Basman

The crux of the matter is just overinflated expectations in my opinion. Tech bros spin up hype to garner investment and we are still learning how to exactly use this technology in practice. The possibilities are not actually endless but they can appear such with a little imagination. We might be starting to cross the peak of overinflated expectations right now.

I find it fascinating how a lot of diseases or symptoms of diseases are essentially the body acting on itself. I love that analogy relating to these orgs.

There are a lot of low hanging fruit that the American government could implement to raise the standard of their police. For instance, there is no federally mandated training minimum. Bad and corrupt policing is due to a lack of resources and investment into quality policing in my opinion. People tend to meet the bare minimum of the standard set for them.

If voting didn't matter than the UK wouldn't have left the EU. Brexit was terrible for business and was the result of nationalistic and xenophobic fervor.

Some people are attracted to animals. Does that mean that everyone who is not openly into bestiality is just lacking experience/being close minded?

How do you tell if someone is worth marrying? Or vice-versa, when is marrying a trap?

I think marriage can be a great thing. Apparently marriage benefits men more even. At least health wise for whatever reason. Marrying the wrong person certainly is a trap though.

Today's culture is so obsessed with productivity. I don't think farmers during the middle ages had anxiety about whether or not they where productive enough. Makes you questioning how much of the things we think we should accomplish via productivity are actually genuinely important if you have to make yourself do them as opposed to feeling naturally compelled to. We live in the most prosperous and comfortable age in human history and I think we are just kind of looking for problems to solve to keep ourselves busy a lot of the time or we feel shame about not being productive enough for cultural reasons. That said, if you wish to be more productive, the best thing you can do is get rid of your phone/computer. Or at least find ways to block your wifi and apps. Social media and the internet are the biggest sources of distraction in our modern world.

Religion is just a cult that sprung up after certain mystical individuals passed away in many cases. The purpose of religion is to arrest people's perception and to proliferate itself as a culture. Mystical experiences is something else in my opinion.

Of course religion is going to posit reality as a problem that only they have the solution for. Its awfully convenient. If not, what is the point of religion and faith in the first place?

Original sin culture perhaps. Plus, depression is a lower form of insanity in my opinion. It distorts your perception of reality to make you feel sorry for yourself.

Life is just limited. Not some sort of divine punishment. Who is being punished and why? And by whom? It makes no sense. Depression is a state where you focus your attention on how bad it is to be you. It is in a sense a self-centered emotional state. Thinking life is a punishment is just that. It is certainly possible to have a bad life but that doesn't mean that this realm is itself inherently bad.

He has some good advice but would probably make for a bad couch. He is not very cushy I think.

How do you do breathwork?

Did you also give up standard of living?

To break an addiction you need to think that you are not missing out on anything by no longer feeding the addiction. What are the costs of your addictions?

I've read in the book Models by Mark Manson a trick for approaching where you visualize a line between yourself and the person you wish to approach. Then you just focus on making that line shorter till you are within conversation range. Put your mind of the pressure. Haven't tested that out myself.

Do you consider your own videos less geared for success? Being three hours long and all.

Speak for yourself. If you talk to me with this accusatory language out of the blue I will block you.

Amsterdam is much more accessible geographically than Australia with poorer countries in close vicinity like East-European countries.

Sex trafficking is illegal everywhere. Doesn't mean it doesn't happen and Australia doesn't seem to be an exception there: https://www.afp.gov.au/news-centre/media-release/human-trafficking-reports-continue-increase-australia, although to a lesser degree compared to other places.

This reminds me of how Amsterdam allegedly attract sex trafficking since prostitution is legal there. I have a theory that when you decriminalize something that is criminal in most countries then that can create an opportunity for bad actors to capitalize on.

True, relatively speaking, but it helps but your politics into perspective. People are quiet spoiled these days and don't know how good they really have it despite room for improvement. If you live in a first world country today then you can do nearly anything you dream of if you apply yourself. That is a modern miracle we take completely for granted. There also degrees of savagery. Compare the savagery of the Roman Empire with the savagery of 18th century colonialism for example.

A lot of people are directing their anger at director lady of the Secret Service. She agreed to testify at a house hearing. Wouldn't want to be in her shoes right now. There's also been anger and questioning over supposed DIE practices within the Secret Service. The director herself stated that she wanted to make 30% of the force female explicitly. People are angry specifically that the Secret Service seems to prioritize tokenism over merit when lives are at stake. Why is a short fat woman guarding orange man? How is she supposed to help body block him? I bet this is going to be like a shock to the system for the Secret Service and they'll tighten up their performance a lot henceforth.

Even the most undeveloped and unstable regions today pale in comparison to the scale of savagery and wanton brutality of the past, such as with the Roman Empire or the Mongolian Empire.