Fight Wise is back! And this time, we're getting you ready for the knock down, drag out, heavyweight battle of the year: Spending the holidays with your family. We've redesigned the course to train you to stay maximally calm, graceful and strong when you're face to face with

Even if you have no interest in masculinity, mental health, philosophy, or history, it's a pretty soothing voice to listen to. Recommended.

If you’ve ever read vivid void’s writing you know his YouTube is going to be great :)

Check it out this man is a boss

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Hey, I've got a YouTube channel! I just uploaded 5 lectures from Project Crucible, on masculinity, mental health & two philosophical topics - great for listening while you work or exercise. I'll be vlogging there too, starting this weekend. Please subscribe - it helps a lot!

Now that AI can make infinite pictures of impossibly beautiful women, and Ozempic can make everyone thin, I predict that feminine beauty standards will start to revolve around "low-fuss", slightly thicc, girl-next-door type looks that are hard to fake

Therapist's offices should be exempt from laws banning indoor smoking. Every clinic should have a couple of rooms with leather furniture, glass tables, plenty of windows and a good HVAC system, and therapists with clients who smoke should use them as needed.

a bad friend will give you excuses, a good friend will hold you to high standards

America is a swamp for any religion that emphasizes selflessness, because that runs counter to our online culture of spectacle, the current consensus of psychologists, and the structure of our economic system. It's impossible to become prosperous while selfless in our society,

unhesitatingly describing a terrible worldstate you have found yourself in accurately and without averting your gaze from the situation at all can be exhilarating, pleasurable, oddly spiritual

“OMG did u hear about Hasan’s dog collar?” You wake up in a cold sweat to an eagle call echoing through your cave. It’s morning. The sun reflects brightly off the shelves of ice. A herd of mammoths treks thru the valley below. You grab your spear. The tribe must feast tonight.

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It is glorious to be appropriately assertive without waves of debilitating shame.

Sometimes it seems utterly strange that people repeat patterns that clearly hurt them. But then you see the size of their small world, and you get a sense of how much courage it would take to step outside of it, requiring some mad faith to take a chance on happiness

when people say "virtue doesn't pay" they mean "virtue doesn't make you popular". that's a good thing, of course – virtue pays in the company you get to keep in the long term

Ways to authentically rebel in 2026: 1. Be ruthlessly optimistic 2. Refuse to trivialize romance 3. Sacrifice for what you believe in 4. Forgive your family 5. Optimize for meaning, not optionality 6. Don't do drugs 7. Don't fuck people you don't deeply trust

Accidentally suffered because I took seriously what the gods made for fun again award

@hollowearthterf who are some of the most cunning women in history that you know of? Anyone worth reading about?

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