Leo Gura

You shouldn't preach things to others that you have no direct experience with. However, you can explain some spiritual theory to someone, but then say, "I'm still working to validate this in my experience." The reality is that 99% of science people talk about is never validated by them. At least you are making an effort to validate spiritual truths. The journey to Truth must begin with theory. This is not a mistake. Just don't stop at theory.

Think of it like this, when you get a spam email, do you reply to the spammer with an explanation of why you are declining his offer?

This mission statement requires heavy moderation. Libertarianism does NOT maximize effective freedom. It simply allows a few people to monopolize the whole field and enslave everyone else. The reason to moderate is precisely to protect the public square from shitslingers and bad actors who ruin free speech. Allowing Nazis to plot government coups does not increase free speech.

Anyone who is still supporting Republicans at this point is a joke.

It would certainly be overkill. I've done 24-hour long trips on 5-MeO just through re-vaping or re-plugging. It gets very challenging to manage and stay grounded. Sleep becomes impossible because you're just constantly awakening. If you were constantly high on 5-MeO, you would quickly lose the ability to function and survive as a human. Such high levels of consciousness are not compatible with human life. Which is why humans and even professional Buddhist monks are not that conscious. You have to appreciate and respect the limits of being human.

You need a long-term vision/plan and then break it up into baby steps and take some steps every day. Gradually things will improve if you do that. Be careful pissing your life away on WoW. You need to start doing some emotional labor and genuine work to build a good life. Wow is toxic garbage that you must ween yourself off of. You don't have to quit cold turkey but start taking small steps to scale it back. Find healthier alternatives. So out and socialize with people.

Chronic fatigue can literally have 50 different causes. You must test each possible cause one by one. The error is to fall for the simplistic idea that there is one cause and one solution. What worked for someone else likely won't work for you because the odds are like 1/50. Start with getting comprehensive blood work, especially check your thyroid, hormones, and vitamins comprehensively.

Influencers.

I teach advanced things and I expect you to handle that. If you are parroting things I say without direct experience of them, then what have you really learned from me? I have issued all the warnings in the world and explained all the traps in detail. Now it's your job not to fall into the traps.

No company is perfect but Google is one of the best managed companies in the world. If you got problems with how Google does business, you got problems with business period. You also have to appreciate the scale that Google operates on. This ain't some mom-and-pop shop. In the end Twitter is a tiny company and a small platform. It does not compare to Google or YT at all. People treat Twitter like it is the size of Facebook or YT. But it's an order of magnitude smaller. And yet still Musk will have a nightmare moderating it. People just don't appreciate how challenging it is to run, manage, and safeguard such massive platforms from exploiters and devils. This requires a decade of expertise just to appreciate. Which is why these companies have entire buildings full of experienced staff working 24/7 to deal with it. If anything, they are understaffed and underfunded. The critique of these platforms is not that they over-regulate, it's that they are too cheap and negligent so they under-regulate. So Musk has completely misdiagnosed the problem. He should be hiring more moderators, not firing them and letting all the trolls back. Imagine if tomorrow I let every banned user of this forum back on. That's effectively Musk's plan for Twitter. It's colossally dumb.

These two buffoons. Lolz

@thisintegrated You don't like the icon of Google Maps? Talk about 1st world problems. Look, dude, you're nitpicking the work of a company. So what? You can nitpick any company's product endlessly. There's a ton of stuff that's sub-optimal in the design of all consumer products. Overall, Google products are very well designed, despite your nitpicking. Which is why the whole world uses them.

You confuse your personal needs and demands for what YT ought to do.

