Sp00kyJackolantern

@fadule_ Reading NPC drivel like this is excrutiating

The older you get the more you realize: -The Office was amazing -complaining is unattractive -nothing feels better than feeling healthy -watching good movies is not a waste of time -if you’re having a bad day go to the gym -don’t hookup with a woman you wouldn’t be pumped to show off to your friends (because she’s so hot and emotionally mature it makes them want a girlfriend) -ask for the promotion -call your friends for no reason -anxiety isn’t real -you’re spinning on a sphere in an infinite universe and the fact you’re alive is a 1 in 500 trillion miracle - you’re so lucky it’s absurd and you have nothing to lose :)

@thereal_EstherG @abbiperets @mountainwesttax Cope.

@Sp00kyJacky @abbiperets @mountainwesttax Nah. It actually impacts the way your body metabolizes food and uses carbs. It is a grave misunderstanding to think this is just about appetite suppression without understanding how else it works.

2/3rds of my meals are Greek yogurt, I walk 10k+ steps a day, joined a $10/month gym to do 90 pound barbell squats, and the scale hasn’t budged one pound. At night I watch my husband polish off ice cream while keeping his visible abs

@ramit Hey man, fuck you and your shartgpt slop.

27 simple (and surprising) lessons for living a Rich Life 1. Stop agonizing about the amount you spend on coffee. Focus on the $30,000 questions, not the $30 questions — things like your savings rate, investment rate, debt payoff plan, and housing costs. 2. I can fix a lot of problems with money, but I can't fix cheap. If your friends or family have ever joked about you being cheap — even though you prefer "I'm selective" — good luck. 3. The way you feel about money is highly uncorrelated with the amount in your bank account. If you believe that when you have $50K or $500K more, you'll finally feel better about money, you won't. 4. Quick back-of-the-napkin rules I use: - True price of a hotel: Take the price and add 50%, which covers tax + tips + incidentals. - True price of housing: I personally add 50% to a mortgage to account for Phantom Costs (transaction fees/maintenance), though most people will pay less — I'd use 30% for most. Definitely run a calculation for this one. - How much to spend on housing: Total housing cost should be less than 28% of gross income, though these days you'll likely stretch to 32% or even 34%. Higher than that, you're in financial risk. - Car payment: 2.5x the payment for true out-of-pocket cost. It might even be more — my $350/month car payment was over $1,000/month once I factored in everything — but 2.5x is the sweet spot. - Home renovations: Take your first budget and double it — and grizzled renovators say even that's light. - Eating out: Triple it. Couples tell me they eat out 5x/week; the real answer is 15x (breakfast, lunch, dinner, coffee, everything). 5. If you're paying your financial advisor 1% in fees, you'll pay approximately 28% of lifetime returns in fees. Most people can manage their own money, but if you need help, get an advisor — just never pay a percentage-based (AUM) fee. 6. Renting can be a better financial decision than buying. Sometimes buying wins. You must run the numbers, starting with a buy-vs-rent calculation. I've made much more money renting for 20+ years — and lived in better places with almost zero maintenance. RUN THE NUMBERS. 7. What's your Rich Life? You should be able to answer with incredibly specific answers. "Financial freedom" is just words. "So I can do what I want, when I want" is embarrassingly vague. In my early 20s, my Rich Life was taking a taxi in the August NYC heat so I didn't have to sweat before a meeting. Then it was affording appetizers (because as a kid, we couldn't). THAT is specific. 8. You cannot live a Rich Life if you hate spending money. Learn to feel JOY spending, tipping generously, and paying your taxes. As Dan Kennedy says, "Why pay less when I can pay more?" (For the important things in life.) 9. There's a limit to how much you can cut, but no limit to how much you can earn. Learn to negotiate your salary (a single negotiation in your 20s, properly invested, can be worth hundreds of thousands). Start a side business. Yes, even for public school teachers. 10. Yes, you can get paid more. Earning is a skill. Whenever I post salaries, a LOT of people refuse to believe they're real. Step 1: recognize there are many highly paid jobs out there. Step 2: study those people's backgrounds (free on LinkedIn). Step 3: build similar skills (informational interviews are a great approach). 