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Most guys would love to catch a break and have the woman approach them for once. I've only had it happen twice in my adult life, and for probably half of guys or more it happens never. 1. It's a relief to be the one in the position where you're making the ultimate yes/no decision for once. 2. It's a huge boost to a guy's self esteem. Even if he's not interested, it's something he'll remember forever. 3. It's not intimidating at all. Probably because the same power differential isn't there, you're presumably a smaller and weaker person approaching them and they don't feel any burden to spare your feelings or keep you from freaking out if they say no. If you like a guy, just do it. If you're even averagely attractive it won't seem desperate or try-hard at all. Guys have to deal with the same shyness and social problems with every approach they make and honestly they put a lot more on the line. Especially in light of #metoo you have to be really careful about how you approach a woman to not seem threatening or creepy. It's hard for a woman to come off creepy. Be aware that it happens so infrequently that most guys probably don't know how to handle it and they'll freeze up. Some might also think you're just pulling a prank on them. So if it seems like they're struggling, don't force them to make a yes/no decision on the spot. Maybe have your number or email written down on a piece of paper for them in advance, give it to them and tell them to think about it.

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80 years isn't long, it's average. If I'm gonna have to drink kale smoothies and exercise every day I'd be aiming for 100. It's also pretty hard to die by 40 unless you eat fast food every single day and never visit a doctor. Even 400 lb people live to their 60s thanks to blood pressure meds, insulin, etc. Highest risk of dying at 40 is like suicides and car crashes. If I was gonna die by 40 my life better be GREAT not just good. From 20 to 40 I wanna be cruising around the world with half a dozen different models every day (and night), eating in michelin star restaurants every night and doing cocaine and skydiving, rapelling, diving, and all kinds of high risk activities every day, or being a mob boss or dictator of a small island country or something. Good / decent / great and long/short are way too subjective and too many variables. You almost need to flesh out a backstory for entire lives with the age, pros and cons, and then pretend to look back from your deathbed and think if it was worth it.

This is pretty typical weather for July / August in my area. I remember 100+ F humid days even as a kid in the 90s. Before I had AC I found it helped to wipe my entire upper body down with cold water and then let it evaporate off. It's like the super-powered version of what sweating does naturally. Also put an ice pack on the back of your neck. Largest artery in your body and will very quickly cool down your blood, which then circulates through and cools the rest of your body. Now I just sit indoors with AC at a steady 21 C though The problem in Europe is that you guys don't have central heating, and you probably don't have enough room in your walls/floors to add ducts even if you wanted to. So you'd pretty much be limited to window-mounted AC units.

There are a couple good documentaries about how albino children are treated in Africa. Pretty much the opposite problem... actual witches want to use them and their body parts for magic.

I'm using Reaper. It's free for the first 60 days, then it's technically "paid" in the way that Winrar is but uses the honors system, so you just close a popup every time you open it and can keep using it indefinitely. I'm waiting to see if there's a Black Friday sale on either FL Studio or Ableton before I upgrade to one of those as a premium paid option. At least for me, it's just about doing something single-minded and focused where you only concentrate on that one thing. When I write, I don't let myself look at my phone, open my email, start browsing the web. Consistently once I start, I just keep going and before long 2 - 3 hours have passed but it feels like I've only been working for 20 minutes. If you lack the discipline, turn your phone off completely and look for chrome plugins where you can lock yourself out of certain websites (or all of them) for a set amount of time. There's a minimum time of about 15 - 20 minutes of focus required before you start entering flow state. If you get distracted it takes another 15+ minutes to get back into it. Unnecessarily putting layers of spirituality/mysticism onto it. I can very much enter a flow state with an ego and sense of self. Watching cartoons going super saiyan and flying around is not helpful advice on attaining flow state. Stop lol.

AOC was barely detained. In a clip of the event you can see her holding her hands behind her back, pretending to be handcuffed with a smug look on her face. She raises a hand to wave to the crowd at one point, the cop wasnt even restraining her. It was just an intentional photo op. Protests aren't fighting like hell, they almost never accomplish something. It's just pandering to leftist voters. If they were really arrested and not just let go a block away from the protest, let's see the mugshots and booking paperwork. Edit: Okay according to news articles she was actually arrested and fined a whopping $50 dollars LOL. (And they took a photo of her with congressional ID at the event in lieu of taking her to the station for a mugshot.)

The use of the word curse specifically is interesting. You refer to it like there's an intelligence behind it, like it's a living entity, you used the word possess a lot. Curses are normally just like bad luck, they don't actively do psychological things to you like you describe. Are you open to the possibility that maybe it's a demon or spirit of some kind? If you don't want to publicly share what you think may have started this, that's understandable, especially given the negative reaction you've received here. I'll just say that if the someone and something you suspect involves the occult, there's a possibility that it's something even worse than a curse.

