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PVV had 37 seats from last election in 2023, that was the real surge. This feels like a decline in populist votes but still huge. But the Netherlands is a pretty conservative country politically, it's the Randstad (Amsterdam and surrounding cities) that's liberal.

Happy Halloween 🎃

This sounds really lovely.

Humor is often just telling the truth.

No, my point is that his original stuff gets millions of views. If you remaster the audio you'll probably get more views than creating these weird new scripts. It's just not well thought out.

Populism: The Netherlands is a tiny country that's part of EU. Although wonderful and rich, it has very little influence on a global scale by any stretch of the imagination. Yet populists don't see it that way. They would like to move away from the EU (total exit is entirely unrealistic) and are against migration, even though it helps us economically. PVV has all sorts of unrealistic, anti-constitutional 'ideas'. These voters are under the impression that the country is being overrun and turned into some Islamic state. This is based on nothing and has nothing to do with reality. Voters probably know this but want to 'vote against the system'. These 'votes against the system' help put clowns into government who don't give a shit about actually governing, delaying progress for absolutely no reason other than 'baseless voter sentiment'. At least we don't have kings or presidents in power.

A beautiful nondual approach to money.

Somebody colored in this footage from around the world from the early 1900s. It's fascinating footage. But the people look so happy? I'd be miserable if I had to live in those times. Why do they all look so happy? There must have been a much stronger sense of community back then. But just imagine the hard manual labor these people had to do just to survive. No automation, nothing that comes close to our modern standards of living, just an endless grind.

These are wonderful This one is more redpill / masculine content if you're into that sort of thing: Very inspirational Youtube series: Hyper orange business advice, quite unhealthy excess but I still learned from this channel: Similar as Charlie but the original Sam Ovens channel: Pretty decent success coaching:

https://www.youtube.com/@ActualizedOrg

I bet that first prototype sucks. You come home to broken dishes and your dog's dead.

The point of the video is not to learn macro economics but to help shape a more abundant mindset around money.

I'm horribly uneducated on the topic, but I listened to this podcast episode which sort of shaped my ideas and gives me SOME understanding of Putin's motives. The western media only ever demonizes him, rightfully so, but this helped me understand a different point of view. https://open.spotify.com/episode/4GYSPbnvorqFK0DdiJ6iBF By the way, this is an excellent podcast, mostly biographies. I learned a ton from these episodes; Steve Jobs, Napoleon, Arnold Schwarzenegger and a bunch more.

Most people who I used to label as narcissists I've been able to re-contextualize. Now I just recognize my own selfishness for what it is instead of reflecting it on others with such a silly label. Much healthier.

It's very easy to be a hypocrite, it comes naturally as you have desires and survival needs. Like if I want to go out and socialize, be loud, make noise, but then when somebody else does it when I want to have quiet, I judge them. Basic survival bias, you do it just as much.

Not rationally, but why can't you experience money as infinite? Can you experience compassion as infinite? Joy? Love? Relaxation?

You should watch Wolf of Wallstreet 😁

The thing is, they could use AI to improve audio quality of original talks, it'll probably get more views too. I don't understand the need to create new scripts and use Alan Watt's voice for that. It's disturbing.

Interesting thought. So increasing quality of life, advances in medicine, social matters, spiral dynamics doesn't increase happiness? Then what's the point of those things? I wouldn't want to live in any time in the past to be honest, it just seems like a bad deal. But 100 years into the future, wired up to some VR glasses 24/7 like I'm in the Matrix? Probably not. So I guess I have a current-time bias.

Anyone on ozempic / semaglutides for weight loss? Any noticeable side effects or concerns?

What does the progress look like? I've been doing kundalini yoga for these past few months. I feel energy, it gets circulated through my body. Yesterday had such a strong focus and stronger ability to visualize my dream life in Bali, pulling the feeling of paradise into the present. This morning I woke up and had this awakening of God being conscious of itself. It only lasted a second. Fell back asleep. Today felt so low in my energy, overstimulated. Coffee does nothing anymore. It wasn't until I jerked off, ate carbs and watched some entertainment that I felt normal again. My visualizations yesterday were so strong that the present just feels like a dream. But it feels a bit ungrounded.

Yeah exactly. I'm really just focused on building my business and then moving to South East Asia for a while. I feel much better today, maybe it was just the weather, I have no way of knowing this.

You can do this with AI. (the blog issues not the course 😂)

Has anyone else tried the Grok mobile app in voice mode? It's pretty creepy. So unlike ChatGPT, which voice model is optimized to be truthful and helpful, Grok's voice model is optimized for engagement. This is a slippery slope, because what this means is it'll work to keep you talking. It will stimulate emotions in you, and it yelled at me. I was using it in "Therapy" mode, which makes it even worse. Your brain can't tell the difference between talking to an AI or a real human. With ChatGPT, I know it's an AI and treat it as such. With this, it made me feel bad and it yelled at me, using my personal information I gave it against me. Thankfully I didn't give it any real information, but most people will. Pretty uncanny if you ask me, especially if you're expecting the AI to be truthful and helpful. Grok web is really good and one of the better LLMs I've used.