I know we talk a lot on this forum about money being brain poison
but honestly
how does your brain go so wrong that you look at $7 million in a year and go "my god, I'm going to lose everything"
Part of me wonders how deeply leveraged people get when they reach this level of net worth. Like, how much of this reaction is “oh no number going down is bad, make number go up” and how much is “if this keeps melting down I’m going to have to sell half of my eight mansions”
Not that any of it is remotely okay, I’m just curious how much is a real feeling of panic.
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I know we talk a lot on this forum about money being brain poison
but honestly
how does your brain go so wrong that you look at $7 million in a year and go "my god, I'm going to lose everything"
Part of me wonders how deeply leveraged people get when they reach this level of net worth. Like, how much of this reaction is “oh no number going down is bad, make number go up” and how much is “if this keeps melting down I’m going to have to sell half of my eight mansions”
Not that any of it is remotely okay, I’m just curious how much is actual genuine panic.
Thing is, even if you're right and they're over-leveraged, "I'm going to have to sell half of my 8 mansions" means they will still have FOUR MANSIONS.
Fuck 'em. They can work three shitty retail jobs and live off budget bulk packs of ramen for 7 years straight while they try to pay off student loans, give them some god-damned perspective.
Without a commute, I haven't been listening to as many podcasts as I used to. Now I'm catching up a bit while farming in vidya games, and listening to podcasts from even just a few months ago is a trip. A bunch of, "it may be a long month or two, but we'll get through this", and now it's July, and dang. Kinda hard to listen to, honestly.
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I know we talk a lot on this forum about money being brain poison
but honestly
how does your brain go so wrong that you look at $7 million in a year and go "my god, I'm going to lose everything"
Part of me wonders how deeply leveraged people get when they reach this level of net worth. Like, how much of this reaction is “oh no number going down is bad, make number go up” and how much is “if this keeps melting down I’m going to have to sell half of my eight mansions”
Not that any of it is remotely okay, I’m just curious how much is a real feeling of panic.
The former is an extremely potent human impulse. Loss aversion doesn't go away just because you're losing stuff you couldn't possibly ever need.
See also: all video game design ever.
It'd be great to find a way to give rich people a sense of perspective, but left to our own devices it's just same ape brain, more coconuts.
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Tynnanseldom correct, never unsureRegistered Userregular
I know we talk a lot on this forum about money being brain poison
but honestly
how does your brain go so wrong that you look at $7 million in a year and go "my god, I'm going to lose everything"
Part of me wonders how deeply leveraged people get when they reach this level of net worth. Like, how much of this reaction is “oh no number going down is bad, make number go up” and how much is “if this keeps melting down I’m going to have to sell half of my eight mansions”
Not that any of it is remotely okay, I’m just curious how much is actual genuine panic.
Thing is, even if you're right and they're over-leveraged, "I'm going to have to sell half of my 8 mansions" means they will still have FOUR MANSIONS.
Fuck 'em. They can work three shitty retail jobs and live off budget bulk packs of ramen for 7 years straight while they try to pay off student loans, give them some god-damned perspective.
To be absolutely clear: fuck ‘em. I completely agree here, I’m just a bit curious about the underlying specifics.
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My wife has a scratchy throat. It's 100% because she was out mowing the lawn and doing yard work all afternoon in insane humidity and low air quality and she has pretty bad seasonal allergies, but she's worried she's got the rona (she almost definitely does not).
The psychological hell of having allergies during all this is really quite something.
edit: she took an allergy med and her throat feels better. expected, but still, this is a shitty time if you're someone with preexisting respiratory issues!
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I am once again worried I've got the rona. What felt like a sore back when I woke up this morning has become more and more closely linked to my breathing the more I've thought about it (which certainly isn't helping but what can you do). I'm thinking I might try and get tested tomorrow or Monday, even though that will be a lot more difficult than it should be because I don't have a car.
I don't really want to add any fuel to the anxiety fire but one of my symptoms was a lot of aches and soreness located primarily in my back around my shoulder blades. That said, it was definitely a fever soreness which is a pretty unique thing. What you're describing sounds more like a pulled muscle. It also was basically the last symptom that manifested.
So, cough, tiredness, head congestion
and aches and pains more or less in that order.
I don't really want to add any fuel to the anxiety fire but one of my symptoms was a lot of aches and soreness located primarily in my back around my shoulder blades. That said, it was definitely a fever soreness which is a pretty unique thing. What you're describing sounds more like a pulled muscle. It also was basically the last symptom that manifested.