See if the holes between the 2 tires line up in a logical way like you just ran over something too. Odds of getting a flat from a nail or piece of glass with 2 tires is pretty low. If it's 2 front or 2 back tires on opposite sides that are flat then it's almost certainly foul play

Why did you leave out how the curse started in your case? Wouldn't it be a good thing to share with people so at least they can avoid that one vector for it? On the other hand I dunno if posting about it at all is very wise. There are at last a few hypochondriacs here that are gonna convince themselves they're cursed now. Sending a blessing your way.

1. I think we are reaching a state of technical stagnation. When I was in business school just a decade ago, we were taught things like Moore's Law. Basically that technology would continue to get exponentially faster and better forever. But it seems like we are already hitting a plateau on technological advancement, barring some huge new advancement. 2. Power is way more consolidated and closer to monopolies than it used to be. Big companies will just buy up smaller companies to stay on top, expanding to take over whole new emerging markets if they have to. Ie. Facebook becoming Meta to take over VR. It's way harder for smaller companies to break through to that level of success nowadays. 3. Most of the companies on slide L2 made commodities. Steel, electricity, gas. It's especially getting harder to grow in these areas, which is why everything has changed to technology and finance being on top. In order to displace tech and finance companies, you need to think of what the paradigm could possibly be that will come after them. There probably will be something, but at the moment I can't imagine what it would be. Just like in the 70s and 80s people couldn't foresee companies like Apple and Alphabet and Tencent and the stuff they would produce. 4. I do think America is exceptional and will continue to hold onto its power. It's possible that India, China, and a couple other countries could become real powerhouses and get 5 or 10 companies on the list. But it's not random chance that a Top 20 company is just going to pop up in Indonesia or Croatia. That being said, predicting the future 10 years out is a fools game. There's a tiny chance America might not even exist by then. Weirder stuff has happened in my lifetime. I'd focus on the part he says today about how you can pick the industry but not the particular company that will succeed. Well, we have ETFs today that are made up of all the companies in an industry. So I guess the smartest thing based on his advice would be just to invest in ETFs of up-and-coming sectors. Even that isn't without a lot of risk though. I put some money into a psychedelics ETF in Feb 2021 and it's currently down -75% lmao. Other things like cryptocurrency or metaverse there aren't really ETFs for yet.

I've got a 10 month old atm. It will drastically hurt your personal development and self-actualization, working toward your life purpose, take away time for stuff you enjoy such as video games, it'll be a struggle to find time to exercise or cook decent meals, and pretty much everything else in your life simply because you aren't going to have time for anything else. From what I can tell and every other parent tells me, it only keeps getting harder and harder until the kid goes to school. It was hard when my kid was still a potato, but now that they can crawl and stand and starting to crawl up stairs it's even harder. And when they start to talk and you have to really engage with them, instead of just watching them play and interacting while listening to a podcast in one ear, it'll be even harder still. Maybe if you put them in daycare and don't work during the day, you could use that time for personal development. But you're still living on hard mode and doing 2x as much in a day. That being said, the clock is ticking. If you or your partner (especially the woman) is approaching 30, you pretty much need to do it now if you want to have kids, or you might miss your chance entirely. Especially with declining fertility rates already, if you have to do IUI or IVF it'll add at least another year. It was important to my partner to have a kid and took several years to make happen, so wasn't something I could just put off.

Ummmm WHAT lol Did you sign a contract? How are you already locked into 2 jobs for the next 2 years? I'm 35 and I'm planning to make a synthwave album with no previous music experience, learn 3D modelling, and earn money from both within the next few years. Plus create a standup comedy routine, grow my own food, and run a podcast... plus my main income source (writing) on top of that. Jesus, hyperbole much? You still have more than half your life ahead of you. I would give up anything to get 9 years of my life back and be 26 again. Do you have a degree in accounting already? Of all the things you could choose, why would you choose boring-ass accounting. A junior accountant only makes $50k. The average CPA in many states like Pennsylvania and Florida are less than $80k. Those where the average wage is $100k+ are places like New York where you're also paying out the ass in rent. To make 6 figures you need to be an above-average CPA. Do you think you're passionate about bookkeeping to be an above-average CPA for the rest of your life? Making a career out of music or art is several times easier and faster than passing the CPA final exam. Maybe accounting maybe qigong and both seem like equally valid options to you? If your life purpose is music, why are you settling or considering accepting anything else? A band with more former members than current members... only 1 of them has been there since inception... I have a feeling it's not all as glamorous and romantic as you imagine. You can start calling around to coffee shops and bars and start getting that feeling on a small scale right now. It's not a sold-out arena, but you gotta start somewhere. Maybe they'll even pay you or give you a free meal for it.

