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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • Yeah just don’t go all in on any of those. Dip your toes in to see how long the interest lasts. In my experience, it usually lasts just about long enough to slow roll going all in on it and then it fades. So you don’t save any money, but you might get more time to enjoy it before it becomes another chore that must be avoided if possible. And even then, if you force yourself to do it, it can shift into a thing you enjoy but must stop doing as soon as a natural break occurs because there might be something else more enjoyable.








  • When things are going well, billionaires make lots of money but people who are comfortable pick and choose what they are willing to sell. They have income so want to hold on to their assets while they pay their expenses using that income. They can also commit to financial obligations while being confident their income will cover it.

    When things aren’t going so well, income can fall and force people to sell assets to cover their expenses. And those financial obligations can end up underwater, forcing them to give up assets.

    At the end of the day, wealth isn’t money. That’s just the vehicle used to access wealth. Real wealth is things like property ownership, means of production, the resources to feed that production, food and fuel to keep it all going, weapons to protect yours and attack others’, followers to do your bidding (that generally need to be paid in access to the others).


  • This strongly depends on both the area and the individual officers. And sometimes your skin colour, unfortunately. Also the condition of your vehicle, like a new porsche might be allowed to get away with a higher speed than a rust-bucket (or, on the other hand, that new porsche might attract more attention and/or envy).


  • I try to drive in the rightmost lane where I can maintain my desired speed without needing to weave back and fourth, unless someone is coming up behind me, in which case I’ll reduce my threshold for moving to the right to let them by, unless they are driving aggressively enough that I think there’s a high chance they’ll pass on the right after I’ve passed someone but before I’m far enough ahead of whoever I just passed to move over.

    Oh one more exception for if the right lane is clear but there’s an onramp with cars, I’ll leave them the right lane to merge into and move over once I’ve passed them. I’ll also avoid cruising in front of semis if I can.