So, cough, tiredness, head congestion
and aches and pains more or less in that order.
No that does sound pretty similar. Right between the shoulder blades is exactly what I would say.
And I've been dealing with a cough intermittently for a few days now. I'd turned on the AC for the first time this past week, and I had assumed it was allergies as a result (they historically don't get along very well). But now it's off and I've still had some intermittent coughing issues, so I may have been wrong.
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How's your sense of smell and taste?
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Well. Here's hopin', Straightzi. :bro:
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So, my ex-roommates & I had to put our dog down last night.
He developed heavy, labored breathing and a trip to the veterinarian's office discovered he had an enlarged heart. So, we could have done a surgery but it would have only potentially extended his life for maybe 6 more months. And at 14 years old, no guarantee that he'd survive the surgery.
So we decided to say goodbye.
2020, what a year.
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So, my ex-roommates & I had to put our dog down last night.
He developed heavy, labored breathing and a trip to the veterinarian's office discovered he had an enlarged heart. So, we could have done a surgery but it would have only potentially extended his life for maybe 6 more months. And at 14 years old, no guarantee that he'd survive the surgery.
So we decided to say goodbye.
2020, what a year.
Sorry to hear that, Zonny.
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My dad fell off a ladder yesterday (missed the last few steps as he descended) and wound up breaking off the head of his femur. It sounds like they can get him fixed up in a single surgery and he can come home later this week, but I'd be lying if I said I want worried about him catching COVID while in the hospital. (He's a 70 year old lung cancer survivor)
Thankfully, my state took good precautions before shit hit the fan, and while we're suffering through reopening spikes, they haven't gotten hugely bad yet. Fingers crossed.
My dad has had both of his hips replaced. There are obviously differences between pre-planned surgeries and sudden trauma, but the turn around time on hip stuff can be surprisingly quick.
A toilet riser seat with handles, a television in the bedroom and an extra pillow or two to position under the hip and leg the are important ingredients for hip recovery.
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I filled out a survey today to see if I'd be a candidate for a phase 3 vaccine trial.
Couple of workers at my usual grocery store tested positive, seems like. Hope they all do ok.
My town has been keeping a very low case count, overall, but there's only so much you can do given *waves hands at America*
You're somewhere in the east bay right now, right? Do you know what the overall numbers in the metro area are like? I have just been paying attention to my local rural county numbers up north, it took a while for the virus to reach us but the biggest town now has a hundred or so cases so that's bad.
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My dad has had both of his hips replaced. There are obviously differences between pre-planned surgeries and sudden trauma, but the turn around time on hip stuff can be surprisingly quick.
A toilet riser seat with handles, a television in the bedroom and an extra pillow or two to position under the hip and leg the are important ingredients for hip recovery.
For a real hip recovery, you need sunglasses and a devil-may-care attitude
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
Couple of workers at my usual grocery store tested positive, seems like. Hope they all do ok.
My town has been keeping a very low case count, overall, but there's only so much you can do given *waves hands at America*
You're somewhere in the east bay right now, right? Do you know what the overall numbers in the metro area are like? I have just been paying attention to my local rural county numbers up north, it took a while for the virus to reach us but the biggest town now has a hundred or so cases so that's bad.
I think the county numbers are misleading because it varies so much by population centers. Alameda as a whole has registered over 7k, but until a few days ago Berkeley had barely hit 150. (Now at 250, big increase in the last week). Similarly SF county has over 4K, but not evenly distributed. The local spike here can probably be directly traced to the opening up of outdoor dining two/three weeks ago, but the county has just climbed slowly but steadily for three months and I think that’s largely driven by ‘essential workers’ who have had no chance at doing a proper lockdown.
Something I grabbed off the net back in 2005, still true:
I spent last night trying to learn the basics of maneuver while listening to the neighborhood kids setting off the traditional fireworks with which Texans celebrate any holiday (Christmas, New Years, Michaelmas, Shrove Tuesday, Ash Wednesday, Maundy Thursday, Thaursday Monday, and any day when it's been more than 72 hours since fireworks went off).
or as they said on the Simpsons (I thought it was a commercial for Ammu-Nation in one of the later GTAs, but I guess not):
Celebrate the independence of your country by blowing up a small piece of it!
