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Not very accessible though. The most underrated exercise is walking in my opinion. It doesn't get more accessible that. It's also one of the greatest exercise for weight loss. I know someone who took walking to an athletic level. You'd be surprised how tired you get after what is a relatively short distance. Most old people who need more exercise just need to walk more first and foremost in my opinion.

Vikings where pretty brutal. For one, kids where seen as extensions of their parents, so if you had beef with someone you'd go for their kids. Revenge was absolute. Eye for an eye or your a nobody, and nobodies where ripe for the taking. Whole families would be wiped out over revenge. It was seen as a right for victors to do as they please with those they defeated militarilly. It was common to amass power and wealth through simply defeating people. A king and a warlord are one and the same with no real effort to legitimize power. The relationship between power and wider society was more or less colonial. The families that would end up on top where the most ruthless, merciless and gifted. I have read of one guy who would go into the woods with his uncle too practice killing by attacking random stranger. His own mom killed his siblings for being too weak.

If it is just petri dish soup who cares? The medical advancement pays for itself.

Not much for regular life. Maybe if you want to do some niche academic study, like physics. EQ gets you further in life because people prefer dealing with people they actually like. The more likeable politician is going to get more votes than the smarter but less likeable politician every time.

Defined a generation (millennials),

I wish my dad would take his fucking meds. He calls me like three times a day over the most benign shit and if I don't pick up starts worrying and thinks I died.

"Great men" are remembered for their results. Not for being saints. Nobody cares how nice you are except ivory tower academics apparently. Vlad the Impaler is considered a hero in Romania. It probably wouldn't exist today if not for him. Certain things you can't accomplish without breaking an egg. Too much presentism 0/10

The case for slavery is that free labor is practical and humans are tribal. Everything else is a justification. People still yearn for free labor whenever they can get it, which is why companies make poor third worlders work their sweatshops. They are practically slaves by virtue of how profoundly unequal leverage each party has over the other. Also, learn to space your shit.

Pure environmentalism values the environment over humanity and wants humans to depopulate. It doesn't actually matter much how that is framed. You shouldn't really subscribe to any one ideology in my opinion. There's a reason why theword "ideologue" is prejorative. Because they are crazy people. Just cherry pick the best parts.

I always keep a copy of not giving a fuck next to my macbook inside my fjellraven backpack when I go to Starbucks for my macha latte and bagel. I've never read it.

By far the worst thing he has done. Death penalty

Mark Manson is kind of the Brian Griffin of self-help. Generic and has this smarminess to him.

I never heard anyone say "I respect" you outside of a fight where they need to reestablish trust. Respect is something you show through your actions in my opinion. Words are nice but only one factor.

No ideology in its pure form is really good nor do they exist in reality. Instead we cherry pick the best parts. Pure environmentalism would let a plague go on a rampage unabated, calling it natural.

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