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Their value is in shifting the conversation further toward progressive values over time. And being there to vote no against stuff that is too regressive. Someone has to be the crazy person suggesting $15/hr minimum wage to even get it into the public conciousness, giving people time to mull it over for a couple election cycles before it starts to sound reasonable. Careful, progressives aren't trying to make progress for all citizens or constituents equally. Progressives are really good at speaking up for the lowest and worst off in society. But many of their policies would be neutral or hurt the most rich and powerful in society (who donate the most to parties) and even the middle class (who make up the majority of voters.) Progressives would make society as good as possible overall for as many people as possible. But that involves kneecapping or bringing some people down in the process. It's hard to get people to vote against their own self-interest (or perceived self-interest) for a larger vision. Most people are short term thinkers and care more about not paying a extra few cents for carbon tax at the gas pumps than leaving a better world for their great great grandkids they'll never meet. Feeds into the same mentality of poor people voting conservative against their best interest, because they have dreams and ambitions that one day they'll make it or win the lottery and be able to take advantage of all the tax loopholes, corruption, etc afforded by conservatism.

Love it. Everything you own has an opportunity cost, even cash. All the money I put into rice, beans, canned food, dried pasta, salt, sugar, etc last year is certainly outperforming my cash at this point. I bought various fruit trees this year, and it's a sunk cost that's not gonna do much for the next 3 - 5 years. But then I'll get 50 years worth of all the fruit I can eat and all the juice/cider I can drink for the next 50 years. Will probably end up being my best investment.

Show me your last 5 years of profits and losses. Tell me which silver or gold or oil company is going to 2x in the next year, or what's currently the next Tesla. These statements are straight up delusional and dangerous dude. People who went to Stanford and Harvard who work at billion dollar hedge funds can't make 15% a year consistently. You're telling people that they're going to double their money every year DURING A RECESSION with a few hours of research? Get the fuck out of here. (I made an additional 33% of my work income from crypto both last year and the year before. But if I did it this year I'd be down 50%+ looool. I'm under no illusions that my crypto money is basically gambling. I put money in a silver stock around the time of GME stuff and made like 30% in a week. Then I sold and put it all in a psychedelics ETF and its down like 75% since then lollllllllll. And I did it in a tax free account so I can't even use it for capital losses LOLLLLLL. Getting a steady 5-7% per year is way better for most people than risking suicide-inducing swings in your net worth.)

Yes. The most visceral hate/disgust I feel toward people typically comes from subconsciously seeing things in them where I'm lacking in my own life. Much of the hate I feel toward other people is projecting my self-hate out onto them. The people I'm most tolerant toward or willing to sacrifice for are when I can see the best of myself in others. Or even people that are better than me that I can hold up as an ideal.

You don't mix work and pleasure. When you're paying a prostitute or in a camgirl's chatroom you can say whatever you want, it's part of the deal. But in this case she was there in her off time. It's like if you found out a girl was an architect and started asking her to draw plans to add a sunroom to your house on a napkin. Just cuz someone's a sex worker doesn't give you the green light to mind-rape them and tell them all the fantasies about what you'd like to do to them when you just met.

I'd argue that mixing alcohol + caffeine isn't low risk. There's a reason Four Loko got banned. Mixing the two can make you less aware of how drunk you are. Anecdotally I feel like I've seen a bunch of cases of healthy people having heart attacks after mixing them.

The moon splitting in half during time humans have been on the Earth is unlikely. It'd totally mess up tides and flood most of the world. However it's possible that the moon split off the Earth after being hit by another planet early in its history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant-impact_hypothesis Saturn's rings are most likely made from a smashed up moon. The moon itself getting cracked in half by something isn't that farfetched. Maybe it's an allegory referring to something long before humans. Gravity eventually forms everything back into spheres over billions of years.

I don't know what kind of 35 year olds you know. But if you think Kristina looks like a granny in comparison then you should hook me up

Lots of people like Fully Raw Kristina and Vegan Gains are still looking great after being vegan for 10+ years. But yeah, it's easy to end up looking like a meth addict if you dont supplement properly and make sure you're getting balanced nutrition. A lot of the more extreme vegans probably bathe less than average and have also stopped brushing their teeth with toothpaste or anything else that's "not natural" which is probably contributing as well. And ofc all the women you're seeing without makeup. Most non vegan women look tired and sickly without makeup too

You can start off within the UK. It's pretty small and the train system is great. You can go up north to the Lake District one weekend and down south to Weymouth the next, and to Wales the next. See if that is enough to get you out of your comfort zone first. It might just be a matter of getting out of your house, or town. Most likely you're going to stay living in the UK for the rest of your life. So it's worth visiting a dozen or two cities and see which one you think you want to spend the next few decades of your life in.

