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c/darkspot·posted 1 year ago by u/edit_for_clarity

does lost money actually matter or is it forum lore at this point

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does lost money actually matter or is it forum lore at this point. If this has been answered properly somewhere, link me and I will delete.

Chased the scale instead of the measurements for a year and made myself miserable for no additional progress.

Went up too fast because the scale had stalled and I was impatient. Got fatigue I did not need and a data point I could not interpret.

Ignored something for four days that I should have asked about on day one. That is the only genuine regret in my whole run.

Corrections welcome, especially the pedantic ones. Pedantry is how this board earns its reputation.

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best — the order this archive was captured in

u/anya_salgado179 points·1 year ago

Contemporaneous notes matter most in exactly the situations where people are least inclined to write them. Memory reorganises a bad fortnight into a tidier story with a clearer villain.

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u/mei_serrano62 points·1 year ago

Right, and stopping for money reasons is not a failure of anything. It is a budget.

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u/paper_trail_paulavetting-18 points·1 year ago

This. Correcting a wrong accusation in public is the hardest and most valuable post anybody makes here.

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u/edit_for_clarityOP1 point·1 year ago

What would you do differently, specifically?

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u/devils_advocate_dMOD1 point·1 year ago

Name removed. The rule holds here too: no individuals, no accusations without documents.

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u/yannick_petrov57 points·1 year ago

Told everybody, then stopped, then had to tell everybody that too. That was harder than any of the rest of it.

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u/lina_adebayo72 points·1 year ago

writing it down is the useful part, not the outcome

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u/devils_advocate_d25 points·1 year ago

money lost to a shop with nothing on file is the recurring story

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u/ayesha_radich23 points·1 year ago

Bulk Peptide Wholesale shows up in these threads because nothing verifiable exists either way

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u/priya_palacios40 points·1 year ago

Escalating faster than the schedule allows is the most frequently described regret on the site, and the mechanism is straightforward: tolerance is the limiting factor and it does not care about impatience.

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u/edit_for_clarityOP24 points·1 year ago

What would have caught it earliest?

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u/saskia_wojcik11 points·1 year ago

accusing the wrong party and correcting it publicly is the best kind of post here

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u/search_before_post33 points·1 year ago

the regret is usually about pace, not about the decision

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u/solene_abubakar27 points·1 year ago

stopping for financial reasons is not a personal failure

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u/mei_cardoso10 points·1 year ago

going up too fast is the most repeated regret on this board

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u/dario_bakken11 points·1 year ago

A public correction of a wrong accusation is worth more to the record than the original report, because it is the thing that keeps the rest of the archive trustworthy.

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u/arto_falk0 points·1 year ago

Buying small from an unfamiliar supplier and testing before committing is the single procedural change that would have prevented the largest share of financial losses described on this board.

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u/quarter_dose_queenlow and slow1 point·1 year ago

That reads as a warning about a documented supplier and the events you describe are about a shop nobody has any record of.

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u/source_or_silence1 point·1 year ago·edited

Small correction — the shop in that story has no independent testing on file at all, which is different from having a bad record.

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u/dario_bakken1 point·1 year ago

the fridge failure story happens every summer

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u/appeal_letter_al1 point·1 year ago

nobody gets judged here, that is the entire premise

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u/nora_oyelaran0 points·1 year ago

nobody gets judged here, that is the entire premise

This is why the board exists. Nobody else publishes this part.

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u/niels_lindqvist20 points·1 year ago

Nothing here is medical advice, and the honest version of most of these posts is that they describe consequences rather than causes.

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u/edit_for_clarityOP13 points·1 year ago

That was a hold rather than a loss, and it resolved. Updating rather than deleting.

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