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RiKD  United States. Jul 07 2026 16:57. Posts 9986 | | |
My vacation is coming to an end.
My uncle is a boss. Probably makes $200,000/yr managing industry plant equipment and he wears second hand clothing. Two Toyotas in the two car garage. Beautiful house in the Appalachian Mountains. 3 minutes away from endless hiking trails.
I was listening to Bluegrass music through the Appalachian Mountains. I was almost high for like an hour.
Now, I'm back home. It feels like I'm already back on the grind. Preparing to lift some weights and preparing for work again.
I didn't really have any deep conversations with my siblings. They were busy working or there was just not really time for it. My brother was constantly working or getting ready for a trip to Alaska. The only conversation we had was about the S&P 500. I was saying you can get better gains with a little bit of work and he was just saying you can get 10-20% over the last 5 years then he went back to work. I didn't get to bring up I was talking about post-inflation and post-taxes gains. Not that I even know that much about the subject because I don't know what inflation has been over the past 5 years.
I went out to dinner with my sister but she spent most of the time talking to my mom and dad. She is also incredibly kid-centric at this point. My brother too. The kids are the center of the universe as they should be I guess. It's the same with my other sister. She has a 5 yr old and a 2 yr old that are a major handful. The vacation was generally relaxing though and decompressing. Not much action. No spa visits. Maybe I should have done a float tank or something. Lots of walks and reading. Jamming with my nephew was a highlight.
One thing that I found a little weird is that both my sister's supposedly got divorced but my one sister is thinking of getting back together if he can "change" whatever the fuck that means. My other sister is still living with her husband until they officially adopt the foster child which is also super weird. I guess divorce is rarely ever clean.
I don't have any revelations to share unfortunately. It's just life. Oh, one thing about nature and food. Food is important. It's more important not to eat shit or overeat. I think it's difficult to be fat and happy especially if it affects one's health. But food is sacred. It is needed to survive. Saying a prayer before eating some pad thai followed by some fruit and sticky rice felt sacred. It is a worthwhile ritual. My uncle and aunt said they hit the mountain trails for at least an hour or two every night. It's magical. The giant lake and mountains are so still and calm.
Backrooms was a fun movie. I love the aesthetic. I just went alone. It would be a good date movie. It reminded me of when I was back in college going on dates and the women would basically jump into my arms. I was still a virgin so didn't capitalize on such an easy situation or I would get too drunk. Not even too drunk that my penis wouldn't work but so drunk that I'd be passed out vomiting on myself. Neither is very attractive.
I'm reading Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks currently. I'm about half way through. I think all these tech overlords just assume AI will lead to that scenario. No one wants to be left in the dust. I like Ed Zitron's analogy that we have Spotify that is like $12/month for pretty much any music you could ever want and OpenAI will have to charge like $100/month for something that does some things pretty well like coding and academic maths but still hallucinates and at this point isn't that much better than a search engine.
I have some other curiosities with Veppers and Elon Musk but I will have to finish the book before I really comment too much on that. I have seen Elon Musk have some pretty warped interpretations of the books that he "loves."
Anyways, I have to get to the gym.
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i say kids are 25% of what life is about, 75% others. rikd me n u are missing at least 25% of life but i did the other 75% life so i still had a good life in all things consider.
I can understand why kids are the center of the universe once u have them though.
I have never been fat but im starting to get a small tummy lol getting old is a byproduct of this i guess but i eat clean for the most part.
glad u had a nice vacations n some time away from the grind. me im just watching some chinese cantonese dramas to pass the time. its about business/family/gambling lol 
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RiKD United States. Jul 08 2026 00:41. Posts 9986 | | |
Kids are 0% of what life is about for me. How much freedom we have to think about the other 100%. |
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yep we would lose a lot of freedom hence why i dont want kids this life nor want the responsibility at this age. im just gonna sail off into the sunset with my freedom
next life if there is a next life n not yolo i def want kids |
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RiKD United States. Jul 08 2026 20:53. Posts 9986 | | |
Who is more free?
Diogenes or Pavel Durov? |
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what is free? God's love is free and sublime but the opposers influence comes at a cost but is also free per se
I am free but influence yet feel sublime.
i say they choose their path so both is free.
Pavel might be cage a bit but is a free man in my books
diogenes is half my life and the other half is trying to be rich as f lol so u figure out what that means. |
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wanting two total opposites at different times give u a perspective few get to understand. they say to be a king for a day you be a monk for another fwiw |
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