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Quaint Quail Quilt posted:I'm 37 and my retirement would already be better than some of them.
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when my grandfather was alive, he asked his daughter, my aunt, what her retirement plan was, being a then-50-something waitress. she held up her pack of smokes and said "you're looking at it" she's still very much alive and i don't know what she does for money
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Nov 2, 2023 17:00
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Spends a lot more on cigarettes for one
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Nov 2, 2023 19:14
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Milo and POTUS posted:Spends a lot more on cigarettes for one Can spend a lot less if you roll your own, which was what I did prior to quitting (okay I still smoke maybe one a week shut up) can have filters and everything, and in my experience they taste better than prepackaged cigarettes but any time I've tried to convince a smoker to switch over to rollies they are fuckin impossible about it. complain about the taste, complain about having to roll em, complain about everything! you can get a carton's worth for like 5-10 bux (labeled as "pipe tobacco" now, presumably to avoid taxes on cigarette tobacco here in the US. but look for the stuff clearly cut like cigarette tobacco) it's so much cheaper that there is no excuse for brand loyalty here
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Nov 2, 2023 19:56
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My friend rolls his own. Has a little machine for it. Uses the cheapest pipe tobacco lol. Doesn't seem to bother him but I think he's used to it at this point
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Nov 2, 2023 20:33
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Just smoke weed like an adult
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Nov 2, 2023 20:37
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I have my greatgrandfather's cigar maker from when he sold Cubans door to door in like 1920. Unfortunately I have no idea how it works or if you can adjust it for cigarettes.
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Nov 2, 2023 21:20
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growing ditchweed & ditch tobacco together in a flowerpot not really going so great
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SniperWoreConverse posted:growing ditchweed & ditch tobacco together in a flowerpot plant some shroom spores in the same pot, invent your own three sisters farming method
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Nov 2, 2023 22:10
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Telltolin posted:Can spend a lot less if you roll your own, which was what I did prior to quitting (okay I still smoke maybe one a week shut up) doesn’t cigarette tobacco burn much quicker? dad used to smoke a pipe and it was absolutely disgusting being in the car with him puffing away
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PerniciousKnid posted:I have my greatgrandfather's cigar maker from when he sold Cubans door to door in like 1920. Unfortunately I have no idea how it works or if you can adjust it for cigarettes. dont bother adjusting it, just start rolling your own cigars and smoking them i cant help you with the "I have no idea how it works" part though but i believe in you
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Nov 3, 2023 02:40
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I've known pipe tobacco was vastly cheaper for a while now and just figured out that delta-8 distillate is legal for purchase so I've combined those and effectively stay high as poo poo for an average of like eight bux a week. God bless drugs and the 2018 Farm Bill, signed into law by a man who I guarantee you did not know this would be a consequence of it
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Nov 3, 2023 02:47
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https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4285651-maine-electrical-utility-public-ownership-question-three-ballot-initiative/quote:Maine residents are set to vote next week on a ballot initiative that would make the state the first with a publicly owned electric utility governed by an elected board.
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Tiggum posted:Sorry, what? Can you explain this slowly and simply for me because I don't get it. If you're sharing tips with other employees then surely it only "costs" you a proportion of whatever the amount of the tip was, so no tip would mean no cost, right? If you're required to pay the other employees regardless of whether you were tipped or not or how much, that does sound like it would be illegal? Your employer can't require employees to pay each other. i'm sure it's "illegal" in the sense that it defies labour laws but we're also legally entitled to breaks and a harassment-free work environment but that poo poo doesn't happen either fibblins posted:lol if your retirement plan isn't dropping dead at 62
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Nov 3, 2023 21:02
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Nov 3, 2023 21:23
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What's really bad is the awful AI upscaling on that photo. Holy poo poo, does it look horrendous!
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Nov 3, 2023 21:26
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is this like a bank that proudly redlines properties or something
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Nov 3, 2023 21:26
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I think that is literally a Nazi bank
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Nov 3, 2023 21:27
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yes, and on their founder's instagram they claim to offer loans at up to 1% lower interest rates by not meeting regulatory burdens required of banks so it's not just a nazi bank, it's an illegal nazi bank
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Nov 3, 2023 21:28
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Coolness Averted posted:yes, and on their founder's instagram they claim to offer loans at up to 1% lower interest rates by not meeting regulatory burdens required of banks Banks are pretty regulated with actual audits and stuff in USA too, right? This seems like a terrible thing to advertise. Especially since systemic racism probably makes a racist bank more profitable by default.
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Nov 3, 2023 21:33
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banks are regulated in the sense that the gov gives them free money when they want it
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i've started saving for retirement now that I touch computers all day and it's both weird and frustrating to know that I'm basically throwing money I could be spending now that'll only lose more and more value as inflation keeps happening, but also that it's the best bet if I don't want to be living on peanuts when I'm old and dying (over 40)
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Nov 3, 2023 21:49
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euphronius posted:I think that is literally a Nazi bank bcci
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Cricket in india?
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tokin opposition posted:i've started saving for retirement now that I touch computers all day and it's both weird and frustrating to know that I'm basically throwing money I could be spending now that'll only lose more and more value as inflation keeps happening, but also that it's the best bet if I don't want to be living on peanuts when I'm old and dying (over 40)
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ArmedZombie posted:https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4285651-maine-electrical-utility-public-ownership-question-three-ballot-initiative/ go maine! my small town in iowa had its own electic utility and the rates were great, and profits genuinely went into keeping that dying place alive since it's both old as hell and is shedding population to cities. the city ran every utility except for natural gas and it was fantastic. public utilities for all, i say
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Eat This Glob posted:go maine! my small town in iowa had its own electic utility and the rates were great, and profits genuinely went into keeping that dying place alive since it's both old as hell and is shedding population to cities. the city ran every utility except for natural gas and it was fantastic. public utilities for all, i say But... but number!?!
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https://youtu.be/Ft5KtV2o0bw?si=l_4lRP4JTndu8tL_
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I can think of at least 100 to 200 things that AI could do that are way scarier than that
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Fitzy Fitz posted:I can think of at least 100 to 200 things that AI could do that are way scarier than that same but they're all writing ratfic
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that got a genuine guffaw out of me. it’s so incredibly stupid. oh my. lmao. but the greatest thing about it is how seriously it will be taken by so, so many people.
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fun fact yudkowsky actually accepts all of the dumbest premises of roko's basilisk, he just doesn't think anyone who posts on his forums is important enough to be reverse causality blackmailed by a benevolent AI
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this is only a danger if a second virus grows a wifi antenna in your arm to get the bitcoins back out
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Coolness Averted posted:fun fact yudkowsky actually accepts all of the dumbest premises of roko's basilisk, he just doesn't think anyone who posts on his forums is important enough to be reverse causality blackmailed by a benevolent AI I thought bc of the spurious nature of the theory they're all being tortured in the right now future and don't know it
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tokin opposition posted:i've started saving for retirement now that I touch computers all day and it's both weird and frustrating to know that I'm basically throwing money I could be spending now that'll only lose more and more value as inflation keeps happening, but also that it's the best bet if I don't want to be living on peanuts when I'm old and dying (over 40) lol a retirement isn't going to save you from crop failures
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BUUNNI posted:lol a retirement isn't going to save you from crop failures that's why im fat duh
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Saraiguma posted:I thought bc of the spurious nature of the theory they're all being tortured in the right now future and don't know it
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