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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • You should not be day trading. If you are going to stick with it you need to switch to paper trading for at least a year. Odds are you are not suited to it, very few people are, it is generally an extremely difficult way to make money that the vast majority of people who try fail at. Especially at 20, your brain is not even fully developed yet. You absolutely should be enjoying life, right now you are wasting it on dumb bullshit. Open a Roth IRA and try out buy and hold investing, and make sure you learn modern portfolio theory before you go taking on extreme risks again.









  • Unless your salary is inflation adjusted over those 15 years, you are going to end up in a bad place if you ride it out. I personally couldn’t make it on $65k and would be looking to either supplement my income or find a higher paying job ASAP. If it was a reasonable income for where I live and covered my bills, and resulted in me being able to still afford retiring at 62, I might stick with it if it wasn’t driving me totally crazy with boredom.



  • Operation 34A

    I’m sorry but this does not come across like a serious argument. China is not ramming fishing vessels because the US once clandestinely deployed mines in the 1960’s. If you genuinely believe that I don’t know what to say except I hope you develop a more nuanced and realistic understanding of the world.

    Re: China beating innocent people with clubs, I didn’t quite say that. I am sure some random innocent people have been caught up in it and beaten but on balance I think it has primarily been mutual combat involving provocations from both sides in the India/China border dispute.

    I don’t think “40 years of non-violent growth” is an accurate statement at all. I can agree that contemporary Chinese imperialism doesn’t look like US imperialism and has utilized less violence overall. I think your framing of China vs. violent psychopaths is inherently flawed. China may or may not have fewer of those kinds of people in power compared to other governments, but it has plenty. It’s an inescapable fact of humanity that those people exist and have a tendency to seek power, and that power has a tendency to bring out those characteristics in people. There is nothing special about the people of China that make them better than the rest of humanity, the same problems of humanity manifest in China as everywhere else on the planet.