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It's mostly because the people who want to preach about climate change don't actually want to live the lifestyle of someone who produces low carbon emissions... they want to travel to 30 countries via international air travel, have all their luxuries, multiple properties, experience everything, "life their best life," and preach to others about climate change. Plus, you can't reduce carbon emissions unless you reduce consumption, and the central banking system can't really handle a reduction in consumption. You need economic activity and "growth" to be able to sustain the welfare systems people depend on. Reduce consumption and the system collapses or you get major inflation. They are kind of stuck, really. They have no choice but to push more economic activity, hoping that eventually technology will solve the problem for them. So then it becomes easier to push electric vehicles and wind/solar energy (which I fully support, I just wish they pushed nuclear power and fuel cell energy more) because it gives them a reason to spend money. It's the reason they are trying to import mass immigrants for the inexpensive laborforce to keep pushing economic activity at all costs, we have a large baby boomer population now collecting social security. The more people in a society you pay to do nothing, the higher the parasitic burden, the tougher it is to maintain the system. We used to have our elderly parents live with their kids in multi-generational households, now we expect them to have 2 or 3 retirement properties while the kids have a couple properties of their own... not exactly sustainable. First world luxuries for first world problems. https://www.fool.com/retirement/2023/02/25/social-security-baby-problem-trillion-dollar-issue/ Think about all the things we make from plastic, and then think about what plastic actually is... all those masks we wore 4 years ago that would survive trips through the washing machine and end up in the pacific garbage patch. The clothes you wear, the sheets on your bed, the couch or chair you are sitting on, TV you are watching, vehicle you are driving.... https://www.google.com/search?q=is plastic made from oil https://www.the-independent.com/climate-change/news/masks-ocean-covid-plastic-b1893830.html Throw in the large number of tier 1 consciousness stage blue/red/orange nation's who's populations are exploding (India, China, South America, Africa, Middle East) and they're all pumping out more carbon than ever... double the levels of 1980 globally. It's actually amazing we seem to have stabilized somewhat since 2014, but that's still a lot of carbon. The vast majority of the growth in emissions is coming from Asia at the moment, but we have a global marketplace so the point is moot outside of the idea that corporations like to export businesses to nations with cheaper labor and more lax environmental laws. https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions

Life goes on. Relax, and hope the price of housing gets more affordable regardless of who's in office. We deal with our own nature regardless of who's in power.

Supply and demand. I don't fault them for it. It's similar to how thin young female waitresses can make more than an engineer with a college degree if they pick the right restaurant. There's a very strong genetic drive within men to breed with young women ... look at Epstein Island, look at Elon Musk, diddy, look at Hollywood and celebrities grooming young actors... those who are able (through power, money, status, looks, personality, or a combination) will breed with a lot of really young women. It's just a genetic drive built through a couple million years of evolution. Our genetics overrule our rational mind in the end. We are software programmed through a process of evolution and natural selection. Next life, have your soul incarnate as a female and hope you aren't born in an autocratic dystopia.

Yeah having faith and all the other bullshit that people will tell you who have never been in this situation isn't going to help at least as a man, where nobody's going to save you and you're not going to find a companion simply by leaving the house like a woman can. Here's the raw advice you need... you gotta cultivate healthy habits and stop making excuses. The things you typically do every day out of habit, stop doing them and replace it with better habits. Do small things each day that make you feel proud of yourself and make you feel like you've grown as a person. Read the book "atomic habits" ... ditch this "it's not real" bullshit because it will feel real to you. These self help types use "it's not real" as escapism to get away from the harsh reality that life on this planet is savage and survival of the fittest. Brush up on your ability to be playful and not take life too seriously and the ability to fail and try again and again like an infant learning to walk. Your mindset is also poor. You are only 21 and you're worried your life is already over because you don't have a girlfriend... first of all, thoughts create your emotions so think better. Ditch the screens and work on building your body... if you are fat, stop fucking eating, get a side gig, take a class, learn a trade, and other things that will build value in your life, no fucking excuses and no sitting around pining "woe as me" which will only reinforce this bad habit in your brain to try to play the victim to get brownie points. That only works with women because men are biologically wired to want to "save" a woman, but nobody will save you except you. Some might say I'm encouraging you to find external validation rather than being at peace with with what is, but the truth is that is extremely hard to do and 95% of people who claim to be "happy" with their life circumstances that are shit are burying subconscious rage and disappointment and deluding themselves. Maslow's hierarchy typically needs to be approached in order. Take each of the "problems" you mentioned in your original post, one at a time try to find a way to fix each one. If you happen to live in an area where the the cost of living is insane as far as housing , you might need to relocate. Life is not easy, and has never been easy. Good luck. If you have a genuine health problem that keeps you from working, my condolences. I have to believe if you can have intercourse, you can find a source of income though. Mindset causes so many health problems in people's lives without them knowing. It's a chicken or the egg thing.. you're never going to get healthy with a shit mindset.

I love you so much my wife, LOL. I feel sorry for her more than anything. Sadly this happens quite a bit to the elderly in the US from charities. This is one of the dozen or so my grandmother was donating too before she passed. Put nice little sob stories on them and it's off to the races. https://www.americaneedsfatima.org/

You can enable Gemini in the phone settings that is Google's version of chat gpt. I find it quite useful with health questions or any sort of questions that are non-political in nature. If you ask the Google assistant how to enable Gemini it should take you to the right setting automatically or did for me.

Then you need fatty cuts of meat get ground beef with at least 20% fat in and eat all the fat if you don't want the protein then you need to get your extra calories from somewhere if you're not going to get them from carbohydrates you need to get them from fat. If you're trying to body build with this diet it's going to just hinder your progress not including carbohydrates however ask anybody who lifts. Rolled oats, smoothies with berries in them, various legumes, and nuts, these are pretty much staple items for any person into fitness. Also wheat bran cereal with a banana in it, things like that. Potatoes are good too. Also almond or cows milk. Adding plant-based Foods and dairy adds potassium to your diet that is otherwise missing because meat tends to be heavily salted to one degree or another. You ideally want a potassium sodium ratio of one to one or greater because that's how we evolved as a species.

A restrictive diet is not really needed unless you have some health problem that necessitates it's use. Especially if you weight lift or exercise, you should be eating carbohydrates. Even paleolithic hunter gatherers ate roots, leaves, nuts, seeds, etc. Do you have a reason for a specialty diet or are you just following social media trends/subreddits? Read this book... it's $3 on kindle: https://www.amazon.com/Bigger-Leaner-Stronger-Building-Ultimate-ebook/dp/B006XF5BTG

The establishment is so disconnected from the lives of the every day person, which is the main issue. It's the economy, stupid. The stratospheric stock valuations that help the wealthy individuals who run the system doesn't put food on the table for the working class person as the politician buys his or her 7th property. It's not about progressive ideals as much as it is about a political party of elites showing off their lavish lifestyles with policies that don't help their constituents. The west is increasingly turning to a plutocracy, with a left wing that is really only left wing in name only in my opinion. It was able to sway just enough voters to switch "sides" as if the other side will solve any of their problems. It's not dead... it swings back and forth and big money buys which ever side has the power at the time. Of course I'm always willing to admit I'm wrong and trying to get past this anger over the "money printing" they did and try to see things from their perspective. I'd love to sit down and have a conversation with a central banker on monetary policy.

Morality is a human construct. Plenty of people have been attracted to their cousins. It's not exactly an optimal genetic strategy given what we know about science and genetics, but it happens. Don't forget all the dynasties that practiced inbreeding to keep their bloodlines pure and produced individuals like Tutankhamun. I wouldn't get one pregnant, because well science... I'd rather have optimal genetic offspring. If you don't get them pregnant, and nobody finds out, then it's nobody's business.

