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# ![@shagbark_hick Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1392919510550663171.png) @shagbark_hick 𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗

𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗 posts on X about if you, money, $500k, $15kyr the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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### Social Influence

**Social category influence**
[countries](/list/countries)  #7715 [finance](/list/finance)  #829 [social networks](/list/social-networks)  XXXX% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  XXXX% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  XXXX% [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies)  XXXX% [ncaa football](/list/ncaa-football)  XXXX%

**Social topic influence**
[if you](/topic/if-you) #1805, [money](/topic/money) 4.95%, [$500k](/topic/$500k) #5, [$15kyr](/topic/$15kyr) #1, [$1250mo](/topic/$1250mo) #1, [guess](/topic/guess) 1.98%, [twitter](/topic/twitter) #3077, [$800mo](/topic/$800mo) #1, [the world](/topic/the-world) 1.98%, [carry](/topic/carry) XXXX%

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**Top assets mentioned**
[Bitcoin (BTC)](/topic/bitcoin)
### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"Though I obviously have wrestled plenty with the notion (mostly out of a desire to do my due diligence) I ultimately do believe it: America's probably all we've got on earth. There's probably nowhere else where it's worth making a go of things so far as freedom goes. It's certainly easy to become disillusioned by all I've seen of my country but as compared with all I've managed to read and hear about elsewhere I do understand that the grass probably isn't greener outside of this country. The idea that there's a place on earth where you can. - Carry a gun and use it if need be (without going"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1998904399884857539)  2025-12-10T23:55Z 52.8K followers, 11.1K engagements


"When I see people really vehemently defend the income tax I have to wonder if they've got some kind of Stockholm Syndrome. It was temporary it's not really constitutional it's a national humiliation to soak up money that is usually wasted. But many get MAD if you say this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1998947407665705420)  2025-12-11T02:46Z 52.8K followers, 19.1K engagements


"This is obviously a joke -- you can't reliably get 8%. But you can reliably get X% which is $15k/yr or $1250/mo. It's NOT hard to live on $1250/mo even in the USA. Once you get $500k you're done if you want to be. Beyond that luxury is all you're working for"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1999144412031418682)  2025-12-11T15:49Z 52.8K followers, 734.1K engagements


"Whatever happened to these things You really never see a hip flask anymore. I used to see them all the time. Mom's funeral is tomorrow and as I fill mine (it's a family tradition) I realize I haven't seen one in 10+ years"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1956169269093208523)  2025-08-15T01:41Z 52.5K followers, 69.6K engagements


"I guess I'm slowly losing interest in America. This isn't voluntary. And I don't really want my interest in the USA to wane. I love this country. But the rate at which it's been homogenized is depressing. There are pockets of "old America" but most of them are dying. I've spent a lot of my life seeking them out and have found many of them -- only to watch them die. The only places that still feel "like home" to me are either totally dilapidated and hollowed out -- like far Upstate NY -- or they're in the corners of this country that feel decidedly "less" American. E.g US-Mexico border"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1995627713890320737)  2025-12-01T22:54Z 52.6K followers, 81.7K engagements


"Technically you're right but without an SSN or a TIN there's no way to pay in. It doesn't exist. My un-numbered FIL tried to pay his taxes one year. Went to the IRS field office and asked the guys there if he was doing anything wrong. They told him he was the luckiest man in America because even though he technically has a legal obligation to pay in -- the IRS has been given no viable channel by which he could file. The agents literally said they were jealous of him because he has no SSN"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1997157022874190316)  2025-12-06T04:11Z 52.5K followers, XXX engagements


"It is hard to overstate both the tactical advantages of mobility and the extreme risk that fixity in place poses. The more chaotic the environment the more of a liability it is to retain a stationary position or anything resembling loyalty to place. Look at the Vagos 1%er motorcycle gang. In the 2000's they were running millions of dollars of meth around the Southwest -- with extensive connections to the cartel. Though they are not a portrait of sterling morality and their particular trade and penchant for violence should not be emulated -- they were a force to be reckoned with by authorities"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1995234307544170783)  2025-11-30T20:51Z 52.8K followers, 40.3K engagements


"Sometimes I wake up and I still can't believe my profoundly good fortune. Wasn't that long ago that I was a bachelor with no prospects broke miserable quite certain I'd die a recluse. Twitter changed that. You people changed that. So please accept my heartfelt gratitude: Without the support and encouragement you've all given me God knows where I'd be today. This site led me to my wife it led me to make great friends and it allowed us to be hosted here and there in our travels with wonderful folks all across this country. It's also unexpectedly led me to a writing career. Those of you who've"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1945504133060116961)  2025-07-16T15:21Z 52.8K followers, 366.9K engagements


