Something Funny

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  1. Posted

    @Leo Gura why are you conflating "you need to care about truth to succeed in business and war because you can't afford to have fantasies and illusions about how things are" with seeking truth in a spiritual sense?

    Just because you can see the world in a ruthless / cold analytical way, doesn't mean that you are going to care about existential truths.

    And you say in that same post that most of those men are bullshitters and need to use lies and deceptions to succeed in busienss and war. So I thunk it kind of proves the point that there is very little correlation between the two.

    I actually think that most of those "rational men" would use your language and call the truth you are talking about "airy-fairy fantasies".

    Also, how is a businessman or an engineer guy less distracted from truth seeking than a mother raising children?

    I think it is actually feminine qualities are actually what allows you to care about philosophy and spirituality and such vs just "pure ruthless survival". I know more girls who are into spirituality and esoterics, even if its new agey spirituality than men. And the guys who are into pilosophy and spirituality are also not the most masculine men in general. I don't see hyper masculine men interested in those at all.

    Maybe there is an argument to made that you need a balance of both. Feminine for idealism, intuition, and interest in those finer topics of life and masculine for discipline, being able to deal with discomfort, face the cold truth, etc. As you've mentioned in your second post.

  2. Posted

    On 5/29/2025 at 9:52 AM, AION said:

    You could try it. Perhaps they might accept it and after you KO all of those whipper snappers that might be your ticket to fame. 

    The conversation format is dumb. The time is short and, worst of all, if a bunch of people don't like where the conversation is going (aka one of them is getting owned) they can just vote to stop the convo. I've seen a bunch of those with actually smart people abd they are never able to give a proper answer to complex wuestions because of this format.

  5. Posted · Edited by Something Funny

    @Leo Gura kind of on a similar topic, I've been thinking about how all the spiral dynamics and other "evolution of consciousness/society" models are not rooted in anything physical. We might have a stage green society tomorrow and then some cataclism or political unrest happens (like 95% ai induced unemployement) and society drops down to red in a matter of a year.

    Because none of that development was rooted in anything physical, a stage green brain is not more evolved biologically than a stage red brain. It is all just mental concepts, which are much easier to lose, especially at the societal level, but also on individual level, I think.

    And I think we've been seeing this happen recently.

  6. Posted · Edited by Something Funny

    @Leo Gura like honestly, I think that the biggest problem is just that nobody cares enough to do anything. There is no other explanation for how a person can live 20+ years in a country illegally, while having a family, a full time job, a car, a bank account, etc. It's not like they are secretly living in some underground, hiding from the police. Nobody just did anything about them, even if police would stop them, they probably didn't do anything to deport them.

    I think this is a much bigger factor than just illegal border crossing.

  7. Posted

    3 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

    But they will just do those things through a black market.

    this sounds like an excuse to me, to be honest. The same can be said about taxes. If the government is able to check if your business is paying taxes or if you are paying taxes from renting an apartment, it can't be much harder to do it with checking who you hire for work.

    How many people will be willing to hire someone though a "black market" if there are serious repercussions for it? Maybe if you are sending people off to pick strawberries in a field. Not so much if you are running a restaurant in the middle of the city.

    Similarly, having no bank account and having to rely on cash alone would make living really hard.

    Sure some people will still try to stay and survive no matter what, but I think it will be a much smaller portion of people.

    If you think about it, ICE raids won't prevent thugs and criminals from entering the country, cause what do they have to lose anyway? At worst they will just get deported and get back to the same life they are currently living. ICE raids will discourage people who want to build a serious, stable life in the US, possibly settling legally. All of the above things will do the same thing, just without all the cruelty.

     

  8. Posted

    @Leo Gura to me, the proper solution to the illegal immigration should be:

    - make people not able rent or buy an apartment unless they are able to show that they are in the country legally
    - make people not able to get a job, introduce serious consequences for the employers who break the law
    - make people not able to get a bank account and other basic things like that

    How is it such a problem in the 21st century?

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    @Leo Gura correct me if I am wrong, but the issue people are protesting is that those ice raid are just completely random and even people who live here legally are being detained, or even actually deported in some cases.

    Wouldn't a much better solution be to have police or even ICE (without masks and ARs) stopping people on the streets and asking them to show their documents (residence permit or visa or passport) and then detaining people if they fail to do so and then doing further checks?

