Descending in elevation plus cute boys on Google Maps

Dancing is fundamental to our human spirit. We've always done it. From the first time people sang and put any sort of rhythm to it, people danced. Babies and Toddlers dance unprompted.

And yet, it is increasingly something we don't do. It's not part of our social fabric nearly as much as it used to be. It's something that's done in special occasions and sporadically at best. Go to a wedding with a lot of white people in the US and it's clear most people there haven't danced since their last wedding.

And of course things like clubs and raves exist, but they're something that is far more niche than dancing ever was in the past, let alone how much of it is just bopping your head and not dancing with other people.

For most of you reading this, your Grandparents could dance circles around you, in all sorts of different styles.

Problems we could solve:

1. Obesity. Dancing is great exercise, you burn several hundred calories per hour depending on the style. And when you're dancing, you're also not eating or sitting on your butt. Everyone would be much hotter if we danced more.
2. People dressing bad. You know why people used to dress in fun suits and cute dresses? They were going dancing and wanted to show off. Can't wear your sweatpants and hoodies to go dancing and meet people.
3. Getting offline. If you're actually dancing and not just bobbing your head to a beat, you aren't on your phone. You're engaging with the music and people around you.
4. Loneliness. Dancing is a communal experience with people mixing and engaging with different people all around you. Friends dancing with friends is a human connection that grounds us. Want people to stop being touch starved? Dance.
5. Dating. Generations of people have met their spouse while on the dancefloor. "Would you like to dance?" is the ultimate universal opener.
6. Third places. You know why people don't hang out, and there's nowhere to go and nothing to do? People don't dance. There aren't all the places there used to be where you could go meet and dance with them. We've lost whole spheres of social life to a lack of dancing.
7. Music. Music is all sad and in it's feelings because nobody is dancing to it. People don't write "songs" that can stand the test of time because it's all about sitting and listening rather than dancing. Also, almost certain that you can measure how "dead" a genre of music is by when people stopped dancing to it. Jazz was dead by the 1950s, Rock by the 1990s, and Rap is on it's way out too. Also, the decline of the "middle class" of performing live music? Lack of places where people will show up to listen and dance.

What caused the decline in dancing? I don't know.

I might speculate that it was the ascendency of the bourgeois who created a culture of "conspicuous consumption" of the arts and the decline of rowdier norms in music that slowly subsumed genuine enjoyment into status. By the way, did you know that the whole thing where you sit in silence while an Opera, Symphony, or Musical is playing is something that's relatively new, and something that stuffy upper middle class people came up with? Fun fact there.

However ignorant and trashy I thought mainstream culture was before COVID, it is clearly getting worse at an exponential rate. If this continues I fear we will all be living in caves by 2030. This is probably an unpopular opinion on here, but I truly believe the corny Millennial-dominated 2010’s were infinitely preferable to how aesthetically grotesque everything is becoming.

Never posted here before but I've seen a lot of earnest conversation and at the very least you people will give it to me straight I guess. It's almost certainly going to be melodramatic but the wound is still fresh- you get it.

I don't want to be too specific and I'll try to avoid making this into a giant mess. We've been dating for a little over 6 months but seeing each other since July. Monday was her birthday so I spent a good chunk of the weekend planning and cooking for her to make it a special day. I picked her up from her apartment and everything was perfect. We had a picnic and she told me that it was everything that she had wanted. We talked about our future together, not just me blabbing but mutually, and she seemed so happy. After we got back to her apartment it was like a switch flipped and she asked me to leave, saying she thinks we should break up. I thought she was messing with me at first but then she started crying. It went from "break up" to "take a break" to "I need some space," and I was so blindsided I didn't know how to respond, but I went home like she asked. She was crying and she hugged me when I got up to leave. She's never done something like this before.