11. Increase your investment rate by 1% every December (e.g., from 6% to 7%). This single decision will be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars — more than all the coffee and vacations you ever take, combined. 12. Insurance is insurance, not an investment. If you follow someone telling you their insurance is a great way to make money, you're following a scammer. 13. Get the Big Wins right and the small stuff takes care of itself. There are about five: learn the basics of money, invest early and automatically, land a great well-paid job, secure stable housing, and invest in positive relationships. Nail those and you'll never spend 25 years agonizing over the price of coffee. 14. Two keys to a Rich Life: (1) Know your numbers — net worth, Fixed Costs (50-60% of take-home), Savings rate, Investment rate, and Guilt-Free Spending. Get my free CSP template to figure these out in 10 minutes. (2) Master your money psychology. 15. Fight for simplicity in your finances: 1-2 credit cards, 1 savings account, 1 checking account, and (depending on your needs) simple investments like a target-date fund. Then get on with your life. 16. If you have debt, make a payoff plan so you know the exact month/year you'll be debt free. 90% of people in debt don't know how much they owe, and 95% have never made a payoff plan. People in debt do everything EXCEPT pay it off — jumping between 0% cards, consolidating, running gimmicks. Make a plan and automate it. 17. Create a Worry-Free Number, below which you simply won't worry. You wouldn't stress over the price of a pack of gum. Start at $20 and revisit once a year. Your number may eventually reach hundreds or thousands. Good — adjust over time. If you're in a relationship, do this together. 18. If you have money but constantly feel anxious, add an extra $5,000 or $10,000 to your checking account. 19. To save money, pick your 3 biggest discretionary expenses and cut 50% within 6 months. That frees up hundreds a month. Trying to cut 5% on everything guarantees failure and makes you miserable. 20. Most people have the same vacation budget in mind: $5,000 — regardless of age, kids, or trip length. It's a number they picked up in their early 20s and it stuck, the same way you can spot older men by the hem of their pants. Adjust with the times and your ability. 21. You can live a Rich Life today AND a richer life tomorrow. Yes, even if you're in debt, even if you're not perfect, even if you regret decisions from years ago. Do not put yourself in purgatory. 22. There should never be "a money person" in the relationship. Both people must be engaged. One of you might focus on investing, another on certain bills — but both partners need to own a number and share it. Use the monthly money meeting agenda from my book, Money For Couples. 23. Build generosity in NOW — don't wait until you're "rich." Pick up the check. Tip big. Set an amount you want to give away every year and automate it. Wait for some magic number and you'll never build the muscle. The highest level of personal finance is always about the WHO: who do I get to surprise, delight, and be generous to? 24. Teach your kids about money young. Most people tell me their parents either never talked about money or only said "We can't afford it" — and now they do the SAME thing to their own kids. Money isn't something to protect kids from. Get them excited, teach tradeoffs, and by their teens they should be handling tax/tips at dinner and helping plan a family trip or car purchase. But first: you have to master it yourself. 25. Every December, do a Rich Life Review — solo or, in a relationship, together. Share your 20 most memorable photos of the year. Talk about what you want MORE and LESS of. Create a theme (one year ours was A Year of Beauty, another A Year of Adventure). THEN — and only then — look at your numbers. This should take days. Don't rush it. 26. A Rich Life is lived outside the spreadsheet. There's a subset of people — Optimizers, usually men — who spend thousands of hours reading financial subreddits and running Monte Carlo analyses. 27. Stop using the excuse "I wish they taught this in school." Many schools did — you didn't care. And there's unlimited free content and great books now. Get my book, I Will Teach You To Be Rich, from any public library. Follow me, @ramit, for more on money psychology

@Danizeh Literally 0 chance you aren't indian, especially with that pfp.

