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At least they wouldn’t have to pay for cars/gas anymore!

Get a solid $20 knife and look up some knife techniques. Grab a bowl or something ready for the scraps. I can dice up an onion in like 30 seconds, you could probably do it in less than a minute if you have a sharp knife and practice a little.

If youre really pressed for time you can prep ingredients beforehand, either earlier in the day, or even a previous day, and then cook them later.

Some recipes do take a lot of work and prep but lots of them don’t. Some take awhile but the active time isn’t much, so it’s not like you just have to stand there.

Its easier said than done, but you don’t have to wait until you’re hungry to start cooking.

I like baseball, it’s got lots of stats, its always on, and you don’t have to be glued to the radio/tv to follow a game. Playoffs give you the drama. Regular season is more of a cruise.

If you like the radio the sf giants have an excellent radio(TV too) broadcast team. They have a good Spanish broadcasting duo too if that’s your thing.

I’m sure there’s other good ones, I couldn’t tell you, following one team casually is enough of a time commitment.

If youre in America it’s probably a good idea just to follow the local team. If there isn’t one check to see if there’s a AA or AAA affiliate nearby.

Lol I saw this one in the wild.

Absolutely absurd.

I’ll bet my left ass cheek this millionaire is paying over the market average for rent. I’ll be generous in her “thriftyness” and call it 2k.

So 24,000 a year. Ober 7 years, 168k

Almost bought a place an hour out of Seattle, probably tacoma. Homegirl isnt living in dupont. According to this website.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ATNHPIUS45104Q

Avg home price in tacoma 2024: 450k 2017: 250k

Let’s be super generous, say she dropped an extra 150k in maintenence/tax/costs etc Still up a cool 100k

They telling me her diversified investments of 250k made 268k in profit?

Yeah ok.

What are ethical ways people could/should invest their money into instead?

I’m not going to ever be a landlord, but I want to retire at the point.

Maybe you can enlighten me on more ethical ways to invest my money because at this point I think not putting money into a 401k is a terrible financial decision.

Tax deferred compounding interest is too good of a deal for the average person to pass up. Over 30 years you’ll be looking at anywhere from 100-150% return on investment.

$50 a paycheck for 30 years with 5% avg return turns your $39k total contributions into $100k in retirement savings. $100 turns $78k in total contributions into $200k savings.

For many people who find saving difficult, me included, being able to set it and forget it, plus the understanding it needs to be for retirement to get the full return, has allowed me to save money I would have spent/wasted otherwise.

Due to the compounding factor, the sooner a person starts the better the return, so to discourage young people to not put money into a 401k is IMO actively harmful.

IMO It’s like telling someone they shouldn’t have health insurance. Yeah it’s bullshit that society forces us to participate in a fucked up system but not having it puts future you at a terrible risk.

It’s cause he’s only drinks socially.

Soy milk

For me blues and jazz are genres that I much prefer to hear live than recorded. I’ll put them on if I’m in a particular mood, but they’re not in my regular rotation.

If I want to see live music the first thing I’ll do is scope a few venues to see if I happen to recognize any artists. Second thing I’ll do is look for any blues or jazz shows.

Lol this always cracked me up. Ask your partner I guess?

Fwiw I picked up some vanilla scented beard oil for when I eventually date again. I don’t want to smell like leather. But if sandlewood gets my next partner going lol, I’ll pick some up.

What the hell are you even talking about? What are the bands that you like that used to tour and only play festivals now?

Covid fucked everything up.

They might know some other younger people who they can connect you with. Maybe not though.

It’s cause they like free loans sucker.

Ok I got home pretty late so I’m not going to donit tonight but I’ll do it sometime tomorrow. I’ll mark this as unread so I remember.

I have a cookbook that has some, I can send you some pics when I get home. It’ll be a few hours so i might forget. If you’re interested remind me and I’ll be happy to.

If I throw something at your head and it hits you in the face, was it because you did something irrational?

No. Maybe the throw was too hard. Maybe you weren’t paying attention. Maybe you can’t see, or maybe your arms don’t work the way other people’s do. Maybe you felt something coming and didn’t know what to do and panicked. Maybe you like getting hit in the face. Maybe I threw it really softly, and you were paying attention, but you’ve never practiced or tried to block/dodge a moving object and it hits you on the nose.

