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You're not going to like the truth. Blogging as you're probably thinking about it died more than 10 years ago. Do you have a favorite "blogger"? People have favorite Youtubers, TikTokers(?), and most other platforms. But not bloggers. Do you have multiple blogs bookmarked that you check multiple times a week for updates? It's not really a thing any more. If you aren't doing keyword research, your blog is never getting off the ground. It doesn't matter how many posts you make per week, or how many total blog posts you make. You're dead in the water before you even start. People don't follow blogs for personalities any more. People do Google searches for specific information, and then go to the websites that have the most relevant information. There's no attachment to the person writing in 99% of cases, it's just a commodity. You need to reframe it as writing articles, moreso than writing blogs. If you're doing this to build an audience or to earn money and you aren't willing to do that instead of being a "blogger personality", don't even bother starting. Assuming you've done proper keyword research and identified topics that people are actually searching for, that are neither so competitive that you can't beat the top Google results that already exist, nor so niche/obscure that it doesn't get enough monthly searches... Post frequency still doesn't matter. On Youtube, when and how often you post is an extremely important part of the algorithm. It prioritizes people who post regularly, and even specific days of the week and times. Blogging isn't like that. You just put your content up and it starts ranking. Blogging is like planting a tree. The best time to write a blog post was yesterday and the next-best time is today. So you just want to write as many as you can, as soon as you can. Or at least get a schedule where you can consistently post to amass a big catalogue of posts for the long term. It takes 3 - 6 months for a new blog post to reach the peak of how many monthly views it'll get for the rest of it's life. Most sources on blogging are 5+ years out of date. Even Neil Patel is way out of date and has no idea what he's talking about any more. Backlinking and all the stuff people talk about isn't a thing any more. Posting about your blog on social media is wasting time that you could be using to write more blog posts that'll rank themselves. There are no more tricks or shortcuts. All you can do is post genuinely helpful and unique useful information. The only people I would listen to about blogging in 2022 are Income School: https://www.youtube.com/c/IncomeSchool/featured At least watch their videos. If you're really serious about turning blogging into a full-time business then pay $449 for their Project 24 course. It's by far the best blogging resource I've come across, but I realize that pricetag is too steep for the vast majority of people: https://incomeschool.com/project24/ (I'm not affiliated with them, aside from buying the course and paying to be a member for the past several years, and getting great success with my own 4 blogs from following their instructions.) If I absolutely have to give a number... you need to be banging out at least 15 blog posts a month for the first year if you want to have any chance of turning it into a full-time job. I wouldn't bother blogging if you aren't going to write at least 2 posts a week, at least for the first 6 - 12 months. Most people should write 30 blog posts in Word documents on their desktop before they ever create a blog. If you can't do that, don't bother starting it. Of course if you're just doing it as a hobby, then do whatever you want.

It's too valuable. If you're capable of taking Ukraine by non-nuclear means, and your goal is to make it part of Russia, why would you obliterate the capital which you'd then just have to rebuild later?

No duh, I would've put them on alert as soon as I started moving troops toward the border, as soon as there was any chance of retaliation. If you're a nuclear power, you should have your nukes on standby any time you go to war or there's threat of war, and they're at war right now. The US should have nuclear detterants on high alert every time North Korea tests weapons. I dont see why this is shocking lol Every other nuclear country now has their missiles armed too, whether they inform you or not.

If conscription comes back before I'm old enough to get exempted, which I think is at least 5 years off, I'd probably be a conscientious objector and go to prison for a couple of years instead of war, or work in a wartime factory as an alternative to imprisonment if it's an option. If war comes to Canadian soil, at that point there's probably nowhere to leave to. No point objecting and going to jail, only to get nuked in a cell. So give me my state-issued rifle and I guess it's do or die time. My navigation and situational awareness is pretty crap if battle royale games like PUBG are any indication, so I'd probably die with a negative K/D ratio. If I was in my 20s and lived anywhere east of Germany, I would start running, lifting, and getting in shape ASAP.

