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If you are interested, we can talk about dosages for your specific situation.

Modafinil, Noopept, Sulbutiamine, Vinpocetine, Alpha-GPC and Caffeine would be a basic nootropic stack I would suggest to significantly improve your short-term/working memory on demand.

I also recall Leo in a shirt and vest, elf ear Leo, masked Leo and Santa Leo.

Clubbing is awesome. You just have to find a club where you feel like you belong. There are many different kinds of techno clubs, for example - I would almost guarantee that some of them will strike a chord with you. It depends on where you live, though, of course.

Fair enough, I often get fed up with humans myself, but reflecting on my life, it's been friendship and moments of deep intimacy and belonging that stand out the most, so I would suggest you don't become too cynical on this issue.

Maybe there is some psychological blockade, or you didn't take enough. I distinctly remember from my most profound psychedelic journeys breaking through this lens of perception and experiencing myself as absolutely omnipresent and "decentralized," so to speak.

It's one of the most meaningful aspects of life. I'm sorry that this isn't part of your experience.

We can debate whether criminal activity (which is a highly relativistic notion anyway) is intrinsically immature, but be assured that the true professionals in this game can get much farther than you could ever comprehend without running into any legal consequences.

Also, don't underestimate the appeal of criminals, especially to women. Criminal behavior is highly attractive to many women, as it is a proxy for evolutionarily adaptive traits in men, such as competence and dominance. Many notorious criminals, including terrorists, serial killers, and rapists, receive thousands of love letters in prison from women worldwide. Additionally, women often seek out porn that involves violence and socially transgressive behavior. If it weren't prohibited on surface-web porn sites, i bet you there would be a significant interest in roleplay involving criminal activity.

It's a dangerous game, and I agree with your analysis that this often stems from a sense of superiority over others and an addiction to seeing how much one can get away with. Some psychoanalysts believe that this is an acting out of the Freudian "Death Drive," where criminals secretly wish to be caught and punished, leading to self-sabotaging behavior that fulfills this desire. A more nuanced psychological analysis would probably distinguish such perverts (if you allow) from professionals who are actually in it for the money, power, status, or whatever - these are the people who end up running serious criminal operations, often without ever being caught or even appearing on anyone's radar.

The joke is that in the movie "Oppenheimer" by Christopher Nolan, there's a sex scene between Oppenheimer and some Marxist chick in his bedroom. While they're going at it, the girl suddenly stops, points to his bookshelf, and notices some works by Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and the Bhagavad Gita, among others. She then asks him to read her something from the Bhagavad Gita. This caused major backlash in India, with people complaining about the vulgarity of depicting their most sacred book in a sex scene. In response, Zizek remarked that he agrees it is a vulgar scene, but for a different reason: he believes they spoiled the most sacred human experience (sex) with an obscene and dirty book like the Bhagavad Gita.

Show them this clip lol:

I understand his position quite well, as I have listened to most of his interviews. He speaks about Life with a capital "L," referring to an eternal, omnipresent existence that isn't contingent on death and is supposedly accessible to humans through various means - primarily involving automating all human health (he seems to focus almost exclusively on biological/somatic health concerns, i.e., those that fall within the paradigm of Western science and medicine) through superintelligent AI. Although he's also into 5-MeO-DMT, so who knows what he really has in mind regarding immortality. He frequently invokes Alfred North Whitehead, whom I greatly admire, and often quotes: I wholeheartedly agree with this sentiment, and it is central to my own understanding of development and progress. I mainly disagree with a few key points: The implicit teleology and universalism The unquestioned premise that extending human life for eternity is an absolute good I find death beautiful. Death is omnipresent in nature. All indigenous cultures, as well as proto-cultural behavior in many species, revere and celebrate death, holding it as sacred in the context of living in accordance with nature. To me, the most beautiful art is that which flirts with death to some degree. I still believe, perhaps naively, like the philosophers and artists of old you referred to, that death, finitude, and impermanence give life its meaning and allow us to truly value our existence... I respect the guy and think he's doing very meaningful work; it's just not for me. I worry that he suffers from many of the same delusions that Leo did/does - thinking he is some kind of messiah when all he is, is a highly intelligent, creative, ambitious, benevolent human being who is just as flawed as any of us.

Death is fundamental to life. Can we agree on that much?

Ehh. In my experience, the high you feel from a calorie deficit is rather short-lived and leaves you chronically irritated and neurotic. A little calorie surplus, at least for me, feels best and does so sustainably. This makes sense, considering that being in a caloric deficit for a sustained period suppresses testosterone production (while being at the higher end of the reference range for testosterone is one of the best indicators of well-being and optimal functioning for men).

I apologize for the insensitive analogy; I hadn't considered that this could be a trigger when the Hitler comparison came to mind. Anyway, at no point did I trivialize the evils of the Nazi regime; that just wasn't relevant to the argument I was trying to make.

The delusion is thinking that exploring the cosmos is contingent on your biological identity. In many ways, this pursuit of immortality is actually an infantile attempt to freeze reality and ultimately undermines novelty more than it serves it.

I took sophistry to mean conscious manipulation. That's also the sense in which it has been historically used, including by Plato.

I claim even Hitler was more subtle and humane in his rhetoric than fucking Benjamin Netanyahu. Evoking God and the fucking Bible? I mean, come on... you couldn't make up something more obviously bigoted if you tried.

In many ways they are. It's just that they are a lot more subtle about it, so the common person can, to some extent, be given more slack for their ignorance on these issues.

This is your head of government btw: We're at a point where anything short of aggressively revolting against your government should be considered participation in these disgusting crimes against humanity, yet you have nothing better to do than argue over how many tens of thousands of innocent civilians your government has killed since October 7th? This is way past the obedience of authority and "banality of evil" we saw in Nazi Germany. This is just blatant participation and backing of genocide.

Disgusting rhetoric. What's your point here? The following are the total casualties for both sides (2008-2024): Total Palestinians killed: Over 38,278 Total Israelis killed: Approximately 1,248 This is a ratio of over 30:1. No matter how "off" the numbers are, this clearly shows who is the oppressor and who the oppressed.

This is the vulgar, profane cousin of Blade Runner 2049, and I fucking love it.