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I smoked too much weed as a teenager so that probably fucked my memory up, I can't even remember phone numbers people tell me sometimes literally 2 minutes after hearing it lmao.

No that's not rude, it's quite a common thing in media culture. Idk how old you are or if you payed attention to Western culture at the time, but even before he killed himself they were RIDICULOUSLY popular and on the rise to go even higher, which is also what made his suicide such a big deal.

Nirvana had some good hits and that genre of music really arrived at the perfect time in culture, but jesus christ I don't think there has ever been a band more overrated except maybe like, Green Day? Try listening to any full Nirvana album, besides the hits that everyone knows they are absolute GARBAGE. Also it feels like a lot more Stage Red to me, especially Kurt. It feels reactive to growing into Stage Blue but that's just the quick impression I get I may be wrong.

Because people (mostly the women let's be honest ) want to dream up that fantasy because it feels good. Also the social tradition and culture of marriage which has been around along time. It sounds like you're just rational @tatsumaru and like your freedom. Nothing wrong with that! Do your thing and don't apologize for it. I'm probably never getting married either. In fact I'm even seriously entertaining the idea of getting a vasectomy. I want to be able to shoot blanks and not worry about buying or having expensive condoms on me all the time Nothing I can imagine is more terrifying than having an unwanted baby that can completely upend two people's lives and always be a source of resentment and regret. It fucking blows my mind how so many people can be so stupid and reckless.

Hey man I also quit my job recently so you're not alone! You'll get something new and better if you look hard enough and want to find it. My scenario different. My crazy boomer uncle threatened me and hit my car out of a complete misconception without being cool headed enough to listen to a rational explanation, so instead of giving him 3 weeks notice like a professional he forced me to tell him to go fuck himself and his stupid mullet and I left that day. Also packed up my shit and didn't pay rent for the month because he was massively overcharging and pocketing it anyways without a receipt. Also tried to extract extra labor by gracefully giving me a chance to "pay it off" on weekends, not working for extra cash mind you... this was to take off the rent. Anyways I've got a deposit on a place for May 1st and I'm taking the next month off to travel Vancouver Island and the province before I settle into the new place If you want to find something more suited to you, consider a delivery driving or trucking job. It's way more peaceful than working in a store and you interact with 90% less people during your day. Good luck mate, it's all gonna work out!

I know I've watched a decent amount of his vids. I'm just stirring the pot a bit don't mind me.

Scalpers, Pyramid schemes..... take your pick.

My last partner started speaking Russian to me unexpectedly which needless to say made me work 2x harder. So if you know a second language that's your secret weapon

@Leo Gura I mean it should be such an obvious intuition that societies move more left and liberal overall over long periods of time, it's sort of an inevitability. Progress = expansion, not tradition or conservation. It's hilarious to see how resistant people are to how clear this is. They'll deny basic reality to "own the libs" as they say. What's even more funny is within my own country (Canada) the Conservatives have spent the last few years rebranding themselves as "Progressive Conservative" (oxymoron lol) and adding things like pro-gay marriage to their platform. They are basically becoming what the Liberal party was 30ish years ago so they can still stay competitive in the modern age. Literally wolves in sheep's clothing.

You are still misinterpreting it. Gaslighting is malicious and subtle, often with planned intent. There is nothing subtle or slight of hand about what this person was probably saying to you, they are probably well aware that racist jokes aren't even that funny but are being deliberately callous about it because it might be their sense of humor (shock/dark) they don't want to be put on the spot in front of everyone. It's not gaslighting if the feelings and trust you have are so socially widespread that > racism is bad and racist jokes are not ok. It would be like if someone was trying to gaslight you that the moon doesn't exist LOL. This is why we don't call Flat earthers or Moon Landing deniers "gaslighters". They are just plain assholes who don't want to be held accountable for their behavior. Gaslighting is not > Every time someone says something to me I don't like, as so many people think it is. Words start to lose their meaning if they are used too much and improperly.

Alcohol is legal because it's convenient to consume and has been ridiculously ingrained in most cultures since it was invented thousands of years ago. Obviously if any law should be changed to improve society it would be stricter alcohol laws but lest we live in backwards world. I had my fun with it when I was a teenager, I've been full blown drunk maybe 20ish times in my whole life? I can't remember (which is the point xD). I'm glad I grew out of it. It literally tastes like poison to me, I don't know how people enjoy it. Same thing with marijuana which I was way more into when I was younger. I've basically been substance free for like 10 years. I just love feeling clear minded and sober, it's so much more enjoyable to me. What's funny is going to parties or social things and people staring or making comments because I'm not participating in any substance use. I can tell they think I'm judging them on the inside and must think I'm better than me but that's not it, I just genuinely don't have any interest or excitement in getting drunk or high. It was fun 10 years ago, not anymore. I definitely have plans to do psychedelics in the future but not for fun they would be strictly for personal and universal exploration.

