I would repeat myself here.
But yes.
Absolutely. You might even be doing me a favor. Once the hate speech committee finds this post, it’s gonna reflect poorly on my social score. So go ahead!
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“Nuanced, thoughtful writing is certainly the way to go - but here’s the kicker: it’s now indistinguishable form LLM-written texts.”
No, thank you.
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those people don’t know what thoughtful, nuanced writing looks like!
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You’re so right
Please don’t, it’s entertaining and is an interesting slice of life of the main concerns of other people 
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I’m reading The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson. In there he wrote, that he also valued freedom, which is why he started an internet business, because it meant he could work from anywhere. And so he proceeded with his life as a digital nomad. After 5 years and living in 55 countries, learning different cultures, sleeping with different girls, etc, he came to the conclusion that freedom in itself is a vessel. And you need to restrict it to fill your life with meaning. I don’t know how I feel about it.
Now I live in New York. I have a house and furniture and an electric bill and a wife. None of it is particularly glamorous or exciting. And I like it that way. Because after all the years of excitement, the biggest lesson I took from my adventuring was this: absolute freedom, by itself, means nothing.
Freedom grants the opportunity for greater meaning, but by itself there is nothing necessarily meaningful about it. Ultimately, the only way to achieve meaning and a sense of importance in one’s life is through a rejection of alternatives, a narrowing of freedom, a choice of commitment to one place, one belief, or (gulp) one person.
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This was unnecessary though.
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I liked that book, but more because of the core theme in the title. Why give a fuck to unimportant things?
The freedom part is probably not so good, it is more of a philosophical question. If you really don’t give a fuck, your freedom affects others freedom and that will almost certainly leed to conflicts.
Freedom is to have options and you have to choose very carefully.
Another great inspiration
I didn’t know that movie. Such a young Tom Cruise. Makes me want to watch it. But 6.8 at IMDb is mediocre. On the other hand, you can’t blindly trust that rating.
Pastiche is easy to make, hard to pull off. Can’t say I like this one.
Lame and cringey, indeed.
Also, he (@Bojack) I mean, they could always identify as a …
… um, never mind.
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I am…
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Fantastic. Amazing.
I propose a game. What kind of ridiculous, money-grabbing tax can you guys think of?
My idea: unrealized wealth tax. The tax office calculates your savings rate and portfolio growth rate over the next 10 years, and taxes you accordingly.
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No hard feelings, but as a mechanical investor I have to note that this place is not giving anything back, so sorry, I leave.
Had a good time with all of you and I am really sorry to leave you back with the holy grail believers. But it is about economics, and it is not very economic for me to spend the little time I got left of my live (probably not even a 100 years) here.
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WOW what a contrast from the “be-smart-with-your-money-and-live-a-happy-life” thing, y’all on your periods or what?*
Has someone some gasoline to throw on this FIRE thing? I don’t think it’s burning hot enough.
*italic means super sarcasm referring to some previous content
More seriously I find it sad, looks like some life frustration arises and this forum/thread has become a place to vent… maybe it’s time to spend some money.
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4 posts were merged into an existing topic: Dutch Lawmakers Approve a 36% Tax on Unrealized Crypto, Stock, and Bond Gains
Sounds pretty harsh. Wish you didn’t have to go through that.
For me, it’s “taxation is theft”, “taxing unrealized capital gains is getting people into slavery” or “if you’re taxing the rich, obviously they will all flee and you’ll be left with a shithole of a country”.
Or, for example, this:
I think we should be able to discuss political topics but I also think tone matters. To me, tone means not treating one’s own position as obviously sensible and what matters to other people as obviously stupid.
Other people believe other things and value other economical or societal models. Treating it as manifestly misguided and asinine means there is no discussion possible on the topic, at which point there is indeed no point in discussing policies either, much to my chagrin (as I enjoy having the opportunity to discuss them from the understanding that other people might have other positions, which make the discussion valuable in the first place as it would otherwise be just an echo chamber).
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