I've been in quarantine for 15 days and all I have is a mild cough now. I called the doctors office and left a message asking if I'm safe to go out again and they won't call me back.
I've been in quarantine for 15 days and all I have is a mild cough now. I called the doctors office and left a message asking if I'm safe to go out again and they won't call me back.
I've been in quarantine for 15 days and all I have is a mild cough now. I called the doctors office and left a message asking if I'm safe to go out again and they won't call me back.
I've been in quarantine for 15 days and all I have is a mild cough now. I called the doctors office and left a message asking if I'm safe to go out again and they won't call me back.
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but honestly
how does your brain go so wrong that you look at $7 million in a year and go "my god, I'm going to lose everything"
yea, oh look, 70 years of a solid middle class lifestyle (outside of a major city). How will someone survive?
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Part of me wonders how deeply leveraged people get when they reach this level of net worth. Like, how much of this reaction is “oh no number going down is bad, make number go up” and how much is “if this keeps melting down I’m going to have to sell half of my eight mansions”
Not that any of it is remotely okay, I’m just curious how much is a real feeling of panic.
Thing is, even if you're right and they're over-leveraged, "I'm going to have to sell half of my 8 mansions" means they will still have FOUR MANSIONS.
Fuck 'em. They can work three shitty retail jobs and live off budget bulk packs of ramen for 7 years straight while they try to pay off student loans, give them some god-damned perspective.
Nintendo knew damn well what they were doing when they made Dragaux
The former is an extremely potent human impulse. Loss aversion doesn't go away just because you're losing stuff you couldn't possibly ever need.
See also: all video game design ever.
It'd be great to find a way to give rich people a sense of perspective, but left to our own devices it's just same ape brain, more coconuts.
To be absolutely clear: fuck ‘em. I completely agree here, I’m just a bit curious about the underlying specifics.
The psychological hell of having allergies during all this is really quite something.
edit: she took an allergy med and her throat feels better. expected, but still, this is a shitty time if you're someone with preexisting respiratory issues!
So, cough, tiredness, head congestion
and aches and pains more or less in that order.
No that does sound pretty similar. Right between the shoulder blades is exactly what I would say.
And I've been dealing with a cough intermittently for a few days now. I'd turned on the AC for the first time this past week, and I had assumed it was allergies as a result (they historically don't get along very well). But now it's off and I've still had some intermittent coughing issues, so I may have been wrong.
No problems there. But that's only a sometimes problem has been my understanding.
He developed heavy, labored breathing and a trip to the veterinarian's office discovered he had an enlarged heart. So, we could have done a surgery but it would have only potentially extended his life for maybe 6 more months. And at 14 years old, no guarantee that he'd survive the surgery.
So we decided to say goodbye.
2020, what a year.
Sorry to hear that, Zonny.
My town has been keeping a very low case count, overall, but there's only so much you can do given *waves hands at America*
Thankfully, my state took good precautions before shit hit the fan, and while we're suffering through reopening spikes, they haven't gotten hugely bad yet. Fingers crossed.
A toilet riser seat with handles, a television in the bedroom and an extra pillow or two to position under the hip and leg the are important ingredients for hip recovery.
You're somewhere in the east bay right now, right? Do you know what the overall numbers in the metro area are like? I have just been paying attention to my local rural county numbers up north, it took a while for the virus to reach us but the biggest town now has a hundred or so cases so that's bad.
For a real hip recovery, you need sunglasses and a devil-may-care attitude
I think the county numbers are misleading because it varies so much by population centers. Alameda as a whole has registered over 7k, but until a few days ago Berkeley had barely hit 150. (Now at 250, big increase in the last week). Similarly SF county has over 4K, but not evenly distributed. The local spike here can probably be directly traced to the opening up of outdoor dining two/three weeks ago, but the county has just climbed slowly but steadily for three months and I think that’s largely driven by ‘essential workers’ who have had no chance at doing a proper lockdown.
Sure is!
i hate those fucking things
or as they said on the Simpsons (I thought it was a commercial for Ammu-Nation in one of the later GTAs, but I guess not):
So I guess I'll just take a nap.
A nap is never a bad course of action.
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except after a blow to the head
Keeping someone awake after a blow to the head can be helpful for monitoring them for specific conditions, but it isn't a fix in and of itself
you're just trying to give everyone a stutter i'm onto your plan
In that case, two naps must be even better.
Cause there's fuck all else I can do.