ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
Blogger, Christian convert, general strange one. https://shapesinthefog.substack.com/
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ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
21hr ago
Unironically this is the plan. We're getting married in October.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
21hr ago
Ahh yeah I been doing ETFs since I was like 17 hah. I thought you meant day trading! I've thought about that but... idk. Might look into it.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
22hr ago
What do you do now?
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
22hr ago
This is... quite a comment. Thanks for sharing. Glad you made it.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
22hr ago
Yeahhhh I have thought about this, but a good buddy of mine got me the job and so it's a bit more complicated. I feel I'd be betraying him if I pulled that kind of thing.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
22hr ago
You know I haven't grilled in a while, did it at our last place haven't done any this year. Might try it as it warms up again. We do have some nice grills hah. My fiance is vegetarian so that puts a bit of a damper on it, but I do love a good burger.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
22hr ago
This was a wonderful read, thank you for linking. This part had me feeling REAL called out:
The variety of self-hating nerd are too many to number. There are the nerds who go into psychology to prove that EQ is a real thing and IQ merely its pale pathetic shadow. There are the nerds who become super-woke and talk about how reason and objectivity are forms of white supremacy culture. There are the nerds who obsess over “embodiment” and “somatic therapy” and accuse everyone else of “living in their heads”. There are the nerds who deflect by becoming really into neurodiversity - “the interesting thing about my brain isn’t that I’m ‘smart’ or ‘rational’, it’s that I’m ADHDtistic, which is actually a weakness . . . but also secretly a strength!” There are the nerds who flirt with fascism because it idolizes men of action, and the nerds who convert to Christianity because it idolizes men of faith. There are the nerds who get really into Seeing Like A State, and how being into rationality and metrics and numbers is soooooo High Modernist, but as a Kegan Level Five Avatar they are far beyond such petty concerns. There are the nerds who redefine “nerd” as “person who likes Marvel movies” - having successfully gerrymandered themselves outside the category, they can go back to their impeccably-accurate statisticsblogging on educational outcomes, or their deep dives into anthropology and medieval mysticism, all while casting about them imprecations that of course nerds are loathsome scum who deserve to be bullied.
ThomasdelVasto
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1d ago
lol, did not remember that was you. Forgive me friendo. Baldur’s gate three is alright.
I might spin up bloons Td. It was just free on epic games.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
1d ago
I mean, I didn't exactly choose it. I got fired two weeks before my 1 year equity cliff at a startup I basically built half off, and was having so many intense health issues there was no way I could've held a job even if I wanted to. It was pretty brutal my man.
I also negotiated enough severance to keep me paying bills for a year, so that helped.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
1d ago
Marketing contractor for a fortune 500 company. Did sales for 7 years and got extremely burnt out / fucked over at my last job. Was gonna get out of sales and marketing but I tried the trades and it was fucked. A buddy offered me this job and I took it because I had no clue what else to fucking do lol.
I wrote a bit about this here https://shapesinthefog.substack.com/p/from-laptop-to-shovel-and-back-again.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
1d ago
Lmao I love the black humor. Thanks my man much appreciated. Maybe I will... my dad rode a bike...
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
1d ago
Yeah, I was unemployed for 9 months before taking this job, so I feel you. It has been a year and a half now and I'm getting the itch again though.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
1d ago
Nowhere near that much money, as I said downthread. Kind of hilarious how almost every answer here is assuming I make a ton of money, lmao. I have barely six figures in retirement and make $50k/yr with no benefits.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
1d ago
Ahaha my fiance is already the more budget conscious of us. I'm one step ahead of you.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
1d ago
Hah well sadly I don't make that much money. I make $50k a year with no benefits. So. Don't have the same options as many of the rich mfers on this site.
If only turning IQ into cash money was as easy as the HBD folks think it is...
ThomasdelVasto
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1d ago
Any middle aged or approaching middle aged men here have fun ideas for blowing off steam when you want to blow up your life? Idk I'm just feeling very bored with the stupid corporate job and day to day grind.
ThomasdelVasto
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1d ago
Download a modpack for Skyrim.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
1d ago
i spent my peak neuroplasticity on 4chan and now i can sense minorities through walls
LOL this one killed me. Thanks for sharing. The laughs are very much appreciated this morning.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
1d ago
You can take photographs without posting them online for attention, you know. It's quite nice especially in a relationship or friendships to reminisce together.
ThomasdelVasto
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2d ago
What are some extremely good novels you would like, then?
ThomasdelVasto
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2d ago
Very much agree. It's extremely lovely that she writes a world in which her politics don't neatly align with either traditionalism as such or extreme sci fi progressivism. I'm having a great time reading it, just finished The Warrior's Apprentice.
ThomasdelVasto
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2d ago
Can I ask how you met Scott?
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
2d ago
What does this do?
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
2d ago
I think that your 'ghouls' are often (not always, psychopaths do exist but they are quite rare) simply people who have been subjected to the 'hostage puppy' attack so many times, they are tired of empathizing. There's a great thread about it here if you're on twitter:
https://x.com/goblinodds/status/2010954724544074194?s=20
Basically the idea is, if anyone tries to stop you from achieving your aims, you make yourself vulnerable (if you arent already), and force your enemy to either capitulate or harm you.
This essentially forces people to either lose, or accept being an asshole. Progressives have been using this tactic to great effect for centuries now. Many on the right are simply done folding to this sort of empathy attack.
I like the BJJ idea. I've been weightlifting recently and that helps. Sadly tho I am hypermobile and have some chronic pain issues so I've felt like BJJ might be a problem for me. I've considered other types of martial art.
Hunting doesn't reaaaalllyy appeal to me, though I do enjoy camping. Idk, I'm considering getting into another line of work or something.
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