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This needs a dedicated thread.

Thanks for explaining @Ulax! I understand your position now, and I agree with most of what you said.

Yes, they get in their own way. The best thing for them to do is just go get a girlfriend and have sex a thousand times so they can stop obsessing about it. There's no need to worry about pickup and female psychology and all this bullshit. You just go put yourself around people and learn to have fun and be yourself. Sooner or later, a girl will give you a look. Don't respond to it. Wait for another look, then smile or use a more intense gaze to acknowledge her. Before long, you'll have your pecker up in some wet stuff. You don't even have to approach. All you have to do is talk to them from across the bar or where ever you are. I found they actually like that you make your first communication with them from a distance but it should be a neutral topic, no teasing or pickup line. Something as simple as "holy shit, did you see that?" invites her in. If she doesn't want to come, put her out of your mind and continue to have fun. She just might wind up at your side 20 minutes later. It's really that simple. Just go out with a goal to have fun, not get laid. Girls are attracted to fun, laughter, and easy-going demeanor. Smile and laugh a lot, and it's impossible to not get laid. If you go to a bar and take up space (not like a clown) and laugh loudly (but not too loud) and crack jokes, every woman in the place will wonder about you. Keep sex in the very back of your mind, not the front. Use something in the environment as a way to connect, such as the music jukebox, dart, pool, or ring game. Mostly joke, discuss things in the environment, tease once or twice only, and ask questions in between. Don't try to be cool, she can smell your bullshit. Don't be afraid of silence and actually don't care if she walks away and never comes back. You need to build a reputation of being fun and easy-going, not a needy try-hard. Bars are great for getting laid and practicing your social skills. Not nightclubs, as there's too much going on. This is the easy path to getting the pecker wet, but feel free to analyze hundreds of hours of female psychology and pickup content if that's more important than actually getting some puss.

True for me.

You have a point. Society would not have made it to where it is today if every human were concerned with sitting on their spiritual cushion. We need asleep people to work construction because it will be hard to build cities with awake people. And we need asleep people to procreate the construction workers. Everything is for everything else. You get in where fit in.

Haha, bro, millions of people were correct. I’m not a partisan and I’ve warning about Trump since he was elected in 2016. It wasn’t some hard thing to see that you don’t put that vile and rotten of a character in the position of the presidency. The hard thing to see was why it was so hard for millions of others to not see. It’s all understood now though. We know the psychology of the Christians, the alpha males, the libertarians, the bigots, the enlightened centrist, and many other flavors of idiocy. Trump compelled many to understand and flesh out low consciousness. This is one good thing that came from him.

Too much thinking about how you’re superior to green has made you think one who recognizes this truth sees no other nuance.

Here comes high-horse Aurum. “purely bad faith” is a straw man. We’re saying he is aware of the epistemic and rhetorical tactics he’s deploying to protect his intellectual position whilst it crumbles, and he’s doing it for money and fame, all the while knowing exactly what he is doing. This is called “bad faith”, not “purely bad faith”. The above statement is true. If you reject it, you damage your intellectual tower in the sky.

By that logic, we can say that when ANY human at ANY level complains, they are forgetting that it couldn’t be any other way, including your complaint about green right now. Once we realize reality couldn’t be any other way, what are we to do with that? What do you do with it? Do you throw your hands up or press on for improvement? Is it your position that identifying problems and solutions is futile? Or simply it’s more mature(ego juice superior) to recognize the inevitability of reality, and only then press for change once that is acknowledged? It’s so easy to find blind spots in worldviews, but what is even the point of this? For me, it’s to understand human psychology. But once the blind spots are identified and the mechanisms known, then what? Like, to me, it doesn’t make sense that people are still posting examples of stage orange and green yellow mega threads because how many examples do you need to understand the blind spots, self-deceptions, and biases common to each level? How long must we stare at the same blind spot? What is this fixation really about? This is a dangerous thread to pull on for many egos here, including those thought to be highly developed. For many, it’s about self-esteem. Placing oneself higher than others. Being the one that can see. The special one. Because if there’s no practical benefit in returning to an assessment, why would one return to it a thousand times? The answer is ego juice.

To be fair, Destiny doesn’t make the thumbnails or even upload to YouTube. His 50/50 partner does all that. Still doesn’t excuse anything as this seems like a mistake that should at the very least be corrected. I don’t think Destiny would intentionally and falsely smear this dude. He probably just made a bad read, like you said, due to slightly broken English. Destiny is sharp but I’ve seen him make mistakes like this before. His audience usually corrects him and he argues over it for 10 minutes before accepting his mistake.

It’s marketing for Dana White. Just like selling a Tesla on the White House lawn for Elon. Trump is delivering value to Dana. Like all his alliances, they’re structured around quid pro quo. Trump does not give two shits about UFC. He uses them like he uses Christians. Only an unconscious fool would make a habit of getting excited at watching someone’s head get bashed in or elbow popped out. It reveals a crude, immature, unserious consciousness. This low level of consciousness is the status quo. One implication of this is they are ripe for manipulation, conformity, and getting swept up in the madness of the crowd. When one of the most powerful, wealthiest, and famous people on the planet acknowledges their regressive hobby, they turn into school girls screaming in the presence of Elvis. One interesting dynamic is this will not sit well with Christians. I had an impulse to blast this story over my social media but then I realized it will have more effect if the Christians just turn on the news and see it for themselves.

When your only tool is a hammer, everything is a nail.

It’s an inevitable part of imagination, which is part of reality, but I’ll deal with the fear of crucifixion when I’m about to be nailed to a cross. Lol. I don’t see how you arrive at “because it exists in the abstract means it must exist in the concrete”. I understand the idea that all is mind, and I’ve even witnessed living lives not my own via psychedelics, and there I realized what can be sufficiently imagined can be witnessed, so I think I understand your point, but from a practical point of view, if the horrific reality is not on our doorstep, there’s nothing we need to do, even if it exists out there somewhere.

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!