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I dunno, I think it's about as good as you can expect. If you look at the Discord servers of people like Destiny or Vaush, I would say there's a lot of overlap and similarity in terms of users between their communities and this one... intelligence levels, level of agency, morals/ethics, etc. just minus the spirituality part. But those places are a lot more toxic and full of drama than here, up to and including things like grooming and sexual harassment in DMs. It's never going to be like an in-person retreat or event, because there's no risk of getting slapped in the face for your bad takes . But going to some spiritual retreat has its own problems of inauthenticity. Everybody's trying to show how spiritual they are and 1-up each other, hiding all their flaws, anger, etc. Those kinds of communities remind me of the drama in church when I was a kid. The adults are all super nice and polite to each other's faces, but then as a kid you see all the gossiping, accusing, attacking each other, and finger pointing is still going on behind their backs. Everybody's seen that super positive new age lady who's clearly brimming with rage under the hood and a moment away from exploding. The positivity almost transforms into a condescending passive-aggressive attack. I'd rather have a little bit of toxicity if it means everybody is being more authentic and upfront, instead of being around a bunch of neurotic fake people.

Right now, humans input text descriptions and the AI generates images from them. It's not a huge leap to get to the point where the AI starts generating the text prompts itself. We have AI writers, we have AI artists, just link them together. Then it requires no human input, it's a totally self-contained system. We just sit back and watch the machine dream reality into existence. Thousands of images and full-length novels per second just scrolling past, as fast as the hardware will allow it to go. It's almost funny, the guy in the video saying he'll be a part of this revolution in whatever way he can. He's going to be totally obsolete faster than he can realize. There's going to be so much content you won't even be able to sell it. It'll be like trying to sell one grain of sand to someone sitting on a beach.

I haven't looked into it myself, but you can look into digestive enzymes. They're sold as a supplement in pill form. You probably want something with protease to break down protein, lipase to digest fat, amylase to break down carbs. If you're doing a keto diet you can probably skip the amylase. In terms of technique, just chewing more should make all foods easier to digest. Besides breaking the food into smaller pieces, the saliva starts to digest the food even before it reaches your stomach. If you're a fast eater, try to get into the habit of chewing each mouthful 40 - 50 times, especially for tough stuff like steak or nuts. You could blend your eggs or meat but I'd find that pretty disgusting and would remove the enjoyment of eating for me. But a compromise might be eating something like ground beef or pork instead of steak or pork chops. Probably look into probiotics as well.

I couldn't come up with a valid ethical reason to circumcize my kid, so he's not. My only real argument for it is purely aesthetics. I like it and think it looks better. But if I hadn't been circimcized then I'm sure I'd be fine with it. And I doubt I'd go through the pain to voluntarily have it done later in life. The odds that you'll have a medical condition that requires removing your foreskin later, is about the same odds as having your circimcision botched and ending up with a messed up penis when nothing was wrong with you in the first place. So it's a wash. To me it's like arguing to remove the appendix of all babies because 5% will get appendicitis in their lifetime. Just wait and deal with those cases when they come up later in life.

Just get a part-time job. Not everyone is meant to run their own business, and there's several red flags in your post that I think indicate it's not right for you, at least at this point in your life. If you get a job, you can work 25 hours a week at $10/hour and make $1,000/month. It's not prestigious or sexy but it's guaranteed money. It's the most solid income you can make in a short time. It's unlikely that you're going to make a YouTube channel and have your first $1,000 month in the next year. I've been putting out YT videos and podcast episodes 2x a week since February with good SEO and I've made $0 and less than 50 subscribers, actually down about -$200 in hosting fees and all the time I could've put into something else. If money is most important to you then don't get too clever and try to create your perfect job. 6 months is barely enough time to get the ball rolling on a life purpose aligned career. Just do what's obvious, easy, and guaranteed. If you don't think you could work at McDonalds for 60 hours a week, then the odds you'll actually motivate yourself to put 60 hours a week into freelancing or content creation is slim. You have your whole life to live your life purpose. Just pay your dues and get money sorted out first for now, even if it's not glamorous or romantic.

