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Being woke is good, but being inauthentically woke is painfully hard to watch. Multi-billion dollar companies built upon centuries of exploitation peddling woke messages to try and get good PR just comes across as so inauthentic. It’s so bad that it harms progress rather than helping it because it repels people and makes them think all woke stuff is bad.

Fair enough. I'm sorry if I came across as overly aggressive, looking back I was a bit harsh. Probably most human relationships are pretty shitty, but there are still plenty which are not. Lots of everyday people have healthy relationships you can learn from. I think my overall point was just that you should be careful not to smother the flame of a relationship by going too intense with someone too quickly. Many of the people I have met who have cycled through lots of relationships in a short space of time did this, and I thought maybe that could have applied to you too. I hope you find what you're looking for

Yes in an absolute sense you could say God is initiating the breakup. But my questions are in the relative domain because this is a thread about dating advice in the relative domain. In the relative domain, was it typically the women who were initiating these breakups, or was it you? What is it that you are looking for in a relationship that means you are cycling through so many women just now? I went through a period where I had lots of casual sex, many guys do. But I would not have considered any of them a relationship that required 'breaking up' and nor would the women either. Is this what you are after? If so then you should not be falsely leading on women into believing that you are more serious about them than you really are. No of course not, but you can't have a relationship with someone you barely know. If you spent 3 days a week with a person you just met for 1 month, then you've known them for 12 days. If you are spending more than 3 days a week with someone you just met, you are jumping into relationships way too fast and that's why they are all fizzling out after a month.

Now I'm just more curious. When you say serious breakup, what do you mean by that? Serious how? And typically who is initiating these breakups, you or the woman?

I don't mean to be rude, but you can't have a 'serious' breakup after just 1 month. If you are breaking up with girls or being broken up with by girls at the rate of 1 per month then I'd advise you to do some serious introspection instead of seeking out more relationships.

That's a fair point. However if that was the idea it seems strange to then make lots of rapid decisions that will alienate the original user base. To be fair, I thought Twitter had lost more users than it really has. It seems officially it's down 13% since Musk's takeover which is not really toooo bad. I've spoken to a fair few people who have stopped using it though so anecdotally 13% seems too low to me. I guess the people I know are not representative of Twitter's entire user base and are probably more left leaning i.e. more likely to abandon it than others. I do wonder if they collect user stats 'creatively' to inflate that number though. For example they now force you to have an account to do almost anything. The most annoying one is making you log in to see a user's most recent tweets instead of most popular. I've done that occasionally, which might result in me being considered an active user even though I don't use twitter more than once a month for less than 5 minutes to look at one account's tweets. Yea, the recent interview he did wearing the bomber jacket aligns with that analysis

It's not forbidden to criticise the decisions of people who are more successful than you. I don't think anyone would deny that Elon Musk has done some amazing things, many people just think that his erratic personal behaviour over the past few years is deserving of criticism. Ironically, claiming that your role model is beyond criticism is more cult-like than anything else in this thread.

Yea, this might qualify as the biggest impulse buy of all time. Even if he couldn't buy for a good price, another more financially sensible option would have been to make a twitter clone called X for a few million dollars and push people towards that. If his idea for an all-in-one platform is really so revolutionary it would have worked too. It's not like he doesn't have massive reach to push people towards it and grow it over time. And rebranding was a bizarre decision too. X is such an awful brand name. Pretty much the only valuable things about twitter were its brand and its user count and he decided to completely dump the brand.

It's an undeniable fact that Elon's genius business brain spent $44 billion on a $25 billion brand with a $4 billion company attached and then decided to annihilate the $25 billion dollar brand. If you want to ignore this and pretend in your mind that he's still some otherworldly genius then be my guest. This is a decision that is absolutely worthy of the criticism it receives, and if you cannot see that then you are so biased and blinded by love for Elon that you can't think clearly about this topic. No one at Tesla made any decisions even close to being that stupid. Elon certainly couldn't, because he had shareholders to answer to and departments managing him. I think Musk is (or at least was) a very smart guy, certainly in his early days he did many things that would make him worthy of being considered a good role model. But no longer. He acts like a child in a man's body now.

This must be a troll post, I thought all of the Elon Musk fanboys had died off He's pioneering is into the realm of how quickly you can fuck up an established corporation and lose 45 billion dollars. The only thing special about Twitter is that it was created first, and so had an established brand built up over 15 years. He literally bought a 15 year old brand for 45 billion dollars and then got rid of the brand. It will go down as one of the dumbest business decisions ever made.