This isn't what gaslighting means. I wish people would stop throwing around this term so liberally. Anyways what they are doing is appealing to a toxic social norm > that you shouldn't be confrontational in a casual setting because it spoils the mood and puts people on the spot. There is an expectation that "calling someone out" should only happen when they are being brazenly and deliberately offensive and everyone can tell they have a malicious intent to offend or do harm. Of course regardless of intention some jokes have the potential to be funny to some but easily cross that line for others.

Now that is a Grade A dank meme. You gotta respect how all-in he is on this.

Yes that's technically true, but you're putting too much stock into it. Of course you must admit your existence isn't in a vacuum of biology. It includes everything else. You can say you agree, but do you actually embody it if you're honest? Or are you on your way to embodying it?

@StarStruck You need to challenge toxic conventional thinking and attitudes like this. It is only damaging and limiting you. There is no such defined thing as a "prime". Plenty of people can have a peak or renaissance at ANY point in their life. A heroine addict can recover and get to good health at 40 after 20 years of suffering and addiction. Stop worrying about comparing yourself to other people and what or where you "should" be at because of your age. What a silly notion. You are on your own unique journey. Appreciate that and indulge selfishly about only yourself relative to yourself. Do you see how the statement, "It won't get any better for me from this point." Isn't actually a true statement and believing it is actually hurting you not helping you?

Take emotional responsibility to be brutally honest with them so there is some kind of closure to the end of the relationship as it is. You're doing both parties a disservice by ghosting. Not only are you possibly hurting their feelings by childishly sitting around "waiting for them to spam you", you are hurting your own development by being avoidant of moving through your emotions with them. Explain how you really feel to them fairly and why it's not going to work out so they don't hold onto any expectations they have, then you can move on. A strong, emotionally adjusted person doesn't play games like a little kid.

The IQ debate is unfortunately usually a low handed way for closet or open racists to enter a discussion they have no business being in, or for smart asses to point to and use as ammo for some ridiculous agenda. I think people are heavily misguided on the evidence. I don't believe there is really any significant correlation between someone's skin color or ethnicity and their IQ. I think the gap can be explained way easier by societal development, access to quality education, and resources. If you take a baby from the womb of a Somalian mother who lives on some desolate farm with zero prospects, and raise that baby in some upper class Western place with private schooling it's probably no coincidence there will be a much higher IQ for that child. People who don't acknowledge such an obvious intuition and are deliberately inflammatory and neurotically insist that it's because of their skin color and they are being sCiEnTiFiC when they say so need to be cancelled. If cancelling ever had a place to be used, that's it. Not to mention people take IQ way too seriously. It's bogus academic garbage anyways. The arrogance to think we can quantify human intelligence without including social and emotional intelligence as apart of the metric is hilariously un-hollistic.

There is a large Pro-Jewish Nationalist sentiment all over the West, from both Left AND Right leaning people. It's to support their right to exist as a people (and a nation as Israel) given their generally bleak and dark history of oppression (Holocaust). So it's probably more of a good thing than a bad thing at this point in history. Of course they aren't the only ones who suffer. We don't hear anything about the near 30 million Soviets and Chinese that were slaughtered in WW2 by the Axis in our education systems, but that's because those in power have an interest in controlling the narrative to be biased and don't give the full picture. Those countries have been viewed as adversarial for quite some time.

I'm not sure the connection between material happenstance and free will? Those unlucky people also don't have free will. Yes I'm sad for all living things pretty much all the time, it's draining actually. I'm tired and want to know when I get to go home...

From my biased personal perspective wired in my ego brain I'm special, even though day to day I don't think I am. From the unbiased perspective of the universe I'm a tiny part of it that's no more special than the rest.

I discovered there was no free will some years ago. Has it really changed anything about the way I've lived my life after that revelation? Not really. It's kind of just an interesting thought experiment I wouldn't worry about it too much. Or worry if you want, it's not like you have a choice anyways LOL

I'm going to assume you're being a little sarcastic here but that's one of the biggest social myths that pisses me off Just because you're old it doesn't automatically count for anything. - First off. EVERYONE ages, unless you die early. So it's not a special quality whatsoever. - Second. You could have gone through your entire life being a complete moron, never having learned from your mistakes. - Third. There are countless old people who aren't wise about anything. They don't develop themselves at all. They exclusively focus on fulfilling 100% selfish values like getting a ton of money, a house, and a family. They spend zero resources outside of their very limited expansion of concern. Anyways I'm ranting a little bit for fun at this point, it's just a pet peeve of mine.

Boomers are Buddhas?

I mean I posted that for some comedic affect, but in my life it's been overwhemingly anecdotally clear that it's only really older people that are racist. I've hardily ever run into anyone below 45 in my country that I could discern was a genuine racist. It simply won't be socially sustainable to have that kind of hatred with the way demographics projections are going. On my recent travels going out West across my country I've noticed even smaller rural towns are getting filled with Asian/Indian immigrants. Which is great. The faster it happens the better. I'm willing to bet in 25 years there won't even be a need for movements like BLM anymore because most of the heavy lifting will already have been done. Of course with the internet the way it is there will always be small pockets of hidden cancer, as long as they stay there and don't gain traction again that's good enough.

This problem will solve itself, just be patient and wait for all the boomers to die.