Leo Gura

Yes, of course, unconsciousness. Emotions tend to make one unconscious. Emotions are animalistic.

Gramps is too fragile for such serious business.

Yes, of course. That's the tragedy of it. I understand all that. Which is why I said, "My condolences". It's not merely that women are being fooled. It's that women are making themselves into fools by mating entirely off emotions. By being emotional puppets women end up puppetmastered. Women rarely reward conscious men with sex. So why should men be better? I have to actively behave like a scumbag to get sex. It's funny. That's what hot women reward. It's similar to social media, you get rewarded the most for the dumbest, vilest behavior.

I don't think there is one beyond the stuff I already know to do.

@decentralized Women being poor judges of male character is a very "women" issue. The amount of women in abusive and toxic relationships is insane. Guys are dumb about getting laid, but women fall in love with the biggest losers, assholes, narcisists, abusers, and scumbags.

ALL marketing is applicable to starting a biz. All marketing is fundamentally the same in abstraction, regardless of implementation.

My description of women is profound. It took me thousands of hours of experience to be able to articulate it so concisely. Don't take it for granted. This is not some angsty bitter Red Pill incel BS. If women bothered to grasp what I said it would change their whole love life. The shallowness of female attraction speaks for itself. Don't shoot the messenger. I honestly feel very bad for women. It's a terrible way to mate. It's boarderline retarded. So much self-inflicted suffering.

@r0ckyreed Keep playing these games and you will never wake up.

Of course! It's God All philosophy is just wordplay to avoid a direct confrontation with God.

Good! This should light a fire under your ass. Life is short, don't waste a single day. How do you do it? You stop screwing around, you get serious, and you make ever day count. You must do impossible things to make your vision come true. Work twice as hard as everyone else.

Because women are just emotional puppets. Zero logic goes into your mating. It's an awful way to live. My condolences.

The only bigger fool than Trump is Kanye. These 2 are walking, talking, breathing fools. The level of stupidity off those 2 and all their followers is truly awesome and terrifying. These are the two biggest fools on this planet. They are scrambling to see who get crowned the biggest fool. They are gluttons for stupidity. It's so fucking stupid! OMG! How can anyone keep a straight face?

Mitch McConnell sure is regretting now not impeaching Trump. Could have solved the whole matter right there. It's amazing how foolishly loyal Republicans have been with their support for Trump when it was obvious he would throw them all under the bus in the end to serve his own narcissistic ambitions.

I totally understand that. But the key to life is to never quit and keep your spirits high even after lots of failure. Well, that just means life is demanding more out of you, a better, stronger you. But don't overlook how working on this tough problem will grow you and get you deepen your relationship to life. Solving tough problems has a way of forcing you to really appreciate the time you have left. I've experienced that with my health problems. I would estimate I lost half of productivity and creative potential in life. And I've had to make peace with that. You just gotta be ready for life to throw you very challenging problems and improvise your life plans. Life is not some simple kid's game. This is as serious as it gets. It's an acquired taste. Life can get very brutal. People get cancer, lose loved ones in car accidents, lose arms and legs. You gotta be ready to take on challenges like that. Watch my blog videos on Requisite Variety and my health struggles. That will be most relevant for you.

Well, Facebook's problems have been well-documented and he's certainly responsible for many of them. Facebook is also a trainwreck of sorts. But at least they are profitable as a business. The biggest difference is that Zuck is not out there promising people free speech absolutism. If Zuck took that stance, he would rightly be ridiculed for being naive and irresponsible. But Zuck understands moderation issue much better than Musk because he's had to deal with that crap for 15 years. Musk is like a child who just stumbled into it. That's really the issue. It's like if I bought a rocket company and started issuing orders about how to build rockets but had zero rocketry experience. I would make a lot of bad decisions. The difference is that everyone knows that building good rockets is hard. But Musk does not appreciate that building good social platforms is even harder than building a rocket. Engineering is easy compared to solving socio-political issues. Which is exactly why this tech-bro attitude is popular in Silicon Valley. Tech problems are relatively easy to solve because they are well-defined and don't hinge on changing the minds of millions of people. You cannot solve the problem of apes playing with dynamite by inventing even stronger dynamite for them to play with.

