LordFall

I found this post to be a great commentary of our civilization. They interviewed a former Taliban Sniper Abdul Nafi and several other former fighters through the Afghanistan Analysts Network and he described being now bored of the 8-4 commute to work life in Kabul now that they actually took over the country. I find it interesting because I think a lot of us can relate to the sentiment although we were not freedom fighters in our teenage years. The good old days this guy yearns for, lack of responsibility, riding his horse with his friends, conquering the enemy, probably being more of a bandit and stealing from people instead of having a job, etc is basically stage red civilization that is a nightmare for everyone not on top. Once that civilization goes towards stage blue and stability, it ruins a lot of the fun for the average man. It's also a commentary on feminism and the patriarchy. We often don't really see it in the west but it is a true way of life for earlier civilization where if you're a strong young man with a good group you're on top of the world and everyone else is a lower class of society. You see it now with the rich elites of the world where equality would bring down their standard of living big time. It's also a commentary on our societies where traffic, paperwork and scrolling twitter is basically the civilization peak we've managed to achieve. We're now pushing the boundaries of that with AI automation which hopefully will lead to a better end state with win-win solutions for all sectors of society. It also shows how evil War really is because it's a zero sum answer to the problem of scarcity. Oh our society is getting bogged down and there is less surplus to go around? Just go invade these people and take their shit and enslave them so our standard of living goes back up. Here is a longer article from the Times covering the phenomenon and a reddit threat discussing it https://time.com/6263906/taliban-afghanistan-office-work-quiet-quit/ https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/1sc5cr0/taliban_fighter_becomes_disillusioned_with_the/

Because the middle and lower classes are stuck paying a big proportion of them while a lot of elites have elaborate loopholes to avoid paying anything and are just parasite on the system and keep owning a bigger chunk of the global economy.

Thinking that Trump is stupid is foolish. This is a cabal of highly strategic, motivated and organized people. If you can't understand their extreme objectives, like completely reshaping the world order or even destroying the US dominance for personal gain; doesn't make them less intelligent and organized.

That 'oil donor' logic is a slippery slope. By that standard, a huge percentage of Canadian public figures—regardless of their actual message—would be disqualified from the conversation before they even open their mouths. I’d rather hear the perspective and judge it on its own merits than have a platform act as a moral gatekeeper. It feels like you’re advocating for a 'purity test' for speech, but that usually just leads to echo chambers, not higher consciousness. How do we grow as a society if we only engage with people who have zero ties to the industries that actually run the country?

Poilievre might not be the sharpest tool in the shed but I do believe he means well and he should be encouraged to share his views publicly. I don't know what the solution is to people lacking critical thinking but silencing big portions of the popular opinion is not a good solution. @Cireeric I only watched 2 mins of it but she seems to make some good points. Deploying AI in an ethical and responsible way for humanity is very important.

Very cool, space opens up a lot of awesome possibilities for mankind.

Yeah and it's working. It was ramping up and now nobody's talking about it. Crazy how the propaganda machine works.

Sure if I thought it would make a difference and actually save people and not be a ploy for the deeper enslavement of my people like most wars are today.

@NewKidOnTheBlock This is a good one. I ask myself if I'm stupid all the time. Being mad because you're bad is a tale as old as time. It's not even worth shaming yourself over, just need to pinpoint it so you can actually start fixing your life. Aesop's fables were written in the 6th century BC. If you want some grapes just admit it to yourself and then get some grapes. Don't make it a whole philosophical paradigm that can be easily debunked.

I have no idea what you're talking about so that leaves me to believe you picked option 1.5 and decided to have a victim mindset while also being incoherent. Congratulations of avoiding solving your issues and blabbering nonsense on the internet. A very popular choice with the average man.

Anger is usually caused by being powerless. So take responsibility and increase your agency and power over your life otherwise you will always be angry and lash out. How is your money situation? It probably sucks if you're stuck in your parents house. So really you're only at your inability to make money. Not your parents nor anybody else. If you made more money you could put yourself in whatever environment you want to and remove any outside stressor. So stop blaming other people and other situations that don't have to do with your ability to become free i.e. your financial independence. If you feel like a trapped animal in your life of course you're occasionally gonna lash out and hurt others or yourself in frustration.

Well this is an ugly wall of text There are no study that backs up what you're saying. It seems that fundamentally you are just mad because you can't get hot girls? Unless there is also another point that you'd like to intellectually defend the claim that more attractive women have demonstrably lower moral standards than less attractive women of which there are no studies that claim such a fact. So you're not using logic here just venting negative emotions. Here are 3 suggestions for topics to discuss here: 1) Victim mindset 2) Mental illness in men 3) How to productively actually date/have a cool social circle with attractive women

Yeah I don't disagree with you, a lot of Ukrainian women came to Canada since the war and most of them are quite beautiful. I don't know if it's only genetics or eastern european beauty standards for women are more strict than western but you can see it for sure. Western countries are generally not the best for dating. All the British Colononies are known for being PUA hubs because british culture makes dating more formalized than in french, latin or other cultures. The good thing though is you can work on getting location independent income and then travel the world and date women from anywhere. It's funny that you're from Dnipro, one of the hottest models I've ever seen in my life is from there. There's something going on in your water we must study it for science. Maybe you've heard of her, she's pretty big on IG, she almost came to a shoot I was hosting on Toronto. https://www.instagram.com/rinochka.v/

Yeah this part makes a lot of sense. I definitely feel like I have lower willpower than I'd like. Not easy to find a replacement to porn as a stress reliever though.

No it's not an opinion mate, social circle is an extension of cold approach. If you are getting the result that you say you are getting that's great. The next step is to use your social life as a tool to reach other goals that you are in life. I've had plenty of one night stands and that's okay but having high value impactful relationships is more valuable then that. If you can organize both your friend circle and the woman or women in your life towards mutually beneficially goals like building a business or shooting content in a monetisable way then you can turn your socializing from something that you do on weekends to get away from an unpleasant lifestyle towards building a wholistic lifestyle. @Lazarus93 My IGN was Astro, I was high elo mostly in season 4 and 5. Then I mostly quit to get more into pickup and business. @Ulax Yeah the gamer mindset helped my dating life a lot. Helped me see my insecurities as just skill trees I had to develop, not fundamental flaws of my character. A lot of people don't see it that way though and basically yeah are visibly at some of the lowest ranks in core skills and get upset when you point that out even in a constructive and not shame based way.