I've found most black labs love eating ice as a treat. I'm just going to eat common sense food, not too many carbs from processed grain type items (hot pockets, pizza, pop tarts, donuts, soda, etc) ... I don't care about the "seed oils" too much. I try to pick high oleic oils when I can but if I have to use some mayo made with soybean oil, so be it. Here's a chip they carry where I work I will eat on occasion, because it has signficantly more potassium than sodium (most potato chips made with potatoes should be high in potassium) but also because they make it with high oleic sunflower oil. I mean, I don't really think omega 6 is causing systematic inflammation and killing people slowly any more than any other food or breathing itself does, but might as well cover my bases. This is a rare example of "junk" food that I eat. Hopefully in time all industrial seed oils are replaced with high oleic versions. Right now it comes down to patent expirations combined with economies of scale and overall demand. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Boulder-Canyon-Potato-Chips-Jalapeno-Cheddar-1-5-OZ/116049920 https://www.sunflowernsa.com/oil/High-Oleic-Sunflower-Oil/ The nutrition label is sideways. Sigh.

Any change the the body's homeostasis such as sudden changes in temperature, environment, etc can cause stress, even if you don't psychologically perceive it to be stress. Sometimes people paradoxically get sick when they are most relaxed also, because the body is finally given a chance to relax and "let go" from life's stressors and will then go into rebuilding mode.

For the most part, we act to fulfill our genetic imperative in a matter acceptable to "society." That means for a man to be his best with the ultimate goal of trying to get a woman to want him and have his babies. How society goes about it varies somewhat culture to culture but most people don't necessarily fight for causes, nor are they into politics. Personally I think the people who think they are so much "smarter" than everyone else because they see themselves as "enlightened" or "intellectual" or whatever are deluding themselves. I used to be one of them... oh 95% are sheep, so it's easy to dismiss what they have to say... nonsense. These types can become dangerous in time because they then think it's their job to impose their values on everyone else, whether they're part of the red, blue, orange, or green cults. To a degree it's human nature to take a self centric view and believe one's own values are best though. It's another thing to yet be forgiven via radical acceptance of what is... our shared flawed genetic nature. Miniature pieces of computer software/hardware with societal and genetic programming, part of a larger whole yet diverse and unique with our own perspectives. We do have that polarity in us as Breakingthewall said, our higher self can get hijacked by our lower selves... it's like in yellowstone when Rip says "no more women in the bunkhouse" ... if you're familiar with that storyline, enough said. Not even billionaires are immune to human nature. Some of them probably mastered it well to achieve the wealth they have. Plenty of people have been taken to the "train station" to amass their fortunes...

Grass finished steaks just doesn't taste as good either. The fattening process from the grain gives the meat the marbling that gives it what would be considered a USDA "prime" grade which can not be achieved on grain finished meat, at least not easily. The only real difference between grass and grain finished is what the cows eat the last few months. Granted feed lot conditions are not the best in some cases. Still it produces the best finished product. To a degree the cows enjoy gorging themselves on an all you can eat buffet of sugar, just like humans do as our BMI has reached record highs. https://www.reddit.com/r/Butchery/comments/193r22n/grassfed_vs_nongrassfed_vs_grainfinished/khbnxmv/ https://hagancattleco.com/blogs/news/which-beef-is-better-grass-fed-or-grass-fed-gran-finished Another interesting bit of information: "Utilizing grass forage as the primary source of feed also increases the carbon footprint because forage diets produce more methane gas emissions from the animal’s digestive tract than high-energy grain diets. Methane is 28 times more potent, trapping heat in the earth’s atmosphere as carbon dioxide. Generally, the grain-finished cattle will reach market in 12-16 months with an average carcass of 832 lbs. It’s grass-fed counterpart will take 20-26 months to reach market with an average carcass of 638 lbs. According to the USDA’s per capita beef consumption data, this means that a grain-finished animal can feed approximately 10.4 people as opposed to a 8 for the grass-fed animal. Sara Place, an assistant professor of sustainable beef cattle systems at Oklahoma State University has stated: “The combination of a higher-energy, lower-forage diet, less time spent on feed in finishing and heavier carcass weights translate to a 18.5% to 67.5% per capita lower carbon footprint.” The numbers support that grain-finished animal practices are more sustainable and reduce environmental impacts."

