Leo Gura

Americans started out as lizards crawling out of the ocean.

A pitchfork mob is NOT the state. Come on now.

I already did that over the last 2 years. I scaled back my work output a lot, as you saw -- because that's what my growth required.

Medication for a real disorder is different. But keep in mind that a lot of disorders are fake and medication too can be abused.

Zelensky didn't bite any hands. Trump is just a corrupt idiot. Zelensky cannot accept any offer without security guarantees. So nothing is over. These peace talks are fake.

Political narcissism. How fitting for narcissists. The core problem with democracy is that it means the biggest egos cannot dominate the field. Of course the biggest egos do not like such a system and feel the need to burn it down. Democracy is the system our ancestors invented to curb massive narcissists. But today narcissism is in vogue. People have forgotten what it's like to be ruled by a corrupt massive narcissist. It's not as cool as it sounds. Never was.

Nothing is over. Don't take Sachs as correct just because he is so sure of himself. He has no idea how this will end. All these analysts are so glib and confident when none of them know.

I have an addiction to internet. It's hard not to given my line of work.

How can you distinguish them? They obvious work together. Society is by definition always run by powerful and elite people. Yeah, but don't assume that would be a net good. Be careful what you wish for. Obviously not since the state has a monoploy on murder. Death penalty for political assasination vs teaching is night and day. Do you want to live in the Middle Ages?

Caffeine has no effect on me so I cannot speak on it. If it's something you need to maintain your joy then it's a problem. The more a thing makes you feel like that kiwi, the more of a problem it is. On a scale of 1 to 10, how much are you like that kiwi? There's your answer.

But there is a case to be made that assassination of important people like CEOs of public companies is legitamately a greater crime and harm to society than killing a nobody in a fit of rage. CEOs have a higher responsibility for serving shareholders and making companies function. It's fun to hate on CEOs, but most CEOs are just doing their job and keeping companies deliver goods and services to people who need them. Luigi is basically a terrorist, not just a normal murderer. So it does make sense to make an example of him. The legal system does allow example-making for particularly heinous crimes.

1) You can feel it in your body just from the hangover effects. Psychedelics tax the body and you can feel it. 2) If you do a lot of psychedelics frequently, you will feel the toll and also the psychological addiction. 3) Even if there were zero negative physiological effects, you are still getting addicted to them psychologically, which in itself is bad. Sober life is the ideal. The further you stray from sober life the more problems you will have. 4) There are studies which show that chronic weed use leads to physiological damage like reduced memory, etc. So even mild psychedelics are harmful long-term. 5) Weed is certainly addictive. Millions of people are addicted to it. This is obvious since they struggle to quit. 6) If you use psychedelics a lot you will feel yourself losing joy during your sober life. You will only have joy while you are high. Which is a bad habit to develop and it the classic problem of heroin or meth addiction. You shouldn't need a chemical to make you happy with your day. If you do, that's obviously wrong.

This is true, but that is corruption. Strictness has to be applied without bias. Strict laws applied selectively is actually a sloppy legal system. A truly strict legal system applies laws consistently to everyone. Not true. The military is strict, the police are strict. This works well in most cases. It only works badly when it is corrupted and unevenly applied. But strictness is a very important principle that applies in many areas of life, like when building an aircraft or a bridge -- it has to pass strict certification standards.

Such people and such "science" is not to be trusted. This is liberal dogma, not real science. Of course liberals want to believe that laxness has no cost. This is one of core flaws of liberalism, it sees only upside to laxness.

Sparingly!

That can be true, but that doesn't mean it comes at no cost. Psychedelics are not good for you long-term. They offer a trade off: you purchase high consciousness now for costs down the road. So you must use them sparingly. The self-deception is if you think you are getting a free lunch. If you understand that there is a real cost, you will use them more sparingly.

Maybe the issue is that you're assuming its backwards when it isn't.

I don't buy that. Sounds like a very dubious claim. And the point is not deterance. The point is justice and a culture of strictness and consequence rather than laxness. Laxness itself is the crime. Laxness on murderers eventually leads to laxness on corruption, laxness on white collar crime, laxness on guys like Trump. It's a culture of laxness which allows corruption to run amok.

@PurpleTree It would be nice if you didn't resort to such cheap strawman arguments with me.

I dunno. Gamer culture behavior is quite toxic. I'd say Destiny is the perfect embodiment of the chronically online gamer. Which just goes to show how problematic that sub-culture is. I don't think Destiny is some unique predator. He represents typical online juvenile male behavior. This is how a typical gamer male would behave if you have him power, fame, and money. The disturbing thing here is not that Destiny is some exceptional online predator freak but just how typical and "normal" he is for that sub-culture. I think many young men would behave like him if only given the opportunity. Which is why these kind of scandals are common within the streamer community. Corruption as an online influencer is very easy because there are virtually no ethical standards, no one to oversee you, yet you have lots of power to exploit your followers sexually and financially, and most influencers are very immature and under-developed humans.

At this point it's hard to justify appearing on his show because the bad vibes will rub off on anyone who appears next to him without addressing his toxic behavior. It is a shame because he has very good political analysis.

Growing up means facing the just conseqeunces of one's actions. If he's keeping silent to avoid losing a case, that puts him deeper in the low integrity hole. He should settle with her, pay her some money and just admit he was wrong and will do better going forward. He's got money to spare. This would be a good use of it, to clean up his image a bit.

Coddling murderers is not some great moral achievement. Millions of people die each year needlessly. Focus your consciousness on them, not on the obvious psychopaths. Don't forget that we have finite resources and murderers don't deserve a priority to them.

No. Trump is the result of laxness, not strictness.

I don't see that. Shooting a mass shooter in the middle of his crime doesn't lower us. Neither does shooting him after a fair trial. Life is harsh and serious crime has serious stakes. People need to be more aware of the serious stakes for toxic behavior. Coddling a murderer does not serve consciousness.