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

Wait, does nobody else put all the stickers they find on their laptop lid?

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

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

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

Pulling out your gun and shooting the brown skinned dude going for a jog is a little bit different than packing it in and resolving to do yoga another day

You got me, this is what I’m referencing.

If the topic of books comes up in conversation with random people I always recommend it if that’s the only book they read in their lifetime

I’m not sure you posted this in the community you intended to

Lots of people giving advice here, but I’m not seeing the most important advice being emphasized.

Always trust your gut. Listen to that uneasy feeling and act on it.

We developed this intuition over millennia for a reason. Your subconscious will pick up on cues even if you consciously aren’t catching it.

Gotta say that I’m loving this stream of cat posts

I see cat, I must upvote. I’m just obeying the law

Pour one out for all the unfortunate souls actually named Karen who aren’t Karens

Good argument for encryption and servers within a privacy respecting country

I’m in the middle of it right now but I’ve got an old plug in oil heater that I decided to pop open the cover and have a look-see before condemning myself to buying another for probably $100ish.

I am so far from comfortable working on electronics or woodworking or traditional guy stuff, but this radiator is old in the sense of it’s built like a brick shit house and hooked up to a simple mechanical switch with 3 wires, one of which is the power cord that finally disintegrated from the heat.

It’s so simply built even I can feel confident swapping out for a new mechanical switch and some new wiring.

I know it’s not the answer to your question, but you should really consider getting a bidet installed to not piss off your hemorrhoids.

Speaking from someone who also has them and who got a bidet during covid. Life changing for my cinnamon ring.