Geoffrey

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@BonesawMD Not accepting money for basic services and receiving tenfold in value some other time in the near future

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@ti_morse @elonmusk Damn and he hasn't confirmed yet. Respect.

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@BigwetRealism @feeeeefefefe @beyoncegarden Yes. Tell us.

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@Empty_America I think it would be better all around if we could resolve disputes with fights that don't end in serious injury or if egregious enough, back to the dueling system. To be fair to the old guy, that kid will definitely not be coming back.

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@Empty_America I think that kid lowkey had it coming. I think it's fucked up how the old guy was thinking. yea there's smarter ways to resolve it, but I find the ultimate outcome a court case a tragedy and further degradation of moral and civic virtue

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@roydanroy why

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Just remembered the world sauna championship. Was one of the most interesting things I've read about

It used to be hosted in Finland every year until the incident in 2010. Rules were that it started at 110°C (230F). Then 1 litre of water was poured onto the stove every 2 minutes

The last person to walk out under their own power won

In 2010, both finalists had to be dragged out

The russian finalist died, burned all over, and the reigning Finnish champ went into a coma and woke up 6 weeks later with 70% of his skin burned, kidney failure and his airways completely roasted

One peculiar thing about it was there were no prizes. Only in one particular year did the winner get 1 small prize, some special heat resistant speakers that could be used in a sauna

But despite this, participants went to the edge of death every year and would do insane stuff like grow their hair out long specifically to cover their ears so it didn't get burned by the boiling water vapor

It was interesting to me because it's another piece of evidence that as soon as you create a ruleset... no matter how ridiculous it is, no matter how small the group of participants, no matter the extremely chance of death, and no matter a total lack of prizes. There will always be men willing to compete to the point of actually killing themselves

The male brain enters a kind of hypnotic trance where it will completely convince itself of the worthwhileness of the task, so long as it begins to venture seriously down the path of a competitive interest

It's kind of like a hijacking of the programming evolutionary mind, where no incentive makes sense but it happens anyway. You can find a million examples of this for every male interest on the planet. Just the simple act starting down a path confers it meaning to the person, and the more they are surrounded by other men who care about the same thing, the more they learn and compete, the more entranced by it they are, until their identity is fully subsumed by it and stuff like these sauna deaths happen

Seeing lots of things like this taught me to be very careful when I start down the path of any competitive interest or business, because getting hypnotized by what you are doing is essentially guaranteed. So it's good to assume it'll happen and be totally sure the outcome is worth your potential self-destruction

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@Empty_America Damn I went to these it was so much fun and built critical life skills.

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@cosine_distance Serious question. Is 15k in equipment cost considered a lot of responsibility? I would think not. Do you really not have more budget than your buddy?

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@coffeebreak_YT Things keep escalating lol

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@Paradox Lol bro is getting hacked by eastern euros
Just wondering, how much are all these accounts actually worth now? I’m not in with this market.

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@Electrarythm @mrahbayraktar I think the self-awareness Ive generated turned into something useful bc it allows me to make decisions faster with a higher likelihood of long-term persistence and an ability to reconcile with turmoil with various scenarios I’ve already thought through.

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@ByungChulHarden niche af

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@evisdrenova what is that ui from

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@mishalgorithm It’s the people join any club and ur like wow

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@MiniMax_AI whattt

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@SAcerton @Empty_America I don’t really care tbh it’s obviously for the experience. The point is to understand the business so you can go off and start your own company