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Currently teaching myself Calculus I with textbooks. Calculus I for Dummies and Calculus I for Dummies Workbook, for those curious.

Man... I wish I could do mathematics. For those following my forum drama for the past year.

@Leo Gura Do you currently speak to anyone in Russian, such as to your family? When you were growing up as a child, teenager, or young adult at home, were you speaking to your family in Russian or English?

So this is from my personal life. During the summer of 2023, I visited Germany. I'm Russian (half Russian-Lebanese. 50/50 split), and the family I was staying with was Ukrainian. This was because my family knew this family very intimately. The family consisted of a great grandmother in her 70's, and grandmother in her 50's, a mother in her 30's, 32 to be exact, and her son who was 6. Due to the war, they had obtained refugee status in Germany. The husband of the 32 year old, who is also 32, was not in Germany, but in Ukraine. It is illegal for men in between the ages of 18 - 60 to leave Ukraine. It used to be 25 - 60, but they're getting desperate. Men are literally getting snatched off the street and thrown into a van to go to war. https://www.reddit.com/r/ActualPublicFreakouts/comments/13ymf5u/odesa_ukraine_women_at_a_bus_stop_laugh_as_a_man/?utm_source=embedv2&utm_medium=post_embed&utm_content=post_title To avoid this, the husband literally hid in his apartment for a total of three years. Only very recently did he pay a human trafficker/people smuggler to illegally take him to Poland, where he made it to Germany. Now back to the family. Before the war, they barely had any money for anything. My family would have to constantly donate to them my old hand-me-downs, as they couldn't afford basic clothing even though they were nurses and doctors. Very recently, I gave the 6 year old boy my old Washington Redskins hat, scarf, and mittens. But the German Government is very generous to refugees, and they [the family] received a generous stipend from the Government. For the first time in their lives, they were able to travel to; Portugal, Spain, and Italy. The poor husband came to his wife and kids, for whom he has not seen for three years, only to discover that the wife wants a divorce. Why? While she was in Italy, she met an Italian man for whom she has been dating. The two elder women of the family are in tears, everyone else is perplexed and angry. It looks like she's going to divorce this poor man that she's been married to since I think aged 22 - 24? IDK. Your thoughts?

@Capital I can definitely empathize with this. I had an overbearing mother for whom I was terrified of, and still am, I feel the fear down to my bones. My Dad was not in the picture and my Mom was dysfunctional. I still bear the pathologies and a poor relationship with women. I've always wondered why do I have Red tendencies and modes of thought. I like to think of it as a mix of poor parenting and treatment for classmates. I went to schools which had a lot of ghetto people, for whom didn't treat me well.

BTW, I'm very certain that Leo was born in Russia and is half Ukrainian. Wonder if he still speaks/understands 🇷🇺.

I don’t.

I need to revise the Life Purpose Course. The problem is that I truly don't know myself or who I am. I deluded myself, imagining that I had strengths that I didn't have. I thought Math and Science was my zone of genius, but it turns out no.

I used to be super pro-Hezbollah and Russia, but then I studied Spiral Dynamics integral and Sociology, which helped pull me out of that poisonous mindset. What ultimately ended that way of thinking for me was the Conscious Politics Series. My family is Shi'ite Muslim (as opposed to Sunni), so they tend to be pro Iran and Hezbollah. I can understand that perspective, but just take a look at it from the man's point of view. He was unfairly separated from his wife and family due to geopolitics for which he has no control of, forced to bunker down in his apartment like some sort of neckbeard hermit for almost three years now. He was probably missing his wife and kids, and now he has to deal with this new level of emotional pain. This is a problem for men who go off to war. Whether or not their wives will be faithful is usually not guaranteed. While thousands of men are sitting in some trench, the women are off in Europe somewhere living their best lives.

Don’t know the specific details.

Do you dislike humans in general?

I do wonder if the creation of Taiwan as an independent country was a mistake. The Nationalists clearly lost, though not officially. Virtually no countries recognize Taiwan. But at the same time, while it is easy for me to judge American foreign policy, imagine if America hadn’t intervened in Korea? How was America at the time supposed to know that China was going to become this big manufacturing powerhouse?

It's very fascinating to see people on the lower end of the IQ scale, and how they operate in society. Their lives are dedicated to satisfying the reptilian part of their brain with pleasure, getting revenge on their enemies, etc... No sense of higher life purpose, or even any religious intuition. I've encountered a lot of shady people whilst attending High School, particularly the kids from Baltimore (City). As well as my College is located in Baltimore County, so I've seen my fare share of shady people. For some people, negotiations, dialogue, and compromise doesn't ~register~ in their minds, and they tilt their heads like confused dogs. Violence is the only understandable language. This would explain why so many countries have such brutal dictatorships. Or are governed by strict Shariah code/law, or tribal code, such as in the case of Afghanistan. But the real challenge is introspecting, and seeing in the many ways in which I personally act like these people. All the people I obsess about getting revenge on, all the times I just pig out on pleasures, my intense desires for carnal pleasures, my judgements, hatred, and demonizations of others, all the lies that I tell to others and myself, and all the delusional beliefs I cary. If it weren't for Actualized.org, parenting, and education, I would be just like them.

https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/1hkr4av/russian_elite_army_demonstrates_peak_physical/ https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/1hfzb2k/elderly_russian_soldiers_struggling_to_insert/ https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/14ojv68/captured_russians_and_their_historical_artifacts/ https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/1e8ga2d/trophy_russian_weapons_from_a_frontline/

This soldier in the video below has the right idea.

Yeah, but most of the videos I see one Reddit and Telegram are of a single drone chasing down a single guy for whom most of the time doesn't even shoot back. Or if he does shoot back with his outdated Kalashnikov, he misses all of the shots. https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/1fd2ewu/russian_soldiers_fail_to_down_drone_so_one_throws/

Merry Christmas!

I have a serious and genuine question regarding drone warfare, and this is, can't you just use shotguns (to combat the drones) and render the drones obsolete? Like... If a soldier in Ukraine see's a drone flying at them that's rigged to blow, couldn't that soldier just get their dad's shotgun from the basement and go duck hunting? Why doesn't every battalion have at least one guy with a shotgun?

@Leo Gura That is precisely what I meant. After the Chinese civil war, the Nationalist Kuomintang retreated to Taiwan. Mao wanted to invade the Island, but couldn’t as the U.S. Navy was placed strategically in between the body of water between the mainland and Taiwan. Also Mao had to deal with the Korean War, so manpower how to be directed towards that theater.

This movie is a masterpiece, what are you talking about?

In all do seriousness, the creation of Taiwan was a case of American geopolitical interference which should have never happened. Mao wanted to conquer Taiwan but the U.S. Navy interfered and president Truman threatened to nuke China.

Classic video. I liked Leo's videos on Red and Purple much better than I did; Blue, Orange, Green, and Yellow, because I feel as if the Red and Purple videos were more objective and true to the Spiral Dynamics book and what the Social Psychologists who wrote it intended. Whereas the videos on Blue, Orange, Green, and Yellow were too filtered through Leo and his spin on it, as well as resorted to 'stereotyping' the codes in very simplistic ways, and thus, the essence of Blue, Orange, Green, and Yellow were lost in those videos. But hey, that's just my subjective critique of the Actualized.org SDi video series.