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really fantastic article, so glad to have many of the same learnings put down in a succinct page that I can link to others. without fixing the neurochemistry, the systems, todo lists, habits and meditation don’t stick. what convinced me that stimulants arent just blanket evil is that they just dont affect us the same way. instead of becoming jittery and faster, raising our dopamine just calms us down enough to figure things out.

Being off methylphenidate for a month, and coming back, makes me feel very vindicated for putting the "get your brain chemistry under control" section front and center.

@katsuxbt it’s full circle after a while. when you are so self assured that you stop giving a shit again, and even prefer that people don’t gather any idea of success from you. the world becomes novel and new once again, and you’re happy just perceiving with nothing left to prove.

Rasmr explains why it’s harder to be normal once people think you’re “up” “This New York kind of thing, the jestering, I'm gonna go to the bar and talk to random girls, I used to love doing that when I was 22, now I’m so off it” “You know what happened, I actually gained success, when I didn't have motion, when I didn't have money and I didn't have a good job, I didn't have a path in life, I love doing it” “Every girl that meets me, I want to be a presumption of greatness that she's meeting somebody cool, I don't want someone to meet me with a blank slate, cause there’s no point”

@anabology hahahahahahahhahahhahahaha dont do it then

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@rayzhudev @signulll damn all this could've avoided so easily

@signulll all they had to do was change their name

the core problem with jury trials in cases like this is that they often devolve into a crapshoot. once it’s he said she said, outcomes hinge less on logic or incentives & more on vibes, framing, & emotional resonance. that’s why if you’re openai, you wanted it dismissed.

@nonregemesse Ever heard of the byzantine empire?

Turkey strongly gives the vibe that they would get wrecked in a proper war

@levelsio same setup but ssh into laptop & codex :)

This is how I code now about half the time From my phone with Termius coding on my VPS and writing requests into Claude Code like a goon

@dounbug @bronzeageshawty growth hormone

@bronzeageshawty what do i inject myself with to eat more

People can dunk on Chinese peptides all they want. But retatrutide single handedly made me quit alcohol. I didn’t even realize I probably had a drinking problem. Any negative unknown effects from the peptides are probably balanced out by the positives of not drinking anymore.

@BowTiedYukon @BowTiedCrow it's enough to just imagine the experience from other stimulants but like 100x better

@BowTiedCrow Not going to lie I’d like to try it but it looks like it just kind of takes over

Don’t say things are “like crack” if you’ve never actually done crack Your caramel macchiato is “just like crack”? Really? One day the police are going to find you in a condemned Holiday Inn getting paid by homeless guys $4 each to run a train on you so you can get a few sips of that caramel goodness? Because my sister in law is a crackhead and that’s exactly what happened to her and I don’t think she was getting money to buy coffee

@MEvsIRS genuinely very good advice. i thought u would've said just stop being a bitch, which is true, but looking inward and being like OH SHIT i feel like shit when i do x y z is just the key

Grow up Depression is not a state of being for an individual that truly understands bitcoin The hope that exists within that symbol alone should snap you out of it But the most important thing is that you just think for yourself Why are you sad What is the reason that thing makes you sad If you are not sure Look for patterns in your past holes of “depression” Don’t go to a therapist for psychological therapy unless your intent is to have even more problems Now if you figure out you have behavioral problems that sadness is the product of - behavioral therapy is very productive You are the only person who could ever logically understand the true source of your emotions and expressions Outsourcing the diagnosis and prescription is in my opinion fking insanity and I cannot believe it’s standard practice As a society we have built these systems solely to avoid humility Honest inward reflection is painful and not immediately rewarding But it is real and guarantees growth and progress Just take back control Not through external prescription but through the genuine pursuit of truthfulness within That is the only place you can ever find what is real Internally you can make that determination and have conviction in it Anything tossed into the thought box from outside as a remedy is nothing more than a suggestion to your subconscious which knows immediately it’s BS because you never even dug in their enough to find the actual problem

@cliffbackster @SCHIZO_FREQ u dumb as hell and don't know anything

@SCHIZO_FREQ it was ghk-cu. used as anti aging and makes skin more vibrant. i don’t think it burns buccal fat, that’s what the meth is for

He wasn’t injecting filler here it was some fat dissolving peptide On-stream buccal fat removal God it’s so over

@rayzhudev type of guy that needs every latest tech and productivity tool before getting ready to get simple things done ( i was this guy once )

this is simply performative work. that setup is half as productive as a guy on his couch with a laptop. don’t be fooled

@henloitsjoyce man in finance? no, habibi in oil industry

@henloitsjoyce easy 10 bands for joyce

today i bet on the government reopening polymarket pretty late, could not decide between nov 12 or nov 13. there was a lot of panic after trump signed but i only had one thesis for buying Yes on nov 13: no government official is gon update a website at 11pm. lmfaooooo

@lamnakcash @MEvsIRS substitute video game for something useful and you are absolutely correct. look at interview coder and cluely for example

@MEvsIRS So if I have access to a video game cheat that most people absolutely do not have access to, I could make a fuck load of cash?

