Leo Gura

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  1. Solar, geothermal, wind, ocean, outer space, fusion, nuclear There is infinite energy from solar alone on this planet. Energy is not a problem. I'm talking 50, 100, 200 years into the future.
  2. If it takes you that long to figure this out, your epistemology needs a lot of work. Owen Cook is not someone you should listen to blindly. There are plenty of things he will mislead you on if you just let him fill your head with ideas. When I share resources with you I expect you to have keen discernment and independence of thought. My shares are not an invitation to mindless info consumption. Mainstream media actually lies very little. They have higher journalistic standards than any indie media. They have certain blindspots and perspective, but this is not lying. Survival does not afford us such luxuries as sitting around for years and stewing in toxic mindless cynicism. While you sit and doubt, millions of people die from inaction and the spreading of false ideas.
  3. Overall, sounds to me like you're in a great spot in life. You're only 21 years old and you're already worried about being too old. This is silly and counter-productive. You haven't even begun to live yet. Yes, invest time building your foundation and skill set. Yes, it will be a tricky balancing act that only you can figure out through personal experimentation. So being experimenting. You're perfectly positioned for big success. But big success requires laying a foundations for 3-10 years. So set the proper expectations in your mind for what you are doing. It is okay that you don't know yet exactly how you will combine all these various skills and interests. You will figure that out over the next 5-10 years as you get your hands dirty with the work. So don't worry too much about that. Just start taking action and making your best guesses. It will all get massively refined over the next 5-10 years until eventually you'll know exactly what your niche is. You may feel you are behind the curve and late to the party, but actually you're way ahead of most people. Be ware of psyching yourself. Be ware of self-sabotaging negative thoughts. Focus all your mental energy on being constructive and productive. It is smart to design your life so that you have enough financial breathing room to build the skills you wanna build and do the work you wanna do. If it takes you a few years to set that up, that's totally worth the investment. Then again, you can also design a situation where you work a low-effort job which allows you plenty of free time on the side to work on your projects. Both strategies can be viable, it just depends on your situation.
  4. Just look at the sheer mass and volume of resources that comprise this planet. Mankind has not tapped even 1% of the Earth's resources. Mankind has merely skimmed the Earth's surface for the lowest-hanging fruit, and not even that. We can generate unlimited energy. We can use that energy to desalinate all the oceans. We can drill miles into the Earth for any resource we want in unlimited quantities. We can mine resources on the moon. We can also make our use of resources thousands of times more efficient. We can recycle resources thousands of times better. There are no hard limits on any of these things.
  5. The picture is already about as clear as science can be. Stop listening to toxic cynicism. It is poisoning your mind.
  6. Both look great There is plenty of variability in the powders.
  7. Just because you got lucky doesn't mean it was a smart move. Also, I was talking about within-country. Obviously you can find good dentists in other countries. Cheapness is relative to within the country. You can't compare prices in different countries to each other because the economies are totally different. I don't know where you find your dentists but I always get free quotes printed out on paper. Yes, you won't get a quote over the phone, you must come in. But every dentist I know will give free estimates. I recently got a bunch of free estimates for a crown and comparison shopped. Dentists are way more open about pricing than regular doctors, who are deliberately opaque. Regular doctors are the real crooks. And hospitals are the worst. As far as xrays go, yes, they love to over-do them. You gotta stand your ground and also get a copy of your last xray for your records so they have no excuse to redo it. When it comes to dentists and doctors you gotta boss them around otherwise they will jerk and milk you. Stand your ground and tell them upfront you ain't paying for anything they don't quote you on paper first.
  8. The data in that chart was US data. So of course the 99% figure is also US data. Vaccine is still 99% effective against Delta death/serious hospitalization. If you google around you can easily find the 99% figure for the US.
  9. I am not saying they are being fake. In that narrow situation they may feel good. But life is a much broader thing than one social event. That is the facade. You are looking at life far too narrowly. If I reduce life down to fishing, and I see a guy catching a bunch of fish while I suck and catch none, this says nothing about our lives as a whole because life is not limited to fishing. The guy could be great at catching fish but rapes children in his spare time.
  10. Perfect! Sounds like exactly what the doctor ordered. There's nothing like having one's nuts in a vice to motivate some cooperation. You're here, aren't you?
  11. You are imagining persons A and B. You are also assuming a difference between A and B. That difference is imaginary.
  12. Only because you haven't fully realized it yet. You've licked the jawbreaker once or twice. You must lick it to the core.
  13. Don't be so surprised. You were told life is a dream. That is EXACTLY what it is. This is not some cute metaphor. All your dream friends are as imaginary as the whole dream world. And outside the dream, there is nothing.
  14. No serious dentist should be doing anything but composite filings or all-ceramic crowns these days. If your dentist still does metal filings or crowns, find a new dentist because he is a total hack. Don't go cheap on dentistry or you will regret it.
  15. There are 100s of possible causes for chronic fatigue. You would have to troubleshoot all of them until you found the one that fits your case. Start by checking your thyroid TSH, free T4, and free T3, and vitamin D3, and doing an elimination diet.
  16. No, at even higher standards of living than wealthy people today. Don't confuse the limits of your mind for the limits of the Earth.
  17. There is no zero shortage of resources. The Earth has enough resources to sustain trillions of people. Meh, not relevant in the big picture. The amount of water on this planet is endless.
  18. Any other species that would arise would face the same survival and development hurdles. You assume the selfishness of mankind is a mistake. It is not. Obviously. I have already factored all that into my calculations. You are missing the big picture. What you're talking about is the little picture. Scientists' view are always the little picture. They have no vision aside from their calculations and models. If you want to understand where society is headed you need vision beyond any models or charts. I am not saying no one will suffer. I am saying the suffering will be manageable and pale in comparison to our progress. I am not denying the effects of climate change. Yes, there will be more fires, hurricanes, flooding, droughts, extinctions, etc. But that is not any kind of deal-breaker. All that shit will be managed.
  19. YES! You are the CREATOR of everything. You can become conscious of you created the entire universe. I have become conscious of how I created my physical body, my mother, every book ever written, etc. You don't "tap into them" because there is nothing to tap into. You simply realize your mother is imaginary. You create stuff by imagining it. You are creating me right now by imagining me to be a full fledged human. You imagine my POV, thereby creating it in your world.
  20. Practically speaking, no. You aren't awake. And there is a reason for that.