Leo Gura

I feel sorry for the cat who had to be in this video.

Completely losing control during a trip is genuinely dangerous. That's not a mistake. You do need to control some of your behavior. Some behavior is dangerous, some is not. Make that distinction. Some behavior is also socially dangerous.

Things can be understood in pure abstraction. You can understand 1+1=2 without any consequences.

Contemplation is a tool for deep understanding. You could go through life without deep understanding, but I wouldn't recommend it.

I have been surprised at how good Al Jazeera is.

Locking this because I feel this topic is not necessary.

When this war started the Belorussian president accidently showed a slide wherein they planned to invade Moldova after they succeed in Ukraine. Putin def had his eye on Moldova 2 years ago. But then again he expected a quick victory over Ukraine so not sure how far he wants to push his luck.

That's very questionable. Putin has some wacky ideas about Ukraine's status as a nation. He might even be interested in annexing Moldova.

They have a million more soldiers they could bring in.

I have tried all kinds of B vitamins. Don't recall the doses. Nearly all vitamins I tried do nothing for me.

The problem is that NATO is not fighting, so they really shouldn't have any such objectives. A military objective only makes sense if you are willing to fight for it. This whole thing matters way more to Putin than to NATO. Which is why Putin has the winning hand. To win a war you have to be willing to sacrifice more than your opponent. NATO is not serious about sacrificing. And Putin uses that against them.

It all depends on Putin's terms, which I don't know. The key question in all this is: What does Putin want to end this war? Does he even want to end it? Or does he want to grab all of Ukraine? I dunno. If Putin wants all of Ukraine then there can't really be a settlement, it must be a fight to the death. But also, realistically Ukraine is gonna have to give up some land to Putin in the end. They are too weak for a better deal.

Look, in the end you have to come to grips with the fact that psychedelics and Consciousness can always take a detour into Hell. That's just the nature or Consciousness. You have to just let that go and focus on the positives. Don't forget, everyday life can also turn into Hell at any day. Nuclear war could start tomorrow. However, you cannot live your life focusing on that. The key issue is how you use your focus. Focus on good stuff. Why are you focusing on bad trips when you could use that time to focus on good trips? 2 years after a trip is a long time. You should have let that go a long time ago. Stop fixating on it. Stop thinking about it.

I don't know how true that is. Early on everyone was predicting Ukraine would lose within weeks. Nobody on either side expected Ukraine to put up as good a fight as they have.

@LostSoul I'm tired of such debates. Decide for yourself. It's wisest for me not to comment about others consciousness.

I knew a pickup guy in Austin TX who made a good living playing chess tournaments and teaching chess. I don't know his rating but we was making up towards $100k. Not sure how he managed it but apparently it's possible.

If you set your intention to be truthful and unbiased then racism solves itself. Notice that this whole Palestine-Israel issue revolves around bias. People are too biased in one way or another to see things clearly or to strike compromises. Peace requires seeing other perspectives besides your own. War requires seeing only your perspective.

The stronger Ukraine fights the better deal they can probably get. So it's not just a binary thing. They will have to negitiate with Russia over how much land they will lose. It really depends on what kind of deal Putin is willing to settle for. Putin's demands may be too unreasonable. I don't know. Military aid is starting to fail to work as Ukraine runs out of manpower. They can't hold out forever, but Russia can.

No way, Ukriane does not have the manpower or resources to hold out much longer. Russia will likely win this war within a year and Ukriane will be forced to capitulate to Russian demands.

Namaste

It's not really a question of best but having a wide diversity of sources. I look at: CNN MSNBC Vox Mother Jones The Gaurdian The Atlantic NYT New Yorker Washington Post AP News Google News The Verge Ars Technica Politico And a bunch of Youtube channels like Breaking Points

I wasn't making a moral judgment. I was pointing out why chess is a bad way to fund a lifestyle. Chess is way more niche than any other sport. And all professional atheletes are on a ticking clock. They all need some career beyond their sport because it only lasts a decade or two at best.

You need to develop some line of work besides chess. That doesn't mean you have to quit chess. But chess just does not make a solid enough career unless you are worldclass. The problem with chess is that it doesn't add that much value to peoples' lives, so it's difficult to live off that. Also, limiting your whole creative output only to chess is just very limited. There are so many other areas of life where you could contribute besides that. Unless you are a worldclass grand master, keep chess as a hobby/side-gig. Not your main career. You might find that this is a win-win because you may enjoy chess more if your whole livilihood doesn't hinge on it. Doing professional chess can suck the joy out of what should be a fun hobby. If you think about it on a fundamental level, chess is a game. It was never meant to be a profession. Trying to turn it into a profession is not a good idea, even if you could do it. If you really thino about it, this notion of chess as a career is a preverted recent invention. Chess was never supposed to be about that. So you are ramming a square peg into a round hole in trying to do that. Even someone like Gary Kasparov, he has moved on to writing books about politics, etc. Because chess is just too narrow a thing to devote your whole life to. Chess's proper place in life is as a hobby, not a career. Those who turn it into a career are threading a very fine needle. And it's not at all clear that this is even good for them. There's way more to life than chess. Why artificially limit yourself so much? The whole point of chess is to enjoy it, not grind it out for years. It's the same problem as turning sex into a career. Sex is not supposed to be a career.

Agreed. There's just no clean solution. Either way it will be dirty and nasty. This is peak politics: where you must choose between only shitty options.

Here is Eternity.