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Patrick says

I believe one of the most important reason why someone should not do a half-baked job on a task they’d set their minds on performing is because doing so steals the most precious thing in life (their time on Earth) away from them.

As I am getting older, I realize that life has been very short indeed. People spend a lot of their time working a career and less time in retirement, doesn't make sense.

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gabbar says

Patrick says

I believe one of the most important reason why someone should not do a half-baked job on a task they’d set their minds on performing is because doing so steals the most precious thing in life (their time on Earth) away from them.

As I am getting older, I realize that life has been very short indeed. People spend a lot of their time working a career and less time in retirement, doesn't make sense.

That's why I'm in quasi retirement the last six years. Wife works a good job that is pretty much hanging out with people. I just try to make people laugh in public. Here I can be an ass hole. Here's my recent work for Spring Break.



Have fun. Do stupid shit. As you said, life is short. One life to live and it can end at any moment.

Kids helped with that one as well. I hope I'm the fun dad when they don't piss me off.

You should see the one I sent to my buddy for his birthday. He wouldn't appreciate me posting it online, but it was good. I might blur out his face and name out of it and post it though.

WookieMan says

I might blur out his face and name out of it and post it though.

Sounds good.

gabbar says

WookieMan says

I might blur out his face and name out of it and post it though.

Sounds good.

He's not gay, but I went on a hike with him in Montana and he wanted me to take this photo. I've known him since I was five. His older brothers were ruthless. So he does weird shit. I'm like whatever. So I made this birthday flyer. Lava Lake hike in Montana just north of Big Sky. He's on the lake.

He joked about bringing the dog into it. I lol'd at that and thought, that was your take away?



Have fun.

I hang out with weird/fun people. I didn't partake, but just did a couples weekend with some other people. They were doing shrooms, I stuck to drinking responsibly. All professional or blue collar type.

This is why I don't go on X or most social media platforms. I vent here but this was a good thread to start Gabbar. Just because one can come across as negative doesn't mean they're not fun or positive or goofy.

WookieMan says

He's not gay, but I went on a hike with him in Montana and he wanted me to take this photo. I've known him since I was five. His older brothers were ruthless. So he does weird shit. I'm like whatever. So I made this birthday flyer. Lava Lake hike in Montana just north of Big Sky. He's on the lake.

Friends who are like this are priceless. They add value to life. Gotta hang on to them, even if the friendship is not perfect at times.
I would like to have a friend to have a beer with every Friday evening with or perhaps have a lawfully allowed doobie once in a while before I die. I don't. I have friends who don't drink, forget about trying a doobie, I don't get the inability to take any risk knowing that you are gonna die.

WookieMan says

I vent here but this was a good thread to start Gabbar. Just because one can come across as negative doesn't mean they're not fun or positive or goofy.

Negative people are fine; sociopaths/psychopaths are not since they are unpredictable, imo.

gabbar says

Negative people are fine; sociopaths/psychopaths are not since they are unpredictable, imo.

I don't know... It's not impossible I'm on that level. That hike I had 20lbs of beer on my back 2.5 miles in up 1,600' of elevation. It was so icy we had to buy yak tracks for grip after falling the first 30 yards. Getting passed by women because we're flat landers. Man card lost... hence the gay flyer. I slid down probably 5% of the mountain. 5 miles total. Down is harder than up. It was fun though.

Drinking has its flaws. I've gone through my battles. I have good friends that keep me in check. We do have our fun from time to time. I drink too much when on vacation. Drinking with others and being safe is fun. I'm a child at heart. We play ping pong every week on Wednesdays. Have a few beers, they smoke, I'm done with that at this point but it doesn't bother me. It's fun. We're all around 40. Most are bachelors and one is actually gay. We don't get rowdy just shoot the shit and pong.

Working on getting a crew to buy my mom's place. 60 acres or so. Everyone here has a UTV, 4 wheeler, golf cart with a lift. We shoot, play yard games, camp it would be a blast. It's on a river so float trips are fun on a hot summer day. Kayaks, canoes. Actually the one flyer I blocked his face out actually took a shit in the river as we floated. We're just white privileged males enjoying life... lol.

Patrick says

This small-town farmer paid people's pharmacy bills for the past decade, and no one knew about it until after he passed away

I respect those that would yell "Get a Job" at a beggar soliciting money, more than those that go out to find homeless people to give money and necessities only to film it and put it on social media. Boasting about your charity efforts should have been one of the seven deadly sins, or there should be 8.

