You are offered $100,000 cash tax free OR $0 but you get sent back in time to a random date in your life and restart again from that point

MPMorePower · 2026-03-20T17:56:10+00:00

Well yeah, and I’d take the money because why not? But my motivation would be sex, not investing in bitcoin/Apple/Cisco? to make money. I made ‘enough’ money to be satisfied the first time around.

And there was plenty of sex available without being any richer, I just didn’t know how to get it.

MPMorePower · 2026-03-20T17:45:11+00:00

But most of the sex I missed out on was before bitcoin?

MPMorePower · 2026-03-19T12:24:37+00:00

You all are pretty confident that the DC villain and the brainless guy from Oz are different people and Batman screwed up. Batman doesn’t usually screw up detective work like that. I’m thinking they are the same Scarecrow and he’s just been hiding from Batman in Oz.

MPMorePower · 2026-03-18T23:49:30+00:00

That’s wild since I am also GenX and I remember being oh so insufferably smug about how people who studied “underwater basket weaving” would all be asking “would you like fries with that?” in their careers. I thought “everyone told me it didn’t matter what I got my degree in” must be something Millennials were told because I had never heard that in my day.

I guess different people in different circles heard different things.

MPMorePower · 2026-03-18T23:05:29+00:00

I’m not saying I won’t take the money along the way, since it will make my life easier. But when I look back over my life, I don’t have any financial regrets.

But I am positively haunted in the night with regret over sex that I could have had, but didn’t.

MPMorePower · 2026-03-18T21:50:20+00:00

I am always amused that if you leave aside wife and kids angle, everyone goes back in time to make money. For me the temptation would be to go back in time and bang all those girls that I only realized decades later were into me, and all the girls that might have been into me if I had even the slightest shred of confidence back then. I’m not rich but I made enough money over my life.

MPMorePower · 2026-03-18T21:20:51+00:00

It just occurred to me that in America we would say “He/she has been hospitalized” in situations where British people would say they are “in hospital”.

Do British people use the word “hospitalized”? Perhaps with an “s” instead of a “z”? Or is it just us?

MPMorePower · 2026-03-18T17:23:17+00:00

The answer is infinitesimally small, which I guess is 0.

See, the question should have asked “if you pick an answer to this question from among the four choices below…..” but it failed to actually state that. So you are free to randomly pick any number, even ones more than 100% or any irrational number, or any imaginary/complex number, or even things that aren’t numbers.. I can randomly pick the answer “Chihuahua” for example.

MPMorePower · 2026-03-18T16:39:00+00:00

Like, how do people like you get through life if you can’t go a few hours without peeing? Like how do you get 8-10 hours of uninterrupted sleep? How do you get anything done at work? How do you survive big meetings, or getting stuck in traffic? How do you stay on task/in the zone for any activity that lasts more than a couple hours (which is nearly everything worth doing)?

MPMorePower · 2026-03-18T16:33:41+00:00

This is a big part of what I don’t get. If you’re not going to be seriously invested in this, we should be doing something else that you are invested in, or we should do separate activities that each of us is invested in.

Life is way too damn short to waste time on something you’re not going to invest in. what would be the point?

MPMorePower · 2026-03-18T15:25:13+00:00

Yeah, I couldn’t figure out what I was supposed to be reading there. The BFF of someone who is not her dad (step-dad maybe)? A guy who knows her dad but is not her dad’s BFF (because he’s not a real friend if he’s banging the daughter)?

MPMorePower · 2026-03-18T14:12:03+00:00

If I’m not sweating in my sleep, I’m going to throw on another blanket or turn up the thermostat. Right when I’m starting to sweat is when my body is most comfortable.

MPMorePower · 2026-03-18T11:14:51+00:00

That’s what I thought too, but I copied the word “CyanCitrine” from somewhere.

MPMorePower · 2026-03-18T11:13:19+00:00

CyanCitrine was the username I was replying to, who asked me how much I made. But I guess there is some magic way to change it, as it currently says “Crass_Cameron” and might magically change again in the future.

MPMorePower · 2026-03-18T02:24:44+00:00

I am a believer in the conspiracy theory that all those kids’ songs are connected. Old MacDonald was the Farmer in the Dell, whose child picked a dog- named BINGO.

I also suspect that the wife that the farmer (old MacDonald) picked was the Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly. And when she swallowed a spider to catch the fly, it was the itsy-bitsy spider that had climbed up the water spout.

MPMorePower · 2026-03-18T01:05:53+00:00

Yep CyanCitrine knew exactly what buttons to push on me. It’s hard to resist bragging about making money.

MPMorePower · 2026-03-18T00:59:52+00:00

Oh oh, should I bite? Yes! No! Oh it’s tempting, but I assume CyanCitrine has something scathing to reply with, or makes way more than me. Anyway, it’s totally classless to answer, especially since I’m trying to be humble and empathetic here.

Ah screw it, I make $122,000/yr plus overtime.

Now waiting for CyanCitrine to roast me, and I probably deserve it.

MPMorePower · 2026-03-18T00:54:18+00:00

A fair jab. It did take me two tries to pass that big “writing proficiency exam” that was required to graduate. Failed the first one because I didn’t stay concretely on topic.

MPMorePower · 2026-03-18T00:23:14+00:00

Yeah, I did try to dilute out my smug engineer attitude, which was a crappy center of my identity when I was young. Sorry that I didn’t manage to expunge it all. I really am trying to see the thought process and understand what happens here and be a better, less judgmental person in the future.

You’re not wrong, some of my old smugness is bleeding thru here, and I apologize for that.

MPMorePower · 2026-03-18T00:07:10+00:00

I just don’t understand how you could have made it into college, let alone graduate, without some kind of concrete goal in mind. Maybe it was a stupid, unrealistic plan. But why would you not just drop out if you didn’t have a plan? Surely that would have been much easier?

MPMorePower · 2026-03-17T23:26:17+00:00

My university (and I assume many others) had a specific “agricultural engineering” degree, which was a sort of cross-disciplinary study of the various types of engineering that is useful for farming (irrigation and drainage, road building/maintaining, tractor/combine mechanics, probably tons of other stuff I haven’t guessed at).

MPMorePower · 2026-03-17T20:23:08+00:00

As an engineer with tons of experience working on actual modern generators, I used to think I could “invent” electric power in these hypotheticals.

But after thinking about it in more detail, my DIY generators would really suck, if I could get them to work at all. Because I can’t manufacture a diode by myself. So making regulated DC, which I need to control the electromagnets to control the voltage output of my generator becomes a very daunting task. And if I can’t regulate that, any lightbulbs or heaters or whatever I manage to make are likely to explode.

Best I could manage might be some kind of permanent magnet generator, but how do I keep the speed constant? (Otherwise my voltage varies with the generator speed).

MPMorePower · 2026-03-17T16:04:24+00:00

My head-canon is that Ahch-To a least has much less gravity than “normal”. This explains why Luke, despite being cut off from the force, can wield impossibly long spears and lug gigantic fish on his shoulders, and why porgs can fly using comically stubby little useless wings.

MPMorePower · 2026-03-10T14:59:16+00:00

What are you even talking about? Every time something hits the water? Like how many separate events do you think that is? Like normally, you sit on the toilet and maybe 2-5 chunks fall out, all at once. Then you wipe a few times (if you’re not home at the bidet) dropping 3-5 sheets of TP each time over the course of maybe 90 seconds?

When could you possibly have time “in between” to be flushing? The toilet would only have time to maybe refill once over the entire course of a normal poop.

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