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Are we @ the sunset of an global empire, about to descend into a chaotic dark age, glass as full as it will be for a long, long time or perhaps forever or are we in the dark age now, approaching the beginning of a Renaissance beyond our wildest imagination, awaiting the discovery that the glass...

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/keeping-an-even-keel/202403/uk-ranks-second-worst-for-mental-health-in-global-survey

Anyone else got one of those health trackers? I was curious so I splurged on one of those rings. Trying to get my sleep scores up to the 90s, my deep sleep usually pretty low. Usually score in the 70s with about 6-6.5 hours sleep, lowest was 47 when I was traveling, slept in a horribly bright...

This video is 12 years old, pre-smartphones, pre-covid. I remember reading maybe 15 years ago about a trend in Japan called hikikomori kids . Basically shut-ins withdrawn from society, now it seems almost the new normal. My elder daughter is basically hikikomori. During coronatimes she did...

My incentives under communism thread kinda going in circle, mostly my fault probably for starting w an unrealistic hypothetical. Seems like the 1 area of agreement is that government corruption is a large part of why we can't have really nice things. So how to we stop that? I remember in 08...

A bit annoyed this thread got locked https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/what-do-you-need-to-be-virtually-self-sustainable-on-a-boat.152493/page-10 Why the kneejerk locking of any thread that's older than a newborn baby? It's a bit annoying. Especially when page 1 of OT has gotten pretty...

I feel like incentives under capitalism are easy to understand. The theory that if you work hard and contribute more you get more is easy to understand. I think most people regardless of where they are on the political spectrum would agree in practice the reality is far from that and highly...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/05/after-20-years-of-yoga-im-hanging-up-my-mat-for-good "The practice’s modern iterations – including pricey paraphernalia and cultural appropriation – have left me cold, and I’ve had enough" The last two sentences make me think maybe it's...

Who comes up with this stuff? I find the banned words list a little strange. Like you can't say the abrev of ****oo bird. Is there a vote of new trendy words each year? How does the CFC Deep State work anyway?

Entrepreneur turned biohacker. You guys heard of him? I'm sure @El_Machinae is aware as I know he's into the quest to reverse aging. My first reaction was to be a bit of a hater but that was mostly envy that he could afford all the fancy bloodwork but mostly a life freer of stress but I have...

Had a conversation w my housemate who I'm staying w while in the states who's quite intelligent but on certain subjects just totally shuts down & is unable/unwilling to process nuance or new information. People thought w the advent of the information age people would become more enlightened but...

What new (or old) things are you doing to try to stay healthy these days? Could be physical/emotional/social/intellectual/'spiritual', whatever. Was on a super solid meditation kick for about two months from Jan 9th but fell off pretty hard, trying to get back on by doing it 1st thing in the...

I asked this like 10 years ago I think (and iirc around 10 years before that as well) but this forum is like birth control, very anti-bump, so I started a new one. Job, side hustle, businesses, real estate, investments, twitch streaming, trust fund, pension, benefit/dole, domestic work...

I'll come back w some. For now I'll say one is to keep meditating daily (up to 32 minutes) which I started Jan 9th. Hbu? To make this a lil different you can add personal goals but also hopes for friends, family members and the world in general. Not that those are within your control of...

Clearly the super elites have a lot of issues. How should we help them so they can be better people & make better decisions?

https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/science-and-technology/2022/11/sperm-counts-worldwide-are-plummeting-faster-than-we-thought Like climate change, sperm counts are now dropping even faster than previously predicted w no end in sight.

I don't mean are these things possible for a rare individual or two, I mean are they possible culturally. Theoretically a peaceful, perfectionist (to use Civ I terminology iirc) society could hire a few paranoid types to safeguard their society against other exploiters but then who's to stop...

When people claim society now is better than its ever been they often point to the wide availability of consumer goods, as if that's one of the pillars of human joy. But clearly the ability to consume whatever we want, whenever we want for whatever reason we want is not a freedom that's...

Bout to hit 8 billion human beings. What do you think about that?

My mood flucates from very positive, hopeful, aspirational to extremely fatalistic. I never hit deep depression, after eight years of severe depression (age 13-20) something in my brain won't let me go there anymore. I wish I could claim some deliberate technique but it's more unconscious & out...