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Interesting thing - in 2016 I had purposely isolated myself to the point that I rarely hung out with friends and mostly did my own thing.
It was one of the best years of my life. I did a lot of things and they were all things I wanted to do with no interference. This is how I know Alvin Tan is full of shit when he says solo travel sucks. No it doesn't - it's great ! You literally have time to do and see whatever you want limited only by hours, daylight, etc.
I even came up with very clear and specific goals for my life that if I had stuck with them I would be in a better place now. But then 2017 came and I got seduced by my now ex-gf and it derailed everything. When we broke up I had depression again and lost sight of my goals.
And yes all my friends now are married and so they pressure me to have a regular GF so I can hang out with them. But why? The only use I would have for that is to start a family but it's a dilemma - I only like cute younger women and none of them want to have children soon. Typically the more educated set of women - i.e. the type that doesn't date homo erectus - don't want kids until 30+, it's in the data.
So yes, people will complicate your life needlessly.

2026-09-09 20:08:45 CEST

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Yeah Netanyahu is an IRL Dr. Doom-tier supervillain - Israel is not going to do as well once he is dead because I don't believe any of their other major pols have the same strategic mind.

2026-09-09 19:59:26 CEST

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Arguably Christianity has become in our time a religion for women and an alternative version of Liberalism. Conservative Boss Girls are not notably better than Liberals in fact. In Red States things are just as bad for men as in Blue States, just in different ways.

2026-09-08 21:33:09 CEST

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I never tire of reminding people that these hoes rioted over a hideous ape like St. Fentanyl but did nothing when Penny was railroaded. They deserve nothing but contempt.

2026-09-06 20:57:08 CEST

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Yes the core foundation of both was built in Kiev although there were later other "principalities" run by guys called Veliko Kniaz (I'm not sure what the exact translation of that is - I'm Polish not Russian). These guys basically built their own little empires until they were eventually united by the VK of Moscow although IIRC in the early days Vladimir-Suzdal were actually more important, which seems funny now.

2026-09-06 20:42:35 CEST

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Yeah at this point over the last 2.5 years that I've been out doing things in the world again I have lost track of how many married women or women with BFs have hit on or got sexy with me. And sometimes quite hot ones for that matter.
But your mileage may vary - they don't do this with all men (I've watched). I am taller and better looking than average. The main difference versus you is I usually don't grow a beard for long because I have a face that looks better without it. I could also be more jacked and I have to go back to weight training anyway because it will help with the tendon pain I keep having.
But logistically I hate dating because they mostly live in the city and I limit how much time I spend there.
You're right though - if I made more money it would be trivially easy to get girls all the time. And I'm only slightly above average in the manhood department but that never seems to matter (note: there are some successful male porn stars who are only a bit above average and yet still got loads of girls like Jean Val Jean so it's not a requirement).

2026-09-02 18:37:02 CEST

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Interesting although somewhat misleading - for example there is no way in Hell MN cost of living is lower than WI except possibly "on average". The Twin Cities area is actually quite expensive if you live in any of the suburban areas that people actually want to live. Taxes are substantially higher as are housing costs, and even the price of fuel is often considerably higher. If I compare where I live now with where I used to live, it's not cheap here but to live somewhere comparable in MN would be much more expensive.

2026-08-08 20:34:29 CEST

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There was the concept of "five types of people that can kill you", and narcissist was one of the types (the others were borderline, histrionic, sociopathic and paranoid). The author postulated that all of these dangerous types were adaptations and represent survivor types albeit that they tend to damaging extremes. But they wouldn't exist for no reason.

2026-08-06 20:20:29 CEST

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Yeah there is pretty strong evidence that the Marxist-Muzzie-Left in America, such as the DSA candidates, are getting clandestine funding and backing from the Chinese, and have been for some time, probably at least since the 2010s.
And we already know who the mainline GOP serves.

2026-08-02 21:36:27 CEST

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My dance partner is "mid" (upper mid) - but she's 19, has a nice ass and got sexy with me right away. Realistically this is about as good as you can hope for in a woman. And she's still in Uni so I only see her a few months of the year - which may be a good thing for all I know.

2026-07-27 17:48:34 CEST

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Deleted... but you can probably watch it on F-Movies or similar sites (Yandex searches are good for muh piracy sites).

2026-07-19 20:26:51 CEST

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There's also the ongoing war between the sexes that they pretend isn't happening, even though you can't miss it if you go on any social media these days. In the Western countries, that's because acknowledging it would mean addressing the religion of feminism which is a major destructive force. I am not sure if the same is true in China since I don't live there or understand their culture.

