MarkKol

My parents divorced early when I was 3, then my dad divorced again with a woman I basically saw as my second mother, the second divorce was more useful to live through because I was old enough to be conscious of it today. It’s a legal piece of paper with a 1 day celebration, I see it how it is, nothing more. It’s trivial and unimportant, usually done out of legal necessity or impulsivity for something exciting.

Sounds like you have autism? Have you tested for it?

ChatGPT usage has exceeded my combined social media use by god knows how much. I probably use it 5-6 hours a day, 24/7, with the paid model. I'm honestly surprised sometimes at how uncreative it can be, a lot of the time I can be 10x more clever and creative than its paid model, not to say that I'm super creative or anything, what I'm trying to convey is that ChatGPT is just a condensed information source. It just reads and makes sense of that information it was trained on, it can't actually use that information on its own and use it to create a new thought or idea... If ChatGPT was a baker, for example, it would just use all the ways people have baked bread before; it wouldn't actually invent a new way to bake bread. It can't actually use its own intelligence. After I discovered this it it made me increasingly pessimistic about the future and current hype of AI. I think it was stupid of us to expect that AI would behave exactly like a human with infinite memory and creativity would; it doesn't.

Real French people live in Ile-de-France.

Yes Distance from family is necessary for the healthiest relationship

Aren't you embarrassed or ashamed of yourself that you have to use drugs to socialize? This is you ⬇️

Unbelievable, self-admitted corruption. The most disgusting behavior this world has ever seen.

What a baffoon How much does a guy like that know about the nazis? The best guess is absolutely nothing. US Liberals with PhDs can't point to Europe on a map, never mind a white supermacist conservative.

In 2025 you won’t get another holocaust, you’ll get nuked. Maybe, if Israel prospers and advances, they’ll be haunted by guilt like the Germans did because of what they did to Palestine. How is Israel or Benjamin Netanyahu, any different from the nazis and hitler? Both of them are focusing on killing civilians. In case the Israelis don’t regret their actions decades from now, that will be a strong case against jews, a very strong one IMO. You’ll essentially prove that even in the aftermath of the disaster you caused, you still haven’t mustered the ability to feel empathy or regret.

Everyone and their mother is getting into some form of crypto/stock/gold trading, best of all, they all call it "Building a business". I would rather depend on Uber Eats food delivery than any form of trading. One guy like Trump can just come in, crash all the stocks, and suddenly you feel like you know nothing, because you don't. Go sell a product or service, instead. You don't need to be a millionaire, if you feel like do. You're falling for self-deception. Big money is self-deception because you rob yourself of experiences, connections, and life in pursuit of money you never needed.

What can we possibility do about all those dead people? Grieving about 30 million dead strangers is borderline impossible, not useful at all and overly sentimental. The Palestine issue is a much bigger one, those people are alive and suffering. So if you’re gonna spray paint graffiti on a government building about dying people, let it be that.

It’s not like I have to go anywhere—I landed a comfortable office job right out of high school. After three years of working, though, I’ve become increasingly disenchanted with this common way of life. It feels like I’m prioritizing comfort and money over a bigger adventure—one where money and comfort would be tighter by design. It’s not bad, per se, and it’s not out of desperation. But the alternative feels more worthwhile. Prioritizing money in your 20s feels wrong and soulless. My salary has doubled over the past three years, yet I haven’t become any happier or more fulfilled. I can see how someone might not understand my perspective, someone who hasn’t worked in a soulless corporate environment, someone in college, someone who hasn’t made much money yet, someone with kids. In my experience comfort slowly becomes this numbing agent that makes everything feel more boring and colorless.

