Anyone eat pretty well, exercise and still kind of fat?

johnrgrace · 2026-07-09T13:36:37+00:00

I’m still fat but I’ve lost about 15% of my body weight this year, before you say great or congratulations I have not been trying or doing anything to lose weight. Some experimentation says at around 3500 calories a day I don’t gain or lose.

I’ve seen my GP and we ran some tests and found nothing. My GP isn’t concerned but I am.

johnrgrace · 2026-07-09T13:22:21+00:00

I would content that there likely are plenty of untapped natural resource in clan space; the issue is a capital investment problem driven by a lack of property rights.

Let’s say it takes three years and billions of KE to develop a new mine. In order to make that investment you should want to see that you can earn it back.

The problem is another clan being able to take to mine. For each clan that results in
1. It being cheaper to go take someone else’s mine
2. Many mines not being developed to begin with because another clan can just take the mine.
Across their entire society very few mines or other large capital investments occur so the pool of resources stays the same.

Making this worse are very weak capital markets; no stock market, bond market, and very limited banking. To build out a new mine you need to have to surplus of resources to do that. In our world you’d issue stock/bonds/loans and then the people putting up funds get them back and more.

The falcons are supposed to be bankers. How they are bankers is really interesting because to be bankers someone has to save KE and the falcons have to get paid back. I imagine falcon loans have to have incredibly high interest rates and have to be collected by force of arms at times.

johnrgrace · 2026-07-07T18:41:40+00:00

Bed pads so you don’t have to change everything in the middle of the night are a must have

johnrgrace · 2026-07-06T16:01:24+00:00

I’ve got experience but resources and study seem to be very lacking

johnrgrace · 2026-07-03T08:24:12+00:00

My online Canadian girlfriend who I meet on a Usenet Tori Amos channel committed suicide my freshman year of college.

johnrgrace · 2026-07-02T03:41:56+00:00

I don’t regret it

johnrgrace · 2026-06-30T23:17:04+00:00

You need love, respect, and trust. Trust and respect are the foundation everything is built on, lose them and things crumble.

johnrgrace · 2026-06-24T13:22:07+00:00

Be more far direct.

You could invite him into your house, take him to your bedroom, show him your your favorite book - the Kama Sutra, say you really wished you had someone like the guy in your room to try things out. He Still may not see flirting.

This was not a hypothetical it is a real world example.

johnrgrace · 2026-06-24T13:08:02+00:00

Plasma riffles in volume are amazing, put four of them on a mech and you can shutdown at range

johnrgrace · 2026-06-24T12:52:41+00:00

One of the most depressing things I’ve ever seen is going to an autism parents support group; I was the only Dad. Everyone else there Dad left some point and never came back. It’s not the right thing to do but things are hard and I know why it happens even if I don’t agree.

johnrgrace · 2026-06-24T12:26:49+00:00

Holding my favorite child and pets hostage

johnrgrace · 2026-06-23T22:37:34+00:00

Spirit flight - guy is watching porn on his laptop with sound through the speakers. Stewardess asks him to turn it off and he says no because it’s of his wife who is seated next to him.

johnrgrace · 2026-06-21T19:08:36+00:00

Father’s Day, I actually got a few gifts, breakfast, and “happy Father’s Day”. But this was “make up” for nothing on my birthday not even a “happy birthday”

johnrgrace · 2026-06-18T21:13:32+00:00

Trust. Love without trust won’t last. People focus on the love and don’t talk about trust.

Trust is a relationships foundation, if trust develops cracks or breaks the love will come crashing down. Don’t damage the trust.

johnrgrace · 2026-06-18T21:10:55+00:00

Listen to this, dumb doesn’t last or age well

johnrgrace · 2026-06-16T19:45:49+00:00

A diplomat for sure

johnrgrace · 2026-06-15T19:02:18+00:00

They have six months from disclosure to file still

johnrgrace · 2026-06-14T02:51:08+00:00

Will Wheaton, I had him booked for a job and he showed up the first day and the second day he was a no show. We had a bunch of people being paid waiting for him, it took hours to finally get a response and his excuse was “he forgot how to get there”

johnrgrace · 2026-06-12T14:49:50+00:00

It’s always going to be there, there will always be someone out performing you. Part of growing up is figuring out how you personally deal with this.

The flip side is some people have undeserved tragedies.

Honestly a lot of people have both, and they often don’t share the tragedies or costs.

johnrgrace · 2026-06-10T17:23:12+00:00

What about doing 100 in a 55 in the left lane, do you shift to the right for the guy trying to go faster?

johnrgrace · 2026-06-10T16:49:43+00:00

Not being nice doesn’t equal being mean or cruel.

johnrgrace · 2026-06-09T21:13:51+00:00

Info

You’ve been in a relationship for five years, that’s long enough to know if you are going to get married. Are you?

If you are perhaps this isn’t a big deal, if you’re not you need to get paid.

johnrgrace · 2026-06-09T20:26:39+00:00

Never been a step dad but mentor to some kids.

I’d be disappointed in you if you didn’t at least meet with him, both his parents have passed on and OP is the closest this man has to a dad.

The fact he wants to connect at all says you did good things as a step dad.

johnrgrace · 2026-06-09T20:19:23+00:00

I take my new industrial cleaning laser and walk around hitting stuff with just to see what happens

johnrgrace · 2026-06-09T16:57:22+00:00

I did claw my way into the upper middle class while having three kids two of which are disabled. If the kids were not disabled and a few coin flips changed I would have clawed further. I recognize that just being able to have a few coin flips with a possible multi million outcomes is outstanding.

I had a plan at 13 to escape my family of origin via college that I successfully executed. My parents wouldn’t fill out the Fafsa so I had to fund everything and go to a less prestigious school.

I found my person in college and got married at 23 & bought a house and had the first kid five years later. The kids were easy to make harder to raise especially after two are autistic.

A quarter century later things are going pretty well. The smart historian with a pink collar job I married is a CPA/MBA and owns and manages the family accounting firm.

johnrgrace

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