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Elon is the definitive billionaire chud. So rich and powerful but still gets bullied by kids less than half his age online. It's genuinely scary and kind of fucked when kids know they are more confident than you. Like they insult you when you walk past the local kindergarten. Elon would cry if you placed him in school today as an adult. And now he has some sort of midlife autistic brainmelt where he thinks he need to save the world, which just so happens to be perfectly aligned with what is good for his bottomline. Elon is no more qualified or legitimate than any random guy on the street to run politics. Who does he think he is, genuinely? Worse than that, he bases his political understanding of Twitter headlines. He's even too lazy to learn. God help us all.

Isn't a relationship what you really want?

This is like a sitcom bruh 😭 Some Kramer shit from Seinfield.

Shocked you didn't catch a beating.

You wore the whole birthday cake at school? Huh?

It's emotional value. It's how you make people feel. A charismatic bum is suspicious.

Disowned royals when a movie director is at the party

People like you when you give more value than you take. That is what is charisma is in my opinion. No free lunch. You can learn a bunch of passive social skills which make you more likable which is useful, but you can always try harder to impress people. Learning about this stuff I realized that I only care about making people like me to a certain degree. I think that's normal. I could suck harder if I really wanted to.

No Yes

New age hippies and therapy culture alike give trauma special primacy to the point of pathologizing what is arguably just life's challenges and the human condition. Healing has its place but more often than not what people lack is just development of their talents in my opinion. The urge within therapy speak culture is to frame development as fixing yourself, which is in of itself a negative way of framing things.

I believe it's likely that rich people will find a way to live longer eventually. Just not any time soon. Something like 150-200 maybe. The market for immortality is huge. The motivation and funds are there.

If your a highly motivated person your going to have a case of the grass being greener on the other side. It kind of comes with the territory. Your goals are always idealized. You need to cultivate some contentment to keep yourself going. You bring yourself everywhere you go, so you might as feel good doing it. I've started doing the following to be more present: Note 3 things that you like in your current environment. 3 sensations in your body. Focus on your breath for about 30 seconds.

MCU post endgame is peak kicking a dead horse. Let it die with some dignity please.

You can use reading as a coping strategy to deal with bad habits. Like if you catch yourself doom scrolling you pick up a book.

I prefer paperback. I find I process stuff better and it's easier to refer back and take notes, etc. Reading daily, 30-60 minutes a day should get you through a book in about 3-4 weeks depending. I like to be meticulous in my notetaking, so I read less, but I get through it. Your probably not going to remember everything, but you will absorb the core lessons. Depending on how technique heavy a book is you can be more or less meticolous trying to remember everything.