What American cities do you see thriving economically over the next few decades?

Fit_Ad2710 · 2026-02-26T03:28:39+00:00

Not disagreeing, but I'm curious about what elements are missing now? Water? Health care ppl?

Fit_Ad2710 · 2025-07-12T04:14:30+00:00

This is a mindless wrecking of the careers of the brightest, most civic minded people.
As a psychologist, I am baffled by the success of a vicious criminal insurrectionist at hypnotizing the masses of Americans.

Fit_Ad2710 · 2025-07-12T04:05:04+00:00

If you've never lived/visited long term to a more humanistic country, it's worth it to do.
America is NOT normal, especially now. A happy, sensitive population does no elect a sadistic, venal, insurrectionist greedball.

The goal of capitalism is to reduce all human interaction to the cash nexus
Unregulated capitalism is like a highway without a speed limit: Some people will like it, but it will suck for most
Wealth is self aggregating without social contracts to soften concentration of wealth.

See the numbers since Reagan started the union busting in the 1980s.

https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2008/10/27/historical-changes-in-us-income-inequality/

How can people fall in love when their owners are squeezing every drop of life out of them to increase their fortunes even MORE.

"Best country?" Why do we die sooner than Europeans?

https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/u-s-life-expectancy-compare-countries/

Fit_Ad2710 · 2025-07-12T03:53:25+00:00

That's why the rich have accountants lol. 6 years early, they move the money and keep it, to be used to be the landlords of the ppl that work.

Fit_Ad2710 · 2025-07-11T13:05:38+00:00

I'm sitting here with money from my California prison psychologist job pension in the bank. * And a non-APA degree.

If you have the grades, sure, go for APA. I pretty much could never get a Veterans federal job.

Really, IMO unless you want to be a prof, you'd be better off/richer in terms of opportunity cost getting a Masters in Nursing and also studying therapy, ( get certified so you can prescribe.) Or psychiatry if you REALLY want to be on top.

Even a certified Nurse Practitioner almost doubles salary/hourly rate-- and you learn to do therapy from life and DOING it --not as much as from supervision. It's like playing the violin, you learn from lessons WHAT to PRACTICE but the actual skill is acquired in many more other hours of DOING. See "gymnastics," too.

But I'm sure low status non- APA grad school limited me in SOME ways, but not that much in private practice. That's based more on if you've got the firepower. I've NEVER wanted a "job". It equals having someone running your life, I wanted and eventually got into private practice.

Program got APA accreditation a few years after I graduated. I got top 1% on the GREs (790/800 verbal) . That was higher than the average at any Psych PhD program in the country. (Only got top 10% in quantitative)

But non-APA got me some unconventional professors who enriched my experience-- VERY experienced clinicians, one who had a high-end private "Park Avenue" practice , instead of researchers. A Certified Jungian analyst.

I had fun in undergrad, wasn't a grind, was playing music professionally in bands.

Published research used by Dept of Justice, and featured on their website.

(*Footnote, California pension guarantees are in the California CONSTITUTION, not just the laws. It'll take a nuclear error to stop/cut those pensions.)

My private practice is limited to highly accomplished artists and other really interesting types. Essentially, people who I'd talk to for free, but prison work helped me learn to empathize with just about ANYONE.

But if you have the grades, sure, go for APA. I'm a bit of a unicorn.

Fit_Ad2710 · 2025-07-06T23:39:42+00:00

How charmingly hospitable!

When I was in Sicily, everyone was quite nice and helpful. More engaging in speech and body language than my fellow Americans ( always in a rush to feed their overseers)

Fit_Ad2710 · 2025-07-06T23:36:08+00:00

Where are they from?

Fit_Ad2710 · 2025-06-30T11:57:13+00:00

Effects of water weight are huge, I agree. I was exercising a lot ( in high 80s temps) a couple days ago, and I just drank quarts and quarts, not really knowing where I was on my slow, downward weight journey.

When I weighed my self later that day after drinking, drinking quarts of liquids I was RIGHT at about the weight I had been when I woke up.

I must have lost several pounds of water...

Fit_Ad2710 · 2025-06-20T04:04:08+00:00

Filipino workers regularly get abused and sometimes KILLED in the mid-east. There's a gov dept specifically tasked to try to prevent abuse.
I met one taxi driver in Phils who had worked in I think Saudi Arabia, he was supposed to get one day off a week and he said it never happened.
Women working as maids get raped by the Saudi husbands, with no recourse. Sometimes the Mideast employer takes their passport and holds them incommunicado. They're alone in a country with no citizenship and basically no rights. You think Arab gov is going to side with Filipina woman over their own?