Unless you're doing something truly groundbreaking, somebody has probably already been where you are and derived "the secret formula" (or one version of it.) So there's not really a need for you to brainstorm and try to figure it out from scratch through trial and error. When I took an online course on freelance writing, it included a list of job boards where you can land freelance writing gigs. Plus how to cold pitch clients, and exactly what to write in your email that's proven to work. (And it worked great for me) When I did a game dev course, it included pre-marketing before your game launches, how to get people to wishlist your game on Steam, how to pitch game publishers, which publishers are indie friendly, what genres they prefer, what kind of income splits they offer, how to create a successful kickstarter, how to have a successful launch, etc. Stuff that would take you forever to research, or that you wouldn't even think to consider when starting out. I've seen similar courses (or just straight marketing materials) that you can buy for how to be a best-selling novelist, how to run a farm, how to run an etsy store or shopify store, how to market yourself as a video editor / wedding photographer / you-name-it and get clients. You can even buy sales pages customized for conversion in your industry, entire email campaigns proven to convert where you just plug in a few details, etc, for a fraction of what it'd cost to get someone to do it for you, or that would take hundreds of hours of your time. Look for a cheap solution that already works, especially if you're just getting started. You can always customize and optimize later

You can still do stuff that is meaningful to you. If you want to write a story, write a story. But stop as soon as it becomes a tedious chore. If you want to write, or draw, or make music in a self-indulgent way, I'd still consider that hedonistic. It's not only about food and sex and drugs. Meaningful things can still be the byproduct of your hedonism Do you think your message above contradicts at all with this other message you wrote today: What if you could gorge yourself while simultaneously living a short-but-extremely-meaningful life

Before we can even discuss gay marriage, there are many layers of couched assumptions you're already operating on that need to be discussed and agreed upon first. Is being LGBT something innate that people are born with, is it caused by environmental and social factors, or somewhere in between? The truth is, we don't know for sure yet. Despite how much the mainstream will push an exclusively "born this way" narrative, the actual scientific studies are much less certain. "No conclusive evidence supports any one specific cause of homosexuality; however, most researchers agree that biological and social factors influence the development of sexual orientation." https://books.google.ca/books?id=ivALBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA502&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false "The reason some individuals develop a gay sexual identity has not been definitively established" https://books.google.ca/books?id=fofaAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA82&redir_esc=y "While scientists do not know the exact cause of sexual orientation, they theorize that it is caused by a complex interplay of genetic, hormonal, and environmental influences" https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article-abstract/113/6/1827/64422/Sexual-Orientation-and-Adolescents?redirectedFrom=fulltext Does being LGBT and/or supporting LGBT people have a positive, neutral, or negative impact on individuals and society? I would argue it has a negative impact based on suicide rates and mental health issues alone. 41% of transgender individuals attempt suicide https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/suicidality-transgender-adults/ . For gay and bisexual men, 12% have attempted suicide. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1447240/ Contrast this against the general population - 0.5% have attempted suicide. https://afsp.org/suicide-statistics/ I hypothesize that even in a culture free of bullying and discrimination, LGBT people would still be at a significantly higher risk of suicide and mental health issues than the general population, and that this is an unavoidable side-effect. If being LGBT has a neutral or negative impact, is it ethical to take steps to minimize known environmental and social factors that contribute toward people becoming gay/trans/etc? If you have the ability to control something that reduces your child's lifetime risk of suicide from 12% to 0.5%, I believe you have a moral obligation to do it. (The evidence so far suggests that once someone identifies as LGBT, you cannot "convert" them into being straight. I think that's cruel and shouldn't be attempted. I don't advocate for any kind of conversion therapy. I am only talking about influencing a child's sexuality before they reach a developmental point of no return before they've decided one way or the other.) Does Maltreatment in Childhood Affect Sexual Orientation in Adulthood? - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3535560/ Suicide is just one factor to consider, there may be other negative implications as well. We don't yet know what all of these social and environmental factors are, but I think we should study it and attempt to reduce them as much as possible. Even a 0.1% ethical reduction in LGBT-identified people by removing these factors during childhood would save tens of thousands of lives. No matter what we do, some people will always end up identifying as LGBT. What should we do in these cases? This is where things like gay marriage, bathroom gender discussions, trans athlete discussions, etc come in. I don't think that bullying or being hostile to LGBT people is acceptable. However, we have to consider whether normalizing LGBT lifestyles presents a net harm to society. - Children of homosexual couples less likely to identify as straight - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20642872/ https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/adult-children-lesbian-parents-less-likely-identify-straight-study-finds-n989976 - Does favorable or glamorizing representation of LGBT people in media make kids more likely to identify as LGBT? My intuition says yes, but I don't think a study has been done on this, but it's another environmental factor to consider. - Americans who self-identify as LGBT has gone from 3.5% in 2012 to 5.6% in 2020, that's a huge jump. Statistically that's almost a million extra people who will attempt suicide. Is it purely people feeling more able to openly identify without discrimination, or is something actually happening that is making a higher proportion of people LGBT? https://news.gallup.com/poll/329708/lgbt-identification-rises-latest-estimate.aspx Hopefully I've provided enough credible sources to back up my statements that this isn't taken as homophobic.