Normally I'm very pro-SEO. But in this specific scenario I question how useful it will be. When people go looking for a music producer, are they really Googling and finding someone's website that way? For some things SEO just wont work. Especially creative things. Like if you want to be a Hollywood director, do you think anyone is going to find your website and hire you to make a movie? No. At best you're going to record stuff like corporate training videos. Instead of SEO I would find places where music creators gather online and make yourself known. If there's a subreddit for posting beats for musicians to use, or collaborating with them, go there and work with a couple hundred musicians and hope that a few make it big. Approach musicians and record labels and recording studios directly and show them your stuff. Go to conferences for musicians and leave a couple hundred CDs lying around with your beats and a business card. Research how big producers like Dr Dre or beat makers like Skrillex or Deadmau5 made it. I guarantee it was word of mouth and putting their stuff in front of people, not passive SEO strategies.

We're just spoiled to have grown up during the 90s and 2000s, a time of unprecedented peace and prosperity. Historically the world is always in turmoil, you just got lucky to avoid it so far. Now we are returning to 80s crime levels and economic conditions. Republicans taking office is not going to make a material difference to your life vs Democrats being in charge. Look how much worse things have got with Biden. Ironically it was probably unconstitutional right-wing policies like Rudy Giuliani's stop and frisk in New York that brought us out of the crime-ridden 80s to begin with. The government cant assure your safety and security, especially during an economic downturn and cutbacks. Police cant help you in most places already. My friend called the cops about a homeless person downtown harassing women and threatening to punch them in the face as they walked by and nothing was done. Even if someone gets arrested, the judicial system is broken and criminals get released back on the street until their court date months away. After George Floyd, police are afraid to even interact with minorities for fear of losing their jobs. The only one that can look out for your safety and security is you. Get to know your immediate neighbors and form your own little neighborhood watch or enclave, nobody else is coming to save you. And things arent even really bad yet.

Research lightning and learn how it works to better understand it. Maybe your fear is misconceptions about how it works? Learn what happens when lightning hits a house, I'm pretty sure homes are grounded and it'll go through the outer structure or any kind of metal or cable on the outside of a building, even if you don't have a lightning rod on your roof. A bolt of lightning can't just go through your roof and hit you in bed. Even just being in a car during a thunderstorm is very safe, I've known people whose car got hit by lightning while they were in it... toasted the car and melted the rubber in their tires but they were untouched. Not trying to be condescending by comparing you dogs, but there are some things that help for dogs that are scared of thunder/fireworks that might work for humans. "Thunder jackets" that applies gentle pressure to them... you could try a weighted blanket and see if it has a similar effect on you. CBD might help. Or just try going to a lower level in the house like a basement if you've got one.

A political Youtuber without any credentials making medical claims that someone has Parkinson's based off 2 second video clips. You guys are doing the same thing as the Right when they insist that Biden has dementia, or analyzing Hillary making weird faces while looking at balloons falling. Conspiracy theories. Kremlin source is saying it's blood cancer. You can't fix blood cancer with surgery. Admittedly I've noticed a lot more inflammation and puffiness in Putin's face since all of this started, but that could be lots of things or just gaining weight as he ages. Not saying it's necessarily false either... just realize it for what it is... gossip and early top-level intelligence chatter.

You cant tell whether people are real or not, and it wouldn't really benefit or change anything for you even if you could. So the only rational action is to carry on living as if they were real. You'll find out the truth and become enlightened when you die. What's another 50 years of living the illusion first in the context of all of eternity? Or you'll just die and there will be nothing, in which case it will have been a waste to have spent thousands of hours stressing and engaging in spiritual mental masturbation. Unless your belief is that you need to escape some Wheel of Samsara to avoid reincarnating again, there's nothing to do. Just go have fun. Even if everyone is imaginary but you, you're still stuck here in the illusion until you die. Might as well enjoy it. That's why God did all this, right? Why such a rush to get back. If someone locked a VR headset to your head for a year, would you just sit and cry in the corner about how it's all fake, or just make the best of a bad situation and have some fun?

For me the problem is companies trying to cut things that contribute a fraction of a fraction but cause a big decrease in quality of life. Like swapping out plastic straws for paper ones. They're inferior in every way... they affect the taste and turn into a soggy mess before you can finish your drink. I'm not convinced that by the time you bleach the paper and everything else that it's that much better for the environment. You could make more of an argument for getting rid of plastic bags. But personally I re-use my plastic grocery bags to dump all the dust into when I'm vacuuming, and in garbage/kitchen bins. So if I don't get them for 5 cents with my groceries, I'm just going to have to pay more to buy bags off the shelf. Then you get into recycling being a scam. Less than 10% of the plastics you put in your bins actually get recycled. Most of it gets shipped to Southeast Asia to get burned or whatever they do with it. It can often take more energy to recycle a material than to just make it new. Even if you got to net 0 emissions in North America and Europe, there's China and India contributing more than us. And is it really ethical to force them to stop polluting and shut the door on them, after we took advantage of cheap polluting technology to advance our own societies ahead of them? Like if you wanted to industrialize and modernize Africa today, making them comply with environmental regulations would make things 10x harder on them. There is too much corruption going on with companies buying carbon emission offset credits rather than actually reducing their emissions, and all kinds of other corruption. Plus billionaires flying to Davos on private jets to lecture us about climate change isn't a good look either. I feel like there is a ton of bureaucracy in the system wasting the money, like how lots of charities keep half the money they raise and the CEO makes $100k+ per year. Ultimately I think taking personal accountability to reduce your emissions is ultimately pointless. But it's also the only way that you can be 100% sure you're actually making a difference or doing something useful.

