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I recently got into pizza baking. The first pizza I made had no scorching on the bottom. The second had a little more. The third had even more. And the fourth had large splotches of scorched bread on the bottom.

I troubleshooted. There was very little information online how to fix this issue because apparently not many people have a real issue with it. It's just charring they say.

Now if you fix this issue you get the pizza that I always dreamed of as a kid but was never able to make. And Ultra thin thoroughly dried bottom that crunches like a cracker and folds like a tortilla, with soft chewy bread right on top with delicious sauce, cheese and toppings.

The problem was very simple in hindsight. It wasn't sugar. It wasn't oil. It wasn't flour stuck to the bottom. I was failing to degas the bottom.

It clicked when I made focaccia. When I pressed the dough down to create the divots, the air went to the top in large pockets.

That's when I realized what was scorching was the thin tiny air bubbles on the bottom of the pizza. So by pressing down thoroughly (which I did the first time I baked pizza because I was more conscientious about what I was doing), you make sure the bottom of the pizza is completely flat and almost free of all bubbles. This creates the insane crunch that lasts even 10 minutes out of the oven without having a dry cracker.

So to recap.

1. Evenly and thoroughly press down the dough ball to create a bottom with no bubbles, It should feel like you're popping bubble wrap.

2. Keep the bottom the bottom at all times, never flip it.

3. Advanced: ignore the typical pizza rule where you don't touch the ring around the outside of the pizza when degassing. There will be plenty of gas for you to press back into the outer ring after degassing it too.

What you are about to read is a singular thought unraveled as thoroughly as possible. This thought could be expressed in a sentence. But that wouldn't give you much to get angry over.

There is an old, haunting observation that the youth are no longer interested in the culture being provided for them.

I feel that weight every day.

Look at the landscape of modern creation—whether in music, art, or thought—and ask yourself an honest question: If I want to create as who I truly am, where do I go?

What path is left for a mind that refuses to flatten itself for the market? Are your only choices to become an underground oddity, a museum curio, or a monk retreating into a monastery? Why has genuine human expression been systematically purged from public space? Why is there no open air left for the uncommodified being?

The answer is simple, though staggering in its brutality: There are no open outlets left. Every avenue of modern expression must pass through their gates. Every channel is heavily curated, tightly regulated, and locked behind the altar of ad revenue. Culture is no longer an expression of spirit; it is an optimization strategy designed to sell out to the largest mass of people.

Our culture has not drifted into decay by accident. It has been degraded systematically.

When you witness this level of cultural flattening, you are forced to look at the root. You are forced to return to this ancient diagnostic: The love of money is the root of all evil.

We like to imagine we live in a brand-new, hyper-modern world of unprecedented progress. But when you step back and look at the architecture of our behaviors, our institutions, and our power—symbolized so plainly by the obelisks in plazas and the pyramids on currency—you realize we are merely playing out the latest iteration of an ancient blueprint. We are living inside an empire built on accumulation, central control, and the ruthless liquidating of organic life into ledger assets.

What we are witnessing is not the organic evolution of human civilization. It is the victory of a specific, predatory machine—a system that replaces the rooted and the neighborly with a hyper-narcissistic, exploitative ethos. It produces a culture so detached from authentic identity that it borders on total apathy.

And the most insidious trick of this machine is its ability to cover its tracks.

Once this system takes hold, it births new ideologies, new religions, and new political frameworks to obfuscate the root. It creates systems that pretend to attack money, wealth, or power, ensuring that we fight over the surface symptoms while the insatiable love of transaction remains completely untouched at the center.

Which brings us to the ultimate, terrifying crossroads.

Once a culture abandons its intrinsic worth—once it trades its organic, uncommodified being—can it ever go back?

Or is the mythic story literal? Once you step outside the Garden of Eden, are you cast out forever? Is there truly an angel standing at the gate with a flaming sword, barring our return to a world of true life, leaving us doomed to suffer the friction of death forever?

That is the terror of our age.

And terror is what it feels like to live inside it.

