Yarco

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  1. It has nothing to do with time. It's % people exposed to the virus, % vaccinated, or a combination of the two Theoretically if you could get all citizens of a country into one multi-million people gathering intermingling for a few hours, you could achieve herd immunity through a single event, Although then you'd get all the people who need to be hospitalized all at once and totally overwhelm the hospital system as well.
  2. Imagine every time you try to kill yourself, there's an alternate reality where you fail. So every time you go to blow your brains out, you're still stuck here, just partially braindead or permanently disabled, but still just with it enough to realize how much you fucked up and have to live with it. You can keep trying to kill yourself but you'll go on surviving, just making your situation even more fucked up and miserable each time. Do you want to risk it?
  3. It's only going to get worse. Imagine what the Great Depression would've been like without family, neighbors that actually talk to each other, community support, etc
  4. Call 911 and go to the hospital for psychological help, call a family member or friend for help. Pretty much anyone in real life is going to be able to help you better than people on a forum. If you care about the message behind Actualized.org then don't put this kind of stuff up and give the media something to point at if you do go through with it. Leo doesn't need another suicidal forum person to tarnish his reputation or make him feel guilty about. If the media finds out some Actualized.org fan kills themself you better believe they'll find some 10 second clips from a 3 hour video talking about killing yourself because the self isn't real and spinning it into some villainizing piece about how Actualized.org is a cult.
  5. It's easy, just get up Seriously, when your alarm goes off, make yourself jump out of bed and don't make just laying there an option. It's just a choice. I've been in both positions, honestly right now in my life I'm more at a lay in bed for an extra hour stage. The difference is when I have something I'm so excited about that I'm ready to jump out of bed in the morning and work on it, or something so important that staying in bed isn't an option. Or at the very least, structuring your life in a way that you're not waking up and having to do something that you dread.
  6. Soy in the food and birth control in the water Look at almost any processed food and it'll have soy lecithin, soy flour, soybean oil, etc. Having a partner who is allergic to soy has made me acutely aware of how crazily prevalent soy is in everything. Guys are stressed out (high cortisol), not getting enough sleep, not doing any exercise, overweight. A perfect storm of things that cause low testosterone. Natural male behavior like rough-housing is deemed toxic masculinity or bullying and completely suppressed in our schools so boys aren't allowed to be boys any more, let alone men. You've got a society that snapped back so hard into response to masculinity that they aren't just neutral to non-masculine guys, it actively encourages and rewards dudes to put on makeup and dresses and looks at traditional masculinity as evil. I think it's conflating two separate issues. You can be incredibly fucked up and traumatized but still be strong. Strength is being able to suppress trauma for months and years, and go into pure survival mode to focus on doing what needs to be done. Whether that's going to war, providing for your family, or whatever. It'd be nice for men to be strong without having PTSD. But the alternative is totally fragile and weak men that turn into a blubbering mess if things go wrong. One can repress their fear and anger deep inside and synthesize it into rage to keep moving forward, the other lays down and rots. The difference is that even strong men today have never really had to put their strength to the test. For previous generations, strength was life or death.
  7. Google "BDSM checklist" and look in Google Images for the lists, you'll get dozens of ideas you had never thought of, probably multiple you'll need to look up to even see what they mean. Best thing is the checklist has boxes for things you're interested or not interested in, or hard cutoffs you won't do. Print 2 copies, you do one and your partner does one, and see what activities you're both interested in.
  8. Can you elaborate on what "making the cut" looks like to you? Where should people be at your age?
  9. AI is pretty good at procedurally generating stuff. Not really understanding aesthetics or beauty as humans see it. It might help speed up a lot of the art-creation process for human artists. But I don't know if even within the next 100 years AI will be able to write a book that doesn't sound like gibberish, or at least "off" or like it's written by someone who isn't a native english speaker. There is already technology that will "write blog posts for you" but it's pretty terrible, and that's with factual information, not even trying to write stories.
  10. Don't make the mistake of substituting coffee and thinking it's any better. Especially if you're buying it at a coffee shop. I looked at a big coffee chain the other day and couldn't find a latte or any other drink with less than 30 grams of sugar in it, besides black coffee
  11. I don't think you mean what you think that means haha If you're thinking on 1 month timelines you're going to shit your pants when your investment drops 30%, look at what happened to Bitcoin within the past week and imagine if you bought a week ago. that could easily happen again next week. If you were certain the market is going up then to "gain max" you'd invest the maximum amount of money possible. But if you think there's a chance the market will go down that'd be pretty dumb. if you have to ask if it's safe then you shouldn't buy it, you haven't done enough of your own research from your post it's clear the idea of risk management isn't even on your radar Any recommendation you get is going to be biased and someone shilling a coin they personally own. Do your own research Don't buy any coin unless you understand what it is and how it works, how it's different from Bitcoin or other coins.
