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How so? What is the difference between selling your body sexually and clocking in to your 9-5 every day?

Social media tends to take a point and exaggerate it a lot. Women have always been valued for their looks. For better or worse, they are the peacocks of our species. The trap of being valued for your looks is basing your long-term survival and happiness on it because looks tend to fade with age.

Definitely, but nowhere to the same extent as with women. It's not as practical to deconstruct male gender roles. Women's roles used to be very stifling and the economy had to expand. Income is still the biggest predictor of long-term dating success/failure (divorces) and I think It is going to stay that way for the foreseeable feature regardless of cultural stereotyping simply because love is an economy of give and take between partners and men simply don't have the same innate features that add to the relationship like women do (beauty primarily).

I believe that conservative governments tend to rule more selfishly, creating policies that have short-term gain but damage a countries long-term prosperity. Often serving corporate interest. That's my idea at least. We have had a draft in Scandinavia for years, but in practice there are enough volunteers that it is rare for anyone to be drafted involuntary. If the UK makes conscription attractive (free college, pay, etc.) then getting the necessary amount of draftees per year shouldn't be a problem. The military prefers their recruits to be motivated and willing. The benefit of mandatory military service is that you have a bigger pool of trained manpower you can call upon in a time of crisis. I see it as a form of insurance. Like making winter preparations during the summer.

Really ironic that Russia justifies the invasion of Ukraine by saying they have nazis over there. Projection perhaps?

Yes. It is better to just not mention it, ever. They are too charged and stigmatized. People have different definitions of what words mean. Perception trumps truth in normal human interactions. People mostly learn of these words through biased sources that use these concepts as an extreme example to make some kind of argument about men or society. And most people just don't care enough to research the topic beyond that. Saying your an Incel is like saying you support seal clubbing.

I think the difference is here is just that a low-status man is worth a lot less to society whereas women are valued for their beauty. I believe another factor is that feminism deconstructed what it meant to be a women compared to before feminism while the same hasn't happened to the same extend to men. To this day, we still largely expect men to be providers, protectors, etc. though the expectation is softening with time I think.

Of course news matters if it directly relates to your life. I'm sure Ukrainians follow the news on their war intently even if they are refugees in another country because their life is shaped by the events that will transpire in the future in a tangible way. The same isn't true for 20-something college kids in relation to relative importance. My problem is really is that it is not the best use of your time to spend so much time and energy debating, fighting and protesting something that is not even your fight. It is unproductive and unlikely to produce anything meaningful. In fact, I think it can very well embitter and radicalize you. All this charged energy. To be clear, I don't think it is wrong to care about a foreign affair but there's a point where the energy you put in is just wasted. The best example of this is the college kids who got a criminal record during the campus occupation fad recently. Hurt their future prospects for nothing really.

@Ramanujan Do you use the free version? Also, can you seemingly insert images into obsidian notes?

Great job. I enjoyed reading how you take responsibility for your mindset and creativity in relation to life situations.

How is it better exactly. I might migrate depending. Is it easy to back-up your data into local files? How do the features compare?

The successful business of selling online courses that teach you how to sell and online course LOL.

These are all people having grievances over something indirect you said or did that they interpret to be about them but not communicating those grievances with you. Telling a fat girl if she wants help to lose weight is the most blatant example here. Of course she is going to be insulted because you are calling her fat in a way that comes of as fat being a problem. The Incel thing sounds to me like she had a very negative preconceived notion of what Incel means, plus pick-up artistry, it is like saying you're a former Nazi to certain people.

They are just more advanced now. Majority of people in elder care, teaching, kindergartens, etc. are women. Majority of people in infrastructure (housing, roads) and security (military, police) are men. Gender roles still exist today in practice but instead of a majority of a male/female population having those tradition roles, a minority specialize into those roles. Instead of all women caring for their kids all day, a minority of the women care for the kids of all the other women as their job. Same with the military and construction workers. You could say it is just an expression of genders expressing a preference for certain industries, but I really think it is just a more advanced version of traditional gender roles, what we have today. It is less rigid, it is more effective as people can specialize and increase productivity, and it is more free as you are no longer strictly defined by your gender. It is just a more advanced version of the previous system. I don't believe traditional gender roles where truly abolished, instead it was upgraded and made better to what we have now (and more obtuse and indirect as well).

