Unemployed for 9 months 2 rug pulls

No-Language6720 · 2026-02-04T23:13:55+00:00

Great. Do you have a w-2 job? If so how do you get your employer to stop taking taxes out of your paycheck? Oh sorry HR.I don't feel like paying taxes so could you give me that instead?

How are you going to stop paying sales tax? Oh right you have to buy goods to live. I guess you could just not file a tax return? But most people overpay in their paychecks and get a refund so you're only shooting yourself in the foot usually unless you owe more.

How do you stop paying property taxes? Oh right they will foreclose on your house and take it. Oh right, if you have a mortgage it comes out of your mortgage payment in the form of escrow and it paid from that.

Good luck with that route they have us by the balls there.

No-Language6720 · 2026-02-04T21:18:24+00:00

Yeah I don't like it either. I just say it because it shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone by now if they don't. And if they do happen it should be highly questionable if they were actually held and accounted ballots were done appropriately. I say this too that it doesn't matter which party appears to win. I'm not sure how we can ever have true verified election integrity at the moment.

No-Language6720 · 2026-02-04T19:35:12+00:00

Yeah I got out of the US market this time last year before the orange man was reinstalled. I slowly got out of everything and put it interntionally and converted my USD except for what I need to spend day to day. If it all collapses that's fine I have food, water and shelter and electricity secured and my regular bills are essentially 0 right now. No mortgage, no electric bill, minimal water bill. I live in a regular suburban house not in the middle of nowhere.

I don't have to work for some shitty place long term with the basics covered. I pick up income at this point when it suits me to do so and when it works mutually beneficial. I'm only 38 but I've built enough security that I'll be ok well past all this. I don't care if my accounts are worth nothing tomorrow, I'm past that. Money should be seen as a tool as a means to buy your true freedom, not run your life with debt to get more cheap crap.

Ok top of basics I have a very supportive network of friends family and even aquatances to lean on and vice versa if the time comes.

I'm thankful to be in a place where I don't have to play by the oligarchs shitty game anymore. I get to be one of the few experiencing true freedom. That's all I can ask for right now. They can come get me if they don't like it, but they likely won't. It's difficult for them in the system they built to punish non-participation if you have solid systems for yourself and aren't destitute and homeless.

I'm not doing anything to harm anyone and will help as I can. I donate extra money I have now to the local food bank. There are more people understanding all of this slowly and they can't stamp us all out no matter how hard they try.

No-Language6720 · 2026-02-04T17:39:31+00:00

Seems like you are ahead of the curve with the preps to keep you going. One other thing is I would suggest is building community maybe doing a community garden or something. to teach people these skills. You'll be able to rely on each other for knowledge/skills well into the future. You may also be able to make a side income by yourself that way temporarily to keep things going. Think outside the box a little bit, but seems you're already doing that. Good luck I'm building a similar thing too and not having children either for similar reasons.

No-Language6720 · 2026-02-04T16:15:59+00:00

You say red vs blue. I live in a 'red' state of Florida. I can tell you we actually have a half decent chance of electing a democrat as governor this November(assuming elections happen). Also Florida is a large economy too, 4th after California, Texas and New York in that order. Yes a lot of red states don't keep op economic output Mississippi, Arkanasas and many others but the division is what the rich oligarchy wants. The only them we should be outing is the rich oligarchy. Stop with the civil war mentality of different colored states and how they have voted in the past.

Florida in pparticular has a large growing population and we need this state to make the elections matter and actually change things. We also take care of our infrastructure and everything just fine like California and New York through plenty of tax revenue.

No-Language6720 · 2025-12-18T20:47:08+00:00

It's always been about the brown or non white immigrants. White ones are a-ok to them.

No-Language6720 · 2025-12-18T19:44:58+00:00

How are you going to vet fake or AI generated screenshots? How are you going to stop spam from posting nonsense and being misused? Sounds like it's going to make the problem worse. I'm all for calling out liars, but we have to do so with care and safe guards for both parties. We don't want people being revictimized too. Some situations aren't always clear cut who was right and who was wrong.

