[-] JamesBean@kbin.social 47 points 5 months ago

*rationally angry

[-] JamesBean@kbin.social 22 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I pay for a VPN.

[-] JamesBean@kbin.social 43 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)
  • Not having a car (always living/renting in walking or biking distance of my work)
  • Moving in with my partner straight out of college so we could split expenses
  • Moving (with partner) to a low-cost-of-living city for the first 5 years after college
  • Putting most of my medium-term and long-term savings into low-expense-ratio, passively managed index funds starting in my early 20s
  • Buying almost exclusively second-hand clothes, furniture, and cookery
  • Borrowing all desired books (and many desired movies and TV shows) from the library
  • Only buying games when they are bundled or otherwise on steep discount years after release
  • Pirating any other media in which I'm interested if its distributors make it even remotely difficult for me to buy it at a reasonable price
  • Planning all dinners in advance every week before grocery shopping (leads to almost never eating at restaurants or ordering takeout, and almost no food waste because grocery list is based on actual meals)

Now, if I had to choose the best financial move out of that list? Probably the index funds. Though not having to pay for a car (or car insurance, or car registration, or car repair and maintenance, or parking, or fuel) is a close second.

[-] JamesBean@kbin.social 68 points 5 months ago

Hamster > Guinea Pig > Capybara

[-] JamesBean@kbin.social 66 points 6 months ago

I mean, the show has him fully nude multiple times.

The man is all rectangle, no rec-dangle.

But that's okay. He can reproduce by budding.

[-] JamesBean@kbin.social 87 points 7 months ago

If a writer named the town with the comically evil school board 'Lynchburg,' people would probably think it was too obvious.

[-] JamesBean@kbin.social 34 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Teeth would probably be fine because they're incredibly durable to that kind of wear, but you'd omega-fuck your gums brushing like that.

[-] JamesBean@kbin.social 17 points 7 months ago

Yo anyone who ever freehanded a cake decoration or an event poster knows the struggle.

[-] JamesBean@kbin.social 32 points 8 months ago

Yeah if Shape of Water is the worst movie they've seen, I gotta assume they've seen about 10 movies total.

Even if it's slightly overrated, in the grand scheme of all movies that one is way above average.

[-] JamesBean@kbin.social 20 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I want an AI based translation of all the Dead Sea Scrolls as long as we can remove the bias from the training data.

Emphasis mine. So then you don't want an AI based translation of all the Dead Sea Scrolls?

[-] JamesBean@kbin.social 34 points 9 months ago

If we're thinking of the same clip, you're slightly misremembering it. The woman was insisting Obama was a Muslim, and that's what McCain was shutting down. But yes, the crowd booed him for clarifying that.

[-] JamesBean@kbin.social 20 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

There was a brief period of time after I de-converted where I was glad there was a mainstream talk show host in America who is vocal about being nonreligious. But soon after that I learned he is a terrible representative of that identity, just as he is a terrible representative of any other identity he has.

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