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Great video. Great point that women can still think your attractive despite rejecting you, but she never explicitly explains what that attractive "power" is that she is alluding to throughout the video. Is it just masculinity broadly speaking?

Russia's goal isn't necesarilly to destroy or conquer Ukraine but to destabilize it's government. Democracy and western influence are a threat to Russian authoritarianism, so Russian escalation can be thought of as largely Putin's war. It's about regime security and a mythical idea of Russia's place in the world. That a world without Russia shouldn't exist. They are fighting their own growing irrelevancy as a blue/orange country and war puts the spotlight on them. The west/NATO is a threat to Russia but only in so far that they are an authoritarian state as opposed to democratic. Putins nightmare is a Qaddafi situation happening in Russia.

Rudolf's cooked.

Apparently reindeer get high from eating red cap mushrooms. They are immune to the poison. https://www.cairngormreindeer.co.uk/2017/10/13/why-the-reindeer-loves-its-mushrooms/ Animals getting high is nothing new and potentially rooted in incorporating new behavior and evolving the species. This book by Samini is all about animals taking drugs: https://www.amazon.com/Animals-Psychedelics-Natural-Instinct-Consciousness/dp/089281986 Perhaps there is a correlation between poison and hallucinogenic effects and narcotic effects in general. IE. when self-defense measures become benign you are left with certain narcotic effects.

Why do psychedelics raise consciousness exactly? Is it just chemical?

Could you elaborate? What significantly expressed masculinity look like?

Life purpose is about aligning your life more with your unique personal values and the kind of impact you want to have on the world. Life purpose is literally just what you are good at + the kind of impact you want to have on the world. If you work hard at it you can find success but success (defined here as material gains) is not the end goal of having a life purpose. It means to not chase money and fame. If you yourself wouldn't pay to do your life purpose it isn't your life purpose.

There's being nice, IE. kind, and there's being nice with strings attached, expecting people to like you, treat you well and avoid conflict. Being kind is a matter of giving. Not necesarilly of how you present yourself. You can never smile and be mostly silent and still be a kind person as someone who finds joy in giving. The problem with nice guys is that they are essentially inauthentic and cowardly. They act despite their true feelings to avoid rejection and create a sense of control while typically not being kind in earnest. They "game" their interactions and play up for approval. People have a instinctual dislike of fakeness. Being nice for survival gains is a fear response.

Teacher blindness When a teacher neglects making essential distinctions and ideas explicit due to taking those distinctions and ideas for granted and seemingly forgetting what is like to not know what they know. A kind of being out of touch with ignorance. It's important to meet people where they are at if you are to effectively teach someone. As a teacher you have to appreciate the degree of ignorance present with untrained minds and bodies or you just end up frustrating your students. Art teachers are particularly bad at this in my experience because they don't tend to be intellectually rigorous. Spiritual teachers can seriously mislead people if they don't appreciate the depth of ignorance of average people because of the effect their work has on the psyche.

National insecurity.

There's too much complaining from Green in general and not enough results oriented action grounded in cold mundane reality. Imagine if Occupy Wall Street and Palestine protestors had as much energy for lobbying, petitions and running for government as they do protesting and looting. Stage Green is ineffective at actual survival because they prioritize emotional consensus over hard results even though results is what they say that they want. Doing the boring work to create the world they want doesn't even seem to register as an option. There's a lack of resolve to Green and certain excesses get lost in the sauce.

The problem with Green style policies broadly speaking is that they are ineffective and ultimately destructive of society. If people feel like they are being excluded politically and economically and if their welfare system and infrastructure is being strained by migrants, then you'll risk society sliding into authoritarianism. A high migration rate is not politically viable if it's not the will of the people and if the resources aren't there for that. A lot of Stage Green people are advocating for minority rule. Denmark, with one of the strictest immigration policies in Europe, is simultaneously investing into these third world countries. Prevention is cheaper than a cure. Effective climate policies are necessary and will likely intensify as consequences begin to accrue.

You can be more loving as a person but it won't be the same because you still value your survival. Unconditional love is letting clouds shift and change instead of trying to maintain a particular shape. Unconditional love would mean loving everything that is bad for survival. Everything painful, torturous and murderous. You necessarily have to set conditions in order to maintain your form. Imagine being thrown into the brazen bull and loving every moment of it. If you can't love boiling in your own fat than you fall short of unconditional love.

Humans don't have the capacity for full unconditional love by nature . Unconditional love is a radical notion that goes beyond flesh and blood. It's essentially death.

Most internet users are only as opiniated and unhinged as they are anonymous.

Instant gratification is always going to err towards the low-brow, cheap and shallow because it takes time and effort to create something that is relatively deep and of high quality. Your never going to beat slop in quantity at least. High conscious stuff will most likely be more niche as well. You can get a very loyal following though if you ace your niche. Watching a multi hour spiritual video is ironically hardcore internet usage.

I think Americans democratically have a bias towards novelty since voting isn't mandatory. Establishment politicians are at a disadvantage under bull-shop newness. Identity politics has also been bad for the left. Made it more about cultural purity while largely ignoring bread and butter issues which makes most people feel left out. Economic populism is the left's strongest suit. Trump actually uses economic populistic rethoric a lot which helped him win.

For a game like Runescape, appeasing fans is kind of a must. Goodwill can get strained and people who've played for years eventually quit out of frustration as the experience feels like its been gradually tarnished. For a game all about grinding, even QOL updates can cheapen the experience.

Certain things have value in being done by yourself, like thinking, contemplation, art, education and socialization. AI can be an addition to these but when they become a replacement you start seeing negative consequences for it. No such thing as a free lunch. There is a cost to heavy reliance on AI for things that are worth doing yourself. It's especially concerning young people who grow up with this shit. In general, kids need to have restricted access to technology in my opinion because it can loop side their development in ways that hard to predict.

Philosophy is typically not very lucrative because I think that on a baseline it doesn't contribute much to base survival. Most philosophers don't provide insight that are all that original or high quality. Academic philosophy tends to be by the books and incestious. We don't need that many serious philosophers overall. Those who want to learn but not commit to hardcore learning can learn from those few who do.

What do you imagine exactly?

Becoming a functioning family man is a bunch of different things coming together, -atracting women and career. It's not a singular thing. Focus on the basics of dating and life purpose for now. Family is the reward of your personal development journey.

We generally prefer more subtle and sophisticated forms of affection. A dog lacks the intelligence to appreciate loving eye contact or emotional availability. Tards are kind of like dogs. They are very simple but also sincere in a childlike manner. They will love you just if your kind and give them attention.

There is something wrong with him to be an attention whore to this kind of unhinged degree. I don't think he even really knows Joe Rogan. He just wants the spectacle and imagines it to be this headline grabbing thing that would go over well for him somehow in this hazy confused mind of his. That's my impression at least. Anyway, liver failure.

I love this channel. Just preem "basic" self-help. He has dozens of videos on all kinds of topics. Few sources can top Jordan Shanks in giving very practical and functional advice. Like how to do a particular thing. Some of his videos are literally just slop, reacting to Reddit incels or Grindr messages for a laugh. He is pretty funny. Some of his videos is just reacting to some current drama and gleaming some kind of self-help nugget from that. https://www.youtube.com/@jordanshanksselfhelp