Just based on how often I notice someone mispronounce a word without realizing it (or have done so myself and realized it later). Statistically I’m probably still doing it with some word.
Not having a car (always living/renting in walking or biking distance of my work)
Moving in with my partner straight out of college so we could split expenses
Moving (with partner) to a low-cost-of-living city for the first 5 years after college
Putting most of my medium-term and long-term savings into low-expense-ratio, passively managed index funds starting in my early 20s
Buying almost exclusively second-hand clothes, furniture, and cookery
Borrowing all desired books (and many desired movies and TV shows) from the library
Only buying games when they are bundled or otherwise on steep discount years after release
Pirating any other media in which I'm interested if its distributors make it even remotely difficult for me to buy it at a reasonable price
Planning all dinners in advance every week before grocery shopping (leads to almost never eating at restaurants or ordering takeout, and almost no food waste because grocery list is based on actual meals)
Now, if I had to choose the best financial move out of that list? Probably the index funds. Though not having to pay for a car (or car insurance, or car registration, or car repair and maintenance, or parking, or fuel) is a close second.
I've never felt I'm not living for today. Admittedly, most of what I want to do is consume a variety of media within the comfort of my home. But we also travel abroad every other year or so, and that's probably the biggest 'entertainment' expense in our lives. If we need a car to visit someone or somewhere outside the range of public transit or biking, we just rent one for the weekend (probably happens about once a year). We don't have to hesitate before choosing to do that because we know we're living well within our means the rest of the time.
The thing is, once you're in the habit of doing this stuff, it doesn't feel like an imposition. It's just the way your life works. It was actually a bit of a struggle to remember all of those points when I was writing up that list yesterday, because it's all just natural to me now. There are probably a few more things we do along these lines that haven't occurred to me.
And at that point, the savings are just a natural choice for what to do with all the surplus money. It's not even 'living for tomorrow.' It ceases to be an either/or situation. It's living for today in such a way that you can continue to live for today throughout your entire life.
Also, there are a huge number of non-financial benefits on offer here, too: walking and biking at times you'd otherwise be driving is excellent for your health; planning meals allows you to choose healthier options, cut down on red meat consumption, etc; meal planning, buying second-hand goods, and not driving reduces dependency on online mega-retailers, international sweatshop labor, and environmentally harmful practices; making use of the library system indirectly supports its continued existence for folks who have no other options; and on and on.
Anyway, I wouldn't recommend trying to do all of this at once if it's all a change for you. I'd recommend slowly introducing each of these practices over time so you have time to get used to each in isolation.
As we all know, Roblox is garbage tier gameplay structured around psychological cues to get children to fill an endless pit with fake money bought with real money....
I can sense this is going to get downvoted probably. I know you guys probably love all aspects of the game so it’s understandable. But I’m not into story based games. I’m into more active gameplay (mostly combat/adventure), of which there is a lot in Cyberpunk that’s actually good. I just want to know how to get the most...
Roguelites like Risk of Rain 2, FromSoft ARPGs like Bloodborne, indie ARPGs like Hyper Light Drifter, classic FPS like Half-Life, classic 3rd person shooters like the PS2 Ratchet & Clank games.
There are lots of games OP should be playing for what they're looking for, and Cyberpunk ain't one of them.
The applicants made it clear the space wouldn’t be just for LGBTQ+ students. It would be for anyone who needs to “just breathe for a second,” said one of the students who confronted the adults Nov. 14....
Got almost the opposite experience here. Liked frog legs almost as much as chicken, but found both alligator meat and alligator jerky offputtingly fishy.
Russia has forked Wikipedia, featuring "better truths" (www.404media.co)
From real Wikipedia:...
Job Websites Need a "Report for incorrect information" Option (lemmy.whynotdrs.org)
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My mind is boggled (lemmy.world)
Study Featuring AI-Generated Giant Rat Penis Retracted, Journal Apologizes (www.vice.com)
Original article...
Exploring Reddit’s third-party app environment 7 months after the APIcalypse (arstechnica.com)
There's probably a word I've been pronouncing wrong my whole life that I don't know about
Just based on how often I notice someone mispronounce a word without realizing it (or have done so myself and realized it later). Statistically I’m probably still doing it with some word.
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What has been your best financial move in life?
If the real world worked like Pokémon, what animal would evolve into what animal?
Games that force you to make hard choices
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holla holla get dolla rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
It’s moonbase alpha free to play nasa space sim go play it and type “w!w!w!w!w!w!w!w!w!w!w!w!w!w!w!w!w!w!w!w!w!”
I banned my kid from Roblox.... what next?
As we all know, Roblox is garbage tier gameplay structured around psychological cues to get children to fill an endless pit with fake money bought with real money....
By existential comics. The second best thing on the internet. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
How can I experience the best gameplay with the least dialogue possible?
I can sense this is going to get downvoted probably. I know you guys probably love all aspects of the game so it’s understandable. But I’m not into story based games. I’m into more active gameplay (mostly combat/adventure), of which there is a lot in Cyberpunk that’s actually good. I just want to know how to get the most...
Holes (slrpnk.net)
LGBTQ+ teens won a grant for their school. Adults sent the money back. Lynchburg school board rejects grant teens won from It Gets Better, a nonprofit founded to prevent LGBTQ+ youth suicide (wapo.st)
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Freedom from advertising... (lemmy.world)
Risk of Rain Returns – Launch Trailer (www.youtube.com)
(This is a remake of the original Risk of Rain, out now)