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We are evolutionary animals with DNA that aligns with other animal species. There is no "good" or "bad" to it except our perception, it just is. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jmmj75/what_are_some_bitter_truths_about_human_nature/ When the lion eats the gazelle, it needs these animals to survive as a carnivore. Is it cruel and yet essential for the species to survive? Many animal specie's males will compete and kill other males for rights to all the females. Natural selection is survival of the fittest and far from nature being pure and innocent and humans being "evil" because they "should" know better, all of nature is merely genes interacting and the strongest genes passing on. Most humans will betray their values to satisfy a basic need. If you understand how to meet someone’s highest need, you can easily influence that individual’s behavior.

I'm most certainly neurotic. lol... stuck with these genetics and that limbic/reptilian brain after all. Most people who frequent online forums have a few screws loose compared to "normies" ... probably a higher percentage of autistic spectrum individuals such as myself than the majority of the population also.

I consume them mostly cooked... my recent invention.... 1 lb baby carrots 1 zucchini, sliced ... depending on size, 2 or 3 can be used. 1 package of mushrooms, 8 ounces sliced 1 green pepper, cut up... or two... whatever you want. Optional - 1 onion sliced up. I say optional because I tend to smell up my apartment and have onion breath consuming such a large quantity of onions Cook this on skillet until veggies are soft and there is a nice mallard reaction on the bottom, which happens after most of the water on the bottom has evaporated... stir it around, then add: 1 package frozen broccoli.... avoid brands with excessive stalks. Cauliflower is also fine. Don't mix this in, just dump it frozen on top. Cook until broccoli is soft and a second layer of mallard reaction formed on bottom of skillet. Then add 1 - 6 ounce can of tomato paste liquid sucralose drops to desired sweetness (oh noes artificial sweeteners I'm gonna die) a handful of sodium/potassium salt... I'm not precise just pour some in my hand and dump it on a decent amount of "lawry's salt free 17 seasoning" a decent amount of dried Parmesan cheese Optional - 1 can of canned chicken... I use the great value brand reduced sodium Mix all this crap together and enjoy. Lots of vegetables, low caloric density. I desire a carotenoid tan which requires ample lycopene and beta carotine, and optionally lutein and astaxanthin... plus like tomato based mixtures like spaghetti, but without the empty carbs.

There are more echo chambers because of people becoming obsessed with social media. It's a more enhanced form of what used to be local gossip, where "everyone knows what everyone else is doing" in a small town or in the workplace, except you can now expand it to a global scale. Everyone thinks everyone "should" behave a certain way or believe a certain thing, and everyone tries to change everyone else's mind and gets neurotic when they can't do it, and you have human nature in action. Every "echo chamber" is so convinced they have all the answers, when they are varying degrees of neurotic. Doesn't matter if it's democratic, autocratic, left, right, or whatever. Perhaps some philosophies are more enlightened than others of course... go up the spiral dynamics scale. The addition of forums, subreddits, etc. enhances the echo chambers and enhances the neuroticism because now you have people getting a single perspective and not seeing the shades of grey that are a normal part of a functioning society. Less acceptance of what is, more raw understanding of human nature and judging it or being in denial of our animal biology and programming... knowledge is power as long as it's used constructively... excess knowledge or knowledge combined with neuroticism can backfire. When looking outside the social media sensationalism at real people around me, most people are decent enough. Flawed, but decent. They do the best they can with our genetic makeup.

Simple... they'll make anything if they think they can sell it. If there's a market for something, it will be sold. Nothing more complicated then that. Human nature 101... we like the dopamine hit from buying things. His perpetual remaining in power is not going to happen.

Create policies that help the majority afford to live rather than use gaslighting and psyops to enrich the ruling class. Basically you have to change human nature. As that takes evolution or genetic engineering, remember enlightened masters tend to preach radical acceptance, not getting caught up in world events... Its okay if it happens, its okay if it doesnt.

China's done some impressive things. Autocracy can work with the right leadership. Democracy can falter when you have the illusion of choice but both sides are mostly corrupt career politicians looking to pad their net worth and thus are mostly bought out by wealthy interests. I mean, it's human nature you'll never have perfection. Even at it's peak the US was making questionable moral decisions especially with foreign policy. You have to manage human nature the best you can and that includes all our genetic propensities that the greens and others shame people for having, but that's not going to change without genetic engineering. All stages below yellow like to moral shame other stages as if they can help being who they are programmed to be.

Not everyone wants or has the capability to go into business for themselves or play the game to evade taxes, hide assets in trusts, by multiple properties, create multiple LLCs, and game the system for their own benefit. If jobs don't pay living wages just because they are low skill, we will never truly get above orange. We were making progress, then the pandemic hit and the price of houses suddenly doubled in 3 years, without the corresponding needed wage increases, pricing a growing number out of the system, nevermind the cost of living in other countries. Forget the fact that the average person doesn't spend their life pondering philosophical issues, and the limitations of our genetic makeup. Getting a society to push green will be an undertaking itself, especially on a global scale.

Ceylon cinnamon is lower in Coumarin... don't consume tons of cassia cinnamon. There are also heavy metal concerns in some brands. Went through a cinnamon phase now just use it once in a while. Berberine can achieve some of the same effects more powerfully.

Asking google Gemini to spell "big boobs" ... I mean that, or asking questions about autocracy, North Korea, modern monetary theory, and other geopolitical systems and forms of government to get the chat bot's perspective on the issues. Also general nutrition questions.

