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Cake day: July 7th, 2023

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  • My car is 836 + ins. Fiance’s car 500 + ins = about 1500 a month.

    My car was about 40k full electric so I don’t have to buy gas. Other car was 25k and a hybrid so we don’t have to buy too much gas.

    I drive a butt load 35k a year sometimes 40k. I’m more interested in reliability than savings as reliability to me is savings.

    It’s a constant balancing act. Cheap car pay for gas and repairs expensive car pay electricity and the bank.

    If it wasn’t for my job I’d get me a 2010 Nissan versa.

    The apartment is cheap for the marker but still ostentatiously expensive.



  • It’s funny, years ago, a single developer “killing it” on Steam was almost unheard of. It happened, but it was few and far between.

    Now, with the advent of powerful engines like Unreal 5 and the latest iterations of Unity, practically anyone outside the Arctic Circle can pick one up and make a game.

    Is tech like that taking jobs away from the game industry? Yes. Very much so. But since those programs aren’t technically “AI,” they get a pass. Never mind that they use LLMs to streamline the process, they’re fine because they make games we enjoy playing.

    But that’s missing the point. For every job the deployment of some “schedule 1” or “megabonk” tech replaced, it enabled ten more people to play and benefit from the final product. Those games absolutely used AI in development, work that once would’ve gone to human hands.

    Technology always reduces jobs in some markets and creates new ones in others.

    It’s the natural way of things.




  • I drive 35 to 40k miles a year for my job. I only get new because I’d rather pay and have a driving car than pay and have one in the shop for the same price.

    My car was 40 and full electric so I don’t have to buy gas and my fiance’s car was 25k. Those two car payments and and insurance we pay around 1500 a month.

    But it’s not the cars that’s a problem. I choose that luxury. Be it for practicality or showing off. What I don’t choose is to live ina 600 squarefoot Apartment for a thousand dollars more than it should be. Or daycare for 250 a WEEK!

    Even if I lowered the price of the card for 500 a month, 800 a months it wouldn’t help.











  • I tired to rent an apartment once. I had 100k in liquid in my bank account. I showed them this but it wasn’t good enough. I’m 1099 and officially make very little money (it’s all above board and legal. I have a CPA.)

    They needed paystubs. I don’t have pay stubs. I don’t even get paychecks.

    It’s kind of a weird catch 22 for them. They’re ok with some bloke making 20 bucks an hours with nothing in savings as long as he can “prove” his income but someone with actually money is just too much of a risk.