Leo Gura

About half the Vimeo videos on the blog and the Life Purpose Course are currently deactivated. Vimeo deactivated them because they say Actualized.org is in the top 1% of all Vimeo accounts in terms of bandwidth usage. To reactivate the videos they are asking me to pay them $5000/yr. Just to give you an idea of how much of a price hike that is, I was paying them $200/yr for the last 8 years (that's what a standard Vimeo account costs). So a 25x price hike overnight. Now I am forced to pay them $5000 because I don't really have an option to move all my years worth of videos somewhere else. Kind of a shitty situation for me. Please be patient as I sort this out with Vimeo over the next few days.

Thanks! Fixed.

That's possible. I hardly know ye. Passion is not enough, you have to master navigating the academia system and bureacracy. As I said, these jobs are rare and hard to get. Obviously it is possible. But is it wise for you to limit yourself to such a narrow game?

I will do a video on how to think about climate change. Already in the works.

Easily. Ukraine and Russia have an old agreement that Russia will not violate Ukraine's internationally recognized borders. Russian broke that agreement and commited a war crime. Russia has also been trying to establish a puppet government in Ukraine for decades. Russia is violating Ukrainian sovereignty. No CIA plan or whatever justifies that. Putin is also abusing his own population. So he has zero moral ground. As he ended fair elections in Russia he wants to do the same in Ukraine. Which is tyranny. He has no authority to dictate Ukraine and he should not be allowed to do so as long as Ukrainians are willing to fight for their nation. Zelensky is the fairly elected leader of Ukraine. He is not a puppet. He is popular and he defends his nation with honor and integrity.

@James123 If I am right then you are wrong which means I am wrong and which means you are wrong.

I would love it if the US cut off and sanction Israel. All coups are wrong of course. Ukraine war I support. Other wars I am against. How convenient that you leave out half my message.

I'm not a fortuneteller. I'm not going to predict the future for you. The future is chaotic and full of uncertainties. But you should understand when a sandstorm is coming.

This is so naive.

Things are going to get much worse than people comprehend. The shit has barely begun.

But dude, we know that already. We know exactly who all these Trump acolytes are. They never cared about a Nazi salutes or language. This is the least of our problems now.

I get your position. It's not unreasonable. In the end we gotta pick some perspective to settle on. You picked yours, I picked mine. We'll see who was right in 30 years.

I have heard enough of these ecological people talk their utopian fantasies that I don't want to hear any more. These people have no serious vision of human civilization. These are hippie socialist eco-peasants and their ideas will fail. Meta-crisis-group-think is what that is.

Dangerous or not it will be done. Just because you are so risk averse does not mean your plans will work. Yes it is dangerous, but nukes are more dangerous and we have gotten this far. Your thinking is too short-term. The repair will take 100-200 years. And that is fine. Does mankind have something better to do? You got somewhere to be? We will burn oil for another 100 years. Then we will be developed enough to move onto something clean and repair the damage over the next 200 years. That's our situation. So buckle in.

It is being worked on.

Only because you click on that kind of content. I have never seen one anti-woman video in my YT.

Dude, lay this canard to rest. Inflation is not high. It is at normal levels. The economy is as good as it will get. It's downhill from here. You don't even know how good you had it.

Hold my beer! -- New Ager

You are wrong

Self-hosting video is not a thing.

He's not a Nazi, he's just an immature megalomaniacal oligarch drunk on power and ego.

I know. They usually respond much faster.

Don't even.

If you don't enjoy a field, you will not be successful in it. Frankly, I don't see that you are serious enough to land a philosophy professorship. These are extremely competitive jobs even for the most outstanding doctoral students. Either you get extremely serious about it, or you pursue something less competitive. I don't want to discourage your passions, but you also need to be very realistic about how competitive academic positions are or you will waste 8 years of your life chasing a fantasy and be left broke and jobless in the end. To be a philosophy professor you need to have some genuine talent and skill for heavy philosophical research. It's kinda like chess. To play chess professionally and make a living off it requires hardcore-mode.

Sent email to Vimeo. Waiting on them to fix it.