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The con of being bankrupted through no fault of your own makes private healthcare appear insane to the rest of the world. Nobody should have their life and the life of their family ruined through no fault of their own, just because they happen to get cancer or something and don't have a job that has good insurance. I'm happy to have a 5% higher tax rate to not have to worry about that for myself or any of my fellow citizens. Along with a privatized American system comes a lot of devilry that bloats the entire system and makes it less efficient anyway. The hospital can charge you $1,000 for a pill that would cost $5 in any other country, and other stupidly inflated fees, because they know insurance companies will pay it anyway. When doctors and hospitals are working with the government, you pay what your drugs and procedures actually cost. You have the bargaining power of the state. Someone I know in Texas who runs his own business told me recently he pays $12,000/year for health insurance for him and his wife. You really think your taxes are going to go up THAT MUCH? Even if you work for a company that covers that cost, it's gotta be reflected as an expense in the goods they sell and passed on to the consumer somehow.

Don't try to self-diagnose too much. When you look up stuff online, it feels like everything applies to you. Like when you look anything up the internet tells you that you've got cancer. All internet quizzes I've done tell me I've got severe avoidant, antisocial, and narcissistic personality disorder plus mild schizoid and OCD lol... that's like 3/4 of them. If it's concerning you then talk to a professional. From what you've described it could just as easily be a mild autism spectrum disorder, you can't figure it out on your own. What you describe is also just the norm for lots of people nowadays because we were never socialized properly and spend too much time online, I fit the same description you give.

I'm married now and I regret not having sex with more women first. If you don't get it out of your system, you'll always be daydreaming and wondering "what if". You never got a chance to sleep with X or Y kind of girl. In the long term I think it will probably make you more predisposed to cheating. Unless you get an uncureable STD or a girl pregnant, I don't think you'll ever regret having more sex before settling down. Our education system does a huge disservice by scaring kids through sex ed to the point of traumatizing them against having sex. I had so many opportunities to have sex with girls that I passed up early on for fear that I'd catch AIDS or get her pregnant even with a condom the first time I had sex. Fuck that shit, it ruined my life and so much potential enjoyment. You aren't doing some moral thing, by the time you're 20 years old every chick has fucked at least a dozen dudes, probably more like 30. The body counts I hear from average-looking women is astounding. You're just kneecapping yourself. Don't try to be some noble knight, just fuck bitches.

In a future pass you'll assign a congruence rating for each value For now I'd pick the ones that most represent who you want to be in the future when you're living your life purpose (your ideal self, what you'd like to strive to make your life to align more with.) It doesn't matter so much if you're currently embodying it day to day or not, but they should still feel meaningful to you. Don't worry about the "how" of achieving it yet. When in doubt if you're trying to narrow down to 10 values, don't overthink it too much, just go with your gut. You might be coming back to the list to re-pick some later anyway.

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.