I'm skeptical about this because people like Mike Tyson and Aaron Rodgers have all the wealth, fame and whatever else they could desire. Self actualization and looking for more meaning and purpose is about the only thing left for them to try and accomplish in their lives. For the vast majority of people living paycheque to paycheque, with toxic friends and family, I don't think they have the luxury for a spiritual awakening en masse any time soon. The good news is that more people than ever are middle to upper class and have the luxury of time and energy to devote to spiritual works. But we are still the vast minority.

It's a 1-way trip, I don't think you really want to try it to find out. Isn't ego death enough? Only person I've specifically heard mention or claim it is Sadhguru. He says he has to keep his hair long, wear copper jewelry, etc to keep him tethered to his body. If you reach a high enough level it sounds like it'll almost start to happen spontaneously.

Start off by trading your tabs for bookmarks. A bookmark is basically like a tab that you can recall at an instant. But unlike open tabs, they aren't actively doing anything. Open tabs each take up some RAM and slow your computer down overall. I would start by having a "temporary bookmarks" folder where you bookmark any tab you think you might want to refer back to in the future. Then at the end of the month, do an audit and honestly ask yourself whether you've clicked each link within the past month, if you think you might click it in the next month, or if it's safe to just delete it from your bookmarks and forget about. The bookmarks that you use most frequently (let's say Top 5) can go directly on your bookmarks bar. Everything other bookmark that's important to keep long-term but you only occasionally refer to, you should sort into more manageable folders, so you don't just have an unsorted list of 200 bookmarks. Example of my bookmark bar: My Youtube subscriptions page | Facebook | My city's Reddit page sorted by New | 2 other sites I always check first thing when I open my browser | (Be sure to rename your bookmarks so they make sense and you can tell what they are right away, don't just accept the default page title suggested) Then I've got several folders on the bookmarks bar that each have several bookmarks within them: "Website admin" folder with a link to the login page for every website I own, my ad platform dashboard, my amazon affiliates logins. Within my "Website admin" folder I have 2 subfolders: "Images" with links to royalty-free image sites like Pixabay, Unsplash, Pexels, Canva, etc. so I can easily source images. And "SEO" with links to a bunch of SEO tools and articles. Next I have a "Crypto" folder with links to various charting websites, exchange websites, opensea, etc. Then I have a folder for each of several of my main writing clients, full of links to style guides, outlines and templates, editorial calendars, etc. "Game Dev" folder with links to various online courses, tools, assets, etc. "Job sites" folder with links to all the job boards and other resources I'd go through if I wanted to find more work. Then after all my bookmark folders, I've got maybe up to 10 - 15 miscellaneous bookmarks that aren't categorized anywhere that I'm using in the short-term but will eventually delete, like USPS parcel tracking links, stuff I'm thinking about buying, maybe a few things I'll check out in the future that I don't have time for in the moment, but try not to let it get out of hand. Also I installed a separate browser (Brave) to use exclusively for all my podcast stuff... my podcast host, podcast email, podcast youtube channel and other channels, my podcast reddit account, twitter, and all the links to research I'm doing for future episodes. That way it's like a whole separate identity for myself and I don't need to constantly log in and out between personal and business accounts, I just open a whole separate browser where I'm already logged in separately to all of those services.

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A problem with plastic bottles isn't just the environment, it's also that you're probably drinking microplastics. So if you use a plastic water filter pitcher, you're still getting plastic in your water. I think the generally accepted statistic is that a normal person can be ingesting a credit card's worth of plastic per week. You said you can't spend thousands, but if you're okay spending $200 - $300 then I'd consider reverse osmosis that goes under your sink and hooks straight up to the tap. Then get some glass bottles to store the water in the fridge and drink from around the house. I buy Voss brand sparkling water that comes in a 800ml glass bottle, and then keep the bottle and refill it to store my water in. I have 2 or 3 glass bottles of water in the fridge at a time and just cycle through them and refill them. Maybe every 6 months or so when the bottles start to get a bit gross or worn then I buy another 2-3 bottles to replace them. Nothing special about the bottle, it's just cheaper to buy a $3 - 4 bottle of sparkling water and re-use the bottle, compared to what you'd pay on Amazon for a similar glass bottle. You could do the same thing with San Pellegrino glass bottles as long as the caps don't rust or leak when you lay the bottles on their side, I haven't tried them. Glass is heavy and difficult to carry to work or class, so you might want a plastic bottle still when you leave the house. But if you drink filtered water from glass while you're at home it's still better than not at all.

