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When you normally do commissions for people, do you have any power to say how they use them or what they use them for? Do most people disclose this ahead of time? What if you were creating art that would be used for some cause you disagree with? What if you didn't find out until afterwards? If you sell your art and someone owns all the rights to it, then I feel like they should be able to do whatever they want with it. The moral burden surrounding NFTs is entirely on them at that point. This is probably the best-case way to capitalize and profit off of NFTs. You don't have to take on the risk of paying gas fees and learning all the technical stuff. You just make the art and someone else does all the dirty work for you.

Telling them that they're wrong or stupid will only make them dig in their heels deeper. Basically you need to find a way to get them to come to the realization for themselves. It'll be far more powerful that way then anyone else telling them. You can't go straight for the big thing upfront. You need to feel out for weaker ideas that they maybe only half-believe that you can pull them away from, and then start chipping away at the larger idea. The trustworthy source thing is the worst part, and more difficult now than ever. Even I don't trust mainstream media any more... they tell us there's no grocery store shortages, then I went to the store and took pics of basically the entire frozen food section being empty, saw it firsthand with my own eyes. Either ask what sources she does find trustworthy... you can go down a list of all different news outlets, CDC, WHO, etc. Then take whatever most credible source she trusts and find info to change her mind. Otherwise take the most obvious fake/disinfo source and try to explain to her why it isn't credible. For example, most conspiracy theoriests are big on the VAERS reporting system for showing how harmful the vaccines are. But if you actually go through the stats on the VAERS report with her you can show that the risk of getting the vaccine is far lower for death/serious side-effects than getting covid. If she lacks critical thinking and analysis entirely, you need to help her build those skills independent of triggering current events that will make her evasive.

Buddha didn't go flipping over money changer tables in the temple. Less challenging/threatening of the status quo.

If you want to make full-length online courses for something like 3D animation, I'd look into using an actual online course platform like Teachable, Thinkific, Kajabi, etc. Look at the pricing and features, I forget which one seemed like the best value when I was looking. I would price your courses at $100 minimum. If you want to make $30k/year from courses, it's way easier to sell 300 courses @ $100 than 1,500 courses @ $20. Gumroad / Patreon I feel like people aren't in the mindset to pay more than $10 or $20 for something, I could be wrong. Even Udemy you probably won't be selling a course for what you deserve. But the upside of Udemy is it's probably the largest online course platform, they host it all for you, and you show up in their search so the marketing is basically done for you. Expect about 1% of your audience to convert whenever you launch a product... so if you made a video announcing your new course on Youtube today to 1250 subs, you'd probably sell 12 - 13 copies. $1,200 minus fees, hosting costs, etc, let's say $1,000. If you can create your entire course in about 50 hours of work, then you should get at least $20/hr for the time you put in pretty quickly, then you can do marketing to continue getting more sales over time.

If you want the absolute purest water, then I think a water distiller could be the way to go. You can get one for under $150 on Amazon, but probably higher-quality ones elsewhere. Basically it evaporates the water and leaves everything except pure H2O behind, the good and the bad. So you'll need to add trace minerals back to it. I've heard claims that distilled water is so pure that it will actually leech minerals out of your bones if you drink it without remineralizing for long periods of time. Not sure if there is truth to that or not. The main downside is it takes a couple hours to distill a couple liters of water, not like reverse osmosis where you just hook it up to your tap and it's always ready to go.

I've never heard anyone who is "in the manosphere" use the term manosphere before. So it me it mostly just seems like a catch-all that people not "in the manosphere" use to villainize others. Online groups tend to act like fractals, splitting off, then splitting off again, into infinity. It could include incels, forever alone (less toxic incels), mgtow, volcels, femcels, pickup artists, father's rights groups, people who oppose 3rd wave feminisim, TERFs. Under each of those there are a dozen communities and groups. There's overlap with alt-right and far-right groups. Some people would probably go as far as to say that bodybuilders or anyone that glorifies masculinity is part of the manosphere. Maybe even stuff like ArtofManliness that just teaches guys masculine skills and hobbies. I guess I would ask... what's the purpose of your question? What value do you get out of identifying and putting people into these groups? Does it add anything to know that mgtow is a subcategory under manosphere, why not just take mgtow on its own for the information they espouse and not conflate them with adjacent groups?

