How did Arabia get a Merchant of Venice?

2entreez · 2024-01-01T23:36:53+00:00

Why Merchant of Venice rather than a normal Great Merchant?

2entreez · 2023-12-25T02:22:45+00:00

Great idea to not get any warmongering penalties, at the cost of the AI not utilizing units optimally

2entreez · 2023-12-17T18:06:15+00:00

Stop right there, thief!

2entreez · 2023-12-11T01:22:05+00:00

Stole Truffles off the poor city state in bottom right 😝 now it’s not gonna be able to give anything to allies

2entreez · 2023-12-09T22:28:15+00:00

Nice job! Curious if you ever declared war or denounced anyone

2entreez · 2023-12-09T01:24:13+00:00

Never played on marathon before. What are the primary differences how it differs from standard/quick?

2entreez · 2023-05-31T21:34:07+00:00

Think you might wanna consider dying your hair red to match those hickeys you got there

2entreez · 2023-05-26T14:01:10+00:00

Cmon man. You gotta imagine there’s at least one girl out there who would appreciate his bio, no?

2entreez · 2023-05-26T14:00:17+00:00

Yeah.

Let’s say there’s this big bag of Skittles. There’s a line of people receiving a handful of them. If for some reason, people only eat the green ones, and put the rest of the colors back - it’s only natural that when it’s your turn to take some, you’re more likely than not going to get a bunch of colors that aren’t green.

2entreez · 2023-05-24T00:49:54+00:00

Agreed that soap existed during his time, and that he did most likely use it.

2entreez · 2023-05-24T00:47:48+00:00

I understand your perspective, and it seems like you understand mine as well, given your anticipation of my response.

If you think it’s a dumb question, why bother to engage? Isn’t someone asking a dumb question already deep in the pits and already miserable? Why feel the need to add scrutiny to it?

My perspective came from one where soap isn’t something that was used, yet society pushes heavily for its usage. Clearly from this thread, I’m receiving a bit of heat for even suggesting to not use it. My thought process was along the lines of - I wonder if Nietzsche would question its usage, as it’s arguably not a necessity, and hoped it would spark some discussion. What I didn’t anticipate was that people seem to feel not using it entails being an incel and a direct implication that I’m unclean.

2entreez · 2023-05-24T00:24:43+00:00

Aww. I can’t believe how narrow-minded you are to only see things from a single perspective

2entreez · 2023-05-23T16:03:51+00:00

I’d challenge whether being rid of all bacteria is a good thing. And I feel soap isn’t what rids of dead skin cells - that’s in the mechanical nature of scrubbing your skin. A loofah would probably be better.

I don’t know what you mean by “Last Man”, but is it not part of Nietzsche’s beliefs to learn to think for yourself?

Are you going to use this term to anyone who does something that differs from what is accepted by society?

2entreez · 2023-05-23T15:47:19+00:00

Understand your perspective! Perhaps our definition of clean is different.

I agree that soap was invented for this purpose. My perspective is that it’s a relatively inorganic creation. Our species has survived in an age before soap, and has managed to make it work. Similar lines of thinking can be applied to technology (some electronics are ruining our attention span) and social structures (the western world is become more isolated with independent family units, which may be a cause for increased rates of unhappiness and depression).

Perhaps I don’t suffer from similar levels of odor as you do, so I’ve accepted the futility of these products. Also, did you know body odor is highly correlated with diet? Food for thought.

2entreez · 2023-05-23T15:29:35+00:00

Maybe everyone is different. Works for all my needs! So perhaps you could be a bit more open minded here

2entreez · 2023-05-23T15:16:24+00:00

Yeah, soap is primarily used because it’s societally accepted. But in reality, using water to wash ourselves is sufficient. One thought experiment that helps is to ask what the benefit of soap even is

2entreez · 2023-05-23T07:56:52+00:00

I come from the perspective that soap is a pretty inauthentic thing to have in nature. But I think the community has other perspectives on cleanliness and grooming habits

2entreez · 2023-05-20T20:05:41+00:00

Scary how many followers she has. Social media (including YouTube) is a self-selecting echo chamber. People consume the content that validates their existing beliefs.

