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Also using cat to review a script before running it. Cat by default will interpret ANSI escape codes and it's possible to overwrite a line and hide it. Use the -v or -A option with cat to show the ANSI escape codes rather than interpret them. Or use less, vi, nano.

That's just what your employer wants you to think so you don't know who's getting paid unfairly.

Everything happens for a reason. Sometimes the reason is you're stupid and make bad decisions.

Money buys stability, not happiness. The second you get savings you start worrying about it. The more money you get the bigger prick you seemingly become. It's like the second you can afford a BMW the switch flips to being a public asshole. Get the high score and you get to be an absolutely miserable billionaire. Show me a truly happy billionaire.

I always say money doesn't buy happiness, but it is a prerequisite. Starving homeless people don't have a lot of opportunity to seek whatever makes them happy.

Crime doesn't pay when you're not protected by privilege and status.

Yes! All that civility and decorum training. I'll add to yours "Don't speak ill of the dead."

Stops people from learning about intergenerational trauma and fascists/terrorists in the family. Sure, my grandad was wildly abusive to his daughters and disgustingly racist about black people in Nova Scotia, Canada (the ones in Jamaica are fine btw). But he's dead now so "we don't talk about that." Totes cool to mention his army medals tho.

Yeah and now people cant handle a reality check, and I'm the asshole for giving one rather than reflecting on what they did wrong

My greatest regret in the store I work for, was being reliable.

3 and a half years in, I'm virtually worked to death. And my raise? A petty .25 one.

Yeah, so, anyone who says to me "if you work hard" or "hard work pays off" can royally go fuck themselves dry and hard, unironically.

New hotness: do unto others as they would have you do unto them.

Yes. And if you both enjoyed it, be sure to do it again, sometime.

Samesies.

She had 4 kids. I was the middle one until the last one came about 15 years later than most of us, with a different dad.

Didn't care much after that. I moved out at 15 to my dads.

You know how it's a meme and whatnot that parents always want you into the best schools possible? Well I had basically an above 9 GPA on a 4-10 scale in the best school in the country and my mom pulled me out to put me in some rural cousinfucker school because she wanted to move because she met a wealthy man and they couldn't wait two fucking years while not living together. Despite the drive being like an hour between them.

Literally had a teacher in that school tell me I could be a surgeon, when I was the first in a decade to extract a perch's swimbladder without puncturing it.

To this day mom won't even talk about it. And if she does she basically just avoids taking any responsibility, saying "everyone makes their own choices". Well bitch, I was underage. You were making them for me.

And she's supposedly a college level graduate social worker, which just adds to the irony.

I can't stand this one. Like, yes, I can figure out a lot of things for myself. But if I'm asking someone for help, it's because my own resourcefulness has reached its limit and in this situation, I need assistance from others. That is, if I could figure out a solution on my own, I would've done so. The whole point of bringing up the issue was an attempt to get help for it.

the secret to "doing what you love" for work is to have a solid passive income stream established beforehand. this takes alot of the stress of failure/eaking out maximum profit out of the equation.

once you make more $ than you really need to spend, you can work as little/many hours at whatever type of job you want.

rich people are rich because somewhere down the line their parents bought/passed down dividend paying stock (or they got lucky themselves/soldout a startup for some etc.). once you bring in 6 figs in passive income you can pretty much do whatever the fuck you want as long as you don't try to keep appearances with the super-rich.

that is what all those "i weave baskets and my partner rehabilitates wild dolphins for a living, watch us shop for a 2-3 million $ house"-shows quietly never touch on.

I was also never sure how to separate "things" from "experiences." Is a fancy cocktail while I'm on a beach vacation a thing or an experience? If I buy a new table saw for my hobby woodshop is that a thing or a experience?

We don't normally buy things and then bury them in a hole in the ground. We buy them because we intend to use them, even if that use is just for decoration. Our things enable experiences, and our experiences require things.

The line between thing and experience has always been very blurry to me.

I would re-tool it as "be a better version of yourself" instead. So, sounds like you practiced that method than the vague one.

That's something people say cause they think it makes them sound smart. Like people who say the Hunger Games is just Battle Royale, while ignorant of the long history of stories about death tournaments