"I'll admit Las Vegas is a woefully underrated city. The first XX times I went there I thought it sucked but after spending a week or two there with some born-and-raised locals I was genuinely impressed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1986272264153706912)  2025-11-06T03:19Z 52.8K followers, 9341 engagements


"A lot of people love to pile on Bourdain and I don't get it. He was a talented writer a successful chef and found himself with a series of incredible opportunities in the media industry (and he took them as anyone else would). His wife treated him like a dog cheated on him and he went nuts and offed himself -- a story one can find in all strata of society. Rich and poor liberal and conservative working class and white collar this is a thing that happens to all sorts of people and it's tragic in every case. I think Bourdain's haters want there to have been some kind of "catch" or "gotchya" to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1987898479784395130)  2025-11-10T15:01Z 52.8K followers, 3.1M engagements


"Would it be legal to start a "drunk driving theme park" anywhere in the USA I think it'd be a hit. A 5000-acre "Road Soda Ranch." Sign a waiver pay an entry fee bring your own car hit the on-premises bar and hit the road"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1989869445280395361)  2025-11-16T01:33Z 52.8K followers, 1.3M engagements


"Is it a sin for a man to voluntarily have no job or ambition -- so long as he manages to provide his family with food shelter water and the basics of life I.e if a man won't get a job but scraps enough together to give his family an XXX sq ft house rice and beans thermostat on 45f pot showers cheap fruit and meat 3x week mattresses and blankets new shoes and pants once a year bicycles for transportation -- and has no desire to obtain a higher standard of living -- is the man a failure Is he sinning Should he be reproached If so on what grounds And does his wife's contendedness matter in the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1991346684563972320)  2025-11-20T03:23Z 52.8K followers, 739.3K engagements


"The reason it feels nearly impossible to quit Twitter is because of the almost complete and total absence of intellectual life in the offline world. There is nowhere for a Thinking Man to "land" anymore. Even the cities are largely voids of anything resembling satisfying discourse -- largely because in those cities rents are so high people now have to WORK more than they READ. You simply cannot live as a "starving artist" in cities where the median rent is $2k-3k/mo. I've been practically everywhere in the US -- the last scraps of that culture were already basically finished in the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1994512699397386449)  2025-11-28T21:04Z 52.8K followers, 588.7K engagements


"Are any of you into transoceanic ship travel Queen Mary X repositioning cruises cargo ship travel Iceland to Denmark ferry and so on I'd love to hear your stories / tips / reviews"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1995697179403714961)  2025-12-02T03:31Z 52.8K followers, 11K engagements


"I've been a pedestrian for my entire adult life usually in rural areas and in small cities. This chart is XXX% true. No idea why but drivers in the USA seem extremely excited to catch a manslaughter charge whenever a pedestrian is about. It's not just smartphones. In Canada the roads feel safe to walk on. Crossing into Canada as a pedestrian feels like entering a safe haven for walkers and cyclists. People are paying attention they slow down when they see you -- if they can't safely get by you they'll even STOP and don't seem remotely mad about it. This doesn't exist in the USA anymore at"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1996610451275120925)  2025-12-04T16:00Z 52.8K followers, 87.6K engagements


"I'm reading The Imitation of Christ now for Advent and I must say -- if you fancy yourself a Christian try reading this book and see where you stand. The writing expresses the Christian life with crystalline clarity. It reads as one long heavy admonishment to disabuse yourself of all the illusory dreck that separates you from Christ. We are headed to a Franciscan monastery today to buy a half-dozen copies to hand out to the family at Christmastime. It's one of those books that everyone should read -- especially those who are lukewarm hardened sinners self-assured in their spiritual progress"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1999140470081917417)  2025-12-11T15:33Z 52.8K followers, 20.2K engagements


"@dpheneghan1 You're wrong. It's not hard at all"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1999154285481762889)  2025-12-11T16:28Z 52.8K followers, 18.8K engagements


"$1250/mo is easy to live on even with a family. I currently live on XX% of that ($800/mo) with a wife and baby. It works because I own a house outright maintain a large emergency fund and because we are content to live a "1940's-tier" way of life. I'll break it down: X. My yearly tax bill is about $1200 which includes water and sewer. That's $100/mo. X. My electric bill is almost never over $XX. But our hot water heater is only 15gal and we do not shower daily (because no one did that until the 1980's and it's not necessary) X. For heat we live in the woods and there is ample firewood"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1999232469346738265)  2025-12-11T21:38Z 52.8K followers, 180.2K engagements


