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Depends highly what country you're from, what your education is, what your career field is, how much money you have. If you're a high school graduate working retail, it'll be almost impossible to get a working visa, or to find a company willing to sponsor you. If you have like $500,000 to start a business in the US you can literally buy your way in. https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/permanent-workers/employment-based-immigration-first-preference-eb-1 Read all the categories on the side EB-1, EB-2, EB-3 etc and find one that applies to you. If none of them do, you're out of luck.

People generally don't laugh AT someone 1 on 1, so it's most likely to occur in a group. Watch how the other people in the group are interacting with each other in a subtle way. Usually 2 people will look at each other and start laughing. Or 1 person will look at you, then make eye contact with someone else who is already laughing, and then they start laughing. It's almost like they need to look to other people in the group to see if it's socially acceptable for them to laugh at you or not. It can be pretty subtle. Just pay attention to how they interact with each other. How they look at each other, and especially if they talk to each other or joke about you to each other almost as if you aren't there.

You can't be fully enlightened unless you're dead (Not advocating you should take that path, you have a finite amount of time to enjoy this life and infinity to be enlightened)

I don't buy into this scarcity mindset that you can't get laid in small towns or that only the top 5% of guys get dates on apps. I'm an average looking guy, bit overweight, not tall, don't dress fancy, and I got plenty of girls online in a city of 70,000. Maybe if you don't have a city larger than 40k within a 30 minute drive then you're in trouble. Even while in relationships in the past I'd troll these apps/sites and try to get girls to send me nudes just for fun or as a challenge, and it's not difficult at all. I have no doubt that I could get these girls to meet up and sleep with me if I wanted to take it that far, lots of them asked me themselves and I declined. I'm talking 6s, 7s, maybe 8s even. If a girl will send a pic of herself naked you're like 1 step away from sleeping with her. 9s and 10s are wife material and are hard to find, 7s are plenty good enough to just mess around with. A 7 was probably the most attractive girl in your class on average while in school. Online game is all mental.... being able to express yourself and be persuasive in writing well. Even manipulating to a degree. You need a half-decent picture to get your first couple messages read, but once you're in the door it's all about how good you can write. If your immediate local area isn't enough or once you run through all the local girls, set the max distance on your app to 100 miles (or manually change cities if it will let you and doesn't use GPS.) Some girls want to meet up right away, the majority don't. If you can get an online conversation going and text her regularly for 3-5 days without her dropping off, you're basically in a relationship once it's time to meet up. After the first in-person meeting if you don't come off weird or creepy she will fuck you, so put in 80% of the work online upfront especially if you aren't as charismatic or haven't developed the in-person social skills. Idk online dating is its own specific category and it's what I almost exclusively focused on, I'm guessing most people just don't master it to the same degree as night or day game where they talk to thousands of people. Still ended up meeting my wife at work though.

That's exactly the right path to take I think. Just put your head down, do the work, and take the abuse for now knowing that things will start to get better. If you can get at least 6 months or a year of experience for your resume, it should make it easier to move sideways to a similar position in another company. Unless your boss is infamous within the local industry for being an incompetent moron and it will reflect poorly on you, then maybe worth considering getting out now and starting over. All of this is almost like a rite of passage at most first jobs I think. Definitely if you ever work retail this is a very common attitude. The less skilled a job is, the more likely you're working with high school dropouts, the less room for leniency there is. Those sorts of people need to be told exactly what to do and when/how to do it or the workplace will quickly devolve into chaos. Kind of a vicious cycle though... you don't give people responsibility and the ability to screw up, they'll always need hand-holding.

It seems like a really naïve perspective to take. Imagine saying you want to go out at night and have a random encounter with a grizzly bear, or an uncontacted tribe of people. You have no idea what they're capable of or what misunderstandings might arise. Personally I think disclosure about aliens is coming within the next decade or so from the government. Watch the interview on the Theory of Everything channel (the one that interviewed Leo) and see his talks with Luis Elizondo, one of the most credible guys I've heard. As for what they are... humans from the future, a species from another world, interdimensional, demonic (whatever that means), I dunno. But there is some kind of intelligent phenomenon that world governments seem to be aware of that has been known to humans since the beginning of our history.

