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I almost bought a house in Austin, but ultimately decided against it for that reason. And traffic there has only gotten worse since. I hate traffic. Vegas has such good roads.

Helicopters gonna helicopter.

Cheers!

My attitude towards sex is pretty chill. I regard it as a human need, similar to hunger. It needs to be satisfied in a healthy way, and stop making a big deal of it.

@ivarmaya Read Ken Wilber's book: The Religion Of Tomorrow, where he lists many of these advanced spiritual traps.

I can't imagine reading all that. You'd be better off asking the AI to make you an outline of the key points.

Vegas

Yes, exactly. Refeame "too many options" as a great opportunity. It just requires some explorative effort. One of the best ways is to try stuff until you hit its limit. Which you have done with the academic path. Frankly, the business path is a lot more varied, free, and fun. There is more room for freewheeling. My Dad earned tons of money selling bootleg Hollywood VHS tapes in Communist Russia. That's how we escaped the Soviet Union to California in short time. Not the proudest business, but in those circumstances things were sketchy. My first memories as a child was watching illegal bootleg Hollywood movies. I watched Robocop when I was 4 years old.

This is like asking, Do you like sex and pizza?

Never knew this was a thing (the Japanese thing). I wouldn't overlook chalking up the milk thing to American's being so culturally clueless that they did not even know that most Asians are lactose intolerant. And also, dairy industry subsidization efforts, similar to the corn industry. These industries lobby the government for plum contracts and deals. They certainly don't give a fuck about lactose intolerance in Asia in the 1950s.

@bebotalk Sounds like you just suck at golf

I am not going to explain a joke. If you don't get it, it's fine.

If you are getting 90+, that means you're a good student and the actual problem is that you are placing crazy unrealistic expections on yourself. Getting beyond 90+ is really a matter of being in the top 1% of a field, and that level of performance is not something you can will yourslf into, that's a matter of extremely specialized fit. Very few people are fit for that kind of performance in any field. So there will a strong self-selection process at work on you. Which is what you are feeling. This is not your fault. You've just positioned yourself into a poor situation requiring things of you which are not appropriate or healthy. Very few people are cut out to be in the top 1% of any field, simply because that requires a very specialized fit in terms of your values, personality, and even genetics. And it often requires serious sacrfices which are not right for most people. The real problem here is poor positioning. You could stop putting yourself into direct competiton with so many people. That's a losing sort of game unless you are perfectly fit. In life, you wanna find niches which have least competiton, not most. Why compete against millions of others by doing what everyone else is doing? The wiser way to win is by thinking so outside the box that few people do what you do. Then it's easy to win. Philosophy will not pay your bills in Iraq. It can barely pay the bills in America. You need a serious plan for making money which isn't philosophy. Philosophy you can do as a side hobby. The academic path is not a great way to make money, especially if you are not in the top 1%. Remember, academia is a pyramid scheme. Surviving inside academia is very cutthroat and is only suited for very few specialized people. Everyone else will lose time and money in it. I deliberately kept it vague because at this point your options are wide open. Frankly, it doesn't sound like you are suited for business at this point. But maybe you could be if you started working towards that. You've been so trapped in the academia game that you are overlooking so many other opportunties in life. I cannot tell you exactly what those are, I can only tell you that 1000s of opportunities exists outside of academia. Academia is a tiny sandbox without a larger world. Step out and explore what else is out there. You can find amazing things. I would never place myself in a position where I cared about doing better than 90%. It's just a waste of life energy playing such a game. You are now feeling why I would not go that route. Why make yourself so stressed and miserable? 90% is enough in the world of business. 90% is not enough in a pyramid scheme.

There are many non-traditional ways of doing business. Business is done in even the worst parts of the world. Business opportunities are everywhere.

There exists a video game called September 12th. It was released back around 9/11. It is a very simple game where you have to bomb terrorists walking around a dense Arab city. The game is structured in such a way that every time you bomb a terrorist you also kill a few innocent women and children, which spawns more terrorists that you must then bomb again. The point of the whole game is to play it until you realize that this game can never be won, and quit. And that is how the game is actually won.

Frankly, it sounds like this whole plan is not the right fit for you. Like you are trying to jamb a square peg into a round hole due to peer pressure and cultural conditioning? There are other ways to succeed in life than as a student. Academia is not for everyone. You gotta focus on your strengths. What are you actually good at? What if you focused on business instead of academia?

The movie glamourized his life. Immature people see that movie and wish they could be him. Just like how immature people wish that they could be Trump. If you are peak Orange, Jordan Belford and Trump are your God.

Of course Trump is dangerous. It's only a question of whether adults in the room will stop him.

He's right of course, but "evil" has to be understood in a relative sense.

I meant that that guy's group is too insulated.

Too insulated. Seek out diverse perspectives on spirituality.

The chemical would just condense onto the mask.

Sounds like a you problem

Stop with the personal sniping.

Was your ketamine laced with fentanyl? If not, then you prove my point.