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Good rap about partying.
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This is a blast. Felt sucked in.
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I think people grow from challenges. They just give an more potent challenge in a short amount of time.
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"Spiral Dynamics: Mastering Values, Leadership, and Change" by Don Edward Beck and Christopher C. Cowan
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@blankisomeone as an fellow introvert, fuck em. Unless you want to date them, then you have to do a bit more your best and actually hold a conversation of course. I don't want to be social all day either as an introvert. I do allot of socialising, but when I want to and on my time, if I want to be quiet I am quiet, I used to give shits about it, now I know I just need space for myself at times and I respect that.
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Which book? I feel like some of the music is not red, but actually SD-LightRed, to bring light to the ignorant masses struggling.
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Just a normal guy. I would personally put myself like 4 to 5 maybe 6 or 7 points below average out of 10 below average lol. But I'm not sure. By lots of girls I mean 5. "You gotta be more expressive!" I guess they're just really annoyed, or legit worried about me that I'm too quiet Lol. Like, I'm ridiculously quiet. I'm the definition of keeping to oneself, to a worrying degree. But actually not really compared to this other guy at work hah. But they don't nag him and he's probably a solid average. I'm working as a cashier at a grocery store. The fact I'm working face to face with customers is already a big feat.
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It's quite funny to think about but probably even most Purple societies except maybe the very very beginnings of (proto-)human history have Red in them, it's just it gets shunned and civilized by the community before it can fully take root. It took technological and resource expansion through the agricultural revolution ~10k years ago before the desire for power could be expressed (externally towards "other" tribes). The cognitive machinery was already well-established, it just needed a catalyst to become the new cultural meme.
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I understand that no government is going to magically save everyone or guarantee anyone a prosperous life. However, we also know what happened to the wealth and financial security of millions of Americans, including many affluent individuals and major corporations, during the Depression of the 1890s and the Great Depression of the 1930s. Even people who had worked hard, accumulated substantial wealth, and built successful businesses were vulnerable to economic forces far beyond their individual control. That's precisely why I don't think simply telling people to focus on building their own lives adequately addresses the problem. If our political and economic institutions continue deteriorating, and we eventually experience another economic catastrophe comparable to those historical depressions, how much protection can individual financial success really provide? And weren't the major government interventions and structural reforms of the New Deal essential to stabilizing the financial system, providing economic security, and helping prevent another catastrophe of that magnitude? My point is that personal financial security ultimately depends, at least partly, on the stability and effectiveness of the broader political and economic system. Even affluent people and corporations cannot entirely escape the consequences when that system experiences a severe breakdown.
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Rafael Thundercat replied to Hardkill's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
I was happy today. Than I read this thread. Haha -
Rafael Thundercat replied to Hardkill's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
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Rafael Thundercat replied to Leo Gura's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Another one https://www.instagram.com/reel/DfFVvjGNjN6/?vrfl=MTk1YXV5bGJmdnJ5aw== I think there will be more of this. Is this a new trend? - Today
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I struggle a lot with resisting experience in my meditation practice. My ego is constantly wanting to find a moment of 'relief'. But the closest I get to letting go is with Shinzen Young's technique of 'Gone'. You pick a sensory experience and then observe till part or all of it dissapears. For me it has made me understand how everything is arising and falling all the time. And in a way all sensory experience is constantly letting itself go of itself all the time.
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@Human Mint @Human Mint Those experiences are nice they can give you a glimpse of what you could head towards by following that course correction of bad habits that darken the mind so much we keep asking "how do i get rid of this?" Again 😄
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They could not be more entrenched. The situation is bad. There is no solution to hyper capitalism on the horizon. Stop worrying about politics and build your life so politics does not affect the quality of your life. You live in an every-man-for-himself world. No government will save you.
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Thank you everyone for your responses. I have to admit, Leo, that your prediction of at least another 20 years of right-wing authoritarian threats is deeply discouraging to me. I'm 38 years old, so another 20 years would take me to almost 60. That's most of my middle-aged years, and it's upsetting to contemplate spending that much of my life watching our country continue struggling with the same structural economic and political problems, democratic instability, and authoritarian movements we've already been dealing with for decades. However, I want to clarify something about your prediction. Do you also believe that Americans should expect little or no meaningful progressive economic reforms, democratic improvements, or sustained periods of national optimism during those next 20 years? Or do you think it's possible that we could experience substantial improvements in economic security, labor rights, healthcare affordability, corporate accountability, and democratic institutions while right-wing authoritarian populism remains a serious political threat? When I look back at the Progressive Era, New Deal, Great Society, and broader Fifth Party System, Americans experienced enormous positive structural changes that gave people tangible reasons to believe the country was moving toward a better future. By comparison, the past 45 years have seen much less comprehensive progressive restructuring of our political economy. Are you suggesting that my generation and younger generations should realistically expect another two decades without anything comparable to those earlier periods of meaningful progress? I understand that right-wing authoritarianism remaining a threat doesn't necessarily mean that authoritarian politicians will continuously control the government. But I'm wondering whether you believe the deeper structural problems are so entrenched that even significant progressive reforms and democratic renewal are unlikely before the mid-2040s. Because there's a major difference between expecting another 20 years of political struggle and expecting another 20 years in which little meaningful progress is achievable. I'd really like to know which of those futures you consider more likely, and why.
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Nice! Americans are so uncultured on their own culture; their divergence leads to a convergent myopic cope in my opinion. You guys may ask me not to stereotype, but then the irony, right? Their leader is a reflection of that cope packaged as strength.
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I like it. Less bs than the others
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Natasha Tori Maru replied to Leo Gura's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
The UAP disclosure movement is a classic shift in the Overton window - if I am being more charitable (I have a personal strong dislike & feeling of irritation when misinformation and bullshit is deliberate [FU Elizondo]). They can't just shove such a truth like this up the arse of society without furthering the range of ideas and topics that the public and political institutions consider legitimate to discuss. -
Old school rap is actually good and different from Gangsta Rap.
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Gemini is the most ass-kissing model and will tell you what you want to hear, IME. It's good to use it in conjunction with the others, just to get more ideas/perspectives the others might have missed. Claude is the best, IMO, but it depends on what your goals are.
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@integral Nice! I went with a toggle instead of hold as well. I can't use capslock because it's my custom modifier for a ton of stuff - more efficient than reaching for control, shift, etc.
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Chapter 11 in the book.
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You don't even need to give it cultural strings, cut the strings, the party balloons fly away and you're just a group of friends getting together to have a fun time. We come together through cultural mediums, it doesn't mean the ethos of our characters are constrained by them. Mediums are common ground; currency... A genre. These are lazy categorisations, "a person wearing a suit is smart and sophisticated".
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Have you got any links to support these claims? Specifically what the medical medium info is based on - not medical medium as a source.
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