Money had not been injected into the system yet when the pandemic first started, and it takes time for the effects to start taking effect once it does. Check out a graph of the money supply, look what happened between April and May 2020. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL The effects of inflation lag a fair bit after people start getting stimulus checks etc, it isn't felt immediately. The costs of things need to increase gradually. For a lot of products, shipping disruptions means fewer items on the shelf. Less supply but demand is the same, so prices go up. Some things are actually going down in price.... lumber went nuts for a while but now it's pretty much back to pre-pandemic prices. I hear some economists talking about how once all the shipping containers start finally getting unloaded, we are probably going to see a deflationary scenario as tons of goods flood the market. I've been researching hyperinflation a bit over the past year and normally it will follow a period of deflation first that catches everyone off guard. In much of our economy things are deflationary and always have been.... specifically anything technology-related. Look at what a 50-inch flatscreen TV would've costed a decade ago vs today. For housing I don't know what's going on. My house is worth almost double what I paid 5 years ago and that's pretty much the story everywhere, I'm not sure why it's such a global phenomenon. Lowering interest rates probably play a part, maybe people tired of being cramped in tiny apartments during lockdowns has increased demand for larger liviing spaces, even if it means spending 50% of your salary on a mortgage. IMO it doesn't hurt to grab a few big bags of rice, bags of dried beans, canned food, etc. regardless of what is going to happen. For $100 you can pick up a couple months worth of food that will practically never go bad, and if nothing happens you can just slowly eat it as normal.

Most systems repeat themselves throughout society, just at different levels of complexity and scale. Look at it on a lower level and then scale it up. How would a group of kids deal with a bully at school? How would you deal with a bully if going to the teacher wasn't possible or effective (in the case of organized crime, if the police aren't effective or are corrupt / getting paid off by criminals.)

Democrats are perceived by poor people to offer them more government programs, subsidies, etc. Interestingly though, there's a pretty big chunk of white poor people in America who will vote Conservative even if it isn't in their best interest. The logic is that they want those conservative systems in place for if/when they do finally "make it" in society.

Just because you realize you're the character in a video game, that doesn't mean you have to stop playing. It's freeing to know that "it's just a game" and if you mess up you can hit the reset button. Or being able to "hack" some aspects of the game when you realize you're a 3D character playing a game on a 2D plane. You can pick the game up or put it down, it's not life and death any more.

Imagine someone throws you in a dark closet for an hour against your will, vs paying to go in an isolation tank for an hour. It's all about mindset and perspective. And most importantly, the voluntary aspect of devoting yourself to monkhood vs the state forcing you to become a prisoner.

From what I understand, like 90% of cholesterol is made within the body naturally, not from foods. So if you eat too much cholesterol in food it'll just pass through you. If you're doing a keto or carnivore diet it should be fine. But if you're eating carbs and sugars along with protein/fat, thats when it starts to really clog up your arteries from what I've heard.

For the right amount of money I'd work at a cigarette company

From what I understand, the Indian news media has been trying to dig into it for decades. If they haven't been able to figure it out, then most likely we'll never know.

depends what I'm using her for what you want from a one night stand should be very different from what you want from a wife and mother

You need a rest day from reading? Gimme a break. This isn't intense weightlifting. Reading is literally something most people do as a leisure activity, for fun in their spare time. You're making excuses. Most people find it much easier to stick to things every single day instead of taking breaks. 1 day off becomes 2, which becomes a week... The only reason you get burned out at something is if you're overdoing it. No way you'll get burned out from reading 20 minutes a day. Most kids read more than that every day for their entire education. You probably read more forum posts / social media / etc than that each day. If you can't read for 20 minutes a day you have a problem with willpower, focus, and boredom... not burnout. The best way to counter that is to stop social media things that give you dopamine hits every few seconds... like TikTok videos, and scrolling on various sites. Need a rest day from brushing your teeth too?