When you actually can get yourself to sit in a room of your own volition for more than a day (I'm not talking about time between work but actual days off) the emotional shit that floods to the surface and the reset in dopamine that occurs can make the most mundane things come alive again. People really have been drugged into a state of apathy with all the screens, food, drugs, stimulating chasing, hedonism. Leo's older video on the happiness spectrum really rings true. Anything is fine in moderation, but can you go without it for a week without intense cravings or succumbing to doing said activity? If not you are addicted. Practice "open focus" while sitting in a room for hours/days but you need to have better programming in place to replace the old habits. Things like new hobbies and visualization are helpful.

They are programmed by their culture and media machine just like any other country. To a degree with the rise of social media they can see through the programming depending on how many of the bother to try but human nature is human nature. People in nations generally try to keep to themselves and live their lives in spite of their leadership, and not because of it. Most people aren't cause fighters, they just want to get a job, have a family, and enjoy the simple pleasures. If they have a property they can afford, food on the table, and the occasional vacation, they are generally satisfied enough. I believe many opposed the war, just like many Americans do... don't fight the banker's wars... the money printing machine that profits off the civilian casualties that come along with war... as Guns N Roses said, it "feeds the rich while it buries the poor." "Your power hungry selling solders in a human grocery store..." I don't believe most average people actually support their nation's wars without massive propaganda and basically being told they are going to fight or go to jail/die if they don't. It's all about control. Psychopathic leaders gain power and demand obedience. People can go along with it or if it doesn't affect them, kind of ignore it. (american middle east meddling)

It really is the most efficient way to not waste anything though, that's the problem. The land can't sustain animals free ranging, especially when so much of the land is used to grow corn to make ethanol for cars. It's an inefficient use of land and manpower to have chickens all free range, and even if you let them, often they spend most of their time in the barn anyways because it's protection from the elements and predators. As morally questionable as modern farming may be, corporations want to be efficient... they literally do use all parts of the animal, and if we want to make affordable mass market meat for every grocery small grocery store on the planet, there's not really an easy way to avoid it. I would argue we should get rid of ethanol for vehicles and use that land for cattle feed or increased grazing/free range, and then we can stop growing things like Alfalfa (used as cattle feed) in california using that precious water and have more land resources to produce food instead of fuel. I try to buy "certified humane" eggs when at all possible, and most beef cattle is not kept in pens, they mostly graze outside. It's dairy cattle that are kept in pens, chickens for eggs (if they are not "certified humane" not to be confused with "american humane certified"), and pigs. Don't really eat much pork personally. That area in the great plains where it's too hilly to farm, like western south dakota, drive out there and you'll see the large numbers of beef cattle grazing on the land. https://www.quora.com/Why-are-some-dairy-cows-kept-in-barns-instead-of-out-on-pasture If they really wanted plant based meat consumption to increase they should have subsidized impossible and beyond like they subsidize the farm industry as a whole during Biden's term. Unfortunately because it's not "natural" and considered "processed" neither side (vegans or meat eaters) wants to embrace this (in my opinion) decent meat alternative, and it's too expensive to really consider replacing meat with without a subsidy to cut the price in half (or more)

It's a natural cycle to have these forests in semi arid areas burn down every hundred years or so.. if you hike out in the black hills or in Wyoming/Montana as an example you can see all the dead stumps and vegetation from man intervening and putting out the fires, so if they get going, they can get big. This is not a sign of the end times, or major climate change (though the climate is warming due to increased atmospheric CO2) it's just this bad because they put fires out for long enough there's lots of tinder on the forest floor, and if you build in a fire prone area there are risks and it just takes a small fire and some wind to get it moving. Best wishes to the victims. This will put a strain on our already tight housing supply not to mention the skyrocketing national debt as I'm sure they'll print a few trillion to bail out the insurance companies and anyone uninsured, which means more inflation, more quantitative easing, and more of the same from the status quo. These events can make people realize just how tight a line we weave having a stable society and how lucky we were to have so many decades of relative prosperity and calm in a reality designed with entropy in mind where stability can become unstable more easily than people realize. Building a utopia and maintaining it is not easy.