It didn't feel real until yesterday. I didn't get out of bed until 3PM and since then I've just felt sick, I feel like I'm going to disintegrate. I broke down in the afternoon and she texted me apologizing for the bad timing and saying she needed some time to think. I told her to take as much time as she needed and that I would be here. Today she said she wanted to let me know where she was at and that she was ending the relationship, but that she was willing to come talk first, so I'll see her at some point later in the week. I wrote her a long letter that I'm going to give her when I do see her, but I know that I can't change her mind, and the worst part is I don't want to change her mind if this is what she truly wants. I suppose none of this sounds particularly strange, but what's bothering me so much is I don't know why. Of course we've had our problems like all couples but we've never had a 'big fight' and I was so certain that we could work through everything we were dealing with. We'd been going through a rough patch earlier in the month but the past week had been so perfect I thought that we were through it. I know it's cliche but I have never felt more blindsided in my life. I've been in a shitty, toxic relationship and this has been nothing like that, ever. It never felt too good to be true, it just felt right. I've never connected with a person in this way. I have fallen so in love with this woman and it has always been reciprocal and supportive and kind, the kind of romantic love i've always wanted since I was a kid. I just can't get my head around how she could switch up like that so quickly. She's never given me any reason to not trust her or make me think she wasn't as committed as I was.

The night that it happened I talked to my cousin for a while (who is older and married and has her shit together) and she said that none of it made sense either. Every time I try to rationalize about what's going on with her that could drive her to do something this drastic I come up short. After we talked I walked home and looked up at the stars and I felt truly lonely for the first time since I've been with her. The thought of my life without this person is scary as fuck. The worst part is not knowing, but I'm afraid I won't be able to keep it together when I see her anyway. I know that I haven't been a perfect partner and I try to take responsibility for my shortcomings. And we haven't even been together for a year!!! 6 months is barely enough time to change, and I've been trying so hard to be good to this girl and I just don't get any of it. It's not like we were together for 5 years or whatever and she realized that I'm stuck a certain way. I've never been the kind of person that talked about true love or soulmates but I truly thought that this woman could be the rest of my life. My room is full of little trinkets and notes from her, she left her clothes over the weekend, even the earrings I'm wearing right now are from her. I've always taken breakups hard but this is different. After loving and being loved by this woman I can't imagine desiring someone else. It's not 100% over yet but I have to accept that it's not looking good and I just don't know what to do. I might as well become a monk or go work on a crabbing boat in Homer Alaska or some shit. I just want to feel heard rn

Fairly frequently, IRL and online, from 9-12 and I developed anorexia and an anxiety disorder from it.

Went from a pudgy kid to underweight (Entered fourth grade at 90lbs, entered 8th at 77lbs), started calling myself "gay" in 6th grade because I stumbled upon a website that described adolescent sexuality, Trevor or something, then another called USQueers I think? At some point I went down a rabbit hole and was taking pictures of my cock, ass, face, other more extreme stuff with a site timestamp and uploading them to mainstream chans, creepier ones (12), a "boys chat" website/image board and another old-school telnet BBS and via rsync. I was pretty computer savvy - I learned to dual-boot NetBSD to hide this. Along with other insane behaviors.

The last time I tried LSD was in 2016, the tripsitter decided to put on some movie about a guy losing his mind, some cartoon, It's a Wonderful Day or something to fuck with me. Never forgave him, those images roared back, and I haven't touched strong psychoactives since. Other than MDMA a few times in graduate school, which was chill.

I've only told this to one person IRL - a woman I lived with - through tears, dry heaving, flashbacks...and she immediately started pestering me about it, insisting that I'm actually gay and self-hating, smacking me around our apartment. I'm not. But I'm never talking about it again.

I am totally convinced that many of these chemicals we put in our food are intentionally put in there because they are addictive and get us to eat more. Sure they'll claim it's to "increase preservation" or "better coloring" or whatever BS excuse they have -- but they actually know it's because they are addictive and keeps people buying their food.

I just moved out of the country again and nothing about my diet has fundamentally changed, except the shit I'm eating doesn't have an ingredient list that sounds like it's made by a mad scientist. Since then, my appetite has just naturally gone way down. At first I'd crave obscure foods I miss which is probably because my body was craving whatever addictive chemical is in there...

This is one of the reasons why Americans are so fat. Our food is literally not just designed to be addictive from a taste sense (sugar and fats with salt to reset the full feeling), but literally because of addictive chemicals put into our food.

