What little things do you do each day that are your small ways of sticking it to the man?

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Just visit Rotten Tomatoes once a week or so

At least, by then, you know how many seasons you're getting into, eh?

cries in Firefly

I have this same problem! Friends will mention a film they're about to see and I've literally never heard of it, and they very much act like I should have 😂 I do feel like I'm missing out on important information, but I'm still not turning ad blockers off.

Sorry for the misunderstanding.
It began with a little thing, simply writing an e-mail to the union, and kind of grew from there.

amex is taken in 9 out of 10 places when I use it. it's usually small places that don't take it

I literally cannot think of any places that don't take Discover.

Amex is such a douchebag rich person flex. The credit card equivalent of a Laboubou collection.

I use discover everywhere, pay 90% of my bills with it. No one uses amex anymore. Pay off all of my cc at end of month, that's how I stick it to the man. Use their money for a month or so and get money for it.

Surprisingly not in the US. If you make 100 sales a day of $20 each, then over a six-day week, you'd pay roughly $360 in credit card transaction fees (assuming 2.5% + 10¢ per transaction which is average). If you instead spent half an hour a day counting cash in the till and then half an hour at the end of the week to go to the bank, that's about $98 in labour cost (assuming a labour cost of $28 per hour, which is roughly $25 per hour in wages and $3 per hour in tax), so the savings are $262 per week, which is not insignificant.

Some American states (not mine) have banned surcharging for credit cards in response to consumer backlash. But what's not banned is marking up everything by 3% and then offering a 3% cash discount.

"Shit on Debra's desk!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohlW9SbhLzc

Has she ever given a reason?

Living Spaces is the one that drives me nuts with the woman singing at the end. Plenty others are horrible, but that one in particular just hits a nerve for me.

I distinctly remember that the NFL tried that out once, where they broadcast a game with no announcers. My Dad and I thought it was amazing, but evidently we were far and few between as I recall they only did it the one time.

What I really don't understand is how they end a football game and then have to sit around for 20 mins rehashing the game they JUST SAW...
"Remember that time the guy caught the ball and then ran?"
"Oh yeah, that was like 10 whole mins ago."
"That was so good."
"Yeah."

My wife and I have recently started muting the tv and streaming local radio announcers for the team. SOOO much more enjoyable.

I’ve been saying this forever! I HATE the pointless idiotic commentary. I would gladly pay a premium to nuke that shit.

I investigated writing a plugin (maybe for plex or jelly fin?) that would filter out the commentary audio, did a little proof of concept on a recorded clip that worked, but then realized that fleshing it out and doing it for a live stream would be a ton of work. Which means I wouldn’t have time to watch football on mute.

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I make kombucha vinegar, it's basically get a vinegar mother and feed it.

Apple vinegar is super easy to make https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bupAhuvnb0

If my early homebrewing days taught me anything, it's that vinegar is so easy to make you can do it by accident.

Don't be an ass.

I do my best to only promote to keywords with high intent. So people who search for words with the sole purpose to purchase. I avoid doing ads to people who wasn't looking for someone.

This help me sleep at night.

I literally hate ads. I have a adguad at my house that blocks everything and I use a VPN. Because I'm in the industry, I know what they do. Its awful what they are capable of.

I do the same as @jaschen306.

Probably not the same life story, but I started as a Neuroscience PhD escapee (I was pressed by my supervisor to p-hack our results) and at the time, around 2012, this was an easy career to shift to from a scientific background.

I work more specifically in tracking implementation, and you should all become aware that for one year the ToS for the Google Marketing Platform have now allowed the use of browser/device fingerprinting for user identification aimed at remarketing, etc.

I am trying hard to go in-house at a company to work in BI, which is something I would be able to do, but not at the level of other people, since the marketing industry has accepted rejects like me setting the bar very low in order to have an army of people feeding Google and the others people's data.

But the alternative for me is to be jobless AND careerless.

I suggest companies to evaluate Plausible and Piwik Pro as a solution, but the people they are as marketers have stopped being marketers more than a decade ago, they are just inside jobs planted by Google et al., and they regularly disregard the alternatives.

AAAARRRRRRRR!!

I used to travel a lot in eastern Oklahoma, and left a lot of stickers at gas stations in the middle of bumble fuck nowhere towns. Probably less smiles and more anger honestly, but fuck them. Also did some on a trip to Missouri, where I’m pretty sure it was illegal for me to piss.

Yes there is a land tax, but it’s quite low.

It truly is a ton of work every day.

