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Practicing using your imagination in general is pretty healthy. It certainly has less potential for addiction than porn use. But personally, like I said, I don't think either are unhealthy unless you're doing it so excessively that it interferes with your life.

I mean there's nothing conclusive that says either is dangerous. But logically under no-fap ideology if you're going to subscribe to it, probably porn. At least you're using your imagination for the second one which is healthy. Personally I don't think there's anything wrong with either if they're not so excessive that they're interfering with your life.

Ah, sorry, I misread your original post. In that case yea, something is up. Companies will pull shit like this and then tell you you're not allowed to discuss salary for this exact reason. You should ask for more money.

But they are held accountable legally just by being a parent as far as I know. At least where I live, marriage is more about your shared assets than children.

I mean, that's somewhat of a red flag to begin with. I don't discuss wages with my co-workers, but there is no rule saying we can't. I mean depending on the actual pay difference, a 6 month experience gap could definitely account for it. But if you want to fix this, your only option is to directly ask for a raise and say you feel you are not being payed as much as you should. Maybe do some research on the best ways to ask for a pay raise.

Marriage is likely a dying concept in Western countries anyway. If you think about it, it's kind of a silly concept: "I love you so much I need the government to force us to stay together" Just find someone you like and settle down with them, maybe have some kind of party. But there's no need to actually legally get married. And the idea of girls who want to wait til marriage is also kinda off-putting for many guys. You would need to find a very very needy, or very very religious, man who was willing to wait that long before having sex. Because many men (and woman for that matter) want to know that you are both sexually compatible before you're legally locked in for life.

Just do it. Or send nothing. Both are pretty good options. In your head you need the frame of "it's over with this girl and I don't care, if she makes reasonable effort maybe I'll give her another shot"

The reason is likely that she isn't interested anymore but doesn't want to tell you that directly for whatever reason. Instead of telling you directly that they are not interested a woman may often be somewhat flaky like this. There are good reasons women do this but from a man's POV it's incredibly frustrating. What you do is just end communication politely and finally and move on with your life. There's a small chance that will inspire her to actually put in effort, but realistically you should not care and just move on.

Is it your own fault if you get molested as a kid? I get your point that taking responsibility for your life is a good thing, but it can be a dangerous mindset when taken to extremes. There are plenty of things about your life that are out of your control and are not your fault.

It's really not that surprising at all that people keep making videos like this. There are two reasons: Channels like this (which are really only one step above reaction channels in terms of the value they provide) need to keep making content or their channel will die very quickly. From first impression actualized.org does actually look like a cult. Especially to the major demographics on the internet who have all largely been brought up atheist + anti-religion and have an aneurysm whenever they hear the word God, or anything remotely immaterial. I actually think Leo has created a cult somewhat unintentionally to be honest. It seems a lot of people do take his statements as gospel rather than actually understanding the core message, which is to investigate the nature of truth and reality for yourself. Maybe it would be a good idea to create a video at the top of the actualized.org YT channel that explains what's said in 'The Metamorphosis Of My Work' blog post and title it something along the lines of 'watch this first'. Because a lot of what's explained in that blog post adds valuable context to the other actualized.org spiritual content that, when heard in isolation, can sound very culty.

What if you want to meet new girls? Or what if you are just friends with the girls you already know and don't want anything romantic with them? I agree. However it's possible to do all of these things while talking to new girls you don't already know too.

I'm pretty sure that's the RSD tactic. Make you feel really insecure and bad about yourself and then present their course as the solution. Tyler does this same thing on his YT channel. You don't need these people to get better at dating.

I watched his most popular videos on YouTube and he uses a really scummy sales tactic of making you feel awful about yourself and then aggressively presenting his courses as the solution. Honestly, that alone was enough to turn me off his content. I felt like shit after watching his videos. Compare that to someone like Leo or Charisma on Command where you typically feel motivated/energised after watching their content instead of drained.

Yes he was joking

The most committed homies you could ever find

A lot of people delude themselves that they know how to invest in crypto when really they just got lucky. I don't know if that applies to you, but by default when I see people really excited and overconfident about crypto it raises red flags to me that they got lucky. The fluctuation of crypto is so unpredictable that you can never be that confident if you are also accurately assessing risk. If you have a bunch of money to spare, maybe it's worth putting some on some speculative crypto trade. But unless you are detached enough, and have enough money, you're more likely to become a gambling addict.

