Natasha Tori Maru

Just note, LLMs are programmed to encourage you to use them. They will always answer in a way that bolsters a preference to return and enjoy your time. They are designed to do so. This is an inherent bias in their programming that influences their answers, so they are no measure of reason or barometer of truth. Just some facts to note when using them so you aren't caught off guard. I am personally fine with using AI to clean up grammer and spelling, but hard against promoting it to phrase things for you. I personally think it is against the very spirit of this forum. Writing is an art. Poetry. Word selection, cadence. Pacing. Sentence length and arrangement. These are unique to each person and AI tends to erase this from a users writing. The tone of AI is dead to me, so it ends up detracting from the message. I end up hunting for parts that are disingenuous rather than looking at the paragraphs for their originality of message. I cannot see how the user has genuinely contemplated when things aren't filtered through their own consciousness.

Be calm, all is well 🫠 Dissolve time !

As an ex-troll I lean toward troll. My eyes glaze over from the AI filter. No soul. No creativity. Dead internet

Some division left, better get the excavator out

@Ponder Melbourne, yep I enjoy knowing if I have an emergency I won't go broke + have my life destroyed

I am very disconnected from news and media in a similar way. Perhaps the main difference for me is that the really relevant shit reaches me through family and colleagues. I hear them chit-chat about the biggest happenings, but I do not engage in news on a day to day basis.

This makes no sense

On this forum if anyone is going to recommend a 15 day dry fast I am going to speak out against it for safety reasons. What you said above is an assumption.

Sounds like a hebephile to me. Not paedophile Your avatar change got me - almost choked on my food

I can express myself how I like, thanks. And my advice aligns with medical recommendations. You can justify your actions however you like - but I would think about the reason WHY you responded to me. Something I said triggered your ego, so there is growth work there for you.

Looks like AI If you write from the soul others will resonate and naturally pay attention. May not be AI but the format is 🤢🤮 I strongly advice anyone reading against dry fasting for this length of time.

Telling others what you yourself need to hear. Over and over and over again.

@Ramasta9 Fun times Even better when you get the RNG brownie of doom and you end up spinning, pinned in place for 4 hours! No quality control on that dose when its home baking

Yeah, they changed the subgroups to be more defined for anyone attracted to underage girls/boys. I had no idea until I worked with a journalist who was researching a local sex offender/murder unsolved case in Melbourne. He interviewed an expert to be able to psychologically profile individuals who showed predispositions to hebephilia.

There's also hebephilia if you want to complicate this further. Also ephebophilia.

You can choose to see it that way, sure. You will just be in for some huge surprises. Not my truth at all. I suspect your view is limited and shaped on some observations without context and too much online confirmation bias. Good luck - I cannot help you.

Back when I was at uni we would often float at my mates place who lived 3 mins from campus. One day we cooked up a batch of brownies and left to play frisbee at the park. Upon return we find half the brownies gone, and Nick's dog Rusty completely incapacitated on the floor with the most fucked up and impossible-to-miss dog grin - surrounded by his voided bowels He was totally fine. But I will never forget stoned Rusty!

@Theprofessional I can 100% see your strategy is about certainty and guarantee in life. I strongly believe this should be abandoned. There are no guarantees or certainties. You will severely limit your options. And even though my words might be blunt - I actually don't want a negative outcome for you at all....!!! @aurum's advice is great because he has 1) masculine perspective and 2) strategizes well while not operating from any limiting beliefs.

I wouldn't approach this with such a limiting mindset. Just aim to socialise and forget about this good paying career crap. Shooting yourself in the foot. Not to mention this 'I need to earn enough before xxx' is another self deception. You need blah blah before you LIVE LIFE? No. It sounds like you are terrified of women and socialising and this is a way for you to not have to face that (by needing $xxxx income) If you didn't have social media and all this shit to compare or get bizarre info - you wouldn't even HAVE this belief. Believe me, you will regret taking a path like the above. Do you really want someone to only value you for the money you provide? Do you realise what that will do to you psychologically? You will have ideas like 'If I lose my job, I lose my woman' 'My woman only values me for money, not for who I am' 'If I get old and can't work, or injured and can't work, I will lose my woman'. Don't do this to yourself. Disregard this at your peril and get off social media/online and jump into the experience of life. FACE TO FACE.

Client relationships usually centre around contracts and contract administration - the contract is the stick. If you work as part of a cog in a business you probably want to get paid with bonus incentives or share allotment - the carrot. Overall I get why wage slavery as a concept might erode you slowly over time. But think about it like this - you want to partake and benefit from society, correct? Well then you have to actually contribute back with value in some way. You cannot just take take take with this mindset of privilege. If you want to benefit from the structures in place to live in a first world country - steady power, clean water, food delivery, gas, medical assistance, emergency services - you have to contribute back in some way. Everything is a compromise. The system is broken - which is the real problem. You wouldn't feel like a wage slave if the system wasn't so tailored to the top 5% of earners. If you didn't start so far behind due to wages not matching housing prices etc. Work with what you got and be realistic.

@TruthFreedom You could just say you are a grounded realist? Sounds like a better fit @Schizophonia Massive trauma. Above your typical variety I would say. I think it took me, perhaps, 15 or so? years to heal. I didn't have my shit together until 35/36. From then I applied myself 100% to 'life' and taking responsibility. Within 3 years I worked my way up to where I am today. So I stagnated in life for a very long time. And I know that no matter what age we are - growth can happen. And FAST. I do not subscribe to doomer mindset or hopelessness. I WAS that. I know how much it destroys your experience of the world. AND I know how rapidly life can turn upside down

Feel free to draft a proposal regarding how you are taking responsibility?

Nothing else needs to be said.