u/Ok-Band1228

I'm selling couches that take a million dollars to create. Fortunately, I've been subsidizing them so people are only paying a few thousand for them. My goal is just to get everyone using my coaches so I can get hype behind my product and secure more investors. So many people, especially the CEOs of various companies that help supply materials for the couch manufacturing, keep telling the press that these couches are revolutionary and that they will completely change the furniture game forever.

Some of us have even theorized that perhaps sometime soon these couches will achieve UPI (ultimate posture improvement). Once we achieve UPI the human race will evolve into its next form of posture which will come with tons of benefits with regard to longevity and athletics.

Anyways, I'm wondering how long I can keep this up? Will my industry fall apart if I stop subsidizing these couches? If people no longer have access to them then I lose all the hype.

I was reading some Chuang Tzu today, and it struck me that most modern people see wu wei as a tool. This is wrong. The whole point fo Chuang Tzu's way is that we find no way, that we don't situate happiness in the future or as the product of a certain method or program. Wu wei isn't a flow state in the modern sense of entering into a state of effortless productivity. This is still ego-centered. To see wu wei merely as a means to self-production, a way to achieve goodness and life through your own activity, is an awful misreading. Wu wei is effortless act divorced from one's desires. It is act without activity. Action that isn't limited by the narrowing of the ego, desire, attachment, seeking. It is a pure being in the moment. It can also be just doing nothing. It is a state that isn't resistant to reality as it happens. It is a dissolving into the harmony of nature, a oneness. In the same way a bird is effortlessly a bird or a tree is effortlessly a tree, just here and now.

Wu wei is an escape from the trap of the future, it is a releasing of one's constant grasping for something else that isn't here. It is abandoning the project of always chasing what is out of reach. It, simply put, is just HERE. It is being as you are HERE, not for some future self, not with any mind for a goal or achievement, it is perfect joy, here and now.

If you want to see a good example of this, I suggest watching the film Perfect Days. You will see wu wei in practice.

The thing I love about S1 True Detective is that on the surface it's a grounded detective story but the overall atmosphere, the oppressive feeling of the world, at times seems to hint that there are bigger forces operating in the world. It never fully explores this but leaves it as a suggestion. I love this sort of stuff, when an otherwise grounded story just suggests that there could be something more.

A non TV show example is Red Dead Redemption 2 which may have bizarre, strange, or inexplicable things happen in the world to suggest there's some greater mystery out there. They have no bearing on the main plot which is otherwise a grounded cowboy game.

The thing I live about S1 TD is that on the surface it's a grounded detective story but the overall atmosphere, the oppressive feeling of the world, at times seems to hint that there are bigger forces operating in the world. It never fully explores this but leaves it as a suggestion. I love this sort of stuff, when an otherwise grounded story just suggests that there could be something more.

Figure out what your TV's max luminance is and from there set the game's max luminance. Exposure you can play around with but within the range of -0.5 to 0.5. I found that my TV can only output a peak of 400 nits, so I set my game to 400 nits and the exposure to - 0.5. World of a difference. Everything is way more vibrant and I see many more hues. Before I was disappointed that everything felt a little washed out, now it's incredibly beautiful.

A friend of mine got hired at Graybar as a sales rep. He's under the assumption that the 10% commission rate is 10% of the entire value of a sale. It must be on net profit of the sale - his monthly salary. He said he just made 300k of sales in a week, so he passively made $30k in commission. I know this can't be right considering he was hired at 60k salary.

How can I convince him that he's not making a million dollars in commission this year and therefore should not try and buy a boat or a house right now? He's right mad.

Traditional lifting left me stiff and sore, so I went to heavy resistance band training a few years ago and never liked back. I also gained more muscle than I did with traditional lifting. Now I'm ready to look into kettlebells with 2-3 different exercises I could start working into my routines. Any suggestions? I was thinking of starting out with a 40 pound bell but lmk if that's too light.

Apparently employees were using it way too much and they had to reduce its use by 75% or else they would be operating at a deficit. How long until most corporate workplaces begin tracking this data and doing the same thing?

I hear it constantly that you should be buying more Nvidia, TSMC, etc. Ed Zitron has me convinced that there is a bubble. To what degree does it crash the market? I don't know, maybe a bit, maybe a lot, BUT there definitely is a bubble and it will burst.

With that in mind, what stocks do you think will continue to grow despite the bubble tanking the market? I've seen people talk about clean energy and EVs, and those do seem like pretty reliable investments.

Looks like a sweepstakes I keep getting ads for on insta where you pay a certain amount of cash to earn some entries for the chance to win a tiny home and 50k cash. What do yall think?

Their prevalence makes me think it's legit but I'm unsure.