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I think Americans democratically have a bias towards novelty since voting isn't mandatory. Establishment politicians are at a disadvantage under bull-shop newness. Identity politics has also been bad for the left. Made it more about cultural purity while largely ignoring bread and butter issues which makes most people feel left out. Economic populism is the left's strongest suit. Trump actually uses economic populistic rethoric a lot which helped him win.

For a game like Runescape, appeasing fans is kind of a must. Goodwill can get strained and people who've played for years eventually quit out of frustration as the experience feels like its been gradually tarnished. For a game all about grinding, even QOL updates can cheapen the experience.

Certain things have value in being done by yourself, like thinking, contemplation, art, education and socialization. AI can be an addition to these but when they become a replacement you start seeing negative consequences for it. No such thing as a free lunch. There is a cost to heavy reliance on AI for things that are worth doing yourself. It's especially concerning young people who grow up with this shit. In general, kids need to have restricted access to technology in my opinion because it can loop side their development in ways that hard to predict.

Philosophy is typically not very lucrative because I think that on a baseline it doesn't contribute much to base survival. Most philosophers don't provide insight that are all that original or high quality. Academic philosophy tends to be by the books and incestious. We don't need that many serious philosophers overall. Those who want to learn but not commit to hardcore learning can learn from those few who do.

What do you imagine exactly?

Becoming a functioning family man is a bunch of different things coming together, -atracting women and career. It's not a singular thing. Focus on the basics of dating and life purpose for now. Family is the reward of your personal development journey.

We generally prefer more subtle and sophisticated forms of affection. A dog lacks the intelligence to appreciate loving eye contact or emotional availability. Tards are kind of like dogs. They are very simple but also sincere in a childlike manner. They will love you just if your kind and give them attention.

There is something wrong with him to be an attention whore to this kind of unhinged degree. I don't think he even really knows Joe Rogan. He just wants the spectacle and imagines it to be this headline grabbing thing that would go over well for him somehow in this hazy confused mind of his. That's my impression at least. Anyway, liver failure.

I love this channel. Just preem "basic" self-help. He has dozens of videos on all kinds of topics. Few sources can top Jordan Shanks in giving very practical and functional advice. Like how to do a particular thing. Some of his videos are literally just slop, reacting to Reddit incels or Grindr messages for a laugh. He is pretty funny. Some of his videos is just reacting to some current drama and gleaming some kind of self-help nugget from that. https://www.youtube.com/@jordanshanksselfhelp

Vlad Vexler's are amazing for learning about politics and authoritarianism. You can learn a lot here about Russia in particularly, how it operates as a system. His philosophy channel is also very interesting and speaks more broadly on different topics, like dealing with chronic health issues. Very academic presentation without being overly lost in the sauce of academic complexity. Whenever you click on any of his videos you know you are going to get some original high quality insight. His "chat" channel delivers regular insight on current events. Basically whenever Trump or Putin do anything that isn't going to the toilet. I found these quite insightful but at the same time the picture he paints of where the world is heading is relatively alarming. https://www.youtube.com/@VladVexler https://www.youtube.com/@VladVexlerChat https://www.youtube.com/@VladVexlerPhilosophy

Being anywhere close to checking of that entire list assumes a lot of personal drive, curiosity and ability to take massive action. Pretty rare qualities overall. I agree that it is more valuable to align with what your unique values are instead of holding yourself to some lofty standard. As long as you know what you are doing.

Training martial arts exercise is essentially preparing for violence. Military exercise is the same but differs in that you have to train for violence against a specific target. There are no neutral or general war plans on a geopolitical level. Of course, invading Taiwan wouldn't exactly be a defensive war. It would be an assault ordinarily speaking though the Chinese could genuinely believe it to be defensive somehow, like how the Ukraine war is defensive for Putin. I can genuinely see China invading Taiwan the moment they see it being more beneficial than detrimental to their agenda. Being prepared for that moment is in of itself part of maintaining the agenda.

