Well-deserved.

Look at you rich people with your doublewides.

If you say hypothetical guy doesn't want to take any gubmint money, he's getting $4800-ish a month after taxes.

I kind of ran this in the Houston area. Not super expensive, but not backwoods cheap. Somewhere you could actually get to 3 part-time jobs.

I think mobile home/tiny house would be the only way. Probably in a trailer park, because a land payment is out of budget. Assuming no helping hands here with spare land, etc.

Figure $750 for a car/cars, insurance, maintenance, gas. Can't be a crap car, because it needs to run 3x a day 7 days a week.

Groceries, trying to live a healthy life, feeding a family and a working man 7 days a week, I figure $1500 a month.

Phone, electric, gas, water, trash, probably $350 a month.

That's $2600. So $2200 left to cover that mobile home in a trailer park and clothes, medical, savings, vacation, etc. That's a rough life unless you get a lucky break in there somewhere.

And you have to work 90 hours a week. And inflation steals it away faster than you can get a raise.

I paid for most of that stuff with extra money falling out of my ears on $14/hr at 40 hrs/week a mere 20-ish years ago. Pretty crazy. I guess that was the point. I just caught myself thinking about how it would shake out today. I could basically do it, but at double the hours with nothing extra and no life to live. Bitcoin fixes this, if you have anything left to buy it with, or time to earn it.

I also considered that the dude could be making $30/hr on 40s as a degreed higher-skill worker and still have most of the same problems. At that pay, he'd have no extra at all because he'd have student loan debt and probably bought a suburban house with that leftover $2200/month. Yuck.

We'll see how thankful you are when you have a raging case of PAD and TAD.

Ugh. It's better than I imagined. I hate you.

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Thought exercise:

Hypothetical low-skill man has a dark past, but has turned his life around completely. He works 3 jobs. He makes $15/hr at each. Because of his education, dark past, and skill, he might make 1-3% more each year. He works 90 hours total each week. Total income before taxes is $5400/month. His wife stays home and homeschools their two young children. They live with her parents, but that needs to end soon.

See if you can get them in their own home, saving money for the future, with a present father.

It's one I use. I like it. It's been audited, etc. Maybe a good next step from Signal since no phone number is required. Normies are absolutely revolted by the idea of paying $6, so I can't get anyone to use it.

Don't unmeet them, de-meat them. That'll get the point across.

Seeing a couple people claiming to be some kind of life coach who neglect to mention that they zap scammers. 🤡🍆🫃

Old rusty coins.

Couple things to learn from this data set.

- A lot of people died of covid in 2020 and 2021, rather than shooting themselves. This proves that being locked up alone at home is clearly better for your mental health.

- Suicide holds value better than fiat.

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Twitter and fiat mentality. And they're doing it the hard way.

1. Change pfp to girl

2. Spin up 10k follower npubs

3. BTC, carnivore, homesteading

4. Get zapped by "notice me senpai" energy

5. Underpants

6. ??????

7. Profit

That is a fine meat.

Show me your meat.

Texas is off limits for 4 more months then.

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That's a lot closer to what I'd like. Just a calendar somewhere. Show up or don't. Our kid has grown up on Linux and GrapheneOS, also, so he's never been exposed to all this centralized social crap.

Oh I'll be ranting about it periodically, I'm sure. 😆

That's the only place where I'll eat the special sauce.

/r/buttsharpies has them.

Yep, I'm going to try.

This is all true, for sure. I'm setting a goal of 1. If I can get that, I'll call it a win. I can probably offer a class on basic privacy and security at the co-op to gauge interest. Open it to the kids and adults.

Forgot the important part. It's not an ant at all. It's a flightless wasp, and it has about a half-inch stinger on it.

Velvet Ant, known around here as the Cow Killer.

Amethyst, Amber, Citrine. So good.

Yikes...be careful. That was your freebie.

She wants large amounts of dachshunds. Preferably dachshund puppies.

I went full hyperfocus on alcohol, gas, and wood camp stoves for a while, so we have small-scale cooking licked.

I have to ask...what's the VPN for?

It had literally one road that may or may not have been icy.

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Must have been a big outage. SE TX here and we were out, also.

😘

Stanley cups everywhere. Biggest fiat indicator.

No residual smell or taste with these. Vinegar also isn't really strong enough to work well.

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