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I'd recommend checking out the reddit r/leaves, one of the most supportive communities I've encountered and a lot of people are struggling to improve their lives and give up the crutch of weed. Your life may not be perfect but it can get better, and what's the alternative? Things suck they can only get better!

Did you sign up? There's never any "perfect decision" but nothing gets done on the couch. The cost should make it that much more urgent to get your moneys worth, and actually build the damn house. I'm interested in natural building as well tons of great youtube videos out there you should think about documenting your journey maybe you'll make that 1150$ back in ad revenue.

Long hair don't care? I don't think it's a universal thing for all wise men but I assume "not giving a fuck" might factor a role.

Anyone else making AI generated videos? I've used runway ML in the past and they had pretty good results But found a good free work around started using pika labs to animate images made with fooocus (using google collab) and making songs with suno.ai . Making a lot of jar jar binks content - gotten down a bit of a rabit hole want to make an online store for a fake presidential campaign jarjar2024.com - might be worth mentioning to a therapist

Given how we have only the illusion of choice between two shit candidates for 2024 US election would you write in jar jar binks for president instead of not voting? AI generated jar jar could be better than the senior citizen contest.

The best way to learn sales is through repetitions but it helps to have a strong theoretical background of basic psychology when it comes to being effective. Zig Ziggler has some good books, more modern Alex Hormozi seems to have some good content. It all starts with you - do you believe in the product, are you feeling confident that what you're selling is a good value proposition to the client? If not it will be harder. For in person sales you need to convince people that you believe in the product and then convincee them. Generallly before you "pitch" a prospect it's helpful to know who you're talking to, establish a raport and identify if they are an "upside" or "downside" (offense/defense) Jordan Belfort has the "straight line" technique (free on his YT, despite being an ex-con the guy knows how to sell) You take one of two approaches depending on the customers mentality (offense/vs. defense) for offense people you sell the upside (its going to be great! provide value!) and to sell to defense you want to talk them out of their negative loop "Its going to save money, prevent problems, avoid problems in future..." Getting a "feel" for who you're talking to, wanting to actually help the person as opposed to view them as some number, trying to get as many "pitches" in (to maximize odds - see the law of averaes) and just putting in the reps and you'll improve over time. Good luck my friend

I'm really enjoying using Fooocus with google collab (it's free - limited by google collab's GPU usage requirements, you can also run locally) Been really digging that + runway ML and lately got into suno.ai to make AI music videos... planning my next one on jar jar binks fan fic lol I love me some jar jar

In addition to the good advice on incremental increasing of movement, exercise practices etc. you have to focus on your mindset. Having a negative mentality is going to make everything difficult. Your pain, body image etc. are dragging you down and if possible you have to reframe that to something along the lines of "I'm alive, I'm capable and looking forward to my future body where I feel better" as opposed to "I'm tired, I feel like crap, I hate my body." This shit's not easy, it takes work. You just have to try and motivate yourself with a positive vision of the future and incrementally reward yourself for progress instead of punishing yourself for lack of perfection.

I think the first step is education. Depending on your level of interest in scientific research. I'd recommend Dr. Lustig's recent episdoe on the Huberman Lab, Dr Jason Fung's book "the obesity code." As far as practical steps if you are struggling "going cold turkey" Prioritize getting carbs (and sugars) first and foremost from fruit and vegetables. The most egregious sources to cut first are sugary drinks (including fruit juice!) and ultra processed foods. If all you did was swap out the "crap" and replace it with lesss processed/whole foods you'd be taking a very important step. Lowering your insulin resistance/sugar addiction slowly over time is going to be much healthier than trying to go cold turkey. Helpful resource https://ecuphysicians.ecu.edu/wp-content/pv-uploads/sites/78/2021/07/NOVA-Classification-Reference-Sheet.pdf

Look there's nothing "gay" or "Bi" about having anal sex with other men. Don't be so suburban!

I liken the notion of "spiritual bypass" (wanting to "skip ahead" regular life to focus on enlightenment) to be like wanting to fast forward a movie to find out what the ending is. You're missing the whole point. Think of this kind of angst/dissatisfaction you're feeling to be like fertile soil to grow into the person you want to be. You have to be the author of your own life. If you're dissatisfied with your surroundings try to come up with something that would excite you. Use your youth to your advantage maybe go on like a long hiking trip and figure out more about yourself. Don't try to hide from the world sitting in a monastery, plenty of time to do that later if that's what you really want out of life. You gotta have a stable foundation on which to live before you delve into the murky waters of infinity.

Be careful what you believe, it may end up coming true (good or bad) Don't let the temporary pain balloon into longterm downfall. Accept death to embrace life. Self discipline, self acceptance and self love are all interconnected. You don't have to listen to other people's POV, self help books etc... it's your life to live. You are the master of your fate. It's your life to win or your life to fuck up... don't blame anyone for the results you didn't get for the work you didn't do. Do the shit you don't want to in order to accomplish the shit you really want to. Have fun, laugh, you're going to die sooner than you'd like so you might as well have fun.

I was 20 years old and had to get a colonoscopy because my ass was bleeding from wiping. Fricking embarassing, used to think that wiping my ass was proof that god was unjust In order to solve the digestion issue you gotta eat enough fiber, don't eat too close to bed (especially meat), get enough exercise, don't overeat and thoroughly clean your ass in the shower (shampoo & conditioner good for hair). Highly recommend getting a bidet attachment for the toilet as well, cheap and easy to install. Recently bought a showerhead extension on amazon (one with the fancy filter only 20-30$) and use that to target the crack. Good luck my friend!

I think so. At least that's what the mushrooms told me The thing about "god" "universe" talk is that a lot is lost in translation into communicated language. Leo does a good job of it compared to most but plenty of people bastardize these ideas into poorly composed word salads that probably do more harm than good.

Israel is a western democracy, albeit a flawed one. Can't deny it's pretty sketchy the way Netanyahu has "won" the election. The 20% arab citizens have full voting rights, are in gov't etc. The Palestinians who are not official citizens do not because they are descendent of former Jordanians who lost the 6 day war. There have been many good faith attempts at solving the problem but religious extremists on both sides have fucked it up, but objectively Israel has attempted to offer 2-state and been denied. If only reality were as simple as "right and wrong" but it's messy and complicated. Oh well whatever everyone's entitled to think what they want. Jews are .2% global population but we are overrepresented in banking, nobel prize winners and Hollywood. The idea that it's some sort of "evil gene" is ridiculous. There is a network effect of "wanting to help our own" but a lot of cultures do that. Nobody complains that the Koreans have a disproportionately high % of delis and small businesses. We place insanely high standards on our kids to study and succeed, the same way Indians and Nigerians immigrants in America do - who are also equally successful stastically. Who would have thought that encouraging kids to study, network, work hard and sacrifice had good results?