It's time we started talking about the real use case of AI, grounded in mundane practical rubber-meets-the-road reality. Not a cooked up hyper-reality of investment hype and technology worship. Actual practical use of AI is going to be quiet mundane after all I think, but there will also be significant downsides. AI has been a boon for scams, data theft and slop and we risk dehumanizing traditionally humanizing aspects, like art and human interaction. In my experience, the people most excited about AI tend to be talentless and lazy. Tell me if I'm wrong, but I don't think I am. There are certain things worth doing even if you can replace them. That's all.

Of course if you use it as an additive you will avoid the pitfalls. But AI is largely used to replace certain tasks. If those tasks are worth doing then you will deprive yourself emotionally and intellectually. And it's a lot more limiting to use AI purely an additive as opposed to as a replacement for certain tasks in an unrestricted sort of way. Unrestricted use is going to trend towards replacement because in the case of the opposite you hardly need to use AI for all that much in my opinion. Your better off googling things yourself, developing your own opinions and talking to a real therapist.

Not to say that China isn't necessarily going to invade Taiwan, I haven't watched the video yet, but preparing for war isn't necessarily the same as wanting war generally speaking. Just being capable of war is a necessary part of monopolizing violence. Every functional country has war plans prepared that they can execute on. The equivalent of keeping a loaded gun under your pillow.

A rigid system is effective at upholding a minimum standard but is hard to change or adjust as a result. There's the issue of conflicting incentives as well. Between bureaucracy, money and patient needs. Patient needs are too a certain extent a net-negative cost so they are prioritized under bureaucracy and money (in the case of for-profit healthcare). This is just a system trying to survive. This is why healthcare shouldn't be for-profit at a baseline. Bureaucracy can be improved to better meet patient needs, after all what is then not the point of health care? We begin by raising our standards.

But Weo, what's the point if we don't live in a communist utopia right now? It's all shit and corrupt and my parents are divorced 😔.

Don't be overly perfectionist. Things don't have to work out perfectly for it to be grist for the mill.

I read a story once of a witch in Africa going for a walk and as she walked past a football pitch a boy accidentally farted on here. She got pissed of and cast a spell on him which caused him to bloat like balloon. After some time they had to go and apologize to the witch to undo the spell and unbloat the boy.

I've seen the threat of witchcraft, voodoo, black magic, etc. being used to control and manipulate people in a bunch of documentaries. Like sex traffickers will take a lock of hair of their victims and tell them that they'll cast black magic on them if they go to the police. Very obvious control mechanism but superstitious and scared people will feel shaken by that.

Japan has a bunch of nifty little self-improvement/health terms and concepts baked into their culture. Like "kaizen", meaning cumulative gradual improvement, or "hara hachi bu" which means to only eat till your about 80% full.

People have different values. If understanding isn't your top value it'll probably be less than worth it. You have to know what is important to you first.

You have to be convinced that you are not missing out when not engaging in an addiction in order to move on from it. Build a strong emotionally activating case for yourself for why you are not missing out when eating junk food. Imagine how gross and stuffed you feel after pigging out on junk food. How your body will feel now and long-term compared to if you ate healthy. How you'll feel at 50 on junk vs healthy. Become hyper aware of what exactly you are doing to your body when you are pigging out. Also check what it does for you as an emotional crutch. What are you getting emotionally from junk food and can you get that elsewhere in a more conscious manner? Do you even need this crutch, really? On a side note, if you eat a lot of junk food because you love specific foods like pizzas or hamburgers then I think you can still eat those but you just have to make them yourself so that they are at least relatively healthy and rich foods. Half the appeal of junk food is the convenience and 9 times out of 10 you can cook something better yourself for less cost, unless you really like the greasy taste of a fry kitchen

I'm not gay I'm integrating my feminine.

Why is that? Is sex inherently unconscious?