Philipp M. W. Hoffmann

@vrexec No, but I DO spend some time of the day in front of the computer. I don’t go off into the forest to write fiction though because I like being around people

@malmaladei These are great. You are not traditional though.

I ask this question from time to time and it’s not one of those judgmental “why are you not having kids” posts. I could not care less if someone decides to have kids or not, or their reasons. What I genuinely don’t understand is… if you’ve decided not to have children… why are you working a traditional career? Why are you interacting with a computer all day? Why do you care at all about how much money you make? It literally makes no sense. There are only a few tiny exceptions… like you’re a caregiver for a family member or you have significant health issues. Go join the Peace Corps or the military. Go volunteer somewhere in the world. Become an EMT or a paramedic or a firefighter or a police officer. Go find a shack in the woods somewhere and write fiction for five straight years and don’t talk to anyone. Literally walk across the country. Bike around the world. Move to Greece and work on a boat ferrying tourists around the islands. Go to Switzerland and become a mountain guide. Dedicate yourself to fitness and adventure. Literally anything. You have this incredible gift of a life with no dependents. Why are you still career coded and money coded? One of the great mysteries of our time.

Building chip manufacturing machines

The age of nation-states is coming to an end slowly (let's say over the next 50-100 years) And the age of corporate states is starting It will all start on the Moon or Mars. Companies like SpaceX will establish a base, build it out with thousands of autonomous robots, establish their own rule of law and that's it. Which nation state from Earth is going to dispute it? They don't have the means. And as a human you can decide whether to migrate into these new corporate colonies or whether to stay on Earth.

Okay, ich gebe zu, für den ein oder anderen war das doch etwas zu hoch. So sollte es jeder verstehen können:

My $2000+ iPhone 17 Pro Max when I try to take a photo just about every day now Then I realized most of my friends have the same problem Tim Cook should resign 🤡

OK, wow😳 Gebe zu: Wusste ich auch nicht⬇️

Reminds me of a tweet I did a week ago lol

Optimisten: das Glas ist halb voll Pessimisten: das Glas ist halb leer Friedrich Merz: die Ausländer sind schuld

Bernie this message is beyond retarded. The top 1% in the US pay ~40% of all federal individual income taxes. I'm not in the 1% - far from it - yet objectively it's extremely obvious that the top 1% IS NOT THE ISSUE. The issue is the way government DEPLOYS the revenue it takes in. THE US HAS A SPENDING EFFICIENCY ISSUE. And it's 100% rooted in its politicians BEING TERRIBLE AT THEIR JOBS. This includes you. Stop gaslighting the public.

Warum die Politik von Union und SPD zum Scheitern verurteilt ist in dieser Legislaturperiode, erklärt von Habeck in 60 Sekunden. Sie können es nicht mehr verbergen.

Simulation is used to reproduce extremely rare or dangerous scenarios where we don’t have enough data, despite millions of cars on the road. For example: you’re driving down a narrow two-lane road when a pedestrian trips and falls into the road. The right decision is to slow down as much as possible and choose a glancing impact into the oncoming car, rather than run over and kill the pedestrian. This is the classic Trolley Problem, but with a vast number of variations.

1997 stimmte @bundeskanzler Merz gegen die Strafbarkeit der Vergewaltigung in der Ehe. 2006 stimmte er gegen das Allgemeine Gleichbehandlungsgesetz. Aber lasst uns über das Frauenbild von Muslimen reden.

Das Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt enthüllt: VW ist am häufigsten von Rückrufen betroffen Danach folgen, Ford, Kia, Honda, Toyota, BMW, Peugeot, Hyundai, Opel und Jeep. Wie zu erwarten war, sucht man Tesla in dieser Liste vergeblich. Autokauf ist ein IQ-Test. Einfach nur fahren oder lieber in der Werkstatt stehen?

@ST0RM_B0RN Big fan of FSD and the possibilities, but what if he gets surprised by a „take over now“. He just crashes or what?

My dad hasn’t driven a car in 3 years. My benchmark for when Tesla FSD has truly arrived, is if I would feel safe with it driving my father around. FSD 14.2 clears that benchmark. He now has the potential to travel to visit his grandkids or visit a grocery store, on his own. Safely. Now if we can just have the option to automatically park in the handicap spot, it would be absolutely perfect for him.

@vrexec The key thing that people need to understand the peace of mind 70-80k in passive income already gives you, and what creative power they could unleash with that money to build their consulting brand or whatever

@vrexec People don’t do this out of various fears not because it would not work

You're 30, 40, 50 years old with a successful traditional high-earning career... like finance, law, corporate. You're not particularly thrilled to go to work every day, but you tell yourself that it's "just life" or "for your kids" not to mention what people will think if you "threw away" your "momentum" to do something different. You have ~$1MM locked in retirement accounts worth ~$750K if you liquidated. You have ~$250K in home equity post-fees. You can string another ~$500K together in cash, savings, brokerage accounts. All-in you can "liquidate your life" and have $1.5-2MM in liquidity. You can take 3/4th of that and yield $70-80K/year passive. Use the rest as "working capital" for your life... a little cash cushion. Then you create a little consulting brand and find a few companies to pay you for advice, guidance, some part-time deliverable execution. Generate another $100-200K/income working a few hours a week. So you have somewhere around $150-250K/year income entirely disconnected from a "career" or any particular physical place. You can move your family to another part of the country, or an entirely new country. Enrich your life -- which you weren't completely satisfied with before -- with some new experiences for your family. Learn about yourself, what you and your family are capable of. If it doesn't work out, or you don't like it, just go back to the drawing board again. Try something new. Iterate. You'll be dead for a long time. What's stopping you from at least considering this?

@levelsio It instantly feels like a community again in the replies. All my friends and their friends are here. Awesome feature

Okay let's see who can reply to this

@levelsio OMG reading the replies is actually fun and enjoyable again and doesnt require to constantly have an internal AI reply filter running in my brain that makes reading replies exhaustive and not fun

@levelsio I can, so what does that say about me?