"@HuntclubAntique If you live this cheaply you can amass absurd amounts of money very quickly and then use that money to "aim higher" on your own terms -- without debt / rent trap / bosses / schedules etc. This is the more effective way to aim higher"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1999246074545099229)  2025-12-11T22:33Z 52.8K followers, XXX engagements


"@tessiermaurice would not mind finding myself on the border in CA"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1999260019343393061)  2025-12-11T23:28Z 52.8K followers, 2409 engagements


"@Sojourner_BTC 100%. It was a very early discussion for us. She explicitly wanted a husband who "isn't absent all the time because he works a regular job.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1999260385376108751)  2025-12-11T23:29Z 52.8K followers, XXX engagements


"None of this is worse than "The Christmas Shoes" song. It's bloody awful to hear a song about a little kid's mom dying on Christmas. Totally bums me out every time. Utterly insane that the song is played constantly through the Christmas season"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1999529501588333036)  2025-12-12T17:19Z 52.8K followers, 8100 engagements


"@allofthistosay More widely available than you'd expect I've heard. Someone could correct me but I guess there are a lot of old boomer enthusiasts who are REALLY into keeping these things going"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1999538636971221021)  2025-12-12T17:55Z 52.8K followers, 7302 engagements


"@AbuYahyaCA why would I do that I like living on the edge"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1999540326587920870)  2025-12-12T18:02Z 52.8K followers, 9659 engagements


"Anyone ever get over a crippling fear of flying What'd you do that worked Other than benzos. I used to fly just fine but for some reason after a couple bouts of serious turbulence I lose my nerves on planes now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1995668024494621061)  2025-12-02T01:35Z 52.7K followers, 28.1K engagements


"This is insanely good news. A brand-new Dhaihatsu Hijet with 4WD is like $10k in Japan. They get nearly 40MPG top speed 60MPH. If that comes to the USA I will actually stop blackpilling about automobiles"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1996600639804096983)  2025-12-04T15:21Z 52.7K followers, 20.4K engagements


"@cdefreese Where'd he go"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1998794171193372869)  2025-12-10T16:37Z 52.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@KangJesseJames @Empty_America Sure but where are you going to go where you're not just "getting away with it" especially on US soil. maybe American Samoa or remotest AK"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1998851931155181590)  2025-12-10T20:26Z 52.7K followers, XX engagements


"Men ages XX to XX should NOT be "comfy." They should not "stay on track." They should go way off the reservation live rough slum it be sailors infantrymen ruffians hoboes roughnecks etc for a while. The most high-quality men I know all did something like this early on in their manhood. Some simply moved to a random city far away or went to Alaska had a period as an addict ran off to join the Marines slum-traveled it around the world living on pennies bicycled across America whatever. Some were missionaries in third-world countries or did a stint in the ghetto. If a young man doesn't do"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1981368353496137763)  2025-10-23T14:33Z 52.8K followers, 1.5M engagements


"I've spent the last few years in a kind of insane all-or-nothing wager with rural Upstate New York. If I could use my platform here to convince a half-dozen likeminded families to move to my dilapidated dirt-cheap town I would've won. But it hasn't quite worked out. I gave it my all. Spent years hyping this place -- where you can STILL get many move-in-ready homes for under $50k -- on the off-chance there might be at least a handful of footloose risk-tolerant folks on here who might want to throw their hat in the ring on something new. Pitched the idea of "rural renewal" hard for years and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1983905595280314694)  2025-10-30T14:35Z 52.8K followers, 724.7K engagements


"There's a 15-floor hotel in Laredo TX that rents rooms for $800/mo ($26/night). Pool hot tub views of Nuevo Laredo Mexico. Apparently it's only recently reopened after years of being closed and the place is usually mostly empty. I keep my eye out for places like this; I keep a list of them on my wall under glass that says "break in case of emergency." You never know when you might have to drift into Laredo for a few months on the cheap. And a fifteenth-floor room here would be the perfect hideaway. Mexican radio on views of the semi-trucks crossing the border flautas on the palm-lined streets"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1995160386258063574)  2025-11-30T15:57Z 52.8K followers, 37.1K engagements