Long time no see, forum! I finally got myself out of debt, and I plan to move somewhere big and busy fast to get out of a three-year rut while I work on my studies. Amsterdam and Berlin piqued my interest mostly because of their good nightlife, decent earning potential, and high English literacy. Here's my issue with Amsterdam/The Netherlands, though: I really can't make a case for why I should move there instead of Berlin. (All facts are provided by ChatGPT) The Netherlands has high and ultra-high public transport costs. I found this shocking and un-European, the price of a monthly local city pass is €100+ (city), €200–300 (fixed route), and €376 for unlimited (monthly!). For reference, in some countries, public transport is free or nationwide public transport for €50. Anti-car agenda, every city has more or less of this, the thing unique to the Netherlands is that it has the most expensive parking in Europe, additionally they have resident zones where only people living there can park, but you still have to pay! and in addition getting these resident parking permits can take months to get. Expensive housing, more expensive than a city like Berlin, with 3,7million population compared to Amsterdam at less than a million And there are some minor things that annoy me, like sleeping in your car is illegal, something I do on trips. The country is very inhospitable to newcomers, low-wage individuals like students, and limiting salaries by age is totally allowed, meaning someone who is 18 years old can be making €8/h while someone who is 21 years old can be making double that amount, totally legal and accepted. This doesn't apply to me but it's really strange and concerning.

Vienna, Eh, haven’t been there yet. We’ll see. Too many of my own kind living there. Wherever there are balkans there’s a place lacking in nuance and profundity. Looks good though. Perhaps it’s unattractive to me because it’s so familiar. Madrid and Rome look interesting, I’m not sure how survivable Spain is, they seem to have asymmetrically high housing prices for their incomes.

I found it unexpected that Berlin is cheaper compared to... pretty much every major city in Europe while at the same time being the biggest city in the EU.

I just came back from Milan like 2 weeks ago, absolutely loved it. ChatGPT gave me Amsterdam and Berlin based on my criteria so I just went with those considerations. Apparently Milan is more expensive than Berlin, shocking but true. At less than half the size. Thanks, wasn’t my doing, my country gives me a lot of my tax money back because I’m young and we’re kinda endangered here, meaning young people are leaving constantly. The opposite of the Netherlands actually.

Honestly, I can't stand the sound of their language. I understand every few words simply because of our Slavic similarities. But it sounds like a disabled person is trying to speak Serbian, even the city "Krakow" means something close to our word for squid legs, and Poznan is similar to our word "Poznam," which means "I know." I find it very unpleasant in a strange way. Imagine saying you live in a city called squid legs in your language... dozens of examples of this! I know they're doing pretty well.

I personally like that crowded, busy street noise/look. I even sleep better around it, I'm a social-nomad-hippie-hostel sleeper type of guy. This is one thing that kinda bothered me about Berlin, even though it won on paper in everything, it's super airy and spacious. Did you speak English mostly or Dutch? How would you rate it?

That's useful. How much did you pay for your rent?

Just read an interesting quote by a YT commenter while researching this topic: "In a cold country, there is no nightlife, instead, there is daylife. In a warm country, there is no daylife, there is nightlife." Thanks for your information, it really is accessible mainly to bikes. The parking thing kills the idea of driving a car for me. I have driven through NL before and mostly just remember it was extremely flat and seemingly organized. Although I didn't visit any cities.

Bro hates her for having a life

Maybe joining a running club is a solution to your depression chubber 😀

That show would indeed test your limits, with over 700 episodes to watch I love marathons too, actually running outside is my preferred hobby!

He appears really worn out in some of his videos, I’ve seen him look worse than me after my nightshift. I don’t think it’s necessary for any of us to make even close to a million a year, It’s a huge trap for guys like him. You can have a really good life, way better than someone earning 10x your income, if your job/business is good enough and the money you make is decent/good enough. Does anyone need more than 150k a year salary? Your priorities must be really screwed if you do. You can even drive a sports-car on that salary. Not to mention the years or routines and staleness you have to put yourself through for that kind of money (7+ figures)

White people originated from Europe where they got favorable geographical conditions over everyone else, that doesn’t make white men superior. So it’s not supremacy it’s preference. Most people have preferences for their own race, you’ll often see US born and raised asians and blacks that gravitate towards their own races naturally. I have a preference for white people. Something I didn’t know before I started traveling and socializing with other ethnicities. But I don’t have any preferences for my own nationality, quite the opposite actually, riddle me that.