There are no home movies, it's just videos of people jacking off in low, grainy quality and you do not want to talk about it. There, so easy.
What kind of relationship do you have that you cannot say these things? Do they not like porn? Tell 'em it was a long time before you ever met them then and you don't watch it now or some other lie, lol.
bro.. i laughed... and im still laughing
>>17389590
Smash it to bits no matter the cost, even if it means doing it in front of them.
I've never had a crush, never had a girlfriend and I've never made any real attempt to have a girlfriend. I want to have that relationship with someone, but have never really tried, or seen it in specific people. I've had girl friends, but nothing romantic.
Obviously my view is biased but I don't don't feel I have an obnoxious personality, am ignorant or an asswhole in general. I'm quite physically fit and average height, but I still don't see myself asking someone out, but not out of fear of rejection.
How can / should I start going on dates.
Don't. Women are a meme. Relationships are a meme. Sex is a meme. Reproduction is a sin. None of it is worth your time.
Ask girls on dates. The only real way of getting a date is asking.
>>17389531
I know that I've got to ask them, but I just don't see a situation with that happening.