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His videos on survival and his Spiral Dynamics series was his most illuminating content for me, but its like picking out a favorite child. I like most of his stuff.

That CEO goading "just buy an IPhone omegalol" is the drop that broke the camels back for the government it seems.

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It can be. Porn is in the category of technology that gives you a sense of fulfilling a desire without the tangibility of fulfilling that desire in physical reality. Gaming and parasocial relationships are in the same boat as porn in that sense. The danger is wasting your time on things that give you minimal returns. Porn isn't inherently bad however. Personally, I like porn. I think it can be beautiful and artistic when done right. And it feels good. The bigger issue is that people are less social now due to technology, our economy and infrastructure. Car-centric city design isolate people ironically enough for example. Overuse of porn is a symptom of a bigger societal issue IMO on a big-picture scale.

What kind of regulations or laws do you think would be ideal for combating this?

Fit and lean is what girls like, which is great because it is way more achievable than trying to look like gigachad.

Self-improvement is only as good as the degree to which you internalize the concepts. The trick in my experience to counteract backsliding and forgetting stuff is to act on a concept immediately after learning it. Either contemplating/writing down in a journal for theoretical stuff and pure action for more practical stuff. If you've forgotten an idea, then act on it the moment you remember.

To be fair, what are you currently getting from taxation as an American on a purely selfish level? I can see that rich people would theoretically benefit less from extensive welfare because they can already just buy whatever they need regardless.

West-Norway is the most beautiful part of Scandinavia. Fjords and mountains are hard to top <3. I'm considering that to. But practically free housing is very tempting.

Dunno. Worst weather in the world, and I have lived in Britain.

Its funny cuz I'm looking at a private school offering a course in illustration and suddenly the standards for getting in are drown the drain in comparison lol. For the publicly funded school you need a big portfolio, showcase drawing skill within an array of different disciplines while for the private you need to just draw a monkey. I'm still somewhat reeling from the burnout of churning out that portfolio and it has been over a year lol.

I'm worried about boring course work. How much can I get away with doing as little studying as possible?

If you are an artist you probably wouldn't feel the need to ask if you are one. You can become an artist if you want to make art.

War is not a failure of humanity as much has it is a function of surviving conflict in situations of finite resources. Nothing has gone wrong in the sense that humans are built for survival as opposed to happiness. Despite that, we live in one of the most peaceful and prosperous ages in human history. Things are much better than they used to. In large part due to how expensive and destructive war has become since WW1. When war was profitable, barbarity was the norm. People where at constant risk of being invaded, killed, raped and enslaved all the time. Pillaging was normal because it is easier to take from others than it is to produce things yourself. People had to build walls around their villages to keep invaders out or they would risk suddenly being attacked one day. Without serious retaliation, there is no reason for someone else to not attack someone else if it is in their benefit to do so. Hence the monopolization of violence in developed countries. A great example is China and Taiwan. If the US didn't care about Taiwan, it would have been invaded and conquered long ago. Another example is the Russian invasion of Crimea, arguably the last profitable war in human history. Russia could just walk in and plant their flag due to the social engineering of Stalin during his reign, replacing many of the Ukrainians with ethnic Russians in Crimea. A historical example was the Viking age. The viking age effectively ended when the kings of Europe became better at organizing themselves and defending their territory. "Might makes right" is the baseline of survival in nature. There is no getting away from that as long we live in a finite world. Cultural development and financial enmeshment will make countries more peaceful. It is unimaginable now for any of the European countries to go to war with each other despite their colorful history. A large part of why the US provides military security for so many countries besides itself and tries to install democracies everywhere is because political stability is better for peace (oops, I meant commerce and survival). Today our survival encourages peace to a greater degree than ever. Things are gradually moving to greater wholeness politically as our needs become more enmeshed with each other and all out conflict becomes more and more untenable. Then in the far future, we'll divide again in some fashion. Like colonized planets will turn against earth for greater autonomy or something like that.