"Many seem not to realize that risk aversion is only a softer gentler more socially-acceptable expression of a basically suicidal impulse. The "suicide spectrum" is like this: X. Aversion to risk / Disspiritedness X. Cynicism / dsigruntlement X. Aversion to having kids (optional but very common) X. "Failure to launch" few friends no ambitions "stuck" but still functional X. "What's the point" / apathy / no actionable life interests of any kind hikikomori-mode X. Diagnosable depression and anxiety X. Masking depression with substance abuse (optional) X. Suicidal ideation mental illness serious"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1995563443198263418)  2025-12-01T18:39Z 52.8K followers, 15.7K engagements


"I suspect if a fellow was REALLY motivated to leave the "human monoculture" of industrial society behind many spots in Oceania would be well-suited. For some reason these places are consistently overlooked. The smartphone penetration rate in the Solomon Islands is only 20%. In far-flung islands it's well under XX% and may even be practically zero in some parts. This is in a country of 830000 people. Numbers are similar in Kiribati Tokelau rural Vanuatu and the Federated States of Micronesia. Similarly most of these countries -- particularly in outlying island areas -- have a VERY low rate of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1995662686302974244)  2025-12-02T01:13Z 52.8K followers, 12.1K engagements


"This is a major point that many don't understand. When you watch your home collapse into oblivion your extended family unravel drugs ravage your cohort and a supermajority of your childhood peers move away -- it hits the "survival mode" instinct. You become an extremophile simply because it is clear to you that EVERYTHING that "should" work -- doesn't work. You rethink everything try anything are prone to flightiness and experimentation. Some deep part of you was hurt badly by the destruction of your hometown -- and you do NOT want to get hurt by that again. At the same time some part of you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1995680808418332862)  2025-12-02T02:25Z 52.8K followers, 56.1K engagements


"Let's not forget that full-blown nomadic-pastoralism is LEGAL in the USA in 2025 A.D. On BLM land groups of 15+ people are free to camp for XX days at a time for free without a permit and indefinitely so long as they move 25mi every X weeks. They can also bring pack goats (even if they're in milk) and they can carry firearms easily. They can hunt gather subsist on milk and meat and dwell in tents as the ancients did. They could engage in small-time craft production from hides fur bones and so on in order to sell their wares for small cash for ammo coffee fuel etc. There are some particulars"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1995966442718577057)  2025-12-02T21:20Z 52.8K followers, 110.6K engagements


"I will never understand why everybody and their brother switched from Craigslist to Facebook Marketplace. If I search something on Craigslist I find it quickly and can organize by distance from my location. But the FB Marketplace search engine is UNUSEABLE. Worthless site"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1998010827731853767)  2025-12-08T12:44Z 52.8K followers, 157.3K engagements


"The idea of "tropical paradise" sort of gives me the willies. Climatically-enforced languor seems kind of sick bizarre unpleasant. It's so hot you must do nothing. You must stay by the beach periodically getting in the water to cool off. If you do anything else you sweat to death. This is even true at night. I am a BIG fan of doing nothing of course but a lot of my love for arid climates comes from the fact that they vary pretty substantially every few hours (and have seasons to boot). This offers you the chance to be diverse in your idleness -- to do nothing in all sorts of ways depending on"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1998215324756296110)  2025-12-09T02:17Z 52.8K followers, 24.5K engagements


"Incredible news. XX to go"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1998778119935725756)  2025-12-10T15:33Z 52.8K followers, 8982 engagements


"If you moved out of the USA and wound up coming back I'd love to hear your story. Lately have been meeting quite a few people who left the States intending to leave forever -- only to come back a few years later. I always love hearing why they left and why they returned"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1998793664374649169)  2025-12-10T16:35Z 52.8K followers, 13.6K engagements


"It is pretty funny to see American Protestants saying "KEEP CHRIST IN CHRISTMAS" while unironically forgetting that the second part of the word "Christmas" is "Mass" -- as in Catholic Mass. I mean what's Christmas without midnight Mass"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1998799184384897229)  2025-12-10T16:57Z 52.8K followers, 5249 engagements


"@philipwalford I don't know if you can make $80k/yr remotely on net you're saving $500k in X years. This is definitely doable if you have discipline. But most don't. And you're right most people who live in high-income places get addicted to the big-money lifestyle. They get trapped by it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1999245722877911502)  2025-12-11T22:31Z 52.8K followers, 2522 engagements


"Many claim I am "downwardly mobile" but I earn far more than I spend in a month. I keep nearly every dollar I earn instead of spending it on high living costs. Consequently I have YEARS of living expenses banked. Money piles up extremely fast. This is "upward" not downward"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1999266869438742882)  2025-12-11T23:55Z 52.8K followers, 12K engagements


