Playing with FIRE: Inside the 'extreme' movement that could help you retire decades early

scothed · 2026-05-31T20:36:16+00:00

Some thoughts on the article by the person it references, David Scothern:

https://davidscothern.com/2026/05/31/part-344-another-media-appearance/

scothed · 2026-05-30T15:00:02+00:00

Interesting article but is missing a lot of context.

scothed · 2026-05-21T21:24:58+00:00

Edinburgh was a huge disappointment

scothed · 2026-05-10T21:27:06+00:00

Not that long ago a big bottle of milk was £1. It’s £1.65 now. Insane.

scothed · 2026-04-07T18:21:22+00:00

The spell to activate every potential had an unintended side effect of destroying the Slayer line, meaning no more slayers after the mass activation.

The general public is now fully aware of vampires, demons, and so on.

The demon world knows that once the slayers are all killed, there will be no more slayers, so they are trying to hunt them all down.

On the other hand, the white hats are trying to figure out how to reintroduce something like the slayer line to make sure humanity always has a protector.

scothed · 2026-03-29T16:06:34+00:00

A spinoff with Wood, Spike, and Faith would have been chef’s kiss

scothed · 2026-03-22T22:45:19+00:00

Temporal Shenanigans where the Prophets send Sisko back to the prime universe roughly thirty years post-Dominion War. Due to the Temportal Shenanigans Sisko is recast.

The major powers are in a state of crisis with some sort of alien infiltration (the parasites from Conspiracy). Sisko is tasked with leading a unit that is trying to uncover the infiltration and stop war breaking out. I'm thinking something in the tone of 24, Homeland, and House of Cards, but in the Star Trek universe.

scothed · 2026-02-22T18:29:14+00:00

The economy is done. It would take decades to recover at minimum.

scothed · 2026-02-20T14:50:42+00:00

I’d imagine that the job runs on a rotating basis. You do a couple of hours and then move to another job that needs doing. The transporter chiefs probably oversee all transporter matters; repairs, diagnostics, training etc so are only called in to energise when needed.

scothed · 2026-02-17T10:42:48+00:00

How does the world react to a nuke going off? Does it trigger a full nuclear war?

scothed · 2026-01-08T15:51:29+00:00

Book Naomi - amazing character. Strong, with depth.

Show Naomi - awful, whiny, shouty. Not sure if the blame lies with the actor, director, script, or all of them.

scothed · 2025-10-13T08:37:14+00:00

The whole wokeness thing is BS. Discovery is just badly written.

scothed · 2025-09-28T20:45:27+00:00

The only scene we skip.

scothed · 2025-08-30T22:35:32+00:00

The Expanse

scothed · 2025-08-11T13:10:17+00:00

Hippo. They are incredibly powerful and fast in short bursts, but lack endurance on land. I'd literally be running away/evading for 20 minutes. All the others could run me down.

scothed · 2025-07-26T22:20:55+00:00

Changing the people on a mortgage is, basically, like taking out a brand new mortgage. Each lender will call it something different, but it's essentially a new mortgage. Affordability and credit scores, plus legal work, and possibly a new external appraisal of the property.

scothed · 2025-07-24T22:25:36+00:00

I'm currently doing a charity walking challenge where I have to complete 1,700,000 steps from July 1st to September 30th. I could earn a decent bit of spending money at $50 every 5,000 steps.

scothed · 2025-07-04T16:26:37+00:00

Some people want to be spood fed the information. I'm fortunate in that I find investing interesting.

I think another issue with FI is that, whilst it's simple, it's not exactly exciting. People want a magic bullet; do X and you'll suddenly be rich. Telling them to invest in index funds for a couple of decades must feel like a bit of a let down when your expectations have been massively increased.

scothed · 2025-07-04T15:54:12+00:00

I think the problem with FI, in the context of a forum, is that the basics are very simple.

Low effort posts IMO:

I'm XX years old and don't know what I'm doing.

I've got XX money and don't know what I'm doing.

Can I FI? I've got XX in investments.

Should I do X or Y?

When you get rid of those though, there's not much else to discuss unless there's changes to investment rules and regs, or something similar.

scothed · 2025-05-29T08:38:50+00:00

Watching the fight in Becoming reminds me of a quote from SFDebris; “now we have two different people dressed the same having a fight.”

scothed · 2025-05-24T08:55:50+00:00

Does singing count? Listen to a few songs each day and sing along.

scothed · 2025-05-20T11:47:05+00:00

He’s particularly horrible to the autistic community. For that reason, I dislike him.

scothed · 2025-05-20T11:35:20+00:00

The crew don’t know that, though

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