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Bias confirmation through confrontation and conflict. This is what happens to minds that are forced to operate beyond their cognitive capacity - a world that is too complex to fit inside the average skull. We are seeing this at scale right now.

@DanTalks1 “Let’s break it down…🤖” Lazy thinkers don’t deserve attention.

I think this will be a cascade preference for smart people. Using AI to make shitty engagement posts will simply filter your audience for idiots.

I think any use of ai for longform if not immediately disclosed (and with a good reason)makes me never want to read anything they write ever again. I make sure to never use it, so people know that if I've written something extensive, it's written 100% by me and every word counts

@Aku_700 @beyond_reasons Reminds me of air raid sirens.

Woman records adhan blasting over loudspeakers in Dearborn, Michigan. 5 times a day, from sunrise to sunset, forcing every resident to hear it. How is this allowed in America?

I’ve never used the phrase, “without further ado…” and I don’t think I can trust anyone that has.

@CricketsMatter @CherieBeneteau Years ago I tested post visibility using my old account and VPN IP addresses in the US. 4x the post visibility for non-Canadian IP addresses. Consistently.

So yes X does suppress our posts because Elon follows whatever Canadian laws dictate him to do so. He's outright stated this several times, that he offers free speech according to each countries laws. This is also why, the Canadian X-Files were never released after countless accounts asked him to do so. The truth would come out about who paid the hackers to hack into givesendgo. I was watching the ramranch freaks discussing the hack on here. Also because X uses stripe as payment and payout methods for social influencers, Carney sits on the board of Stripe. He should recuse himself from that position but he doesn't have to by law.

Turns out that x hasn't intentionally been suppressing right leaning accounts in Canada. It was a targeted mass reporting attack led by the anti hate network far left group mass doxxing and reporting right minded cdns

@Templarpilled Pretty good.

AI writing peaked here

There we go.

@DanTalks1 Violence that serves their needs, yes.

Women love violence, don't be fooled by liberal propaganda. Deep down they enjoy it more than men.

The person that forces a problem to be recognized and confronted will typically be blamed as the source of the problem. This scales from individual relationships all the way to geopolitical ones.

@gummibear737 @gothburz The instinct to ignore artificially valued irrelevance is very underrated.