Why, so some hacker can dox my details and the government can freeze my bank account like with the Ottawa trucker protest? Politics are changing on a whim these days, and if you wind up on the wrong side of history you can easily get destroyed for supporting the wrong people. You can just give them Donbas and this can all be over right now. No one on either side has to die. Why do you insist on holding the people of Donetsk and Luhansk hostage when they've democratically decided they no longer want to be part of your country?

You cant have a meaningful conversation about this topic here, it's an echo chamber in that regard. You will only receive pro-LGBT replies. To believe otherwise is an unacceptable view that violates the rules. I've received warning points for homophobia and I dont want any more. If anyone opposes gay marriage they're considered homophobic. So how can we even talk about it?

Yes, the difference in stress, anger, and anguish if I was still working an office job that I hated probably wouldve given me hypertension and a full-on mental breakdown by now. If you've never worked a job where you start breaking the time left until you leave down into # of minutes and seconds, you don't understand.

Its about self mastery. Taking ownership of your results in life and realizing the hard work required to do it. Not getting spoon-fed everything you need. How hard is it for someone to click through 500 videos and look through the descriptions themselves and find the links if they're actually committed to this work? Why assume there is some value in getting and doing the worksheets without watching the associated videos first to put them in context? Most videos have practical actions to take after watching them, you don't need worksheets. Instead of coming to the forum and mooching for worksheets, assuming someone has made a super niche custom-tailored list for you, why don't you take some initiative and go compile that list yourself and provide some value. Good posts on forums are ones that offer something, not just beg for handouts. Why not take the effort to write out the word "why" instead of a single letter response?

This is antithetical to everything that Actualized.org stands for, to the point of parody. You're doing it wrong

@itachi uchiha Probably the quickest way to get yourself banned from the forum. Don't go down this road. The JQ is specifically against the forum guidelines. "If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize"

I'm not sure I agree with the loss to themselves / benefit to themselves dichotomy. Sometimes I'll inflict losses on other people even if it's neutral or negative to myself. Sometimes spite or revenge or just watching someone suffer that you think deserves it is enough of a motivating factor to make it worth it. Although I guess that could be considered a sort of intangible benefit unto itself. If you want to call that stupid, sure. Maybe psychopathic is a better categorization that doesn't necessarily fit on the chart or get taken into account.

Do you think this is a hypothetical or a joke to me? It's not. I feel great, you should try it. I didn't say that it's a solution to life. Just that you can optimize life for pleasure.

Forget the walls of text for a moment. Are you claiming that a right-wing extremist, neo-nazi Ukrainian National Guard unit called Azov Battalion does not exist? You realize that for that to be true, Putin would've had to infiltrate or pressure dozens of different news organizations in US, Canada, UK to spread his misinformation. Do you think the entire western world has been deceived into thinking Azov Battalion exists when it's all a lie made up by Putin?

You're actively spreading misinformation now, Azov Battalion exists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Battalion Whether an all-volunteer arm of the National Guard counts as part of Ukraine's official army is up for debate. Azov also likely only contains about 1,000 people, you could argue if that's material to the overall conflict or not. But saying there are no neo-nazis in Ukraine is simply false.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/emergencies-act-banks-ottawa-protests-1.6353968 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60383385 This is insane to me. I don't see how this can accomplish anything except create thousands of enraged people who now literally have nothing to lose. Not just people participating in the protest, but even people who donated to the GoFundMe or other donation platforms are having their bank accounts frozen and credit cards cancelled without warning.

Ass men are less refined. Poop comes out of butts, they smell and they're gross. When people say they're into asses, it makes me think of baboons and their big red disgusting asses. Evolutionary it seems lower than being interested in boobs. You're like a caveman, you want to see what you'll see when you're forcibly taking a woman from the next tribe over by force. Doing it from behind is more animalistic. Refined men appreciate breasts, which they see from the front when having romantic, sensual, emotional, consenting sex with their monogamous long-term partner. Boobs aren't smelly or hairy. They're the giver of life, as opposed to the producer of waste. Men also have butts so being interested in women's butts is a little bit gay, like 5%. Someone could show a close-up of a real nice dude's butt and tell you that it belonged to a woman and you wouldn't know the difference. I don't want to ever put myself at risk of accidentally thinking a dude's butt looks nice, so I just refuse to enjoy any butts at all. (This is mostly a joke, pls chill. If the last paragraph goes too far I'll delete it. Team boobs for real tho)

I've been to The Eden Project, it's very cool, the video doesn't do it justice. I don't think geodesic domes are an efficient way to grow food though. You could build many poly tunnels for the equivalent cost. Similarly, rooftop gardens are more of a gimmick than a real solution to me. Lugging all the supplies up to the roof in an elevator and bringing produce back down. It's just not very efficient, and it's not much space to work with. Cool proof of concept but not much else. I don't think we don't necessarily need futuristic or technological solutions. Just dig up a patch of grass wherever you're allowed and start growing. You don't even need fertilizer, compost, etc to start with. Just pick really hardy crops that will do well in heavy clay or sandy soil, or whatever you've got. Growing beans will naturally add nitrogen to the soil. Growing root vegetables will naturally break up the soil and improve it for future years. You can probably think of some abandoned lot in your city where nothing has happened for years. You can probably get the city to lease it to you for free for a few years to test setting up a community garden. Even if it's a concrete slab that used to be a parking lot or demolished building, you can set up raised beds on it and start growing immediately. If you live in an apartment with a spare bedroom, you can get a few racks of shelves and start growing more microgreens and oyster mushrooms indoors than you can eat. Best to get permission where possible, but if not, you can resort to guerilla gardening. Go a few feet off a walking path and toss some seeds in the ground, and let nature do its thing for a few months. You might be surprised what will grow without any human input. Better yet, start foraging. There is already a ton of edible foods all around us, even in cities. Just most people don't know how to identify or use it. Learn to eat weeds like dandelion. Pick wild berries and nuts. Even if you live in an apartment there's probably a tree within a block of you dropping chestnuts or acorns in the fall. If you don't take them they're just going to rot or be eaten by squirrels anyway.

Of course. It's how it's been done for most of history. A town or city can be self-sufficient. A state/province/region can be self-sufficient. A country can be self-sufficient. Of course big cities are an exception. Any city over around 100k can't be self-sustaining within its borders. You could never grow all of the food for Tokyo within Tokyo, but there is definitely enough empty space in the countryside of Japan to do it. You also couldn't do it in artificially-developed places like Arizona or Nevada where people are literally living in deserts where cities shouldn't be possible. Estimates for a family of 4 to be completely self-sufficient range from 2 to 15 acres. Depending if you want larger livestock or entirely plant-based and how efficiently you use your space. That's not even taking economies of scale into account, it would actually take much less space if it was a few large centralized operations. Go driving on any highway and see how much empty space there truly is in most places. Or monoculture fields just growing wheat or corn that could be way more efficiently managed. Silvopasture where you let pigs, cows, etc graze in forests. Create a closed permaculture system where the plants in the area feed the animals, the animals provide fresh manure for the plants to thrive, etc. You wouldn't have to provide feed for your animals in many cases except in the winter months. In areas with fire risk like california, letting some pigs and cows loose would clear up a lot of the dead underbrush. Think of pretty much every property in a suburb in America. The house takes up about 1/3 of the land area, with 2/3rds left available for growing food. But instead all we grow is grass that actually creates more unnecessary work mowing it for purely aesthetic reasons. Think if every house basically had a 1/4 acre of farmland attached to it. The property owners don't have to do it themselves, they can lease the land to someone who wants to farm it. Or let someone farm it for a share of the total crops harvested. Your land can produce most of your vegetables for the year without having to do any of the work yourself, and the person doing the work gets to sell the surplus. It's win-win. Government laws. Agriculture industry lobbying to create or maintain laws that keep food ultra-centralized and in monocultures. City bylaws that prevent you from having front yard gardens, chickens or livestock in your backyard, etc. Laws about producing and selling food. People would need to learn to eat in season. No more eating strawberries in January in the North. No more bananas ever. People would need to learn how to can and preserve foods (or eat foods that other people have preserved.) Although many cool-weather crops can be grown in greenhouses etc even in places that are below-freezing in winter. Somehow Vikings managed to not just survive, but thrive in such a climate. The key is focusing on what you're good at. If you live somewhere with a very short growing season, obviously you're not going to be eating greens and tomatoes all year round. People who live in cold climates will have to live on diets that much more heavily favor meats and fish. In extreme cases like the Inuit, 100% of their diet. Norway already produces 80 - 90% of its own beef and sheep meat. 60% of its own grain and potatoes. Of course only 25% of their vegetables/fruits. And that's with only 3% of Norway's total land area currently being farmed land! If people insist on keeping their tropical acai quinoa bowl it will be tough. But if everyone at UK latitude and above went back to eating primarily meat and potatoes it'd be very easy. "But grains and potatoes aren't healthy" - Maybe not to people who haven't had ancestors living in those places for thousands of years already that have adjusted to it. I'd be curious what % of people in Norway have a gluten intolerance vs. people who come from the tropics. Look at pics of your grandparents or great grandparents, no matter where they lived or what they ate. They are almost never obese or unhealthy looking. I'd argue a bigger part of that is lifestyle vs what they ate.