(Struggling to type this with a baby in my lap because he'll cry whenever I put him down and I'm gonna have to stop multiple times to stop him crying as I write this) If you're on the fence about it, I'd say don't do it. You can't underestimate the time commitment. I know people say it's a ton of work and you'll never have free time or sleep again, but in reality you're giving up your entire life for them. It's not 12 or 18 hours a day, it's 24 hours a day that either me or my wife is in direct physical contact with our baby. I can't play video games any more, I haven't even been able to find the time to work again yet and it's been months. I don't know how people go back to work after a couple weeks in the US. My baby won't sleep by itself in a crib. So for the first several months I was staying up with him until 4 am while my wife slept, and then I'd sleep 4 am to noon. Only recently we started co-sleeping as a way to try and get back into a normal schedule. Intuitively it seems to me like as kids get older they're more independent and they're less work. But everyone tells me it's the opposite and it only gets harder. Even now we're starting to think about a second kid since time is limited, and looking at the pros and cons. I can't think of many good pros that aren't just for selfish reasons. Most pros of having a kid come from lower on spiral dynamics... creating a family legacy, having your bloodline and last name carry on. Having a little version of yourself to play with. For me the best reason I can think of is kind of karma. I feel like since I had the opportunity to be alive, I should at least make the sacrifice to replace myself and give someone else that opportunity. You could probably do the equivalent through mentoring or something else though. I do think you'll regret not having kids when you're older, but you might be able to mitigate it by having a large enough group of close seniors friends. You can't understate the responsibility, and how easy it is to **** a kid up and completely traumatize them with one off-handed comment you make while frustrated. I used to think trauma was just super serious stuff like kids getting molested or whatever, but recently I've thought back to my own childhood and the tiny comments from my parents that scarred me for life, and they wouldn't have even realized at the time that what they said had such a lasting effect on me. If you think you're a good parent you're probably doing it wrong, you'll never live up to the expectations or do good enough. Make sure you can give a kid a great life with minimal trauma before you do it.

Grains are historically a food reserved for slaves or servants. They'll keep you alive during a time of famine but they aren't the best. Use your intuition, look to eat foods as close to their natural state as possible. You can pick an apple off a tree and eat it as-is. You can't pick a stalk of wheat and eat it, it'll shred you up inside. Even if you pick out the wheat berries they'll be undigestible unless you grind them up into flour. Stuff like corn, your body can't get the nutrition out of without adding lye or other chemicals, even if you make it into flour.

Should be called "How I avoided the far-right", that guy never made it all the way. Sargon is alt-lite at best. I think FaradaySpeaks' story is a better one. I talked with Faraday and was part of his Discord for a few months and it helped pull me out of the alt-right rabbit hole for a while and question my beliefs. I was open to more leftist ideas for a time and watched people like Peter Coffin, Thought Slime, Three Arrows, Shawn, Contrapoints. I read Peter Kropotkin. Ultimately I shifted back toward the far-right over time though. Leftists are boring and cringe, it's way more fun and satisfying to be a nazi. And I find their worldview is more useful and accurate in predicting how the world actually works. If you're anything right of antifa/BLM people are gonna call you a nazi anyway.

That's a weird leap to make. Fox News is watched all over the country, not just in the South.

Context: I'm probably the most pro-crypto person that will reply to this. About 40% of my liquid assets are currently in crypto, I'm gonna buy the dip if Bitcoin continues to drop further in the current market, and I own multiple NFTs. I still think NFTs are really really bad investments. Taking on debt to buy them is an incredibly bad idea. If you're able to get out of your NFTs at approximately what you paid for them or a small loss atm, I'd do that right away and put the money into something safer. I basically regret buying every NFT that I have. They are way worse than buying an altcoin that's out of the Top 100 on Coinmarketcap. If you buy NFTs you better really like them, because you might be stuck with them as wall art in your house in the Metaverse forever. Every step you go from the Top 10 cryptos, to the top 25, to the top 50, it gets exponentially more risky and likely that each coin won't even exist in 5 years. NFTs are like a Top 1,000 coin and 99% of them will be worthless in 5 years. At the same time, I understand the sense of hopelessness like you have to take a gamble or you'll never make it in life. That's basically the fuel behind the whole GME / AMC thing too. IMO you can take moonshots, but they still need to have a chance of succeeding. A 5x - 10x gain might be possible, but chasing 100x or 1000x gains will almost certainly get you wrecked. My goal is to stack sats to 1.0 BTC someday and then hold it until 2030 or later, but I know even at current crashed prices I'll never be able to accomplish that without some risk. Almost all of my crypto investment right now is in a single Top 10 coin that I think is going to 5x or 10x over the same time period that Bitcoin is going to 3x from current prices. Then I'll trade it out for 1 BTC and hold. I have to cross my fingers and hope it works out to have a chance at ever owning 1 whole Bitcoin without pouring my life savings in to do it. It's incredibly stressful and every time it drops or goes sideways for too long, I question whether I've made a horrible mistake. It takes a certain kind of person to be able to do that. Basically I'm gambling between being able to pay off my mortgage in a couple years, vs possibly losing 1/10th the value of my mortgage that I could've just paid off risk-free instead. Here's maybe the most important thing though... I think there's a very narrow window of people who it makes sense to gamble on crypto. If you're so broke that you can only put $1,000 or less in, then even if Bitcoin goes to $1,000,000 you still won't even be able to afford a new car with it. If you can't afford to put at least a few thousand into crypto, you'll never experience life-changing gains. You might as well spend that money buying 1 or 2 high-quality online courses that will teach you a valuable skill instead. On the opposite end, if you already have a six-figure net worth then it's kinda foolish to put more than about 5% of your net worth into crypto because it's so risky. So basically that leaves crypto as a last shot for an average working guy making $30k - $60k a year who's never going to be able to own a house or "make it" in life without taking the risk. At the same time, you can't be so overleveraged on your crypto so if it loses 50% value you can't go on paying your bills and living. It has to be money you can afford to let sit there for years. So it's not many people that the scenario even applies to. (Not financial advice, you're literally reading the ramblings of a crazy person right now) Also never rely on your crypto to keep increasing your net worth. It's tempting to see it go up 10% in a week and think that working a regular job for $100/day is pretty dumb. But you have to keep going on earning money in case it doesn't work out.

