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Well it’s only different from the 50’s in the sense that wealth disparity is beyond that of the 1920’s and the current red scare doesn’t have a preceding 20yrs of socialist reforms propping up the economic conditions for the laborers.

but their many relationships are entirely performative. and they have built up their entire life as one big act.

Is precisely the part i disagree with if you’re going to generalize the way you did in your first reply. Hence talking about the experience even with honest meaningful deep non-performative relationships.

it means they are mentally ill.

Psychological health indeed impacts it, hence why i brought up depression and anxiety to name just two of many conditions that could contribute.

The wealth disease, on the other hand, is probably generalizable in the way you’re suggesting. I couldn’t really care it someone is sad about being ultra-wealthy. Maybe they should give it up and be a depressed laborer like the rest of us.

I’m more bothered by the hour and minute hands having the same length.

Edit: make the minute hand shorter to make it worse

This is an extremely reductive take based on anecdote.

There are a lot of reasons people can feel lonely. Hell you can even feel lonely when you have deep meaningful relationships. Sometimes it’s a result of anxiety or depression, or an abusive relationship.

Of course some people fall into the category you speak of too.

My anus is bleeding

I have found one use for it: getting information from behind login/paywalls.

It still feels gross to use AI at all though. It’s like putting my hand in toilet water.

The market flooding is a classic silicon valley strategy of free today charge tomorrow except they’re over invested in this one financially, in global supply for GPUs, and land with viable power infrastructure.

Ah, didn’t know what that meant lol

It’s the gateway drug.

Fucking hero

Just delete your account. I can’t see comments without logging in. Surprised i could watch the video tbh.

They’ve spent their lives answering the Call of Duty. Now ICE is paying them to get out of their parent’s basement.

Yuuuup. Piece of paper literally to get a higher paying job. Only says you attended school, doesn’t mean you learned anything or built skills there.

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/

Yeah anxiety sucks ass. Speaking from personal and recent experience my suggestion is ACT (or CBT) therapy if that’s an option for you.

The taboo is starring/oggling or catcalling a stranger. If you look people in the eyes/face and don’t linger then no one is going to care except people who would have been a bother in any case.

Seems you have a plan. Good luck!

Ooh that doesn’t sound nice, you shouldn’t be hurting yourself.

I’m suggesting you learn [train yourself] to be in the presence of women comfortably without even having to worry about getting an erection. It makes it a lot easier to get to know women.

But if you want a men’s only gym there’s plenty of hole-in-the-wall places called “Iron Pounders” or something like that. At-home weights are also widely available.

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Just like any other emotion arousal is a response to a thought. It’s a wave of experience that’s washing over you. That part you can control but it’s less important here. The important part is the thought triggering the arousal. When you are in a situation where you think you can experience sexual outcomes (even if just fantasy) you’re likely to trigger your arousal response and pop a boner. These thoughts can also be tied to set and setting. You probably trained yourself not to have erections around family or in places with social stigma around it like most public places. So you have to recognize that you’re having a thought of sexualization, then you can reframe the setting as an inappropriate one for sexual arousal.

In the moment you can respond with deep breathing meditation if that helps. Focus on your breathing and think about the thought and (paradoxically) feel the feelings the thought brings. You’re doing two things. 1. You’re changing your learned response by doing something other than sexualizing a random stranger or sand (which ironically, being silica, is technically rock hard). 2. You’re learning how to recognize the thought, emotion and mechanics of it’s development to better manipulate it.

It’s not like it’s quick and easy, it can take a while and some effort, but not being a pest nor feeling guilty about contributing to women’s daily difficulty is imo worth it. Not only does this make you a better more approachable person in public but learning about your own arousal can make you last longer (if that’s an issue) and have better, more intense and rewarding sex/pleasure. Win win imo!