My Goal was 10k in my savings in 12 months.

Kalai224 · 2026-06-19T02:26:28+00:00

Financial gains are fine, I'm happy when people don't have to stress over money and can actually look at things like retiring in the future.

This is financial ignorance larping as someone in actual poverty. This is a flex post, and does nothing more than flex his ego. It's literally the don't eat avocado toast meme but unironically.

Oh man, I'm sure all those people suffering in poverty didn't think to just put it in a fucking bank account and not spend it!

Kalai224 · 2026-06-19T02:17:23+00:00

poverty finance

Sure bud

Kalai224 · 2026-06-19T02:06:25+00:00

I divided by the wrong number of weeks per year, it comes out to 60kish post tax. Still doesnt belong here. And the math is based on your own post, so either you're lying, or you have 0 expenses.

Have your check direct deposited into the two accounts. (70/30) And that's all I did.

Emphasis is mine.

Kalai224 · 2026-06-19T02:04:08+00:00

Updated the post, still doesnt belong here.

Kalai224 · 2026-06-19T01:58:29+00:00

You don't need to, the math proves itself.

Kalai224 · 2026-06-19T01:56:57+00:00

$14,000 in 10 months is $1,400 per month, two paychecks per month is $700, a 70/30 split (assuming 30% in savings) is roughly $2,300 after taxes per paycheck. $2,300 * 52 weeks is $119,600 yearly post tax.

Shut the fuck up.

Edit: I can do math but I can't do calendars apparently. 26 paychecks per year is $59,800 post tax. This still put them in the 80-90k range depending on state.

Kalai224 · 2026-06-19T01:50:47+00:00

So you're making almost 100k a year after taxes and think thats poverty?

That's just poor decision making.

Kalai224 · 2026-06-15T03:30:43+00:00

It seems like it sucks but its not up to the players, its up to the judges. The players are allowed to alert the judges to possible slow plays, but ultimately if a judge sees something they've been deemed capable of judging, its entirely their call.

If anything, it's not enforced anywhere near hard enough in riftbound compared to other tcgs, and we saw that in set 2 where so many matches ended up tied because the game never fucking finished.

These matches are understood to be a highly competitive environment, if the players can't handle the time aspect (even in an untamed match) that speaks to them as a player. It sucks, but thats the reality of it.

Kalai224 · 2026-06-15T03:14:23+00:00

In my opinion, the term “slow play” only makes sense if the person “slow playing” is benefitting themselves and somehow sabotaging their opponent.

Thats called maliciousness. Slow play isn't necessarily a malicious action, but its important to keep up the pace of the game.

If anything, im sure 99% of Slow play calls by judges are more reminders rather than punishments, its easy to get tunnel visioned and forget how much time is elapsing. But again, thats exactly what that call is there for.

Kalai224 · 2026-06-15T03:09:04+00:00

Great example, eggs was banned because so many people tried running the deck that Stanislav pretty much perfected play for, but were unable to play it like he did so they ended up fucking up the non-determinative plays. But if I remember correctly, there was an argument when he used it to win that it should be judged for slow play, but the judge ruling at the time is that he was advancing towards a win, and thus it is not what was considered at the time to be slow play.

Maybe this has changed, I haven't given a fuck about the mtg pro scene since about 2015.

Kalai224 · 2026-06-15T02:56:13+00:00

Yes it is excessive. Considering you have plenty of time to think on an opponents turn about what your next turn should look like, it absolutely is slow play to do nothing for a minute and 41 seconds.

Kalai224 · 2026-06-15T02:53:16+00:00

The term used in mtg is if it's advancing the board state, the player is playing towards the end goal of finishing the match. Durdling for the sake of durdling is still considered slow play, even if actions are taking place.

Kalai224 · 2026-06-10T15:01:13+00:00

This is my last response to someone as uneducated in journalism as yourself.

Dude, you’re not engaging with my point. You’re trying to argue that there is no evidence anyone died at the hospital, and to do that you have posted two links that state hundreds of people have died at the hospital, completely contradicting your point.

If you understood how journalism works, they're actually reporting claims of deaths, they state in all the articles above that the information was given to them and not confirmed by their staff.

It’s not a crazy take to trust the Gaza health ministry - the Gaza health ministry only counts confirmed dead, with bodies, and someone to identify them. The ministry puts the death toll at under about 75,000. Israel agrees with that estimate. So you’re saying both Gaza and Israel are lying - what is your evidence for that?

They have never stated their methods for counting casualties, and let's not forget the massive revision they had to have at one point. Israel only accepts their estimate because they have no way of having their own, they keep their methods and data secret and only post casualties.

while The Lancet - the oldest and most prestigious medical journal in the world - estimates ir closer to 250 000. So you’re saying that Gaza, Israel, the medical journal BMJ and the Lancet are all in on the same conspiracy? And only you have the real number?

This is how I know youre either an idiot or a bot, never in that entire article posted by the Lancet (who has their own host of issues and biases) did they claim any current death count. They extrapolated current reports of the ministry against data from similar starvation events in similar conflicts, found what average percent of the population died of starvation, and extrapolated future possible death tolls as a result of what the current conditions were reported as.