I’m not like the other boys. No anime, no comics, never touched a video game in my life. I was born with Deleuze’s body of work memorized. Dasha’s voice has been in my head since birth. A direct channel with god years before hearing the pod. When other children were reading Harry Potter I was reading Bataille. I have no friends but that’s ok because everyone I meet is too mundane. Esotericism is dead amongst the public. Culture is dead. Art is dead too. But I breathe art and I breathe culture. I am esotericism. I’m not dead, and neither is god. I’ve glimpsed the solar anus. I live in the Tropic of Cancer. Yeah, I’ve never enjoyed something casually in my life, but I’m sophisticated and you should upvote my nuanced takes. They’re all I have. I’m not like the other boys :/

You are Here!

Getting Botox

at the end of the world

“Have you seen my fucking forehead?”

They’re posting those dead kids again

You wonder how much for some ozempic (without insurance)

Your thighs are getting

so fucking fat

People are jumping on the tracks more lately

And honestly? It’s fucking up your commute

But you don’t ever say that last part out loud

Your grocery budget’s bloated

like the rental market’s bloated

like your stomach’s bloated

and thank GOD

they sell pills for this!

You need to get a probiotic

You need to get a raise

You need to get a life

They say it’s all over, more or less

“Make the most of what’s left”

So

You are Here!

Getting more Botox

at the end of the world

“Have you seen my fucking forehead?”

I NEED IT I NEED IT I NEED IT I NEED IT I NEED IT I NEED IT I NEED IT I NEED IT I NEED IT I NEED IT I NEED IT I NEED IT I haven’t gone a single day without it since December

Don't care about politics at all just wanted to show my support for GILFs.

It’s never over

The normalisation of commercials is terrifying, they’re fucking everywhere and constant. My city is even particularly big compared to others but on my relatively small commute I saw 15, 15 fucking adverts, 3 on my way to the trains 5 on the train, and 8 from the train to my work. It’s driving me crazy, 15 times I was told to buy shit I don’t need. It’s always shite no one needs as well, no one needs McDonalds, no one needs an energy drink, it’s always ads for things that are basically over priced poison. Also it’s adverts for shit everyone knows about, or massive fucking luminous displays for another fucking phone, another ridiculous glass rectangle nightmare e-waste turd. I’m starting loose my mind. The future is here and it’s fucking pure shite.

In any normal country, coming up with a 500$ Tinder subscription should be an immediate ticket to the reeducation camps.

Life is good for the first time I can recall and I’m worried it’s all gonna come crashing down

Observed a housemate arguing with an ai voice thing he had on his phone because it wouldn't format an excel sheet his girlfriend was trying to do exactly to his liking. Listening in, I found it was rather pathetic and cringey to witness with him like thinking he was above a non living, emotionless voice apologising to him as he berated it.

It kind of reminded me of the story the other month of the kid who took his own life because his Daenerys Targaryen chat bot girlfriend kind of nudged some mentally unwell person to take his life. I really don't like where this is going!!!

want to hear your favorite conspiracy theories, regardless of if they’re insane or not

one of my personal favorites is death grips orchestrating the ariana grande concert bombing

whether you believe it’s true or not, i want to know

I've just been feeling so low lately, and I'm mostly convinced it's due to how much physical desire is causing me suffering. I was watching John Boorman's Excalibur and it made me feel terrible, both in seeing the pureness of love and how self-destructive lust could be. I wish there was a switch I could flip where all these feelings would just evaporate.

I'm plagued with negative/ paranoid thoughts that start the second I wake up and cycle around my head on repeat all day. This got worse after I got major surgery and my BF moved in. There's really nothing wrong with him, he's a normal dude but I am turning into a detective when he's around and I've even snooped through his stuff a couple times before (found some questionable FB profile visits but really nothing crazy, just booba) and completely crashed out because of this. I now visit these FB profiles constantly and am suspicious of his behaviour for absolutely no reason. I also always think I am getting fired at work, that people dislike me and think I'm a freak. The surgery I had was jaw surgery and it has also caused massive body dysmorphia. It is to the point where its effecting my work and mental state. I know I'm being unreasonable but can't stop. I spend all day putting various unrelated pieces together in my brain. This gets way way worse the week before my period starts. drinking and benzos seem to actually make it worse, intense exercise kind of helps. Is it over for me?

what’s the rs consensus on this. i personally really like it, and was even briefly seeing this girl who had been featured in an article for “embracing her body hair” on tiktok. and not just armpit hair, but also leg hair, pretty much whatever it doesn’t phase me. but more importantly than what any cishet male thinks, how do women themselves feel about it?