Psilocybin (mushrooms) is the most effective known smoking addiction treatment only because people literally “suddenly realized how stupid” smoking is, no other reason given, 80% success rate.
The universally important implication here is that:
Feeling something is much more effective than knowing something.
Any appeal to reason with fail vs. appeal to emotions.
Apply this hack at your own discretion.
Mar 10, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
How you approach a fast psychologically probably makes a big difference in reducing “suffering”.
You’re not starving yourself:
You’re helping your body heal. You’re giving your cells a rest to help rejuvenate. You’re treating your gut and tending your microbiome.
Multiple day water fasting is as ancient as humanity and has been widely used before “modern medicine” to treat various illnesses.
It is not only a physical, but also a spiritual practice integral to many religions.
Mar 7, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I’m starting to get Andrew Tate vibes from Elon Musk.
That’s some lowlife shit, man
Nov 21, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The cheering in the comments is unbearable.
There is HUGE hidden cost to not being able to easily fire employees in Europe: companies not growing staff, much lower salaries (6-figure salaries are practically unheard of), fewer openings.
Labor laws is only one factor to lower salaries and higher unemployment.
Another is employer contributions to the state - where each net salary is up to 200% in cost for the employer, funding the famous lavish welfare and unemployment benefits system.
Look at this graph:
Jul 10, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Seneca’s Letter CIV is dedicated to trashing the cult of “travelling”. So juicy.
Lessss go 🧵
“The man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet, will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing.
The story is told that some one complained to Socrates that travelling abroad had never done him any good and received the reply: 'What else can you expect, seeing that you always take yourself along with you when you go abroad?
May 11, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
“According to you, the supreme good is sound physical health plus the confident hope that nothing will interfere with it in the future. How on earth, then, can you suppose that you have cut off Fortune's access? Your ideal might easily vanish into thin air at any moment…
… Poverty, failure, low birth, loneliness, bereavement, physical agony, ruined health, paralysis, blindness, national collapse, exile, slavery… may easily befall even the wisest of men, since they are the products of chance, from which no man, however wise, enjoys immunity.
May 9, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Reminder that if you think you’re being a “dissident” thinker by following some “contrarian” grifter de facto translating Kremlin TV propaganda info into English you’re on the same page with a Siberian grandma who *only* gets Kremlin TV as her source of information.
To be fair, I shouldn’t have used “Siberian” because in fact Siberians are historically quite critical of central authority.
The universally important implication here is that:
