It is like they know you’re using adblocks, so instead of trying to force ads down your throat, they try making your experience miserable by breaking their own viewer or whatever. It is absolutely petty of them.
Leave a video sitting there in idle for too long, come back, it plays for 10 seconds then has to reload itself. Sometimes, it doesn’t do this, so it requires a complete refresh.
They can do this bullshit all they want but I am not letting up on blocking ads.
I want Netbooks to come back for this reason. The only reason they failed the first wave was because nobody at the time thought to treat them as just smaller laptops that could be improved. They were just glorified pre-Chromebooks that were underpowered.
Technology has progressed since then so there’s no excuse not to bring them back. I loved the idea of carrying something that small around and not have it hinder me as much as a full laptop could.
Both have placed lunar exploration high on their national agendas and explicitly tied it to future technological and strategic advantage.
As the US practically guts NASA…
Weed is just as bad.
The second worst thing you can do is lose a lot of money. That’s never going to come back.
Disagree. Between time and money, you will get money back. It is the time you are thinking of, that you won’t get back ever.
Know Your Numbers - This is my most important key advice I’ll ever give to anyone. You need to know your numbers, in anything. You need to know how much you’ll earn, you need to know your total expenses, you need to apply mathematics to make sure you are in the clear. You never, ever, want to guesswork numbers because not everything is going to fall into place as you’d like. You could be off a few hundred and you’ve been spending your money gleefully and now you suddenly are in a jam of choosing between rent, car payment, food or whatever.
You never want to be in that situation. Do not spend more than you earn. Budgeting is important. Knowing what you’re comfortable living with and live by your means.
Thrift and Thrift Away! - Thrifting can sound like a dirty word to those who prefer to buy everything new and I totally understand. But you can’t entirely ignore it either because it is a money-saver in the long run. 85% of the things in my apartment are thrifted items and I’ve saved so much money and still do to this day whenever I go out.
You just need to set yourself up some rules as to what you’re comfortable getting used from what you’re comfortable getting new.
Ignore the Rat Race - Getting too caught up in what people have more of than you and how luxurious and seemingly enjoyable their life is compared to yours is a trap of itself. It makes you not appreciate what is around you and enjoy what you’ve gained, you’ll be wanting what they have and thus will almost do anything to get it.
Don’t get the impression that you should be happy being rock bottom or twist it that way. The point is, the Rat Race lifestyle is a destructive lifestyle. It just destroys your meaning of life by pasting over an idealistic life of another’s.
Do Not Get Children in your Teens/20s - Just don’t. It is not worth it and I’m proud to not ever have done this but damn did I get close to. A child, on average, costs $250k to raise from birth to age of 18, maybe more depending on how much is spent on them. Not a lot of people are that ready as they tell themselves when it comes to getting a kid in this stage, it is all just peer pressure.
Plus, the economy is like not at its best anyways, do you think it is now a good time to have a kid? People underestimate so much about children and what it takes to raise one. They are not pets, they are not things you can just simply sit and forget about (people have gone to jail and gotten charged for child neglect this way).
And no, it is not easy to retain your previous lifestyle, it becomes more impossible if you even bother getting more kids. But people do try and they don’t look real good in doing it.
Case and point, you have a young life ahead of you, full of ambition, potential and capability. It would be much wiser to build a foundation that is a career, net a secure and high-earning job and then see where you are before wanting kids.
Stay out of Jail One of the last things you want to have on any record of yours is that you’ve been charged with something and went to jail over it. A criminal record could likely but will destroy your life and it is not worth screwing around to find out how bad for experimental purposes. If people think finding a job in a competitive job market is bad, they won’t know how hard it really is if they’ve got a criminal history on their record and trying to find a job.
And in worse cases, the more crimes you rack up, you mind as well as declare your life being over. Because you lose time while incarcerated, you’re probably going to be chipping at a mountain of debt that are in the forms of bonds and legal fees. Not to mention how much of your reputation is going to be dragged through the mud during all of this because you’re just going to simply be a name tossed around in a state system.
By the time you’re eventually released from prison, you are going to be lost, you’re going to be out of touch with who you formerly were in contact with and you’re going to be tied down with whatever bond/probation conditions you’re tied down with.
Do a ‘Smart Quit’ A Smart Quit is when you’ve lined up a job underneath where you’re currently working and you hop ships. It is never a good idea to quit a job cold, especially if you’re out on your own. Because that euphoric feeling of qutting a job you absolutely hated working at, is going to wash away and be replaced with worry about how you’re going to have to uphold your expenses. Then you’ll be fumbling and have to tap into your savings, the same savings you probably been working to stash for big plans or whatever.