Well, that is how EVERY social problem is ultimately solved. It's merely a question of whether you will live long enough to see it.

How can God ordain the universal realization of God if the whole problem is that God is unaware that he is God? God is not some other thing. God is you. The reason God cannot wake you up is precisely because you are God! God cannot force anyone to wake up because to wake up one has to want to wake up. If God does not want to wake up, how can God wake up? If you decide to dream, that's God deciding to dream. And so God's will is done. And if you set your heart and mind to Awaken, so too God's will will be done. God's Will passes right through you! But you won't understand this until after Awakening. That's the whole problem. It's like you're trying lift up a carpet on which you are standing. And you can't understand why the carpet refuses to move. And so you ask, "Why doesn't God will this carpet to move?" You are in your own way.

What's hilarious is that JP's argument in the above clip is precisely Post-Modernism. But he applies Post-Modernism with such gross double-standards, only when it suits him. No pre-modern nor modern religious intellectual would argue -- when asked if he believes in God -- that he cannot answer the question because we don't know what "you" is, what "belief" is, what "God" is, and what "is" is. The line of logic laid out by JP in the above clip is exactly how Derrida would answer a question. Post-Modernism is about deconstructing the question and the questioner until you can't even do philosophy any more. Which is just of course his own confusion projected out at the world.

That's the only sure thing.

Twitter is not a tech company. Twitter is a content moderation company. This is key to realize. You cannot tech-bro your way out of a social governance problem. Twitter does not have a tech problem, they have a social governance problem. There is no software you can write which will make your party appealing to people. Managing a social space requires social intelligence and savvy, not more technology. If you want to have a popular mass platform with happy advertisers, you gotta make a place where everyone feels safe. Not a jungle free-for-all.

It's looking like a repeat of 2016. Trump will just bulldoze his way through the primaries and force the reluctant leadership to back him because their only other option would be backing Biden. The difference is though, Trump has already alienated all the swing voters and he will never get them back. The only other chance I see Republicans having is if somehow De Santis manages to outplay Trump. I find that highly unlikely. He probably won't even try because he'd have a lot of risk and little chance of victory. It would be quite foolish for De Santis to wage a full-out war against Trump and his base. Which would be necessary to somehow defeat Trump cause Trump will sooner take the whole party down with him than lose to De Santis. Trump needs this primary way more than De Santis. This is basically Trump's last chance to win, cause he's getting too old, mean while De Santis can try running for another 20 years because he's so young. So if De Santis is wise he will just be patient and not wage any wars.

Not exclusively, but mostly.

Chronic health problem can definitely be demoralizing like that. You gotta muster hope and keep troubleshooting solutions to your health issues. You can re-energize your dreams and goals once your health problems improve, so don't worry about losing them. But if your health is really bad, yeah, it's gonna be hard to have big dreams because you don't have the energy to work on them. I've definitely experienced this with my health problems.

The whole point is that a social media platform must moderate content far beyond what is merely illegal. In the same way that if you want to host a popular party, your party rules cannot simply be: anything legal goes. Your party must prohibit a bunch of stuff which is legal, but socially unacceptable, like bringing a dead skunk to the party. In real life you cannot bring a skunk to a party because people will see your face, remember who you are, and blacklist you forever. But online, since most people are anonymous and have multiple accounts, this doesn't work. If you let people bring skunks, they will keep doing it and ruin every online party you ever throw. Thus you must ban such assholes. Because if they did that the real-world, they would be banned for simple indecency. Musk's policy is effectively this: Let's allow everyone back to our party who has ever brought a skunk. Well, it's obvious that Musk doesn't understand how parties work.

It is not so easy to draw a line between transphobia vs people questioning / having philosophical disagreements on trans topics. Trans people have a tendency to consider any questioning or philosophical disagreements about gender issues to be transphobia, which is not the case. Then genuine transphobes exploit this loophole. So here we are. Here's my question to you: Do you consider Joe Rogan a transphobe?