Something tells me if you’re the kind of person who is looking up MDM to self host and at least flirting with the idea of reading the open source code on a project or going to implement… Your kids are a little less at risk for commercial exposure.

I’m not saying I’m assuming you’re perfect, but I think it’s safe to assume you’re doing more to mitigate exposure to commercialization than 90% of parents. I want the restrictions placed on the companies to the benefit of parents.

You shouldn’t have to be a computer engineer to have ready access to comprehensive parental controls that allow you to manage what you want how you want and in line with your sensibilities rather than being at the mercy of whatever some corporate boardroom has decided is the most profitable way to addict your whole family to convenient advertising delivery systems and minimalistic interface casinos.

If parents had the same kind of control over their kids devices that I have over corporate client devices this wouldn’t be an issue.

Parents need to be given the power to control the technology that they own. People should own the stuff they buy too.

The solution to having too many children playing in the street at night is not to check everyone’s ID before they leave the house but to instead give parents the ability to lock the door and hold them responsible when they don’t.

The solution to unsupervised children is not supervising adulthood. Killing off anonymity won’t protect the children.

I’m not keeping it all in the bank, and I wouldn’t suggest you do either.

Instead I would suggest to invest in things that will become more expensive later. I know that sounds obvious but tools, equipment, canned and pantry good are not exactly flashy investments like stocks and bonds but there are ways to prepare.

…and if you rotate your back stock you’ll always have something to donate to somebody who needs it more than you. If you can maintain a reserve then there’s probably someone who needs it more than you do.

You don’t have to spend a lot to live richly. By making all of my own food I eat a wonderful variety of a healthy things everyday. All the food is fresh prepared by me, canned by me, or bespoke junk.

Besides, within walking distance of where I live now there are acres of wild grapes and raspberries and you can eat the fish from the water. The wild turkeys out here are comically inept, I bet I could harvest more than my family would ever need with a couple of rocks a day. They are such funny little creatures and none too bright but I did see one out run/hover a mountain lion.

One of the best bosses I ever had was a Korean man who was very religious and yet very kind. He made a similar comment to me once. I was on my lunch break and he came to me to talk about work stuff, I was watching the clock and when my lunch break was up I went to punch in. When I sat back down he commented about how it looked like I was only there for the money.

It was a good job but I don’t feel comfortable speaking other than the truth even for niceties so I leveled with him.

“This is a good job, and I am here for the money. I do respect you and I respect your time but I have bills to pay and I have already been warned about going over 40hrs on the time clock to complete rush cases on Fridays. If we are going to be a team and we’re going to work together then you need to understand that I share a two bedroom apartment with three people and none of us can afford a car. You came to me on my lunch break to talk about CNC equipment and I was about to run out of time on my lunch break so I clocked back in. This is a work conversation so I don’t feel out of line and doing that. Is this not a work conversation?”

He was a little shocked but respected it. It opened up a line of dialogue and a relationship that I felt was quite meaningful. In the following years he and I had a lot of awesome conversations. I miss that dude. I stayed with the company until just after they fired him and then the company went to shit.

I used to love these books in fourth and fifth grade. I could read one in about a Thursday/Friday before the weekend, which I had to do and then write an essay on in order to get my super Nintendo controller back. There were so many of these and they were kind of dumb but they took place in our real world which made it feel like a more plausible fantasy.

I squeeze pennies so hard they need therapy and always have. I remember loaning money to my older siblings to buy game systems and fund dates.

Ever since I saw a documentary on the great depression and spoke to my grandmother about what it was like to live through it I started noticing that we as a country we’re not doing so great. I’ve been working and saving most of my money since I was in first grade, but by middle school I just decided to abstain from almost every kind of expense I could.

I’ve never struggled financially but that’s because I learned that you don’t need to buy much stuff if you make your own, can live on less, and have a pervasive crippling anxiety about the collapse of western civilization.

So yeah I’ve been running on the vibe “The Great depression is coming again and there’s no way I can save enough to be prepared”

This has earned me a meager modest lifestyle, but my family eats very well, has a clean home, and has plenty of modern luxuries and toys even if some of them might be a bit worn, rough around the edges, or unfashionable.

I didn’t have to learn to live on lentils but I did have to give up on things my parents found very accessible like restaurants, travel, new things, packaged food, college, free time, bars, weekends, my own room, cars, movie theaters, most museums and non-critical medical care.

So yeah, I guess compared to my peers I’m crushing it because in all of my frugality I managed to avoid racking up six figures of college debt! I’ll never own a house though.

The refund isn’t for us. It’s for his buddies that pre purchased the right to collect those refunds with significant windfalls on both sides of the transaction.

I still keep a couple of these in the boot of the car just in case someone needs it.

Refusing payment for it was probably the cheapest way to end up with free cocoa for life from the coffee shop or regular attabois (and the passkey) from the chicken shop with the fast wifi next to the arcade bar.

Morrells are the one real exception because they are so easily distinguished from lookalikes.

If you make an arrangement with your beer vender, they will let you put money down on a keg so you don’t have to wait in line when the day comes. You don’t want to be caught without libations for your BBQ just because you didn’t plan ahead.

Unless you are with Stamets and he tries it first, you shouldn’t eat foraged mushrooms.

Generally speaking, the only safe wild mushroom is one you saw someone else eat a few days ago and they are still fine.

I don’t like it.

CNN business article with a grammar error in the first sentence. I feel like Microsoft word would have caught this, how sloppy do you have to be to get a typo in the first line of your article?

I would prefer if she shut all the way the fuck up forever. She can only hurt our efforts to build a coalition. There are a lot of people we need to reach that will see her on one side and decide they are automatically on the other side.

I’m not saying these are smart people or that they are good people, I’m saying they are people, there are a lot of them, and they hate her. So, she is fucking poison.

She should know that she’s not helping anybody but I guess the blinders are too thick

I was permabanned from /r/politics for saying “pretty soon it’s not just going to be red hats talking about second amendment solutions” in response to the police walking down the streets of Minneapolis shooting at houses during the George Floyd protests.

Permanently banned from politics, reason: advocating violence

Tried to appeal by pointing at a number of other comments that talk about second amendment solutions and was just sent a copy of the rules from the sidebar in a direct message from a mod.

This is the first step, the next one is buying those farms when the farmers default and then the final step is rich people gobbling up all of this property to turn it into factory farmland.

During the transition we’re going to see Americans starve. Some of us will die but that is a sacrifice they are willing to make for more profits.

It’s a Sterling engine. It uses the difference between the heat on the stove and the cool air to create a flow of thermal energy that literally drives the motor.

It doesn’t give the US control, it gives a specific cohort of misanthropic scumbags leverage to accomplish their misanthropic scumbag agenda.

There is no good reason to redact this information. Giving extra ammunition to the class of people that has been fighting to the nail to cover this all up is in no way a benefit.

It’s weird that you are unwilling to see that Trump is worse than harris. It’s like the difference between losing a finger and losing a hand. Yes both are bad but surely you can see that one is worse?

It’s also weird that you would characterize the other comments so dishonestly. Like that’s not snark it’s just bullshit.