Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

[loop101]

I completed a 48 hour fast last weekend. It wasn't too bad. I'm going to wait 2 months and try a 4 day fast.

I've heard that the "wall" is between days 2 and 3, when your brain makes a last ditch attempt to get food quickly, before it gives up and only requires water and body fat. Supposedly on Day 2 your brain gets really sharp, as it tries to figure out a way to get food, and on Day 3 your brain just fires "Food! Food! Food! Food!" to try and drown out whatever thoughts might be keeping you from getting food. The movie where the guy only drank green smoothies for a few months showed the guy doing through the wall, he just layed in bed for 24 hours until his brain stopped firing "Food! Food!" Did you experience anything like this?

 

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[StrikingViper69]

I've heard that the "wall" is between days 2 and 3, when your brain makes a last ditch attempt to get food quickly, before it gives up and only requires water and body fat. Supposedly on Day 2 your brain gets really sharp, as it tries to figure out a way to get food, and on Day 3 your brain just fires "Food! Food! Food! Food!" to try and drown out whatever thoughts might be keeping you from getting food. The movie where the guy only drank green smoothies for a few months showed the guy doing through the wall, he just layed in bed for 24 hours until his brain stopped firing "Food! Food!" Did you experience anything like this?

Day 1 was fine, I do 24 hour fasts every week. Day 2 was mainly lethargy and boredom, not being able to focus too well on anything. I wasn't desperate to eat, but I wasn't doing much of anything

 

[MattR82]

I've heard that the "wall" is between days 2 and 3, when your brain makes a last ditch attempt to get food quickly, before it gives up and only requires water and body fat. Supposedly on Day 2 your brain gets really sharp, as it tries to figure out a way to get food, and on Day 3 your brain just fires "Food! Food! Food! Food!" to try and drown out whatever thoughts might be keeping you from getting food. The movie where the guy only drank green smoothies for a few months showed the guy doing through the wall, he just layed in bed for 24 hours until his brain stopped firing "Food! Food!" Did you experience anything like this?

Can confirm this was the case for me. 2 days was fine. Day 3 was brutal.

 

[Antifragile]

Can confirm this was the case for me. 2 days was fine. Day 3 was brutal.

I never did more than 24 hours but the mental sharpness kicked in after 18-19 hours. I was “clear” and loved the experience. Then I got hungry…

 

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[ZF Lee]

Read this book, it was great:

Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, H…

An epic true-tale of hubris and greed from two Pulitzer…

www.goodreads.com

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They are still hunting Jho Low...and recently sent the corrupt PM Najib to jail.

That chap was really doing his best to delay the inevitable by switching judges, feigning sickness, etc.
Lately, he's been shuffled around hospitals for treatment even after first landing in jail...so we are wondering if he's gonna do his best to spend his sentence in a nice private hospital than prison.

The only good out of it is that-- he'll have to spend a good many years jumping here and there.
So it's no escape at all...

 

[ZF Lee]

I wrote about them in Unscripted .

• Million-dollar home page (so and so made $25K last month selling pixels, I'm starting a M-dollar home page!)
• Blogging (so and so made $25K last month blogging, I'm starting a blog!)
• Forex (so and so made $25K last month trading currencies, I'm gonna trade FOREX!!)
• Self-publishing (so and so made $25K last month selling shitty eBooks, I'm starting a publishing biz!)
• crypto (so and so made $25K last month trading DOGE, I'm starting a investing biz!)
• investing (so and so made $25K last month trading ARKK, I'm starting an trading biz!)
• flipping RE (so and so made $25K last month flipping/wholesaling RE, I'm starting a RE biz!)
• "digital marketing" (so and so made $25K last month managing social medias, I'm starting a DM biz!)
• podcasting (so and so made $25K last month podcasting, I'm starting a podcast!)

Seriously, its like a broken record that repeats, the singer just changes.

Andrew Tate's Hustle University might have reawakened a few ghouls again...

Quite a number of copywriters I sub on the email complained that Tate sent the 'students' to sub THEIR email lists to 'learn' copywriting from them...which is a tacky thing since you can't just learn everything from their emails or sales pages alone.

Especially learning email copy-- I don't think I myself have hit the motherlode on imitating brand voice or creating one from scratch...

It wouldn't be so bad if they just read the copywriters' daily emails quietly.

But when they start emailing funny shite to them...

 

[Joejordan95]

Anyone here consider something like this?
Oh the things men will do for a couple more inches (no double entendre meant)

Meet the Men Paying Six Figures to Get Taller—by Having Their Legs Broken

A growing number of men are undergoing a radical and expensive surgery to grow anywhere from three to six inches. The catch: It requires having both your femurs broken. GQ goes inside the booming world of leg lengthening.

www.gq.com

sometimes us men are just as mad as women when it comes to these sorts of surgeries lol

Few inches taller now but I’m a wheelchair a lot earlier than he would of been !

