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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Hardly ever to be honest, unless I’m looking back through my comment history to find a specific thing I’m looking up.

    That’s not counting the proofreading/editing I do on longer comments before and immediately after submitting.

    Old habits die hard from years of writing papers at school. My first draft at most anything reads bad and I’ve got habits to overuse punctuation or repeat words, so to not look like I’m insane I edit. Minor efforts go a long way in getting traction on comments too

    Yeah I definitely read through and edited this after the first pass







  • I wouldn’t count on it.

    But that’s been my strategy lately, setting the bar for expectations so low it’s in hell. That way I am never surprised, and it’s appalling how many news headlines have been limbo-ing their way under that in recent times.

    This article is framed in a way that makes it sound hopeful, but this bit kind of ruins the whole thing

    saying they saw or did things that crossed ethical lines

    Emphasis mine.

    So basically we have child murderers who regret doing it because now they’re haunted by the spectre of their atrocities. At best we have guys who stood by while watching their coworkers murder children which isn’t really better, just less evil.











  • 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