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Cake day: June 7th, 2024

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  • If I can transport things back and forth, I would probably go and max out a credit card and buy all of the gold that I can to bring with me for trade.

    Then I would go to the library of Alexandria and use my cell phone to get photocopies of as many books as I possibly can, and in the downtime I would go to any open Street markets and purchase any cool relics that I can find.

    Then I could come back and share some of the Lost books of Alexandria with the world and also have period correct relics that have somehow magically not been exposed to a thousand years of environmental corrosion.

    Then again, that would probably also mess up their radioisotope dating but I don’t know if it’s specific enough to only cover a thousand ish years.

    Maybe if I have a little more time to prep I can find some place that I know hasn’t been Disturbed and like put them in an airtight safe and store them for me to go back and ReDiscover now.





  • I was going to say, it’s starting to sound more like the EU is just taking kickbacks in a circuitous legal manner rather than via a shady under the table deal with men and trench coats exchanging packages of unmarked bills.

    I mean, in the last 5 months how many times has the EU fined meta or google?

    If you really want to make a message that sticks, you ban the danger sites from operating in your collective and then fine them for their past misdeeds.

    If you want to be seen as lenient, you then set down a list of objectives that the site must adhere to in order to be reinstated in the collective.

    Anything short of that is just lining your pockets. I mean, what is the money being used for?




  • I kind of disagree with that being not caring about you. It’s kind of more like they are helpless to help you, but they still want you to be better because they want you to be happy.

    So, a lot of people default to giving useless advice. It is still an expression of care and love and support, just an ineffective one that is insulting and annoying to someone who’s currently going through it.

    I would much rather have somebody whom I’ve known for years tell me to try doing things that improve their mental health than to have nobody or for everyone to just look the other way while I am suffering.





  • I’m with you. I make mid-100s myself and as a single homeowner with no children I still can’t afford to go on funky vacations.

    My take home after 401k and taxes is like $7,600 a month and my mortgage, heloc, car and student loans eat about $5,000 of that.

    But, car will be paid off in the next few months, student loans should be done about 2 years after that, he lock will be done about 2 years after that so 5 years from now it’s only going to cost me like $2,500 a month to keep my home.

    I have been told that I fit into the Henry class, “high earning, not rich yet”.

    I just wonder if I can keep going for 5 years to accomplish that or if I should just finish up the house and sell it and pocket the 200k in value it’s accrued, pay off any other outstanding debt, and then go find an apartment or something or go travel.