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@Leo Gura What do you recommend?

How do you guys approach the sentence completion exercises in Six Pillars of Self-esteem, as in, do you do all the exercises in the chapters or just the program at the end of book? Or is it better to do all the exercises in the chapters first then the program afterwards. That would easily take up to a year lol

In my experience it's because they can come off as weird and they typically can't follow the subtleties of conversation. That's not necessarily bad thing, but having to meet certain people half way can be uninteresting and/or grating to a lot of people. You have to appreciate that non-conformity can be scary to people-and off-putting if it comes off as uncontrolled. Nonsense. There doesn't exist a better time to be alive to be non-typical. People have never before been more tolerant and aware of neurodivergence and stuff. Free love hippies are just trends. It's just partying with a veneer of spirituality. Eventually survival demands something more stable than constant partying.

Basically that what constitutes the "masculinity crisis" isn't unique to men but are rather just general trends in society, like the depreciating worth of higher education or lack of dating, and are present in both men and women. In some instances it's actually worse for women, like mental health (though that could be biased by women generally being more open about their feelings). On men attending college less specifically, men tend to be much more driven by money and have more options to get a higher paying job than women without a degree. Degrees that are likely to pay still see men attending to a high degree (no pun intended), and men still form the majority of entrepreneurs. A lot of the culture war discourse online is essentially algorithmic, IE. engagement/rage bait. It's a tragedy when people buy into these narratives uncritically because it implies a degree to which one signs off their own agency. It's a kind of memetic victim mentality. I will say though that there's too much "deconstructing of masculinity" going on of an unconstructive kind in my opinion, which basically amounts to shitting on guys for being guys. There needs to be more dialogue about the unresolved hatred for men within feminist circles since the suffragetes. It's iliberal in nature and needs to be constructively criticized as delusional and informed by trauma.

I agree that people broadly should be more understanding, but I also think it is worth empathizing with people not knowing or not having the patience to deal with certain degrees of retardation, to put it bluntly.

He he he. To be fair, I do think it can work, but it would be exceedingly expensive for the state, and it doesn't do anything to change the factors that got us here in the first place, like the dissolvement of communal bonds, public depoliticization, the affordability crisis, etc. It's probably why no country wants to do it even though it would probably be popular with voters. It's like solving the problem of paddling up river by buying better paddles and paddling even harder. Politicians might propose it as a kind last resort before some kind of socio-political crash relative to population numbers.

@CredI agree that NTs can produce high quality work if given the right accommodations, which I presume is what you are pushing for in general sense. I'm not so confident in your political conclusions, or any of your conclusions that are of a radical kind, and I think your language risks alienating people.

What do you propose as a final solution for the NTs then? It's not like it is ridiculous to hate an entire people and blame them for all your woes, let alone the majority of the human population.

Me too. My question to the haters is, are you mad that I went to Epstein Island, or are you mad that you didn't?

This comes of as a 20th century manifesto. Just replace "neurodivergent" with "aryan" and "neurotypical" with "jew" and it even sounds like one.

Matriarchies, as in women dominating a society in an exclusionary manner, has never existed. There have been matrilineal societies, which makes sense in nomadic tribes. Mothers always know who their children are, but it's less clear for fathers. There's in general more of a communal approach to raising children and there's no inheritance, so there's no incentive patrilineality to the same degree as post-agricultural revolution societies. It goes hand in hand with the theory that humans are adapted for gang bangs, with how much longer it takes for women to orgasm and how loud they can moan during sex (mating call) as well as how penises are plunger shaped (removing competing sperm). Gangbangs would introduce greater reproductive fitness into mating.

If your on Steam you only get 2 hours to change your mind, which isn't nearly enough for big AAA games in my opinion.

Ooh, I've been burned by doing that before. My standards are too high to pay full price for something I'm not sure about.

I've been to California many times.

AI hype is very convenient when it comes to hypewashing real economic downturns. AI investments itself are being used to hedge against a recession and is single-handedly propping up the US economy in pure investment dollars. It's probably why Trump wants to bail out AI companies when they do inevitably crash, to avoid associating his name with bad times.

Barefoot shoes are bad because hipsters wear them, and hipsters are bad. I feel sorry for anyone who feels that they need to leave little footprints that have little toes like they are actually barefeet. It's not funny and you look weird.

I think it has more do to strength specifically. I jerk off with my feet, so technique is in no short supply. Your feet and ankles have to work harder when there's no cushioning. It absolutely matters when 95% of your environment is hard surfaces.

Barefoot shoes are very pleasurable in nature with a bunch of soft grounds, but just feel harsh on roads and pavements. For general use for me, just the shoe being sufficiently lightweight makes them good enough if they are also aesthetic.

That is mostly haredi, AKA ultra orthodox jews, but it is much easier to have less children than more. It's a better problem to have than what S. Korea is dealing with because it is easier to solve. 1 in 4 is also a relative improvement because it used to be 1 in 3 just since covid. But that is besides the point, because your sidestepping the substance of my argument entirely to make a feminist culture war statement. I never said that the solution is more patriarchy.

The birthrate cannot be reversed because the general public are too depoliticized too give a shit and unwilling to change. They feel no sense of duty for their state and are not willing to make acts of love for others in a way that impedes with independence. People are too independent, too broken off from any sense of community. It's like the housing crisis. Everybody cries about unaffordable living but god forbid the value of your property depreciating. I wouldn't be surprised if politicians understand that policy that would effectively tackle the birthrate would be too unpopular and untenable with current culture.

Mathriarchy has never existed (as in women having a dominating role) because the military defines the borders of a civilization and women aren't suited to make up the bulk of an army (men are physically stronger and more expendable relative to the reproductive fitness of a group). Patriarchy originally rose up to protect women and society from other men in my opinion.

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You are still negotiating within a neoliberal framework, calling it a "job", etc. There's no consideration for culture or a sense of duty to one's state. Israelis are pumping out babies not just because they have generous benefits. My argument is that just throwing money at the problem is that it is both inefficient relative to the ballooning cost that it would entail and not radical enough a solution in of itself. Be careful with thinking that welfare alone is a sufficient solution to societal problems. The nordics spend the most money on education in the world yet their students achieve subpar results globally. Strategy must include consideration for culture.

A lot of countries offer generous benefits, especially western Europe. At best these policies stabilize the birthrate. The benefits are marginal relative to how expensive it is. Money alone doesn't resolve the underlying issue why people don't have kids. Money isn't the only resource. Money is at worst compensating for an environment that disinzentivises having children. Israel however has a booming birth rate because of their religiosity, nationalism and communal cohesion on top of generous benefits. Beautiful blue.

He had one. He employed millions. Nice lol As a truth seeker you should ask it how similar you are to Palpatine. I want numbers.