If you respect her and think that she's a reasonably rational and stable person, then the high integrity thing to do is just to tell her the truth. You can soften the blow and say you're too busy with work, or outright lie and say you're moving to another city several hours away (as long as she won't catch you in a lie in the future.) But it sounds like you might be dealing with someone very lonely who has no other friends. In which case, there's a small chance that when you try to break things off, she could start to manifest clingy stalkerish behavior. In that case there is nothing to gain by telling her you don't want to be her friend, or that you don't enjoy being around her. All she will do is get defensive and angry and try to beg and justify and guilt you about why you should hang out with her. If you think there's any risk of her trying to cling on and convince you to keep being her friend, then just keep flaking, keep ghosting her, until eventually she stops. Make sure you're not leading her on and giving her any kind of hope. Don't give any excuses. Eg. saying you're busy but maybe at some later point in the future. Just don't reply at all. Don't tell her you'll reach out in the future, nothing. Just let the relationship slowly fade away and die. In life, you'll almost never regret not saying something. There's like four times when that's not true, and you'll know it. So don't say something.

Full orange baybee I've been through a solid green phase at least twice in my life. First time around when the first Zeitgeist documentary came out, dreaming about a resource-based economy where everyone has everything they need, occupy wall street, opposing George Bush and the Iraq war, raw till 4 and fruitarian diets, wanted to go live on a commune, etc. I'd like to think I went past it to stage yellow and now I can see the good and bad of both, just with a personal preference for orange over green. But that's probably a massive cope. More likely I got so triggered that I had a massive ego backlash and got slingshot back into solid orange. I undoubtedly have a lot more green stuff to work through but god damn it's so triggering. I can't open myself up to empathy and compassion because I can tell it's going to be like a floodgate opening if I do. Maybe a tinge of blue, something keeps pulling me toward organized religion for some reason, if only for the memes.

I relate very strongly to this. And I would love to tell you that you can just go to therapy and fix it, or that there's some magic solution that makes you happy to re-integrate into society. But in my own case it seems to only keep getting worse over time. At the same time, like you say, there is some desire for relationships and friendship there, but you're looking for such a specific type of person that I've largely decided it's worth more trouble than trying to find it. You're still young with a lot of life to live. It may be best to just accept that you're a misanthrope and begin to plan your life around it. Otherwise if you try to play the games of society you're just going to be miserable. It's better to just find a way to go off and do things on your own as much as possible. Not sure what you're studying in school, but you should start looking for a job in that field or pivoting to something with the least amount of human interaction. Of course the less you have to deal with people, the worse it gets. It makes you even more sensitive to the bullshit when you do have to deal with it. But there's no promise that staying in society it won't continue to get worse anyway. It got steadily worse for me while I was integrated in society and working in an office every day, going out with coworkers and doing normie stuff, until I decided to finally opt out. I think in many ways it's just a symptom of getting older for a certain subset of people. You become more cynical, jaded, distrustful. You've seen it all and not amused by the low quality stuff that society has to offer any more. That's why there's a stereotype of boomers just wanting to be left alone to mow their lawn and grill.

Safest way to dethaw meat is in the fridge, but depending how thick it is, I find it can take a day or two. So it's only useful if you can plan that far ahead. If you have a normal immune system then thawing in the sink and using it within a couple hours is probably not very risky. I wouldn't refreeze any meat that's been fully thawed. Not because of bacteria or anything, but because it will ruin the texture. A bunch of cells will rupture again when they're frozen, and you'll lose a lot of moisture. You can try thawing it under running water for a couple minutes, just enough that you can separate off the pieces you need, and then refreeze the rest before it fully thaws. Smoked salmon will last 1-2 weeks in the fridge though, so unless you're buying a huge pack you should just be able to eat all of it in that amount of time.

