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If you need a reference, the show The Originals has a lot of hot, modern witches. I imagine they exist in real life but it's probably cringe because obviously, their magic doesn't work and you're just sitting there like "Good job babe. I acknowledge the power and validity of your idiocy"

Didn't know where else to post this, but found it interesting. I was in the gas station earlier (rural bible-belt/redneck country) and these rednecks were talking about how the gas prices are going up next week due to some busted pipeline and they started shitting on Trump HEAVY. This one redneck was like "I didn't vote, but if I did, I would have voted for Trump, and I would have been a damn fool for it". 😂 They started talking about how Trump is the cause of all the prices skyrocketing and I butted in with "Well, the president isn't really responsible for all the price increases", and these mother fuckers laid into me boy, lol. Here I am, an avid anti-Trump person getting attacked for seeming like I'm defending Trump to a bunch of rednecks. Fucking hilarious. It really just goes to show MAGA is basically fucking done. When you walk into a gas station round these parts and hear the common folk shitting on Trump, it's over.

Jack Sparrow in the hizzy!

Care to make a prediction? I'm predicting 65% INTP.

End Game is badass dude. You definitely have to watch all the movies leading up to it. I don't approach these things with analysis, and I just go by what draws me in, so I can't intelligently articulate much off the cuff. I never found Spiderman appealing. He's one of my least fav characters. I love Tony Stark though because he's funny af and represents mastery of the physical domain, and maximizing intelligent solutions that serve a greater cause. Since I was young, I was always drawn to manipulating the physical domain in creative ways to solve important problems. Stark represents that for me. But to be honest, I have a hard time choosing him over Doctor Strange. Have you seen the first Doctor Strange? Amazing. If you haven't seen it, you're in for a treat: Something about Captain America I don't like too much. I like the Black Panther and that whole world, aside from the "purple" elements, lol. Who is your fav so far?

Lay it down

@Natasha Tori Maru Did that work? Never done it before.

I fucking love The Avengers franchise. Guardians of the Galaxy as well.

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This is funny. I recall my first memory of doing this. I would imagine my kindergarten teacher hanging from a ledge and I pull her up, then she hugs me and lets me play with her tits. I'd even act it out as if my bed was the rooftop lol. Must have been 4 or 5. I contribute the early sex drive to watching late night HBO and Cinemax.

The trick is to learn to solve problems compatible with your specific cognition. "know thyself" "What types of problems do I like to solve?" Then look for opportunity with the same shape.

And in memory of @UnbornTao

It was just ChatGPT. If you want the text: "Suppose a man is already comfortable with himself, can tolerate rejection, expresses attraction without shame, reads women reasonably well, and naturally knows how to tease/flirt/play. What remaining problem is sufficiently important that he'd want to turn interaction with women into an optimization project? For most men, probably none. He'd just go interact with women. The people most likely to continue studying pickup after reaching basic competence would disproportionately be people who enjoy optimization for its own sake: highly competitive people, perfectionists, systematizers, status-driven people, people who want unusually high sexual volume, or people who experience uncertainty as something that needs to be controlled. That's somewhat broader than “high-strung Type A,” because a relaxed but highly analytical systematizer could also become fascinated by it. And I think there's a deeper distinction worth making: Learning flirting is ordinary social development. Turning flirting into an explicit system for maximizing outcomes is a particular psychological response to the problem. Consider other social domains. Most people want friends, but they don't develop friend acquisition systems. They want people to like them, but they don't spend years studying likability optimization. They want enjoyable conversations, but don't maintain spreadsheets of conversational openers. If somebody did those things obsessively, we'd immediately start wondering what psychological need was driving all that machinery. Pickup gets somewhat of a pass because heterosexual male dating presents a genuine asymmetry: men are still more often expected to initiate, rejection is common, and romantic/sexual success can be highly motivating. So some explicit learning makes perfect sense. But once you remove the underlying inhibition and incompetence, continued intensive optimization starts telling you less about what dating objectively requires and more about what the practitioner psychologically requires from dating. That's actually a sharper version of your original claim: And the remaining hardcore practitioners would likely be a psychologically selected population—men unusually interested in mastery, optimization, control, competition, validation, sexual variety, or some combination thereof."

Chorus is the banger

Ok, so where do you want to take it?

An expression of infinity 😂 Dick chop awareness is possible within infinity.

There really isn't much to say aside from learn to be comfortable in your own skin and learn how to play with women. If all men came born with these things, pickup wouldn't exist and it would be seen as a neurotic strategy if it did.

lol, thank you! It's feel good to know someone is there, just in case.

Please intervene if I ever mention wanting to chop my dick off. lol

The Tao that can be spoken is not the Tao. 😂 Holy shit I'm cracking up over here.

Rohypnol 😂

Enlightened at getting laid = seeing getting laid is for the unenlightened. 😂

I'll go first: I can't really spot the model's transitions in my history. I grew up in what the model calls a stage blue family. I went to church every Sunday. I recall from an early age I was the only one asking questions. And I posed serious questions to my elders and they told me to not ask those types of questions. Of course, with my cognition, I couldn't stop asking the questions and I eventually found the answers. Over time I dropped religion altogether and had to keep it a secret. When I look at it, I was the kid asking questions from the start, and my mind was largely operationally the same at 12 as it is now, IME. Then as I got older, empathy came online as a result of maturity. This happens near universally but the model might say that was me going from orange to green.

Men thinking women being playful are "shit testing" them.