I'm casually scrolling through Lemmy and come across this post. I started to read the list. Turns out by happenstance I have three out of four items checked already... I guess that means I'm making tacos now.

Mmmm taco time.

Don't tell this to RFK Jr.

I let my dog sleep in my bed with me last night.

He kicked the living ever shit out of me most of the night.

It's like he's dreaming he's Jason Bourne or something constantly running from a hostile government or whatever.

He's 100 lbs American bulldog.

I'm a die hard battlefield fan and player. Started with 1942 and have played and owned every release.

BF6 has so much going for it, but the devs keep botching every season and patches.

I played a few hours today and most lobbies were half bots and my team lost every round. Ugh, it can be so frustrating.

I would say that the devs are always chasing making a proper playable game, but they can never deliver. The games end of life are usually the most polished (obviously) but at that point everyone has moved on to newer games.

I miss when a game was fully built, tested and reviewed before it was ready launched.

My god! They are stealing the Declaration of Independence!

This reminds me of the film "hot rod" starring Andy Samberg.

AM radio has the exclusive rights to a visual spectacle.

It was your pants again. Come on Greg, get your shit together.

Remove the trailer hitch and throw it through the back window... I mean... Ninja rocks.

I believe the tech is called a grid tie inverter (GTI). Basically your panels or battery system can wire up to a GTI and some GTIs can have pugs that can plug into a standard wall outlet. The GTI can sense the frequency that is in your homes wiring ie "the grid". Then the GTI matches that frequency and "pumps" your renewable energy into the home and sometimes the grid depending on the utility. If the GTI senses a dramatic frequency change, for example a grid side power outage. The GTI will also fault out or shut down to prevent "islanding".

Yeah, it's a cat and mouse game for sure. I think if you do anything that is more than voluntarily give your data to them, that's a win. I hope that at least I'm wasting some of there resources even if some data base has linked me to the trash email.

I also love when reps ask for my email in person. I love spelling out "trash" phonetically and watch there face connect the dots. Also my domain is let's say ... Not user friendly and I say it fast and hope they miss hear or type and it's wrong because of them.

I agree!

The way that I combat this is that I have my own domain and make a trash@yadayada.something and that's all they get from me.

I can get the verification link and the rest goes to a box called "the void". The void auto deletes every night.

Same with my wife... But I just remind her that she is not a fish and she thinks about it for a second and she stops hiccuping.

Oh dang. I'm sorry, thanks for pointing that out. I was scrolling through all and read this and found it engaging. I didn't mean to assert my gender in your community. Where I'm from it's unusual for males to look anything other than stereo typical, so I thought it was needed in my story.

Again, I am sorry.

Please delete if you want.

I'm male and have my ears pierced. Nothing flashy. Pretty unassuming. Behind the scenes they are gauged to 8. Every once and a while someone will notice that the back of my earings are weird or different than what they expect. When they ask, I pull one out and tell them the story.

In 2016 I was on a solo motorcycle trip around the US living in 10 national parks as a back country camper. One day I was in glacier NP and I took a stick and carved two little wooden plugs and popped them in my ears and they have been there ever since.

For some reason people think that the earings and story really cool or interesting. I just see it as apart of me and who I am.

Lol literal sticks for earings.

Maybe win the lottery Buy myself a lobotomy Scoop out my brains, and maybe then blend right in with management.

Idk I just work here - DURRY

Did you know you can drink lava, but only once?

Lol, I started writing a six paragraph replay and had to delete it.

You are probably financially literate enough where my statements above is just common sense to you and you don't feel it is necessary to do extra work for something you already have a handle on.

To others just starting out, they may not know anything about personal finance or money. My statements above is a great starting point.

To someone who may be bad with money they need to practice a budget and the act of transcribing data forces them to digest and comprehend their spending decisions. If their budget is automated it is easier to overlook spending or disregard transactions because they are not engaged with their budget or spending habits.

I don't mind that you have a differing opinion. Everyone's finances and level of competency is different. But you have to start somewhere I guess.

When they uproot their "normal life" and move into their vehicle and ask if they can park on your driveway and use your water and electricity and shower all because they don't want to be part of "the system".

(He could afford his normal life, we talked about it frequently)

Very neat! It's cool that you got to experience them. Looks like they are sold out. I'm sure I can web search something like them if I want to try them!

No disrespect, you honestly first need to understand the theory of budgeting and then you can practice.

Trying to find a program to assist you is really just something to distract you.

All you need is a free excel type program.

The physical action of looking at your bank statements and transcribing that data into your excel budget by hand enforces spending discipline and spending awareness.

Once you have everything in order and you are able to prove to yourself that you are financially stable, then integrating program assistance makes sense.