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I've heard that as a European, you could temporally move to the US for work and make a lot more more money than you would locally, pay less taxes, etc. What are some recommended places for experiencing America, ignoring job opportunities for a bit?

Uncompromising vision, for sure. That kind of persistence is rare.

Epstein is the CEO of networking. He has a little black book full of contact details of all kinds of people. He was very good at connecting with people, which was probably his bread and butter. He would feign expertise by knowing a lot of general stuff, then switch topics before people realized that he isn't that knowledgable. From what I've seen he likely worked for Mossad as an intelligence asset.

*weight when you see how much storage space this fucker is going to pilfer. Its going to make your eyes water. I'm calling it now, people are going to complain about the file size, with a subsequent backlash of people going "shut up, it's GTA!"

Rockstar has trended more and more towards realism, but GTA untill now has always been hyper real, a kind of parody of reality. There's an inherent humor to the freedom of being able to kill people and road rage in a life-like simulation of LA, where not being an awful person is the exception. There's a thread somewhere where they discussed which GTA V character they hated the most and nearly every character was mentioned at least once. That's hilarious. My biggest worry for GTA is thaf it is going to be too realistic and become tedious to play, like RDR2 was. I couldn't stand that boring ass game.

It wasn't bad but I was a little dissapointed. Too goofy and cliche in its writing. Kung fu bottom half as well as other moments ruined my sense of disbelief. The big monster looked like an edgier version of something out of How To Tame Your Dragon. Predator always seemed liked a kind of cold sociopathic monster to me. Like an aztec warrior with sci-fi gadgets collecting scalps. I didn't feel that a found family plot suited this movie. Also, his feet are really big. I couldn't unsee it once I noticed it. Almost like they are shoes or something.

Ankara Messi mosquito.

It's not that the conclusions themselves are shallow, but its not an an academic text with academic level of detail. That makes it more readable, and it wouldn't really be possible to write something like this academically because it is too broad and general. The conclusions makes sense in my opinion, which is what matters most.

Page count: 464 (about 400 excluding notes, etc.) A biological/evolutionary perspective on what humans are as a species. The book makes a relatively brief overview of humans history, covering pre-history, the agricultural revolution, religion and the science, while drawing several general conclusions about human nature based on these four major human revolutions in history, as per outlined in the book. The core concept of shared fictions/imagination and the power of imagination are enlightening and give context to human behavior and the main takeaway from this book if nothing else. It makes several conclusions for how humans, and by extensions society, function at its core, such as the notion that humans are a species that function of shared fictions (intangible constructs that are only real because the populace treats it like real, for example money, the state, religion, etc.), which is one of the major core concepts of the book and if nothing else the main take away in my opinion. It contextualizes human conduct in a materialistic way that that you can appreciate in your own daily life, down to the micro, all the way to the macro. It is however anthropologically shallow, opting rather for a broad overview. You have to be careful with how you apply the ideas of this book to the real world. The concepts of this book can be overly simplistic when you take into account why for example patriarchy has been the norm for human civilizations or why exactly only homo sapiens are the only surviving species of human. More academic texts can give you a more nuanced and rigorous take on specific questions relating to human history and nature, but it is in the broadness where this book shines. It is a challenge to present the entirety of human history within 400 pages. This book is pop-history/science/anthropology, if nothing else by virtue that no academic would make a book like this in the first place. It is something which a lot of people like to criticize it for. Sapiens seems to be popular to hate for supposed many inaccuracies, though I still find this book to be broadly insightful, even if the finer details might be glossed over to a certain extent or it makes specific errors. It contextualizes human activity in real time, which is rare and valuable. I think people are to a certain degree being contrarian, as Harari was heavily praised during his 15 minutes of fame. I find the criticism of Sapiens overblown ultimately. It is not meant to be academic. There are "so many errors", but they never make any specific examples, at least which substantially undermine the conclusions. For example, the conclusion that currency is a solution to the exchange of value which enables commerce isn't undermined if he was wrong about how the Aztecs counted goods using rope. Or if he was wrong about the exact nature of Mesopotamian written language. Nevertheless, this book has been fundamental in my understanding of how humans work and what exactly they are. It is something we tend to take wholly for granted. We tend to not see ourselves as a particular species for one who are the way they are for relative and particular reasons. 8/10

Doomer = modern isolation + victim mentality + negativity bias The isolation of modernity is probably the most pertinent aspect of doomerism. A perpetual lack of community makes life seem less meaningful. Algorithm capture then turns it into a identity and a signal. It's a trick question. Happiness is a choice. Doomers choose to focus on doom and gloom. It's not a given that being dealt a bad hand in life means your going to be unhappy. Doomers are mostly young men who live in a first world country and who live largely cushy lives. It's a kind of bored and frustrated mental masturbation, intensely focusing on things one can't control.

