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Interesting how its working. Thanks for sharing.

@Emerald is right. JP is bad faith. Here’s the best articulation of his shenanigans I’ve heard. Turns out, this Jubilee format is really hurting right wingers. Candace Owens recently went on and was made look like the fool that she is. And when left-wingers like Sam Ceder and Destiny go on, they clean house. It probably won’t be long before right wingers know to stay as far away from jubilee as possible…. On second thought, they are slow to catch on.

A fear can’t be dealt with until it shows up on your doorstep. Until then, you can only deal with the fear of the fear, which is typically dealt with by not dealing with it. What is the point of transcending fear? To not suffer? Here’s an idea: don’t fret, don’t get neurotic about removing the fear of the fear, don’t make a habit of bringing the fear to mind, and just experience it when it comes. Like everything else, it will pass. Certain realities are absolutely devastating and it makes little sense to attempt to turn them into something you’re indifferent to or not impacted by.

I’m guessing it uses yt-dlp under the hood, which is a good command line interface for downloading yt vids. You could set up your own frontend UI with a form that accepts the URL and download options and just download vids directly. You’d have to figure something else out for the browsing part. Maybe some web scraping of your fav channels or maybe use Claude code to create a browser extension to add a “download” button next to every video, and tie that into your frontend which could display the vids in card style layout. Claude code could handle all of this. Thing I don’t like about apps like this is if they get too popular, YT will refactor how they serve vids and these tools will no longer work. So I wouldn’t announce to the world. YT-DLP has already had significant hurdles.

Right. What’s the point in solving global warming if it’s all part of God’s plan? No need to worry about the world going to hell in a hand basket because the righteous ones will get to spend eternity worshipping God, taking leisurely strolls with their family and friends on streets made of golden cobblestone and joining in the concert hall every night to see if you get lucky enough to be called up on stage to kiss the feet of Jesus. Sounds like a fucking blast.

lol. Touché

You ever heard the phrase "You can't fix stupid"? Well, it's true, and there's more of them than there are of you. It has to fix itself by getting burnt for it's mistakes and coming to a better conclusion on its own. The best way to speed this up is to stop providing opportunity for stupid to double down and stop providing it with fresh outlets for its expression. In other words, there should be no trying to change stupid's mind. There should be no visible, hostile antagonist to stupid. This particular breed of stupid thrives on attention and identity building. If it were starved of attention in the political realm, it would find other things besides politics to focus on. In an ideal world, the left would wise up and realize this and work quietly in the shadows, but this is a fantasy. As such, there will be ideological wars and wars of identity, and as long as there are elites to exploit this, it means stupid wins more often than it should because it has numbers, momentum, and is easily exploited. So what do you do? I see no other way to beat stupid than to starve it out. Provide it no sustenance and no opportunity to gain ground. Bad systems collapse when they stop being rewarded. Here's what that would look like, per ChatGPT: Dont: Don’t expect widespread top-down change from reasoned argument or moral appeals. Don’t waste energy on ideological theater. Debates on social media aren’t the battleground that matters. Don’t flaunt your ideals like a badge or shove them into every conversation. Don’t try to convert everyone. Most people aren't open to new ideas until they feel the pain of their current one. Don’t rush to rescue when the consequences finally land. Don’t keep trying to prevent the fall—sometimes collapse is the lesson. Don’t confuse visibility with effectiveness. Don’t make your stand all about signaling virtue or intelligence. Do: Think “build a parallel operating system,” not “win an argument.” Refuse to be their enemy. That denies them a narrative to rally around. Starve them of attention. Let stupid scream into a void. Influence through example: Be effective, competent, grounded. Let the contrast speak for itself. Move resources behind the scenes: fund smart people, support well-designed platforms, build tools that scale truth quietly. Build real alternatives: community organizations, independent media, local power structures, education platforms. Create safety nets for the aftermath, not the prevention. You’re not trying to stop the pain—they need the burn to learn. Prepare to step in when stupid breaks its leg—not to say “I told you so,” but to lead better by example. Act on values, not applause. Say less, build more. Quiet confidence is harder to provoke—and harder to stop. "You don’t beat stupid by engaging it. You beat it by ignoring it, outlasting it, and building something it can’t reach. That’s the real revolution. It happens out of sight—and hits all at once when stupid finally runs out of road." I've seen this in my own life. I tried for many years to beat the stupid out of several people and it never works. They only start to catch on when you stop being antagonistic to their stupidity. It seems to take about 2-5 years before they start to come around. lol, but that's only if there is no antagonism. They will know there's unspoken antagonism, but that's actually an invisible whip that serves to bring them around sooner or later. It's actually a huge catalyst for their maturation. Quiet, subtle disapproval is surprisingly effective, but it requires patience. Let them sit with their own mess without giving them a scapegoat.