Sounds healthy. A lot of people get too much steady state cardio. Really not a lot of volume is needed, but higher intensity with less volume is healthier in the long run. People tend to overthink exercise... we are brainwashed by the current exercise regimens and machines that we have by the fitness industry today... just lift heavy shit with good form and control the weight when you do it. Not rocket science. Bodyweight shit can be good enough for most people. A pull up bar can take care of quite a bit on it's own.

Looking at the breakfast cereal aisle it's amazing that the vast majority of these were marketed as health foods. That said it's also added MSG that makes processed foods so addictive... think Sun Chips, Crackers, Hot Pockets, and the like. Starting to get a nice carotenoid glow from all the tomato paste and carrots consumed the last month. About ready to cook tonight's veggie heavy meal.

Most mammal species will take free handouts when they're give them... I find it amusing nobody's willing to acknowledge there was a US stock bubble and thinks it's normal to have 30% year over year gains in the market or that the stock market actually benefits the average working person when the cost of living in the US is among the highest ever under these asset bubbles. Not left or right, just watching the circus play out and watching human nature and chuckling at all this drama. The top and bottom suck from the middle, because that's human nature. Privatize the gains and socialize the losses. No matter what "side" you are on human nature doesn't change... we are often our own worse enemy, or our genetic makeup is. It's most amusing to me watching the older generation, the wealthy, and those with assets lose their marbles over an asset bubble that might be popping, at least for now. Welfare for the rich. Give it time and they'll do more quantitative easing, and bail out the hedge funds, unfortunately.

I personally am enjoying the prospect of deflation. It's the last 4 years mostly that the middle class have gotten priced out of a good life, and it's mostly down to all the money printing, quantitative easing, and excessive government spending. All the valuation indicators suggest we are in a massive bubble, but everyone is stuck in this fairy tale, stocks are undervalued, ra ra let's keep pumping up the asset bubble mode. It's crazy to watch. Enjoying the show, regardless of the outcome. Some valuation metrics: https://www.multpl.com/shiller-pe https://www.multpl.com/s-p-500-price-to-sales https://yardeni.com/charts/margin-debt/ https://www.gurufocus.com/stock-market-valuations.php https://www.gurufocus.com/economic_indicators/150/sp-500-dividend-yield Literally every metric suggest massive bubble, like 2000 level or 1929 level valuations. In order to continue to current trajectory of stock market rise would require continued mass injection of liquidity into the system. Asset prices have far outperformed wage growth and the top 10% own 93% of the US stock market value as it is. Do you think this trickles down? https://mronline.org/2022/10/04/trickle-down-economics/ https://inequality.org/article/stock-ownership-concentration/

It's a tax on people's addictive tendencies, similar to phone games like clash of clans that lure people in and get them spending hundreds of dollars. Do we ban things "for people's own good" or let them experiment and learn from their mistakes? I really don't know, LOL. Sometimes I wish there was more control over our nature exerted on us by the state, but can see myself or others rebelling at that control and then black markets form anyways. People only tell stories when they win. Unless you're card counting or doing table games with skill, statistically speaking the house always wins.

Used as a form of control. See North Korea.

I used to make kefir from kefir grains, but overall I find that probiotics don't really do that much either way. More useful is adding fiber to the diet, such as buying store bought greek yogurt and mixing milled flaxseed into it. The fiber, ALA, and Protein in the flax is more useful than the probiotics in the yogurt, which tend to not colonize the gut to any significant degree over time. They simply can't compete with the existing microbiome suited to the environment of our guts.

Our populace is too well informed for a large segment of the populace to simply allow their children to be sent off to fight in another banker's war to enrich the corporate machine to defend one cokehead over another at this point. I'd encourage everyone to not allow their children to be drafted to defend Ukraine. Pointless war defending a nation that is little better than Russia run by a questionable individual who suspended the 2024 election to remain in power. Let's not forget it was their threatening to join NATO that encouraged Russia to start this war in the first place. There is blame to go around. Try to see things from the other person's perspective.... would we want a competitor nation installing a regime right on our doorstep?

Having a well fed and stable populace means more consumption and carbon emissions but overall cleaner rivers and overall landscape as you climb the spiral dynamics ladder and fulfill maslow's hierarchy you're more likely to become altruistic and want to work on causes like cleaning up the planet rather than focusing on survival. From this comes increased technological innovation which will eventually tackle the carbon problem and the whole situation is eventually resolved. It won't get resolved if humanity is stuck in survival mode, which it will be if a large segment of the population are surviving on little. There's a difference between being lower class and being in poverty though, or having a culture that is a cesspool of pollution, such as India, Bangladesh, or Pakistan. Having a stable middle class is key.

Sound like the place I should be living. I get tired of the excesses of the US and people spending recklessly and then getting a bail out from the perpetual money printer. I'm a boring person though. I can see the disadvantages of this overly fiscally conservative mindset and risk aversion though.

Too much screen time is the plague of so many human beings, but we are addicted like a drug.

There's no logic in continuing to funnel hundreds of billions of dollars to "defend Ukraine" when Russia is a nuclear state and has a rather large stockpile. Better to try to come to some sort of deal, even if it means some land concessions, to end the fighting and conflict. People think Putin/Russia plan to invade other countries and take over Europe, which is silly. They're not going to do that. Putin shouldn't have started the war, but he needs some sort of deal to "save face" ... should he be punished for starting the war? The question is not should he be, it's whether you think you can do it with his nuclear stockpile. How do we achieve peace without a dragged out war that goes another 5 years and ultimately leads to Putin using nukes when he runs out of troops and we've ended up destroying how many more cities and cost how many more lives?

Best video I've ever seen just about about what makes her obsessed, or at least what they look for, something an autist who likes it blunt rather than all the mysterious bullshit advice you get from most people will be able to digest.