I guess I don't understand how it could take days or weeks to learn secretary tasks. Don't you already know how to answer emails, phone calls, do basic filing? Maybe it depends on the type of business you have. In my business I spend maybe 1 - 3 hours a MONTH replying to clients/customers. 15 - 30 minutes a month sending PayPal invoices. 10 minutes a month entering all my revenue/expenses into a spreadsheet for tax purposes. There is no paperwork to file because it's entirely paperless. And my business is small enough that all my emails go into 1 of 2 places: "Keep" folder or delete. Overall less than 5 hours per month on secretary/admin tasks. First I would work on looking at being more efficient, see if any of your admin tasks don't really need to be done at all, or ways they can be done much quicker. Eg. if you spend a lot of time scheduling meetings with clients, allow clients to book their own time in your calendar through your website. Instead of them filling out a form and having to enter it yourself. If you evaluate and there is still 20 hours of admin work to be done each month, then I guess I would be looking at getting a virtual assistant to do it. In your business there should be one big money-making task that you're doing 90% of the time, especially in a creative business. You should do whatever you can to eliminate or delegate any other aspects of your business, so you can focus on doing that one thing.

Creative people suck at business, marketing, and selling their craft Business people suck at being creative If you can get halfway good at both, or partner with someone to handle the half you're bad at, that's when you can make bank $$$$$$. Your video editing alone is worth at least $50 - $100/hr. Destiny's current video editor makes $200,000/year To turn your channel into a more viable business, I think you need to hold off on the animated series for now. Putting out one high-quality animation a month isn't going to build an audience or start generating income for you fast enough. Ideally you need to find something you can put out once a week fairly easily without burning out in the process. I think a lot of the high-level stuff you're making videos about now could be too niche to quickly get widespread success. If you're willing to temporarily sacrifice your vision a bit and do stuff with more mass appeal, it could get you there faster. What comes to mind is making animations about current events. I bet an animated video explaining what's going on in Ukraine right now would blow up. The problem is you need to identify what's going to be big news and start working on it right away in order to get the video out while it's still relevant. Just an idea. Sometimes you gotta sacrifice your vision and make the "How to make a girl squirt" video before you can start talking about enlightenment to 500k people.

Oh boy do I have some fun reading for you The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. https://www.amazon.com/Real-Anthony-Fauci-Democracy-Childrens/dp/1510766804

I had this happen only once when I was sick in bed with the flu a year or two ago. For me it wasn't just a few minutes though, it was like a solid half an hour in that state. It felt like my brain had engaged turbo mode. It was overwhelming, it felt like what insanity must feel like. Thoughts flowing at lightspeed, sometimes multiple thoughts at once but still being able to comprehend them all. If you're just sitting there it's not a big deal. But if it happened to me when I was driving or something, I feel like it'd overwhelm my brain and I'd probably not be able to focus and end up crashing lol.

NDEs aren't ego deaths. During an out of body experience or astral projection, in almost all cases, you're still "you". That's the million dollar question, and anyone giving you a matter-of-fact answer here is full of shit. Even people that have had them can't truly claim to know.

