Smart - anything.
Why do you need a smart doorbell? Why do you need a smart appliance? You’re just inviting waves of survelliance not to mention the bandwidth from all of that shit having to tap into the internet.
Holiday decorations. They are just plastic shit. Put a gun to my head, I would already know that every other weekend estate sale is going to have a whole room full of decor that is headed for a landfill. Some psychotics even buy new gimcrack every single year. They are evil, and they need to be stopped.
Besides maybe pretty lights, from the designs and things I’ve seen that are made in any holiday, I don’t know who the hell would fucking buy this shit. Other than the Joneses and families that feel they gotta feel decorative so they force it onto themselves.
Just get a few lights, a tree, maybe a single decor and call it good.
Car. I hope I never have to buy a car. They suck.
Digital media. It’s too easy to pirate. There’s no reason not to other than being a good boy. The only way I could see myself going legit is if they started to make really good public digital libraries and I could download anything I wanted from a single source with a library card of some kind. The exception to this would be online games but the ones I like to play happen to be free lol.
Smart home devices. IOT devices. Subscriptions to things I paid for at purchase (car stuff like upgraded performance or heated seats)
A car for more than like 5k. A terrifying stat is that 90% of people in my country buy their car for on finance for >10k, yet you can buy a reasonable used one for no more than 5k anywhere
There are niche circumstances where a pricey car could be worthwhile, lots of long haul journeys, need for fuel efficiency, etc, but 90% of people don’t need or benefit much from that.
I bought my current one for 1k just last year. It’s 20 years old, but it’s in perfect condition and the efficiency is not that much different from modern cars, certainly not enough to be nearly worth the extra money.
I don’t know if never.
But I don’t want a smartwatch.
I’ve never carried a watch in general and I don’t see the appeal of it when I carry a smartphone all day anyway.
I was in the same boat until I started running. It’s very nice to monitor heart rate so you can stick to a target heart rate.
I would never buy the subscriptions that most people buy (YouTube Premium, Netflix or similar). It’s just too easy to pirate.
- A car
- Subscriptions of any kind (except a good VPN)
- New clothes (I always buy used)
- If the app is paid or even freemium I don’t use it.
- Food delivery (Really? $40 for a fucking burger)
- Guess that leaves rent and renter’s insurance which I have to have if I want a roof over my head.
Why would you need a VPN? Is it for pirating content?
To look at recipes.
So I first learnt to use a VPN on holidays at my grandmothers lake house in the Middle of now where.
She showed me how to make VPN the traditional way and after that i went on a holiday to France where I perfected my way of making VPN.
That’s not really where the story starts though in this recipe I will show you all the tricks I have learnt. It all started 13.8 billion years ago…
Obviously.
Alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, Hulu, Netflix, Xbox, PlayStation, Disney+, HBO, Tesla vehicles, dating apps,
No drugs tho ? Dudes raw dogging life.
So you’re a teenager in the US… Got it lol
Tickets to sports events. Yawn.
Sometimes, I find it interesting to watch short clips of professional athletes doing exceptional things that most humans can’t do, but I don’t have the patience to sit on my ass for hours watching a ball go back and forth.
And concerts. I haven’t seen a concert since the 90s. I’m lucky to have grown up in the era of cheap tickets.
In the 70s, I worked in a record store that sold tickets for the local outdoor summer venue. Lawn seats were $3, and it took 45 minutes to get there. If we worked the day shift in the summer, and got off at 5, and that nights show wasn’t sold out yet, we could grab a $3 ticket, and be at the show before it started.
I was also a fan of the local orchestra, who played there every week, and never fully sold out. I went to a LOT of those shows.
Hadestown is coming to town, and I’d love to see it, but the cheapest seat in the last row, off to the side, is about $70, so they can go fuck themselves. Entertainment is for the rich. I’ll just pirate the show, if there’s a proshot of it. Besides, I love the original concept album much better than the Broadway version anyway. Hades is far better in the original.
Honestly even at the current going rates of $50-100 a ticket going to some good concerts is still a blast and still worth it. Also usually there’s going to be at least one opener and depending on the show they might have 2-3 bands performing. Personally I’m happy if I get to do 1-3 big concerts a year, and that’s really not that much to budget for even at $100/ticket, and some bands are freaking incredible to see live.