You are solving a problem That is your business’s function The easier it is to solve this problem the less you can charge The problem you solve should be selected due to unique arbitration you have that others do not You should have specific knowledge, tech, sources for product, trust, etc. If you don’t, you will be competing with others on price because the only arbitration is margin All you can do is charge less you can’t solve the problem any better My point - solve very specific problems that require very specific arbitration opportunities only available to few - if you have competition instead of trying to solve your problem better in small differences in customer experience or speed, solve another problem for your customers, an entirely new problem that your customers also have Arbitrage opportunity is not created equally Arbitrage on price is significantly less valuable then arbitrage on knowledge If you have a chair you are selling on your Shopify site that you started selling because of a special supplier that gives you a very good rate Your arbitrage is that you will never have another unique way to increase your margin If I have specialized knowledge on chiropractic solutions and manufacturing I can charge more because my chair solves a problem your chair can’t solve A more specific problem I can charge more for Even if you can produce them for less I can sell mine for significantly more and still create more margin by arbitraging knowledge and trust You have to understand I am not simply solving the problem of someone not having a chair anymore I am solving the problem of physical pain caused by normal chairs Your chair is the problem now and anyone who sees my chair will be told multiple reasons why owning a chair like yours is a grave mistake and that the price difference is worth it I can now make people want to solve the problem I am choosing to solve My market is actually bigger Not just people who don’t have a chair People who care about their health Anyone who sees my advertisement is a potential customer Even if your chair is significantly cheaper if someone has a normal chair why would they buy your chair Do you understand? Stop trying to solve problems by bringing a cheaper product to market You are now only solving problems for people who don’t have that problem solved yet and are low quality customers

@MEvsIRS if u need to buy a course to sell stuff online this game isnt for u. lmaoo

ppl say " fake it til u make it" and yell holy fuck this guy scammed me! never paid him a cent yet have used many ideas he's spoken about to print $$$. ppl would rather yell hate rather than being humble and trying to learn something. let's say he never generated a cent online. well he sure is rich as fuck now.

Luke belmar has provided significantly more value than this nigga I have known him a long time and he certainly makes real money Before anyone knew him he was running it up in ecom That’s a fact Since then I have no idea what he has been doing or anything to do with Steve or Gary but simply because he is being sued everyone has declared him a scammer I have been sued so many times I have settled cases for 6 figs when I didn’t even do anything wrong and would have with certainty won the case But it would have costed more than the settlement and the publicity is not good for business I am not saying luke did nothing wrong at all I have no idea what happened But no one knows besides the people involved and now the people suing have reason to tell a story in which lukes actions seems unjust This guy says dont believe what you see online but immediately believed what he saw online about Luke Fking rtard When I say I have known Luke I mean I met him before he was online and he was doing real business then We are not friends and have never done business together Calling someone a scammer before hearing their side of the story is genuinely getting brainwashed The Tans are in your dome forming opinions for you

@dystopiangf abusing psychedelics but in a transhumanist visionary way, not a degenerate festival-goer hippie way

Abusing stimulants but in a transhumanist cyberpunk way, not a degenerate club-rat way

@DionysianAgent of course it’s easy to quit a substance if you replace it with another. you dont have anything to replace nicotine with so you’re finding it hard to stop

nicotine is probably the hardest out of all of this weed isn’t hard to quit - most of the times in the past when I’ve tried to quit weed the main reason I didn’t is because I didn’t truly want to, usually just external pressures like shame or something, but I always rebound because I internally still wanted to smoke weed - and so the difference is I don’t want to right now so it is very easy not to smoke alcohol also easy - I used to be addicted to alcohol when I was younger like 14 - 21 I was a low-key alcoholic and thought I couldn’t go without it it was all just cope - alcohol is not healthy for you, if you are a regular drinker or a weekend drinker you must know that it is a coping mechanism for stress relief, but alcohol is not healthy for you, it’s one of the worst intoxicants for your brain - best to find other stress reliefs for me when I was younger I got really addicted to coke and alcohol and had to get out of that destructive lane so I replaced alcohol with weed and coke with ADHD meds (vyvanse) so it was easy lol, but truly the best way is to raw dog life I already went off my ADHD meds a long time ago so I don’t need them really caffeine I also already quit a long time ago so it has no hold over me the next main intoxicant I would say is sugar - I think sugar is a form of intoxicant and being addicted to sugar is worse than being addicted to nicotine when you’re addicted to sugar your energy levels are a slave to your sugar intake and you will crash and feel bad if you don’t get enough sugar etc like a drug addict no hate towards the sugar lovers but it’s ultimately the truth - I know women need slightly more carbs than men and have more use for glucose or some shit like that, but regardless the human body was never made to consume vast amounts of sugar daily, it’s unnatural truly the best diet is primarily animal protein and fats, dairy and milk, vegetables and fibres, and then maybe some sugar from fruit if you want it but sugar should be used intentionally - I.e. maybe only eating fruit before and after the gym to help with your workout and recovery just consuming sugar unintentionally deteriorates the quality of your brain it is proven that the brain is most healthy and optimal when sugar intake is low, this is also why ketosis can often feel like a cheat code, as if unlimited focus and +25 iq suddenly unlock from cutting out all sugar anyway yeah nicotine my sweet poor little nicotine my last bastion of vices I felt like I had my snus and it had become so innocent - no smoking cigarettes, just this tiny sweet little pouch that didn’t want to harm anyone the sensation of drying my upper lip and putting it under and getting sent to nirvana as the dopamine rushes in and my mind finally knows true bliss and unity my sweet nicotine, what will I do without you, I’m sweating just thinking about how much I will miss you

@wirelyss it's not exactly a secret x.com/ian_ctrl/statu…

Did anyone catch this hand signal during the Bryan Johnson stream? She paused right after hand signal. Maybe wasn’t supposed to mention his experience in psychedelics lol “I think in someone like you who is well experienced in traversing psychedelic stages of consciousness…”

@vedantdotrpm nah just turn it off and back on again

Am I cooked 😟😭