I was starting to think Leo was totally infallible and had no bad opinions lol. Kinda nice in a way to see that even enlightened people have blind spots and biases. Would you blame BLM protestors for needlessly going out looking for conflict? If we wanna go with the "he shouldn't have been there" argument then it applies equally to the protestors, rioters, and looters. Especially the dude who ran toward Rittenhouse with a pistol in his hand and got his arm blown off as a result when he could have ran the other way. Rittenhouse only shot people who continued pursuing him as he was retreating... one hitting him with a skateboard, another wielding a firearm of their own.

I tried but then I got a VR headset. Damn, VR porn is good.

No, the crucifixion is accepted as a literal event by the overwhelming majority of Christians. The Nicene Creed states that Jesus was crucified and rose again on the third day. This is accepted by Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, and most Protestant denominations. You're free to make whatever theories you want, but the crucifixion being simply a metaphor is absolutely not canon. A state of permanent enlightenment happening while being literally crucified or upon the moment of death doesn't make it a metaphor, it just makes it 2 events that happened together. When you're literally dying, it doesn't have to be a metaphor. I think most people who acknowledge the existence of a real Jesus would say that Jesus was already an enlightened being long before cruxifiction.

Go and try to advocate to make alcohol legal in Saudi Arabia. It doesn't matter if the EU thinks your policies are common-sense. Radicalism is relative to the society that you're in. "The Squad" are radical figures with insane pie-in-the-sky ideas to most Democrat voters.

I don't think the average person has learned a lot. All the normie friends I have are still talking about Marvel movies and dumb stuff. They might mention supply chain shortages in passing accidentally, sometimes without even realizing it, but do nothing to prepare for the more uncertain world that we're living in. As long as they can still buy toilet paper, order pizza, and watch Netflix they could care less. Politicians and governments have learned a lot, about mass human psychology, about how far you can push the population, how compliant or uncompliant people are, what % of the population makes up each camp. Personally I'm more distrusting and paranoid, just preparing and doing what I can to look out for myself and my family. I don't believe the news from either side any more and I don't think my government has my best interest at heart.

He's not a Trump supporter, your mind is just setting off alarm bells because he's not a Democrat / leftist either.

6s and 7s do not get thousands of dudes messaging them on Instagram. Not even dozens per year. And almost none of them are good looking or charming guys. Most 6s and 7s get a few compliments IRL per year, especially in today's #metoo age, guys are afraid to day approach. In bars it's a different story, dudes will grab the asses of anything, usually in conditions where it's too dark to even see if a girl is hot or not before they do. Ideally you aren't going after a girl posting skanky photos on Instagram or regularly going to clubs. Really dude, billions? 7.7 billion people on Earth, 2.8B of those live in China and India and are never going to see your girl. 50% of those are women, 40% of the guys left are 40 years or older. If you're average, 50% of those guys left are less attractive than you. That already brings you down to like 500 million competitors in the entire world. Not even considering that the girl you're going after is probably never going to go more than 200 miles from her house. Random guys from Africa or Turkey messaging her on Instagram are not serious competitors dude. It's not all those guys you even need to worry about. It's your best friend, her male best friend, her male coworker that she talks to 8 hours a day. Anyway the answer regardless of the threat is to just pick a high-quality woman with morals who won't cheat on you. Maybe in your teens and 20s you have to worry about hypergamy and monkey-branching, but once women are in their late 20s they are scared and just want to settle down with a guy before they hit the wall. It's a stupid what-if. Life is full of risks if you want to get anything. How do you have friends knowing (god forbid) they could come over and steal from you? You have to stop being paranoid and give up some control to be happy in life, and whatever happens happens. 90% of guys saying this stuff it's not about looks or anything else. You even acknowledge that average looking guys can get girls. It's just about not acting autistic around them.

