The dip only lasted a few months. By August of 2020, VTI was back to where it had been before the dip in February.

There’s nothing wrong with it in the moral sense, but I’m not sure it was a good idea. This guy was ultimately successful. However, he had to spend years living very modestly, working very hard, and borrowing money. That whole time, he was under a huge amount of stress because the whole endeavor could easily have ended in failure, leaving him with nothing.

That’s not something most people would want to do even if they were capable of it, and I actually wonder if he would have been better off if he had gotten a normal job instead. He wouldn’t have as much money as he does, but he would still be quite comfortable, he wouldn’t have gone through panic-attack levels of stress, and maybe he would have married and had a child (which made him very, very happy) a lot earlier than he actually did.

A caveman would just use his finger and then lick the salsa off of it.

I talked to a guy who was trying to found a start-up and I asked him why he was doing it. He said “Because I’m unemployable.” Another person I know is working on it because she eventually wants to be in a position where no one can tell her what to do. Not being OK with working for other people seems like it might be a common trait.

I do know one guy who went through with it simply because he thought that the thing that he invented was so cool that he couldn’t stop working on it. I suppose that’s also not something a normal person would do, but it’s more positive.

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Finally, a day when it is acceptable for me to lure children into my van!

You mean some honorable people out there.

They had to prove themselves worthy by fighting the oven with nothing but their bare hands, man to microwave.

In 2364 they have invented new ways of sitting that are far more advanced than any which exist today.

That always sounded like a huge pain in the ass to me.

She’s a doctor so it was even more of a huge pain than usual for her, both times.

I knew a guy who had his wife’s name tattooed in huge letters on his neck.

If he gets divorced, Facebook can give him a list of all the other people with that same name.

The time I got married, I asked my wife not to change her last name because the women in my family don’t. (Even if they did, I think I would still find it off-putting. It’s my last name. You have your own last name.) She insisted on changing it regardless of what I wanted, and that was the “red flag”…

The joke is on her. She had to go through the trouble of changing it back after the divorce :)

My problem with Windows is that when I want to eject a USB drive, Windows refuses to do so, refuses to tell me what program is apparently still using the drive, and certainly refuses to kill that program. I am removing the drive. I can’t just not remove it!

Galadriel and Celeborn were married in the First Age and the story takes place at the end of the Third, so they were married for at least six and a half thousand years. During that time, they had one child. How often do you think they had sex?

It’s cool that humans have no problems interpreting cartoon depictions of faces which are so grotesquely exaggerated.

When I’m around other people, I tend to do what they expect me to do. I suspect that this is mostly due to the shame associated with failing to meet expectations when the person with the expectations is right there right now (as opposed to being in the future). I think I would have gone completely off the rails years ago if I didn’t have family members willing to come stay with me (or let me stay with them) during bad times (bad here being periods of depression which would make it almost impossible to do anything alone).

People who aren’t my family are actually more effective. I suppose that’s because I know my family will love me anyway even if I keep disappointing them. I had a boss at one job who worked with me very closely every day and I was an excellent employee there because of that. It was the happiest period of my adult life, but then the company went out of business. I’m still friends with that boss.

One time, I hired a woman to come do household chores with me once a week, because I would be too uncomfortable to sit there doing nothing while she worked. Another time I paid a guy to stop by every morning for ten or fifteen minutes to make sure that I left for work on time. I was never late even once when he did that, but after he became busy with something else, I never hired a replacement.

I don’t usually have someone helping me. It feels like hiring an expensive babysitter and I’m ashamed that I would need such a thing as an adult. (I tend to feel lots of shame…) I can reason that an expensive babysitter is better than losing my job, living in squalor, etc. but so far I haven’t been able to change how I feel.

There are tests? When I wanted to see if ADHD medications would help me, I just told my psychiatrist and he prescribed them. (They help me sleep less and lose weight, but they don’t have the intended effects for me.)

Libre Office (at least Calc which is the one I use most) is usable but it has bizarre random slowdowns and crashes relatively frequently, whereas I have never once had issues like that with Microsoft Office. I still use Libre Office (on both Windows and Linux) because it’s free but I acknowledge that it has disadvantages.

You don’t mind their UI conventions? I suppose I could probably get used to them, but while I’m comfortable with Windows and Linux desktop environments, I find the Mac one to be quite unpleasant to use for some reason.

You use Arch? Bah, I am Arch.

Looks like someone has been snacking too greedily…