Basman

It takes years to really get good at a craft. The only solution is to keep practicing consistently, talent be damned. Make a portfolio for you and yourself only where you catalogue all your finished projects so you can view in real time your gradual improvement (I use Onenote for this as I work in 2D). The sense of improvement is highly rewarding as you slowly inch towards your aspirations. It helps with your motivation as you are reminded that its possible to improve. It could take 5-10 years before your work is "good enough" to be used professionally, but don't trust your own judgement completely. Though you are probably correct in feeling that your art isn't good enough in comparison to professional work, you are probably being harsh on it due to having a higher standard than non-artists in your field. And that standard keeps rising as you improve, speaking from experience. I have works that I thought where "decent" when I made them but are comparatively trash right now. Your artist mind tries to push you to improve via bullying in a sense. Just see it for what it is. You shouldn't really care if people like it or not that much, more so if you enjoy making it and if its gets the job done. I don't post most of my work because I don't want social media algorithms to dictate my artistic sensibilities. I'll post something if I feel like sharing it.

Do you consider animals soulless?

I go to a university in a progressive town and in my experience you don't really see anyone who's outwardly "woke" unless you seek out those spaces. The vast majority are completely normal. They do exist and you can usually tell when I've found. They are generally wimpy and gay looking, no offense. Nerdy types and typically peak millennial (they love ironic "quirky" humor, ALA Marvel). There might be some merit to "woke people" not being the coolest kids on the block. In fact, I got written up by one of them for a rape joke at a party. Had to go through the whole rigmarole of uni hearings and shit instead of just telling to my face that they had a problem.

You sound offended.

That is hilarious. God bless America.

If its a competition then I'm going to win.

I remember Elon Musk used to be considered respectable and cool. I used to have a roommate that read his biography looked up to him. Smoking a joint on Joe Rogan was a certified gamer moment. I don't the things that highlighted Elon Musk as a role model are gone. He is a visionary, that is still true despite his egomania that has become apparent since he bought Twitter (which is when he stopped being iconic I think).

Take the phenomena of forest succession for instance. Essentially a hierarchy of different plants and trees gradually dominating each other and blocking the canopy of sunlight for the competition. If you ever been in a pine forest you know how insanely dark it gets. Very few plants besides the dominant pine thrive there. Pine forests are the climax of a forest for that reason in the Northern hemisphere. Even plants are locked in a ruthless game of survival. You just don't see it as a human. Otherwise, why would a cactus have needles?

This reflects my experience as well. Girls will mingle more easily but that doesn't necessarily translate into deep relationships. The couple of male friend relationships I have are ironclad and are effortless to maintain.

When Trump is finally defeated in combat his chest will open like a rocket silo and one of those driving rats will come rolling out swearing revenge.

I doubt it will ever reach the scalability of normal meat. Growing animals is relatively easy and doesn't have the problem of having to maintain sterility when you are growing a cell culture or an expensive lab with masters degree holders.

Obviously, women depend much more on social resources for survival because their bodies are adapted for birthing human children, one of the most complicated and costly mammalian birthing processes. A female cat can get pregnant multiple times at once, giving birth to an entire litter, and still independently survive whereas a pregnant human women won't have the same capability for survival on their own. Women's prosperity in a society depend on men, hence why feminism only happens in countries that are of a certain level of development culturally and technologically. Women can be practically independent today because their protection has been outsourced to the government via the police and the military.

The right is on the rise in general in Europe as well with an exception of a couple of countries like Denmark, which incidentally has a much stricter immigration control than many other European countries (much of these is about immigration) and is far away from Northern-Africa. I see this recent push-back against Stage Green values as an inevitable outcome due to nature of Stage Green. Its too unholistic and impractical to function, which inevitably leads to backlashes from the lower stages which are the majority. Political failure is what will eventually lead to Stage Green to turn into Yellow as they learn that they have to play ball with how the world actually is as opposed to their idealized vision. Democratically, this right-wing shift is the majority rule. I would rather have a majority rule that burns itself on bad policy and learns the hard way than a minority rule of Stage Green elites that are too out of touch with the day to day issues of normal people, like identity politics and such garbage.

Do you need to be lonely to be hopeless?

Having done a couple of commissions as an artist, I've experienced it being completely horrible to work on a project that I have no passion for which has resulted in me only accepting commissions that fall into the curfew of my passions and be way more strict. It has led to me to question to what degree my life purpose is just me making art for my own sake. How do you balance personal fulfillment and satisfying others in your life purpose? Are there situations where you draw the line when a customer wants something that you can but won't deliver?

That would be nice but it would likely be more expensive than normal meat and stay that way as a niche alternative, just like soy meat. Problem with lab meat is that you are doing everything manually that a cow does effortlessly just from eating feed. It will always be more expensive and complicated to produce than a regular ass cow.

Its not a mistake. Its how you survive and maintain form. Its not possible to maintain form without taking energy from somewhere else in this finite world we live in. Predation is essentially just the transference of energy from one form to another. Even at the base of the food chain, the sun's energy is being drained by photosynthesizing organisms.

There's no prerequisite requirement for talking to girls. Its clear that you want to talk to girls so just do it. You can live a crappy version of your dream today.

No kidding. There's obviously an incentive structure interfering such that you can't have a pure pursuit of knowledge. That takes resources which you have to get from someone, who naturally wants a return on investment. The conflict between utility and pure learning is a longstanding one in academia. In a sense it was way more pure when only the elite attended higher education. There was less of a structural survival bias. They where learning and doing research just because they where bored essentially.

No, but there needs to be way more emphasize on economic policy. Bernie Sanders was quiet popular with a lot of guys who voted Trump this term despite being left-wing and Sanders doesn't give a shit about identity politics. Barely ever talks about it. We are living in a cost-of-living crisis and people are feeling the squeeze. Republicans are acknowledging that and selling a solution much better than the Democrats, who present themselves as nothing more than the alternative "not Trump" but end up just looking like the establishment despite having superior policy for common folk. Its about identifying the pain and selling the solution. The truth about identity politics is that its unimportant to the average person who's living paycheck to paycheck so its therefor in practice an irrelevant talking point. When you talk about the rights of minorities, that's good and all but the majority doesn't win on that. Good economic policy should be a win-win for everyone. Identity politics is just in general relatively unimportant. Nobody really cares if you black or gay as long as they are materially secure and unbothered.

You guys are acting like the US is the only one arming Ukraine. Britain, France and Sweden especially are all eager to bloody Putin's nose. An imperialist Russia threatens to destabilize Europe. Obviously, the US has less of a bone in this fight.

Hating on politicians you don't like is age old. Because their politics/messenging undermines your survival interests. Politics is essentially just fighting about who is right. Its why people immersed in politics tend to be bitter and combative. You kind of have to. Just look at Leo going off at Trump on his blog. His rhetoric has only become more vicious with time in regards to Trump (Trump has also become more vicious as a politician arguably).

Essentially this I believe.

Sounds kinda backwards to me. Surely, its much stronger to simply not care what opinion people hold of you, good or bad. I think in most cases, at least with acquaintances they don't really think that much of you.