NewKidOnTheBlock

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  1. Like I said, if you're trying to make money in any way - regardless whether by getting a specific job, attempting to start a specific business, etc. - you need very specific skills and knowledge, i.e. the kind of skills and knowledge market finds usefull or entertaining at the moment. If we're talking strictly about studying via reading books, the kind of books you'd study in order to make money would be a very, very narrow subset of all books available worldwide - and in my opinion, self improvement books would not be included in that subset cause ironically, they're mostly junk and would not serve you in any utilitarian sense.
  2. Do not try to memorize the information or have any goal whilst reading. Do it for the joy of it, the same way you'd enjoy drinking a coffee, you should enjoy reading a book. Just plunge into it page by page and explore that books's perspective. I mean, who are you trying to memorize the information for anyway, the teacher? Life is not a school tho. If life circumstances find it fitting, they'll have you recall that information, and if you won't be able to recall the information, just re-read the book or that particuliar passage of the book. It's that simple. If you're trying to win some sort of capitalist game by reading books then you are wasting your time of course.
  3. Someone should make memes about the "love will find you by itself when you least expect it" thing. It's so often repeated by most people, almost always unsolicited too lmao
  4. That makes sense in their case, since Afghans are sandwiched between states who are also on the same kind of wavelength as they are, and they've been attacked and occupied by the mightiest empires of their time. Which is pretty interesting given how uninteresting their country is strategically relative to other countries that could have been attacked instead. I'm not surprised why taliban exist, and it's true that they are pretty chill relative to how bad they could be
  5. Hate to be such a debbie downer all the time, but this + the replies do be sounding like a whole lot of cope😂 But at the end of the day, that's what life is about, finding better and more sophisticated copes, so whatever. All my validation comes from my beautifull pristine spiritual being, who needs all those pesky humans
  6. Even whilst chill, their more presence is annoying af, having to go throught all these checkpoints they've set up. And them making sure you're "safe", equiped with kalashnikovs ofc LOL "Salama alaykum brotha, in need for some safety?" No thanks. Just let me enjoy the nature
  7. Public demonstrations of dissatisfaction with the regime and widespread disobedience definitely do help in establishing conditions for a potential replacement of the above mentioned tyranical goverment, given that the external circumstances allow for it. This is what's forgotten in here. You're not actually overthrowing the goverment, you are just setting up conditions for it to be eventually possible, but that opportunity has to come. Sure, regime popularity matters but unpopular regimes can last for a very long time. Needless to say, this topic a bit of a copium
  8. Hahah I did come across these folks multiple times in my life and, in the heat of the moment purchased a book from them twice. Funny lads
  9. Conscious-ness is only a thought in your head bro, it's only a concept, there is only Phil's infinite neo advaita wisdom which is the very fabric of this existence and to which we should all bow down to, there is no "you" to perceive the genius of this post
  10. I'd imagine that not bumping your friggin' head into a ceiling or a door jamb every time you make even a slightly sudden move is somewhat of a plus. The number of times this has happened to me is crazy — the ceiling is still undefeated against me
  11. That is not only a problem of LLMs but of technology and internet in general, not in this very specific sense of it's potential to create mental illnesses, but in the general sense of making people delusional. You think you are having this great tool which makes you more efficient, smarter, more competitive on the job market or in business - or in any other area in which humans compete in - but it is all just an illusion. No tool which is readilly accesible to everyone is gonna make you more competitive, or smarter, especially not the kind of tool that kisses your ass all the time and attempts to do your entire thinking for you (because you allow it, let's not forget to mention personal responsibility here, clearly these people are mentally vulnerable individuals) Since I'm basically only using ChatGTP as a glorified upgraded Google, I did not experience these drastic negative mental effects at all, however since there are certainly free A.I. tools out there (or a combination of them) that basically do the same shit, and the Google itself inserted A.I. into it's main features, I might reconsider my subscription to this tool, I couldn't be too arsed to care about it but now that I saw this video, I'm feeling kinda inspired to do so
  12. Might as well send a whole robot lookalike to do the talking for me as well. Then once she's at my place and things are about to get frisky just quickly switch so I can perform the natural obligations
  13. I think it's mostly worn by some edgy teens who don't care about politics but that would just be my guess. Not everything is worth checking out or knowing
  14. Yeah, it hit about as much as your non existent arguments
  15. Whatever bro. You are clearly mentally deficient. I wasn't really reacting to you as much as to this topic
  16. Noone forced men to fought each other and sacrifice themselves except other men. Humans could've had a much more peacefull transition from the Stone Age to present had it not been for the men constantly battering each other skulls and stealing resources from each other. And we all know this, therefore the conclusion of this video is very much a moot point. Notice that even a dimwit such as the guy whose videos you are sharing will accidentally come to the exact same obvious conclussions a feminist would. It's kinda funny
  17. They are interesting, in the ugly sense of that word. They always make sure to look as alien as possible. Because God forbid you look like a natural human, no no no, you need to break every stereotype and you need to look as genderless as possible
  18. Your family and society around you is always going to exert a significant influence over you, that's just how it goes. You can be told how much of a BS it all is countless times but at the end of the day, just for the sake of sheer day to day practicality, you'll end up abiding by the traditions
  19. Is there actually a female protagonist in this movie? I can't tell cause I only watched the trailer and some youtuber's reaction to the movie, therefore it doesn't appear to me like this is the Marry Sue type of movie. I can't be bothered to check it out tho since I can just filter this movie out so easily just by checking out the trailer, I could already tell this movie is shit
  20. It's not even possible to set accurate prices for goods and services in a socialist system. The only way to do so is through free economic choices via a free market; otherwise, you'll always have some group of people arise (which is inevitable, because hierarchies are a necessary feature of our societies and even most living organisms) and artificially decide who deserves to get how much and how resources should be allocated. This obviously doesn't work. And on some level, it's an impossible question to answer anyway, l mean who is to tell who deserves how much? I guess capitalism comes the closest to answering that question but lacks empathy, so ideally there should also be a state strong enough to provide welfare policies for those who fuck up in life, at least to a reasonable degree. I used to entertain socialism as a viable system for some time, but I was a fool for doing so.
  21. I think there are certain traits such as modesty and general inteligence which, if you aren't raised to have both in sufficient ammounts, you'll be the exact target audience for gambling. There are some statistics that support your claim that rates of gambling have increased over the last years and decades, but I'd guess it has more to do with the increased availability, not really due to change of culture or human nature
  22. You should understand that the Great Replacement is a conspiracy theory, you know. Better way to phrase that question would be: is diversity and multiculturalism a threat or a good thing? Well, depends, are you a nazi? There's an entire philosophical way of looking at reality that would claim that it is a bad thing
  23. There is no telling what is going to happen, actually. Given enough time and enough carelessness, A.I. might just exterminate our asses, i.e. everyone, there's up to 20% possibility that's going to happen. In the short to medium term it might reinforce the current wealth inequality even further, but to think you can control and make an aliance with something vastly superior to you is just wishfull thinking
  24. Yeah man I hear you. I wish I was thinking the way you've described
  25. Realistically, working out for health is not very motivating. And nobody actually works out for health. You gotta have some other goals such as beauty, strength etc. otherwise it is never going to stick or you're always just half ass it, so it'll end up not helping you too much, imo