WookieMan says

I have good friends that keep me in check. We do have our fun from time to time. I drink too much when on vacation. Drinking with others and being safe is fun. I'm a child at heart. We play ping pong every week on Wednesdays. Have a few beers, they smoke, I'm done with that at this point but it doesn't bother me. It's fun. We're all around 40. Most are bachelors and one is actually gay. We don't get rowdy just shoot the shit and pong.

Seems like you have the kind of life many of us wish for. Keep it going until your body/mind gives up and if you raise good kids along with this, that is as good as it can get, probably. So....kudos.

When time runs out, eternity still lies before us. The best plan for this life must incorporate eternity, else it all end in vain.

Seek the Creator now, those who truly find Him never regret it.

https://truthloveandfreedom.com/

https://pliego.substack.com/p/vibe-shift

A few years ago, a software engineer at Google named James Damore published an internal memo—in response to a mandatory diversity training program he attended—titled “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber”.

Damore, by all conceivable metrics the kind of competent, curious engineer that tech companies pay mountains of money to retain, made the unforgivable mistake of essentially asking: “Hey, what if Reality—and not targeted misogyny—accounts for the fact that more men than women work in tech? Also, why does it feel like I could get fired for asking this?”




... It’s hard to say exactly how long it’s taken for the eponymous vibe to shift, but everyone knows it’s happening. For at least the last six months, not a day has gone by when I haven’t seen something, heard a statement, read a post, or had a conversation with someone that doesn’t leave me completely shocked—in a good way.

“This would not have happened a year ago. Vibe shift.”

The Vibe Shift I’m talking about is the speaking of previously unspeakable truths, the noticing of previously suppressed facts. I’m talking about the give you feel when the walls of Propaganda and Bureaucracy start to move as you push; the very visible dust kicked up in the air as Experts and Fact Checkers scramble to hold on to decaying institutions; the cautious but electric rush of energy when dictatorial edifices designed to stifle innovation, enterprise, and thought are exposed or toppled. ...



... Most folks in the tech and venture orbits are probably aware of the most salient example of the vibe shift in startups: the happenings in The Gundo. The tl;dr on the Gundo is a bunch of bright, young, ultra-ambitious dudes in El Segundo, CA have forsaken the “don’t rock the boat by saying what you believe and focus on hitting the SaaS jackpot” ethos of 2010-2020s Silicon Valley and are instead unapologetically pro-America, pro-family values, openly religious, all of which they channel into challenging and important missions like manufacturing hydrocarbons out of thin air, making it rain where it doesn't, and more generally “rebuilding America.”

But part of what is causing the Vibe Shift is that it goes well beyond the Gundo: indeed, no matter what circles you run in, almost everyone—from AI accelerationists to techbros to gun owners to Bitcoiners to Christians to normal families to children who like math to American citizens—is undergoing a variation of the same kind of pressure to conform, stagnate, decelerate.

Not only does the Current Thing demand total and unquestioning loyalty from all of these groups, but not even a year and a half ago anyone willing to speak out could be barred from participating in the public square, forever. ...

The Vibe Shift looks like ditching childless civilizational nihilism and saying, yeah, having kids is good, actually.

The Vibe Shift is the repudiation of homogenizing hyperglobalism and instead intentionally pursuing the communal, the local, and the national.

The Vibe Shift is the rejection of reality denial and instead embracing that men and women are unique and different.

The Vibe Shift is the refusal to subordinate yourself and your family to the whims and anxieties of activists and bureaucrats and relearning to trust your eyes and ears.

The Vibe Shift is the rejection of secular liberal materialism and a return to the Christian foundations of the West.

The Vibe Shift is taking off the ironic veil that aims to cover the festering wounds of despair and putting on the vestments of seriousness instead.

The Vibe Shift is laughing at those trying to demonize men and cheerfully proclaiming “Dudes rock.”

The Vibe Shift is spurning the fake and therapeutic and reclaiming the authentic and concrete.

The Vibe Shift is a healthy suspicion of credentialism and a return to human judgment.

The Vibe Shift is living not by lies, and instead speaking the truth—whatever the cost.

The Vibe Shift is directly facing our tumultuous times, refusing to blackpill, and choosing to build instead.