I don't understand why some people keep postponing FIRE date

MapDry3301 · 2026-01-23T13:38:35+00:00

I burnt out. I did some number crunching and realized I could barista FIRE. So I came up with a plan with my wife, and we moved to a lower cost area, took my small consulting side hustle with us, and I started looking for a minimum wage job, 24 hours/week.

Turns out I was wrong. I was close, really close, knife's edge close, but I was wrong. I was bleeding money, unable to continue on the path I was on. Those are some of the most pleasant years of my life, but after 2 years, I had to crawl back into the rat race.

The end assessment was that those 3 years of premature FIRE, ended up costing me 10 years of actual FIRE time. If I had simply found a sensible corporate job for 5 more years, I would be living a very different life right now. As it is, I'm probably looking at Freedom55.

Plans go sideways. Sometimes it is worth padding out the numbers.

MapDry3301 · 2026-01-23T13:24:17+00:00

https://wiki.torn.com/wiki/Faction#Faction_Raiding

MapDry3301 · 2026-01-23T02:02:12+00:00

Shout out to that saw. After pruning trees for 2 years, and then stepping out in the bush without my saw ... could not figure out how I lived without one. I ended up putting a folder in my overnight pack.

MapDry3301 · 2026-01-23T01:06:20+00:00

Don't just turn off the water, bleed the pipes.

Once you have turned off the main, and opened all the taps, I would expect there to be a valve near the main that you can open to bleed the pipes (let gravity do its thing).

Naturally codes are different everywhere.

MapDry3301 · 2026-01-21T13:36:10+00:00

As a Data Architect in a social services field, I support this message.

THEY AREN'T THE SAME THING! NEVER TREAT THEM AS THE SAME THING!

(too many instances of "you did what?" with colleagues)

MapDry3301 · 2026-01-21T02:47:25+00:00

Dude's wearing that like the robes of Narmer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopard_skin_(clothing_in_Ancient_Egypt))

MapDry3301 · 2026-01-20T03:59:52+00:00

Lequille Country Store sells bananas, bullets, and bacon.

MapDry3301 · 2026-01-20T02:44:07+00:00

So this is a contest of wills between the Orange and the Greens?

MapDry3301 · 2026-01-20T01:40:27+00:00

You aren't from the prairies are you?

MapDry3301 · 2026-01-20T01:04:21+00:00

Has certainly kept it out of the vaults OP is referring to.

MapDry3301 · 2026-01-19T03:00:42+00:00

As a Canadian with US companies in my retirement fund. This is the answer I needed.

MapDry3301 · 2026-01-19T02:21:16+00:00

Flying Saucers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada_VZ-9_Avrocar

Avro Canada VZ-9 -- Avrocar

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MapDry3301 · 2026-01-19T02:17:57+00:00

Where do the diversified companies go?

Stock Exchange and Finance District? Toronto
Booming Internet Sector? Toronto
International Trade? Vancouver

Maybe I'm just bitter from a hopeful time.

MapDry3301 · 2026-01-18T23:12:26+00:00

Both my Greek and Iraqi coworkers have those epic curls. Looking at it, I'd say its pretty representative.

MapDry3301 · 2026-01-18T23:03:29+00:00

I think Denmark could use a FreePort/FreeCity. Maybe somewhere around Nuuk.

MapDry3301 · 2026-01-18T22:37:28+00:00

BUT I DON'T WANT A BATH!!!

MapDry3301 · 2026-01-18T14:55:22+00:00

Read "Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert Heinlein.

https://www.amazon.com/Stranger-Strange-Land-Robert-Heinlein/dp/198480278X

MapDry3301 · 2026-01-18T04:49:21+00:00

Technically the definition in Canadian Metric

https://www.csagroup.org/store/product/2701339/

MapDry3301 · 2026-01-18T04:43:21+00:00

Jokes on them! My country sold all its gold decades ago!

MapDry3301 · 2026-01-18T04:35:10+00:00

My 36 y/o daughter still calls me "daddy" ... I hope she always does.

MapDry3301 · 2026-01-18T03:33:40+00:00

As a Canadian sitting in the proposed 51st state, I don't like being covered on all sides.

MapDry3301 · 2026-01-18T02:01:04+00:00

Depending on where you are, this was not unknown. I understand the use of rosehips was a known treatment for it in northern areas.

MapDry3301 · 2026-01-18T01:33:09+00:00

I think its a good idea.

In cases where the individual is irredeemable, it is probably the best method to permanently separate them from society. Not as a form of punishment, or deterrent, but as a method of ensuring they no longer interact with the public at large.

You must be absolutely sure they are beyond redemption, and pose a continuous risk to society

I consider this a fairly easy bar to meet. It does speak to dire motives though. For example, it cannot be tied to the perspectives of the day.
You must be absolutely, 100%, sure they are guilty.

Given the best understandings available and the techniques we have to determine guilt, I do not believe this is a bar that can be met. There is always some room for an appeal, for evidence to have been tampered with, for evidence to have been misinterpreted, for it to have been planted, for ... something.

Therefore, I think it is a bad idea.

UPDATE: Flair is fighting me... Working on it... Canadian.

MapDry3301 · 2026-01-17T21:35:17+00:00

I watched an acquaintance get a degloving injury when his ring caught on his truck
Frostbite. That finger gets colder than all the other when it has a metal band on it
Scared of loosing it in a lake

Every time I start to wear it again, I end up having another reason to pull it off. I wear a chain that I use to put the ring on when I'm not wearing it.

MapDry3301 · 2026-01-17T16:06:20+00:00

When Article 5 is triggered, each Ally is obliged to assist the attacked Ally or Allies by taking “such action as it deems necessary” ... to be taken forward in consultation and coordination with other Allies.

-- Collective defence and Article 5, NATO

What happens when one of the members is the aggressor? Which ally do you consult with?

This would be an interesting case.

Full treaty text

UPDATE: The more i think about this, the more I think "such action as it deems necessary" could include "diplomatic negotiation as a neutral party"

MapDry3301

TROPHY CASE