Plenty of people work shitty retail or hospitality jobs and come out the other side fine, or even better. You just don't want to do it because of laziness and arrogance. But you are also intelligent enough to construct almost wise sounding excuses for that laziness and arrogance, this is an incredibly dangerous combination and it will destroy any progress you want to make in life if you don't change these thought patterns. What are you gonna do, sit at home doing nothing all day because you're too wise and have too much self respect to do the slightly less desirable jobs? Get off your high horse. Everyone has to do things they don't want to do in life.

Without looking at any of his content I'd immediately identify that as a red flag. "integral theory people"? what does that even mean? It's not like there's some certified body that judges what stage people are. And using whatever stage you think you are as evidence that you're correct or better than others indicates a big misunderstanding of integral theory too.

"most men are single and most women aren't single" is not statistically true if you account for all ages, in that case it ends up being around 30% of both genders are single. The "most men are single and most women are not single" stat only holds true if you look at ages 18-29, in which case 51% of men are single and 30% of women are single. Worth noting this only applies in the US as well, where the situation is one of the worst in the world. One way to explain part of this is that men are typically in relationships with younger women e.g. lots of the 25+ women in the the 18-29 category are probably in relationships with men in the lower ages of the 30-49 category which will affect this stat significantly. Women also feel strong societal pressure to 'report as not being single' once they hit mid twenties, which will affect the results a lot too. To be clear I'm not saying this isn't indicative of a societal issue, it is, just that it might not be as severe as it's made out to be online. Certainly I held a lot of these same ideas you do now before I started being much more sociable, and then I realised that a lot of these blackpill/redpill issues you read about online don't seem to play out in the real world anywhere near as severely.

I’m pretty sure this is false. Your body produces sperm at a more or less constant rate whether you ejaculate or not because existing sperm die off in your body. And yea it contains a lot of different minerals, but in quite small quantities. And if you have even a reasonably balanced diet you should not be in short supply of those minerals.

Oh nice, I'm also going travelling for almost all of next year. What countries are on your list?

I met a dude trekking once who immediately pitched me crypto, had himself listed as a ‘crypto genius’ on instagram, and told everyone we met he made 80k on crypto. He did make 80k on crypto, which after some more discussion it turns out he lost all of within a few months on further crypto trades. He’s probably hooked on gambling for the rest of his life now trying to recoup the feeling he had when he made that 80k, and I can see that going very badly.

I've met a fair few guys who would probably objectively be considered less than 5/10 do pretty damn well with women in cold approach scenarios. Mostly they just talk to everyone, know how to put women at ease, and have some charm. All of these are skills that can be learnt regardless of looks. Do they do as well as a good looking guy with the same charm? Maybe not, but it's certainly not considered socially unacceptable for them to approach women. I think it can work, but it requires good social skills. The risk is higher so for most guys it's probably better to just go to places where it's socially acceptable for the sexes to intermix. In a night club or bar for example, it's actually creepier and less socially acceptable to sit at the side by yourself than it is to talk to lots of people, even if you have sucky social skills.

It's only socially inappropriate if you do it in the wrong places, or you have awful social skills. Or maybe if you live in a very very conservative country. These are all barriers that can be overcome. Like probably 80% of relationships that exist today started from a man approaching a woman, so calling it socially inappropriate is just wrong.

Could be any number of reasons like editing, gaming, game dev, crypto mining, generative AI stuff among others.

Yes there are biological differences, but those do not make one gender categorically superior to the other like you imply.

I wonder why

It may be an issue for some men but I would not frame this as a problem that all men face. It sounds like you have some guilt/shame around sex which is not so healthy.

I had to get a root canal done on one of my teeth 3ish years ago, I had to pay stupid money for a top specialist to do it because my teeth roots are at right angles which average dentists don't want to touch with a ten foot pole. I've had absolutely no issues since. Root canals are generally pretty safe operations. Worst case is that it doesn't work, then you can just get the tooth removed and get an implant.

It's likely because those harmless mistakes are actions that are very similar to the actions that would taken by actual predators. Most women have at least some experience with SA or other predatory guys so they build up a profile of the kind of actions that are associated with it. And from the POV of a woman it's better to err on the side of caution. Poor social skills + overconfidence is the killer combo here. It repels women because it means a guy comes across as unreasonable and erratic. They can't figure you out or predict what you will do and that's dangerous. Think the 'PUA' guys who chase women on bikes. That is a combo of awful social skills but delusional confidence. If you give off that same vibe, women will assume you are dangerous. Unless you do something really really dumb, this is about as far as it will go. Who cares? The motivation here is not to shame you but to gain attention. 90% of people realise that what these woman are doing is dumb, but they get outraged by it so it still seems like it's more prevalent of an issue than it really is.

What is your point? I’m sorry but this just reads like a paranoid ramble