    A bunch of masked men with guns doing blind raids seems really fucked up.

    The point about protests being violent and people burning waymo cars sounds really weak to me, because out of thousands of people that are protesting there will always be a few that will take advantage of the situation to start stealing and vandalizing things. They don't even have to be protesters, just literally random thugs taking this opportunity. Or you could even do it intentionally to create a bad image for protestors. It's super easy to sabotage any big enough protest like that. By that logic people shouldn't protest at all.

     

  10. Posted

    7 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

    Yes, I know.

    Sorry, I don't have a reassuring answer for you guys. We are entering unknown-land.

    But be careful with doomerism, as you could blackpill yourself on the future and miss out on good opportunities.

    Technically, nothing worse than what had already happened to humans can't happen. We've already had famines, wars, pandemics, torture.

    People are dying and suffering as is, without AI. So the only difference is that this particular issue might affect me/us personally. Which is kind of fair, why should we be the lucky ones.

  12. Posted

    14 minutes ago, Schizophonia said:

    I meant that use value determine the relationship to objects.
    A carrot or a chicken, even though they are very different by nature, technically a bigger difference that between a human and an animal indeed, have a similar type of use that will condition a weak empathy relationship.
    Vice versa for humans.

    I understand what you mean. I am saying that I am not sure if this is true but regardless, my question is specifucally about anions reasoning.

    In your case, your theory might be factually incorrect (as in this is not how emphathy actually developed) but at least it seems logically sound at first glance.

    His logic is just not logicking, lol.

  14. Posted

    5 minutes ago, AION said:

    @Something Funny I didn’t say I didn’t feel bad for them. It is a necessary evil for survival. Most vegans don’t get how life/survival is for most of mankind. They don’t have access to vitamin pills, blood test, free time and money for expertise nor energy to go on their knees and cry for chickens. Heck even with all these resources, most vegans fail with their diet. The gaslighting has to stop. I’m done with this thread either way . 

    @AIONwhy are you avoiding the question again? Does it hurt to admit that your logic is broken?

  19. Posted

    I've had a cool little win today. I am selling my old bed on an online marketplace, and I've found the buyer. After talking to them for a while and showing them pictures they've tried to negotiate the price down (just by like 10-15 dollars). I was really tempted to agree and be done with it, and really dreaded to say no, but I did. I said no even though it was super scary. Not because of the money but just to push myself out of the comfort zone and stop being such a people pleaser all the time.

    And they've agreed to the original price, lol.

  23. Posted

    https://www.boredpanda.com/human-vs-bird-vision/

    I've read the article about bird vision that Leo has shared and I think it's wrong about birds not being able to see reflections in the mirror. I am pretty sure that at the very least parrots can see reflections in the mirror, which is why they might sometime attack it or try to socialize with the reflection.

    Other sources on the internet seem to agree with me.

     

     

  25. Posted

    The last few days were okay. Not amazingly productive, but I wasn't completely checked out either.

    I was able to maintain a clean and functioning kitchen, at least as far as dishes are concerned.

    I was making myself coffee everyday in the morning since Monday and it feels like a nice cool ritual. One of those classic fancy things that adults do, haha.

    I wasn't able to exercise, aside from riding a bike to work.

    I've finished reading the book and started reading a new one, a novel this time. But I feel like I will need to keep coming back to it, to fully integrate everything.

    A few important insights:

    1. The bike I am currently using is in dire need of maintenance. I have a second one which has a flat tire and which I've been meaning to fix up for the last six months at least. I kept procrastinating on it, and feeling anxious about it until today I've finally fiven myself permission to just go to the service once I get a paycheck in may and get it done there.

    This is actually something I got from the book. I am not currently at the stage where I am able to do it all by myself and it's okay to get help, and I should be able to afford it.

    2. I got inspired and started watching crash course world history a few weeks ago. I actually finished it but then decided to start watching season 2, which is just talking about different concepts like war and disease in the abstract instead of linear history. And I've started feeling a lot of resistance towards it and haven't gotten back to it for at least a week. I was feeling bad about it this entire time, until today at night I've realised that this is just not something I am interested in right now and that's okay, lol

    Now I actually feel motivated again to start watching something else.