Sometimes it’s not just about money, it’s about a healthy work/life balance. I’m a union electrician and we make 68/hr in the check after benefits are paid. Our overtime is double time after 8 hours or on a weekend. The last job I did was 12 hour days 5 days a week plus 8 on Saturday and Sunday.

I turn down basically all overtime because I have a 1yo and a 3yo at home that I would rather spend my time with. I don’t need the overtime to pay my bills so I’d rather be present in their lives and not be the dad that missed their kids grow up because they were constantly chasing more money.

In 10 years nobody’s gonna remember all the extra hours and shifts you put in at your job. Your boss won’t care, nobody will. But your kids will remember.

You shouldn’t use fabric softener at all. It damages your clothes and shortens the life of them. And it makes towels less absorbent since you’re adding a coating of wax to everything.

The FDA lets anything under 5 calories to be rounded down to 0. It’s a scam

25 year mortgages also exist. I refinanced my house in 2020 after 2.5 years living there. I went from 3.99% to 2.875%. I didn’t want to restart my progress I had made so I did a 25 year mortgage and my payment still went down by about 20 bucks a month and knocked 2.5 years off the mortgage. Win win

I paid off my house last year at 35yo and have absolutely no regrets. It took just under 8 years. And my interest rate was 2.875%. I didn’t care if I could maybe do better in the market. The peace of mind having a paid off house is priceless. You can’t put a % return on that IMO.

Now my expenses are so low I’m able to invest $3000/month and I’ll be able to catch up pretty quick to what I may have missed out on since I’m only 36 now an my wife’s 34. No amount of potential gains could make me regret my decision. I sleep well at night

You can call him foreskin. Because he disappears when things get hard

I love AOC and would love to see her president someday, but the only thing that concerns me is hardly any president ever goes back to Congress after their presidency ends. We haven’t had that happen since the 1800s.

I feel like there’s still more she can accomplish in Congress now then finish with being the president. I want her around for many years to come and I’d hate it if we only got 8 years of her as president then she steps out of politics. She’s too young with too much to offer for her to peak too early and be out

Fuck that. I never tip for pick up. I came to you. There was no service to tip for. Just do your job. I’ll tip for delivery when I do rarely get that. I also don’t tip when I’m standing up to order.

It’s pretty simple, the tip is for the service, not just an automatic add on for anybody doing their job.

Do you tip the cashier at the grocery store? And the bagger that bagged your food? What about the cart return guy that has to fetch your cart from the 2 parking spaces you left it taking up?

Is that the part that fully exonerated him?

The easiest way to avoid ads is use an android streamer (I use the Google tv streamer) and install projectivity launcher. You get the cleanest UI that’s fully customizable with only what you want to see. I also installed a button remapper app to change the netflix button on my remote to open Plex. It’s a very easy stress-free experience using my tv

The only weird thing is making weird comments about it like that

I don’t know if this is a very good idea

Detroit hardcore, Kids in a sandbox

When I was younger I used to think a drug addict was someone who did drugs in their attic. I always thought it was strange that people had to go up in their attics to do drugs

Just needed some condom mints

Same. Just uninstalled that spyware

I still think it is

Same here. My wife and I also picked traditional timeless names that we both liked and know they will never get made fun of for them

“better” is definitely subjective. I use an iPod touch that I leave plugged in my car that I have 17k songs on. It’s so nice to just have something that always resumes where I left off and just works. No subscriptions, no data. I can go on long road trips and not worry about spotty coverage. And best of all, I actually own all the media that’s on it. And my phone texts don’t keep interrupting my music all the tiime

But good luck finding any TV for 300 bucks in 2000. TVs were expensive back then.