Not to devalue your point, but if you truly were spending (10 + 3*75 + 20)*30 + 150 per month (so a total of 7800 USD) and you invest it in an index fund getting back 5%, you’ll have your million in 10 years. 8 years at 10% which is the long-term growth rate of DJIA and S&P 500.

You’ll still never be the richest person in the world, but if you truly were burning away that much money, you could make decent dough just from investing it passively. In 30 years you’d have like 15 million, more than enough to retire.

Now the only real problem is that nearly nobody is actually burning that much cash and the “stop eating avocado toast” suggestions are indeed stupid af.

I sure as hell hope so. My generation, myself included, seems a bit lazy in comparison. I suppose the oldest of us millennials got hit hard by 2008, but I personally didn’t, I was a teenager. So really, we’ve grown accustomed to living in good times and that makes people lazy. I reckon Gen Z and soon Alpha are going to pick up where we’ve failed and I’m ready to grab the popcorn.

This might be different in my country where we don’t have a potential upcoming Trump presidency, BUT we’re still affected by American politics. Last time Trump got elected, we had a huge surge in right wing Christian family values politics. We’re an atheist or at best pagan nation at heart so this felt so fake from the get-go. Wdym “back to our Christian roots”? We used to fight Christianity with pitchforks and stuff!

Yeah and y’all aren’t even that far north. Ours is far closer to 4:15 PM than 4:30 PM at this point and in December it gets to something absurd like 4:23 PM. Of course, people further North will laugh at this and say “sunset was 2 months ago” at that point.

but 10 to 20 years ago, I knew plenty of liberal college-educated suburban soccer moms who believed in that shit.

And now they’re probably Trump voters.

It’s the crunchy to alt right pipeline and unfortunately it’s real.

Wait, do people shut down their computers when they’re done using them?

I know I did on the desktop PC we had at home when I was a kid… But now the desktop doubles as a homeserver (and does that more than it does gaming lately) and the laptop just goes to sleep rather than shutting it down.

Great source of protein though. Just need to be more careful and creative

It’s Department of Government Efficiency and I’m pretty sure he himself coined it because the acronym is DOGE

I got a knock last night. I had to apologize and say there’s no candy - I don’t live in the US. We have our own similar traditions on St. Martin’s day and St. Catherine’s day. The article for the latter even describes it: Wiki, though for either day you can click on the Estonian Wikipedia article to get a more complete description.

I suppose in the coming years I’ll have to start stocking candy for Halloween too because I don’t really want to disappoint a bunch of kids. Though to be fair, I don’t think they did much trick or treating anyway, they mostly just opened their bag and asked for candy - so it felt kinda lazy. When I was a kid, I remember groups of kids would come knock on our door for either Mardipäev or Kadripäev and they’d usually have something like a song or dance prepared, or at least told us riddles.

£20 should still get you a meal of some kind until the credit cards and cash machines are back, hopefully within a few hours or next day at the latest.

Can’t really say I even have that much on me most of the time though - perhaps I should change that, keep a minimum of like €50 that’s only touched in an emergency or something. Swedbank has had several outages in the last few months here in Estonia and it affects many stores’ payment terminals too.

Hmm, but did they say the last version of Windows, or the last version of Windows you’re going to buy? And if it’s the latter, is the upgrade to Windows 11 free? If yes, then technically it’s still correct.

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I think were sounds better in 2nd person personally, if you use was it just sounds like you’re trying to imitate slang

Fortunately, you can read through the source code of SearxNG and even modify it - provided that you also publish the modified version to your users if you host it publicly.

You can run your own instance, public or private. Or you can use a public instance.

Internally, it uses other search engines, rather than crawling the entire web and indexing everything.

I doubt they want my fun and safe math optimizations either tbh

And most of the rest have anti-stress boobs so it all works out

Yeah, but Elon’s self-driving cars aren’t self-driving, nor are they necessarily as safe a good driver.

There are people out there who shouldn’t be able to drive, and in sane countries many of them don’t manage to get their licenses. But in the US for an example, apparently you can’t get anywhere without a car, so until the public transit situation is solved, drivers licenses need to be given out like candy :/ Exception being some cities with awesome public transit. The only one I’ve been to is NYC, where most people don’t really need to drive. I’d say the transit there is better than in my country.

And the worst part is that even once real SDCs exist and can be bought, not everyone can afford them. Or maybe they’ll be more like Uber or Bolt in that you hail one from an app and it picks you up - but then people in rural areas are still fucked without being able to drive themselves.

They also continued to export grain outside of the union. Which, you know, is actually one of the things a dictatorship could be good for - force food to stay in the country if there’s a scarcity. But they opted not to.

And to add to Stalin’s stupidity here - if soviet leadership hadn’t chosen to do this, they would’ve had a whole lot of extra soldiers to send to the meat grinder in WWII. Hell, maybe the nazis wouldn’t have nearly taken Stalingrad.

Do you mean Clinton, governor of Arkansas or Clinton, first lady of Arkansas?

Yeah, top picture should almost definitely be Hitler.

I love this, particularly because they’re apparently helping small businesses and not some gigacorporation. Also because diesel engines sadly also have more local emissions like soot in addition to global stuff like CO2, so there should be a noticeable increase in local air quality if a targeting a particular area like this.

It looks to me like the center part is thicker than the edge so the corner might not be flat against the desk. But I’m completely sure if it’s enough.