While browsing brainrot, I came across this short that pretty much nails self-care that should be a standard:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_L-pjxsd2HU

Our well being depends on how you treat yourself, to be physically capable and mentally alert and aware of yourself and your goals.

Establishing basic self-care is the foundation to being your best self to take on your goals.

It's as if you're 2 people, the worker and the manager in your life. When you work on yourself, you will also realise that it makes you happy to see yourself making effort in good direction.

Although it requires discipline and saying "no" to your bad habits, the payoff is immeasurable when you realise how much you can do without waiting for motivation.

When you're growing up, for some reason we're not taught how to grow up, it's expected either to be responsibility of our parents, and parents expect it to be done by educational facilities. Neither end up making any effort.

At some point, you begin to realise that there's a way to get few things on track, but you will have most of the cogs in your machine missing. You will end up discovering yourself into your 30s and realising how much of everyday life is a scam that doesn't benefit you and you can't expect it to just work in your favour.

Given general outlook on main topics, relationships is not something that I envy in current time.

People are driven by social media to acquire strong opinions and "reality", but I can assure that they're misled and being deliberately confused by catchy shot-sighted "facts".

Relationships are all about core values and understanding on how to build future with a partner, but just getting to know a partner and seeing life for what it is, seems to be most of the struggle when it shouldn't be.

Biggest challenge in relationships is actually making the best out of it, as the whole point of life is to procreate, share experience and bring value to others. All of that is fed on the media backwards, that basic interaction must be perfect, as well as guaranteed future.

With all introduced confusion, this is most lonely time to be alive for most people as they don't relate to "high body count" culture. It seems that it's driven by minority of extraverts that have certain social lifestyle, but it makes and impression on everyday people as well.

All I want to point out, is that online drama rarely correlates to what relationships are or should be.

No matter how much we're taught about western "equality" culture, women have certain abilities that can be expressed in feminine way, and men being soft is not a positive trait that will scream "family stability".

Considering above, relationships should not be a form of entertainment, but an important part of the future to be taken seriously. Consider the other party, learn to contribute in happiness and development of your partner. Avoid making points from small misunderstandings, reach agreements in private. As in any relationship, the best advice is to communicate.

Unfortunately communication link has been broken because of fragile egos, and unrealistic standards. To re-establish it, it requires commitment from both parties to trust each other. One of the most important behaviours to establish is to value your partner and prove your loyalty - unconditional love, that will open more direct communication that can resolve grievances in a day instead of managing "red flags" months at a time.

There's no future of building your relationship using new modern rules, it's that simple.

tldr; grow up

It's been broken down by platform:

• November 19, 2026 for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S - Pre-orders for consoles began on June 25, 2026.
  
• A PC version has not yet been confirmed for launch, with industry estimates suggesting a potential release in late 2027 or early 2028.
  

South Africa won against England 45-21. Although England is a top 4 rugby team (by world cup trophies taken home), South Africans are on top of their game dominating the sport, taking their 4th world cup trophy in 2023.

England has shaken the sport with it's first Rugby World cup win in 2003. Yet New Zeeland has taken 3 world cup trophies, and Australia 2 world cup wins.

Rugby world cup to be hosted by Australia from 1 October to 13 November 2027.

Match highlights:



First Half

• 2' Try by [Thomas du Toit] (South Africa)
  
• 5' Try by [Cheslin Kolbe] (South Africa) Kolbe converted as well.
  
• 11' Try by [Kurt-Lee Arendse] (South Africa)
  
• 35' Try by [Ellis Genge] (England) Converted by Fin Smith.
  
• 40' Try by [George Martin] (England) Converted by Fin Smith.
  

• 44' Try by [Grant Williams] (South Africa) Converted by Cheslin Kolbe.
  
• 56' Try by [Jesse Kriel] (South Africa) Converted by Cheslin Kolbe.
  
• 68' Try by [Alex Coles] (England) Converted by Fin Smith.
  
• 72' Try by [Malcolm Marx] (South Africa) Converted by Cheslin Kolbe.
  
• 78' Try by [Ben-Jason Dixon] (South Africa) Converted by Cheslin Kolbe.
  

Released on June 3rd. I remember being hesitant to watch it, but with genuine interest of Jeremy to build something on his farmland is actually quiet entertaining.

Jeremy is known for saying what he thinks and being rational most times, other times he may express personal opinion as we all do. The show turned out very grounded with ease of mind approach that doesn't bog down into minor details but follows daily events as he manages the farm with various professionals assisting him from different trades - sheep shearing, meat processing, soil management, harvest requirements, equipment, financial management. Pretty much daily management, but with responsibility in the hands of Jeremy, it's mostly dry humour which you can either enjoy or dismiss if you're a serious watcher.

In the 3rd episode, he ventures to other large scale farms to learn from which are more modernized, to see where he can gain an advantage over old methods of farming by introducing technology which can either automate field work, or get data about the soil and how to efficiently treat it. 

