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  2. We shall see. As Allah wills.
  3. Here is another factual correction: GPT 5.2 - Objective Analyst GPT. Why Europe still imports LNG (including Russian LNG): an objective explanation This discussion often collapses into moral accusation or cherry-picked headlines. The reality is more constrained and technical. Europe’s LNG imports are not evidence of indifference to Ukraine, nor proof that alternatives are readily available. They reflect physical, contractual, and systemic limits in global energy markets. I’ll address the main claims directly. 1. “Europe has had 4 years — it should be independent by now” This misunderstands how energy systems work. Large-scale energy transitions take decades, not election cycles. Europe has already done the fast part: Cut Russian pipeline gas from ~40% of supply to under 10% Absorbed record energy prices Rebuilt LNG import capacity at historic speed Rewired gas flows across the continent Funded Ukraine militarily and financially at unprecedented levels What remains is the slow part: New production New pipelines New LNG trains New power systems New industrial processes None of these can be completed in 4 years without causing shortages or economic collapse. 2. The France “hydrogen jackpot” is not relevant to LNG The cited discovery concerns natural (geologic) hydrogen, not natural gas. Key facts: Hydrogen is not interchangeable with LNG (methane) It requires entirely different infrastructure There is no commercial-scale extraction or distribution It cannot fuel existing gas power plants or heating systems Even optimistic projections place material impact well into the 2030s–2040s This is a future technology. It does nothing to replace LNG imports today. Citing it in a discussion about current LNG flows is a category error. 3. Norway’s record gas production helps — but does not replace LNG Norway is Europe’s most important gas supplier and is already producing near technical limits. Critical distinctions: Norwegian gas is pipeline gas, not LNG Pipeline capacity is finite Norway cannot “surge” output indefinitely Much of Europe cannot physically receive more pipeline gas without new infrastructure Even at record production, Norway cannot replace: Russian LNG US LNG Global spot cargoes used to balance seasonal demand Norway stabilizes Europe. It does not eliminate LNG dependence. 4. “Europe can just buy from Africa / Middle East / Europe” This is the most common misconception. You don’t buy LNG from regions — you buy it from companies. Those companies are: National oil companies Western multinationals Joint ventures with shared ownership Africa: Limited LNG capacity Infrastructure bottlenecks Heavy involvement of European and US firms No ability to rapidly scale volumes Middle East (primarily Qatar): Most supply locked into long-term Asian contracts Limited flexible volumes Oil-indexed pricing Europe dislikes Europe: Does not produce enough LNG Relies primarily on pipeline gas and imports There is no large pool of unused, politically neutral LNG waiting to replace US or Russian supply. 5. Why LNG still flows from Russia specifically This is uncomfortable but factual: Russian LNG is often price-competitive It is not fully sanctioned under current EU law Much is tied to pre-existing contracts France and Spain are LNG hubs, not just consumers Significant volumes are re-exported, not burned domestically Higher imports ≠ higher dependence They often reflect transit and market arbitrage, not political alignment. 6. Does this mean Europe “doesn’t care about Ukrainians”? No. By any measurable metric: Financial aid Military assistance Refugee intake Sanctions Economic self-harm absorbed Europe has paid real costs for supporting Ukraine. What this situation shows is not indifference — it shows the limits of how fast complex energy systems can change under crisis. The core reality (stripped of politics) Europe’s LNG imports exist because: Pipeline gas alone is insufficient Alternatives are not yet scalable Storage is seasonal and finite Contracts and infrastructure constrain choice LNG is the balancing mechanism of last resort You can criticize this reality morally or politically — but denying it does not make it disappear. Bottom line Europe’s continued LNG imports are driven by physical and economic constraints, not nationalism, hypocrisy, or lack of concern for Ukraine. Energy systems obey engineering, contracts, and timelines — not rhetoric.

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    Sincerity replied to Sincerity's topic in Self-Actualization Journals

    I've read some great short articles from Andrew Bosworth. I like his simplicity in writing. Honesty is the Best Policy Two Things Can Be True The Gift of Naïveté
  5. Do you have a particular video of his to share that spoke to you the most?

  6. Sources That Resonated With Me

    Sincerity replied to Sincerity's topic in Self-Actualization Journals

    Amazing essay by Paul Graham: How to Do Great Work. An absolute goldmine - if you had insights from this essay integrated, you'd be a genuine PROFESSIONAL in life. There's an AI text-to-speech for the lazy ones:
  7. Stop complaing about guys like him. It is not helping your cause. As a player you just have to accept the rules of the game and just roll with it. Drop the nice guy mojo and just treat modern day women for their worth and they will love you for it. The problem is not women but men who put women on a pedestal. Just treat every sexy girl you meet as GF with benefits. If you start acting like bf material or nice guy and such you get a considerable premium for the valued goods. In the last 5 years the game has changed so much. It is insane.
  8. Yes, it’s a lot when unsure about the content and it’s quality. But it has a 14-Day Clarity Guarantee. I will do his ”True Awakening Without Escape” Online Weekend Retreat at Home, 6th-8th of March, and see how I feel. https://avneryah.com/true-awakening-without-escape-online-retreat-av-neryah/ There’s also a sliding scale there for the price of this weekend retreat, depending on how much one is able to afford. He even offers a limited number of full scholarships for those who have no money at all. I think that’s a nice indicator that it’s genuine intention behind.
  9. @Leo Gura Do you have a rough idea of when that might be? like, a year, 5 years, 10 years?

