I put it into ETF index funds. It’s a lot of money but it doesn’t enable me to buy anything I couldn’t already buy if I truly wanted to. I’m fortunate enough to say that it’s not a life-changing amount of money for me.

Give me 300k and I’ll buy a piece of land somewhere by the water, build a small cabin and live as a hermit.

I had forgotten to tighten a joint in a water pipe above an IT room on a power plant and when it started leaking there was a conveniently placed water sensor right under it which triggered some sort of an emergency shutdown. It was obviously a mistake and I was still as green of a plumber as one can get so obviously I was forgiven for it but it was still expensive for the company.

Well I’m on Lemmy.

I don’t really talk politics. Not here and not in real life. I don’t even know who most people around me vote for. Not even my parents. I don’t live in a two party system so it’s not a binary us vs. them like it’s in the US.

I form my opinions on a individual basis and they’re not always aligned with my “political leaning”

You don’t need to wait for rebirth as this pretty much already is the case.

You are not the same person you were five minutes ago, or five years ago. Your body has replaced countless cells, your memories have shifted, your preferences have changed and the pattern of activity in your brain is different. There is no fixed, unchanging core that stays identical from one moment to the next. What we call “you” is a continuously updating process, not a solid object that persists unchanged.

There is no single place behind your face where a self sits and watches. Experience (consciousness) arises from vast numbers of neurons interacting in particular patterns. The sense of being a unified “I” is just something the brain constructs. It feels solid from the inside, but it is a generated appearance rather than a central entity.