 

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[Joejordan95]

Just watched running with the devil, the John McAfee story. Doco is a bit meh and full of vice wannabes trying to look cool, but I really didn't know how batshit crazy he was. I thought a lot of it was a show, but he really was bonkers on his home made meth/bath salts concoction.

I watched that a few weeks back and that guy is insane

Picking up prostitutes left right and centre

Hiring special forces guards

Drinking

Doing drugs

All in his 70’s

Can’t blame the man really lol

 

[Antifragile]

They are still hunting Jho Low...and recently sent the corrupt PM Najib to jail.

That chap was really doing his best to delay the inevitable by switching judges, feigning sickness, etc.
Lately, he's been shuffled around hospitals for treatment even after first landing in jail...so we are wondering if he's gonna do his best to spend his sentence in a nice private hospital than prison.

The only good out of it is that-- he'll have to spend a good many years jumping here and there.
So it's no escape at all...

He's in China, living in relative luxury and pretty much got away with it all. He cannot travel and if the political powers shift into more friendly territory between China and USA, he'll be in jail.

The guy is brilliant, you cannot do what he did and be a dummy. Clearly he's incredibly bright and he 100% could have been an amazing entrepreneur. He chose the easy and fast method of enrichment. Instead of focusing on doing things to help others, he focused on himself. And that's the irony, his level of inherent luck, talent and developed skills could have made him 9 figure fortunes while enjoying the freedom to spend as you wish... instead, he's in hiding. He had a good run and it ended.

Oh ... thanks to him we have The Wolf of Wall Street movie

 

[MJ DeMarco]

I think I'm starting to love Reddit.

 

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[Xeon]

I think I'm starting to love Reddit.

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Reddit is good. It has lots of information and opinions. It's also how I discovered the Unscripted book through reading the comments of a poster there. Lots of people on Reddit are deviants, non-mainstream in their thoughts and stuff like TMF /Unscripted would appeal to them.



Random rant of the day: The Mutalk Microphone Seals Your Voice In Virtual Reality

Looks extremely stupid and even more like some BDSM device.

 

[Antifragile]

Say This Instead: "Blacklist," "Blackball," "Blackmail," "Black market," etc. - PracticalESG

The origin of many common terms is actually racist. The next in our "Say This Instead" series.

practicalesg.com

I’ve always been of the opinion that the intent of the use of a word is more important than the word itself. Did I mean to offend someone with my choice of words or not?

But I can see how articles like the above point to the habitual use of language without a second thought. It just seems that this example is too far, can’t imagine anyone meaning or being “racist” by use of the word “blackmail”.

As a white male… easy for me to say.

 

[Kak]

Say This Instead: "Blacklist," "Blackball," "Blackmail," "Black market," etc. - PracticalESG

The origin of many common terms is actually racist. The next in our "Say This Instead" series.

practicalesg.com

I’ve always been of the opinion that the intent of the use of a word is more important than the word itself. Did I mean to offend someone with my choice of words or not?

But I can see how articles like the above point to the habitual use of language without a second thought. It just seems that this example is too far, can’t imagine anyone meaning or being “racist” by use of the word “blackmail”.

As a white male… easy for me to say.

Dude, it’s just another article written by an idiot obsessed with race, instead of more productive and constructive pursuits. It is also on a woke ESG website. I wouldn’t think too much about this. There are less people sitting around and coming up with new shit to be offended by than this article might suggest.

I call this victim minting.

“Has someone dared to say the word bLAcKmAiL in your vicinity? You are a victim!”

 

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[Xeon]

Outlaw these AI generators, send in the military to arrest their founders, send them to prison without trial, slap 80 - 150 years of prison on them with no access to lawyers and no possibility of early release or parole.

Getty Images bans AI-generated content over fears of legal challenges

The biggest ban of AI content to date.

www.theverge.com

 

[Guest-5ty5s4]

Dude, it’s just another article written by an idiot obsessed with race, instead of more productive and constructive pursuits. It is also on a woke ESG website. I wouldn’t think too much about this. There are less people sitting around and coming up with new shit to be offended by than this article might suggest.

I call this victim minting.

“Has someone dared to say the word bLAcKmAiL in your vicinity? You are a victim!”

Reminds me of github getting rid of the word "master" when pushing to the "master branch," or some real estate websites and brokerages getting rid of the term "master bedroom."

It is a total waste of time and energy. This topic has been beaten to death too. What kind of business has time for such pleasantries and social comforts, rules and feelings...as opposed to working and producing...

 

[Kak]

Reminds me of github getting rid of the word "master" when pushing to the "master branch," or some real estate websites and brokerages getting rid of the term "master bedroom."

It is a total waste of time and energy. This topic has been beaten to death too. What kind of business has time for such pleasantries and social comforts, rules and feelings...as opposed to working and producing...