  10. Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

    Leo Gura replied to Leo Gura's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    Yes. But only after I finish writing the whole thing. I don't mind edits, but no one can be allowed to interfere with the core work.
  11. Transgender problem is truly understood at Tier 2. I think it is the perfect subject to open in order to realize who is really tier 2. Stage Blue and Orange are not construct aware enough to separate the symbols from the actual thing they point to although they are open to biological differences talk and how very few are born in the wrong body. Stage Green are more aware of the social construction aspect pf gender but not not open enough to masculinity vs femininity talk which is disgusting, because that's why they are soo fucking bad at understanding this subject. If we don't understand masculine vs feminine and general biological preferences/ differences plus the social construction aspects of gender, we are smelling each other's farts. I feel like vomiting every time I watch a debate about these subjects, 99% of people don't really understand this subject, from here the political madness.
  12. The pendulum doesn't have to go as far as it goes. You don't need to over correct. Plan out your movement beforehand and land it where you want to land it. Rather than going extreme and then the other side has a blowback which balances it out in the middle. Just balance it out in the middle from the beginning.
  13. Yes gender is a biological construct. Souls don't have genders nor do consciousnesses. Females have boobs though so that's good. Big W for sexual dimorphism.
  14. Almost anything mankind does collectively is toxic as fuck. Labor is no exception.
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  18. What are you trying to prove that transgender people get murdered? This is just showing that men get enraged when you lie about being a woman and have sex with them.