None of those situations are irrational. The only thing irrational that could occur is thinking it happened because of something that couldn’t be explained, or by maybe trying the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

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Playing Rogue Fabe IV and Outerlands

Haven’t really been in the story based single player mood so less and less Outerlands.

Stoked for the steam release for RFIV on Jan 26. Its gonna add a lot of new content.

Free web release version https://justin-wang123.itch.io/rogue-fable-iv

No thank you for writing it all out.

There’s lots of info out there ofc, but the two places I get most of my info now are the stronger by science guys and Jeff Nippard. I really like their approaches. Strength training and technique mostly but general understanding of theory and approach. Big and strong. Mobility and calisthenics I like the saturno movement group. They have an impressive mix of strength, mobility and skill.

So when I say you should or it is, I’m not saying I’m correct or it’s facts but it’s what I’ve learned taking info from people who work really hard in understanding their craft and work hard on sharing it. Of course it’s also what I’ve been able to “confirm” in my own experiences. Ymmv though.

Don’t think of beginner, intermediate or advanced as how strong you are, or how much you’ve done it in the past. This is how I understand it.

Beginners: make quick and consistent progress

Intermediate: once you reach a plateau on your progress you’re approaching intermediate. Here you have to readjust. Maybe you’ll spend 2-4 weeks at a weight before you can progress.

Advanced: I’ve never reached this level so I’m not familiar with it from my own experience but my understanding its takes a lot of very targeted work and honing in on technique to raise their weight by even 5lbs/ 1 rep.

So unless you’ve ever been at the Advanced stage if you take too long off you’re going to start back at Beginner. It’s not a bad thing it just means you will be able to make progress quickly.

The stronger you already are, and the more experience you have, the higher your baseline, and the shorter your Beginner period usually is.

For me after an injury from doing something stupid outside the gym, lol, I start with a beginner routine. Each time I’m at the stage for less and less before I get back up to my working weight. Like last time it took me about 3 months, to get to a weight that took me 8 months before the injury.

Beginner routines to me are defined by their simplicity and their focus on progressive overload. If you’re at a place where you can do daily or weekly increases to weight or volume than you’re a beginner. It doesn’t mean your weak, it means you can improve faster than someone who’s been consistently at it for months/years.

So don’t think of it as a bad thing, its not.

You also need to pick a routine and stick with it. You’re motivated right now so its easy to do whatever, but having to think about what you’re going to do each time will not only take more discipline and energy, but it’ll be just way less effective because you’re doing random stuff. Not to mention you give yourself space to make compromises and excuses in the moment.

It’s just really chaotic. Good job in going, it’s better than paralysis analysis, but if you want to succeed from a results standpoint, any sort of beginner routine will be better than what you’re doing now. If you want to succeed from a still doing in a few months standpoint you need a build in a routine around the gym that removes as much ambiguity and choice as possible. One day, “maybe I’ll just go tomorrow” will eventually turn into “eh I’m not really feeling it this week” and the next thing you know you haven’t gone in weeks.

This is something ive experienced and had to work through, this is something most people go through. The people who don’t, have very good routines and/or have been going consistently for so long they can’t imagine actually not going to the gym.

Try to think about why you stopped going the last time. If it was an injury or something then think about why you didn’t start again when healed.

I’d be happy to help you brainstorm and choose a routine for in the gym and around it if you’d like. We can address your goals and what it might/would take to reach them.

I of course encourage you to do your own research. I’d point you to the people I mentioned above, but there’s lots of good stuff out there.

You’re always welcome to come back and ask me whatever questions you have. You don’t need to censure yourself with me, if I don’t want to read something or answer something I won’t.

Edit: the Jim thing was funny. If you do want to go more in depth I don’t mind doing it here, but if you’d rather do it somewhere else just dm me.

Well I wrote a bunch of stuff to try and answer your questions, which I’m still happy to post as a followup, but I think I’ll start with this instead.

Before I tell you what I think of those things, can you tell me more about what your current routine or plan is and if you have any specific or general goals?

I honestly have no idea from what you shared so far.