Sequentialsilence

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What advice would you give to your younger self?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  All debt is bad, it is better to not own a house than to pay a mortgage levels of all debt is bad.

  The only way you’re not going to be working a minimum wage job is if you have a college degree.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What advice would you give to your younger self?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ignore the financial “advice” of your parents, they’re retiring and still in debt. Real estate, and stock market. Those prices only go up over time, and although it may be difficult in the short term, long term you’ll thank yourself.

  Also college is a waste, don’t do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you can’t discriminate based on age, how are there 55+ neighborhoods?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The fair housing act doesn’t stop age discrimination, it protects “familial status” meaning they can’t discriminate based on a family having children, or being in a gay or lesbian relationship. It does have three exceptions to the law and they all center around senior communities.

  1. Every occupant is 62 or older. (Why 62 I have no idea.)
  2. Every household has 1 person who is 55 or older.
  3. The community is part of a state or federal housing program that assists elderly people.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Calculatable⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  C = clear CE = clear everything

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does US "early voting" works logistically speaking ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, we’re not that organized. The only thing that they really do is require some form of government ID. They don’t really care what they just need to identify you.

  They don’t check if you’re allowed to vote, or if you’ve already voted before you vote, as those machines aren’t connected to the internet, so there’s no database to check against. It is checked after the fact when they start counting as the counting machines are connected to the internet.

  We had an issue about a decade ago where they were able to hack voting machines on election day, ever since then voting machines aren’t allowed to be connected to the internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does US "early voting" works logistically speaking ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Where I am there’s simply too many people to have a single location, so there are 4 different locations you can vote at in the district.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pavlov⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I first heard of Pavlov from the game incredible machines, where if you dangle a banana in front of a mandrill (looks like a baboon to 6 year old me) he would run on the treadmill giving you power for your machines. So I always think of a baboon when I hear pavlov.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Knife vs. Gun Control?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I went looking at every state I’ve lived in and the one with the most restrictions was Texas, obviously states like New York or California will be more restrictive, but the only real restrictions that I found outside of new england / California, were switchblades or “automatic opening knives”, and carrying in locations like schools and government buildings, which I expected. I used to carry a 8” hunting knife (13” overall) when I did a bunch of outdoor work, now I carry a smaller 3” folding pocketknife.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Knife vs. Gun Control?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The US has strong knife laws? I carry a knife almost everyday and this is the first I’m hearing of this. The only time I can’t take my knife somewhere is if no weapons at all are allowed there, like government buildings.