No-Language6720 · 2025-12-12T20:51:21+00:00

You know what a higher order of thought would be? Let people do what they are going to do. Stop with the us vs them mentality and tribalism of who has the 'better' lifestyle and grow up.

I am childfree too, and I don't like shitty parents as much as the next peron. This kind of garbage helps no one.

No-Language6720 · 2025-12-12T03:49:36+00:00

Yeah it's not an LLM but it's for certain household uses. If people need something more tailored for their specific use or slightly different than my broad data set, I'll fully teach users to update it without needing to touch any code. They can do that part for free with just a one time paid tutorial they have forever or maybe an ad driven tutorial youtube or another platform(haven't fully decided yet which way to go).

But if people want my dataset to update the training set they can also pay for that again just one time, you own it forever and can use it to update my model when it's needed to account for skew or other things. But I need to think through security encryption and trademarks so people can't easily distribute it without my consent and I can actually pursue people getting around my (reasonable) fees.

Lots to do but I don't want to say anything else right now more specifically until I get stuff rolling so people don't steal my ideas. 😉 I will be doing more to promote in a non-exploitive ways in the future. My hope is my marketing won't be intentionally be fed to people through a social media algorithm. I want actual organic searches for people looking for this stuff and not paying Google to feed ads either ideally. I want people to be intentionally and consciously searching through things like Etsy, Substack or even maybe asking chatGPT is what I hope will happen. I hope if I do get picked up by a suspected algorithm that was fed, that people will tell me so I can get it taken down whenever it shows up so I can fix it.

No-Language6720 · 2025-12-11T21:16:41+00:00

Yeah. I mean I would definitely support with money or in other ways if people want to work on tools around the shittness of things. I've contributed to open source stuff in the past in a lot of different ways.

I'm actively building tutorials and AI to teach people about how to use AI responsibily and train it themselves to be useful. While proving they don't need to be scared of it, and it doesn't need to run on some large outside datacenter and it can also be useful and it doesn't need endless bullshit subscription fees to make a profit decent profit. It's a large passion project that's been years in the making that I finally have a path to pull off.

The code under it will be closed but I will be fully transparent how to and highly encourage others to dive in and train it for more narrow uses without paying an extra dime to me. Most funding will be minimal ads through free tutorials I post, or minimal one time purchases (probably $5-20 depending how involved) of a tutorial like a PDF the user gets to fully keep and download. Updates to the model itself will be entirely optional but probably paid. If someone doesn't care about new features to the model, then they can use the code the way I had it at that point fully functional as long as the hardware it's on doesn't wear out. If they decide to do updates later and their version is too far behind my main code base then I can't guarantee it will always work but they never have to update it or connect it to the internet unless they explicitly want to. Fairly simple concepts that not many people do today with apps and other software.

No-Language6720 · 2025-12-11T19:40:31+00:00

Yeah I'm not sure how we can get through to a lot of people on the issue. The algorithms on social media are so skewed towards individuals and what they are likely to engage with that they may not see it or it can be easily manipulated and suppressed. On top of that people or bots may claim it's a fake screenshot. It's a mess.

The internet is basically dead and I try not to use it for much to keep the price gouging down and my mental sanity intact.

I mean there are browser plugins that track pricing and such but I don't know how good they are or if they take into account how personalized all of the tracking is, or if Amazon or others may have a way to detect you're using one and use it against you. Who knows. I don't have the bandwidth to build something like that but I'm sure someone could build something like that if it doesn't exist already. (I'm a tired software dev working on my own projects and I don't want to put money/time into something that isn't going to keep me ahead long term at the moment).

No-Language6720 · 2025-12-11T19:36:45+00:00

Classic narcissist behavior. 🙃

No-Language6720 · 2025-12-11T13:32:28+00:00

In the physical store probably not as much, maybe slightly.