Land can be bought everywhere in all price ranges. The real hurdle is whether you can legally live there or what requirements there are, due to zoning and building codes.

I think the easiest way to get a self sustaining home with as little legal issues as possible is to buy an already legal home with the grid connection, but then just don't use it.

If I were young and single again, I would look into auctions of derelict farms. Tear down the old building and instead build a small totally legal connected up to code cabin with water, waste and electricity connection. Then use the rest of land to do whatever actually interest me, while complying to the bare minimum of legal requirements for that land.

There are a few counties around the US that have zoning laws that let you live in an RV or build alternative houses such as adobe, earth bags, shipping container homes, earth ships, or even shed to homes.

I did tons of research and picked a county. Then I drove around and talked with realtors until I found the right one that understood what I plan To do. this guy was awesome and directly took my to my dream land. It was 6 times more land than I expected to buy, and the price was amazing. We bought it immediately.

After buying the land, I bought a $3,000 RV (needed a ton of work) but it’s home until I build my adobe home. Spent the last year collecting supplies for the house, even found 5 new windows for just over $100. Always looking for deals. Also found solar panels super cheap $45 each for 250W panels. Bought a ton of those for the house later.

It takes a lot of determination to push yourself to go outside and work for yourself, but also a way to have an income in the middle of nowhere. We do ok. But I know things will only get better as we settle more here.

You can buy 40 acres in Wyoming for like 30k...

As far as I’m concerned I should be paid for checking my own stuff out

I’ll just take it off the total

Good thought but it has a tiny flaw called "Human mistake". This flaw is the reason why my wife always reads checkout bills right after leaving cash register.

What is 4011? Like potatoes or something?

Oh I got a home server setup with Jellyfin and a bunch of media already, just need to figure out the Live TV stuff (for live news, some soap operas, stuff that doesn't get torrented much) for it to be 100% complete :)

It would be ok if we didn't have 5 ads on a 4 min video. They fucked their system and treated us like the bad guy. Fuck them for shooting themselves in the foot. There is a reason Google makes all their money from selling your personal data and advertising. Of course we're going to work around it.

Ads can't be permitted to pay for things, though. One has a moral obligation to make sure that that strategy does not work, because it degrades both whatever the advertisements are inserted around (which becomes optimized to get attention at the expense of anything actually useful, like entertaining or conveying information) and the people who perceive it (because it creates capital inside their minds, in the form of brands, artificially alters their culture, and deliberately creates fear, mistrust of loved ones, and feelings of inadequacy).

We spend a lot of time together, this gives us 30ish minutes of alone time to browse Lemmy for me and Facebook for her, there are almost never parking wardens, but it makes it a bit exciting. Finally if we shop together we end up getting lots of things we shouldn’t buy, alone we tend to get what is on the list and get out.

Sadly they just put a ticket on the car and post you a fine if you don’t pay it… I could however just swap number plates with for example a blue Reliant Regal nearby and truly embrace my inner Mr Bean.

I haven't personally witnessed a "Chinese Overseas Secret Police" agent yet being in the US for like... about 15 years, so idk how serious the supposed "threat" really is. I never got any threats from PRC, yet. Then again, I don't have much followers and I don't really show my face and I never mentioned my real name. It would take a bit of effort to deanonymise me (not impossible, just takes effort)

I think Russia probably has a worse M.O. like... they just poison their dissidents, like Alexy Navalny

Not sure if there are any recorded instances of Chinese dissidents being poisoned like Russia does to their dissidents, so like...

if I get coerced to "go back" I'd just refuse...

what what are they gonna do, drive a van and grab me and then somehow get me across the ocean? (do they even have the logistics?)

Idk, I'm probably a bit more worried about ICE at the moment.

I mean I say anti-CCP shit and I don't really feel fear as long as I never step foot in China again. But when it comes to... anti-trump speech, that's when I sort of self-censor a bit to make sure it isn't legally considered "threatening violence".

Kinda like Snowden, you know. He can criticize his former country, but isn't really in much of a position to criticize his current country.

I'm sort of in a Snowden-type of situation, I mean I do criticize the US, but I have to "tone-down" a lot of what I say about the US.

So, TLDR is: 没办法, I can't do anything about it, I'm not in a position of power to help other Chinese dissidents.

It sounds terrifying if they do decide to target you, that is; but there are a lot of dissidents around the world, they can't possible go after everyone, especially those outside the country.

YouTube music revanced. Best music outlet there is.

Get yourself food poisoning for maximum bang for the buck.