Meat eating is simply part of our evolutionary nature. We evolved during the paleolithic era consuming meat. Many animal species eat other animals. The moral argument is one that is really just man made.. yes animals suffer but they suffer in nature as well, often in far more cruel deaths than having their throats cut by man to become a ribeye. There's no easy answer because we don't want rainforest cut down to grow more cattle for south americans but at the same time we can't and won't force veganism on the planet. We really don't want to keep growing the population in my opinion... those people like Musk who say we should keep breeding, the planet can handle 30 billion people, in my opinion contribute to the problem. Prepping 3 lbs of ground beef to grill into burgers as I speak. Unlike many I would eat insects or various other meat related compounds if they managed to make them taste good. Not going to live off grains and vegetables however.... my diet is lower carbohydrate.

We also use farmland, quite large amounts of it, to grow corn which we turn into ethanol which fuels vehicles which I'm rather questionable is actually a good thing or not, and they're going to push E15 soon over E10. https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/us-corn-based-ethanol-worse-climate-than-gasoline-study-finds-2022-02-14/

David Hawkins warned about the spiritual ego but it seems like a lot of people into spiritual self help have large ones and rather than focusing on radical acceptance, they'd rather turn into political activists. Just my two cents. I'm not without problems myself, working on them for sure. None of these gurus wanted people to see all the evil in the world and be negative and nihilistic.

I mean, if the government wants to badly enough they're going to slaughter their own citizens, and for what? To implement some "do as I say" top down authoritarian style of governance from some "utopian" dictator? Communism will never work as long as it's based on an autocratic system where only a few individuals control policy and the people have no voice or vote. It becomes dependent on benevolent leadership which given human nature is the exception, not the rule, given the type of people who tend to seek power. One could practice radical acceptance of what is... if it's my time, it's my time... we live but a blink of an eye in the relative age of this planet and universe anyways... just don't stick me incarnating in a North Korean dystopia where life is brutal for no other reason than to appease the dictator. In such an extreme example they break your soul from birth, taking away any desire you have to fight back.

I appreciate you bringing this up and it's also the reason I believe in the right to bear arms because of human nature and I don't trust Human Nature and human nature needs checks and balances to keep power and wealth from concentrating too much. If you have a dictator coming to power it's helpful to be armed. If the populace is not armed then they're powerless to do anything about the situation and this is the entire reason the founding fathers put the Second Amendment into the constitution. They were aware of human nature because it hasn't changed much in 250 years or 2,000 years. That said, I would argue that we should have better regulations in place to make sure only stable well-trained people are using them and I would probably raise the age to 21 because people mature a lot slower these days. However that's not going to happen anytime soon and I'm okay with that.

Sorbitol is in all sorts of low carb foods and maybe causes a little gas. It's a low glycemic alternative to sugar. It should still be consumed in moderation because the liver turns it into fructose. Then he equates the cellulose gum with the cellulose on your legs. I stopped watching at that point. Cellulose is an insoluble plant fiber found in all sorts of plant based foods naturally. There is an app called "yuka" my father uses to screen out toxins that rates things to weed out the worst offenders. There are certainly certain additives to be worried about still in some foods, but this content is nonsense content, like most content found on social media.

That seems to be human nature. The old generation are always the ones who talk about how great the "good old days" we're and how things are going to hell, while the young generation embraces the change. That's part of the reason change is so difficult when for example, the 80 year olds that have ran things for the past 40 years are still in office. That said, change for the sake of change isn't always a good thing. Humans are creatures of habit though... routines we develop in our youth tend to persist throughout adulthood... "it's hard to teach an old dog new tricks."