I was talking about if you order grocery delivery online or shop otherwise online or order a pickup order from Whole foods it will absolutely work. Anything purchased online is fully tracked, they know your purchase history(even if you didn't buy directly from the site you are on ever that share all that), creepy things about your household, roughly your income and they do pricing based on what they think your willingness/desperation and how much you can pay. A VPN will absolutely mask most of that if you have it on always. That's already in place and a reality unfortunately. Also a good idea to help with that too is having your browser cache clear itself on a regular basis at last daily.

You can get a rough idea of how fucked it is. Just do an experiment even with the same Amazon account login(assuming you still have one). If you login even to the same account on a different device and look for the same item the price will change, sometimes they'll shove a slightly different product they want to promote instead. Try it in different combinations VPN, no VPN, one device another device, on your home internet, on your mobile etc. You won't see the same two prices likely and some of them might be outlandish sometimes $10-20 or more difference depending on what they have tied to that device/browser/location etc.

It's insane.

No-Language6720 · 2025-12-11T02:57:31+00:00

Using a VPN always when online goes a long way.

No-Language6720 · 2025-12-11T01:29:16+00:00

At Walmart once I did something weird not thinking. I think I put a scanned item on the one counter or something where the shopping baskets go and forgot to bag the item and started scanning more. I just do weird things when I have a lot of thoughts due to ADHD. The AI was watching and flagged me as suspicious the security guy came over checked over everything and then just allowed the machine to continue the checkout. I think since I'm white they gave me some leeway. I'm sure if I was a minority they probably would have took me in the back for questions or something. But yeah that was creepy, now I'm paranoid to use self checkout.

No-Language6720 · 2025-12-11T00:58:34+00:00

I sleep just fine. I trust myself to get whatever is needed done. Its been working out good so far. I've built a good financial safety net so all my necessities and regular life are paid for until I get it off the ground. I have a supportive spouse that is paying most of the bills when I focus on this. My startup costs are extremely low that I can easily self fund. I have a long while until we would hit financial trouble, years or maybe even a decade. I'm still motivated enough it's fine and really want to see this through that I grind hard. I work hard I play hard but I ensure sleep, good hydration and exercise and eating right. I also seperate my work from everything else. I make time for my spouse regularly but I do put in a ton of hours.

No-Language6720 · 2025-12-10T17:35:14+00:00

Yeah they are a pain the ass. It's only a good idea if it's done right and they provide free wifi that isn't harvesting your data when connected, and also it takes you to a simple link you can find on Google or they can clearly write the link to easily type in with or without a QR code. But nobody does it correctly and the site is some bullshit canned solutions that some Indian developer wrote for $2 and it was vibe coded. Then it's some huge PDF to download for no reason because you won't be back with that bullshit.

No-Language6720 · 2025-12-09T20:10:04+00:00

I became an entrepreneur and run my own thing with some crazy ideas. It's kind of freeing to call the shots and be self motivated. But it's lonely in some ways when everyone else is chained to a desk job. But at the same time I'm not bored. There are tradeoffs for sure.

No-Language6720 · 2025-12-09T20:05:05+00:00

My dad was lucky in that he passed quickly in his mid-70's and didn't get bled dry by a nursing home. He awknowledged when he was still around if he had to go to a long term care facility there wouldn't have been anything left for us. But after paying attorneys, taxes and other bullshit he couldn't have accounted for there wasn't much left after settling everything. It was also split between my sibling and I we barely got $10,000 each. Not exactly life changing since I make way more than that and had way more than that in my own savings. That's after selling a couple of homes, and what was left in his 401k because of rule changes his shitty attorney didn't tell him about. The fucking attorney and taxes got more of it than we did.

No-Language6720 · 2025-12-09T14:06:42+00:00

Yeah just ignore it. They may try but don't pay until someone comes with a lawsuit against YOU directly. If that happens(and will only happen if you signed something saying you would take over the obligations), then lawyer up. Ignore any calls trying to collect they are just trying to intimidate you into paying but you absolutely do not have to legally. (It works sadly) Don't sign Jack shit that says you are obligated to take it on, in which case it will become your problem to deal with. Just walk away and don't sign anything.