When I tell people (after they ask, which they do) that I cook/bake/ whatever. And I show them pictures of my food. They ask me how I learned. And I always say. I follow the recipe to the T. The struggle is in finding the right recipe. To me cooking is chemistry. You can have all the same ingredients and get a horrible result because you've got 1. The wrong ratios. 2. Wrong technique. 3. Wrong tools. The only thing I need is thorough instructions. I hate loose instructions to the point where I will find a recipe with them before attempting one that looks good without them. Because I won't replicate the results without good instructions. I know I won't. I have experience with failing. And to me even the wrong level of crispness or chew is a fail.

Reddit will never allow anything on their site that hurts any publicly traded company like Apple or Google. It will be hidden, you will be banned from subreddits, etc. This isn't because people aren't enjoying the content and the discussion, it's because they are protecting their ad revenue. Social media is like a job at this point. You either sit down and shut up, or you do something to make the machine money.

Is this a gpay thing or discover doing something

You can have a vocabulary of ten thousand words. If you can't tell me what each one means short of being mere synonyms to color your speech with, then how limited do you think your understanding of the world must be? Jacob and Menod's work is my favorite example of how properly defined words enabled the discovery of gene regulation through pure insight. They took clearly defined and proven terminology to show how it must work. Now with LLMs we have something very similar. A computer using words to understand things it's never seen better than people who see the stuff everyday.

Data shows notable drops in certain verbal and literacy metrics in America. While reading and verbal output are different, a recent study published in Perspectives on Psychological Science found that the average number of words Americans speak daily dropped by 28% between 2005 and 2019.

Why use more words, when every word is ultimately flattened into one meaning anyway?

It reminds me starkly of religious people who are afraid of opening the Bible and reading it. Because it is a task that demands high effort. And they know it will challenge their established thought process. Therefore they flatten the Bible into what they want it to be, and avoid touching it. The same with people in general. Honor becomes a loftier form of love. Good becomes a synonym of love. And whatever else. And you will never ever discover this first hand from these fools because the only reaction you get out of them is postering.

There are no discussions to be had. Put them on trial like a lawyer does a criminal and you get deflection and lies. If they only answered honestly they might awaken.

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Im real. I dont need to plaster my face or my personality with make up and "calm down" if I need to express how pissed i am that's about what happens, but understand: women who believe in "matriarchy" are a spiteful arrogant twits disingenuously tiptoeing around people who might want to punish them for your insolence like an old times witch ablaze on a stake. If they had real respect for people you wouldnt need to worry your disrespect leaking; this worry makes them excellent social club politicians.

To the matriarchs reading this: proceed to downvote me now, like it changes anything about your sad pathetic life destined for misery.

Has no one ever stopped to question a philosopher like Fredrich Nietzsche is ubiquitously promoted in pop culture as a genius of the past? Where are the haters and naysayers about anything he had to say? I never hear them. Ever.

Could it be his ideas surrounding domination after moving yourself outside of "the herd" expertly support any destructive ideology? Such as feminism? This kind of anti-community logic where the "individual"(dependent on every paycheck...) is free to spite pro-social efforts to keep community strong and upheld. Community is almost entirely lacking from his entire philosophy. I've read it. A lot. And I can't find a single instance where he signed off on pro-social beliefs. It's all this bullshit about how things need to be destroyed before they can get better. Get better how? for who? why?

I say women are active agents of a matriarchal ideology because this individualistic will to power type of beat is exactly what is behind matriarchy. Divide and conquer is matriarchy. Neither strict patriarchy or matriarchy can exist without division of community into tiny parts. Anthropological evidence shows brutal subjugation of matriarchal societies by violent warbands time again. What it also shows is they weren't patriarchal in any biblical sense. Beatings of children, women, ETC. typical of post-matriarchal Middle Eastern cultures do and did not exist in native tribes.

All were extensions of the man and woman next to them. Children were future men of the tribe. It's interesting to me that the original concept for man in English likely originated like sheep or fish, as a whole, where 10 people are "man" altogether, just like 10 fish swimming together are fish, not fishes. This kind of communal kinfolk thinking was absolutely decimated by Roman Catholic - Middle Eastern style thinking.