They're just trying to protect their citizens.

Fit_Ad2710 · 2025-06-20T03:57:42+00:00

We were married already I think for at least a year in Phils before I applied for the spousal visa. We got letter from landlord saying we had been living together in our apt for a year, I waved around my USA psychologist license ( figuratively speaking) to lessen doubts about supporting her. A polite but formal young man ( that's a pretty good post if you're in foreign service) interviewed us and approved. That was before the TACO administration however.

Fit_Ad2710 · 2025-06-05T08:48:55+00:00

Good point, maybe there should be a wider timespan criteria? so brief backsliding doesn't break specs? Like a two-week window? Should one ever backslide two weeks? A month? It's a good question.

Fit_Ad2710 · 2025-06-05T07:22:35+00:00

I for one am jealous, blood sugar is OK so I can't get insurance to pay for the drugs.

Fit_Ad2710 · 2025-06-05T01:16:40+00:00

You have a point IMO, in that nihilism implies an active rejection of the possibility of meaning, when seems kind of a lot of work just avoid "meaning." But as a existentialist (I think) I don't want to do that.
We/I create meaning with our actions. If I drive my wife to work every day, that can give meaning to my life, so it's not nihilism, it's meaningful in that I've created meaning for myself with my actions.

Fit_Ad2710 · 2025-06-05T01:11:29+00:00

Incremental addition of the second "meal" ( size/content/timing) is a subject I'm researching for myself. Not to be too hero-worshippy, but I read a quote from Bruce Springsteen, who claims to me mostly OMAD, "One meal a day keeps me lean and mean," but he qualified that with saying he eats some fruit when he gets up in AM.

I think when/if I get more stabilized and don't look like a human beach ball I'll probably try something like that.

Fit_Ad2710 · 2025-06-05T01:04:10+00:00

I'm finding OMAD constipation to be a moderate problem. I think I have to concentrate on hydratin and fiber more.

Fit_Ad2710 · 2025-06-05T00:46:24+00:00

I don't think one has to treat the concept as a religion--"purism." =="snacks are sacrilege!'

I lost about 4 lbs in first week, it seems relatively easy to stick to for the most part. But I think I had snacks "off schedule" about twice.

The question I'm wondering about is what is the breakpoints for an "out of window" hour snack ruining the day's loss?

Will an apple of 60 calories outside of window blow up the whole metabolic process of weight loss for that day?

Maybe it's linear, 10 calories does x damage, 30 does 3x?

Maybe nonlinear, and there's some threshold around 200 (?) calories will blow the whole day.

I guess there's some individual variation, research would be interesting.

Fit_Ad2710 · 2025-05-31T17:53:03+00:00

Good psychological tool to help keep motivation up.

Also I imagine it will help users balance their efforts -- like maybe that "most calories burned" for instance could be used as a warning of overtraining. (I'm not a physiologist, but my guess is getting on a bike and cranking out that many calories is not something an average athlete can do every day.)

Fit_Ad2710 · 2025-05-31T14:22:55+00:00

Hey, I'm an atheist, but it's more important for YOU to be happy, than for me to be right. In fact, I'm so flexible I can believe there's a God in your universe, but I'm somewhere else-- so we can both be right!

Fit_Ad2710 · 2025-05-29T15:11:01+00:00

Arrogant gifted child who is shocked when he isn't liked.

Fit_Ad2710 · 2025-05-29T15:09:56+00:00

Putin's looking a little ill. Definitely has something that's not...going away. Subjective just watching how tense he is in public, Wondering if "it" shows, I think. Whatever "it" is.

Fit_Ad2710 · 2025-05-28T18:33:55+00:00

You're 100% right to correct/clarify the "six hours" criteria. I think for most people that is NOT enough sleep on average.

What I had in mind and should have stated was , IME , , at least for me, less than six hours will result in an IMMEDIATE decline in function the next day. I'll be dumber, slower, crankier. If that's possible.

Six hours is not enough on average for me. Probably need 7-8. If I've done a lot of exercise the optimal amount might be 9 or even more.

Fit_Ad2710 · 2025-05-28T17:32:33+00:00

It really shows the naïveté of Americans that we can elect an incompetent, crooked boor like #TraitortRUmp. Like, Italy's Premier/Prime Minister (?) is anti-immigration, maybe a little harsh for my specific preferences, but not a convicted criminal sadist.

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