When I pump gas, I don’t end on an even dollar amount or anything. I just…stop.
Smoke some pot before sleep
I will intentionally avoid asking for 5 star reviews.
I hate those things!
I never pay for digital media.
When watching over-the-air television, I mute the TV and look away when ads come on.
You can show me all the ads in the world but you sure as fuck can’t force me to engage.Tap for spoiler
God help those fuckers when I finally fall down the TV Tuner + Jellyfin + TVHeadend rabbithole. I’m gonna “Live Pause” that shit or I’m gonna straight up DVR everything I wanna watch and skip the ads.
And my parents watch much more OTA TV than me so you bet your ass I’m setting up every TV in their house with a cheap trustable Android TV stick and teaching them how to Pause, Rewind and Fast Forward. Fuck ads foreverrrrrr.Perceiving advertisements is unethical. Good job!
I get this and I also don’t engage with ads but at the end of the day they are what pays for the stuff you want to watch.
It’s a shitty system and it’s become amazingly predatory. Needless to say I used revanced on my phone.
Ads can’t be permitted to pay for things, though. One has a moral obligation to make sure that that strategy does not work, because it degrades both whatever the advertisements are inserted around (which becomes optimized to get attention at the expense of anything actually useful, like entertaining or conveying information) and the people who perceive it (because it creates capital inside their minds, in the form of brands, artificially alters their culture, and deliberately creates fear, mistrust of loved ones, and feelings of inadequacy).
By not participating in work’s non-work activities.
Linux and piracy.
i refuse to apply for jobs
I read their names to owls.
I poo at work
Me too. Sometimes I hold it in through the weekend.
Get yourself food poisoning for maximum bang for the buck.
“A trans person peed here” stickers in gas station bathrooms/other public bathrooms.
That is delightful. A smile for allies and discomfort for assholes.
I used to travel a lot in eastern Oklahoma, and left a lot of stickers at gas stations in the middle of bumble fuck nowhere towns. Probably less smiles and more anger honestly, but fuck them. Also did some on a trip to Missouri, where I’m pretty sure it was illegal for me to piss.
Run every reasonable possible method of ad-blocking. From whole-house PiHole with uBlock, Privacy Badger, anti-tracking, VPN, and more. F/OSS software when possible.
Firefox has an addon called AdNauseam that’s based on uBlock Origin but clicks on ads in addition to blocking them.
Chrome had it, but google removed it because they can.
Hm. Not sure how I feel about giving them clicks for pay even if it muddies my profile. I’d rather they not know at all.
I work about 1 hour of every day.
More to the woman. My girl once complained about me leaving the seat up.
For years, I always put the seat AND the lid down.
All of us leave the seat and lid down. The whole seat up/down argument is pretty ridiculous.
If you flush with the lid up you’re gross and I hate you
Literally! How about just putting the water on the floor in the first place
I have a cat. Toilet lid is shut unless actively in use otherwise there will be the worst kind of wet cat loose in the house because she’s dumb and clumsy.
It never even occurred to me that this would be relevant to my cats, but I always make sure the washer and dryer get closed.
I approve of your diligence.
I have never paid rent or utilities or electricity.
Currently live off grid on land I own using solar power. We have all electric appliances. Generator uses propane but only use it 1-2 times a year so it’s rare to refill the tank.
The dump is only a few dollar when we take our trash (under $10) every few months.
Self host on a NAS, have home assistant that helps a ton with power monitoring and control.
My goal in a few years is to provide almost all my needs from my own land. Food, water, shelter, power, etc.
How does one own land? I want
There are a few counties around the US that have zoning laws that let you live in an RV or build alternative houses such as adobe, earth bags, shipping container homes, earth ships, or even shed to homes.
I did tons of research and picked a county. Then I drove around and talked with realtors until I found the right one that understood what I plan To do. this guy was awesome and directly took my to my dream land. It was 6 times more land than I expected to buy, and the price was amazing. We bought it immediately.
After buying the land, I bought a $3,000 RV (needed a ton of work) but it’s home until I build my adobe home. Spent the last year collecting supplies for the house, even found 5 new windows for just over $100. Always looking for deals. Also found solar panels super cheap $45 each for 250W panels. Bought a ton of those for the house later.
It takes a lot of determination to push yourself to go outside and work for yourself, but also a way to have an income in the middle of nowhere. We do ok. But I know things will only get better as we settle more here.
You can buy 40 acres in Wyoming for like 30k…
Land can be bought everywhere in all price ranges. The real hurdle is whether you can legally live there or what requirements there are, due to zoning and building codes.
I think the easiest way to get a self sustaining home with as little legal issues as possible is to buy an already legal home with the grid connection, but then just don’t use it.
If I were young and single again, I would look into auctions of derelict farms. Tear down the old building and instead build a small totally legal connected up to code cabin with water, waste and electricity connection. Then use the rest of land to do whatever actually interest me, while complying to the bare minimum of legal requirements for that land.
Thats crazy!
Don’t you still pay land tax though?
Yes there is a land tax, but it’s quite low.
