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Same here. Better to go covert. I've shifted over the years to maintaining a few close friends, with which you can candidly exchange.

I guess based on averages, this can be true. For Raleigh, NC they list the rent ~$1100 and mortgage ~$1500.

I have a 15yr fixed mortgage at 2.75% which I started with 20% down to avoid PMI. All-in (HOA, utilities, principle, interest, insurance, maintenance) I am paying ~$1200. And that's to live by myself, in a two-story, 1400sq.ft. townhome. We have a lovely community pool too.

There is no way I could pay that little renting a place with equivalent offerings. If I picked up a roommate or two? Sure, but that's not something I'm willing to compromise on. Keep in mind I have a more aggressive 15yr mortgage. The difference would be even wider in monthly cost for a 30yr.

It's better to live life in prison for not giving up a password, than to be convicted of whatever they might find. (Not all will agree with this mentality, and that's fine.)

This is fantastic, how did I not know about this before!

Just have to say, a half gram dab is a fat dab. I'm sure some people do vaporize all of that at once. However, even with complete inhalation and 'swishing' it in their lungs, they will be wasting a lot of it on the exhale.

To me this read like "avoiding taxation" == "refusing to realize significant proportions of one's gains". I don't see anything wrong with that. We all do it (if we aspire to financial independence).

How do they pay back those loans? I've never understood that part.

I think that's good and correct. The inheritor hasn't had any capital gain. Because the deceased never sold, they didn't either.

Hey I've used this at work! Love it. Pdfplumber is very useful too. Although these tools are only useful when the text in a PDF is "selectable". If someone scans a document to PDF, there may be no text in the file for these tools to extract.

Working with these people in college was rather frustrating at times. I always did good work, started working on projects early and often. Because I knew programming a solution is sort of an unknown until you really dive in to it. Many students got better grades than they deserved because I was in their group. They were great people, just horrible team mates.

I'd be fine with paying a tax "on the gains that the rest of society generated for you" upon me selling that land to someone else.

Just like capital gains on equities. I don't pay until I realize. I'm happy to pay some property tax in the meantime to keep gov't services running in the area.

But any other method is terrifying to me and makes me start thinking "What super rural state can I move to in retirement to buy a nice parcel and be seriously left alone these days?"

This is why I've been buying equities as fast as I can since I started working. Only been a few years but I'm loving it so far.

Sounds like they were binging stimulants to get their work done. The brain needs regular sleep or you burn out hard. Nothing inherently wrong with drug use, but it must be done with compassion for your body.

Hopefully they all switch to vaping. I'm excited to see the black market solutions to this as well.

Reading this gave me flashbacks to high school. This is very sad but true. While I typically kept to myself and avoided their wrath, certain members of the administration were just horrible, and I could clearly see the mental toll it took on fellow students.

I just hope all the people who "don't get the flu vaccine because they never get the flu" will actually start getting vaccinated.

To those people, odds are you don't get the flu because enough people around you did get vaccinated. And also, you're just getting lucky. You may have a better immune system than average, but you are not immune.

In 2018, the CDC says >490k were hospitalized and >34k died from the flu. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2018-2019.html

It's a serious matter, yet people just brushed it off and came in to work/school sick as a dog. Heck, I remember having to do this with colds in elementary school... It was either: I show up horribly sick, or my grades must suffer. (No, there was no way out of it. Simply punish those trying to protect their community from themselves. Zero tolerance for real life.)

Some people seem dead-set on expecting failure, but I've always been optimistic that market forces will shift towards renewables and mass storage as their costs and efficacy improve.

It feels amazing to be proven right. When you continually refine a class of technologies like these, 'the market' latches on and fervently optimizes. We are all part of this movement. It will only accelerate from here; my first car was a hybrid, and my next will be battery electric. There are many like me in my generation.

Of course, governments across the nation have taken many great steps to incentivize as well. But why does it feel like everyone has abandoned these fundamental concepts? I suppose it is preferred to narrate market changes with political tones these days.

Guess I won't be reading much Reuters any more. Just the way she goes, if it doesn't load easily for me, I back out and move on to something else.

All I want is equality; either block both, or block neither. As a user, I can guarantee I hate all ads equally, but also put up with all equally, because I'm too cheap to pay.

The proper choice would have been Monero.

I'm really happy to not own any Apple products. They cost too much while simultaneously limiting what I can do.

I am happy they are popular, because I own stock in them. Other than that, they clearly have near zero patriotic morals.

It is? Yikes. If there's a paywall, I just end up reading the comments and never the article. Oh well.

There's a certain city in central NC that I generally avoid because of this aspect. Every time I've visited friends there, I was asked for money in a confrontational manner. Every time I've left my car, it seemed reasonable to expect vandalism or a break-in upon returning. (I'm not a flashy person. I drive a 12 year old Civic. I keep nothing valuable in the cabin. I keep to myself.)

After a few of these negative interactions, I decided to generally avoid visiting ever again. It's not that I have a problem dealing with it: It's very easy to say no, or to run if needed. It's that I simply shouldn't have to deal with this BS in the first place! Please, just leave me alone! I'm leaving you alone.

In places like this, I lock the doors upon entering the car. Depending on location, I also keep the engine running, in case the car must be used in an evasive or defensive manner. (People have tried my door handles while stopped at lights, so the car is set to lock when driving too.) Be aware of your surroundings, and casually pay attention to how people are watching you.

I am very glad to live in a different nearby city, in a more sprawling area, that has much less of this activity. Due to the sprawl, it is not nearly as economically motivating for trolls to congregate.

Wow, this is great to hear! I'm in North Carolina, and we have a beautiful (man-made) lake called Jordan Lake where the eagles can be frequently seen. I've been out on boats before and watched them grab fish out of the water. Then you see them fly up to a nest and chill. :) It's truly amazing.

More interesting backstory here: https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/something-rotten-at-the...

This whole thing is a massive yikes from me. She even called the child victim a 'lying little slut': https://twitter.com/fixedforlicks/status/1035647401783173121...

Thanks for sharing this - it is fascinating to see the dogs working together with people. They are very efficient!

These are hilarious!

Do you have blinds on your windows?

"In American courts, the burden of proof rests with the person who brings a claim of libel. In British courts, the author or journalist has the burden of proof, and typically loses."

(https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/03/21/394273902/...)

I used to believe there should be a Palestine and an Israel. But, they both want something that they are totally unwilling to share with the other. Furthermore, one has technologically and culturally dominated the other.

Thus, it's time to give up. Israel has won.