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Forums suffer from selection bias. It's the loners for whom the distance of a written medium provides comfort, and those who want to prey on them.* I suspect many of the abovementioned artists, dirtbags, and so forth just begin living and naturally form ties with similar-minded others in the process...

+1, tell us how you've been OP

how do we not have this one yet:

open capital account, exchange rate stability, independent monetary policy

How exciting! Will be looking forward to pictures and how you're getting along with it. Congrats on a new stage unlocked.

If you're on a homestead, you could hold a summer camp of sorts, too, where small groups of children can learn the basics of growing your own food etc. You might or might not be into it liability wise, but I've seen people with rural property (granted, outside of the US) open their places to either ...

Nice. Good work putting social capital to use!

A true herd of cats, ha! I counted 9. Excellent catting! Thank you for thinking of me :D. Now to read the rest of the updates. I don't drink, do drugs, gamble, or chase whores, can I at least have a Snicker bar? Heh, I hear ya. It is also one of my greatest struggles in life that virtuous behavior ...

Here are my thoughts on protecting against inflation: The three major categories of consumer spending are housing, transportation, and food. 1. When it comes to housing, own. Whether outright (best), or w mortgage (still good as gvts have debt to inflate away so interest rates are likely to rise slo...

b2, given your interests in both education and intentional communities + your ability to live vlcol due to ere, it might be the best fit for you to get into teaching groups of homeschooled children or free-range "pursue their own stoke" children (unschooling). It's an idea.

An IC someone I know of which works well (through someone who lives there) is not marketed as an intentional community at all but as a trailer park. The owners serve as "benevolent planners" in the 50s economics sense of the word. Rent is kept very low. Amenities and public areas are very ...

@guitarplayer @delay very valid callouts both. i do tend to reach for crap after i've tried fasting, and i probably did give up too soon. thanks.

Oh no, I'm not questioning you, if you're seeing results, obviously it's working. I just wondered if you're doing anything special to avoid a trap I tend to fall into when it comes to IF

I have a similar one, having bought Trash Place, the hoarder home of what was at one point an intellectually curious engineering professor at my home town's local university. As he became less and less able to care of himself, the place became more and more rundown and infested with roaches. Cleanin...

This is maybe a bit of a tangent, but I've been reading Gradual Awakening by the judgily self-righteous Miles Neale. It's a good book if one can ignore the judgy self-righteousness, which, being on this forum, most should be able to do :lol: . I recommend it. The book is a "for noobs" desc...

How about on the day you eat? I always seem to end up just making up for the day I fasted to 0 net gain

My point is that in addition to his brain and reward circuits being hijacked, and in addition to needing to sort through a bunch of "cultural dead wood" as per thef0x, we also come with a bunch of psychological defense mechanisms that, as long as they stay unquestioned and unconscious, can...

At 10, no, but at 12-13 I dreamt of getting to wear alternative clothes and going to metal concerts and hanging out smoking and drinking w the older metalhead "cool kids" that my stupid parents prevented me from hanging out with because of their stupid curfew :lol: :lol: Not v deep, this g...

I'm picking out Gradual Awakening to try from this month's bookroll.

What's Unmasking the Idols about?

There's the way the environment is structured, there's habituation, but that's not the end of it. It's often self-protective. Consider a cheeto and video game basement dweller. By sticking to their cheetos and games, they don't have to face the fact that they're a loser. It's one thing to have a sma...

While im not part of your group, where it might be coming from is, it is actually quite common for people to try to force themselves to do what they should be doing because it's what they should be doing and at the expense of what they want. It's the institutionalized approach to goal setting and in...