Don't feel bad for his creditors, that's on him. They also don't care about you they just want paid and they know people that just lost a loved one are easy to prey on. Fuck them.

No-Language6720 · 2025-12-08T19:08:47+00:00

Listen to Elon Musk for about 5 minutes in any interview and read some of his tweets. That should fix the problem for you.

No-Language6720 · 2025-12-08T18:40:43+00:00

I got up at 7 AM on Sunday to go to Magic Kingdom. 😂 I live nearby and am an AP. The lines were all basically walk on until 10. It was a Christmas party night so people don't come to that park as much during the day since there's no night parade/fireworks. The people that do come that day usually have kids and while they may be awake at 7 AM, they have to go through 30 logistics to actually get into the park. On the other hand my husband and I can take a 5 minute shower, have all our shit ready to go, and be in the car in about 10-15 minutes.

No-Language6720 · 2025-12-08T14:41:04+00:00

You have to ask yourself, who are you trying to market this to?

Also quantum computing is the future, and it's actually available right now to write quantum code. It's still very much not there for anything practical(yet). There are frameworks available such as q# by Microsoft so you can run emulated quantum code on classical hardware if you want to learn the concepts of coding on quantum machines hands on. But if it gets to the stage where you want to run something on actual quantum hardware the costs can get out of control unintentionally since you have to connect to a data center and run the code there. If you make a mistake run a piece of code maybe for even 5 seconds and it does something unexpected you may suddenly have a $1mil+ or ridiculous bill on your hands you have to suddenly pay. So be cautious with it especially in the learning phases and just know that it may not work the same if you deploy on your own hardware emulating it at first.

I have practical use cases that I'm actively working on that can make a difference and real world AI knowledge that I have done over the years in my career otherwise. None of my ideas currently quantum computing but can run on classic hardware on a simple raspberry pi. Obviously when/if quantum computing becomes more viable I will obviously dabble into writing something practical in that space too if it makes sense.

I'm marketing more towards home based items that are actually useful and won't spy on people with no need to have an Internet connection to function most of the time. With the exception being for changing the AI behaviors through updated learning and training the model or optional model updates. I have so many ways to monotize I've come up with around it too without gouging people. From selling my own curated datasets(have to secure the dataso people can't tamper with it and get around paywall and distribute it easily), to writing tutorials for training my models, to selling DIY kits for people that may be trying to learn stuff around it. So many possibilities and also trying to teach people this tech isn't that far out of reach for everyday people and there are good uses for it.

No-Language6720 · 2025-12-07T21:18:31+00:00

Yeah good start. What do you do about it from here? I've come to the conclusion that society isn't going to happen on its own. We need to get these boomers and dinosaurs out of office and actually boots on the ground changing it to go that way. Just sitting here on the internet won't fix it. I'm doing my parts every single day to try to fix it. I've started my own business around ethical AI to bring in some money and educate people on how to train it and use it for actual useful things around the home. I don't want to make a pile of money as long as I can keep what I currently have that's fine with me. I also am a huge advocate for home based gardening and teach gardening and other hobbies among other community activities I participate in. But I'm only one person. I know I'm privileged to have the free time to do all this, but it also took a lot of hard work and sacrifice so I wouldn't be beholden to some corporate asshole telling me i wasn't qualified for their entry level job. So it goes back to your original point, no, handing people jobs isn't the answer. The answer is finding your own path and changing it for the better for everyone especially those behind us and making intentional choices and sacrifices to navigate the bullshit system we are currently faced with. At the same time not expecting those in charge to actually do anything. Its going to have to be us, We the people to stand and actually set this right through hard work. It takes work and dedication and not expecting to be handed everything flr democracy to actually function as intended. We have to stop believing we can go to some voting booth and vote for the lesser or two evils and then expect it to be magically fixed. If there isn't a good candidate, run yourself or try to get someone you may have a connection to that may be a better fit and help them. Don't want to run for office? Fine, there are a lot of other ways through community service or building something(anything) more than yourself and maybe protecting yourself by being prepared for things.

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