I wasn’t talking about the wealth of pro athletes but their athletic capabilities. Your workouts will be miserable for the rest of your life if those are the people you’re comparing yourself to.

Comparing myself to the ultra rich doesn’t affect me any more than comparing myself to super athletes. It’s the people around me that matters and they’re not significantly more wealthy than me. You’ll never be content in your life if this is the bar to reach.

Gut a piece of electric wire and use the insulation as an extension so it’ll still stick out from your pocket. That’s what I’ve always done

Fits my folding knife perfectly

Spends +5 hours online daily?

Sure. You just didn’t author that intention in the way most would think. It’s just a feeling that has appeared in your consciousness which motivates you to act. You don’t choose to.

Most animals aren’t intelligent enough to destroy the world even if they wanted to. Intelligence doesn’t mean good or moral. It’s the capacity to process information.

I’m sure you too know that it’s a spectrum. Some production animals live on a free-range farm having jolly good time while others live in a 26 storey pig skyscraper

I don’t believe in free will so there’s no point at ruminating in past mistakes. I couldn’t have done otherwise. I’m now just telling myself a story which makes me feel bad but achieves nothing else.

And no. This doesn’t mean I can do whatever and not take responsibility. If I intentionally hurt other people then yeah I could not have done otherwise but it does make me reflect on what kind of person does that.

I’d have a room dedicated for porn basically. Monitors playing films 24/7, posters on the walls, toys, clothes, dolls etc. all over in huge quantities. Basically if there’s a “kinky version” of anything I want it there instead of the ordinary thing. Like a light switch that’s a dick you flip up and down etc.

Probably the fact that people here seem to bond over the mutual hatred of outgroups/people rather than over the interest in similar things.

The quite heavy left bias shows also.

Other billionaires have access to the same financial advisers. Unless all billionaires are extremely stupid and Elon just happens to be the least stupid one of them then this logic simply just doesn’t add up.

Imagine being literally the richest man on the world and people still act like you’re bad at finances.

“But he inherited the wealth…”

As did many other billionaires that didn’t make it to the front of that list

These are all porn*

“Lying” by Sam Harris made me commit to not ever lying again

I have told one lie ever since and even that was a slip-up; a person came to me on the street asking for money and instead of saying no I said I didn’t have any cash which was untrue. I still keep secrets and I will lie if refusing to answer reveals the truth. I will still not tell the whole truth and sometimes I simply omit things I don’t want to reveal but what I don’t do is say things that are untrue and this applies to while lies aswell.

Only after I started paying attention to this mysef I realized how often we lie unecessarily and how damaging it can be to our relationships even when your intentions may be good. You’re basically treating people as if they’re so vunerable that they can’t handle the truth so you lie.

I’ve had some really insightful conversations about free will on r/freewill and r/samharris. I also once met this one guy at work who was into a lot of the same things I’m too and we used to have really insteresting discussions about personal finances, investing and work philosophy for example.

I must say tho that recently the most interesting discussions by far has been with chatGPT. I only wish it was a bit more conversationalist and less agreeable. It’s just really interesting talking to something that has such a vast knowledge of every topic I’m interested in and generally speaks from the facts instead of feelings.

This is the main reason I’m not that worried about bots on social media. If the discussion is interesting I don’t really care who or what I’m talking to.

You could play me 10 random songs from my playlist and I could maybe name the artist of one of them. I’m so hipster even I don’t know the bands I’m listening to.

Probably is. Raisins makes many people’s blood sugar levels shoot thru the roof. It’s basically candies. The only issue with nuts is that it’s easy to over eat them and they’re hugely calorie dense

I have 3 gerbils.

It’s quite a lot of entertainment for such a low maintenance pet and if I’m staying away from home for few days I just need to make sure their bowl is filled with food and I put few extra water bottles and they’ll be just fine. Downside is that they only live 2 to 3 years but then again you then get to choose wether to get new ones or something else. Something like a cat or dog is a much longer commitement.

Gerbils are surprisingly social animals and super curious about everything. I love when I’m doing stuff and notice one of them just observing me thru the glass and clearly thinking hard in her little head about what’s going on.

A protip for anyone thinking about getting gerbils: get three. It’s highly probable one is going to die much sooner than the others and they get depressed when alone. Introducing new gerbils to adult one can be difficult so by having three there’s a greater chance the last two are going to live about equally long.

As buddhists say; you can’t become happy you can only be happy

I think it can be achieved but it may not be what most people think. I believie happines is not a goal you reach but rather a state that is realized. It’s when you’re satisfied with what you have and stop putting conditions on you happiness. Life is unsatisfactory - that’s what most are dealing with rather than unhappiness.