I was assured that technocrats buying up and then erasing old knowledge was a "conspiracy theory". Back in early college there was this "crazy" black guy immigrant from Darkest Africa who I used to talk conspiracies with - they love conspiracy theories - and he claimed this would happen in the future: "they will digitize all knowledge, and then destroy the physical copies!".

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

I didn't pay much attention to it but apart from the blackwashing and trannies (something every fantastical show seems to have these days) it didn't look that bad, I mean it actually looked like they were trying to be faithful to the original material which I read a long time ago. And most of the cast is white, which has been the case with a lot of shows lately. Once again I am glad I just ignored the propaganda around it on all sides. Do you plan to see it?

I have been to Charleston and I would agree about all of that area, that is anywhere that is "antebellum South". That's probably my favorite climate as well - "humid subtropical" / Trewartha C. All these cities seem to be the same, too much like open air zoos but with amazing nature (also true of Savannah GA and New Orleans LA). And the cities of Texas may also have a bit of futurism but the area is too hot, too dry, full of illegals, and that pathological Texas arrogance that you have talked about.

Yes, and you left out the part about how he had women drive him around. He can't drive and seemed to be terrified of it in fact. And Azns ARE terrible drivers. For some reason, so are all people who drive Toyota and Honda crossovers (despite those being at least moderately quality autos), as if their similarity to Azn drivers compels them to buy these things. I admit that Europe may have some utility IF you want to live the way Aruvin does - it's just that I don't. And everywhere on Earth has problems now, but Europe's are arguably worse than ours (no primary energy sources outside of UK and Norway, invaded by Islam and Africa, totalitarian-WEF-climate cult government, no AC in summer heat, etc).

The US system is also awful, a monolith that dwarfs the military-industrial complex (it is above 20% of GDP now) and has delivered ever-worse health outcomes for all that money spent. But it makes a good living for a large number of parasites, not unlike government and education, the other institutional/large scale no work/pretend work jobs. The whole function of this is to do harm and keep you dependent while covering up cheap or free remedies. I regard most of today's "science" in the same way.

I wish I could do this now but it will probably be a few years (for reasons you are aware of from DMs a while back). From preliminary investigations it appears that Orlando would be a very good fit for me. But we shall revisit it when it becomes a realistic possibility.

"Lambs go to slaughter, a man knows when to walk away" - The Greek (mob boss) from season 2 of The Wire

That is quite right about motivation: I got best results with diet + cardio + weight training, yes all three of those things on the same program, and probably that's why I didn't maintain it perfectly - it became a bit tiresome.

I have interacted with them for the past 2+ years without any real consequences. But again I only do it in certain environments (athletics basically) and refuse to follow the "accepted scripts" like you should date them, simp for them, etc. And if a situation outlives its usefulness I walk.