The guy most successful with women I know is a spoiled drug addicted millionaire who regularly gets panic attacks who runs a large club.

Maybe the law is too stringent in its definition or its just being misinterpreted relative to sleep sex. You still have to prove it was rape. Previously you had to prove violence/threat/coercion. Now you only have to prove consent. It has lead to an increase in convictions, as well as a new clause for "negligent rape", if it was unintentional. This is good. It's a culture that takes rape more seriously. It makes it easier for women who freeze when raped as opposed to fight back to get justice, which is most of them. https://www.reuters.com/article/world/rape-conviction-rates-rise-75-in-sweden-after-change-in-the-law-idUSKBN23T2R2/

It's really hard to pinpoint what women want, I find. One the one hand, a lot of the media that caters to them features effeminate men, but I've also seen genuinely beautiful women hanging out with drug dealers types. If I've gotten anything from this thread then that is it doesn't hurt to embrace your natural femininity, which is freeing.

God forbid you have an opinion this day and age.

Sexual harassment is about more than just sexual frustration but uneven power dynamics. It is much more unsafe when a man flashes a woman than the other way around due to size difference. A woman flashing men openly is asking to get raped. Priest molesting kids is an authority preying on vulnerability. A misogynistic culture is going to take sexual harassment of women less seriously. Raping your wife wasn't considered rape until recently.

The seemingly lack of dialogue is kind of telling. It's a good thing you are aware and independent thinking.

Your therapist sounds reactionary. If anything, you should exhaust that desire. There is nothing inherently wrong with wanting to be loved for your looks and it is good for survival. You'll know if your being overly neurotic about it.

Isn't Joseph Campbell a literary anthropologist? I don't think you should take him too literal.

Capitalist consumerism is actually the first time in human history that the predominant ideology aligns with human nature. Compared to religion, consumerism has been embodied flawlessly from its conception.

I don't buy this doomerism. Your more free than ever for the most part. Society is more fair and opportune for the average person than ever before. In Rome half the population where slaves. Just the fact that you weren't born a slave or even have the opportunity to become one legally is an enormous improvement. Not to mention that wars are at an all time low. If you lived during the middle ages, you'd be going to bed worried that raiders would kill you in your sleep. The conditions of modern life are utopic compared to the conditions of most of human history. Just the fact that as a society we believe in progress is a revolutionary new social technology. For most of human history progress wasn't even a thing. Exploitation isn't inherently evil either. The issue often is a lack of leverage for employees, which is something better policy can improve. But fundamentally, labor exploitation is the alternative to running your own business and most people don't want that responsibility or risk or have that ambition. It's a fundamentally a trade. I think the more important factor for economic exclusion is a shrinking job market. There's just less and less jobs (for employees) due to outsourcing and technological advancement. We'll have to rethink the system as the scales tip on economic exclusion.

I used to be a soy boy about conscription but now I don't think it's a big deal. Most 18 year olds don't have that much going on where a military experience is going to be too disruptive VS gainful in terms of experience.

Conscription is relatively common in Europe. This is just a light version of full consctiption. Denmark also has a lottery system, but even if you get a pull your unlikely to get conscripted since volunteers make up the bulk of the military. A lottery is more fair than conscripting based on whether or not your in college, like they did in the US during the Vietnam war.

Animals can offer a lot of value besides as food. Like for example sheep/goats are often used to keep grass area clear, like for example for a solar panel farm or for historical monuments that are located on grasslands. I think European farmers dealing with the now resurging wolf population should experiment with guardian dogs for livestock for example. Not to mention the immense value that pollinators provide. We should think more creatively how we can harness animals for distinct purposes. They present solutions that works without the need for expensive machinery that drains resources or technological development. Just needs creativity and understanding of how these creatures work. We already have a past of employing animals to great effect.