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BAHAHAHA Good one, Henry. Seriously, tho, care and loving connections are nice when you have them, but when you don't have them, you don't have them. It's hard to, on a daily basis, be surrounded by people who subtly and not so subtly signal they dislike you and they'd rather not interact; some days...

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Fri May 31, 2024 8:08 pm

Yeah I was definitely bringing my baggage in. Thanks, mathiverse! I'll step back and ponder cause I clearly have shit here

OK but, what is this teaching the son? "When you have issues, swan around like a melodramatic diva and expect the women and the children to fix you?" I know I bring my own baggage into this, as someone with a shitty unpleasant depressed father who can't be fucked to see life from a wider p...

It's fascinating to me that you see your investment business as belonging to "body" with an intellect wrapper. Would you mind elaborating on that? I also wonder what advice you have for those wishing to start a similar business. I have been following your journal but would love to hear mor...

A good analogy, especially given the purpose of why we usually prune: vines and trees are pruned so valuable branches have space to grow, or so that growth you wouldn't have seen otherwise, such as budding or flowering, has a chance to happen. The food and drink implication would be that we should a...

a good locksmith but had zero relationship or managerial skills. This happens more often than you think. I had a driving instructor like that and never learned anything from him. Knowing how to do and knowing how to teach are two different skills. Someone who agrees to teach you, doesn't teach you,...

When my mind is clearer, I’ll read them. Now I can’t focus for more than 20 minutes. You take care of yourself, don't read whatever cause someone told you, do what feels healing for you. In general, concentration meditation is calming -- variations include, relax as you feel the smoothness of your ...

I want to thank everyone who supplies quality info on the topic to the ERE forums. An overwhlming amount of what is out there is either irrational or a grift in one way or another. For a noob, finding quality info is hard and requires getting through A LOT of crap. So your thoughts and info are much...

Nah, it's not an ere mindset, it's the first thing you pointed out, loutfard. resellers that make it their business to dig out good finds causing the second hand stores themselves to go, wait a second, we could be sorting these goods into tiers and charging that. The arbitrage gap is closing on both...

Any advice here is welcomed. Been there. Am just completing 30d off my worst offender, baked goods and added refined sugar. Pick your worst offender and commit to cutting it out for 30d. Assume that at the end of the 30d you can have it again if you want to. You might want to - I often hear the sir...

Is Canada a good idea? It's something I'm considering as well as i might have a very tenuous in.

Thanks for the solid info, @OotB

Another semester has ended. Students have rated me an overall of 2.7 on the -3 to 3 scale, and a number of people say I am their favorite prof. This is the intro to econ course. Quite chuffed.

Do you play directly with ETH and why/why not? iirc, its supply if not limited so I'm not sure what appreciation anyone investing in it can count on. Question 1b: from various podcasts, AI is expected to create a high electricity demand in the years to come. Do you see that impacting BTC? If AI is d...

Loving the nickname welcome dude I see zero harm in giving sales a try. Even if it doesn't work out, there's nothing you'll lose. One thing you might want to consider during your period of unemployment, in addition to working on projects you've been wanting to get to and otherwise pursuing your inte...

@delay: Starting w younger Gen X, many parents actually have good relationships with their children. This is due to actually having put thought into improving themselves as people and into actively striving for good parenting. I also have a number of younger friends/acquaintances that are much bette...

Found Kukum in English translation, I'm picking it up
Thanks for the book recs!

Oof, @mfg, that desk picture is like, a personal callout. But yeah, +1 for "stuff management." I wonder if it's coming up for everyone because JnG mentioned it and people went, shit, me too, or whether that's one of the things that naturally comes up for yall higher WLs as you keep ascendi...

achievement focus, I don’t know how to work through it without working through it, ...I don’t know how to approach transcending that focus without, uh, climbing to the next rung of the ladder. :? It's also absolutely possible to get yourself physcially to a place and then go, alright, what are the ...

I read through page 2 of this saga and -- Frita, this marriage is over. Wtf does it matter if you're divorced or not if the marriage is over??? An intuition I had, which I offer in case it's helpful (and which, like everything else I write, you should disregard if it isn't -- what I wrote below came...