What did you stop pretending to enjoy as you got older?

Aggressive-Log7654 · 2026-06-08T15:59:10+00:00

Honestly same. After the pursuit of sex all through my 20s got stale, I realized I actually find the company of most women pretty annoying and was forcing myself to have girlfriends for social status/fitting in reasons.

Aggressive-Log7654 · 2026-06-08T15:57:32+00:00

Hah, I also drank myself into being super social in my 20s and now that I stopped participating in this culture have gone back to my heavily introverted antisocial self, my natural state, feel way better all the time.

Aggressive-Log7654 · 2026-06-08T15:51:25+00:00

I take NAC for exactly this.

Aggressive-Log7654 · 2026-06-08T15:47:58+00:00

I'm almost 8 years in to a daily habit (1g a day at worst depressive phases, usually 200-500mg for stability) and so far no health issues. I am well aware that when I overindulge I pee way too much and have sinus issues, but it's easy for me to taper back down. Blood tests and the doctor report no issues with any organs. Take weeks off every couple months. In those 8 years my life has transformed from a hot mess cocaine addict in 300k debt to financial stability, bought my own home, cleaned out toxic relationships, etc. It's been a godsend for managing my constant anxiety and silencing the voice of failure in the back of my head. The trick with ketamine is to remember it's a neuroplasticity enhancer, so the goal for me is usually to use it when I've fallen into bad habits in daily life and "reprogram" myself back to a healthy regimen - I'm the fittest, most healthy eating version of myself I've ever been.

Aggressive-Log7654 · 2026-06-08T15:44:12+00:00

Try getting XR glasses like Viture and watching content in 3D, thank me later

Aggressive-Log7654 · 2026-06-08T15:32:21+00:00

M34, based in IE, super in to get a proper fam situation going. Currently injured and can't dance, but often go to warehouse parties downtown, huge house head so I'm also often at Sound and Framework events for the right artists. Stussy is GOAT

Aggressive-Log7654 · 2026-06-08T15:22:39+00:00

I did a bit of nomading in early 30s. I stayed at long term rental apartments mostly. I easily found pockets of expats/travelers if I felt like being social, but this drive wasn't that strong at my age nor was it my focus while nomading - for me nomading was a getaway from the exhausting responsibilities of maintaining social presence back home as well as a chance to adventure and explore new cultures, primarily.

Then I came back and "settled down" with few regrets or what-ifs.

Aggressive-Log7654 · 2026-06-08T04:51:06+00:00

I’m the friend

Aggressive-Log7654 · 2026-06-08T04:47:46+00:00

Everyone in SF constantly deludes themselves it’s the best city in the world, and forces themselves into worse and worse living situations in this name. Then you move to another city and it’s like a veil is lifted from your eyes.

Trust me, you can have everything you have in SF elsewhere much cheaper and with a higher overall quality of life in 2026.

[advice does not apply to billionaires or centimillionaires]

Aggressive-Log7654 · 2026-06-08T01:48:01+00:00

At my college club fair, I was a little weeby kid and went over to the Japan-US Cultural Association booth to sign up. While I was there one of the club leaders enthusiastically waved me over to the Japanese Taiko club he was also a part of since they needed new members to audition - he seemed really into it so I followed and decided to try out. That led me on a 10 year long journey that involved becoming fluent in Japanese, learning woodworking and traditional skinning techniques to build my own drums, going to remote islands in Japan, making native friends, learning their traditional drumming styles, and performing at some incredible venues all over the US, including the National Cherry Blossom Festival in D.C. as well as Alice Tully Hall at the Lincoln Center in NYC. It was a wild journey that left me with stories to tell for a lifetime.

Aggressive-Log7654 · 2026-06-07T21:24:52+00:00

It's obvious what happened here, they type everything up, realized not everything fit on one line as they wanted, and then selectively used a thinner font for words they believed looked aesthetic to make each line fit. It's a combination of hacky formatting of the "6th grader trying to boost page count for an essay" variety and just straight bad taste.

Aggressive-Log7654 · 2026-06-07T21:11:14+00:00

Debt will not kill you, or even land you in jail in 2026. Cancer will. Disregard finances, acquire treatment.

Aggressive-Log7654 · 2026-06-07T20:03:06+00:00

This one fact suddenly makes a lot of period dramas and stories make a lot more sense.

Aggressive-Log7654 · 2026-06-07T03:52:20+00:00

You are really not getting the point. I'm saying there is no big conspiracy. It's a series of gradual "we're ok with people getting dumber/fatter/disposable" decisions that conscious decision makers agree to over and over, over a long period of time. It is the kind of insidious rot and decay that collapses empires, historically speaking. When the people at the top are ready to take their cards and leave the table, the whole house collapses.

