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Hey there, welcome! I'm from another not-so-developed country and I got a lot of "you dumbfuck, people live that way cause they must and cause they're poor, what sort of idiot does this deliberately." One needs a couple of degrees of separation from that poverty to seem cool and edgy when going for ...

Hi DSNM, good to read you guys seem to have pushed off the bottom. fingers crossed the wfh goes through.


OTOH I find myself fantasizing(yes FANTASIZING) about going back to the corporate office as a tech executive in September.


When I do this, it's not that I necessarily want to go back to ...

guitarplayer wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 04, 2025 2:58 am

See Erdos on stopping coffee and / or similar products for a month to win a bet.

When it comes to him, the "other similar products" were probably much more impactful

Congrats on the new job!

Kittens! And strength to your wife, burnout is no fun.

Strength, Violets, rooting for you!

Tell more about the 7500 house, that sounds fun. I'm about to embark on the renovation of a really run down apartment in a month and a half or so, so i'm curious what set-up you've got going. The solar lights sound cool, I'd enjoy that. Should research -- I have ...

On quantum woo:

(1) Functions as a koan to a mind of average intelligence. In zen, one of the ways to access unitive mind/turn off judging etc. is to give the student a "if a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, does it make a sound"-style problem. The function of this riddle isn't to ...

beyond aesthetics, is there a point to minimizing posessions if it won't reduce COL

Seriously, I don't enjoy feeling so confident about the marriage while everyone say it will be so difficult. I expect it will be difficult but that's part of why I'm confident, am I missing something? It didn't take long to have the first big argument in the marriage, but fights are fights, no ...

To add: "I am limiting screen time" has also become an accepted social excuse. I have to be your friend on facebook (or wherever) bc social obligation but want to mute you cause i don't really want to be your friend even though i'm expected to? "sorry, i'm not on fb much, i'm limiting screen time ...

Now I'm worried people think I've decided to pursue FI because of status, and I feel compelled to set the record straight.


I don't think anyone thinks this. Rather, you observed that "stuff" about status arose as you dealt with various approaches to pursuing ERE. "Stuff" about status seems to ...

I assume the negative people are included in the 0%

if I wanted to move to Japan. All the jobs there from what I have seen and heard require a college degree. Even the most basic of jobs require it.


From what I hear, the done thing is to get an eikaiwa job to get into the country. For this you need a college degree and a TESOL/TEFL/other such ...

Scott 2 wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 01, 2025 6:02 pm

Pocket models running entirely on our phone though? That's an entirely different form of disruption.

Ropes you into their ecosystem while increasing hardware requirements, forcing the need to upgrade. Makes sense it'll be something they'll pursue.

Imo status is best separated from being FI (at least mentally). The drive for status is a Monkey OS thing, which means that most humans come pre-loaded with it to one degree or another. Most humans are also average (by definition of average). In addition, achieving status through positive personal ...

what you have to work on is projecting an image of a capable person who "get things done", "own the work", "is the go to person"'


A lot of the original "prductivity bro" / personal development stuff originates in seminars given to salespeople. Dale Carnegie, of How to Win Friends and Influence ...

Getting into particular stocks is also a bit off-topic to the thread, imo. I propose we keep this focused on the broader topic rather than specific stocks, maybe those can be discussed in the investments section of the forum?

Trash place might be open to whoever wants to come scratch their balls or other relevant bits and learn construction/repair skills at whatever pace while being walking distance to groceries - might be useful to someone who wants to be in a midsize, walkable meat-and-potatoes town, next to a scraggly ...

@7w5 goblin.tools (website) gets recommended as a resource to assist with adhd/autism; haven't checked it out personally but i keep encountering the recommendation.

I don't think anyone knows what is exactly going on in China. However, with the current US Administration's stance on China, China will not be given an opportunity to get in on this very important early stage in the US.


China will, however, be permitted to sell to Australia (and train there ...

about minimum necessary wardrobe, the concept of a "capsule wardrobe" might be useful. It was an "influencer" thing a while ago so you'll find a ton of content you'll need to sift through, but the concepts apply. The capsule wardrobe's advantage is that it's geared towards an urban college student ...