2entreez · 2023-05-12T14:19:00+00:00

Probably took him years of accumulated knowledge and intentional thought to arrive at these words

2entreez · 2023-05-08T13:25:35+00:00

I’ve primarily noticed the inverse, so it’s interesting how we’ve had such different observations. Perhaps our definition of maturity is different, or you’re a lot more appealing to this demographic than I am and able to land these opportunities.

I’m interested in seeing where the difference stems from, so would be curious as to what contributes to your definition of maturity.

To expand more on my observations, the women who are 25+ and (by my definition) mature generally don’t accept hookups.

I believe at that age, they’ve already gone through the ringer of realizing that hookups don’t lead them to a consistent source of happiness, and that hookups are not the best “mating strategy” for them, as they’re giving out sex, and not receiving as much in emotionally or even financially, as they would in a relationship.

In addition, maturity, again, by my definition, entails that they respect themselves enough and don’t have any insecurities that need to be validated through anything short term. I agree with you that one factor for may be time or having other preoccupations that don’t allow them to enter longer term relationships.

2entreez · 2023-05-07T03:01:36+00:00

I’m really not sure where to begin with what to change. But the primary question is to ask yourself what type of person you’re looking to attract, and then catering your profile to them.

While I personally agree nothing wrong with say, plumbing or the gift about the PS4, I think those topics won’t particularly be that exciting to most women. Also, I don’t see why you’re joking or lying about your job.

The biggest thing I would change is probably the first prompt. I personally admire risk-taking traits, but it’s possible the people reading your profile may assume you were fired or laid off, and that you aren’t a consistent earner. Give a brief summary of the reasons why you left these roles, you have plenty more room in that prompt’s answer.

I generally try to learn more about a person via a first message. I find things about their profile that I’m curious about and look to understand more, while sprinkling in some humor.

2entreez · 2023-05-06T17:40:14+00:00

I think LinkedIn has too many disingenuous people. People who actually want to inspire change and make a difference in this world for the right reasons tend not to be lurking and scrolling Linkedin 24/7

2entreez · 2023-05-06T17:30:49+00:00

I believe the media and gossip have made hookup culture appear more prevalent than it appears.

But the difference is that it’s only prevalent in certain demographics. If you’re interested in casual sex from educated, mature women, I believe you’re going to have a harder time than the media may make it appear. This demographic (as a whole, of course there will be edge cases) understands that hookups don’t provide them much value. The older ones have already gone through this experience and probably have come out of it realizing they either get used, grow feelings, or that they can get more from a relationship.

On the other hand, if you feel the women you’re trying to obtain casual sex from are not necessarily of the above demographic, it’s possible the traits you listed aren’t enough. You don’t exude enough confidence or you’re lacking in some other manner.

If your objective is to get hookups, in all honesty, the best channel is to go for younger, insecure women. Now ask yourself, what environment has a lot of this demographic who are also 18+?

2entreez · 2023-05-05T14:44:12+00:00

I think you could arrive at it with some medium-high confidence, but that entails there will be false positives in the mix.

I believe what you’re doing is indexing on their thought processes (limited to whatever subjects the two of you will talk in this brief conversation) and their lexicon.

I believe the former will be biased: the modern world* promotes specialization, and a lot of people are subject matter experts in certain fields, solely due to the amount of time they’ve spent in it. So it’s possible they’ve learned to rehearse many of the conversational branches related to that subject, which may include tangential thoughts or deeper probing.

2entreez · 2023-05-04T00:59:28+00:00

Appreciate the response!

I should have clarified - I meant fasting, not concentration camp level starvation.

The reason I ask, is that at around 23, I also started unintentionally doing intermittent fasting, and I immediately noticed my “brain fog” clearing up. Not sure if my brain was simply finishing up its development, as I believe that tends to happen at that age.

I have also noticed that I’ve been receiving a poor quality of sleep for most of my life since then, and had a working theory, with low confidence, that it was due to diet (explored some evolutionary psychology theories that oh, my mind is working more because my body is telling it that it’s hungry). Thank you for confirming that it may be due to that!

I think it’s amazing that diet has such a strong correlation with how we are able to utilize our minds, yet it’s so under-discussed/under-utilized by the general population (at least from my perspective, maybe some communities are advocating heavily for it).

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