On a blank page lies every book that has ever been written, or could ever be written, every combination of gibberish that could ever be written. It's full of infinite potential, pure nothingness which also contains every possibility, until you make that first mark. Man, I think this is like the third time in the past month I've used the quote here, but: God is everything and nothing as no word. And with a single word comes finite creation. Is awakening the backspace or undo button?

I'm not gonna do the "yaas qween" thing and tell you that a guy should love you despite saggy boobs. I'll tell you just as an anecdotal story of one person's experience, that my ex had kinda saggy, under-developed, ugly boobs and yes it was a disappointment. Here is this otherwise basically perfect woman, with these ugly boobs. Of course I never said anything, like your boyfriend never said anything. But most likely he is thinking it. If you said "if you could change one thing about me" I bet his mind would instantly go to boobs. For most guys it's not going to be a dealbreaker anyway though. If the rest of you looks fine, your personality is fine, and you're an overall good partner, then bad boobs aren't the end of the world. Also some guys might have a thing for more saggy boobs, although you aren't likely to run into them by accident. Paradoxically, despite everything I've said about being with my ex and being dissatisfied with her boobs, there have been times that I've specifically sought out porn of women with saggy boobs. And I've also gone back and looked at nudes my ex sent me despite the saggy boobs. Maybe it's just a nostalgia thing, or I developed a bit of a fetish for it, I dunno. I don't think this is a problem you can overcome with psychology/mind or just loving/accepting yourself. The insecurity is too deep. You just need to face the bitter truth that you have ugly boobs. IMO somewhere in between. Wait like at least 5 - 10 dates to get them somewhat invested so they care about more than just your boobs. But don't wait so long that if for some reason it's a weird dealbreaker for them, that you've invested too much time. If you are against it then not really any point discussing it, but I would be for it. In many countries, if you tell your doctor that it's causing you as much psychological distress as you say, usually it's even covered by healthcare/insurance. I think you're underestimating what a huge boost in confidence it would give you. Imagine if half your face was burned and you were constantly hiding it, putting on makeup, turning away in every picture. That's the level of insecurity you have about your boobs. It could be life-changing. I know a few women who have got boob jobs and I've seen the huge change in confidence that it has. Be aware that usually there is some scarring, so it might just change to being self-concious about another aspect of your boobs. No you aren't limited although your insecurity will probably come across and be a turn-off. Don't mention your insecurity to future men until you're in a long-term relationship, I think you'll come across as damaged goods. - Yes of course - Yes but not necessarily in the moment - Not necessarily, you can get away with it especially if you do explain your insecurity and that it will make you feel more comfortable and likely to orgasm etc if you keep it on.

sunk cost fallacy They respect power and consequences. Plus Russia has no claim to Poland or Romania or desire to kick that beehive. Putin hasn't lost his mind, trying to take back the entire former USSR would be a suicide mission. That's not my words, I said the opposite That's not something to "go back to", the world has always been that way. You just happened to be born and grew up in an extremely rare time of peace and prosperity. Time to buckle up, because the rest of your life is probably going to be hell in comparison. Instability and danger is the rule, not the exception. We never had true stability, it just takes a while for the inequality to bubble up and for people to take action. If you try to knock down every country that tries something like this, you'll be playing whack-a-mole forever. Plus it's like bottling the pressure back up, it'll just explode even worse in the future.

Why bother with these what-if questions. Nobody knows, and it seems like a waste of time to stress yourself out wondering if things will happen. Seems like a great time for North Korea to stir up some trouble too. And Iran. Maybe the Taliban is gonna try to slip under the radar and take over Turkmenistan or Tajikistan. You're just telling yourself stories. Just wait and see. This is like clinically diagnosable anxiety, just turn off the news for a bit and you'll see nothing is actually happening that will locally affect you.