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What you say and how you say it both matter. You can think of it like the ‘how’ you say it determining ‘what’ you can say and get away with it. For example being passionate about women’s menstruation is an unusual thing for a dude to be passionate about so you’d need a lot of humour, charm and wit (‘the how’) to act as a counterbalance to that topic (‘the what’) to get away with it

That was my second time in a club ever, I was shitting myself with nerves most of the time. Likely behaving quite erratically as a result too. These things make you seem much more creepy than you really are even when doing the most basic things. And I've also never been kicked out a club since. And I've been back to that same club like probably 30 times since then and got laid more times than I can remember. I had a threesome with two girls from that club. Don't focus on the negative things that could happen, focus on the the potential benefits. I don't walk on eggshells anymore. The first few times yea, and then you learn to relax a little bit. If you want to go to places where you have more leeway you should find rock/goth focused clubs. The girls (and people in general) in these places are usually way more chill.

Have you tried Ground news? It’s a pretty good app for congregating news sources. IIRC they have a page for each event/topic and give you a breakdown of all of the different news sources that have covered it, and their political bias. It also gives good summaries too

I guess it depends on your fitness goals. I really like being able to exercise for a long time and not get tired. I also like the feeling of freedom you can get from being able to run or hike long distances. For me, I feel like being able to run 10k is pretty healthy and it's what I'm currently training for. I don't see much point in being able to run further than that though tbh.

Yea, they're great. Also my 501s feel the most high quality out of all the Levi's jeans I've owned. I'm considering picking up a selvedge pair in Indigo at some point. A lot of modern levi's does not feel like they use particularly high quality denim but it seems like they've kept the quality on their original 501 cut.

Are those grey levis 501s, they look exactly like the jeans I wear most days lol

The vast majority of trendsetters will create trends that follow the current big picture movements of fashion. That's my core point. You can think of fashion in 3 tiers: movement, trends and fads. Movements in fashion are like the big picture, representing cultural and social shifts. Trends are the in-the-moment styles that come and go. Fads are short-lived, intense bursts of popularity—here today, gone tomorrow. You can be a trendsetter or create fads but what you wear will still need to follow the big-picture movement of fashion for them to not look outdated or out of place.

My style is quite boring day to day, just a nice fleece, oversized jumper, patagonia t-shirt, some Levi's 501 jeans, Nike trailrunners and a nice watch. I'm not super into trendy expensive streetwear clothing but I wear clothes that follow the overall movement of modern fashion which is relaxed fit and comfy. I'm not saying you have to dress super modern, just that you should follow broad movements in fashion. For example the corduroy trousers your grandad wears every day would look stupidly dated on you as a mid 20 year old in 2023, but in his time they were likely super trendy. This is just a more extreme example of how skinny jeans end up looking dated.

I don't see how it's ego, it's just how fashion works. You probably don't need to follow modern fashion to succeed in life but it sure does help in almost all social pursuits if you know how to dress at least somewhat trendy.

You'll notice he said that it happened a few times at the start when he was less calibrated but it stopped happening. I was the same, I got kicked out of the first club I ever went to solo for creeping some girls out, I even posted about it. This was the last time it ever happened except when my friend got caught sniffing ket in the bathroom lol. I'm actually glad I got this negative feedback in hindsight because it helped me calibrate myself to the envrionment much quicker. You don't need to characteristically castrate yourself to not creep people out. You just need to be somewhat socially aware of other people's thoughts and feelings. Nightclubs are filled to the brim with weird ass people, that's part of the reason I love them so much. You just have to work out how to channel that weirdness in a fun way instead of a creepy way.

This is my personal (and admittedly not particularly well researched) opinion on nootropics, but here we go anyway. Do you really want to be regularly taking a bunch of random chemicals? The chances are at least a few of these will have other contaminants in them that aren't particularly well researched and may do you harm in the long term. If you want to boost your mental performance occasionally then take some modafinil and it will blow all of these out of the water, otherwise I'd stick to the well researched vitamins rather than nootropics. I think many nootropics are working on the placebo level.

How do you know that this is the case?

While I do really regret not having the 'college experience' or as we'd call it in the UK the 'university experience', I found it somewhat easy to make up for afterwards. It helps a lot if you have a good job making decent money. All you need is a few friends to go clubbing and partying with and you can get 90% of the experience that way. However college does make it very easy to meet new people so you should try to do what you can to build a social life in uni. I find this kinda hard to believe. If you put tens of thousands of young people together like in a college, there will be plenty of parties. Start joining some clubs and organisations, and move into college dorms (if they exist where you are, idk how it works but we have them here) and you'll see plenty of parties. You'd be surprised how many girls won't do this. Average body count at 25 in most western countries is like 7 or something around that.