The series is quiet eye opening at times to see what is involved in managing a farm. It's a practical, hands-on career which has it's pro's and cons. 

With Amazon's production team, Jeremy's comfort of own home, and his gained popularity - it's one of the best "reality-shows" that guys can enjoy. 

His show also shares the reality of farmers and what they deal with. So when their farming regulations change at a drop of a hat, you understand the impact, which pretty much always results in giving away earnings as tax and having new challenges to overcome. 

Searching on google, you won't often find places that you stumble upon online.

Human recommendation is still better, if that's what you're looking for. Will be great just to make a "Lounge" where fair-intellectual people can exchange understanding, instead of reacting to new memes and sharing brainrot.

So far, good sites rarely shine. They're best built by communities, not social media companies.

A good place to start exploring more forums: https://www.forumdirectory.com/ which I will check out probably over the weekend. A few sites.. what I don't like is a stale website that has no updates going.

Another suggestion was https://www.findaforum.net/Home/TopForums/. Also a few things that will just need to be sifted out to see if there're any good worthwhile online communities.

Forums are often filled with knowledgable people that can single handedly influence the whole atmosphere of a site with their practice of knowledge. Jack of all trades user, is often just highly opinionated with shallow thoughts. But will keep this forum running with updates, will see if there's another human or two that wants to join a community of straight forward and respectful conversations.

Added a "Back-room Lounge" in General section that's invisible to search engines, or guest visitors that are not registered or logged in.

Some conversations are more interesting when not advertised. Though being civil is still expected.

Log in, let's share even with more privacy.

Hollywood likes to be up to date with identity politics and is regulated by:

• AMPAS - overall benchmarks of diversity, main one.
  
• Time’s Up - workspace diversity representation
  
• Color of Change Hollywood - what races to have on screen
  
• GLAAD - the LGBTQ+ representation
  

Peak Temperature records were broken in European countries, including:

• 45.1°C in Spain, 
  
• 43.8°C in France, 
  
• 41.7°C in Germany, and 
  
• 41.9°C in the Czech Republic.
  

I'm in a career that AI doesn't influence that much, but with now few years of AI dominating the headlines, it stills begs the question where it will be used or abused next.

AI acts of input of information and using a prompt provides the result. So it's easy more or less to anticipate where it will lean as new technology arrives.

e.g. Neuralink + AI. Both are being integrated between each other to allow for control of information created/thoughts. Next stage will likely be to influence the brain to react to the chip's "result". To create new memories, visions or feelings.

At any point when technology or external influence is applied, that should ring a bell to individuals as influence of their willpower which they're surrendering. It might be obvious at first, but with time, just like with mobile phones people will still fall for the trap "willingly". That would be not because they're deciding to, but no one taught them otherwise.

I think AI is likely to be made to take not only some of the work, but parts of life, just like with art, it will be integrated everywhere until it's more useful and seen as superior to any human in those areas.

But that's primarily economical. As the vise tightens, everyone will be forced to recognize human value in things, mostly people that are close and experiences with them. Advancement at some degree will cause separation of AI and self, due to vast advancement that won't be understood or that useful to everyday people. It's technology that will go beyond our reach.

Although national grids are "99%" reliable, funny enough, new nuclear powerplants are proposed to keep datacenters going which will be the edge to make them reliably powered for decades at a time. Corporations and countries will prioritize advancement of AI and reliability and very likely to achieve great things at great cost.

Some red lines will be drawn for themselves just to see how far they can go, of course not considering any negative influence to humanity, only promoting liberation from workload and care and saving money. But when everyone is using the same "time-saving" tools, less people are made to produce more, reduce prices, and less people benefit from doing work which is being phased out. In economic field, AI gives a short boost, but long term there's not much benefit to collective, except for medical filed.

One of great advantages of AI is that it can be trained to identify problems and provide accurate solutions, unlike self-diagnosis using a search engine few years ago that always went wrong and misdiagnosed, just because some pages were more popular or had better SEO, rather than accurate. 

I had a personal experience to attest to increased accuracy. A relative of mine got various symptoms that I described and asked it to suggest a diagnosis, to my surprise, that's what the doctors have found. And it wasn't an everyday illness, not something that I've heard about before.

So the benefit is there in the medical, content generation (although often more misused or used just because lack of effort), various engineering. Biology is the tricky one that will likely make some good and bad headlines. Some AI models are becoming more capable of reasoning that can step into creativity and make new discoveries. Completely digitizing bio-lab will likely make immense advancements.. for profit and domination of course. Well, we may get limb regeneration at some point, or "universal" vaccines, but only when it can't be held onto due to competition between corporations and countries.

It is promised to give us all the solutions, but I see that it's a new era of problems as well, which will extend it's reach over individuals' lives and decisions.

Are there known interesting developments that are on the horizon that will shake up the humanity?