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Feeling like, when I interact with other people and their content, I'm not simply fulfilling my agreed upon role of supplying training data to huge ML models so that they can better productize me for sale in exchange for... the change to be annoyed by jackasses?

For work I use SolidWork, a $10k piece of software with $3k/year service fees given the bells and whistles that I use, and even at that price the built in web interface, pretty much everyday, defaults back to giving them permission to use tracking cookies to sell my data.

I like to think of our two dominant political parties as being the child siblings that individually tend to make a mess of things and be general pains in the ass, and when together tend to fight and make things even worse while constantly pointing fingers, blaming, and lying in order to get out of the trouble that they deserve to be in, neither of whom deserve the validation of being declared "right", or as being "the victim".

This made me feel a new emotion: pitty for the sort of person who has a Lambo, but not the balls necessary to shoot it with fireworks from a helicopter while pulling donuts in the desert. Is there a German word for that? Seems like something they'd have.

I assume that in time many nostr clients will go the way of most supermarkets or restaurants, offering and serving shit to those who will happily gobble it up, but I also assume that there'll always be some that, again like some restaurants and supermarkets, will take pride in offering something of quality.

Following that logic we should all be fit and healthy since we're all free to choose our own food, all of which is a base ingredient, or has an ingredient list on it.

hmmm, that's a tricky one, not to imply that you're wrong for looking at it that way or that I think this applies to you, but if person A has a 10% higher score than person B but lives an empty, soal sucking life, while person B lives a life full of love, meaning, and joy....

Maybe that's one of the trickiest parts of life, it's sufficiently complicated so that if you're doing a bad job, you almost innately won't have the perspective to recognize it.

My first buy was poorly timed in '21, my first bear market was lame but gave me time to stack. The worst part was, in the moment not knowing if I deserved how cool my wife was with it all. Now we have, by our standards a meaningful amount of value and I'm not excited about inevitably watching it effectively get cut in half.

While I'm familiar with the etiquette surrounding conversing while using a urinal, what's appropriate etiquette in that situation? Asking for a friend.

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Iโ€™ve sampled all the fancy rich people stuff at this point in life and will now tell you whatโ€™s worth it and whatโ€™s notโ€ฆ

Fancy car - Not worth it. Save the money and get a regular car.

Really fancy car - Maybe worth it? Depends. If youโ€™re super into cars these are pretty fun.

First class air travel - Worth it. But fair warning you canโ€™t go back to economy once you get used to first.

Private air travel - Not worth it. Too expensive. Unless youโ€™re some kind of huge celebrity youโ€™ll be fine in first class.

Luxury hotel rooms - Worth it. Thereโ€™s a big difference between the ritz and the best western. Enough said.

Fancy watch - Maybe worth it? Similar to the really fancy car thing. If you like it go for it, if not donโ€™t worry you arenโ€™t missing out on anything.

Fancy clothes - Not worth it. Rich people donโ€™t wear this crap. Gucci, LV etc is for upper middle class people to signal to poor people.

Mansion - Worth it. Having a nice home is always nice, probably donโ€™t go obnoxiously large though. Beyond 10k square feet youโ€™re going to have weird maintenance and headaches taking care of the home.

Private chef - Not worth it. The food tastes good, but itโ€™s another person in your house and that shit gets annoying.

Yacht - Maybe worth it? This goes in the same category as super cars and watches. If youโ€™re into boats and you like spending time on the water it might be worthwhile. Otherwise just hangout by the pool, lake, oceanโ€ฆ same vibe but cheaper.

Maids - Worth it. Nobody wants to do their own cleaning.

Fancy food - Not worth it, caviar and foie gras will never beat burger and fries. High quality food yes, fancy rich guy food no. Maybe every once in awhile.

Fancy booze - Not worth it. Gets you drunk the same as regular booze. The richest friend I have drinks natty light. True story.

Good to know, literally this morning while laying in bed daydreaming, my wife mentioned a personal chef, masseuse, and maid.