• haulyard@lemmy.world
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    Three things.

    1. Brush your damn teeth.
    2. Spend time with your elderly family members while you still can.
    3. Compound interest.
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      Last year, when my daughter moved to college, I wrote her a letter containing my best advice.

      Brush your damn teeth was at the top.

      And I extend this advice to ANYONE ELSE who needs it.

      A fucked tooth is one of the most painful things I’ve ever experienced, and the way you fix it, is to pull it. And it NEVER comes back. Repeat this a few times and you’re embarrassed to smile in front of anyone. It really messes with your self worth, and there’s no coming back.

      Please, brush your damn teeth, and don’t start smoking.

      Please everyone,

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        My kids think I’m annoying for nagging them about their teeth, but I’m on a mouth fixing journey due to medical tooth loss and it is slow, painful, expensive, and embarrassing. People think I either do drugs or never learned to brush my teeth and I’d hate to see my kids go through that. It’s a secondary reason to my continued masking in public and masking is absolutely the only reason I was able to find the job I have. Not that I am unqualified, but if I had smiled in an interview I never would have been called back.

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    Do NOT enlist in the military. They will use you, leave you mentally and emotionally fucked, and leave you by the side of the road when they’re done.

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    You aren’t lazy, you aren’t undisciplined, you just have ADHD. get that shit diagnosed and treated or you’ll lose your full ride scholarship.

    A desk job is fine, and you’re good at programming. Don’t be afraid to major in something computer related.

    BTC is a scam but buy a lot of it as early as possible, it’ll peak around 65k. God doesn’t exist, the republicans are fucking ghouls

  • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.uk
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    If a girl invites you back for coffee, don’t decline because you don’t like coffee. She is probably the one who would send you your first Valentine’s card a few months.

    Delay your mother for just a minute on this specific day in 1997, you will save her life.

    Go and see Sasha on this day in 2019. She’s going to die and there’s nothing anyone can do about it.

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    In November 2020, you will invest all your money into Gamestop. Sell once the price hits $200.

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    1. Don’t date her.
    2. Don’t ever start drinking.
    3. Turns out you’re gay and you don’t know it yet.
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    • If someone is willing to cheat with you, they’ll cheat on you too
    • Stay away from cocaine
    • compound interest
    • Delayed gratification is usually worth it
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    Dump your highschool sweetheart, she’s a cheating bitch when she goes off to college. Instead, date the girl you liked for 3 years but she didn’t come around until you started dating the one who broke your heart. Though she was late to the game, and broke your heart 3 years straight… when she came to you with that 12 page letter, she was legit. She found and married the guy who was just like you and they lived happily… until covid killed her early on in the covid saga. But if she’d married me, she wouldn’t have been in Georgia. She’d still probably have been a nurse, but not there. She might still be alive. Oh, and that rebound gal you dated, knocked up and married after the first gal, the cheater, broke your heart? She widows you. And shit just gets worse from there.

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    You don’t have super powers, you’re not having a “spiritual crisis,” you have ADHD and you’re losing your shit. See a doctor. Medicine is good.

    That’s it. That would basically rewrite the last 18 years of my life (not that it’s been bad, but I lost out on doing cool stuff in my 20s to figuring out I had, and how to deal with, my mental illness)

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    Do not ever start that PhD, and keep on passing on shit you are not interested in. Especially when others say they are too good of an opportunity to pass. Otherwise keep going, little dude!

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      Currently doing a phd and wishing I could go back in time and tell myself not to fucking do it. They really get you with that opportunity bullshit but the whole thing is a fucking pyramid scheme imo.

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        It feels like it is, nicely coupled with the worst dependency on a superior I have ever experienced in my life. And this whole working for the collective knowledge of the community is bs to, including double-blind processes in paper reviews. You got to make sure the reviewers know who you are, and they make sure you know who they are (“how about you cite these 3 papers that are super relevant and just by coincidence come from the same author?”). Anyway, all the best to you!

  • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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    Two things: you have ADHD, learn how to deal with it now or things will get worse.

    The other thing would be a hint on where to find my current SO.

    Nothing I could change would affect her path in life up until I meet her. Our lives are very separate.