Lean into it and embrace your weakness. Make how bad at math you are into a joke. I'll intentionally add super easy numbers together incorrectly, like I'll be talking to someone and have to add 12 + 3 together on the spot and say 17. I find self-amusement in it because half the time even my wife can't tell if I'm serious or actually that dumb. It provides cover for the times I'm legitimately trying to add larger numbers in my head and mess it up. Turn how dumb you are into meta-irony. At the end of the day, I've never had to add/subtract/multiply/divide a number on the spot that was of any significance. A day later it doesn't matter if I said 17 or 15. Most of the time you're doing math in a conversation you're just bullshitting and making estimates that don't mean anything anyway. Justify how bad you are at math, by rationalizing how useless math is to most people in everyday life. We all carry a phone with a calculator around in our pockets 24/7. If there is any important math you need to do, you can just use a calculator. The important thing is knowing the principles behind the math and how to apply them, not how to manually do math in your head. Admittedly I've become so reliant on calculators that it's a struggle to remember my 7, 8, 9+ multiplication tables off the top of my head, and I don't care. It's useless information and I'm smart in plenty of other non-math ways. I always use a calculator 100% of the time for anything I want an exact answer for, just to remove any possible human error. I have a degree in accounting and I worked in accounting for several years. And I'd have to stop and think for a second to tell you what 7 x 8 is. Let that sink in for a bit and recontextualize intelligence and the importance of math, or what areas of math are important. Similarly I write for a living and off the top of my head I couldn't give you an example of a verb or adjective. I intuitively know how to use them, I don't need to know the theory behind them, or be able to define or categorize them. There's probably plenty of things in the world that you already find beautiful without any effort. Why not focus on those instead of trying to force an appreciation for something that doesn't come naturally? Chess looks super interesting to me, and I would feel really smart and accomplished if I could get a good chess ELO. But I've tried multiple times in the past and I just can't wrap my head around it. So I can appreciate that it takes a lot of skill and there is probably beauty in a skillful chess match, but I just leave it alone and find something else to focus on because it's not for me. Could I learn to be good at chess? Yes but it would probably take me 10x more effort than someone with a natural inclination for it, and I would hate it after a while, so what's the point? There isn't enough time in a lifetime to get good at everything, so it's probably better to focus on stuff that comes naturally to you.

Over time I feel like my life purpose is leeching out into other areas, or like little tendrils are reaching out and testing the waters in other areas to see if they're viable, before I commit to the next big leap. I think it's fine as long as you don't spread yourself too thin. Fundamentally my life purpose is still the same, but I've found ways to expand it into other mediums and broaden it. I've written non-fiction, fiction, created a podcast, made a webcomic. I'm working on a music album and planning to create a standup comedy routine before the end of the year, and a video game in the next couple of years. It sounds like a bunch of disjointed things that don't relate to each other. But if I think about it, the same life purpose is driving all of it at the core, they all scratch the same itch, and the outcome I want from all of them is the same. It doesn't have to be about money or a career. I feel like I've got, as you put it, "the bills and a little left over" figured out, and in many cases I find myself doing more and more just for contribution, freedom, creativity. Creativity has never been one of my top 3 values, but I think it has to be moved up when I re-do the LP course again at the end of this year. All of this also doesn't include a bunch of hobbies that don't actually relate to my LP.

If you're a true entrepreneur then it's not about hard or easy, it's in your blood, you have to do it regardless of circumstances. You only get real fulfillment and a sense of purpose from the hustle. The groups affected by economic inequality are going to have a hard time no matter what country they're in. And it tends to be similar groups regardless of country. That alone isn't enough of a reason for me to think entrepreneurship is more difficult in America, because it's not a uniquely American problem. The US is still a great place to start a business... in terms of taxes, regulations and licensing requirements, enforcement/penalties, and many other aspects. All else being equal... it's probably still easier to start a business if you're poor in America than in other 1st world countries. Entrepreneurs make it work and create their own opportunity. Look at this guy: Would I do an interview with Vice and broadcast to the ATF that I'm making $20k a month selling alcohol without a license? No. But what is a drug dealer if not an entrepreneur? It's all just a risk-benefit analysis to decide if it's worth it to you. If you have no other opportunity, then making $200k/year for a few years and going to prison for a year once you inevitably get caught might seem like a good deal. Most entrepreneurs start off a little shady, doing stuff in their basement or spare bedroom to save money at first. Entrepreneurs are experts at finding and exploiting openings... whether that's an arbitrage opportunity, a void where some product or service isn't being provided, or whatever. Sometimes totally legally, sometimes grey area loopholes, sometimes illegal. In the US I would say the biggest downside is the cost of living. Of course, cost of living can vary dramatically... you can pay $3k to live in a closet in New York, or $600 for a decent 1 bedroom apartment in Montana. Each comes with pros and cons though, a lot more potential customers in NY, people willing to pay higher prices, so maybe it balances out. But if you want to rent a storefront in NYC you're looking at like $10k/month so I don't see how someone new could possibly make it work, but that's a very specific situation. Here's what I will say... it's becoming increasingly difficult to have a competitive mediocre business. If you want to just open another average pizza restaurant, good luck. But if you master your craft and make authentic Neapolitan pizzas with 00 flour, organic buffalo mozzarella, san marzano tomatoes harvested and canned at peak ripeness in Italy, and even water imported from Italy to make your dough... you're going to have no problem standing out and competing against Dominos and Little Caesars. The same goes for making average jewelry, soap, and most other things... you're competing against a million other housewives on Etsy. You need to really stand out. You can't find huge success just making a standard commodity any more. Your product has to be one-of-a-kind. If you want to be a plumber, why is someone going to call you instead of going with a national brand like Mr Rooter where there's an established reputation and level of service? With so many businesses and jobs that can now be done remotely, the idea of hard or easy is almost irrelevant though. Unless you're providing something like food or a repair service that can only be done locally, you're competing globally by default. The good news is that once you're competing on a global scale, I've found there is basically infinite abundance. But I won't get into the weird law of attraction stuff.