Only somebody who lives in a city and has never handled guns or interacted with people who own guns would hypothesize something like this. We already have laws to deter people from shooting people. Especially public officials, you know if you shoot one of them you're going to get cracked down on extra hard. Most people don't care about politics enough to shoot someone over it. Those who are that disturbed or disgruntled would just use a knife or find some other way to inflict harm instead if guns weren't available. Look at the guy in Japan who was committed enough to create his own firearm from scratch. Statistically the kind of people doing that sort of thing aren't obtaining their firearms legally anyway. You have a source for that more recent than 2020?

Why does there need to be someone watching from Nirvana? I think you're mistakenly referring to Nirvana as some separate place, like we're disembodied spirits watching our lives on TV screens. That opens up to Occams Razor arguments... why not just neurons in the brain firing giving an illusion of consciousness, rather than this elaborate spiritual setup? If Nirvana exists then it has to be right here and now. Zero separation, this world you see is Nirvana.

What's your source for this? The world's deepest hole is only 12 km right now. Are we on the brink of some breakthrough of metallurgy or other science that will suddenly make it way easier to dig superdeep boreholes? The average cost to drill a residential water well 100ish feet deep is like $30k, I don't want to know what it costs to drill 15 km down. There's some low-hanging fruit we might want to take advantage of first, like climate batteries. I don't see why we couldn't incorporate this into all new homes being built to capture heat during the day and reduce heating costs at night or in the winter: The examples above are for greenhouses, but the residential equivalent would be something like this: https://www.waterfurnace.com/residential/about-geothermal/ If we can, I think it's better to find smaller-scale technologies that individuals can use to create their own abundance. Even if everything you say about geothermal and nuclear fusion is correct, the energy producers still have a monopoly. They have an incentive to keep the resource scarce and expensive, so they won't exactly be building a geothermal power plant for every city to make electricity near-free. So I would say don't wait for abundant energy to come at some future date. Start installing windmills and solar panels on your own property, or burying pipes under your entire yard with water/air that gets heated by the sun and circulated into your home.

Your electrolytes might be screwed up, possibly eating less salt than American food. Maybe also losing salt from sweating, although even the middle of summer isn't very hot in the UK. Try drinking some coconut water. Eat a banana to boost your potassium. My go-to is drinking some pickle juice, basically the brine in the jar of pickles. Although if you don't like pickles that'll be disgusting, also pickles is something different in the UK and might be hard to find dill pickles. Usually some polish ones in the international aisle. Definitely check your place for obvious signs of black mold / mildew, especially in the bedroom and bathroom. UK is terrible for all kinds of fungi and mold because it's always wet. I lived in the UK for several years, in all 3 places I had literal mushrooms growing up from around my bathtub. I had basically constant allergies the entire time I lived there from mold. The good news is when I moved home, it's like my immune system was overwhelmed for so long that it also basically cured me of regular seasonal allergies. Mold gave me headaches as well, but not dizziness. Try to keep track of when you feel worst and best during the day. If it's mold in your home then you should feel a lot worse in the evenings and weekends when you're at home for hours, and feel better after you've been out of the house for several hours.

Blackrock is just a corporation. Corporations are just lifeless entities that can be used for good or bad, depending on what the people who control them decide to use them for. Focus more on the top 1% of people who found, own, and control companies like Blackrock. Hold the individuals who make decisions within the company accountable. The corporation is just a legal entity, it doesn't make decisions. Don't let people misdirect you to and turn the corporation itself into a punching bag or a boogeyman.