You don't have to associate words like aura and energy with it. You're just roleplaying. There's nothing spiritual or magical about it. Yes, if someone is mad and you're around them, it's easy to become mad yourself. Jesus or Johnny Depp don't have a singular "energy". You're oversimplifying real people who have a complex range of emotions. It's kind of insulting. You're equating Robert De Niro to just a Goodfellas impression. It sounds like you're just trying to emulate their personality. Not even their real personality at that. Just what you perceive them to be like through media that you've seen. You're not merging consciousness, you're just acting. You're not literally channeling Tupac. You can't channel a Transformer, it's a cartoon character. We don't need these big lofty explanations without any basis in reality for everything to make us feel more special.

If you're content and living in abundance, there's no reason to hurt others Except maybe something like telling someone a "harsh truth" that will upset or hurt them in the short-term, if your intentions are to help them in the long-term. Even then, there's usually a more gentle way to accomplish the same thing.

The great thing about the course is that you have lifetime access. You can always go back and do it again and see if your priorities and values have changed. Since you've already done the course you should be able to listen to all the Core Concepts stuff at 2x speed and breeze through it pretty fast. I re-do the course every year and the biggest thing I look for is if my Top 10 values or my Strength Assessment results have shifted. If your values and strengths are the same, then you may just need to tweak your zone of genius / domain of mastery / ideal medium. In the course, one example given is someone who is a programmer but now feels out of alignment, it's because they got into programming to do AI stuff but that's not what they're working on day-to-day. Your LP might still be programming, just not the way you're currently doing it. For me, my Life Purpose from 2017 - 2020 was "Summarizing information in an easy-to-digest format and empowering people to pursue their dreams." I loved blogging and writing articles to accomplish that, but since then I've fallen a bit out of love with it. For 2022 I tweaked my LP slightly to "Explaining unique topics to people to create a sense of awe, wonder, and inspiration" and I'm giving podcasting a try to mix things up, and see if eventually I can transition my ideal medium entirely away from writing and into audio/video content. It might just take a little tweak like that for you as well.

If you have toxic overbearing parents that would rather you just stay home and do nothing, I'd say it's probably better to lie Eventually those same parents will start nagging and wondering why you don't have a girlfriend, a job, why you're a boring person without any personality or interests of your own. BECAUSE YOU NEVER LET ME, MOM.

They're clusters of personality traits that are generally associated together. The same way there's a DSM-5 diagnosis with criteria for OCD or Bipolar. Technically things like OCD or Bipolar don't actually exist, they're just labels we put on particular emergent phenomenon that tend to share similar characteristics. If you have X, Y, Z symptoms we call you bipolar. If you have X Y Z physical characteristics and interests we can reasonably categorize you as masculine or feminine. Labels aren't inherent but they're pretty damn useful for actually navigating the world. Otherwise you're in a weird nihilistic place where nothing means anything, or anything can mean whatever it wants to mean.

The real power of NFTs isn't shitty cartoons. It's yet to come. It's stuff like having a grape vine in a world-famous vinyard RFID tagged, and then you own a token on the blockchain that entitles you to all the wine produced from the grapes of that vine for the next 30 years. You can have it delivered, or you can take your cut of the profits when they sell it. And you can sell or give your interest in the vines to anyone else at any time. You also assume the risk that the vines will just die and you lose everything. https://www.forbes.com/sites/theworldwineguys/2021/09/01/nfts-have-arrived-in-the-wine-industry/?sh=82c4798db398 There's no reason to not have property deeds and mortgages on NFTs in a couple decades. It'll be way cheaper, faster, and easier.

What if truth was evil What if the world was hell unsurmountable odds to overcome pure darkness exhausting amounts of effort an endless journey never feeling good enough the elite hiding the truth from us what if every day was backbreaking from the minute you get up to the minute you pass out fighting to survive, losing loved ones all around you forever

For me it'd be a nice-to-have but not a must-have. For me spirituality is deeply personal so I don't really care about my partner not sharing the same beliefs. Most women I've dated were either atheist or weirdly refused to tell me their beliefs even when pushed. There's a few areas to watch out for.... how you'll raise your kids with regards to spirituality/religion.... if you believe in an afterlife and want to see your partner there... etc. Otherwise it's like politics. I can just disagree and not talk about it, as long as she's not doing things that actively go against my ideology.

Don't assume there is a way to work with all types of people. Some personalities are just incompatible with society by their nature. Being antisocial is literally going against the norms. The worst thing you can do is think that you're able to control and fix them, all the while they're assessing your weaknesses to later use against you. Don't try to deal with psychopaths. Just avoid them or get rid of them if they're already in your life.