That's what the Faraday cage pouch is for. If you want more solid protection I guess you buy a more expensive one. But I'm pretty sure even a grounded metal tin is probably enough to protect an unplugged external drive from a solar flare. Most cloud backup services are probably going to have defenses in place to restore data even after a solar flare anyway.

If it's really important and you want to be excessive I would aim for 3 or 4 copies: One on the PC you use for it day to day One local backup on an external SSD or HDD, store this inside a little Faraday cage pocket you can buy for like £10 online One copy on OneDrive Potentially one copy on some other cloud backup service Something pretty catastrophic would have to happen for you to lose everything if you followed that. You would likely be fine with just one cloud backup service because these services are designed to essentially never lose any data. Chances are if something happened that meant you couldn't ever recover your data from OneDrive you would have bigger problems to worry about than getting your OneNote document back.

Yes, I agree. You can try to make cold approaching at a mall fun but realistically it's always going to be pretty miserable which is a huge part of the problem. You should find things you enjoy doing that also have a lot of women around, then the whole process becomes a lot more natural. Also, there are very few girls who are going to hear that you are cold approaching a hundreds of girls weekly at a shopping mall and think 'yea I want some of that' It's somewhat an indicator of low value to being with.

Cold approach isn't how most people get laid, you should bear that in mind. Most people get laid through social circle, or going out to bars and clubs. If you really want to get laid those are honestly better starting points for you.

I'm sitting around 10 trips and nothing bad yet. Though all on the same substance (acid)

My friend do you not see the irony here? 'They just care more about complaining' – that's complaining I think if a large enough sub-group of people are complaining it indicates that there is likely an issue that needs addressing. A woman only sub-forum seems like a good idea. The only issue would be verifying who is a woman and who isn't, that's kinda tricky. And that sub-fourm would also become a target for trolling.

It’s because you are constantly telling everyone how you’re above them. That makes people butthurt and it also makes them dislike you really really quickly. Can you blame them? Also some of the stuff you said about researching and manipulating ‘females’, especially the part about the sperm donor, makes you sound a bit psychopathic. The impression given off by all of that together is that you do not view women as human beings worthy of respect, but instead tools to manipulate. That is not a good starting point for making a convincing argument to others about the actual human experiences and nature of women, and it’s probably why many aren’t taking you seriously in this thread

Yea, fair enough. I looked into the archetype system you were talking about, I was using terms incorrectly. Re-read my original post and replace warrior-king with 'stage red' since that's roughly what I was wrongly equating it to. I feel my argument still stands if you do that. Sorry, I should not have made assumptions like that. Thank you for pointing out. The main point I wanted to get across was this anyway: You're clearly not neutral and impartial, just look how riled up you get when Tate is criticised. I'm willing to admit I'm quite biased against him – I think it is justified too however. But you are talking about how you are a neutral observer and then getting quite angry that he is being criticised by us soy-boys. You even tried to insult my appearance out of nowhere in your last comment because I dared to write a criticism of your opinions on Tate. That's not impartial, it shows clear passion for Tate. It would be more respectable if you just admitted that and stopped trying to present yourself as some wise stage yellow sage who's just consuming Tate content from a higher level than anyone else.

Yea, well the death of every human on the planet would do that for sure Which could happen if you get your wish. AI is a technology that is possibly well beyond our ability to predict or control and insane acceleration could be very dangerous. It only makes it meaningless if you’re in it for the money. Just because an AI is a better artist than you doesn’t mean you’re no longer allowed to do art. A lot of the professional art that is done in the world is about creating useful assets/images for specific purposes, or that match a decor and aesthetic. And the artists who do this are shit scared because AI is fast replacing them. So they act all high and mighty about how their precious art must be the only thing that we ban AI from replacing, while it’s fine if all the lowly factory workers and programmers are fed to the AI wolves so to speak, lol. But if you create art from your soul because you enjoy it you’ll do that whether there’s AI around or not, and chances are people will still want that art the same way people still want swiss mechanical watches today.