A large part of "this work" is to know thyself, which is no trivial task. Understanding how one's cognition operates is foundational to "this work". It's not only good for knowing oneself, but also others. If you were to forget about MBTI and ask yourself "Is fleshing out and defining cognitive patterns a useful endeavor?", the answer would be "if there actually are stable and consistent patterns, it could be very useful". Turns out, there are stable and consistent patterns that we can track. The whole point of psychoanalysis is to explore how and why your mind functions the way it does, usually with a goal to resolve a psychological problem via clarity of one's mentations, and their implications. Cognitive function theory can show you why those mentations are there and why they persist, which could aid in strategy for their removal or addition. Problems are perceived and dealt with differently by different cognitive configurations. Specific configurations can make specific problems more or less challenging. Knowing your cognition could aid you in finding the best path for verticality. It's a tool. The model should be used to build and fortify a foundation for verticality, not to lock oneself into the model.

haha, I ain't got the energy ATM.

It's more about the physical environment than people. It's just really easy to neglect the physical environment and hard to maintain it. I can spend two weeks getting everything in order but in 3 months, it'll be chaos again because I've gotten lost in my inner world. Makes me want to just throw everything in the trash. lol, but I know I'd regret it. I bought a shipping container to store all my shit in, thinking that would solve all my problems. Nope. That's now a disaster as well and none of my problems are solved. I'll get there!

And regarding verticality:

They are not structurally similar at all. I plugged your statement into ChatGPT and said "Is this correct?"

I understand your point, but you're wrong. I've watched the movie "23". I'm well aware of the mind's tendency to find patterns and the motivated reasoning it uses to add meaning to them. I'm very skeptical when patterns first emerge and I'm often the first one to call out bullshit patterns. Horoscopes and star signs are bullshit, from what I can tell. I've gone deep into the cognitive functions and confirmed the patterns are real. You could use the fallacy exemplified in the movie "23" to dismiss all patterns if you want.

@Natasha Tori Maru You might like Dear Kristen. She's an Aussie. This is one of her more serious videos but she does a lot of funny skit-style vids that I like.

It doesn't. To equate the functions with astrology and horoscopes is just proving you don't have a clue about the model. Most likely out of some groupthink, scientifically-dogmatic knee-jerk rejection of the model and/or just not being aware of the foundation it's built on. You are likely operating on the flawed notion of the 4-letter dichotomies. In that case, you're absolutely right. MBTI is an absolutely bullshit model if that's all you know about it.

For example: You have to ignorant of the model to say it's mostly useless. https://1lib.sk/book/2632202/5e45bf/psychological-types.html

You're wrong bro. Until you do a deep dive into Jung's cognitive functions, you're just speaking out of your ass. You're rejecting the entire foundation of Jungian cognitive functions, seemingly without knowing it. The whole point is to show patterns of cognition. Do you think patterns of cognition do not exist? Do some people have a natural tendency for abstract thought while others, more concrete? Do some people have more mastery over the physical world than others? Do some people value social harmony more than others? If the answer to these is “yes”, which is obvious, then we’re already talking about stable cognitive tendencies. When you look at those tendencies in clusters, patterns emerge. That’s what Jung did, which is what MBTI is built on. If you explore it in earnest, you might actually learn something. I have an ISTJ mom. If you go read the description of an ISTJ, you will know more about my mom than she does, without ever having met her. You will know she religiously adheres to self-imposed routines, does not like abstract thought, and hates change and spontaneity. Because that's how ISTJs are. How is it the ISTJ description explains her to a T? Patterns bro. These behaviors and preferences cluster for a reason and they offer a ton of explanatory power. If you can’t see the utility in that, the limitation is in you, not the model.