"Man I have always hated "bitcoin" and have avoided it like the plague. I've had evangelizers and prophets of that crap in my replies for years and I've always ignored them. But if you're gonna convince me to play that computer game it'll be because of FREE HEAT. I have NO need for fake money I can't spend on anything and I already have found my savior (and it is not "bitcoin"). But I have a very real need for as much free heat as I can possibly obtain. FREE HEAT is every northerner's dream"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1999282848373592399)  2025-12-12T00:59Z 52.8K followers, 23.1K engagements


"I gotta say I'm not a car guy but buying a Model T seems like a wise move. Exempt on inspections dirt-cheap insurance ($200/yr) no speeding tickets (35mph top speed) fairly simple and cheap to maintain from what I hear. And you'd be locally notorious driving that thing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1999538106383335612)  2025-12-12T17:53Z 52.8K followers, 251K engagements


"@B__Daily It's funny because to subvert the enshittification of cars if you just go to the original source -- the Model T -- you go back to a simpler time. and for nostalgic reasons it seems they're still street legal"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1999539683282293032)  2025-12-12T17:59Z 52.8K followers, 6090 engagements


"Our house is 1200 sq ft and I don't think we use even half of it. Literally half the house consists of space we don't ever occupy. The sole purpose of this space appears to be to store things we don't generally use. Could easily live in XXX sq with a big outdoor storage shed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1999609860661588361)  2025-12-12T22:38Z 52.8K followers, 10.6K engagements


"@HighlandFox @Empty_America People do it. Park in an empty part of New Orleans East run a generator for the A/C unit in an old U-Haul. no one cares. Just might want to carry a firearm"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1999273306231582799)  2025-12-12T00:21Z 52.7K followers, XX engagements


"I suppose I don't pay near enough thought to the state of West Virginia. A man like me probably should. It's not that far from home but is just the sort of place I like most. But I've only been thrice. Once I was thoroughly drunk each day I was there such that I can scarcely remember much of what I saw and another time I only breezed through spending not more than a week in the whole state. The third time I mostly just loafed around Beckley which I did find interesting. I don't usually make such a cursory survey of a US State -- in years past I made a concerted effort to really spend quality"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1996222950027002044)  2025-12-03T14:20Z 52.7K followers, 13.6K engagements


"One of the weirdest things about my philosophy on money and such is that if I earn an average working-class salary real savings stack up FAST. No kidding if frugal a poor boy can skip the middle class and go straight to "FIRE" in just a few years. Live on $1k/mo earn $4k/mo and watch the money stack up stupidly quick. Suddenly you have investment capital in a couple years -- your money starts compounding on itself. I have found myself accidentally doing something kind of like this though with lower numbers. I have many years' worth of our average monthly expenses saved up and it really only"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1996971287286087781)  2025-12-05T15:53Z 52.8K followers, 16.6K engagements


"Increasingly whenever my articles get a lot of views quite a few commenters claim my writing is "AI-generated." Some even get my work analyzed by "Chat GPT." What's next Am I to videotape myself typing the essay How would you know that the video itself wasn't AI-generated Am I to rent a large-window facility above Times Square where street-level onlookers can "verify" that I am indeed actually thinking up and typing the articles without assistance I really have no idea where this train ends. Could be that in the near future all "writers" (as well as artists musicians and so on) will have to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1997494105459265816)  2025-12-07T02:31Z 52.8K followers, 6340 engagements


"The two major "peak oil guy" responses are X. We need it in order to stimulate GDP growth because our system is "grow or die" X. Oil companies are corrupt know it's running out and don't care because they want to get very rich But at some point wouldn't DOD get involved Wouldn't the national security nerds say "wait we need to ration this stuff ASAP and develop national nuclear power or else America is screwed" Wouldn't very-long-term-minded rich people start making financial decisions that would reflect the reality If they are all too incompetent to realize this and effectively act on it the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1998191623407071389)  2025-12-09T00:43Z 52.8K followers, 1622 engagements


"I find it interesting that so many people seem to think that it is some kind of personality defect to DREAM. Who doesn't wish they had 1000 lives to live Who doesn't weigh and consider the turns their life could take if only they chose to take them The internet is particularly well-suited to dreaming; there's a lot of information on here and it is all very fascinating and enriching to behold. By exploring each particular dream and taking it to its logical conclusion as a mental exercise something real and informative is gleaned even if that dream is never realized. Each vision is its own kind"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1986937970369175774)  2025-11-07T23:25Z 52.8K followers, 148K engagements