Opening the door first to patriarchy, now the pendulum must inevitably swing the other extreme to matriarchy. Who is ready

I emailed Jeff Dean, the former lead of AI among many other things at Google. It was titled "Fan mail" with a body "Rooting for y'all" as I had recently read he departed Google to start Discovery Loop. When I read what it was about, I knew it was the most important thing anyone has ever attempted to do with AI. He sent a reaction back via gmail 6 hours later at midnight with this emoji: 🙏

I was shocked when I started hearing hate on AI. When AI first came out I was thoroughly impressed. I coincidentally happened to search for a chatbot to talk to (before hearing about it), clicked on a website using an OpenAI api, and when it responded fluently and aware of context I was immediately reminded. I was 17, late 2010s. I watched a youtube video talking about how google had just cracked a problem in machine learning that opened up a new frontier. The man went on to say that by learning python you can work on ML models.

I was extremely intrigued. Paused the video. And had a revelation. "This is what I am supposed to do." I switched majors to computer science and began learning python. Unfortunately for me circumstances ended my studies after a year and a half, and I didn't have the personality to sit at a computer for 8 hours a day studying computer programming. I was extremely susceptible to competitive video games taking up all my free time, free time is what you need to get good at anything. I was passing courses and passing tests, not building skills. Eventually it caught up to me and I had to make a decision to do something else with my life.

But I knew AI was the future. When the future arrived, I went to tell people. The first person said it was no better than googling information. 6 months later they came back to me and said they started using AI for their translator degree.

Some have the personality of Prometheus, most of the personality of a copycat rule following cunt.

This isn't the first and won't be the last thing I've seen early on.

Something I realized immediately was that people who hate AI are the same people who never research, anything. I guess those are the same retards saying trust science. Trust and science don't go together. The whole point of science was to distrust humans and get to the descriptive fact of the matter. Trusting conclusions throws you back into the dark ages of deceptive and very convincing sophistry.

Now I've realized something else. They can't interface with an AI chat bot well at all. They can't type. They have an average word per minute of about 40, according to what ive found. Which dips as low as 30 if they're thinking about what theyre saying. I type at an astonishing 110 words per minute. That's 37% faster than the average professional typist.

No wonder i have no issues with AI. Trying to talk to an AI is like trying to communicate at 25% of your normal conversational sped. And then it spits out so much information your brain enters paralysis

I have heard many people mourn how come we fight with each other, after all we are small parts of an incomprehensibly large universe. I smell rationalization of cowardice. They would allow a bunny with a sword to behead them. Prey to become predator. That is why we fight. Because we aren't prey.

Meaning, it shatters illusions! It is the starter of strife. It is the very need to fight. With such a desire on peace, illusory thoughts must set in. Delusion and the mental illness that follows fixes itself to an otherwise healthy being.

Men are made in the crucible of nature. In the fear of the world around us. To stand in awe. Not in nihilism. What a pathetic way to view life. That it is meaningless because you are small. With such a psychological vulnerability, all that the rabbit must do to control you is convince you he's big. The big bad wizard of oz behind a curtain, convincing you he's big, when he's weak and small.

What do you know? You have been captured by people just like that. Small, weak, feeble minds, demanding your submission OR ELSE. Beheaded by the rabbit with a sword. What a joke.

While you Einsteins choose imagination, I clearly choose the sanity of meaning in all things.

The most popular president to ever be president. An approval rating in the 90s. Why would I criticize him?

Because I studied the king he attacked. In context, his prose comes across as womanish. A man who had collapsed all sense into savage lies.

That prose which he was so proud of. He feared his weak effeminate voice couldn't match his reputation as a big man. This Andrew Tate of 18th century New England. This big mouth.

When he spoke his voice cracked. Weak! Could not project! He stood tall, gangly and narrow. eye contact was a chore.

LIBERTY! DEMOCRACY! REPUBLIC!

These are merely the talking points of a man who wanted to take land forbidden by the king to take. His liberty was as amazing as Napoleons or Caesars liberty to conquer Europe.

What else would you expect? Would someone who wants to take so much for themselves ever approach politics with an honest angle? Would someone involved in the highest secret society not pretend that he was for individualism?

