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If you wanna be a frontend web developer, from where you are you could probably get an entry level job just by learning JavaScript and building up a nice portfolio. If you wanna be a more general purpose web developer you'd also need to learn a backend language. I'd recommend a PHP framework like Laravel or a Python framework like Django. And again you'd want to build up a portfolio with those frameworks.

That isn't necessarily a good thing

You don't need to label yourself as part of some group for doing this, it's pretty normal

If the mechanical box didn't exist, it wouldn't be infinity

Was this not the company that sold a juice machine that had a barcode scanner built into the capsule to make sure you only used juicero drinks pouches with it? And then it turned out you could actually just squeeze the juice pouches to get the juice out rather than buying a $300 machine

You actually (unknowingly I think) uncovered an important aspect of 'spiral' dynamics with this sentence. There's a reason it's spiral dynamics and not line dynamics. It combines a line + circle model of development into a spiral model

lmao

It’s a weird thing to obsess over The natural response would be to assume it’s a coincidence since that is by far and away the most likely and sensible explanation

I don’t think there are any holocaust survivors using this forum that would be offended by that statement. When that statement was made it wasn’t directed at anyone, it was a general point about the nature of ‘evil’. I get what you’re saying with meeting people where they are it but it also sounds like you’re suggesting we should outlaw all talk from an absolute perspective when that’s pretty much what everyone is here to understand Ohhhhhhh, you’re a Christian. That makes a lot of sense

Think for a second: if you did want to support pedophilia, would it be intelligent to intentionally plaster that support all over the business you intend to use to support you through life and make lots of money with?

Yup but it would involve him basically admitting defeat and swallowing his pride which is just not something he’d ever do

Also worth remembering that he tried to back out of the deal quite hard. He was either going to take a 1B dollar fine or have to go through with the deal, and if you have an ego as big as Musk and as much F you money as he does, the 1B fine feels like losing even if it costs you less money overall The ‘winning’ play from his egoic perspective could have been to buy twitter, fire everyone and burn it to the ground just to say fuck you to them Its a very Musk thing to do

Healthy game is more or less about building charisma, building confidence, learning to be authentic, and facing fears Yes there are plenty of pickup guys who don’t embody that but that’s what the healthy version is

He was def one of the first big anti-SJW people. He basically radicalized me into that genre when I was mid teens, like 13-16. I'm soooo glad I grew out of it. I wouldn't say he invented it, but he was a pioneer of that genre for sure and is probably responsible for influencing a hell of a lot of people with that rhetoric.

@Tahuti I recommend you type with both hands instead of one hand on dick and one hand on keyboard

Being authentic is a good thing. You need to run this balance between authenticity and pushing yourself to change. I often see people saying both of these things: You must be your authentic self, don't change yourself for others You must disregard your nice-guy authenticity and make yourself appear as masculine as possible When in reality the ideal is to balance these two things.

+1 for remote job. Plus if it's truly remote and you work for chill people you can travel while you work too.

It’s closer to pure mental gymnastics than pure statistics

Sounds like one of you’s been binging actualized MP3s again tut tut

You'll run into problems with this mindset pretty quick. Always following the upsides and impulsive options might make you happy in the short term but you will incur long term consequences which make you miserable. You need to be careful, consider downsides, and take precautions. As an analogy, 'Greedy' machine learning algorithms are usually some of the worst because they just follow the most obvious and easily obtainable reward, which means they miss longer term opportunities for greater reward, and will often find themselves stuck in pitfalls and traps.

Accidentally getting pregnant or getting someone pregnant is by far the #1 It has the potential to ruin your life 10x worse than an STD. This is oddly specific and I suspect not that common compared to STD/pregnancy risk. I suppose it's always good to be cautious, maybe this is a bigger risk than I realise since it isn't something I have to be concerned with as a guy

Yes, because that's what I disagreed with. There are valid criticisms of Leo, your other examples are pretty valid criticism. The only reason I replied to you was to point out that you had misunderstood the point Leo made in that quote. You called it a 'Kanye' moment implying it was a racist/nazi quote and underlined sections that someone who misunderstood it would have interpreted as racism/controversial. It feels like you are trying to muddy the waters and misdirect around that point which I find it extremely tiring to argue against, and I can sense this is just going to devolve into a chaotic back and forth if we continue, so I'm not replying to you anymore. The above point is the only reason I got involved in this.

It is not so simple I don't think. Many big tech companies give in to the demands of the Chinese government because they depend so much on China for manufacturing, and also China has such a big population that they cannot afford to not be able to sell products there. If they do not give into demands of the Chinese government, the gov there will make both of these things exceptionally difficult or impossible, costing the tech company billions or trillions. It is obviously a really shitty situation that is based on the worst aspects of capitalism, but the Chinese government has the balls of big tech companies in a vice. Either give in to demands or lose billions, if not trillions, of dollars.

I actually enjoy not having this here. Upvote systems tend to encourage groupthink.

You underlined the parts of the message that someone who didn't understand the point being made would interpret as racism or a controversial outburst. The message isn't nonsensical, it makes sense. It isn't even controversial. And wording something uniquely isn't a crime, it's just literary style. I agree with you that there are plenty of things to criticise Leo for, but the example you picked isn't one of them.