I hate talking about these topics because it feels like the timeline is full of them, however: You can't really 'course correct' anything, feminism has already done its damage. The consequences now are basically that a bunch of men have withdrawn from society, and you'll have a very hard time trying to win them back; you can't give them their time back, and you've made your own bed. Their argument is basically that a bunch of women betrayed men by siding with the government against men when they were trying to fix society as a whole and that in itself will always be remembered, no matter how old a man is, because once you mess with a man's ego, you have no idea how petty he can be. Men are biologically built to protect and provide for women, even that lazy loser who's in his basement playing video games 10 hours a day also knows this; he's not excluded from God's calling. However, that part was taken away from him and men in general due to the economy, feminism, and DEI, which was primarily supported by women. So now women have to go out there and get their own resources, while competing with men in the workplace, while also biologically wanting to be a wife & mother; they basically have their own curse by God which is to birth children, and have unironically willingly took on the man's curse, having to do both at once. I'm just observing the world here, and a bunch of women seem to be frustrated that men are no longer approaching them, which is true, and the online apps are basically for hookups or things that never last, which unironically favors men, as they get sex without commitment. I've seen women starting to approach men, and to me that's just weird and sad, but maybe that's because I'm traditional, however it shows the level we've reached as a society. There is no secret that women have always desired a relationship far more than men, because that is their biology. On the other side of the spectrum, you've also got a bunch of men who won't even make eye contact with a woman anymore, or who try to avoid speaking to one at all times, whether it's at work or even in an elevator. It is going to get much worse than it already is, and you're going to see far fewer marriages and serious relationships in the future. Birth rates alone have fallen everywhere, and with the help of social media indoctrination, it's going to continue to spread and the gender war is going to get much worse.

@brother__mind SHUT THE FUCK UP BY CLOSING YOUR STUPID FUCKING MOUTH

OUTLAST EVERYONE BY ENJOYING IT Most people can suffer for a goal. For a month. A year. Until the applause stops. Until progress goes quiet. Until the result takes longer than expected. The real advantage is wanting another rep when nobody is counting. Another attempt after the novelty dies. Another year after everyone else starts looking for an easier game. Talent matters. Strategy matters. But love for the work gives both time to compound. You don’t need to be the most gifted. Be the one who’d still be at it without the scoreboard.

@joelampton_ Wow bro those are amazing, original and totally not redundant talking points. I'm literally tripping over myself to fall down into your sales funnel to end up in your diarrhea-bowl telegram. I can't wait.

Nowadays if you start a relationship with a 21+ year old woman you're basically taking the leftovers of other men that embarrassed her, made her do weird fantasies, disrespected her When you take her on she comes with "principles" that she invented after being traumatised by others for years Other guys put MDMA in her ass -> Now you have to go to the cinema with her Other guys had wives when they fucked her -> Now you're supposed to be loyal Others gave her McDonalds and took her out once a month -> Now you're supposed to "BE A REAL MAN" that PROVIDES and PROTECTSSSSS. Etc.

@PhantomStays The % that makes 500k in profit is near zero. Like a fraction of a percent. Fuck you and eat shit.

$500k per year in profit compounded annually at 10% a year (conservative) results in a $240m net worth after 40 years For you young 20 y/o ecom bros, this should be bare minimum. $500k/yr in profit is pretty standard in the space. This works swimmingly all thanks to 0% tax US LLC (all profit remains your profit) And no, you should never hold a US LLC with a dubai corp. dubai tax residency is 0% so the $500k/year in profit flows through automatically (no pass through needed). no need to have a US LLC owned by dubai corp.

@rachcorrine who the fuck compliments a guys shorts? sounds like some bullshit

Two items of clothing that will change your life: - the buck mason field spec cotton heavy tee. It is heavy and delicious and easy to wear and looks good on everyone. Highly recommend getting a tall length if you’re over 6’2. - linen drawstring shorts. Most complimented clothing item the boy had on in Cannes. Casual cool comfortable perfect for summer. Wear with Johnny collar knit polo wear with a long sleeve button up (no tank underneath). Wear with sneakers or loafers or boat shoes (not the hideous ones but the ones I like).

@ecom_cork If aids was a tweet

You need to be speaking success over your friends. You WILL make it. Money is fake. Energy is real. Everyone around you is legit living in a financial matrix. You can break out. The gurus are actually more right than wrong. I’ve spent over 200k on courses and coaching. It does work, the good stuff sticks. You can break out and change your life, it’s the best time to be alive ever.