"In 2017 Yuval Noah Harari said that in the AI-driven techno-future "useless humans" might be fulfilled by "drugs and video games" instead of work. We find that amongst the American welfare class this experiment is already taking place. Yet today's "bums" are not at all like the bums of yesteryear. For answers to the question of human life's value in a post-work future I contend we must look to the older generations of bums idlers layabouts and colorful local "characters" -- whose eccentric form of public life had a fundamentally literary or mythopoeic nature. In this sense the great 'bums' of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1993766446334108087)  2025-11-26T19:38Z 52.8K followers, 136.1K engagements


"Do you remember hiding in a blanket fort when you were a child Utterly convinced that mom couldn't see you Cozy hidden in a world of your own total privacy That's kind of what Massena NY feels like to me. Especially on winter nights. It's truly sublime"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1997509355432972391)  2025-12-07T03:31Z 52.8K followers, 8423 engagements


"This is an excellent map because it shows how rare "hyper-arid" climates are in the USA (in spite of roughly half of CONUS being arid). Basically Death Valley and the dunes around Glamis in the Imperial Valley seem to be the only "true hyper-arid" places in America"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1997657197505863708)  2025-12-07T13:19Z 52.8K followers, 13K engagements


"I'm startled by how destabilizing grief really is. Winter helps somehow"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1997851683335147663)  2025-12-08T02:12Z 52.8K followers, 11.4K engagements


"Anyone driven the coastal route south from NJ before It's a substantial detour from the regular route south but it looks like it could be worthwhile. Still haven't seen the Outer Banks yet and I do love a good ferry"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1997878966208667988)  2025-12-08T04:00Z 52.8K followers, 32.9K engagements


"Without aiming to sound corny this is one of the "freest places in America." And the cost of living is so low it may be "the most freedom for your buck" overall. There are not many runners-up on both cost and freedom that come close. WV comes to mind and may be neck-and-neck with OK's panhandle on many fronts. I might say rural West TX is close as well. But most of the other "super free" places in America don't have dirt-cheap houses and land for sale. I mean you're just not moving to ID MT WY or NH without a mortgage unless you're rich -- but you can certainly do that in Western OK from all"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1998900926170738785)  2025-12-10T23:41Z 52.8K followers, 19.1K engagements


"@sull1vannolan Many seem to have a deep-seated psychological need to think that it cannot be done / is immoral for some reason. Very weird to watch"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1999246260478574769)  2025-12-11T22:33Z 52.8K followers, 3963 engagements


"@atlanticesque The inhabitant of a dying place usually either languishes or becomes an extremophile of sorts as a survival strategy. This is why deep Upstate NY produces a LOT of exceedingly adventurous travelers expats etc. Guys from Gloversville living in Suriname and so on"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1995673909203796307)  2025-12-02T01:58Z 52.8K followers, 56.9K engagements


"New crackpot theory: X. Minerals in the foods we eat are usually removed from the soil cycle (people consume minerals that they shit out elsewhere / we don't compost corpses) X. Magnesium levels in soils are dropping X. Everyone's deficient X. Anxiety = symptom of magnesium deficiency X. Anxiety also pushes the body to shed magnesium thereby worsening the effect X. If it seems like the world has gotten nuttier and nuttier in the last XX years this might be a major reason why. The breakage in the mineral cycle caused by our agricultural processes may actually be making us collectively go nuts."  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1998189656203006369)  2025-12-09T00:35Z 52.8K followers, 10.5K engagements


"@JTBechhoefer I think once you filter out American blacks addicts and those who are discontented in their poverty the numbers would be surprising there. Just a hunch of course. I may be wrong"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1999246698296803690)  2025-12-11T22:35Z 52.8K followers, XXX engagements


"I've been looking at small plots of farmland and am becoming convinced I ought to buy a few acres deer fence it and plant it up with nut trees. Priced everything out I can afford it -- and I am convinced it'd pay dividends better than the stock market. It's a $30k 7-ac parcel well-drained deep black loam no wetlands. Taxes per year are $XXX. With another $30k all-in on the new Chestnut seedlings and fencing (based on the local prices I checked) I'm in at $60k planted if I plant them myself. By years 12-15 the old books suggest I could conservatively expect a yield of 2000lb/ac/yr. At $4/lb"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1999644784860823629)  2025-12-13T00:57Z 52.8K followers, 57.2K engagements