Credit unions are the way to go. Seriously if your reading this and have an account with a mega corp, go to a credit union. Start with a checking account, in time you can migrate all your other stuff over. Better deals on loans, and they’re not predators. And you have a better chance of not enriching the billionaire class while you’re at it.

Get a camper and try it for a season. You might love it you might hate it. But you’ll have some idea of the million little details that make living in a bumfuck rural area difficult. Getting groceries, medical care, just seeing other people.

I’ve known people who thought they loved living in the middle of nowhere and end up putting in several hundred driving miles per week because they would come to town on the slightest pretext, because they were bored and felt cooped up. Rural life was not for them. Are you the sort who cannot go anywhere for a week plus and be happy about it?

You’ll also see the stars every night, hear the wind and come to know the land. Pros and cons. Try before you buy.

At a certain point it just becomes an additional poor person tax.

Tax it enough to offset the additional healthcare costs. Enact strict laws on where and when you may smoke, but not so strict it becomes impossible for a smoker to smoke. Then be done.

I don’t think there’s a person on earth who doesn’t know it’s bad for you. This punitive tax increase after increase is just making people miserable for no reason other than so legislators have something to point at to justify their salaries.

Clippy!

To a t!! Happy Lemmy day you glorious nerds!!!

Kiwi farms?

This show was the world’s most boring acid trip. Some cool cinematography, I’ll give it that, but it’s just boring.

They’re rent seeking douchbags who don’t add value to shit. If there was ever an advertisement for full on vodka and cigarettes for breakfast bolshevism it’s these assholes.

Michigan dispensaries are the shit!

They made a shit show out of the licencing. First they sold permits, but then decided they were going to favor minorities in the licencing process. Royalty pissing off people who had already paid the huge fee. The new scheme got struck down in the courts. Now nobody knows what’s happening with it. Except the tribes, who are the only people able to commercially grow at the moment. Total shit show, a Minnesota classic.

But you can grow your own.

Snowy

You sound like you’ve never worked a service job.

I installed mint, and my Linux knowledge (little to none) plateaued because it never breaks. I never have to fix anything. I’m the iPad kid of Linux.

Pour over gang unite! It’s so much easier, makes a better cup, AND it’s so much easier to clean. Leave it to a Frenchman to needlessly complicate a cup of Joe, then act like it’s the greatest thing since sliced snails.

Ughghghg. I’m soooo lazy tho!

I think I’m gonna do just that

I hear ya. I’m feeling the need to cut ties with Google all together. They’re not getting any less evil. I’m gonna look into graphene os I think

Unfettered capitalism is just fucking exhausting. What a bunch of assholes. I really need to degoogle my life. Idk how to strip android off my phone and replace it with whatever, but I guess I’m about to find out.

Edit: ty all. I’m gonna check out f droid and go from there!

I always thought I would have made a good trust fund baby.