  19. Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

    Rafael Thundercat replied to Leo Gura's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    Manking relationship with labor quote need more to be talked about. I guess there is a lot of wisdom compressed in this one https://www.actualized.org/insights/actualized-quotes-362
  20. I'm post limited out 1991 – Sonia Rescalvo Zafra, a 45-year-old transgender woman, was killed in the Parc de la Ciutadella in Barcelona by six neo-Nazi skinheads who kicked her and her friend Dori repeatedly in the head while they were lying on the floor. Her death spurred the LGBT community to publicly fight against violence.[16][17] 1993 – Brandon Teena, a 21-year-old transgender man, was raped and murdered in Falls City, Nebraska, USA on 31 December.[18] Two men were convicted of first-degree murder in the incident, one of whom was sentenced to death. The crime became the subject of the Academy Award-winning film Boys Don't Cry.[18] 1995 – Chanelle Pickett, a 23-year-old transgender woman, was strangled in Boston, Massachusetts on 20 November after spending the night at a man's apartment. The defendant, William C. Palmer, originally pled what may be the earliest known legal use of the trans panic defense.[19][20][21] However, Palmer abandoned this story after the victim's sister revealed that he had known Pickett and been aware of her trans status.[22] Her death was cited as part of the impetus behind the establishment of Transgender Day of Remembrance.[23] 1996 – Also in Massachusetts, the body of Deborah "Debbie" Forte, a 56-year-old transgender woman, was discovered on 15 May, having been strangled, beaten severely, and stabbed repeatedly in the breasts and chest.[24] Her killer, Michael Thompson, was found guilty of second-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. Thompson's coworker testified that after the murder, Thompson had come to work and confessed that he had gone home with Forte and begun "messing around", before killing her after realizing she had a penis.[25] 1998 – Rita Hester was stabbed to death in her apartment by an unknown assailant. Her murder would become one of the major factors in the establishment of the Transgender Day of Remembrance.[26]
  21. 2000 – Amanda Milan, a 25-year-old transgender woman, was walking by Times Square, Manhattan, New York City, when Dwayne McCuller walked up and began to harass and threaten her.[27] Milan stood up to him and asked him if he wanted to fight.[28] Witnesses said he declined.[27] As he walked away, another young man, Eugene Celestine, told McCuller he had a knife. McCuller grabbed it, and stabbed Milan in the neck.[28] A man named David Anderson reportedly helped McCuller escape from the scene.[27] Milan died soon after at St. Vincent's Hospital.[27] Transgender activist Sylvia Rivera worked towards seeing that Milan's death was investigated, and organized Milan's political funeral along with demonstrations claiming a disconnection of transgender rights from the larger LGBT communities.[29] After Milan's murder, Rivera reformed a transgender activist group, Street Trans Activist Revolutionaries (STAR).[30] Rivera cited the crime among the reasons to add a broad definition of gender to the New York City Human Rights Law.[31] 2001 – Fred Martinez Jr., a transgender 16-year old American from Cortez, Colorado was bludgeoned to death in June 2001 with a rock by an 18-year old man.[32] Martinez' killer was sentenced in 2002 to serve between 4 and 48 years for the murder, and was paroled in 2019.[33] 2002 – Gwen Araujo of Newark, California, a 17-year-old Hispanic transgender girl, was killed by four men, two of whom she had had sexual relations with, who beat and strangled her after discovering she was transgender.[34][35][36] Two defendants were convicted of second-degree murder,[37] but not convicted on the requested hate crime enhancements. The other two defendants pleaded guilty or no contest to voluntary manslaughter. In at least one of the trials, a trans panic defense – an extension of the gay panic defense – was employed.[37][38] 2003 – Nireah Johnson was a 17-year-old African American transgender girl who was murdered along with her friend Brandie Coleman in Indianapolis, Indiana by Paul Moore. Paul Moore was initially sexually attracted to Johnson, and then discovered that she was transgender. This led him to light her car on fire while she and Coleman were inside. Moore was sentenced to 120 years in prison for the murders while his half-brother, Clarence McGee, received a 10-year sentence as an accomplice.[39][unreliable source?] 2003 – Janice Roberts was an American transgender woman who was kidnapped by serial killer William Devin Howell on 18 June. Howell later told an informant that he tried to engage Roberts in a sexual act, and strangled her when he realized that she was transgender.[40] 2003 – Shelby Tracy Tom was a Canadian transgender woman working as a sex worker in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, who was killed by Jatin Patel on 27 May 2003.[41] According to Patel, while having sex with her, she noticed Tom's surgery scars, and she panicked as a result and strangled her. The prosecutor attempted to classify Tom's death as a hate crime, but Supreme Court of British Columbia Justice Patrick Dohm ruled that the crime was not motivated by hate, because Patel did not know of Tom's transgender identity when meeting her, and thus could not have targeted her for it.[42] Patel's defense attorney used a trans panic defense on her behalf. She pleaded guilty to a charge of manslaughter, and was sentenced to nine years in jail.[43] Patel subsequently came out as a transgender woman.[44] 2006 – Gisberta Salce Júnior, a Brazilian homeless transgender woman, was murdered in Porto, Portugal, by a group of 14 youths between 12 and 16 years old, who tortured and raped her for three days, and finally threw her, still alive, into a well over 15 meters deep, where she drowned. Eleven of the minors received minimal sentences of under 13 months in a semi-open education center of the Instituto de Reinserção Social, and two received sentences of additional education.[45][46] Her death became a symbol of violence against women and the LGBT community, and shortly after, laws protecting trans women were introduced in Portugal.[47] 2007 – Roberto González Onrubia, a transgender man, was killed by two women who had found refuge in his apartment, in Madrid, Spain. Both women had been mistreating Roberto physically and psychologically for a year, before they killed him on 29 August 2007 with a brutal hit on the head. Both women were condemned to 19 years in prison.[48][49][50] 2008 – Angie Zapata was a transgender woman who was murdered on 17 July 2008, in Greeley, Colorado. Her death was the first case involving a transgender victim to be ruled a hate crime.[51] Colorado is one of eleven states that protect transgender victims under hate crime laws in the United States. Allen Andrade, who learned eighteen-year-old Angie was transgender after meeting her and spending several days with her, beat her to death with a fire extinguisher. In his arrest affidavit, Andrade called Zapata "it",[52] and during his trial, a tape was played of a phone conversation in which he told his girlfriend "gay things need to die".[53] Andrade's attorneys used a trans panic defense. On 22 April 2009, Andrade was found guilty of first degree murder, hate crimes, and car/ID theft. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.[54] 2009 -Vicky Hernández, a 25 or 26 year old Honduran transgender woman and activist, was murdered by the Honduran police. Her case prompted Honduras' president to apologize for the crime in 2022, the first case in which a Honduran president apologized for a crime against a member of the LGBT community there.[55][56]
  22. The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com Two Guilty of Murder in Death of a Transgender Teenager Sep 13, 2005 — The two -- Michael W. Magidson and Jose A. Merel, both 25 -- were found guilty of second-degree murder for the death of Gwen Araujo.
  23. The reason trump won is because of this gender identity push.
  24. @Elliott You still living in the 50s bro
  25. Support for trans is at an all time high. Trans people were seriously discriminated against in the recent past.
  26. The bird that flies alone is the wiener
  27. And answer;"People don't usually kill/hate people for being those other things, they do kill/hate trans people."
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