@gothburz And I never even knew all of this was happening Man did I miss out

My net worth peaked at $1.2 million. None of it was real. I don't mean that philosophically. I mean it was located on servers that have since been turned off. I own eleven properties in the metaverse. Three in Decentraland. Four in The Sandbox. Two in Voxels. One in Otherside. And a beachfront villa in Horizon Worlds that I bought for $214,000 because Mark Zuckerberg called it "the next frontier." The frontier closed last week. It's a mobile app now. Last year I mass DM'd 340 people the phrase "you don't understand how early we are." I have since stopped doing that. Not because I was wrong. Because most of them blocked me. I got into metaverse real estate in November 2021. Everyone was buying. Someone paid $450,000 to be Snoop Dogg's neighbor. In a video game. With no legs. The avatars didn't have legs. I thought that was bullish. "The legs are coming," I told my Discord. "Legs are a roadmap item." Three hundred people reacted with rocket emojis. I called myself a "digital land baron." I put it in my Twitter bio. I put it in my LinkedIn headline. I said it on a podcast that had eleven listeners. Three of them were bots. The rest were my alts. My virtual property has more square footage than my actual apartment. My actual apartment has furniture. Location, location, location. My most valuable asset was a plot next to a virtual Gucci store. Gucci left in 2023. The store is still there. Nobody's in it. It's like a mall in Ohio but with worse graphics and no food court. I held. Diamond hands. That's what we said. "Diamond hands." It means refusing to sell while your investment loses 94% of its value. We turned financial paralysis into a personality trait. A guy in my Discord paid $2.4 million for a 618-parcel estate in Decentraland. Prime district. High foot traffic. I asked him what "foot traffic" meant when the platform had 38 daily active users. He said I didn't understand the technology. I didn't. I still bought more. We had a DAO. A decentralized autonomous organization. That means we voted on decisions. There were nine of us. Three never showed up. Two voted on everything without reading it. The other four were me and my alts. We voted to "acquire strategic parcels." The vote passed unanimously. I voted four times. My portfolio peaked at $1.2 million. I told everyone. I made a spreadsheet. I projected 40x returns by 2025. I made a pitch deck. The pitch deck had a slide that said "WE ARE BUILDING THE DIGITAL ECONOMY." The slide had a rocket emoji. That was my entire financial model. In 2023 I bought a Bored Ape for $189,000. It's worth $14,000 now. I don't talk about the Ape. I still use it as my profile picture. People ask me about it. I say "I'm long-term bullish." Long-term bullish means I can't sell it without crying in a Panera. My mom asked me what a Bored Ape was. I said "digital art on the blockchain." She asked why it cost more than her car. I said "you don't understand Web3." She said "I understand you live in a studio apartment." She's not in my Discord. Justin Bieber bought one for $1.3 million. It's worth about $90,000 now. I felt better about mine after I heard that. That's community. WAGMI. We're All Gonna Make It. We said that every day. In the group chat. While the floor dropped. While the volume dried up. While 95% of all NFT collections went to zero. We're all gonna make it. None of us made it. But we said it with conviction and a laser-eye profile picture. That counts for something. It doesn't. But we said it did. That's decentralized consensus. Meta spent $84 billion on the metaverse. I need to say that again. $84 billion. More than the GDP of Luxembourg. More than the GDP of Iceland, Luxembourg, and Malta combined. They spent it on a platform where the avatars had no legs, the graphics looked like a 2006 Wii game, and the peak user count was lower than the lunch rush at a Chipotle in Des Moines. They just pulled Horizon Worlds from VR headsets. It lives on as a mobile app. My beachfront villa is now a mobile app. Location, location, location. Zuckerberg renamed the entire company for this. Facebook became Meta. A $900 billion company changed its legal name because the CEO watched Ready Player One and said "I want that." Reality Labs lost $10 billion in 2021. $14 billion in 2022. $16 billion in 2023. $18 billion in 2024. $19 billion in 2025. That's not a strategy. That's a speedrun. They laid off 1,500 Reality Labs employees this year. Shut down three VR studios. Killed Supernatural. Put the entire VR social vision in a casket and said "we're pivoting to AI and wearables." The pivot took four years and $84 billion. I pivoted too. I'm an AI real estate investor now. I bought a virtual plot in an AI-generated world that doesn't exist yet. The founder said it was "the intersection of spatial computing and large language models." I don't know what that means. I gave him $40,000. He has a whitepaper. It's 47 pages. I read the title and the tokenomics section. The tokenomics section is a pie chart. I love pie charts. They make everything look like a plan. The project has a roadmap. Q1: "Build community." Q2: "Launch beta." Q3: "Scale ecosystem." Q4 is blank. Q4 is always blank. That's where the exit scam goes. My accountant asked me to value my metaverse portfolio for tax purposes. I said $1.2 million. He said "current market value." I said $6,400. He stared at me for eleven seconds. I know because I counted. He asked if I had any other investments. I showed him my NFTs. He stared for longer. I told him they were "cultural artifacts with long-term provenance." He asked if I'd considered a 401k. I told him a 401k was "legacy finance." He told me to leave his office. The metaverse is dead. I don't accept that. I am a digital land baron. I own eleven properties across four platforms. I have a beachfront villa in a mobile app, a plot next to an empty Gucci store, and a cartoon monkey that cost me more than my actual car. Location, location, location. The location is nowhere. But I'm early. I'm always early. That's the same as being wrong except you get to say it with confidence.

@MrsShoeWWTFS It’s the little things that could mean everything. These are notes to myself. I know you understand.

@Rayminded Even with a varied translation, I sense this would be prudent.

De-optimize your life. Thank me later.