I feel for you GenZ'ers. It's clear from the frantic and desperate talk here that you really believe the world is going to end in 5 or 10 years if we don't do anything. I'd ask you to open your mind to the possibility that maybe you've been fed propaganda and things aren't as bad as they seem. When me and Leo were kids, the environmental problems of the day were the Ozone layer and acid rain. We literally had a giant growing hole in our atmosphere over the North Pole and it was raining down acid. We basically just stopped using one type of ingredient in cans of hairspray and it went away. The Earth is a lot more resilient than you give it credit for. Something that was pushed on us a lot more as kids was the idea of Gaia / Mother Earth. I don't know if the Earth is literally alive, but its systems are complex enough that it kind of acts like it. If humans really give the Earth more than it can take, don't worry, it'll swiftly throw us off like a bunch of fleas. If humans went away, plant roots would start ripping up sidewalks and roads and cities would be forests again in a couple hundred years. Even with modern pollution it's hard to mess things up in ways that can't be reversed in a couple of generations. We can double our emissions for the next several generations and it'll be fine. What would climate change look like in the short term for most of Northern US and Europe? Slightly warmer climates and longer growing seasons for farmers, better productivity, more food and ability to reduce global famine. We've been told the world was ending since An Inconvenient Truth came out in 2006. There was a point of no return, we passed it. There was peak oil, for some reason we keep discovering more and it's not going to run out in our lifetime or our grandkid's lifetime. The deadlines keep coming, we keep missing them, and nothing much happens. There's simply more important stuff for us to worry about right now when inflation is 9% month over month. We can wait 5 years to make sure most of the country doesn't go homeless first. Up to 150 species go extinct every day, it's just a part of life, been that way since the dinosaurs. They will always make it into a crisis and say "this is your last chance". They need your votes and money to keep the grift constantly going. If you had been alive for another decade like me, you'd see this cycle just keeps playing out over and over no matter what is done. There's always more needed to save the environment and it'll never be enough. What meaningful change would we get if the bill Manchin shot down had passed? Corrupt US officials would get kickbacks from all the Chinese companies like solar panel and windmill manufacturers they're invested in. A bunch of it would get embezzled and disappear to corruption. Americans in the oil and gas sector would lose their jobs and people overseas would get worse paying jobs with worse conditions. Less strict environmental controls in countries overseas so toxic sludge would just get dumped into rivers or chemicals into the air without the EPA to oversee, and at least keep it below certain levels. American homeowners would get penalized. There's more important things to pay for in the middle of a recession than CO2 emission studies.

Bruh I took Inner Engineering and there was nothing in there to enable me to live to 160 years old. I feel ripped off.

I don't know if I like the nothingness of sleep. I like dreaming (and more specifically daydreaming in bed before/after sleep), as well as the comfy feeling of being curled up in blankets in a quiet dark place. It's more of an escapism or coping mechanism though. I find my love and desire of sleep is directly proportional to how depressed I am, or how negative/chaotic life seems at the time. When you have something exciting to do in your waking hours, sleep becomes an unavoidable task you have to do, rather than an enjoyable activity in and of itself.

Is Coke Zero a diet coke? Or are they both just zero-calorie Coke branded beverages? Is caffeine-free diet coke a diet coke? Don't ever go to the Southern US or you'll have a stroke. (A coke stroke, if you will.) They use the term Coke as a general term for all soda beverages in many areas. Imagine someone asking you what kind of Coke you want and you have to say Sprite with a straight face.

In my experience, I don't think I've ever successfully done it. At least not with strangers on the internet. Blackpillers, Mgtows, incels... all the same problem. They're stuck in a fantasy persecution world in their head. They will always find 1 more excuse why they're specially persecuted and unable to succeed. I really wish I could help them and I've tried. I wish I could show them that you don't have to be exceptionally tall or extroverted or rich or intelligent or any other characteristic to succeed at most things. If you're going to do it seriously, you'd need to approach it with the same mindset as somebody who has been indoctrinated into a cult. They have all kinds of delusions and mistaken beliefs that are built on other mistaken beliefs, just like a cult member or religious extremist. I would start by trying to identify and relate to them. There's usually a bit of core truth in what they believe, exaggerated. "Yeah, some women really are X" "Yeah, your generation really did kind of get screwed economically". Then once they feel heard and understood, they might let their walls down a little to start being persuaded. "Okay, maybe not ALL women are XYZ" "Maybe I could work on myself a bit more"

Graham Stephen is the most popular right now but I find his content gets kind of repetitive and same-y. I haven't watched Dave Ramsey extensively... but everybody I know who owns their home mortgage-free swears by him. If you currently have student loans, credit cards, car payments, etc he is probably the way to go. Channels tend to be more specialized than just investing. There are channels that focus just on real estate, just stocks, just saving, just paying down debt, just budgeting, etc. So try to drill down and find whichever of those interest you. In this space, be particularly careful to watch out for scams with forex, crypto, and even people trying to sell you access to their stock trading Discord or secrets formula to success.

Just you dude. All the theory in the first half is necessary to set the right framework and mindset going in, and all the values passes are necessary to double and triple check that you've got it right and aren't falling into any common pitfalls. Worth the time investment for something as important as your life purpose. The course takes less time to complete than getting 1 credit in college and in my opinion delivers wayyy more practical value and way less "expendible" content. Like any self-help material it takes work and insight on your part too. No one can hand you your life purpose on a silver platter, they can only guide you to it and walk you around it to discover for yourself. If you are too young and inexperienced, that's a reason I could see it seeming murky. In which case, try coming back to it in a few years. The course is very valuable to me. I set aside time to go back and re-watch the entire thing every December before setting my goals for the next year, to make sure I'm still in alignment with my purpose. Going on like 5+ years now. I'd probably re-pay $250/year every year for it if I had to.