  12. If you have little/no savings then investing isn't necessary or worthwhile because you're pretty much spending money as you get it. If you've got big cash reserves, you need to invest just to keep it from losing value. Like if you started this year with $100 it probably buys $90 worth of stuff now because inflation and prices going up. I like to think of passive income separate from investments. It's more like you do a bunch of work upfront and then reap the benefits over time into the future.
  13. Things have to progress at their natural pace. You can't go in and try to pressure or speed it up. Look at everything the US has tried to do in the Middle East. Usually it backfires and sets them back even further.
  14. Cooking wine or liquor have a gram or two of carbs per serving. Vast majority of the sugar is eaten by yeast during the fermentation process. Unless you're flambéing stuff multiple times per week and you've eliminated all of the other "do not eat" foods off Leo's list then I feel like the impact will be negligible.
  15. Severe addictions (drugs, gambling) Cheating on a spouse
  16. Most people in a country committing war crimes aren't actively contributing. They're just going along to get along, trying to survive. They are victims too. In most of these places, it's a matter of life and death. Would you rather be right, or would you rather be alive?
  17. Maybe not when it comes to politics. But there are plenty of Youtubers who get more views per video than the largest news broadcast, earn more money than many actors, get paid more by advertisers/sponsors, and get recognized on the street more often. How is their degree of fame any lesser just because they're working in a different medium?
  18. Only if it would directly have a strong negative effect on me for them to stay alive If I'm in America then I don't care what's going on in Germany or Russia and it's not my place to intervene. Arguably if you didn't allow certain atrocities in history to happen, the lesson wouldn't have been learned and you'd just delay the process. They'd still inevitably manifest in another person in the future. I couldn't let my wall down and allow this level of empathy into my life or I'd have to spend every waking second and every cent I earn helping kids without parents, people starving in 3rd world countries, etc. It would be an overwhelming burden. If I opened up the floodgates of helping people then I couldn't just donate $100 here and there, I'd have to go all-in.
  19. No, the maze he's referring to is just the rat race or typical low-consciousness money-chasing stuff. Song lyrics are intentionally vague and you can read into almost any song too deeply like this. Look at the song Right Now by Van Halen, you could say they're enlightened and trying to spread some kind of Eckart Tolle message about the present moment, but I highly doubt it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMV-fenGP1g
  20. She's probably too self-conscious and in her own head to enjoy it. She might be self-conscious about her body, maybe letting her stay partially covered or turning the lights off will help. Some women have also basically been told by society that vaginas are dirty and gross and have that to overcome. If you're doing the "how to make a girl squirt" vid technique then you'll have to re-assure her that it's normal to feel like she's going to pee and that she isn't, or she'll be too tense to orgasm. It might be nothing about you... just thinking about work, too stressed, too tired. I've found that the passion dying over time in a relationship is a real thing too. Early on in my current relationship the sex was wild, I'd Leo's technique and make my gf cum about 5 or 6 times back-to-back casually before going out to dinner. Early in a relationship your body is releasing all the feel-good chemicals and the attraction is crazy. But eventually you stop fucking like animals
  21. I don't think the system can be reformed by the regular voting process at this point. You have to hope that someone is charismatic enough to get elected that's also smart enough to fix it from the inside. And also hope the system isn't so corrupt that they're powerless to do anything anyway. At this point places like California vs New York are so different from places like Texas that they might as well just peacefully separate and go their own way. I think breaking up America into 4 or 5 smaller countries would do a lot less damage than staying together. How can a country function when 50% of the citizens always disagree with the other on pretty much every policy?
  22. Knowledge is #1 The unfair advantage he had is that he went homeless with world-class marketing knowledge A homeless person might be enterprising enough to flip stuff on Craigslist and make a couple hundred bucks per day if they really hustle. But the chances of them setting up a successful coffee e-commerce business on their first try is pretty slim. I would've liked to see him do it in a way that required learning a new skill first. Although marketing is so overpowered and applies to every business that it would be hard to try and un-learn or ignore your existing knowledge. It sounds super corny when people say that the best investment you can make is in yourself. But it's true. With a practical skill or knowledge, you can always build back from 0. Maybe not to 1 million in a year, but even $64k this guy accomplished before he gave up is impressive and more than what most people will do.
  23. The fact that they no longer accept a negative covid-19 test from within 24 hours before your flight says this isn't about the disease any more, it's about control. If someone can prove they don't have covid, why shouldn't they be allowed to fly, even without a vaccine? The people who are fully vaccinated shouldn't have to worry, and the unvaccinated know the risk they're taking.
  24. Taxis In major cities, there are a certain number of taxi licenses. They are very difficult to get, and when you can get them, they are very expensive. Like in New York, they are hundreds of thousands of dollars per car. Too much regulation breeds innovation, so we got Uber and Lyft. Even if they have to operate in a semi-illegal state in some places.