The saddest from of compassion is the one that is the last one that remains for the self. But even that is a gift to be appreciated. And should not be underestimated.

@minordissent At the base is fear, that these negative habits swirl around and compensate for, in an ineffectual but cyclical attempt at offering relief. Inspecting the basis for these fears and discarding them as irrational coincidently provides the means to remove the habit.

This sounds absurd but it's actually true. While you can't just magically delete it in the moment, realizing that depression, anxiety, etc, are a habit you have rather than fundamentally who you are is the first step. The way your mind works is that every thought you have "grooves" your brain to have more thoughts like it. Every time you have a negative thought, you make it easier to have a negative thought in the future. Similarly, every positive thought makes future positive thoughts easier. If you let your negative thoughts run rampant without any positive counters all day every day, you deeply groove your brain such that it becomes really good at producing negative thoughts and really bad at producing positive ones. Thoughts produce feelings. If all your thoughts are negative, all your feelings with be. And thus you become "mentally ill". The solution is not to "solve all your problems". It is impossible to solve our your problems. Life in an infinite game of problems forever. And you won't solve any of them until you stop having only negative thoughts first (because you'll just say "whats the point?" "This is too hard!" catastrophize about how you'll fail, etc rather than actually fix them) The solution is to reduce the negative thoughts and increase the positive ones. This is what CBT does and why it's one of the few therapeutic techniques that is remotely effective. It's basically James Clear's Atomic Habits but for thoughts instead of behaviors. The CBT process is: 1. Notice that you are having a negative feeling 2. Specify what feeling it is 3. Identify the situation and thoughts around it 4. Isolate the unhelpful (negative) thoughts 5. Challenge them with more helpful (positive) thoughts When you do step 1-4 it helps you detach from and loosen the grip of the unhelpful negative thought, such that it doesn't keep digging. When you do step 5 you start digging the trench for helpful positive thoughts. Do this enough, and you slowly reduce the depth of the negative habit and start to build a more positive one. Yes, your genes and life experience can prime you to be more naturally drawn to positive or negative thinking. but such is true of all habits. Some people are biologically wired to have a unique enjoyment of alcohol. Others, exercise. Some grew up in a household that read a lot of books so doing it daily is easy. Others who grew up in TV only household find it harder. But everyone understands none of these behaviors are fundamental. Bad habits, maybe even addictions, but still not fundamentally traits. And thus, literally just deciding "actually I am not neurotic and depressed and angry, I am capable and driven and filled with joy" and repeating that to yourself 100 times a day DOES work. Its slow and crude and often needs more targeted assistance, but it will do far more than you might think, if you can simply get yourself to do it and be remotely open to the possibility that you could believe it.

The distortions and delusions don’t just disappear. They have a momentum, a mental stickiness, that resists reality.

@klara_sjo 😂

The fresh veggies I just bought seeing the old veggies in my fridge.

@DionysianAgent It’s the smart ones that embrace stupidity that bother me. Shoulder that burden. Deal with it.

most people are so fucking stupid it's not even funny, i had dose myself daily with heavy marijuana usage just to sink my cognitive elo far enough to play with them but now that i'm sober i see everything clearly and it's just kinda sad how stupid they are... i wish everyone (on this website especially) would stop larping as intelligent please, it's okay to be dumb.. it's a gift to be stupid, ignorance is bliss for you raw intelligence is quite a burden if you actually have it so no need to keep pretending you understand things that you don't understand, it's very obvious to people who actually understand, the only people you're fooling are the ones who are as dumb as you are, and it's insufferable to be witness to all the pretend intelligence going on here all the time

Oh, those smart and silly people that try to help you (and themselves) by taking control of you. Will they never learn? People generally default to resentment over gratitude. That’s just how it is.

@nikitabier Elon can afford it.

The financial incentive to spam on X will decline enormously over the next 30 days and soon be negative.

@pmarca Either disingenuous trolling or the raving of a psychopath.

Introspection = neuroticism x narcissism x thumbsucking.