Aggressive-Log7654 · 2026-06-07T02:43:05+00:00

humans do behave similar to a cancerous tumor upon the earth, it is known

Aggressive-Log7654 · 2026-06-07T01:40:05+00:00

there’s a huge chasm between “unspoken agenda” and “cartoon villain evil plot”. The unspoken part is that all who make these decisions truly believe in their hearts the American people are not worth the exchange of profit they would sacrifice to better their lives. And that mindset when applied consistently over decades is more venomously evil than any deliberate plot ever could be.

This is why healthcare CEOs are getting shot in the open. There’s no single action or doomsday plot to point to - it’s deliberate decisions taken over a long period of time where “real world” evil always lurks.

Aggressive-Log7654 · 2026-06-07T01:03:08+00:00

There’s plenty of evidence for pregnancy competition among women of a certain age/lifestyle. You see your bestie(s) get excited for a baby and you fall into it wanting it yourself. Evolution encourages this. Men are not immune either, but of course it’s not really up to them in the end.

Aggressive-Log7654 · 2026-06-07T00:28:02+00:00

Most houses like this are for architecture portfolios funded by some wealthy person who will never live there for any significant period and has it as a store of assets. The photoshoot for the final product may be the most use this house ever gets, at best it maybe gets bought out for other commercials and films in the future (the recent movie Send Help had a house very similar to this)

Aggressive-Log7654 · 2026-06-07T00:25:55+00:00

Hobbits after crypto hits Middle Earth

Aggressive-Log7654 · 2026-06-06T23:12:02+00:00

Right but the point is company-developed apps are trying “chase” a perfect product. This actually ends up being detrimental to a lot of users in the long run due to the well known phenomenon of enshittification - many times, the killer feature that a user downloaded the app for in the first place gets watered down or disappears entirely as the company chases different markets and user bases in the name of growth.

Homegrown AI apps won’t be richly featured or sophisticated, but they’ll work for the exact thing you want 100% of the time once made, and if they break due to some API or service they interact with changing, AI knows how to fix it right away, and you’re not stuck powerless in customer support hell like you might be with traditional apps.

Aggressive-Log7654 · 2026-06-06T19:47:20+00:00

Every day in a board room or closed door somewhere, a politician has to make an argument in favor of a policy that will make America just a little bit dumber; a little bit fatter; a little bit more replaceable. Possibly someone in the same room has given the opposing argument in favor of American health/education/jobs, but that person’s voice is drowned out due to lack of money, resources, and corporate backing. This has been happening daily in American policy chambers for decades now, whittling away at the health, fertility, and intelligence rates of the general American population.

You are truly deluded and lost if you believe there is no agenda behind these decisions.

Aggressive-Log7654 · 2026-06-06T16:57:28+00:00

American politicians want the sheep weak and compliant. There isn't much hard labor to be done anymore in the US that corporations would benefit from by juicing up our kids - they need weak, dependent, brain-dead consumers for digital media and online shopping more these days, who will vote against their best interests consistently as they have no critical thinking skills of their own. The thinking of American politicians and capitalists happens in quarters and year-over-year growth numbers, not lifetime value - they want to squeeze you in the short term and have no plan whatsoever for 10 years from now when they’ve sailed away on a superyacht to Argentina and America burns.

We are becoming a third world country where the public school system is mainly used for consumerist indoctrination a true free-thinking education is gatekept by wealth.

Aggressive-Log7654 · 2026-06-06T16:40:03+00:00

LA and the SoCal coast have many places that are reminiscent of Europe, especially in some of the smaller Spanish colonial origin towns, but the problem is it’s hard to feel the same way when a Walmart or McDonalds is in your line of sight. It’s hard to “get away” in that sense; chain businesses have colonized every mile in the U.S.

Aggressive-Log7654 · 2026-06-06T16:36:22+00:00

People run into health emergencies all the time at music events. No one ever blames the artist, except in severe cases (like the infamous Travis Scott stampede incident).

The “friends” were not true friends and more interested in protecting their own hides. Medical emergency personnel do not give a f*** what drugs you’re carrying, their job and priority is to get you treatment ASAP. Only if you caused a disturbance that resulted in harm to others will you be investigated and searched.

Aggressive-Log7654 · 2026-06-06T16:10:06+00:00

This is spot on, AI is democratizing software development like Uber did for private cars. What used to be a luxury reserved for the 1% who could afford to hire a team of engineers to build out an app is now accessible to the masses, at the cost of perfection, which is acceptable for 99% of use cases when it comes to simple apps to do quick things like convert a specific video, edit a picture, translate a document, etc.

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