2026-06-24 20:52:06 CEST

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I stopped asking questions online because people lie so much, but I do this IRL. However, I'll take that as an area of potential concern and do better.
I have no interest in Jay's lifestyle for the reasons you mention, with one addition: not interested in dating millennial girls in particular, not just because they are now ran through, but they just had an awful attitude toward men in general. Gen Z girls are sweet compared with them. They are the reason I first went MGTOW although I didn't stay true to it all the time.
I have not blocked Jay or any of the other PUAs on this account - another reason I don't often ask THEM questions is because they changed how the X algo works. Many times your questions or comments will just go unseen.

2026-06-12 19:41:26 CEST

Based on my experiences these past 2+ years, I probably could be a male whore.
The issue for me is disgust: Let's be honest - would you want to sleep with Jay's sloppy seconds?
I would feel disgusted even if I found the girl attractive.
This has been an unexpected side effect of hookup culture for me, but I can't shake it.
There was a time when I could at least make-believe that this next chick I met is sweet and innocent. But now that's gone.
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2026-06-06 21:12:59 CEST

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The 1990s seems like a Golden Age because the economy was better, society was more stable, there wasn't all the racial tension, America was a lot whiter, and inflation was mostly low. I did enjoy some of that era but it is long gone and not coming back. I actually think the 2020s might be the best era since then, myself, because it actually feels like history is happening again (even if the happenings are largely bad; "chaos is a ladder", etc). The 2000s-2010s came across as more stagnant because there was an era of ingrained leftism and oligarchy and it felt like it would never change. The 2020s feel revolutionary and exciting, at least that's how I see it - I'm not sure an era in which things are happening can ever be "easy". Even the 1990s had a lot of crises that we kind of pretend didn't happen (currency crises in the EU, economic crises in Latin America and Asia, the collapse of LTCM in America which was a prelude to 2008, etc).

2026-06-04 19:57:20 CEST

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Those game guys like Jay and FWPB would say keep communications short and mainly logistical. It seems to work best these days. The only girls who blocked me were ones I got too chatty with - every time, no exceptions.

2026-05-29 19:19:40 CEST

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I am finding it increasingly hard to find a reason to be on X. Any genuine content just goes into a black hole. The viral content is all click and rage bait and it's flooded with fake news (and people repeatedly responding to fake news as if it is real like idiots, including all the grifters we know).

2026-05-24 19:33:14 CEST

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I was away for a few days and my entire diet was eggs and meat, along with protein shakes. Just in that short time, and alongside my regular activities, I lost weight. After scrambled eggs and meat, I could barely think of eating anything else, and even fried in butter it is not very calorie dense while also being high satiety (whether beef, pork or turkey, which was what I had with me).
I think I will try to mostly stick with this plan for the rest of summer and I will be back to my old super-middleweight size.

2026-05-18 20:50:46 CEST

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I didn't really like that 2000s era of pop music when people like her were popular, period. It wasn't her in particular, just the whole time was uninspired[1]. Like I said, I thought Kanye was a no-talent hack until I realized that it was just the style of music that was popular back then. He was doing it to get rich. Once he started going his own way, I realized that he was, in fact, a brilliant artist.
[1] - But not if you listened to underground music, of course.

2026-05-11 17:41:46 CEST

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Generally I don't vote unless the results are public. But I made an exception this time. I voted "dictatorship" by the way.

2026-05-01 21:48:56 CEST

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Unfortunately this same thing can happen if you go out for particularly long dance outings, for similar reasons of excessive stimulation. Most Friday night or weekend dances are 2.5-3 hours and I have been to special events as long as 4+ and this can get physically demanding. Having the urge can happen in this setting. And obviously it's awkward if you are going to be around hot girls. But there's no good solution for it so far - and of course these places also don't have showers at all as some gyms do. Best I can do is use cologne and have changes of clothes. I don't use coffee because it's at night and I don't want to be up all night. I don't want to use alcohol to calm down after because the sleep quality will be shite not to mention that arguably any alcohol use is a terrible long term choice. It's a conundrum...

2026-04-23 18:27:24 CEST

Thoughts on OFSH post, screenshot below:
A friend of mine thinks they are allowing a thaw in censorship / crackdowns in order to get dissidents to out themselves for future persecution, which they are building the infrastructure for now (e.g. age verification laws as first step in comprehensive surveillance rollout).
So OFSH may be on to something. Generally, the more paranoid takes have turned out to be right lately. And by lately I mean since 2020 at the latest.
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2026-03-31 22:16:39 CEST

I am going to be mostly offline for a few days as I am away from usual domicile on business. I have also mostly vacated X because of the flood tide of fake news and slop that got far worse since the Iran War started. Mostly I avoid interacting with the feed at all, and instead bookmark the accounts that I do follow, and then visit those links directly - basically treating it like a microblog service now when I do go. Also, a semi-digital detox will do me good - i haven't had a proper dopamine fast in some time and it is needed as I have some irl things needing urgent attention.
Salaam.

