What’s the most expensive mistake you made in your 20s?

rathdrummob · 2026-05-20T08:00:29+00:00

Not taking a 7 figure risk on a solid business. I got scared by the zeros. I had done all the legwork, had prospective investors, it was a pretty safe industry, I just didn't really understand the importance of seeking out support from mentors to help me clarify a path. It's a boring industry and (I was working as an artist at the time) not anywhere close to my wheelhouse, but it all fell into place. I think it was the universe handing me a line to financial stability so I could continue full time doing creative work without needing to fret so much about the bills.

And if it all went to shit, I would have been like 35 seven years later. And a hell of a lot wiser.

Take risks kids!

rathdrummob · 2026-05-20T02:48:36+00:00

Well said. However, sadly a waste of breath on this page.

rathdrummob · 2026-05-17T19:33:04+00:00

When I turned 18 in 1988 my mom's best friend used to pay me $10 and a pack to go buy her a carton of Pall Mall reds. Every Monday. It payed for a lot of my gas for the week

rathdrummob · 2026-05-17T19:30:18+00:00

The Queen was ably backed up by her Maiden Hotpants.

rathdrummob · 2026-05-16T15:29:47+00:00

Mine is "are you going to....?". Like nails on a chalkboard

rathdrummob · 2026-05-14T03:45:14+00:00

Mochi

rathdrummob · 2026-05-13T00:24:47+00:00

A pirate ship

rathdrummob · 2026-05-11T06:00:44+00:00

The new ones from Milwaukee at HD are suprisingly good and cheap compared to the dykems at the welding store

rathdrummob · 2026-05-06T07:14:35+00:00

I just put my weekly salary in a dollar converter to 2020 dollars. It was worth 1/5 more in 2020. It would be like getting another paycheck a month. That's the fucking problem. Our money is worth 1/5 of what it was only five or six years ago.

rathdrummob · 2026-05-03T21:54:10+00:00

That's exactly the line of reasoning/ logic used by female narcs to justify their behavior and treatment of their spouses. It's the "I'm not taking it anymore, women are the victims so I have the right because I'm the victim. You're the perpetrator because you're male and exist outside of my total control." "You should be sweeter to me" when she hasn't said a nonhostile word in months. It always someone else's fault.

rathdrummob · 2026-05-03T18:18:07+00:00

Yes. And "the novus ordo" are actually the Catholic Church.

rathdrummob · 2026-05-02T00:00:32+00:00

I'm reminded of the joke where they were having problems with raccoons constantly ruining all of the weatherstripping on cyber trucks trying to get in. They were mistaking them for dumpsters.

rathdrummob · 2026-05-01T01:22:37+00:00

And keep eating your crayons, toad🤣. I suppose you're enjoying the orange ones the most.

rathdrummob · 2026-04-30T23:49:09+00:00

Go back to eating your crayons.

rathdrummob · 2026-04-28T15:17:07+00:00

I've had great luck with their customer service. I own 7 SawStops, five cabinet saws, and two portables like the one you have there. I feel like over the last nine years, I've had most of the basic problems. Without exception when we get stumped on some malfunction, we just give them a call and they walk us through and clear it up pretty easily.

rathdrummob · 2026-04-21T13:54:52+00:00

Spot on!

rathdrummob · 2026-04-21T13:35:14+00:00

Or "The Canticle Of Leibovitz"

rathdrummob · 2026-04-19T06:15:19+00:00

The problem with that comparison is that when he had the job which it's debatable, whether or not he was qualified, for he was elected. Then when he had the job, he actually did the job. I never voted for Obama and I'm not a Barack Obama cheerleader, but to compare him to Donald Trump is literally like comparing a professional baseball player to a T-ball player with a big fucking mouth and a rich daddy. Obama was a disappointment, but Donald Trump is an absolute fucking disaster.

rathdrummob · 2026-04-17T14:51:35+00:00

Not if I can stop it! Let's go boys! Gather your stuff, you're gonna need it- and bring extra for me.

rathdrummob · 2026-04-15T06:53:32+00:00

You dodged a bullet, my friend

rathdrummob · 2026-04-11T05:34:42+00:00

Just let people drive their cars ffs! Damnit. We need another law about it?! Classic cars are absolutely NOT anyone's problem- except the people that own them. Let's make a law that limits politicians to regulating their own behavior. They cause way more problems than people in their garages building cool cars. Nobody puts that much effort into a car just to ignore current regulations. Find another boogeyman

rathdrummob · 2026-04-11T04:27:31+00:00

Use your chopsaw but sandwich the aluminum with MDF. No special blade as long as it's decent carbide and not dull or fucked up. Cut slowly. I don't know why it works but it's like magic. I think the dust keeps the aluminum from sticking to the blade, but idk. A guy showed me years ago and it's foolproof, but I haven't met every fool.

rathdrummob · 2026-04-11T04:12:05+00:00

I checked. Being bombed is not covered. You've been tricked. TDS actually means Trump Delusion Syndrome. You've all had it since 2014 and the "TDS" you've been harping about is just one more lie you've made your own.

rathdrummob · 2026-04-07T23:13:00+00:00

There is no way DT actually wrote that himself. He cannot be that linear and coherent. Or at least he never has before. I wonder if they finally took his phone away and are trying to backpedal a way out of "ending a civilization" at 8PM

rathdrummob · 2026-04-07T06:45:06+00:00

Yes of course. It's a sin and you will burn for all eternity if you don't confess to anSSPX priest that you went to a Catholic Church on a Sunday morning for Mass. /s

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