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Well, we need to define terms to have a proper discourse around the subject. What do you even mean by masculinity and femininity? Why are you strongly against it? Do you have some research that backs up this sentiment or it's more of a lived experienced type of thing? I think humans can present different fronts depending on the environment they're in and yes they can present as quite masculine in one context and more feminine in another. Sometimes a personality is quite consistent in all environments but perhaps for example let's take a very stoic and unemotional man. I would argue that personality type is more of a function of having to be strong and unreactive in the situations that they're in over a core unchangeable personality trait. Being a feminine flamboyant man is gonna be a less successful life strategy in the favelas of Brazil over the streets of San Francisco or Toronto. @Joshe Spiral dynamics tier 2 is not merely about having a predisposition towards systems thinking. It's more of an identity and way of relating to the world. Have you watched the videos on tier Yellow and Turquoise and the applications of spiral dynamics?

I hope that you're a better man than backhanded insults. There is no need to get triggered. I was merely pointing to the fact that to have a chance in hell of making a polyamorous relationship work then an ethical non-monogamy framework is your best bet. You're clearly one of the smartest people we have on this forum.

Phoebe Gates and her roommate Sophia Kianni co-founded an app called Phia which helps shoppers save money while shopping by scanning the internet for coupons. They raised $35,000,000 in January 2026 at a $185M valuation after it now coming out that in December they were aware and authorized a cookie stuffing feature basically making it so when you install their browser app any purchase you make is credited to them. The Kardashians, Paris Hilton, Hailey Bieber, Alix Earle and Sheryl Sanberg apparently invested in her business. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-11/phia-app-co-founders-pushed-for-features-taking-credit-for-sales-it-didn-t-drive The funniest part is Elizabeth Holmes who was imprisoned for fraud after her own company Theranos was exposed as lying to the investors and the public, supporting her and agreeing that it's probably just a bug that she didn't know about it. This is like one of the only people in the world that can cause your credibility to tank if they support you lol I think as students of self-actualizing and life purpose it's a great example to show that taking the easy way out is well EASY. Solving hard problems for people takes a tremendous amount of insight into the world and what would actually improve peoples lives. Let alone taking that insight and turning it into a commercially viable enterprise. Much easier to come up with an app that actually scams the world than sit down and work 10x harder to help elevate it. Just to make clear how Cookie Stuffing works (what her company Phia is accused and well guilty of since they just turned it off and it lowered their revenue by over 50%), lets say you click on a fashion influencer's link after she shows you a new t shirt you wanna buy. If you have phia on your device they will get paid and not that fashion influencer, it's fraud and basically theft. It's exactly what Paypal Honey was exposed for last year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cookie_stuffing They also have a podcast where they interview actually successful founders which makes it harder to run away from the irony She's only 23 and with fucking Bill Gates footing her legal bill it's doubtful she'll face any legal consequences. Her older Jennifer Gates is a equestrian so I guess she wanted to avoid the rich girl hobby and wanted to prove herself and build something. It'll be interesting to see 10 years down the line if she learns from this and starts something the right way next time or just learns that entrepreneurship is too hard for her and pivots to being just a socialite social media influencer.

Why not? Anybody can point out behaviours that seem problematic in their view. If you have too much ego to take it to heart and reflect on it, that's on you.

Seems like you have quite a shallow view of the world. Why do you care about being embarrassed? Especially as Bill Gates the ex richest man of the world lol. I'm more concerned about why he raised his kids with the self confidence of a deflated balloon to the point that she felt she had to do this to prove herself to the world. Gary Vee talks about self-esteem constantly, Bill should've watched a few of his videos.

Haven't played it. A good mix of both is nice. You ever play Dead Space? I fucking hate getting lost in a video game so that one literally you a line indicator or where to go so you could wander off and explore and when you got bored the line would take you back to the main story. I really enjoyed that model.

I think it produces short-term results but medium term and long term you've built your life on a house of cards. I'm trying to push you towards deeper introspection so you can avoid repeating mistakes. This mindset has served me well personally. I do enjoy your wild stories, I just want you to be able to build your dream dating life brother. That has been a decade plus long quest for me so I'm quite passionate about helping others achieve it for themselves.

Gamescom is on until tomorrow, you guys seen stuff you like? This game looks fucking sweet, they describe it as a first person soulslike but looks like a spiritual successor to Bioshock to me. They did me well as a history nerd, you incarnate as a revived soldier of Napoleon Bonaparte's army. I've also never played the Witcher games so would love to try out the Witcher 3 remake. Seems similar to the type of vibes I want for my own game. I don't have a gaming PC right now so might have to pickup a PS5 in a few months. This one looks pretty cool too

You seem to enjoy taking shortcuts in dating as opposed to taking the long harder way but more stable my friend!

Yes I like to analyze my life with AI and it can spot your blindspots pretty well. If you have some courage you can ask it why do you think I have these blindspots and what effects would you predict these to have on my life and it will usually nail your life problems and give you a pretty good basis for deeper introspection. For me seeing it written down in detail helps a lot, if I tried to entangle my own psychology then a lot of times just unpleasant feelings come up with no easy explanation for them so I tend to just avoid that and move on with my day. Meditation is cool because it feels like the subconscious mind just processes the emotions for you while you skip the conscious awareness of it.

