qjkxbmwvz

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[โ€“] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm not mad at the huge amount I pay in taxes. I'm mad about what I get in return.

[โ€“] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Only disagreement from me (in California, USA) is that I wouldn't diminish the actions of our neighbors to the north by calling them "petty" in this instance. Nothing petty about standing up to a bully in whatever capacity you can. ๐Ÿซก

[โ€“] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

WireGuard, and an external HDD. Run at a remote location for off-site backup.

I do this with a raspberry pi 3 at the in-laws. I copied the data over locally before setting it up, and after that it's just nightly incremental rsync, which is fine even over my slow (35Mbps) upload.

[โ€“] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 10 points 2 months ago

In undergrad I took a class on sleep, and it really stuck with me. I previously had some FOMO-esque aversion to going to bed early, but after that class if I was done with the day and I was tired, I just went to sleep.

It's been a good mentality for us now that we have a small kid, too. No shame in going to bed at 8...

[โ€“] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I'd like to know more.

In all seriousness though, I thought it had some aspects of good, which was odd given that it's satirical commentary on fascism. For instance, gender didn't really matter and women were promoted, and while the shower scene was meant to show how fascism castrates the masses (or something like that, iirc), I thought it was a relatively wholesome scene, all things considered.

[โ€“] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago

And over twice the GDP.

[โ€“] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago

"Wow you signed the document in blood, you must be really hardcore."

"No I'm just cheap."

[โ€“] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 2 months ago

That's...pretty believable.

[โ€“] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 37 points 2 months ago

The amount of money you save (and invest) isn't accurately depicted with this though. Living expenses don't necessarily grow with take home, if you keep lifestyle creep to a minimum.

So what this means is that if you make $100k and save $10k/year, if you start making $200k you can save the same $10k/year, plus the entire additional $100k after taxes (let's just say that's $50k+). So you doubled your salary but your savings went up 6x+.

[โ€“] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago

Wouldn't 25 year olds still be in school for their doctorates though?

Yes, I think that's the point


they skew the numbers upwards.

[โ€“] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 2 months ago

I particularly like the truck/engine correction.

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