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@Sclass yep, it's pretty cool for what it is. However, Musk's sales pitch back in 2016 or so was for people to pre-pay the extra $10k (or whatever it was) for FSD, because once it lands, their Teslas will be able to work as autonomous taxis 24/7, and will only appreciate in value. Obviously, 8 year...

There is self-knowledge and there is diagnosis. Diagnosis is done by someone else. An expert. When a person is diagnosed, they carry that diagnosis around with them. The diagnosis itself changes them. This paper (PDF) is about those on the margins of being diagnosed/undiagnosed with a mental illness...

New Netflix doc, Hack Your Health: The Secrets of Your Gut, features many of the big names in Microbiome research. https://www.netflix.com/watch/81436688 At about 1:08 they discussed a lab researcher who began consuming a green smoothie similar to the one I eat every morning and how it changed the m...

What if people's happiness originates from how well one's approach matches one's actual neurochemistry. IOW, what if you're not really happy being a logistics manager despite being good at it. Then the key would not be to find something else, like travel, to apply logistics skill too, but to look f...

We've found that carrying a mini kitchen solves or mitigates some of these issues. The MSR Whisperlite Universal works with just about any fuel known to man and when you add a small additional adapter it works with the butane fuel canisters that are ubiquitous in most of the world. That said, simila...

I'd heard of the Galleri before signing up with Function, but never gave it much thought. My understanding is that it much more accurate detecting later stage cancer than early, and of course early stage detection is much more advantageous. I'm not sure about its false positive rate. I've always be...

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Sun Apr 21, 2024 11:33 am

Btw, lately I've received an offer: I would leave my Real Estate part for 150k in exchange.

Are there tax consequences for this? If so, are they different from the consequences of simply inheriting the property?

Fuck I need to go back to therapy. Reading The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles A Frozen Hell by William Trotter I haven’t been reading much. Instead, I watched HBO’s Band of Brothers and The Pacific. I dunno, I’m on a war kick. For fuck's sake, that reading list ma...

Maybe a weird take, but a 2nd gen Toyota Prius is a pretty decent compromise, Around these parts, that gen Prius is a magnet for catalytic converter theft. Unfortunate because many of them would likely still be on the road otherwise. For a while, the cost to replace the cc was more than the value o...

$50/ month is boring. Is a dedicated space the most interesting and fun way to solve this problem? Is a network of garages? Is it a club or an entire way of life? What is the problem? I am an member of two garage type clubs. Both groups have very politically connected members as well as prominent a...

@AE, Excellent post. The one thing I will add, which is my point above, is that the last acceptable subject for the ruminator to ruminate is introspection itself. Ones own mental health can become the ultimate, unending game occupying the ruminating mind.

The situation is to pick a car that's more fun/cool for road trips than reliable for commuting or shopping since we don't need a car for that. May be fun to wander around and get an idea of what you are getting yourself into with an older "simple" vehicle. https://www.thesamba.com/vw/clas...

I get cashews every so often. Mrs. Ego loves this vegan alfredo. Fifty pounds is a lot of alfredo.
https://thevegan8.com/vegan-garlic-alfredo-sauce/

It may be hard to get parts for that old Honda.

Maybe this one
https://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/ctd/ ... 20988.html

You've got the perfect car for this already. It doesn't get much better than the Honda Fit. If you want something to learn on, buy something cheap that isn't running, park it in your driveway and see if you can figure out the problems. Carbureted is easier than fuel injected. Fewer electronic brains...

Introspection is essentially the mind using its CPU cycles to reflect back on itself for extra insight. This is a positive (here meaning "more of the same"... like compound interest) feedback loop. Two ways this could go. If done well, this will lead to additional insight and more insight...

Only now that I've figured out my body expresses the emotions I can't feel, the results were significantly different. Then there was another 90 minutes of interviewing, to tease apart conflicting factors, account for how autism impacts answers, understand childhood experiences, etc. He'll peer revi...

Gathering a group of people who all lack skills is not going to magically create skills out of the void. Basically, you can't form a group and get anything better out of it than you could from the top 1-2 members of the group alone. If there's serious weight to be pulled, the majority will not be a...

Today I know that only part of the concerns, doubts and worries are taken away by money. If the stash would tenfold I guess some of the current concerns etc. would be taken away. But other doubts and concerns would still happen, these are regardless of money. Agreed. I was thinking of a stash large...

I'm beginning to wake up to the negative effects of my lack of attention to maintenance, storage and organization. It's bringing me discomfort and, as always, discomfort is the catalyst for change. My buy-low, sell-high lifestyle means that I need constant reminders of this and reach the discomfort...