You can only afford to quit jobs cold if you live with parents or a very caring roommate/friend that you live with that acknowledges that you’re going to try something else. By the way, it is more wise to quit jobs if you’ve been with them after 1 ~ 2 years. If you keep quitting jobs after a few months or weeks, you’re going to have people interviewing you who’re going to think yo
Without reading the comments, working out is just a part of getting in shape but not the entirety. To have the entire focus is multi-pronged.
Caloric Discipline is an important part, you should burn more calories out than you take in and to assist this, you need to set a fitting calorie number for yourself. Some intermittent fasting can help but that’s only recommended in a pumping-the-brakes fashion and not something you should rely on full-time.
Definitely agreed on gym memberships, they are a scam. I would know, I kindof am in one and was roped into it quite deceivingly in fact. The only way out of it is to pay the remaining amount of my time which is too much right now. The gym facility is not the problem, the distance isn’t the problem, the people aren’t the problem even (except when they hog up a lot of the equipment by deciding to sit around or on them while tinkering with their phones. Like, seriously?)
The problem is their business model and even the attitude of some gym facilities who push these contracts and their business sense. Definitely ugly people.
Besides the AI bubble I’m wanting to burst, I want this cringe-inducing obsession people have over KPop to burst someday too.
It has turned some people into being unhealthily rabid over this.
You know, I’ll embrace any technology piece that isn’t from this shithead or Musk, anyday. Let me know of those alternatives.
I can really see the potential in them. Like, I keep envisioning glasses that analyze what is infront of you, help to magnify, help people with eye issues and plenty of other things.
But, as I’ve see what has been done with VR least with Facebook, is that I can see the technobro applying some dystopia level shit on there. Be prepared to see ads - that you can’t close.
Just because youtube reviewers say it is good, doesn’t always mean that it is.
Religion is just marketable propaganda in what to believe, another example of this.
They are also inserting AI shit into Notepad too.
Like, good luck getting me off from LibreOffice and Notepad++ assholes.
To keep track of groceries? Just I don’t know, LOOK inside the fridge. Oh the cabinets and drawers don’t have screens, just slap a few of them on there to keep track of that shit too! Why stop at the fridge?
Well, maybe tell Microsoft and others to stop sucking in these technological advances they treat as shiny misunderstood toys that are forced down everyone’s throats and make everyone’s lives a lot harder than they’re supposedly making easier.
I am not arguing against the idea of upgrading at all or avoiding security at all. What I am always tired of, is just seeing the direction Microsoft takes and then telling people to shove off into their shitty new ecosystem for the sake of security. Like no, you’re watering down your OS and dumbing down everything while telling millions of users like “well, uh, like it because we’re Microsoft so fuck you”.
And nothing is improving or giving people the strong urge to immediately upgrade because of said directions and choices.
Which is why we have this delayed lapse in people just stretching out these support cycles who’re not interested in hopping to the next OS, because they aren’t liking what they see and sometimes experience on another’s computer that has that latest OS version.
By the time Windows 10 is truly done, Windows 11 has its announcement for the last of its updates and by the time Microsoft moves to 12 in however they handle it, maybe then.
Yeah. I mean, I remembered seeing someone named awkwardturtle on there and they moderated like some 30+ subreddits? That’s ridiculous.
Users like that should not have that much power.
No, never was. I’m glad I’m not.
And to hit it home how unpopular I was, when I got my senior yearbook, I was in a particular section of the book where they seemingly put the undesired students in. Like, every senior got pages where they got nice pictures, they got a quote and some bio of them. Where I was at, there was none of that, just a couple pages of pictures of students they don’t care for, even though we all got the same piece of paper that asked us what we’d like to say. Didn’t matter.
Funny how none of the people who ran that yearbook staff, went on to do bigger and greater things. I haven’t heard of or read their names doing anything significant. Just goes to show people just have a lot of ego in schools.
Where I was going with that is if you’re going to bother investing in an argument you know is a waste of time with these kinds of people, it is kind of shameful. That is basing what you already know to be factual. Double-checking isn’t wrong either but again, doesn’t apply to people who’re not open-minded.
My firm belief on technology is that it is in the hands of the wrong people who don’t care and in some cases it is in the hands of the right people, but wasted on a generation that don’t fully embrace it. It’s a double-edged sword matter.
They’ll just insert bots who’ll comment generic, soulless things to say instead. “OMG This product amazed me!” or “I cannot BELIEVE how nobody discovered this sooner!” all the while artificially inflating numbers.