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I’n familiar with those cables. I had a Nissan Maxima when I lived in Guam and those terminals rusted all the time due to the humid and rainy environment. I had a wire brush handy and it was standard maintenance to keep the terminals cleaned. Usually performed at the same time as doing the oil chang...

Bumping to potentially see if OP gets an email...

19 year old Lemur owned a 1985 Camaro Iroc z28 because he thought it would be cool. It kinda was lol. But I spent the next two years basically replacing everything on that POS. That was my crash course in vehicle repairs. Battery, belts, alternator, tires, fuel pump, spark plugs, oil pump, water pum...

From what I remember reading in "How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World" by Harry Browne, the author brings this sunk cost topic up quite a bit. And he relates it not only to finance but to relationships and other life conditions. I'm rephrasing, but he stated something to the effect of th...

I've contemplated before how many of the world's problems might be caused not only by terror management but because our lives are relatively short. How might human behavior be altered if, say, the average life expectancy was 500 years? or 1000 years? Surely more long-term planning and thinking would...

March 31 ,2024 Net-worth: $873k (Up $43k) Finances: Insanity to see our portfolio making these month to month increases. Seems unsustainable lol. Spending/SWR: Another spendy month $3,483.77 due to our planned trip this summer for plane tickets, Air BnB, and rented car. Annualized and divided by cu...

@giskard Yeah, I’ve been following this one with some interest. DJT - Valued at approximately $12,000 per user. Twitter - Valued at approximately $38 per user. One or two well-run McDonalds chains makes more revenue…DJT has a lock-up period of 6 months to sell his shares unless the board creates an ...

New Concept I learned recently: Wittgenstein’s Ruler: https://coffeeandjunk.com/wittgensteins-ruler/ Also a neat proverb I came across in Spiral Dynamics book: No more prizes for forecasting rain; only prizes for building an ark. Lastly, speaking of SD, if you want to watch a really awesome Red/purp...

@zbigi I was just thinking that if the indexes are market-cap weighted, then FAANG can definitely take over. Maybe doesn't need to be the amount of companies but how powerful just the few of them are relative to the other industries. If Oku is right, and this is the future, then I will be ObeseFIRE ...

Growth must eventually calm down, of course. Though, it does seem we are exceeding Moore's law for GPU's (more than doubling compute every two years). Energy cost also seems to be going down by a quarter every two years. We'll see if Huang's law continues. Maybe Jevons paradox can be neutralized wi...

@Oku I'd wager those SWRs are definitely out of reach. Maybe in the short-term, the owners of capital will benefit greatly from automation. Everyone else is kind of SOL unless worldwide governments step in to limit the blow to labor. It is possible our generation (anyone dying before 2100 or so) can...

Richard Morgan is a onetime baker and battery maker with creaky knees who didn’t take up regular exercise until he was in his 70s and who still trains mostly in his backyard shed. At 93, the Irishman is a four-time world champion in indoor rowing, with the aerobic engine of a healthy 30- or 40-year...

Hey Axel - I haven't read anything about Joe Dispenza but he seems like an interesting character from a quick Google search. I gotta say I was a bit skeptical when I came across this quip: Dr. Joe Dispenza believes that many of us are living in a state of constant anxiety. The fight-or-flight respon...

First time reading of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocebo A nocebo effect is said to occur when negative expectations of the patient regarding a treatment cause the treatment to have a more negative effect than it otherwise would have. Basically its the opposite of a placebo effect. So if one...

Relate to the health section. That is a good run lol... I too can't quit caffeine. The brain just feels dull without it...But I do have a hard stop at 12pm so that sleep is not impacted. First one can be lucrative. Dashboarding just seems like one of those things that most don't want to do so if you...

Is there a VIBES^ index?

Funny thing is this day and age that might be a legitimate question.

I was improving until I wasn't. Flared up again around March 5 ish...real bad. To point of once again having a straight week or so of only getting 2-3 hours of sleep, being a zombie, can't stand up straight with large bump on my lumbar spine, begging for mercy as I'm in fetal position with sciatica....

I am with Henry on this one. I did most of my Caesar rendering as a financial consultant (including a 3 year stint at a big 4 accounting firm which was literal hell on Earth). 7 years total (after 7 year military career but I wasn’t aware of FIRE/ERE then so those were basically lost years with litt...

Yes - Have tried and even went WFPB/Vegan for about a year or so but ultimately felt problems with energy levels despite getting the right micronutrients (like B12, Calcium, Magnesium, etc). My bloodwork was fantastic though. The energy issues might have been related to blood sugar crashes…far too m...

@NewBlood @Slevin - Thanks for checking in on me these past few months. Other then some normal stiffness in the morning, I'm pretty much 90% recovered and only getting better from here. March 2 ,2024 Net-worth: $830k (Up $50k) Finances: Woa! The market is on an absolute tear. Dropped my arbitrary go...