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Very much agreed!!!!!!

I might not hike a ton (at all).... but my social media is this sub forum

But doing things with my hands is calming for me... guess I'm wired that way (lolz if you read that a certain way)

Hiking is just one option. 😁

I truly believe that if every American, with the capability, made it a priority to read at least one book every couple of weeks, we would be in a much better place. Our national literacy is in the toilet, and instead of making efforts to resolve that, we engage in meaningless culture wars that waste everyone's time and energy.

I agree with you, turning wrenches, chopping wood, stitching leather; all of that stuff quiets my mind. It's therapy you don't even have to pay for... Usually.
 
Do you know what the current problem is with a huge number of tech stocks/companies/crypto/AI? And why many of them are literally going to lose all their value?

Their valuation was initially made at the peak / based on expectations / or the expected benefits and profits they would bring.

As a result, a huge number of these are valued at tens of billions of dollars.

And now, in the context of technology/AI/crypto and all this junk, an interesting story emerges.

The expectations and theoretical profits did not come true at all.

If you closely examine these cases, their actual profit is, for example, only $30–$100 per day.

As a result, they cannot even pay their employees or sustain themselves.

Even spending $20,000 on something valued at $5–10–20 billion is often critical for them.

All they are looking for is investors to put money into them, and essentially, they just keep consuming themselves.

Thus, they invent fake hacks, glitches, and so on, just to personally sell a stake to survive.

It naturally turns out that there are hundreds of such cases.

On paper, we have a huge pile of companies/projects/startups valued at billions.

In reality, the daily profit from their product is literally less than that of an average worker.

Because it turns out that we don’t need 1,000 AI intermediaries, assistants, projects, or tech solutions that nobody even asked for.

And people, losing 90% of their investment in such a company, might not want to let it go, hoping to at least break even.

Here comes an interesting nuance:
You invested $100.
You lost 90%.
Now you have $10.
You need a 900% growth to get back to breakeven.

Studying a bunch of tech startups every day, I’m literally shocked.

By their unreasonable valuations and expectations.

And by the record-low profits they actually generate.

Based on this—their uselessness.

Alright, I’m going to sleep.
 
Do you know what the current problem is with a huge number of tech stocks/companies/crypto/AI? And why many of them are literally going to lose all their value?

Their valuation was initially made at the peak / based on expectations / or the expected benefits and profits they would bring.

As a result, a huge number of these are valued at tens of billions of dollars.

And now, in the context of technology/AI/crypto and all this junk, an interesting story emerges.

The expectations and theoretical profits did not come true at all.

If you closely examine these cases, their actual profit is, for example, only $30–$100 per day.

As a result, they cannot even pay their employees or sustain themselves.

Even spending $20,000 on something valued at $5–10–20 billion is often critical for them.

All they are looking for is investors to put money into them, and essentially, they just keep consuming themselves.

Thus, they invent fake hacks, glitches, and so on, just to personally sell a stake to survive.

It naturally turns out that there are hundreds of such cases.

On paper, we have a huge pile of companies/projects/startups valued at billions.

In reality, the daily profit from their product is literally less than that of an average worker.

Because it turns out that we don’t need 1,000 AI intermediaries, assistants, projects, or tech solutions that nobody even asked for.

And people, losing 90% of their investment in such a company, might not want to let it go, hoping to at least break even.

Here comes an interesting nuance:
You invested $100.
You lost 90%.
Now you have $10.
You need a 900% growth to get back to breakeven.

Studying a bunch of tech startups every day, I’m literally shocked.

By their unreasonable valuations and expectations.

And by the record-low profits they actually generate.

Based on this—their uselessness.

Alright, I’m going to sleep.

....I liked even though my ADD kicked in lol
 
Remember how some of us used to put a little sticker of Biden pointing to the fuel prices and it said "I did that"

We should do that again now. Otherwise we're hypocrites.
I used this pump on Monday and there was no sticker. It seems someone didn't think someone else's stickering was very funny. 🤷🏼‍♀️

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Nobody: "nathan, what is the difference between a bolt and a screw?"

Nathan: "excellent question. Amazing you should ask me that.

Contrary to popular belief it is not a designation relating to the size of the fastener. You can have a quarter of an inch bolt and you can have a 1 inch screw.

A screw is intended to be driven by the head. A bolt is intend to be tightened by a nut.

A screw will frequently have a raised circular pad under its hex head cap, to facilitate rotation by the head. A bolt will not. And frequently comes with a nut.
That's what she said... somewhere in there
 
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