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@Mixcoatl what about family? Life goals does not necessarily just mean career to most women. Most women who are serious about a relationship will want to see that you’re interested in living together, marriage, buying a house, kids etc. For them, a relationship not moving in that direction will feel static and pointless.

There will be moments that functionally act like a test. Sometimes they might be conscious / intentional, sometimes not. Either way, you should see it all as contributing to the interaction and the process of you two forming something together. And obviously not all playful banter should be interpreted as some kind of devious test. Becoming too combative or paranoid is very bad. Just have fun with it.

Overall I feel like abstaining is beneficial if I'm serious about going out. But you do need to be careful about thinking too much with your dick. If you just let your dick run the show, you can make stupid decisions. Dick gets a voice, not the final say.

The clearly example of capitalist bullshittery is how much the richest people in the world have made since Covid. There's no possible way to justify how much more they are worth in just a couple years based on merit. Their businesses have not functionally changed in that time period.

There's a few, but mostly they do not exist. People in the Metamodernism / Integral / Metacrisis space would be the place to start.

Stuff like this was inevitable. People just copy what works.

That's a shame. Finding a legal, safe substance that produces consistent awakenings is holy grail territory.

They might feel safer around gay men at times. But that's not the same thing as "preferring" gay men over straight men.

Relevant indeed.

Tier 2? Musk does not fit any definition I care about for Tier 2. He has spent the last half a decade attacking Green, completely misunderstanding it.

Nothing about my thoughts on Musk have changed.

Good for her. Smart woman.

Health is the foundation for just about any kind of success in life.

Now that it's convenient for their legal case, lol.

Epistemology pretty clearly should come first in terms of order of operations. But this seems like too strong of a distinction. You can have metaphysical insight and understanding.