Your thinking is too reductive. You can't truly divorce art from its craft because art is defined by its medium. A movie producer and a comic book artist have similarities, as they both work with a linear non-interactive visual medium but they are far from the same. There are huge differences in expertise between a veteran movie maker and a master comic book artist. My main concern with the AI is data theft from small creators, largely for the benefit of big companies. The problem is the legal grey here as data theft is barely a concept legally. And don't be too critical of artists who are upset over losing business over AI. Eventually your job security is going to be threatened by AI and then you'll be upset. Do unto others, etc.

Relative objective truth is one hell of a phrase lol.

News rarely matter to your every day life in a tangible manner. I'm speaking in generalities.

another trap: Being a blind dreamer. Artists tend to have obscure/fringe influences and tastes. This is the trap of having a dream project that doesn't have any value for anyone else. This is where artists go to starve.

You shouldn't be shocked when people don't care about a foreign conflict that doesn't involve them. It can be both. The Yugoslav Wars is a prime example.

If you are not glued to related news you are not going to know any of that. Most people don't have the time to care about foreign affairs that doesn't affect them in a concrete way. The Israel/Palestine conflict is fundamentally no different from any other foreign conflict in relation to how people treat foreign conflicts in general. A war breaks out and it makes the news everywhere, then slowly attention fades until a major update. Meanwhile people are dying but because it is happening hundreds of miles away and is irrelevant to an everyday person's life, they stop thinking about it. The only difference in this case is that Palestine has had years to garner sympathy, but that is it. The news is first and foremost really just entertainment for every day folk. The average person's sphere of influence is generally pretty small. If you think about any particular foreign conflict everyday, then you are not average.

Your totally right. Most people don't vote critically but emotionally, which is usually heavily influenced by their peers (you are the 5 people you spend the most time with, etc.).

Not saying you should vote for Biden. Your vote is your choice, but in politics it is normal and healthy to make compromises for overall positive gain. There will never be an ideal party/candidate that perfectly aligns with your values and vision for society.

The majority of people are too busy with their own little world too care about a war in a remote country. The only difference with this conflict is that Palestine has had years to accrue sympathy, but it is fundamentally no different from any other conflict.

Here are some traps in art in my experience: Being copycat. All artists have something they can trace their inspiration to, often another artist's work. The trap is not developing enough of your own style and becoming just a worse version of someone else. You can become very proficient at copying another artists style but you'll never match their execution due to them inventing it. It is also just very lame. Copycats always lose a ton of respect. Not being passionate about what you make. The trap is not making what you want to make but what you think others want you to make. You should always ask yourself how you can make a project more fun for yourself. Rushing the process. Art needs time to "breath". You need to give a work fresh eyes over and over again. Artists with deadlines need to learn to be consistent and pace themselves. Rushing towards a deadline delivers slop and burns you out (and can harm your health/personal life like in game development). Not studying. Studying and learning art fundamentals will speed up the rate of your growth as an artist. Personally, I don't study nearly enough and miss out on potential growth as an artist. Studying too much. It should be an 80/20 rule. 20% study and even that is arguably too much in my opinion. Getting really good at anything is a numbers game at the end of the day. Too much studying is a waste of time because you need experience to truly integrate a concept into your workflow. You can easily forget things you've studied without continuous practice. Sometimes an new concept can take years for you to truly grasp it. I only truly realized how important quantity is in terms of growing your skill as an artist only after a couple of years after first being hit with the insight. Not accepting money upfront and not having a "no refunds" policy when accepting commissions is a trap. Even if a client flakes, you deserve to be compensated for your time and effort. I might list more if I can come up with more.