2026-03-31 22:13:01 CEST

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I have heard the ground war is not going well for the IDF even though they have done a very good job with aerial bombing as they usually do.

2026-03-26 20:36:25 CET

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It's still worth knowing game if you can benefit from it, for sure. For what it's worth, none of the girls I met in the past 2 years even mentioned income. If you are good looking they don't seem to care.
Not that you shouldn't maximize your money, fame or people skills.

2026-03-26 20:24:45 CET

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Yeah all of this is true, it's just that no one has adjusted to the new reality yet. The rose tinted goggles of 20th century prosperity still haven't worn off in America so everyone imagines that things are going to get better and the sexual marketplace, marriage, etc will "return to how they were". Actually what seems like a dystopia situation now IS the return to how things were before that artificial situation was created. And there is no pathway back to how things were.
Mind you, I think that at some point in the future the elites will maybe want more stability again and bring back middle class values, marriage, all of that, but right now the attitude is there are too many humans and they are in depopulation mode. So I don't expect it to change anytime soon.

2026-03-25 23:48:59 CET

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It's funny that college friends don't stick because it's not that different than high school, but it's not mandatory and that seems to make all the difference. I also talk to basically no one from college anymore. Whereas I did make real friends when I went through drug/alcohol treatment in my early 20s after I got in trouble. And same with the veterans from the trenches of the information wars of the last decades. Friendship is forged in fires.
Ugh, I had the recurring high school dreams as well. Actually I had "trapped in college" dreams too, sometimes, but in that case it felt more like an existential dread of being stuck in place where my life had not progressed at all instead of being caged like a rat (public screwl). Perhaps both of them were the subconscious trying to communicate different messages to me... the college dreams may be a commentary on stagnation rather than about youth trauma. I have felt the stagnation feeling at times ever since covid.

2026-03-24 13:25:47 CET

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Not hard - impossible. Just look at how men disappear from the world once they get married as an example. And then we have moving around for careers, being flaky and not sticking with things, living in the world of mass media while not interacting irl, etc. That's why DS is right - don't worry about friends, just build networks.

2026-03-23 14:40:52 CET

Like the old grindset accounts from the peak era of Twitter used to say: "you have no time".
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2026-03-22 21:43:06 CET

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I would say leave up the videos and content that you've put here so far. That is your public legacy so far. Step away if you must. You can always come back to Nostr. I think that the big platforms are well past the point of diminishing returns. As for networking or how to become successful online, I think on the big platforms there was a window, but it may have closed. Certainly X is no place to do it. As for other routes, it remains to be seen. But probably if you feel burnt out the first thing to do is disengage and think it over. The seedy cypherpunk dive bar of Nostr will welcome you back if you so choose.

2026-03-19 23:31:38 CET

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Israel and the Gulf countries are getting pounded daily by missile and drone barrages... and for a while the launch frequency had gone down so it almost was believable when Hegseth said that their batteries had been taken out.... then it started going up again and the accuracy increasing too. Supposedly Iran had stockpiled like 80000 missiles, loitering munitions, etc. It appears that the US Navy is not interested in getting any nearer than the coast of Oman or thereabouts. This has rapidly turned into an epic shit set.
Yesterday they blew up big oil infrastructure. Hoo boy. Welcome to the next big crisis of the 2020s. Now Trump may be right that the USA has enough oil but the rest of the world does not... and that will affect us because with Dubai crude at way higher than Brent you will see American producers sell to the highest bidder overseas. I think I will not plan any major driving trips this summer. LOL

2026-03-19 16:46:49 CET

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2026-03-18 20:28:26 CET

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Interesting- I wonder if they got positions from nepotism. It is absolutely out of control in Western academia, maybe it is worldwide. But the difference is that in China they don't tolerate incompetence if they find out.

2026-03-17 23:15:06 CET

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Yes - the latter is very likely right now.

2026-03-17 15:49:42 CET

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Currently in the midst of such an experience making me reevaluate some things. In this case it is of my own making. Worst illness in years. I believe that overdoing it since last year has compromised my health. I will have to make lifestyle changes.

2026-03-14 14:06:23 CET

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I forgot - blasphemy 🙃

2026-03-12 17:29:29 CET

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Yeah if you want anonymous cypherpunk internet cash it needs to be something that doesn't have wild volatility.
Ideally, not something where every single transaction can be traced since the beginning either 😂

2026-03-11 23:18:27 CET

Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night, intermittent insomnia kind of thing, and last night at probably around 3 AM I heard military jets going over. I don't recall late night military flyovers since the Bush years. Anyway it's pretty clear we have entered uncharted territory and we are facing a crisis in the months ahead.
Just like before Covid, everyone is going about their business as if nothing happened. I suppose this is how it was in August 1914 or 1939 as well - unease and menace underneath a veneer of "this is fine".

