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I take zero pictures of myself because I really hate it and I hate looking at them afterwards. But I would like to set up a dating profile because it feels like an easy, low effort way to easy myself into dating overall. You just scroll it once aday, swipe right, and see if anyone responds. I've considered hiring to do a photoshoot with, but it would be weird if all my pictures would be the same outfit, location, right? I think they are supposed to be a bunch of casual, lifestyle pictures: holidays, some social event, a selfie, etc. But I don't have any. So know it feels like I need to live for a year, collecting pictures, just to set up a profile. I would rather ditch the whole idea at that point, I think.

I would like to get into investing, eventually but I as far as I understand, standard investing is pretty corrupt. You just buy whatever stocks you expect to turn more profits, disregarding what kind of company it is and what kind of practices allow them to grow their stock price. By ethical investing I mean investing in companies that align with your values and things that at least don't harm the planet / society. Is it possible to do that and still make money or will it basically be charity at this point? The main challenge I see is that there are very few companies that would meet the criteria and also have publicly traded stocks. Most conscious businesses are smaller companies. Also, when a company goes public, it pretty much always corrupts them and makes them worse, even if it was some good business initially. Are there are some other ethical ways to invest, other than buying company stocks that I am not considering?

This seems to be Leo's opinion as of late. Meditation will not bring any results unless you do it in a hardcore way. Is this referring to the enlightenment specifically or are there literally no benefits from meditating for a short time like this? Like concentration abilities or some other mental benefits. Would there be any positive, long lasting changes to my mind that will lay the foundation for future spiritual work? Or am I better of doing something else?

I see, thanks.

@Leo Gura regarding the protein powders, do you think the same applies to creatine specifically? Would you also stay away from it?

Leo did like 200+ trips and spent thousands of hours on this work in general. No, not everyone would be doing it.

@Schizophonia I see. 22 is not that late. I am 25 and am considering either resuming my studies or going to study something from scratch. But U am not sure if it's worth it. Do you actually enjoy yours? I have a bachelors degree in business administration. I then went on to master studies but quit during the first semester and have been working a corporate job in logistics since (I quit about 3 years ago). Btw, I've just realised that we have the same birthday (unless you lied in your profile). Mine is 06.05.2000

@Sugarcoat I think it's wrong. We don't do it with any other species. You don't come up with a set of norms for how a wolf should act and then judge an actual wolf, in real reality, whether it is wolfy or not. Whatever the wolf does is a wolfy thing to do, by definition.

@Schizophonia really? Do you work and study or just study? Is this your first degree?

Unless your definitions of femininity and masculunity are wrong.

Wow, cool tip, thank you.

@meta_male no, ok, I dont.

@Schizophonia what are you studying?

@something_else yeah, so now I have to have friends to travel with...

@meta_male haha, why so cynical?

@something_else I am in Italy righht now and was in some great places for taking pictures, but dudn't take anay because it felt like a hassle and like it would ruin a moment.

Do you ask random people to take pictures of you? And did you had to practuce posing or whatever before you could take good pictures?

@meta_male unless I find a quicker fix. There should definitely be some cheesy way to get a gf with zero effort.

@Sugarcoat ok, thanks.

How do you take all those? Do you ask strangers?

Lol, no

@Leo Gura thank you.

Why not?

That's literally the whole idea of online dating. No, they will judge me based on how pretty I am 💅