@Renascenti21388 @PaulSkallas Any time a tweet starts with "So" you know you're in for some grade A retardation

@PaulSkallas So Buenos Aires, a city where all the streets and squares are lined with trees, is a northern design failure?

These piazzas are thousands of years old. They were not designed like northern parks where people sit under trees all day. In the summer, they come alive in the morning and again after sunset, and stayed empty in the day. It's not a design failure. It reflects a different rhythm of life.

@dantefofante A sleeve of oreos is 700 calories, retard

we live in a world where overeating is literally easier than walking. eradicating a sleeve of oreos takes all of 10 minutes. 3000 calories down the hatch. no satiety. i understand that eating whole foods sounds great in a vacuum, but you can still turn into roadhog eating steaks and broccoli. modern problems require modern solutions. ive had people ask me why i weigh myself every morning. the link below is why. i get on the scale every day because not only is it good to know, but because I think that in our world, you absolutely need to do something. you need controls or youre cooked. this is the form of control that I find least restrictive. this essay is the closest ive gotten to inuitive eating with control, without counting calories, weighing my food, or tracking macros, all while hitting my goals: dantefofante.com/p/how-to-eat-i…

@maxwobst Productivity slop consumption is a very good indicator of someone being a midwit or below.

watched a YT vid of sam ovens on a 10h flight from guangzhou to moscow & it broke my brain a little his stuff from 7 years ago is still unmatched. filled with a crazy amount of sauce the average dopamine-addict can't comprehend i always thought i was super productive. maximizing my output turns out i had no idea it's insane how easy it is to waste a whole day while feeling productive - when you're actually not especially if you got ADHD & can't always lock onto one thing at a time but that laser focus on one thing gets stuff done in 1/10th the time & i don't mean running one project at a time. i mean one task, one hour, nothing else no replying to messages no checking slack no opening the shopify dashboard no replying to comments on X just sitting there. working on one thing the amount you get done in 8h like that used to take me days there's no magic to it. it's just the compounding effect of channeling every thought into one output. day after day you can brute-force 10-12h days & for a while you have to. but with real focus you'll do the same in 4 if you feel like you're just staying busy every day, start tracking: - your outputs, sleep, workouts & nutrition - what you're doing every 30 mins - which tasks drain you & don't fill your bank account - when you lose focus feels like i was operating at 1% of my potential this whole time go watch it

@HamptonAc_ Didn't happen, fuck you and shut the fuck up.

Met a guy in the ferry line in Capri last week who owns dozens of marinas and is apparently worth millions Nothing about him looked like it. We were both waiting for the ferry back to Naples. It was hot, the line was long, and the boat was delayed. He was standing right in front of me - older guy, late 50s, cheap polo, old backpack, looked like he’d been working outside all day. I assumed he was just another tourist. We started talking to kill time. After a while I asked what he does and he said he has some marinas. Then he casually mentioned he owns quite a few - around 40 to 50 across Italy, Croatia, and Greece. Said they cleared tens of millions in profit last year. He said he started with one small, shitty dock outside Naples years ago that nobody wanted because the water access was bad. We kept chatting while the line moved. He told me a big part of the money actually comes from boat storage. People pay every month to leave their boats there over the winter - like rent, except the tenants don’t complain or call you at night. At one point I asked why he was standing in this crowded public line instead of taking something private. He just shrugged and said, “I own the marinas. I don’t own the yachts.” The ferry eventually showed up. He grabbed his backpack and got on like everyone else. You really can’t tell who is wealthy just by looking. Some people who are actually doing well don’t feel the need to prove anything or look a certain way. They just move through normal life like normal people

@xKhalifan I'm going to crashout at the NPC platitude > sales funnel tweets on this website. I wish you nothing but the worst in life, as much misery as God can spare.