2026-03-11 19:25:41 CET

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I made a comment about taking your time whole driving and enjoying it as a road trip some time ago but in many cases it seems notifications on Nostr don't work so it may have been missed. But this is a golden opportunity to turn the move into a pleasant experience rather than a death march. Unless you have some specific reason to rush the trip.

2026-03-08 22:48:05 CET

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Adding to my last remark, in my hobbies I occasionally meet 40-something women in my hobby who are still attractive because they have stayed active, had decent diets, and are probably higher IQ and of better genetics than average, but they still can't stand up to the younger women in raw vitality, health and therefore attractiveness. Young women just seem to radiate energy in a way that older women cannot match, though there is some wiggle room for the latter if they don't let themselves go too much.
Also, being more socially active again taught me that Americans from Boomers on down to Millennials were/are way too reliant on alcohol. I mean borderline alcoholism is basically a normal condition in the contemporary West. This drove a lot of mating behavior and now the Zoomers are not drinking and also have attenuated social skills, so the whole mating scene is fucked up to the point where it has to be built up from pieces. But hardly anyone wants to admit this. I think this is part of why the dating scene got so weird, as Jay pointed out - it is not just women being difficult, it also reflects some very big shifting sands in society.

2026-03-06 19:52:30 CET

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I also mainly enjoyed sex with my first gf, and maybe the next 2-3 girls after that. From then on I lost interest because as you say there is no connection. As Jay says "it's all the same box" but not in a good way. Sex in a relationship felt good - casual sex felt meaningless and a bit depressing to be honest - like I was around a vampire draining my life away.
It makes me think back to your "1-4 body count is most attractive" paper. It may be that for most of us we are just not meant to exceed that - there are certainly evolutionary reasons that might be so. Excessively promiscuous people are probably wired differently (mentally ill) and I have no interest in that.
Even longtime PUA Girls Chase was forced to admit (in a roundabout way - he was making some point about how men need women to complete them) that men mainly do this for the approval of other men. But the people who judge you for whether you chase girls or not are retarded and you do not have to associate with them.
No judgement for those readers who are PUAs, married or whatever, do your own thing, but I only wish they would return the favor of no judgements. Instead what we find is judgy PUAs, sanctimonious wife guys and the like. If they were so sure of their choices would they need to be so damned preachy and pushy?

2026-03-05 13:41:19 CET

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AI is going to massacre the girlboss and DEI jobs and for that reason alone I would welcome it.

2026-03-03 05:44:15 CET

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I saw that one - French OG likes dating apps mainly for the sadism I believe.

2026-03-03 00:19:18 CET

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Even BAP - who has been accused of being Mossad - thinks it is stupid.

2026-03-01 14:58:46 CET

I think inner city cores in Murka are effed. Commercial real estate is in a depression since 2022 because there is way too much of it. People are moving out of the biggest blue cities and down to the Sun Belt or even out of the country at record numbers. Also statistics show that despite attempts by corporations to force return to office, it is not working very well, with remote or hybrid work about as common as it was years ago. All of this means that the urban cores are getting a slow death of their tax base by 1000 cuts. There are some special cases where it will be propped up by various (communist) policies such as in NYC, Minneapolis, or Portland, but the general trend is very bad, and even in those cases it won't save the inner cores because they are crap heaps that no sane person would stay in.

2025-09-15 22:31:14 CEST

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Jeets in IT have contributed mightily to the Third World flavor of 21st century America. Every company seems to be staffed by entire chawls (ghettos) full of them...

2025-06-24 18:18:50 CEST

I am seriously considering another digital detox because I need to get some things done and make progress and I feel internet addiction is once again holding me back. After doing this a few times since last summer it is undeniable that they work to reset your priorities. Since I've gotten a bit off-track since this spring I will probably do that ASAP.
Boredom is good in small doses.

2025-01-29 17:20:28 CET

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It's true - the games were not made for children but they were marketed to them. That's why it's fundamentally dishonest to claim vidya addiction is a "manchild" problem. It may be a waste of time but it is not particularly childish.

2024-09-19 19:57:07 CEST

I still have my old IRL social media accounts on Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram and Snapchat but I barely use them anymore. And it's because they're just too much like real life. What I've come to realize is that the intrusion of real life into cyberspace was a grave mistake. Sites like Twitter and Nostr that are open by design and also tolerant of anonymity (pseudo-anonymity really) make for a better UX, let's face it. Some amount of detachment or removal from real life identities is part of the charm and the enjoyment.
Non-anonymous media have their place, but I find that model works better with video media than the scrolling social media feed type of app. I know the lines have been blurred over time as social media have tried to be all things to all people, but I'm talking about primary focus.