You’re born with a ton of fucks to give, so you spend them like a kid with a credit card. You give fucks about your friends, about your grades, about your fashion sense, about strangers’ opinions. You give way too many fucks about way too many things. You have so many.
Then, as you get older, you have maybe 10 fucks per month, so you learn to budget them. You allocate fucks to family and career, but there aren’t enough fucks to give to the newest fads. Oh, someone at work has something they need my help with that’s outside my job title? I’ll do my best to allocate some fucks, but this month is pretty tight.
Then, as you get even older, you’re down to 1-2 fucks per month, and those fucks are pretty damn precious. You give them to your family and your hobbies and your job, and that’s kinda it. It’s not your fault – fucks expire too quickly. I would’ve liked to have saved my fucks from when I was younger, but it's not an option - there are no fuck vaults for normal folks.
Then, you hit fuck insolvency. You’re getting like 1 fuck a year, and you have to make it last. So you go without, and even previously fuck-worthy things, you just can’t give a fuck. Some people run out really quickly, Some wealthy folks have a fuck trust fund that pays out a decent amount even into old age.
At some point, the fuck faucet runs completely dry and you’re out of fucks to give. It’s just basic Fuckonomics.
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Another anti-feature you won't find on nostr: you can post any URL you want, even substack sites!
It's noodles now.
I don't make the rules.
Check out the Huberman Lab episode on water intake.
Managed to be rudely awoken by calf cramps despite drinking 100oz of water a day and taking plenty of potassium and magnesium. Guess I pushed it too hard for leg day.
I should have clarified that I only eat nigiri.
Starting to suspect that the only safe restaurants at which you can be sure your food isn't adultered with bullshit additives are sushi shops.
The American Dream is a harmful narrative.
The traditional expectation in American society is that if you put in a basic level of effort, you will be successful. You go to school, you study, you graduate, and you go to college. You don't do drugs, you stay out of trouble. You start at an entry-level job and get promoted every few years. Financial success is supposed to follow. Not extreme success, but a stable job that pays well, marriage, kids, owning a house, vacations, etc.
Those things are supposed to happen because you followed the rules.
When you follow all the rules and are not successful, it creates a psychological disconnect, and people react in different ways to that disconnect.
Some people react by rejecting the traditional expectations and redefining success. So you get things like minimalism and child-free lifestyles and the sort of Bohemian hipster ideal that it's okay to not settle down. A generation ago it was hippies and communes.
On the other hand, some people react to this psychological shift by forming the belief that they were not successful because they failed to follow the rules sufficiently strictly.
So they become fundamentalists. They lean into following the rules and they make following the rules a core part of their identity. The whole grindset thing is not about work, it's about an identity. It is doubling down on the idea that if you work hard and relentlessly improve yourself, you will achieve success. Along with it comes the idea that people who have failed did so because they did not work sufficiently hard.
The people who post endlessly about the grindset mentality are trumpeting their own moral purity. They are successful because they are following the rules. And they know that they are successful because they talk about how much they are successful.
The flip side of this phenomenon is that some people will encounter this psychological disconnect and form the mindset that the rules are bullshit and people only achieve success if they are willing to break the rules. Thus there is nothing morally wrong about it because everyone else must be doing it too. It opens the door and creates a motivation for criminal behavior because there was no success achieved from following the rules.
There is no formula for success. Nor is success even an objective goal. Folks should seek validation from within rather than Keeping Up With the Joneses.
The size of the dick economy likely pales in comparison to the girth of the market for sharing helpful information.
UK judge basically threw up their hands and said they didn't have the resources to pursue investigation of his contempt of court charge.
Craig Wright is demonstrating that not only do the legal systems allow you to DoS targets with fraudulent claims, you can even DoS the judges themselves if they try to target you for all the lies you spew.
Me, 3 weeks post-collapse, assuring the surviving National Guardsmen that we can co-exist if they just hand over the jalapeno poppers.
