For years, I’ve saved every silica packet in a coffee can. I stopped a while ago since I have a liter of them and the can is full.
Works great for drying things out.
I realize this is the advice in the article but wanted to point out that they build up quickly and come in just about everything that isn’t food these days.
It’s just a matter of time before a lady starts feeding bears from her back porch and the towns are overrun. You could make a bundle trading bear spray for other items that you eventually barter for things that other people have that you want assuming your barter goods have value to them.
Sounds like a real utopia.
You’ll shoot your eye out, kid.
To go one step further, ask a server in front of them if it’s ok if you hang out and don’t drink, if I’m with a group. They will say “yes, that’s fine”.
R’s are beholden to the dumbest, meanest people in the US. The MIC knows thus and knows they will get their money one way or another.
If Ukraine falls, Putin won’t stop there, for example.
Getting their paid for politicians reelected is more important.
What if they realized their natural will to work beside their brothers and sisters instead of against them had been subjugated and exploited by the ruling elite? Surely, they would join our glorious… labor movement.
I have only been comfortable being seen with my shirt off as a man for about 10% of my life and it was a window from 18 - 23 or something. Even then, only with a tan.
I find devs that have a blue collar (or whatever) background are the best. You know what actual work is separate from the programming aspect.
I got into dev later in life and the real world experience contributed to my ability to focus, complete work, get along with others, and appreciate the value of a well paying job where I wasn’t physically at risk.
A world in which the workers own the means of production.
Love this. Lol.
I used to maintain a system that was used to track loss prevention. Basically security company that followed delivery trucks. It was wild to read database records about these guys openly selling their stolen goods (building supplies) while testing my code changes.
The database was sanitized of identifying info if anyone cares.
Ha ha, I know. But his work gets the point across.
Yes, and even stuff you might not publish could show what you are looking for to an eventual illustrator you might work with.
Before cheap, ubiquitous photographic reproduction, drawing was taught to people as a skill.
You might not be the next Gary Larsen (I’m no dillitente) but I bet if you tried you could become a good illustrator.
Having said that, you still have to learn inking, coloring, etc.
Just wanted to say I think most people can learn the skill in the same way most people can learn to write a rhetorical essay or do arithmetic.
Edit: not trivializing your issues, friend, just offering encouragment!
If you are in Victoria, I get it; yikes…
That’s a very specific economic environment which is different from “the average Canadian” so, yes, you are probably bang on.
Not sure what you are paying but I checked a retail survey of fresh fruit and berries in Iceland and they are about 21g/$ CAD fresh where the current price of fresh organic blueberries is 36g/$ at my local Edmonton Walmart.
Iceland has a local blueberry harvest so not sure how that affects pricing but looks cheaper in Canada. Also upick are often priced above market now, its a family experience more than a way to get affordable food like when I was a kid. Just my two cents.
This is nearly as odd as the fact that they aren’t playing Shattered Pixel Dungeon.
We don’t have 401k here in Canada but it sounds like an RSP where the employer decides what options you have for investment.
I have nothing against financial advisers but they do steer you into investments with management fees. That’s how they earn money.
I think you can self direct and choose investments which let you keep (reinvest) more of the returns. Just my opinion.
I guess if my employer was matching my contribution I’d put up with just about anything. :)
Anyway, just my opinion and not necessarily good advice for everyone.
I was about 8. My brother and cousins in their late teens (almost certainly stoned) were hanging out with me while our parents enjoyed a few drinks. This was normal at the time. There was even indoor smoking then!
Anyway, I’m reading the D&D Monster Manual I got for Christmas and am telling them about dragons. I explain there are dragons that can shoot out clouds of poisonous gas and accidentally let a fart go that I’d been desperately holding in for a while at that point.
Still the biggest laugh I’ve ever got and it really was an accident.
We were not the kind of family where anyone let on go in public so it added to the hilarity.
I don’t know how 401ks work but buying individual stocks is basically like gambling. You don’t need a financial advisor but you should treat financial planning like a part time job reading and learning until you are confident in your decisions.
Also, everyone brags about their wins and forgets to mention their losses.
Agreed.
When I was a kid we went to the library. If a card catalog didn’t yield the book you needed, you asked the librarian. They often helped. No one sat around after the library wondering if the librarian was “truly intelligent”.
These are tools. Tools slowly get better. Is a tool make life easier or your work better, you’ll eventually use it.
Yes, there are woodworkers that eschew power tools but they are not typical. They have a niche market, and that’s great, but it’s a choice for the maker and user of their work.