There was a subtle a-ha moment but not like a lightswitch that suddenly flips on. It's something I gradually contemplated and experimented with and it built momentum until I hit an inflection point It followed the hero's journey model where the protagonist rejects the call but it keeps cropping up. Eventually there's a point where I answered the call, and started to commit. Just as strongly, a feeling that what I was currently doing didn't feel right or good, or align with what I wanted to do. When you get desperate and hate your life enough, you start reaching out to consider alternate options. So it started as being repelled away from what I was currently doing, and then I had to find something to get pulled toward to replace it. I felt very aligned initially and a lot of things just kind of fell into place. Now my interest is somewhat waning and I don't love it any more and have to force myself slightly. I'm possibly at a transition stage where I'll start pursuing a new life purpose and gradually transition out of this one. Or at least, I'm going to need to pivot away from working with other people on my life purpose and do it entirely by and for myself, along with a potential change of my ideal medium. I try to find and stick to the routine that allows me to most optimally and efficiently live out my life purpose. I think consistency is necessary to accomplish any large task. It will depend on how misaligned your current lifestyle is with your life purpose. For me, my life purpose was totally unrelated to my education and career at the time, so it was intimidating to give up a stable job and render 5 years of college/university education relatively worthless. I suspect this will be similar for most people. The most intimidating threshold for me was sitting down with my boss and giving my notice, and I think it will be the same for most people. In my case I knew I had a chill boss who would be supportive and that I'd likely transition over several months. I still cried in that meeting, as a very stoic dude, in front of my male boss. It's a very hard conversation to have. Some people their boss might be mad and fire them immediately rather than have them work their 2 weeks notice. Either way, for most people once you have that talk there's no going back. The majority of places probably won't even be willing to hire you back if things don't work out. Telling my parents was intimidating. A big part of why I probably didn't pursue my life purpose earlier was making them happy and getting their approval. For coworkers it's a slight concern you're letting them down but not as significant. A lot of younger coworkers will give you the "wow, that's so cool you're pursuing your dream, I could never do that." Older coworkers just won't understand. One older coworker asked my friend if it meant I was just going to be unemployed collecting welfare, they literally couldn't wrap their head around the idea that you could just start doing something for yourself and earning money. Ideally you can gain traction before you fully commit, if that makes sense. I was taking online courses, taking small $10 jobs for 6 months or more before hitting the point of no return. Once I fully committed and no longer had a job, I had a plan to get my website set up within the first week, and was lucky enough to get my first client within the first month. I was making about $1,000/month by Month 2 of going fulltime toward my life purpose. I had a whole Trello board of various tasks I would need to complete before my last day at my job, so I was able to hit the ground running on Day 1 of my new life. So many little micro-events contributing to anxiety that I no longer need to worry about. Whether I'll get a seat on the bus, making small-talk with coworkers, whether the phone on my desk will ring, constantly looking over my shoulder for my boss and flipping back to look productive. I basically designed my life as a very introverted and avoidant person to avoid all of those things. Which you could argue maybe limits my potential for growth but whatever, I gave the real world a try for enough years and now I can live in my self-contained little bubble where I literally never need to leave my house if I didn't want to. That's basically the best life I can imagine designing for myself. Instead of having a mandatory 40 hours per week where I need to sit in the office, but really I'm stretching 2-4 hours of work per day into 8 hours.... now I give my work 100% effort for 2-4 hours and the rest of the day is mine to do whatever I want with. Previously it was mentally exhausting... you work all day and all you can muster the energy to do is watch some TV, go to bed, and do it over again the next day. I already had a strong idea of what direction I wanted to go in. Taking the life purpose course was more of a sanity check to make sure I was on the right track, as well as refine more specific details of my life purpose and make it all real. I would strongly recommend the course. I re-do it every November/December since 2017 to set goals for next year and make sure my priorities are still right. Feel free to ask whatever else you want

Nootropics are largely a wild goose chase. Make sure you've worked on the rest of your health first. Optimize your sleep. Get exercise. Eliminate all processed food from your diet. Drastically reduce or eliminate carbs and sugar from your diet. Stop taking all prescription meds (if your doctor says it's okay) -- once your diet is fixed you probably won't need them. Eating exotic wild herbs and poorly researched chemicals might make you 5 - 10% better once already optimized. But it's foolish to ignore the other 90% of things that are more simple and natural that you can do first.