Thanks for everything, even the beatings. It couldn't have been any other way. I'll still be first in line to buy the next course. Much love

Fresh ripe watermelon. Cold, hydrating, sweet. After experimenting with the idea of Ayurvedic doshas, I've found there seems to be something to it. I'm predominantly pitta dosha and eating cooling foods really balances me out, and quenches the fire burning inside of me, proverbially speaking.

If you're a nympho and masturbate 5+ times a day you might as well do it on stream and get paid for it I guess. For guys I don't think there's much opportunity. Omegle is filled with all the free live dicks anyone could want. And most women don't want to get off to just pure visuals. But there seems to be no saturation point to OnlyFans or streams for women. For male prostitutes I believe the vast majority are "gay for pay" and not a ton of female clients. Same problem, women can just go to a bar and pick pretty much any guy to have sex with for free, so why pay for it. If I was a female I feel like I would strongly consider it. Not as a life purpose, but just as an easy way to make money for 5 - 10 years and ultimately use that for my life purpose. Kinda like how Amouranth is doing OF mainly to fund her dream of running an animal rescue eventually.

I don't know if people are explicitly telling guys not go do it. I usually see it as a warning that they're getting into something difficult and will require a disproportionate amount of time and energy. Not everybody is equipped to be that supportive. Especially since society tends to groom guys to not be emotional and caring I think anyone deserves some idea of what they're getting into. Like if you date a bipolar person you're probably going to get stuff thrown at you at some point and yelled at a lot. Then they can decide for themselves if they care about the person enough to make that sacrifice.

The one time I vaped THC and derealized tf out and laid down on my bed, my pug sat by my head and looked down on me knowingly and reassuringly. Normally he's derpy and seems stupid, but he seemed wise and almost like a spirit guide in the moment. So pretty much the opposite experience. Although maybe it's different with a dog that doesn't know you.

If it's ever proven then I'll be happily to condemn it and change my worldview accordingly. Until he gets charged or we see any kind of evidence it's a conspiracy theory.

Come on guys. The media says it was nuclear documents and y'all immediately all "Oh my, that does sound very serious! Well I guess they were justified then." Wtf does "nuclear documents" mean? You think Trump was dumb enough to bring home nuclear weapon blueprints, nuclear launch codes, or classified locations of nuclear launch sites? Or your bias against Trump is so bad that you SERIOUSLY believe he is malicious enough to sell nuclear state secrets to China or Iran? If they had any intelligence on this it'd be the CIA not the FBI and he would be arrested at the time of the raid. Entertain the idea for a moment that the FBI is involved with past scandals like COINTELPRO and shady af, and lying to cover their ass is not outside the realm of possibility. Trump and FBI can BOTH be corrupt at the same time. It's two (or more) corrupt factions at war. FBI could say they were searching for evidence that Trump genocided millions of Asians in the Midwest if they wanted to. Something doesn't have to exist for you to search for it. And a corrupt judge would rubber stamp the warrant, and the media would run with the story, no questions asked.

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