In the absence of free money floating around everywhere, priorities are going to change. ESG is going to show itself as a massive malinvestment. While it had some marketing value to certain idiots, it was never productive.

With tighter credit, businesses are going to actually have to operate like (gasp) businesses instead of the zombie, woke, PR shows over the last ten years. A large cap CEO’s primary job over the last decade has been to show up and virtue signal.

 

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[Guest-5ty5s4]

In the absence of free money floating around everywhere, priorities are going to change. ESG is going to show itself as a massive malinvestment. While it had some marketing value to certain idiots, it was never productive.

With tighter credit, businesses are going to actually have to operate like, gasp, businesses instead of the zombie, woke, PR shows over the last ten years. A large cap CEO’s primary job over the last decade has been to show up and virtue signal.

Yup... Granted, some of the megacaps with billions in cash will still be able to eat their losses on virtue signaling, but generally, the private sector at large needs to actually produce things, not be a political show.

 

[MitchC]

Say This Instead: "Blacklist," "Blackball," "Blackmail," "Black market," etc. - PracticalESG

The origin of many common terms is actually racist. The next in our "Say This Instead" series.

practicalesg.com

I’ve always been of the opinion that the intent of the use of a word is more important than the word itself. Did I mean to offend someone with my choice of words or not?

But I can see how articles like the above point to the habitual use of language without a second thought. It just seems that this example is too far, can’t imagine anyone meaning or being “racist” by use of the word “blackmail”.

As a white male… easy for me to say.

You’re probably the only person who reads this website, I don’t even know how you found it

 

[Kak]

You’re probably the only person who reads this website, I don’t even know how you found it

Dude reads so much he ran out of normal internet.

 

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[MitchC]

Yup... Granted, some of the megacaps with billions in cash will still be able to eat their losses on virtue signaling, but generally, the private sector at large needs to actually produce things, not be a political show.

All these woke companies are ripe for disruption.

Their biggest problem will be hiring and keeping good staff, no one productive wants to put up with this shit and work beside diversity hires.

Someone I know is going through this right now, has to sit in meetings where they talk about their feelings and it’s a safe space no one can judge, someone in the meeting the other day said she doesn’t feel good having a king now not a queen?? He just wants to work hard and do a good job and be rewarded for it not listen to this shit.

I used to work in the mining industry and it’s the exact same, no man who knows what he’s doing and has experience will work for the most woke company out there, they’re promoting and hiring females based on quotas, now you have a supervisor with 8 months mining experience telling someone who’s been doing it 30 years what to do. Yeah they’re struggling to get good staff believe it or not.

 

[Xeon]

has to sit in meetings where they talk about their feelings and it’s a safe space no one can judge

 

[MJ DeMarco]

https://www.clickorlando.com/busine...an-pleads-guilty-to-72m-C0VlD-19-relief-fraud

I don't understand how some of these frauds are so convoluted, they probably could be successful in something legitimate.

He bought a mansion and a Navigator, then fled to Switzerland once learning the Feds were on to him.

 

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[Guest-5ty5s4]

I saw something about Finland making a law requiring parental leave for both men and women.

Does anyone know how this applies to small businesses? What if you are a brand new business with only a handful of employees and you really need them to be at work? What if you don't have a lot of money in your business? Curious how this does or doesn't destroy entrepreneurship and if the lawmakers considered the little guys.

 

[Antifragile]

You’re probably the only person who reads this website, I don’t even know how you found it

I got into a debate on a group chat over this. My views were hugely unpopular.

But then … I’m a white male. Like I assume you and @Kak are too.

 

[loop101]

Scott Adams tries to put air in his car tire.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNOjqg5K82o

 

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[GPM]

I put on the old cartoon "lady and the tramp" for the kids while I prepare dinner. It had a warning before it started saying that it contains content that is harmful to minorities or something. Lol

 

[Kak]

I got into a debate on a group chat over this. My views were hugely unpopular.

But then … I’m a white male. Like I assume you and @Kak are too.

My 23 and me says I’m 2-3 percent “victim.”

 

[biophase]

I bought a Kenmore fridge for my garage and I thought they forgot the bottom shelf. I come to find out that the model I got doesn't include the bottom shelf! WTF is up with that. Is this how they are keeping prices down?

I look more closely at the website photo and there is no bottom shelf!

 

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[Fox]

I bought a Kenmore fridge for my garage and I thought they forgot the bottom shelf. I come to find out that the model I got doesn't include the bottom shelf! WTF is up with that. Is this how they are keeping prices down?

I look more closely at the website photo and there is no bottom shelf!

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Are you making that back up though with the extra space for those grapes and oranges?

If not, then that is pretty crazy - but it does look like that bottom container is a bit bigger.

 

[MattR82]

I'm still surprised at the amount of people here that have a car as their profile pic.

It's completely different when it's someone using their own actual car that they bought once they became successful, but otherwise... I don't get it. On a few different levels.