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    7 hours ago, JosephKnecht said:

    Dude, you are missing the true meaning of a PhD. 

    When I tell people I have a PhD, it means a pretty huge dick. 

    Yeah, but he didn't specify what type of academic study.

    4 Hours of his videos are worth 2 years in kindergarten. It adds up. 

     

     

    Yes using that comparison a couple of Leo videos is basically richer than your entire k-12 education. 

     

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    15 minutes ago, Salvijus said:

    I reckon from the view point of the right, the woman is seen responsible for her death because she antagonized the officer and than drove recklessly towards him in a semi dangerous way which gave him a semi valid reason to shoot. You could argue that the officer's actions were overboard and that he should face consequences. But it's hard to sympathize with someone who was dancing striptease on that barrel of a gun for no good reason. Like really. Wtf was she doing there pissing them off? What was she trying to achieve there? Idk, I don't have the full picture understanding here myself. 

    I mean by that standard there's hoards of people doing similar already via the protests and generally being disruptive to their operations. 

    On the one hand it's admirable that they are standing up for their values.

    On the other hand it's very reckless. People seem to be forgetting that the ICE guys have guns.

    Mocking them to their face and getting confrontational is not something I would do to somebody with low emotional and intellectual intelligence, poor training, very low epistemic and moral standard.

    If anything, I'd avoid them to the best of my ability. Comply and minimize my interactions with them as best as possible to avoid any "accidents" on their end.

    Always assume risk around stupid people. 

     

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    Personally my relentless striving and psychotic drive has dissipated.

    I cannot do it any more.

    The best way I have found is to do a simple relatively high paying job.

    Or something you are really passionate about.

    I don't think meditating endlessly will cut it for most people. 

    You have to take some degree of action. Not just do vipasanna in your bedroom.

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    6 hours ago, Alexop said:

    @Miguel1 almost all people who travel. Sheep level conformity. Even the german Stage Green style of travel. They have to check all the fancy hipstery experiences. Volunteer in Gambia, meditation in India, Ayahuasca in Peru, see northern lights in Sweden, teach English in Laos. Then after you flew everywhere around the globe on your parents money, protesting against climate change and feeling sorry for poor people.

    Guilty.

    You won't take away van life from me though, or my tiny home dream!

  16. Posted · Edited by PenguinPablo

    @mmKay Have fun with Arch Linux!

    XFCE version almost comes with nothing. 

    But the KDE Plasma version is prettier.

    You even have to install the Wi-Fi software.

    Currently I use XFCE Ubuntu as it's very lightweight and was easy to install dual boot with Windows 10 since I need it for school.

    But before this I was using Arch.

    But I've used Mint, Fedora, Ubuntu, and Arch. Was going to try Pop OS but can't figure out how to install the boot loader for dual boot without it doing it for me. 

    And I agree that level of freedom is basically mind expanding. An exercise in non conformity and what you can get when go off the script 

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    @enchanted Even people at the top of the health care pyramid scheme such as multi-millionaire surgeons know it's broken.

    But that's unfortunately the easiest way to survive in this world.

    You have to be a real badass, super star I think to break away from hive / collective.

    Such that you are too badass to ignore so you are celebrated. 

    Like Eminem breaking into rap as a white guy. Didn't happen like that before him.

    Or Leo Gura of Actualized.org

    Up to you but it's definitely a pattern.

    Even the doctors that make it big breaking away from traditional medical paradigm went through medical school and so on... 

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    @Leo Gura The most insane part is that Tyler Durden from Fight Club is a plot device warning against the alpha male front as a defense mechanism against lack of meaning in a man's life. The book is written by an actual gay dude that can see through that facade clear as day. And yet a whole industry was born from that. The irony.

    Personally I would love to lean into the appreciation of intellect over everything else. 

    Anything less than that is a distraction imo and that is very costly.

  22. Posted

    Given that you have a "degree" to fall back on and some CAD skills I think it is reasonable to assume you can get a more "tolerable" job.

    Something less mind-numbing?

    I don't recommend pushing hard or leaning into something you clearly have an aversion to.

    But it will be much harder also if income and survival become a problem. 

    So maybe consider an "okay" job that you don't absolutely hate.

    That's what I would do... personally if I were in a similar situation.