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An ungodly amount of money is spent putting data in PDFs, and taking it back out again. Imagine if every time you picked up groceries for your home you did it with a semi instead of a car.

I love how TSA rules are different at every airport and they look at you like you're a fucking idiot when you don't speak their regional dialect of security theater.

@lawyer4SMBs I estimate 30 days, about 20 in so far; but this is my first building ever so big learning curves. Stretching over several months due to work and small kids at home. Nearing completion of exterior, window goes in tomorrow! Just the cedar siding after that

@SolidCouncil That's a beaut. How long of a build?

$4k on a home sauna sounded insane to me a year ago. Then I actually went down the longevity rabbit hole. The Finnish data on 4+ sessions a week — linked to lower cardiovascular and all-cause mortality — is hard to unsee. That's not a splurge, it's cheap insurance I'll use for 20 years. For folks who've made the jump: best setup in the $2k–$5k range? And which ones can actually live outside — barrel, cabin, something that survives a real winter? Looking for a real sweat, not a closet with a heat lamp.

@lawyer4SMBs If you DIY, this is the bible localmile.org/trumpkins-note…

I’m actively building one, but it will be about 20k all in (including electric 240v). Biggest inflator of cost will be the interior thermory siding. After going deep down the rabbit hole, decided to build to get control of interior materials, have insulation, and get the height needed for true finish sauna.

@TheBabylonBee Taco Bell Labs

@Grimezsz Why would we want to incentivize behavior like this

I have a friend I'm trying to hire who's basically unemployable and homeless however like, once u start knowing her you basically get roped into her life as if it's a tv show. Like, she causes insane amounts of property damage (one time she accidentally poisoned me) but her existence as living art is so enjoyable and also funny like she gets kicked out of everyone's house and then eventually ppl get sad and want her back so she basically circulates around like, I'm fairly certain this wud be a job in the medieval times but how does one employ someone like this ? I feel like I have an unusually large amount of unemployable but brilliant friends. Is there a healthier way for society to support these figures? It's like Socrates syndrome

I think a fair amount of FIRE folks are more like FIre folks. Financial independence yes. The W2 isn’t a prison. The business you started isn’t a hail mary to make life work. You can take 3 months away to orient your will without permission. Not so much retirement as freedom to move about the cabin.

The FIRE (financial independence retire early) movement has done an immense amount of harm to society This is coming from someone who used to be a believer in FIRE, but I have realized just how much of a fallacy it is, as I have grown older Taking a bunch of high potential income earners and convincing them that their life goal should be to pursue a net worth that allows them to check out of society is immensely damaging to the social fabric Many of these people sit on the upper echelon of office jobs, have built great businesses, or are at the top of their field in their career field They should be inspired to continue doing what they are best at, and ultimately, mentor and give back to the next generation who want to pursue those same goals Instead, many of these FIRE folks become wandering retirees with a meaningless life who are trying to grasp on to money as their north star It is a false sense of security and accomplishment. Becoming wealthy should never be a goal in the first place. It should have always been to pursue something that adds meaning to your own life and to society It is a completely fallacy to believe that retiring will be your source of happiness. More often than not, it has the complete opposite effect

@texasrunnerDFW @omgsidewalks Sync your appointments for the regular visits and have everyone see a different person. Three people go to the dentist, three hygienist, one appointment slot. This is the only way to do it at scale unless you can really flex your hours.

@omgsidewalks Now try doing two 9-5 working parents with 3 kids who each need to go to the pediatrician, dentist, orthodontist, optometrist, etc

Nobody warned me that working a 9–5 basically means never being able to see a doctor, go to the dentist, or handle any appointments because they’re open while you’re at work and closed by the time you get off.

@Wolf_Dreams7 Increasingly convinced the best at bats will be in your 40s. Two decades of experience, through the young kids years, and if you have played your cards right, you have a lot of margin built up. The goal is a NW where even if you fail, regular life keeps running.

@dmwoof @MaryBowdenMD @TonyHinchcliffe I’m saying as a professional podcaster, it’s hurting his product. Do you think we should be rehashing 9/11 on 85% of podcasts? Probably not. Should it be forgotten? Also no. Personal opinion.

@SolidCouncil @MaryBowdenMD @TonyHinchcliffe I get why many people want to “move on.” They want to forget how they treated others horribly out of irrational selfish fear. It shouldn’t be forgotten though.

No one talks about Covid more than Rogan. I checked his last 15 shows - he mentioned the pandemic in 12 of the 15. Like many of us, he is not moving on. Here’s a clip from his recent interview with @TonyHinchcliffe.

@girdley Feynman’s recorded lectures had a big impact on my understanding of the world! Not a perfect person. Once in a generation teacher.

Every young man finds heroes. Every older man discovers his heroes had ugly sides. Don't stop having heroes. It's to idolize traits, not people. Feynman is my hero for one thing: explaining hard ideas simply. The manufactured persona and the awful treatment of women? Not my hero. Not my problem. Take the trait. Don't worry about the rest.

@thedarkhorsepod @BretWeinstein @HeatherEHeying @BretWeinstein @HeatherEHeying I am married, with two children and one on the way. I am surprised you have never covered vasectomies. What is your position from an evolutionary biologist's perspective?

Happening now - Join @BretWeinstein & @HeatherEHeying in the chat for the Locals Only Q&A. darkhorse.locals.com/post/8039837/l…

@JohnLeFevre She is unreal!

Incredible gift. If Gwynne Shotwell didn’t work for Elon, she’d be universally celebrated by the media as one of the greatest executives alive. The same people who worship “strong women” suddenly go blind when she stands next to the "wrong" man.

@Tesla Ohhhh man i really hope it’ll fit 3 car seats!

Looking forward to the long weekend

Until you realize: - your kids will not get to know their family - the little time you do get with family is gated by expensive plane tickets and time off work - you have no built in local support system, so you will have to work very hard to make one - this is not your mother tongue, and that will be incredibly isolating

Honestly this is cooler than moving to nowhere Alabama and buying a 90k house in a bad school district

Why are they always copying us? I’m convinced that the “success” of the Chinese economic system is predicated on having a hyper successful capitalist society nearby to copy. China doesn’t seem to innovate, just copy and make more efficient. Without America, the Chinese economy would stagnate.

Cyberpunk AF.

Right. I mean...sure you can defend your land with force, but now you have to deal with the criminal and civil courts if anyone is injured, meaning you are dealing with the government. Better to just have property rights enforced by the government in the first place. You have to deal with the government either way. More broadly, would keeps a neighboring country from invading and taking everyone's land? It's our military and alliance with other nations, which is the government, that must be funded. "Owning" property in any nation is a transitive right granted by a governing body establishing its boundaries. Run the thought experiment: ok well, I will just move to an island and I am my own country. No taxes. Great! Who keeps watch while you sleep? What keeps you from being outgunned by someone else?

@HRT_USA @SolidCouncil @HerndonforIdaho What if your neighbors all decide that part of your land is theirs?

Today the Supreme Court ruled on a family that lost a $194,400 home over a disputed $2,242 tax bill. It held the Constitution does not require paying you your home's real value. The property tax is the only tax that can take your home. This is why the Idaho Republican Party voted to end it. #idleg

@littlejoeward @HerndonforIdaho I agree with this! Income tax also punishes you for making more. At least your property tax bill is somewhat consumption correlated. If you consume more (ie bigger house, fancier zip) you are taxed more. It's more punitive on overconsumption, which seems correct.

@HerndonforIdaho Property tax is the tax that makes the most sense when you think about it. The property is being provided services by the government