Lately I've been thinking about why people enroll into higher education nowadays as I'm considering my own path and I've noticed that higher education has basically become an avenue for job security whereas it used to be more purely about knowledge. We need higher education in order to just get a job instead of learning for its own sake because of how employers screen out non-college graduates for jobs that didn't require a degree in the past. But also for the STEM majors that have an obvious career path, like a lawyer or a doctor. How many people who study STEM are in it purely to learn as opposed to getting a high paying job? Higher education has has arguably become about the business of learning instead of the pure pursuit of knowledge. As I understand it, SD stage orange is all about materialism and optimizing conditional relationships (I.E. business), so I wonder if how higher education has become so intertwined with careerism, what does that says about our current culture? As I understand it, higher education has always been a status game, it is just that the business world has co-opted the institution for its own gain more and more and now it is just the world we live in. That and we live in a knowledge based economy. Thoughts?

Lying is a bad basis for relationships. Once you get caught lying, you will forever lose their trust.

Marginalized ethnic demographics tend to be in tow with socioeconomic development. Certain "races" statistically commit more crimes because they are poorer (poverty is the greatest predictor of crime). Eliminating poverty and creating access to more opportunities for growth, like education, will help heal society of its worst neurotic tendencies. This will of course take many years. I believe it is inevitable that things get better with time.

Texting after the fact that you are of the same ilk is going to come off as fishy and manipulative. Of course she'll think you are lying to get into her panties (which you where). The problem is bonding over a lie. Lies lead to bad breakups if discovered. It is exhausting to maintain and just kind of scummy to set people up like that. It is much more enjoyable to have friends who bond with your authentic self. And you don't need a lot a friends, so it is fine if most people are just acquaintances. You should perhaps examine if you hold any limiting beliefs about socialization.

You don't have to believe and subscribe to any one concepts, especially religious ones. People will get mad though if you question the things they believe in. But it is as you say, reincarnation as a religious concept is arbitrary. Reincarnation might have merit in one way or another, but who knows. I believe personally the concept of "sin" has some merit but differently to how religious people treat the idea. It is not a dogma.

That is part of the equation. Putting some skin in the game make people more engaged. That is a major justification for why people charge so much for self-help courses and seminars (it also filters out people who are less motivated to work with you as a coach). The pricing is part of the marketing. It is of course not strictly necessary to get someone else to essentially do the thinking for you, but it is quiet hard actually to be self-driven. You are in a sense paying for the convenience of someone else to take responsibility for your goals (not to mention many people are not aware that they can learn how to change their lives on their own and get sucked in by the marketing).

AI doesn't automate jobs as much as it automates specific tasks (this is true for all forms automation). If your job consists of essentially a single task, then you have good reason to be worried. I don't know about the intricacies of being a data analyst as a job, but as general advice I would ask how can you make yourself more indispensable to your industry? Do you need to acquire new skills in order for that to happen or take on more responsibilities?

There is a distinction between abject violence and sport. The former is all about pressing your advantages and making the fight as unfair as possible in order to win (fighting is an obstacle and not the goal), whereas sport is all about the competition in a fight that is made to be as fair as possible (the competition is the goal). Sport is full of rules and regulation that promote a "fair game" and spectacle, whereas abject violence has no rules and the violence is merely a means to an end. There is a world of difference there. Violent sport is very contained in comparison. There is no greater competition than violence. That is why violent sports are popular. People love competition.

Just be authentic. You like what you like. It doesn't have to mean anything. If you authentically dislike someones art because of their personality, like Kanye's newer albums for example, then that is fair because you are being honest. But that is still a partial perspective and you aren't inherently more correct than someone who does like Kanye's newer albums. Don't dislike art because you think you "should" or blindly adhere to group think. Listen to your heart.

I kind of agree with the notion that proper socialization doesn't drain you. I can talk for hours with my mate and only feel energized from it. But I personally never have felt energized from socializing with a group and I'm also pretty introverted as a person. It might be in part a skill issue. If you are more experienced with socializing, it'll be more effortless.

It is like with Burning Man festival where many attendees dump their trash and litter in the towns in the vicinity despite the "leave no trace" motto.