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I did not realize the extent to which earthquakes are a daily event throughout the world. This morning's Oldfucksville tremor was 2.6. Chile had a 4.5. From my reading of the USGS website, 2.5 is the baseline for classification as an earthquake, 4.5 seems to be the classification of serious as those...

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Wed May 01, 2024 12:53 am

solitude, and distance from people might help me progress towards my goals faster.

Meditation, mountain climbing, snorkeling, Sharia Law.

Building was discounted because of roof not murder. It was sold to a competitor and they were aware of the situation. I did a quick google on human taxidermy. I didn't realize it's illegal but it seems there are those weird tribes that do it for weird tribe purposes. Jeremy Bentham had himself taxid...

I once sold a flower shop. The first time I went we were walking through the building the woman opens a storage room and I scream because there are animal heads all over the place. Deer, bear, raccoons. I said to the lady what the fuck. She said I'm sorry but they are owned by the guy who murdered m...

Seeing a field of super sized cows has a Jurassic Park type of effect. It makes you stop the car and say "what the fuck." AI might steal your job or write a better term paper. But hundreds of dinosaur sized cows has a real chilling effect. Either wild life is taking over or some ingenious ...

Louis Theroux's "Gambling In Las Vegas" is entertaining and a sober reminder of the significance in the "not" side to saving money. The issue is what is your "not." Most people don't squander $4M on slot machines as one person in the documentary does. The benefits of ma...

Geograhically wise, distance wise, Oldfucksland abuts NYC. Time wise, spiritually wise, not so much. I don't really consider it a place to live if you want to take advantage of NYC. I actually use where I live to get out of NYC engagements. Besides bears, earthquakes and the dementia riddled, Oldfuc...

I always pictured reaching financial independence as a candle with a burning wick at each end - one wick is not spending and one wick is earning. They are not opposed and they are not dichotomous. Negative/positive or stick/carrot or defense/offense are just two sides of the same coin that eventuall...

I am placing a bet on biosimilar. It accounts for 2% of my portfolio. The bet is it will spike to 10%-15% of my portfolio at which point I will sell and place in conservative investments. I am basing my bet on the expertise of two others. I placed many bets in the past. I just did not know I was bet...

Whatever doesn't actually kill you makes you stronger, right? So you, your significant other and your best friend decide to go mountain climbing. During the climb, you lose your balance, fall down the mountain end up a quadriplegic. Your SO takes the opportunity to leave you and go with your best f...

Oldfucksville has a church that dates back to revolutionary times. It has a cemetary. The church is on fumes but they can't sell because who wants a building with a graveyard included. We went a few times and there was an old crone who wore a sweater on blistering Sunday mornings and insisted the ov...

Unless you're talking extreme circumstances, no one dies from the self-deception that they are in control. It's probably required for survival. It's definitely required for anxiety. I am old time religiony but belief doesn't translate to thinking on a continuous basis. It's an anthropological imposs...

I read obituaries on a daily basis. Both out of curiosity and enjoyment that someone I hoped is dead is dead. If the person lived to a relatively normal healthy age, there is always a factoid speaking to not only a change or some unpredictable occurrence but a tragedy ie a predeceased child or grand...

I'm assuming she finished Jude The Obscure.

fu. fU. Fu. FU. I think I'm Fu. Or maybe fU+. What I've realized is that FU for most people is not emancipation but domination - I want money to fuck with people not I want money so I won't be fucked by people. I want money so I can send a waiter back with my food or some stupid shit like that.

I don't understand NFT's but my thought about them within the context of collectibles is that they will not suffer degradation so there will be no taxonomy of condition. This will remove both the hype and rarity of finding a "mint" NFT in the future similar to finding a "mint" Ho...

I appreciate that. I was rambling to my therapist in a David Byrne how did I get here kind of way and said something to the extent I am a lifelong fuck up underachiever who scratched off a few winners at an age when I knew they couldn't be wasted anymore. He stated it wasn't unique. That the back of...

Putting a bunch of highly functioning ERE people together seems redundant. I mean just two Thoreaus are a crowd, no? And what's going to happen, you get your costs down to $6,943.55 a year? Not to mention putting someone like myself within a true ERE group would obviously be highly detrimental to th...

I think there is a transition from starting pitcher to relief pitcher. To use evolutionary terms, it would be what Stephen Jay Gould called punctuated equilibrium. Things evolve slowly, things appearing like they are in stasis and then, blammo, a marked change. You spend most of your life starting t...

Earthquakes completely knock wildlife on their asses. Whole animal kingdom shuts the fuck up. Humbles those assholes for a few minutes. See how they like being terrorized by a stronger, darker force of nature that has no compunction in fucking their lives up. But now that they've been bullied, they'...