They sold an illusion. They may have spoke fluent Latin by 12. But they were all zombified into rapacious Romans by adulthood.

Contrary to the idea America is anti religious free country, it's the *most* religious country on the planet. No one else could "dream" of creating such a nightmare out of a place that was made by God himself.

They sure did talk alot about natural laws for people obsessed with murdering and sequestering "savages". They sure did talk alot about liberty for people obsessed with taking away everyone's liberty and giving them "rights"(exceptions on restrictions).

Combine all the strands of this clusterfuck of an ideology together and you get a tangled ball called America in the year 2026. An inordinate number of young women profiting off nothing! What an economy. And Joe, he profits mowing your lawn. A real first world country! If there is cosmic justice, china's work ethic will be heavily rewarded, and America's buffoonery punished with heavy monetary losses.

Not only will America become broke, it will become the number one place people commit suicide. Unlike broke countries that seem to have stable and happy people. America will go down as the nastiest, stupidest, failed "experiment" to ever be run.

If you can call a revival of ancient stupidity and "experiment".

1. They don't have to join the military in a war time draft. For every 1 Ukrainian refugee girl stabbed to death there are 1,000,000 Ukrainian conscripted men that are maimed and killed

2. They have a far easier time getting jobs in every industry - minus ones with strict hiring requirements like demonstrable skill (tech). A woman at 18 can go down the street and get hired at the first coffee shop. Her 18 year old brother had to get rejected 50 times before finding a job, and it's probably something sucky like coal mining or handling trash.

3. The methods women use to maintain control in a relationship are not typically recognized as abuse by the court system. The courts still don't acknowledge that screaming, gaslighting, guilt tripping, unpredictable mood swings, and relational aggression are child abuse or spousal abuse punishable by law like beatings and neglect. If you look up court statistics, men abuse their children more frequently. But if you look up stats on who raises more successful children, single fathers outperform single mothers handily. How does that make sense? I've seen so many children gaslit and abused by their mothers and they're so deep in the trauma bond they can't even see its happening.

4. Women have no need to look good, have a job, or provide any value, and can still find friends and be socially accepted.

5. Women have a plethora of products and services to quickly and reliably increase their sexual attractiveness that men don't have.

6. Women can access any social groups they want without being outcast as making it "a sausage fest".

7. Women routinely receive gifts from strangers , gifts that could be given to men in need, that NEED it. That aren't living a life on tutorial mode difficulty.

8. Women are allowed to control the public narrative. If a man says it's unwise to do x y z the woman shoots back and says "you're an incel" even funnier "we will go on a sex strike". These women especially are the most retarded people on the planet, unfortunately enough stupid men exist to be influenced by them

From everything you and I have ever seen, money is what is popular in this world. The inevitable result being the most popular YouTuber would make YouTube videos giving away massive amounts of money , repeatedly.

5 things go into becoming popular on YouTube.

1. Attention grabbing themes (money, death, love, etc. money being the top one)

2. Repetition. You have to do the same thing again and again and again. And I don't mean upload a video everyday. I mean upload the same video everyday that only technically qualifies as new.

3. Extreme content. Nothing can be measured or ordinary.

4. Clear signals. You have to signal you're happy go lucky, or be clear what your political affiliation is if you have one. No fence riding. Mr beast did this expertly by first aligning himself with Jesus, and later aligning himself with LGBT movement. Now he is aligning himself with charity.

5. Informative entertainment. No one wants to feel like they've wasted their time. The older the audience is the more important this becomes. But nobody wants to feel like they're in a lecture. It's best to hide the learning in the visuals, themes, and such. That way they are reinforcing their beliefs while being entertained. This last part is exceptionally important with all ages. Even a 5 year old won't tolerate watching content with nothing to learn from. You could argue even OF IG accounts sell you the fantasy you are learning about the girl not just looking at photos

Popular people are inevitably going to exist. If you follow these rules you might be one

I'm not talking about Shintoism or Buddhism. I'm talking about Islam and Christianity. The biggest effect these two religions have on adherents behavior is the courage to speak up, and say what they never would without religion.