You need some degree of self-criticism to be constantly improving. But too much and you become neurotic or suffer self-esteem issues.

You had 3 months, you should've tested it somewhat scientifically. In 3 months you could've found some way to ask her a question where it'd seem normal if you weren't experiencing telepathy, but where she could tell you if it was really happening. Now it's too late and not really worth hypothesizing about any more. I'd just assume you were experiencing delusions and forget about it. If it happens again you can try to prove it. But otherwise it won't impact your life one way or the other if it was true or not, if it's no longer happening and you have no way to control it.

To me it seems desperate, but not crazy. I just can't imagine being in so much mental or physical pain that I'd rather die than live. Death is so scary and permanent. The only way I could see myself considering suicide is if I had chronic excruciating back pain or similar. I get depressed semi-regularly but even at my lowest it never seems like a viable option. I'd rather live a bad life than no life at all unless things were truly hopeless or I was getting tortured every day or something.

I haven't read the book but the only method I'm aware of is Kegel exercises and squeezing your Kegel muscles really hard when you're about to orgasm. The muscle you press out when you pee, or pull in when you have to pee really bad and are trying to hold it in. Squeeze it in for a few seconds like 20x in a row. Start off once a day and build up to more reps and more sessions each day and holding it for longer. Don't overdo it right away or it'll be painful.

Depends where you are and what you're doing in life. Introverts are discriminated against in business settings. Especially sales, marketing.... anything like insurance, realtors, etc. Tech is dominated by introverts. Art and creative stuff is more introverts. Overall it's more socially acceptable and you're better adapted to succeed if you're an extrovert. I would give up 15 IQ points to be an extrovert and naturally social / a smooth talker.

I read Subtle Art and it was fine. Don't recall any big takeaways that have really stuck with me. I'd probably recommend these books by Sean Webb instead: Mind Hacking Happiness Volume I: The Quickest Way to Happiness and Controlling Your Mind + Mind Hacking Happiness Volume II: Increasing Happiness and Finding Non-Dual Enlightenment Not mainstream, I just happened to find the guy on Youtube a few years ago. The books only have 100-200 reviews each vs 60,000 for Manson's books, but they tie together a lot of big concepts.

Mostly people that accidentally dosed themselves with LSD by eating grain tainted with ergot Some were killed for heresy. By today's standards you'd probably think it was pretty dumb to kill someone for some of the beliefs, sometimes just minor different interpretations of Christianity. In the way that other competing Gods at the time were "demonized", people were just declared witches to write them off. Probably some legit pagans/druids/heathens. Just a belief system, no magic powers. Far less than 1% with supernatural powers or able to curse someone, stereotypical idea of what a witch is. I would be surprised if any of them would be what we consider high consciousness today, or spiritually enlightened. We're talking about a difference between Lutheranism vs Catholicism getting you labeled a heretic.

Hard mode: Move into the middle of nowhere and subsistence farm. Sell just enough products to pay for property tax or goods you cant produce yourself, or move to the middle of the rainforest in Costa Rica. 0 carbon footprint, 100% organic food that you know the source of, daily connection with nature. Easy mode: Urban farmer. Rent peoples backyard in exchange for 50% of the produce you grow. Watch Curtis Stone on YouTube and model yourself after that. Ride a bike with a trailer to/from your plots and farmers markets. In colder climates, grow microgreens or oyster mushrooms indoors. Education-wise I would steer away from horticulture courses at university and look more for permaculture. Or do an unpaid internship at a small farm for a summer. As a gardener you dont know what your employer does for a living. Would you want to garden for a cigarette company or military company CEO and take their money? Plus you'll probably be using gas-powered tools for landscaping.

What does that mean? Who are you getting that term from? People are stupid, I'm stupid. When I hear that I just think "we already have civil rights". Borrowing previously-used terms is a bad idea. What you need is to dramatically reduce corruption in one or both parties. Millions of people will need to be really fed up to make that happen. Even then I dont know if really fed up people can even take action in this country any more. Or you could make a third political party but good luck (y'know, on account of all the corruption... the Republicans and Democrats run the organization that decides who gets invited to debates.) Trump had the right idea with his "drain the swamp" phrase but of course he didn't actually do it. As voters we need to stop taking the easy way out and voting for incumbants. Kick out all the corrupt career politicians and get new people in. Like who the fuck is still voting for Nancy Pelosi?? Of course eventually they will become corrupt and need to be replaced themselves, so it's an ongoing cycle. Maybe we need a 4 year term limit for congressmen and senators.