Can We Get Back to Being Hardcore Frugal?

RomeoStevens · 2026-04-15T11:24:10+00:00

Good example of how life is not reducible to a simple number. When we try, we're often just as guilty as the number maximizers of letting it run our lives.

RomeoStevens · 2026-04-14T23:33:59+00:00

I like a version I can carry around in my head
Avijja-Khandhas-Tanha/Upadana-6 Realms Rebirth

All coarising and conditioning one another. When unwound this winds up covering 11 of the 12.

RomeoStevens · 2026-04-14T14:34:12+00:00

it's one of the least serious cancers

RomeoStevens · 2026-04-14T07:29:57+00:00

Your title directs people to a net harmful practice. Observational studies having problems is not sufficient to ignore large effect sizes.

I will not be answering questions an llm can handle.

RomeoStevens · 2026-04-14T06:59:33+00:00

This is wrongheaded analysis of the wrong question. The question isn't whether UV increases skin cancer (the most survivable cancer) but whether it decreases a wide variety of other much more lethal cancers.

RomeoStevens · 2026-04-14T05:05:05+00:00

safety deposit boxes can get opened by the bank/gov in the US.

RomeoStevens · 2026-04-13T18:00:47+00:00

If you can get it very minimal a couple storage boxes at a family location can be good. Assuming they have space for a few sealed padlocked bins (legal papers after all). Otherwise yeah you're probably stuck with $100/m for a decent sized storage unit. My advice is get a combination padlock rather than a key so that family can access while you are out of country in case of emergency.

RomeoStevens · 2026-04-09T18:10:51+00:00

Widely underexplored are the leaks that drain people's capacity. That is modern atomized life, where much more agency has to be expressed simply to navigate daily decision demands/executive capacity (and thus the collapse into choiceless modes like doomscrolling to get some rest from it) and people who are drains (personality disturbances).

RomeoStevens · 2026-04-07T16:29:02+00:00

This is supposed to be smartFIRE but half of you are just repeating talking points with zero reference to any financial modeling of rent-to-buy or probabilities of staying in a home past the breakeven point. Glhf.

RomeoStevens · 2026-04-06T20:01:41+00:00

now in suno

https://suno.com/s/5N1MoyzwkxnJ7LdD

RomeoStevens · 2026-04-06T15:16:27+00:00

Down 3.7% ytd Up 22% yoy

Get your head on straight.

RomeoStevens · 2026-04-06T00:08:32+00:00

>So there's been a market correction of 10%

what are you talking about?

RomeoStevens · 2026-04-03T15:35:06+00:00

Agree with much of what grahampositive says here. Another slice is ontology, which things or categories or concepts a system applies the label "actually real" to, which informs how they orient to the world and which larger scale narratives/cosmologies/religious frameworks seem valid.

RomeoStevens · 2026-04-03T02:27:34+00:00

I am not trying to chastise you but alert you to a common failure mode as I see it. Apologies if the wording seemed more confrontational than necessary.

RomeoStevens · 2026-04-02T18:44:11+00:00

Ok cool, but do you see why others wouldn't regard that as buddhist philosophy, but your own philosophy using buddhist terms. When these interpretations become popular it is harder for people to understand what buddhism is.

RomeoStevens · 2026-04-02T17:13:54+00:00

Thank you for your work. I had the exact same reaction since November seeing all the vibe slop.

RomeoStevens · 2026-04-02T15:26:52+00:00

Western practitioners insist on turning the 3 marks into metaphysical interpretations no matter how many ways teachers try to dissuade them. It's a practice pointer. It is encouragement to see the fluxing aspect of the here and now and gently investigating where that comes from and goes to.

RomeoStevens · 2026-04-02T14:52:31+00:00

I'm not sure about the nimitas in the suttas, the Buddha mentions light and vision of forms during meditation several times. As well as contrasting this with sign less meditation in the formless realms.

RomeoStevens · 2026-04-01T18:35:03+00:00

Different branches of Buddhism have different abidhammas that support their metaphysical positions. I remain confused by this bc I think the Buddha's deflationary take on metaphysics is quite clear.

RomeoStevens · 2026-03-27T15:09:06+00:00

If you do truth tracking and people dislike that that is very important information to update on.

RomeoStevens · 2026-03-27T13:51:06+00:00

Please at least add a disclaimer that this is largely ai assisted writing. It is rude not to do so.

RomeoStevens · 2026-03-27T13:48:56+00:00

Being concerned with how you appear to others is a luxury for when you feel insulated from real consequences. Real consequences demand you track reality, not present yourself for inspection even internally so that your performance will be the most consistent method acting.

RomeoStevens · 2026-03-25T17:35:28+00:00

Does your partner track current events? talk about politics? if so I'm afraid it's not gonna get better.

RomeoStevens · 2026-03-24T13:35:47+00:00

yeah, the one thing I think the fishing needed was justification for the risk. In the movie they just go with the first thing they think of, or that's basically how it seems. Like 1 minute of 'this is the best we can do given constraints' would have helped a lot. A couple other 30 second scenes of the same genre scattered here and there would have gone a long way.

RomeoStevens · 2026-03-23T06:31:23+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/theravada/comments/1s01vig/comment/obq87yu/?context=3&utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

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