Yes, it's not as awesome as the descriptions make it seem. My energy is definitely dwindling with age. I've accepted my poor social skills. As for going out, I partied my ass off in my teens and 20s and got more than my fill of social games. I moved around a good bit and always wound up in a group of friends, but I don't enjoy that anymore, so now, like you say, I'm holed up in a box. As far as protecting ourselves from physical agression, I found out early I couldn't fight worth a fuck. lol, so I have to be careful not to be confrontational to the wrong person. Many "alpha male" types feel threatened by me for some reason and try to start shit, even if I never speak to them. That's another problem solved just by not going out. Many problems solved by not going out. For me, physical world and social games are the Achilles' heel. I used to work construction and I had a serious problem with remembering where I put things in the physical world. I can remember where things are placed internally, but not externally. That's probably my biggest complaint with this condition. It's too easy to neglect the physical world for too long and then it all comes crashing down like a huge wave of overwhelm. The thing I like best about it is the fierce independence. Like, I don't need anything outside myself to be happy, except for an efficient and rejuvenating physical environment. Also, there has always been a strong internal locus of control and when I want something, I can work endlessly for it, nose to the grindstone. It sometimes feels neurotic but I'm fine with the tradeoffs. I'll take it over some time-wasting Fe bullshit... I just wish the physical world wasn't so difficult to manage.

Yeah, good point. It’s like there’s some deep, deep well of emotion we have to keep down. I once tripped on psychedelics and that mother fucker came wide open. Lol. It was the best. I literally felt a flood of heavy shit just streaming out of my chest like a beam. Something serious is buried deep. Probably trauma. Lol.

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@Natasha Tori Maru Yeah, there are problems with using ChatGPT for typing. You’re welcome! Yeah, the way you want to help others by skipping over all the feels and getting right to the solution is Te. Lol. It’s funny. It presents as odd to people. Like, they can sense that I care deeply about their problem but I’m only interested in connecting with them logically, strategically, searching for clarity and a path forward. Classic Ni-Te. That’s just how we “connect” I guess. I’ve wondered if this is some sort of a defense mechanism to keep emotional flood gates closed. Yeah, a lot of the INTJ personality descriptions are like fluff-pieces. When lots of people read it, they say “I’m that one!” because the type does contain virtues most people would like to embody. Ni provides vision and direction, Te analyzes and calculates how to get there, and Fi stands for something and will stand all by itself if it must. I never let the fluff pieces go to my head but there is some truth to it. Doesn’t make us special, just different. And we still have many shortcomings, obviously. I never really felt better or superior to anyone, just very different. Learning about my type explained a lot. 2-3% of the population are INTJ, so realizing that and the difference in cognition has helped me to accept myself and others. Most people IRL see me as ‘weird’, so being and INTJ isn’t anything glamorous, lol, that’s for sure. Yeah, Joyce is a good resource, as is personality hacker. And yes, text is different than speaking off the cuff but unless you’re very fragmented, I don’t see how you could hide your type for very long. But maybe some types are just easier to peg than others. I haven’t gone deep on all the types. You might also like “Love who” and Frank James. Frank James is mostly funny skits but you can pickup a lot from them.

Nice! Your prompt is too scientific for my taste. 😆 I actually just gave the deep researcher my profile link and told it to analyze 200 posts/comments to figure out my type based on cognitive functioning and it did really well. The only rule I gave it was to ignore any post about where the user mentions their own personality traits and ignore any MBTI claims the user has made. It seems to work pretty good out of the box by having it focus specifically on cognitive functions instead of MBTI. Still not sure how accurate it is for other people though. I just tested i on @Nemra. Nemra, ChatGPT analyzed your posts and says you're an INTP. Here's the results. https://chatgpt.com/share/6862fb68-6880-8010-9944-596af7ca8ec1

Might as well not even bother waking up. Lol.