Yes business models have a lot in common and if you study the mechanisms, they're creative ways to solve common problems that human face. It's generally best to try and solve a problem you have interest in. That's why I went into dating photography since I just replicated what worked for me and sold photoshoots to other men and it did pretty well. I actually tried to start a women's beauty brand to build up a female customer base but I had so little interest in it that I stopped after like 3 days. It was called Empress Essence and was gonna be line of different products and themed collections dropping every couple months. I was gonna start with press on nails since the margins on it were insane. Each girl I told about it found it pretty coool, I might get back to it one day but you only have energy for so many different projects in life.

You didn't provide any statistics or even anecdotal evidence to back up what you're saying; just blanket statements. This combined with your post on struggling with porn led me to the conclusion that you are scared of intimacy; it's not a statement out of thin air. Which one of your claims do you feel most strongly about? We can break it down and discuss it more in-depth.

Interesting, where are you that they don't allow imgur? Says that Jeffrey Epstein has no confirmed children and a few women have come forth and tried to claim part of his estate for their kids but nothing has been proven yet. @something_else Yeah totally I've considered all of this already. I think being a business owner with a profitable business makes the whole thing way more viable than just having a career and trying to manage the job market and probably getting fired with AI over the next 10 years and a big household. I'm working towards that daily. Ideally I would see myself buying a place next to a big city but a bit removed to build my household. Probably in Europe somewhere warm or SEA since I really hate the cold. To me it sounds like quite an interest way to live your life. This is the most complex scenario possible with having kids with all 4 women. I would like to get there but a lot of polyamorous couples have kids with their partner and girlfriends that can live in the house but no kids or don't even live on the same propriety. I'll see how my life develops and which type of polyamory I end up falling into.

Wow yeah that would be fucked up. Doesn't seem like he has kids though

I'm simply guiding you towards deeper insight regarding behaviouralism and what constitutes accurate green or red flags. Yes, I like calibrated and in demand women so I'm sure they'll end up in clubs at some point. I also like introverted women so perhaps I'll end up with one of each. My dating strategy revolves around building my life up to the point where that factor doesn't really threaten the stability of my relationships.

The left side of my face can handle a 5 lbs dumbbell but the right side only 2.5 lbs. I try to only talk to girls sideways so they think I'm a chad. If I do it facing them head on or god forbid with the right side forward it's over they know I'm faceweaked.

That's good, I don't see why divorce has to be such a terrible thing and people end up going from loving each other to scorched-earth this is my worst enemy on the planet type of scenarios. Not in thousand years, Elon Musk seems to be a terrible father and half of his kids hate him. He was never there for them and made them a distant priority to his business goals. That's why I think remote business is so important so you don't have to choose between spending time at the office and raising your kids.

Is this your lived experience or a thought you've had? I've went out with women multiple times that were both single and had boyfriends and I've also ended up hitting on many taken women and the scenario you've described is exceedingly rare. Your point on your woman having high quality friends is important though. If her friends are cheating on their man and she's okay with that for example then obviously that's a pretty big foreshadowing moment towards your own relationship's chance at loyalty.

Well for me I'm an entrepreneur and want to build a fully remote business so I've already figured that one out I don't really need a stable sleep schedule. I think my babies will be quite smart too so I think perhaps even at 6 months old they can give useful insights for my business in the form of sign language that I will put into AI and try to decode

Sometimes life is wilder than fiction If her dog is bigger than you, it's over don't even try. Only trust women with purse dogs.

Of course, problems will come like one of the woman not liking how another woman parents her child, etc. There are always problems in life, you just have to choose which types of problem you want to experience. For me I think figuring out how to raise children with 4 different women sounds like a high quality problem that I enthusiastically welcome. @Mellowmarsh I hear that @Inliytened1 has a nice house, I think you'd be comfy there. Is the romance back or what?

Well if you're part of the 1-5% you're no longer blocked from seeking employment at the FBI! Truly the land of the free https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1w1kcpn/patels_fbi_lowers_the_bar_for_applicants_with/ I wonder how on earth that came up, they've had to disqualify too many rural applicants that fucked their cows? That makes no sense nobody would admit to that so how tf are they finding it necessary to lift that restriction? What kind of person is convicted of a beastiality offence and why do they want to swell their ranks with such talented individuals

You're gonna cut yourself off from really feminine expressive women though. The type of woman that likes to dance around and be a bubble of joy. It seems more wise to simply assess your woman for signs of fragmentation of her psyche, avoidance and dysfunctional coping mechanisms that would lead to her externalizing her problems and looking for quick dopamine to feel better about them(like fucking or making out with another dude.) If your woman doesn't have that in her psychological makeup then cheating on her man with a random dude from the club will sound more like a nightmare to her than an enticing option.

Babies are great, they make the human race more powerful. For a monogamous couple raising kids can be a nightmare, they usually get sleep deprivation for the first year of the newborn's life. If you have multiple women in the household it makes it much easier to divide tasks and enhance the life quality of each person involved and the kids get to live in a fun household with many loving figures.