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Brave New World

In some ways we’re already living it

If you swap the hyphen to read ‘whole ass-movies’, that day is sooner than you think

Age is like an onion. You get more layers as you get older but you're still a kid at the heart of it all

This is what I did this year and last one too.

I started tracking my spending to see where my money was going which was very insightful. Patterns emerged I never could have seen if it wasn’t all laid out in one spreadsheet.

For instance, I learned based on a little experimentation that driving 65 instead of 75 on the highway saved me like $50/month. Yeah, I’m that guy and my commute takes another couple minutes but I still do this today. I’ve reframed it in my head as a $50/mo subscription that doesn’t give me much value for the money and only costs an extra few minutes a day. Worth it in this inflation era.

Also realized I was spending money in all these categories that I could be getting some high cash back credit cards for. When you can see your spending averages over time, it’s easy to be confident about getting a strategic 5% card for gas or online shopping that can claw back a decent chunk of the money you already know you’re gonna spend.

It’s definitely useful to track your spending, in more ways than one

This guy has it right. That’s basically my mom’s kitchen gadget drawer. Junk drawer has duct tape, 3 leftover zip ties, some loose AA batteries and the big screwdriver everyone seems to have

Was just looking at something like how to execute on that this morning as my morning coffee dive down an internet rabbit hole.

There’s this guy named Michael Bazzell who used to make a podcast about stuff like this, and he also wrote a book called Extreme Privacy that I thumbed through this morning. He talks about where to go to get a ghost address, how to buy and set up a cell phone to be virtually anonymous, how to buy a house anonymously or how to re-title your car to a trust or LLC, and pretty much everything in between. Even talks about what information to not divulge when you go to the ER and details what to consider you put on your kids birth certificate.

So if anyone is paranoid enough to know how to avoid getting suicided, I’m going to bet on this guy’s advice

See, if I had that guys place you would find these 4 utensils in the sink because I'm a monster

... Rodriguez also notes that jailbreaking the plates could also allow drivers to use the plates' features without paying Reviver's $29.99 monthly subscription fee.

This deserved to get hacked then.

That's brazenly exploitative to charge a subscription for what amounts to a digital picture frame of your license plate

What’s next? The tiger king guy? Ffs

Somewhat recently I was car shopping and looked into towing capacity for a Prius.

No Prius stateside is rated for towing at all, but in Europe where they sell the same damn model it is rated for a light trailer going a max of ~65mph. It was my understanding from digging into it that the US version doesn't officially have tow capacity because of the legal speed limit on our highways being above what it's safely capable of.

So at least in this one case it's due to liability avoidance even though Prius can tow a light trailer if you drive like a grandma on the highway. If it's true for that it's probably true for other cars with more oomph

Have an angry upvote. Literally true.

Baby steps.

Yeah I’m sure there’s a new CEO now, but consider that whatever schmuck ends up in that chair next knows he’s taking over from a predecessor that was deposed for wildly unpopular policies at the helm to hold profits over people.

Mr schmuck will definitely be sweating it when faced with similar decisions because fear of it affecting him personally, e.g. catching a bullet, is a real possibility. I guarantee you that thought has never crossed any of these CEOs minds before this happened.

All the assassin did was force them to understand they have skin in the game.

How badly do they want more money? How does the calculus shake out with this new variable of self preservation? Is it worth looking over your shoulder every time walking down the street?

This is why people are arguing it’s the trolley problem

Do you have the dry eye problem I've been hearing about after Lasik?

This comment needs to be higher and with more upvotes.

I’ve heard this rumor already but haven’t seen a source on it. Thank you

This is criminally adorable OMG

You know you're literally Satan when it's cheaper to take out a payday loan than to pay Nzxt rental fees because you'd at least own it after paying off the loan.

Use your hand like a savage?

No thanks

Jesús fucking christ some guy made the Adult Swim skit into a real product?

This wasn’t supposed to be real

Wow! Almost like Israel doesn’t care about ending their genocide campaign!