You have disagreements with a governing authority? What else is new? This might be a shocking notion, but no online platform or company is run to pamper to your every personal demand. Musk will soon realize that most countries around the world do not care about the 1st Amendment and have very strict demands about what kind of speech must be swiftly taken down. And if Musk doesn't follow their laws Twitter will be kicked out of places like: India, Russia, Germany, EU, etc. Not to mention that the US government will be investigating and suing him for all sorts of privacy non-compliance, which Twitter will surely be guilty of under his careless leadership. Twitter is already under all sorts of federal injunctions for past violations. Twitter had entire departments dedicated to ensuring compliance with government regulators like the FCC and the EU -- which Musk axed. He's gonna face so many lawsuits he'll wish he never opened a Twitter account. When some mass shooter posts his racist manifesto on Twitter, or some kid dies from eating a Tied-Pod, Musk will be personally sued for that.

As silly as it sounds, yes. Sometimes Noam Chomsky and Vaush refer to themselves as left libertarians or even anarchists.

It's very unclear. Seems like Musk will be forced into a corner to completely overhaul Twitter in order to make it into a WeChat clone. Which might kill the whole platform. But there's also a small chance it might succeed. Musk is def not going to make any money off Twitter in its current form. His tinkering around the edges will not change anything other than invite more trolls.

It looks like MAGA storming the Capitol, beating the police with Confederate flag poles.

Wait till you realize that Musk has Tesla factories in China and that he will certainly be hearing from the CCP about how to manage Twitter if he wants to keep his factories operational. In India their laws literally require keeping offices and employees on their soil, so that if you fail to moderate content the gov doesn't like, they will arrest your employees. Musk's show of populism is so paper thin it's gross. When the business gets seriously, he's not gonna care about polling you for what to do. He's doing that now because he's like a child playing with a baby crocodile he just bought. That crocodile will not stay a baby for long. The Chinese are thrilled right now that Twitter is now run a single guy half of who's factories are in China. YouTube's management has been working tirelessly to serve the user's needs for 15 years. The users don't even comprehend what their needs are when it comes to social media. Nor does Musk. Musk is like an edgey teen who takes over a 1st grade classroom and polls the kids what they want for lunch: A) one bucket of ice cream, or B) two buckets of ice cream. Meanwhile a pedophile is luring kids into the bathroom. Musk shows no understanding for how devil actors will exploit and manipulate his platform. The situation with the Blue paid check marks clearly shows this. Anyone with half a brain about how such things work could have predicted that Musk's changes would be badly abused, as they immediately were. You're gonna let ANY hacker and spammer earn a blue badge by paying $8/mo to prey on your gullible userbase? What a plan!

Try it and see how it works for you. You need some kind of regular spiritual practice.

Look, no platform will ever be perfect. It's so silly when people cherrypick a few examples of moderation mistakes and then howl about it like wolves. Dealing with China is extremely complicated. The US government doesn't even know how to do it well. Yes he has, by firing half the staff. There's no one left to moderate anything. Plus he's allowing all the violators back. He simply doesn't believe in moderation. That's the fundamental problem. Moderating a platform the size of Twitter requires entire buildings full of dedicated staff. It's not something that just takes care of itself. Musk fundamentally doesn't understand the depth of this problem and what harm/chaos it will cause. People will be using Twitter to do everything from staging terrorist attacks, government coups, and Nazi rallies, to molesting children, to running scams, to selling drugs and high explosives, to sharing animal mutilation videos, to harassing every minority group there is, to doxxing people, to spreading every possible form of misinformation and conspiracy theory. And foreign spies will be using it to undermine democracy around the world. And Musk is just acting like he can wing this based on his personal whims. This is not 2004 internet days. These social media platforms are way too mature for that now and they have enormous responsibilities to minimize social harm and predatory behavior.

YouTube handles moderation excellently. There is no need to reinvent the wheel. Twitter was already an exceptionally toxic place and Musk's decisions are only adding fuel to the fire.

Obviously it's my opinion. But Musk clearly doesn't know what he is doing when it comes to free speech and moderation. That much is obvious from his behavior. I'm not questioning his ability to make money, but his understanding of how to manage socio-political aspects of a platform. Musk is treating Twitter like a tech problem. You cannot code nor tech-bro your way out of politics.

That's not the same logic. The fact that there is so much science is the problem. The more science the bigger the problem. You are a free speech absolutist. I am not a science absolutist.