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You can do with a place like Cambodia because it's a small, undeveloped nation. The US is the world superpower. It'll never agree to it, and no one has the geopolitical leverage to make it happen.

That will solve nothing. You cannot just dissolve these kind of problems away.

Contemplate it. Have you ever experienced space outside your consciousness?

"Space" is inside your consciousness.

You just don't conceptualize it as push-pull.

Pickup techniques are given to you because they demonstrate what actual good flirting looks like. The point is not to ultimately destroy the techniques. The point is to make them natural and unconscious, rather than forced. That's just called being an attractive man.

I get that it's important for you to deconstruct pickup. But there really is no way of getting around push-pulls. Push-pull just is what flirting is. You don't need to force it, but you're not getting rid of them either.

That wasn't good but it wasn't terrible either. Some small adjustments and that could have landed.

Good stuff. The next level is coming back to learning how to be strategic with your time and selective with your attention. But now, not from a place of intimidation or heavy neediness.

Diet matters, but I think many people also overstate the significance. I was vegan at one point. Now I eat meat everyday and my spiritual clarity has only increased.

They are related, but I would be mindful about collapsing the distinction between the two. That's likely to lead to sense-making errors if done poorly. When we say "awakening", we usually mean something more profound than standard metacognition. Everyone has metacognition to a degree. Not everyone is awake.

You focus on what you can control and living towards your highest values. You don't need to fix the world.

Science proved evil exists, you just didn't hear about it

Pretty sure they got in trouble a few years back, although I can't recall all the details. I think they weren't properly testing their product.

Don't expect women you are dating to match your personal development ambition.

@Ryan M If you make that much money, you should be able to set up a social circle situation. Network in Vegas and use your money to attend events where you can meet women. You could also host events. Get creative.

I did not mean you personally. I meant higher than your average conservative.

Yes, because they often have higher moral development. That's not a coincidence. Also, consider that "conservative" style of humor is not always as free as you are suggesting. Try making a joke about Xi Jinping in China. The idea here that self-regulation is always in opposition to self-expression needs to be challenged. They do work as opposites, but they can also go together. Voluntary self-regulation exists.

There is no such thing as "behaving well" outside of consequences. You can't separate the two.

Interesting, not what I would have expected of him. Great find.

I've already explained my position. And I'm not going to engage in condescension.

Words and definitions are constructions. I will use them how I see fit. The point of the word 'functionally' was to avoid getting stuck in some narrow, dictionary definition of theft. What matters from a sense-making perspective is the principle and the psychology. Focusing on whether it fits some strict legal definition misses the point. And it's bad epistemology.

“Eat real foods” they say, while holding up pictures of bananas. This whole processed vs real debate is missing the point.

Justification. Yes, you torrent because you are desperate like a Venezuelan. That's my point. You can morally justify it if you want. Theft can be morally justified. It's still theft. And the vast majority of people who torrent are not even Venezuelans, they are mostly first-world people.