These people wouldn't know what to say without being told. AND they wouldn't dare say anything else they had the backing of an infallible authority. The courage they're given is INSANE.

Take the anxiety of a rabbit and give it the balls of a bull, that's a religious person. They're aggressive, domineering, entitled, in all the wrong ways. Submit or DIE. That's their ultimate belief. They play on the instinct of getting rejected from the group leading to death more so than actual physical harm.

Analyzing the psychology deeper. They're disconnected from everything genuine in life. Even if they tried to return to who they are, they can't. They're severed from the vine they grew from. Just like a traditional cult always does. Cut ties with family and community, so you can dedicate yourself to "The Truth".

What happens when you try to be genuine around people with nothing or little in common? You figure that out. Their only option becomes religion, and a religion so extreme and domineering it makes everyone sing in unison together. A self fulfilling prophecy where they now need their cult to survive. Isolated from the few who would complete them. Surrounded by the many who keep them under their control.

Women come in all shapes and sizes. As a general rule, know that domesticated humans are developmentally retarded from a biological point of view. The flat browridge, the small jaw, these are not "feminine" traits perse, nor traits caused by a lack of testosterone. These traits are caused by a failure of early embryonic cells to proliferate in the needed numbers to produce those superfluous structures of the face.

Every human is descended from these more "superfluous" looking people. Therefore we all have the instinct to find the primal intensely arousing. Men are no different.

This is not about domestication though. This is about women's natural testosterone levels. They are at an all time low. Everyone's always talking about men's testosterone. Nobody stops and thinks about women's. Women have minute levels of estrogen compared to testosterone. Testosterone is the dominant hormone in both men and women. Men simply have vastly more of testosterone.

However, when a woman does correct her deficiency of testosterones, which almost all of them have nowadays due to poor diet, psychologically induced stress, and so on, they INSTANTANOUSLY become more attractive. Their face is fully, their skin has a natural glow, a natural firmness that is extremely arousing to both sexes.

They lose body excessive body fat, muscle becomes more noticeable, both when seen and felt. They grow taller, leaner, meaner. They think more deeply, intelligently, calmly. Pretty much every negative goes away.

You could argue that the hell of the modern world was only possible because of women's low testosterone. Men were perma-buffered from the effects of decreasing testosterone because we always had so much of it. That's why there've been men still being men throughout all time. But women being women? Much rarer

A woman in her 20s is usually noncommittal, and trying to maximize her opportunities by staying single. She can have more fun, even make more money, staying single, than committing to a man her age and building something together.

When her leverage fades and she's approaching her 30s, she begins thinking she needs to find the best man she can to build with. She usually finds a man quite easily, spends a few years with him, as he invests his time and energy into her. But then starts wondering why he isn't spending as much (money) on her, why the enthusiasm for sex has decreased. Where all the fun went.

She wakes up one night panicking to herself, a nightmare that she will be trapped in this relationship for the rest of her life. She buys a gym pass, starts a diet, looks up "affordable" plastic surgeries, and still charmingly spends time with the man she's with as usual. Secretly she has already decided to leave.

She wants to feel hot. She thinks she can still be hot. Hell, she's 36 now. She's ok with dating a guy in his 50s if that's how it has to go. She can find anyone she wants now. And guess what? They're going to have the money she wished guys her age (who were serious about her) had when she was young.

She starts using vague vocabulary like patriarchy, misogyny, narcissism, abuse, to justify to herself and all her friends that the guy she's been with is a lazy, hateful, unworthy loser. Despite the fact she probably already bred with this man. That her kids are now half him. Don't worry about that little fact. He's literally the worst man on the planet and she has to get away from him. Sound familiar at all?

All the while this man tried to make it work, at the end of the day, what was he fighting for? His heart was never in it. She was already old enough to have had a life time of "experiences" before they met. There's always a twinge of regret in the man's heart that who he's with now has already habitually been in and out of relationships throughout high school and college and beyond.

The woman is constantly insecure she isn't hot enough. As soon as this man's excitement wanes, and the true love just isn't there in his heart of hearts, he doesn't spend much. And a woman perceives herself as hot, only when money is being blown on her. It's how they're conditioned.

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