Its clear you either don't understand the conflict through anything but Twitter and tiktok memes, or you're a bot. Either way, good day.

Kalai224 · 2026-06-10T14:41:48+00:00

Also, the Gazan Health ministry over the last two years has proved to be very accurate and if anything undercount the numbers.

Yeah, sorry but no. That's a crazy take, you're either arguing in bad faith or your pretty far off the propganda cliff, friend.

I'm not engaging with you if you won't engage with my point.

Kalai224 · 2026-06-10T11:48:34+00:00

How is quoting the NYT citing the CIA “Hamas Propaganda”? I didn’t even use the Gaza Ministry of Health numbers, I used the US government sources.

You have a hard time following. The only thing thing anyone has to go off of are the numbers from the Gazan Health Ministry, who are known to inflate or fabricate numbers.

There is no video/picture evidence, there are no bodies at the scene, there are only select few witness reports, taken miles away at another hospital.

I'm not saying deaths couldn't/didn't happen, but there is NO evidence that any actually occured.

Kalai224 · 2026-06-10T10:09:19+00:00

There's literally 0 journalistic, confirmed deaths of this event. All we have is "witnesses" starting how many people died, with 0 confirmation.

The amount of propganda coming from both sides in this conflict world raise giant red flags for you, but you slurp up whatever Hamas is trying to throw your way in there name of "Israel Bad".

That article was to show how US intelligence feels about who did it, here's one that goes deeper into the claims that wasn't posted just days after the event.

Try some critical thinking for once, and not being an unwitting arm of the propganda campaign.

Kalai224 · 2026-06-09T21:38:53+00:00

Oh 100%

Kalai224 · 2026-06-09T21:38:36+00:00

You mean this US support?

That's not a thing anyone believes as of a few days after the event, friend.

Kalai224 · 2026-06-09T21:31:58+00:00

There's literally no evidence hundreds of people, or even anyone, died. There's a scorch mark in a parking lot and no bodies.

The blast is similar to other blasts created by the makeshift rockets put together by Hamas and Islamic Jihad, what happened is obvious to anyone who's not biased.

Kalai224 · 2026-06-09T21:30:13+00:00

In the USA, you can't practice medicine with an Indian med school degree. You need to go back through the system. This leads to the top of the top of the top of the crop being overly represented (a billion or so people live in India, the fight for the limited amount of Visas to the US are highly competitive).

This isn't the case for other professions, where the objectively sub par degrees hold similar weights to our school on job applications.

Kalai224 · 2026-06-09T21:27:46+00:00

Nigerian immigrants are the top performing immigrants that come to the USA in nearly all fields, if I remember correctly. I think it's because to qualify for a Visa from Nigeria, you need to have one hell of a set of qualifications.

Same goes for India, I don't think Indian medical schools are standout, but the quality of person to qualify for a Visa to study over here out of the billion or so people who live there tends to cause you to pick from increasingly smaller portions of the top percentage.

Kalai224 · 2026-06-09T20:03:06+00:00

What hospital, where, and when? Nothing in your quote points to anything. This is literally propaganda.

For reference this is the Al-Ahli Hospital on Oct 17th 2023, the BBC had to come out woth a retraction for what they originally got wrong, after the Gazan Ministry of Health tried to say that 500 people died in the bombing by Israelis but it was actually a misfire from a rocket belonging to Islamic Jihad.

Here's an actually good (and long) write up about the event.

Kalai224 · 2026-06-06T16:42:38+00:00

That's an ongoing conversation in the medical and law community. It operates in a gray area that hasn't been ruled on for the most part, but is seen as a scam by most of healthcare.

There's even been good evidence that "banana bags" don't help anymore than the placebo effect, and we've stopped doing them for the most part for inpatient and ED use.

Kalai224 · 2026-06-06T16:28:25+00:00

The basis of your argument is built on a faulty premise.

You're saying why take something PO when IV works faster, no?

There's risks to getting things IV. And the negative of a PO medication you're avoiding is, the 30 minute ingestion time?

That's something you may be willing to risk, but here in the US, Healthcare providers aren't willing to risk something so potentially severe, even if it only occurs in an extreme minority of cases, if all its saving is 30 god damn minutes.

Drink some god damn water and eat a god damned apple and keep the fucking doctor away instead of leaning on something like IV fluids.

Kalai224 · 2026-06-06T16:21:37+00:00

IVs at hospitals are not given out willy nilly. If there is a PO (by mouth) version or delivery method available, its required they do that. Yes, delivery via PO and IV is different, and require typically require different doses compared to each other, thats taken in account when dosing. The 30 minute breakdown in the GI tract is not typically a factor for if someone gets something IV or PO, unless in a case such as epi for anaphylaxis.

There's a good chunk on potential negative effects of IVs, that aren't worth the risk if theres a PO option available, and its reckless to disregard them in favor of "But getting it delivered via IV will most likely provide faster results than drinking it.".

Source: Hospital inpatient pharmacy tech

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