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Cake day: March 28th, 2024

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  • Not super rich, but we’d be doing substantially better financially if this went differently.

    The year: 2020. I was playing with the stock market and decided to buy 10,000 shares of the cheapest stock, just because it was funny to say I had 10k shares in anything. It cost about $800.

    A couple of months later, lo and behold, my $800 was worth about $5000! “Holy shit,” I said, “I made money on penny stocks!” I promptly sold all of it.

    Several months later, I check on it again. The company has announced new technology and its share price has skyrocketed, from a few cents per stock to $25. I could have made $250k, but instead made $5k.


  • You’re basically describing a ketogenic diet. I started keto two months ago and it has seriously changed my life. I’ve lost tons of weight, my hair is noticably thicker, my mind is clear, I have tons of energy, I’m packing on strength and muscle mass, and my blood tests are not only normal but great for the first time in almost a decade. I have a chronic, incurable, largely untreatable illness that also seems to be gradually going into remission. I might be functional again someday,

    I worked as a scientist for years so I’m one of the most skeptical bastards around but your assertion may have some merit. Granted, I get most of my calories from nuts and seeds, supplemented with meat, but I suspect what you’re saying is a different means to the same end.



  • I agree, but I have a problem I don’t know how to overcome. Maybe someone here has an idea.

    I’m ADHD as fuck.

    It’s the inattentive type and it cuts both ways. It’s not uncommon for me to turn on my phone and get distracted from what I had intended to do by notifications. On the flip side, if I don’t have notifications to let me know to check something, I may just forget the app exists entirely. If it’s something important, that’s not great.

    Anyone have any ideas?