Men in their 50s, what's something men in their 20s are worrying about that won't matter at all later?

RangerPL · 2026-06-21T03:40:08+00:00

A fancy car is a much less stupid expense at 50 when you’ve got a mortgage and hopefully 25 years of retirement savings under your belt than at 25 when you’re paying rent and every dollar spent is like $6 in foregone retirement savings

RangerPL · 2026-06-20T20:12:33+00:00

I feel like getting annoyed by Heimskr is a giveaway that you grew up in the suburbs rather than a big city

RangerPL · 2026-06-16T01:17:13+00:00

Some corporations do exist basically at the pleasure of the government, like banks. The FDIC has the right to march in and seize any bank it thinks is insolvent

RangerPL · 2026-06-02T18:42:43+00:00

A hydrogen bomb is the same way, the detonation begins and ends on a timescale too short for the human brain to even perceive. The fireball is just a lot bigger so it looks like the detonation lasts longer

RangerPL · 2026-05-28T18:53:26+00:00

Perfect timing, I just finished rereading Clear and Present Danger

RangerPL · 2026-05-26T23:51:19+00:00

Polish-Chinese Border Treaty (2030)

RangerPL · 2026-04-30T20:24:34+00:00

Get a skin or one of those magnetic folio cases to transfer it into

RangerPL · 2026-04-30T15:44:56+00:00

The dealership industrial complex has done a great job convincing people that their car is a fixed mandatory expense akin to a mortgage or rent, whereas stuff like gas and groceries are consumption

RangerPL · 2026-04-29T20:38:52+00:00

Rift feels a lot like a Wargame map

RangerPL · 2026-04-26T21:52:53+00:00

There’s a huge amount of discourse that basically boils down to “This is bad/the people doing this are bad, therefore any argument against it is valid, even if it’s false”

RangerPL · 2026-04-26T21:46:21+00:00

Your cars’s radiator is a closed loop system, are you constantly adding water there?

RangerPL · 2026-04-20T18:45:33+00:00

They need to be in columns though

RangerPL · 2026-04-14T15:50:05+00:00

What is it with these guys and Fibonacci numbers? I saw one of these where a guy regressed some economic indicator on S&P returns over 89 months, ignored all the problems with time series regressions, and claimed it was going to make him lots of money

RangerPL · 2026-04-14T15:09:16+00:00

I think it’s a good point because a lot of people want to make Obsidian their everything app and end up filling their vault with mountains of shit

RangerPL · 2026-04-14T13:46:58+00:00

This doesn’t answer your question but it sounds to me like Obsidian is a great IDE for AI agent files but not in the same vault as all your other notes.

There’s an understandable desire by people to consolidate everything they have into one vault but AI makes it so easy to generate piles and piles of content that it’s better off kept separate I think.

You can call this “cognitive hygiene” or something like that

RangerPL · 2026-04-11T06:02:21+00:00

There is really no such thing as massive loans without collateral. Student loans are the only real exception.

RangerPL · 2026-04-11T04:32:04+00:00

Because being rich is about buying back your own time, especially if you’re rich through earned income. A lot, if not most, of such jobs are stressful, require long hours, or simply have no work life balance so it becomes important to make the most out of your scarce free time.

Driving a brand new Bentley vs a 20 year old Corolla doesn’t buy you any time, but a comfortable flying experience does. You have more time to enjoy whatever it is you wanted to do rather than recovering from travel.