GET OUT OF YOUR HEAD Allow yourself to be cringe. Talk to people. Have fun. Share your interests. Move your body. Socialize more. Learn to dance. Feel the music. Partymaxxing. Make memories. Laugh out loud. All sweaty. Tears of joy. Randomly remembering hilarious situations. When you spend so much time in your head, not only does it become hard for you to interact with others, but it also prevents you from living fully. Allow yourself to just exist. Just be. Enjoy the present moment.

@345marcel Wow that's so fascinating, it made me take a break from my planned activity of staring at a white wall

The groceries I get every week to stay lean year around: Low fat greek yogurt, raw milk, eggs and cheese, chicken and steak, bunch of fresh/frozen fruit and veggies (tomatoes, beet root, carrots, potatoes primarily), red lentil pasta, oats, honey, almond butter, coconut water. Every. Single. Week. Sometimes some dark chocolate, chocolate bars or gummi bears. But usually I keep it out of my kitchen and instead go out if I crave something; and if my weight is stable, has dropped, or I simply moved a bunch on a day. Breakfast is always greek yogurt with a bunch of fruit, cacao powder and cinnamon. Lunch 1L of milk with maple syrup. Maybe some fruit. Quick and easy. Dinner is always some meat, good amount of vegetables, potatoes very often to keep calories lower and eggs or cheese. As this is my largest meal, it’s also easy to change it to eating out with friends and not having to worry too much about calories. Whenever I‘m traveling I hit a grocery store up and get the same bulk ingredients. More simplified, but the overall structure stays.

@stuxnet_vt Except if they're executives, then they get free rein to harass and fart on any woman in the vicinity

We don’t tolerate these people at Riot. We fire them.

@abbiperets @mountainwesttax Wegovy and similar drugs simply suppress your appetite so if you had actually spent "years doing everything right" beforehand the outcome would have been the exact same since you'd also have been eating less. Your entire tweet makes 0 sense.

This will undoubtedly get hate, but I spent YEARS doing everything right and could not lose weight. Started wegovy 2 years ago, lost over 20 pounds in about 6 months, and never went to a very high dose. Now, I can eat ice cream. I eat it every day, in fact. I eat junk food when I want it. I eat whatever I want on vacation. And I stay at the right weight. I also walk and do strength training, and I’m very careful about my protein intake, and getting better with my fiber. I wish I had done this years ago. I feel amazing and I’m happy every time I see myself.

@spirodonfl You can't even speak proper English, stfu.

The only anybody should be allowed to vote is if they can pass leetcode tests in Rust and React. I'm serious.

@emil_priver Falling for "time under tension" and "feel it in the muscle" broscience in 2026

Lowering all weights at the gym with 5-10 kg and focusing on control in the lift Really amazing feeling in the muscles when you focus on the control and movement

@wookash_podcast How about you stop being, quite frankly, a giant pussy?

I find that baffling that for all Andrew Kelley's distaste of private enterprise, the one thing he could learn is how to handle comms, especially when you disagree with someone. Imagine making a programming language out of genuine effort to make the world a better place. Of course you would love people use it, right? You would be interested in making a community around it to make sure that people feel welcomed, encouraged to try and experiment, etc. You get three huge projects running Zig: @bunjavascript, Ghostty, @TigerBeetleDB. All of them are being developed by well known people, liked in the general tech sphere. Bun decides to switch from Zig to Rust. You never liked what @jarredsumner was doing with Zig language, felt excessive, but hey, he's leaving Zig right? He writes the post that memory safety issues felt overwhelming and too problematic and made this huge big deal out of Zig to Rust migration, everyone knows about it. You want to write a blog post response. What do you write? You're bothered that it's framed as "memory safety" and simultaneously happy that "comptime abuse" (lol) has come to an end. You could challenge @jarredsumner points, offer alternative moves, maybe even invite him over for a public talk. Instead you... lash out on the guy, attack his management skills (???), talk about "beginner energy"? What the post achieved? Would someone be confident to start an ambitious project in Zig now? Will they be called an idiot by the guy who's in charge of Zig's development because of wrong use of comptime? I bet @mitchellh and @jorandirkgreef will spend some time thinking what does it mean for their projects. Absolutely ridiculous! And finish the post with "¯\_(ツ)_/¯" Aaaa!