They would really be considered skinny fit now, which tends to look very dated. And you don't need to care about the small-picture fads and trends, but you should care about the overall big-picture 'movement' (happens in cycles of like 10 years) of fashion if you don't want to look like you're stuck in the previous decade. Following every trend and fad blindly makes you a sheep, but understanding the big-picture of why people are dressing the way they are in current times (and learning something from this) does not make you a sheep. In this case, skinny jeans are really from the last movement when people still, for the most part, wanted to be neat, well-groomed, 'tryhard' and put together. Now fashion is moving towards: chill, relaxed fit, flow, easy-going, utility, ethics, vintage, convenience, work-from-home, low-maintenance vibes. Skinny jeans are antithetical to most of this and so they end up looking really really dated. And worse than that, they look tryhard. Because they indicate that you are trying to be fashionable and trendy but kinda failing. If you want to look modern then your fashion choices should fit that vibe. But you still have so much flexibility within that overall movement to express your own style that it's not sheep-like to just follow it.

I think this is pretty much the best way to judge it. Basically how do you feel about her during post nut clarity lol.

There's a common sentiment that fashion styles tend to go in and out in cycles of 20 years.

This is it. Nightgame is very 'now' focused. If you don't do anything on the night, the chance of anything coming from it later is quite low. If you want to increase the odds of something happening later you can talk about what you want to do in the future on the night e.g. "lets go for a drink next week" but game it up a little bit, make it playful and fun. Make it clear to her what you are looking for and lead her in that direction.

Then we agree. Both sides are responsible in different ways. --- Also, the two statements below are very very contradictory. Why can't the Jewish people just have moved on after 2000 years then?

This situation highlights the problem with a foreign policy that involves trying to force regions of the world to develop to Western standards. Yea, Israel is a richer and more developed country now, but it was created out of nowhere in a poor and conflict prone part of the world, in the homelands of native people who were then treated like shit. It was always going to be an incredibly messy situation. Denying that the West or Israel bear any responsibility for creating this mess is silly. Forcing regions of the world the develop doesn't tend to work well, they need to be given time and support to develop. And yes, Hamas is incredibly radical and not the kind of people you want in charge of anything. But a large amount of their fuel comes from being able to radicalise their population against Israel because of past injustice and current treatment. It also seems that you are viewing the Isareli side as the country of Israel and Israeli people, but you are viewing the Palestinian side as only as the evil Hamas. I think that makes it easier for you to see it is a black and white situation when it is not so clear cut.

Fuck lol. I'm glad you realise what a sham that is at least. He is using the age old scam of converting people's insecurity into money. His video titles/thumbnails are designed to make you feel a visceral insecurity so that you click on them to find out if what he is saying is really true and applies to you. From here he can funnel you into his other revenue streams like paying for ratings and offering you a solution to the insecurity HE PUT IN YOUR MIND IN THE FIRST PLACE. It's extremely manipulative. Looksmaxing is a good thing, and you should do it. It will help you. But everything you need to do that is either common sense or publicly available for free. You want to think of it as learning to express the best side of yourself and your personality in an aesthetic way. If you want a decent looksmax channel, I quite like Hamza Ahmed. He is also a mixed bag like many of these types of creators, but I think he's one of the better ones that actually tries to build you up rather than knock you down to sell you something.

This is just a classic slippery slope fallacy. There is a distinct difference between gay marriage and human-animal marriage. Very few people are actually born with a desire to marry a horse. Attraction to an animal is akin to attraction to a child in that an animal is not smart enough to understand what is happening to it, so we can quite easily say that attraction to animals is not healthy, is likely mental illness, and should be banned. And incest creates a fucked up gene pool. Father-daughter relationships are also going to be subject to enormous power-imbalance causing a lot of suffering. The only thing gay relationships hurt is conservative people's feelings. A significant amount of the population are born with same-gender attraction too, so it's not just something you can dismiss as unnatural.

QOVES? I remember watching that guy's content a while back and he offers a supposedly objective analysis of your face as a service. In theory a lot of the stuff he talks about is true, but like others have said it does not actually benefit you at all to consume it because most of it you can't change. Almost delusional levels of self confidence will get you way further than an accurate rating of where your face falls on a scale.

I have good social skills in some scenarios, for example I find it very easy to go on a night out and meet new people. Or when I stayed in hostels in foreign countries, I could chat and make friends really easily. The rules of socialising in a bar/nightclub/hostel just come very naturally. However when it comes to connecting with people at work, the jiu-jitsu gym I go to, or other day-to-day stuff like cashiers/servers at a coffee shop, I find it really hard to connect. I always feel out of place. It always feels like there is a sterile coldness between me and other people which I can't seem to cross. I don't know if it's in my head. I often worry that no one likes me, or that I am being weird in these situations because I don't know the rules. I guess it's a form of social anxiety because these are day-to-day situations where people's opinions of me matter more. If I say something weird, I will see that person again and the consequences are more tangible. Does anyone else have experience with something like this, or does anyone have any advice?

Chrome. Even if that's true, this is still an issue. The website should work on all browsers, especially the most popular one. There are significantly less people online than usual so I don't think it's a particularly isolated issue.

I think this is why he blocked you, not the LOTR reference. If I was messaging a girl and she started accusing me of being a fake profile made by her ex, I'd probably stop replying too.