I.4.3a
5/28/2021
Basically, I'd like to stop being a pussy and pull the trigger on
moving locations/jobs. I'd highly recommend opening a Fidelity
account or something and building up a portfolio. It's good to let your money
work for you instead of just letting it sit. You have a 401k? No? Does your
employer not offer one? You don't know? You need to check, like ASAP, any
company worth their salt has a plan, and you're basically missing out on free
money every paycheck if you're not contributing to it. Your employer will literally
match your contributions, it's such a simple and satisfying way to watch your
money grow. It's good that you're saving, but at that rate, you won't have
nearly enough for retirement. Let's see, if we do some quick math, let's
say you need $1mil to retire by the age of 60 comfortably as a ballpark
estimate. Well even if you manage to save that much each year, by the
time you reach 60, you'd still be 900k below your goal. Don't you see?
Yeah, the system is messed up, which is why you have to be on top of
everything. I assume most of your money goes to rent? I hate to break
it to ya, but you're getting scammed. What's the point of spending all
that money on something you can't even own? Let me ask you: What's
gonna happen when you decide to get married and have kids? You don't
want to have to start from square one, do you? But I get it, the housing
market is likely in a bubble right now. Now's not the time to buy. My
best recommendation is honestly live with your parents if you can. My
parents don't want to see my face no more, but you said your parents are
super open to it, right? I know it may be embarassing, and you can't
bring chicks home and whatnot, but it's totally worth in the long run.
That money spent on rent ain't coming back: it's gone forever. In any
case, my point is: You need a plan. Without a plan, you're going to end
up old and broke. And lemme tell you: You do NOT wanna end up old
and broke. My old man, he was working till he was 70. Imagine doing
what you're doing now, except you're a 70 year old, with your brain not
working as quickly and having to attend to 20 other health problems. The
smart ones are the ones who plan early and retire early. But it's not too
late. If you put your balls to the walls now, if you work your butt off, get
your ass into a 6 figure salary, save, make smart investments, and learn,
learn, learn, and keep learning, it's still possible to retire as early as 40.
You don't have to wait till you're an old geezer, you could be living the
life in less than 20 years from now. What? What's that you say? You
don't expect to be alive that long? What, you don't expect to even be
alive till the age of 30? You don't even assume you'll be alive 2 years
from now? Wow. What's wrong mate? It sounds to me like you might be
depressed. Have you tried therapy? Listen, man, if you need help, I'm
here for you. That's not a healthy way of thinking. You have an entire
life ahead of you man, and before you know it, you're gonna be 30, 40,
wishing you had spent your time and money more wisely. Listen man, if
you're sufferring through some issues, I want to help. I'll do anything I can
to help you. I dunno man, you keep saying it isn't, but it sounds like
depression to me. I'd honestly suggest checking in with a therapist or
something. Look: Let's start small. You got your EIP right? That's the
perfect amount of money to start a portfolio with. You should do some
research, maybe pick out some stocks and get started from there. Your first
portfolio doesn't have to be anything big or fancy. Start small, and learn,
learn, learn, work harder than everyone else and you'll already be ahead of
most of the population. It's a tough journey, but it's never too late to
start. You can do it mate, I believe in you. 
Errr,
Update: I have accidentally quit my job. Yes, accidentally. You see, I told 3
different parties 3 different lies about my plans for the second half of the
year, and that unintentionally landed me in a situation where I had to
resign. This is the power of your site admin. All according to plan, I would
say, except this happened slightly more prematurely than I intended,
throwing a little wrench into my actual plans. In fact, I now have no
idea what I'm going to do for the next half of the year. Woops. Don't
worry, though, I have everything under control. Remember: The important
thing is not to panic. I'm not panicking. I'm not panicking at all. I'm
calm, like the waves. The wavelets, the waves, something, something....
IDC. I don't give a flying fuck. Fuck money anyways, amirite. FUCK MONEY.
Fuck it in the ass. Really. I fucking hate money. No, I don't hate "the rich". I just
hate money itself, the concept of it. I don't want to deal with it, I don't want to
talk about it. Just thinking about it makes me anxious and irritated. Fuck it in
the ass.
Okay, listen mate, I did receive my EIP in the mail, and it is sitting somewhere in
my room collecting dust. How much money was it this time? 600$? 1200$? I don't
know, because I haven't cashed it in. You know why? Because I am too
lazy, that's why. I'm too lazy to call the number and go to the website
make the account and enter my name and address and make an account
name and log in to my email to verify the account and make 3 security
questions and enter 5 identification numbers and... go fuck yourself, I'd
rather just not have the XXXX$ or how much ever it is. Yes, I know it's a
nontrivial amount of money, and I'm indeed currently facing accidental
unemployment following my accidental 2-week notice, and I'm in not nearly
in a financial position to be that careless, and even if I don't want the
money there's someone else out there that needs it more but FUCK EM
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL. In fact, I haven't even cashed the first EIP, let alone
EIP2: Electric Boogaloo. Maybe if I'm sifting through my cupboard and
find one of them, I'll go ahead and open it and use it as a coaster for
my coffee mug. How's that for a wise financial decision? If I want to be
even edgier, I could even shred it. I can make a video of it too. I'll be
crossdressing in a short skirt and I'll look at the camera while flapping
the EIP and say "BidenBux? More like BidenSux" and then shred it
while awkwardly laughing. And it will go viral with 1341 likes and 50,451
dislikes and comments such as "The idiocy of Americans never fails to
surprise me" and "Now let's get him to shred his ballot". Hahahahahaha.
Oh, the exercise? It's easy (you can check this stub post to see what "defined"
means)
f = x1∕x0 is undefined whenever x0 = 0. Letting H0 be the hyperplace
Z(x0), we can let U0 = P2 - H0 be the set x0≠0. In which case f is
represented by the map < U0,g > where
| g(x0,x1,x2) | = x1∕x0 |
Note that this map is well defined, and since x0≠0 we can assume without loss of generality that x0 = 1, turning the map into
| (1,x1,x2) |
 x1 |
In fact, using the isomorphism U0 ≃ A2, we can see this as the map
| (x1,x2) |
 x1 |
So in this perspective, it's just the projection of the first coordinate.
So that's done, and I'd like to welcome you to section 4, reader! It's only 10 exercises, but holy fuck the reading was so dense I only understood like 15% of it so far.