Also worth poking around to see if there’s any free/cheap music events near you or comparing with the cost of tickets to a music festival if you really want to be cheap/picky. There’s a couple of free music events I try to go to every year at nearish cities to me and it’s literally free entry and they’ll have a full lineup of bands for the full weekend. I’ve seen Bobaflex, Powerman5000, The Haunt, Black Stone Cherry, Taproot, Red Jumpsuit Apperatus, Fastball, Fozzy etc. all at these free music festivals
My local B league hockey team does discount nights with cheap seats and cheap options for beer/soft drinks and snacks. My wife and I will get tickets, have a few drinks and snacks and spend a total of maybe a little over $20. Even on full price nights it’s maybe $50 for the same.
Plus there’s the fights that almost always break out. Or, as the saying goes, there was a fight and a hockey game broke out.
- P*rn premium subscriptions
- Tinder premium
- Paper news subscription or any printed magazine
- Paid tv channels
Paper news subscription or any printed magazine
I’ve only bought printed local zines/papers as a form of donation to alternative media, the same material is published by them online for free anyway.
P*rn premium subscriptions
If you can afford to pay for the content you consume it’s generally better to pay for it, especially with regards to the porn industry which takes every scummy practice of traditional media and is 10x worse because it’s not really happening in the open
any printed magazine
For some hobbies printed magazines are still the Pinnacle of media related to the hobby, so as long as the media company behind the magazine hasn’t changed hands and significantly degraded quality (looking at you Kalmbach publishing!) paying for a magazine so you get something fun to look at in the mail each month/quarter/whatever can be quite enjoyable
The maps are better in the print copy of National Geographic
NatGeo was the finest magazine on the planet for generations, then Fox got their hands on it and made it a religious rag, then sold it to some other company that managed to make it worse.
What an ignominious end to one of the greatest publications in the history of man, and that’s no exaggeration.
After building my first pc I will never buy a pre built again. I might never buy a pc again (pc of thesius!)
At some point if you decide you want a significantly newer or more powerful CPU or GPU (for example), there’s a solid chance you’ll need to replace the motherboard or the power supply. At that point, we’re playing Theseus.
Then again, mine was a 10 year old budget build and my hobbies changed significantly, so you might not actually need to upgrade at all if your computing needs aren’t hungry.
Yeah, replacing the motherboard is when I begin to consider building a new one and repurposing my current one. Because if I’m replacing the mobo, I’m probably going to have to replace the CPU and RAM, because the sockets will be different. And at that point, I might as well just go ahead and replace the PSU too, so the rating is up to date. Now I can rip out my old GPU and move it over, but that would leave my old build without one… And what if I wanted to use it for something that would potentially need a GPU, like a 4k Plex/Jellyfin server? My cooler can probably be repurposed, at least?
you’re only saying that because you have the one computer
wait until you start running your own servers and whatnot. used prebuilts with some expansion room are the most cost effective
for my gaming pc, though? fuck no. just keep changing parts out as required
I built my PC in 2003. I upgraded it 3 times. I still use the same case.
Onions. I fucking hate them like I hate MAGAs.
Sauteed onions are the sweet and rich basis of most every dish I know how to make. Even in desperate times, one can usually find an onion to bake. Onions are an incredible gift from nature and our ancestors, able to be cultivated in seemingly any habitable climate and soil, and harvested multiple times a year.
I understand, and you have my sympathy. ;)
I can handle them when they are deeply cooked into something, like a spaghetti sauce for instance. But gloppy onions on a burger is a non-starter, and raw onions on anything is truly offensive. Just fart really big at the dinner table.
You love onions so much, and I hate onions so much, that there has to be a difference in how they taste to us, how we perceive them. We know that there are genetic components to how people react to cilantro, asparagus, beans, and other foods, and maybe we are wired differently to taste them differently. After all, how can you truly compare tastes between individuals with scientific certainty?
I have a friend who feel this way about Cucumbers. Most people would say that cukes are low on the taste scale, down there with lettuce and celery. It’s not that they have no taste, but it is very mild and subtle. But not to my friend. He claims they have the most powerful taste of any vegetable (exactly what I say about onions), and even if they’ve been picked out of a salad, he can taste nothing but the cukes (again, me and onions).
He doesn’t understand how anyone could like the taste of cucumbers, and I’m the exact same way with onions, but neither one of us can understand how the other feels. There must be something genetic that keeps us from perceiving these foods in the same way that others do.
Oh, and to stir the pot further, I nearly equally despise green peppers, but absolutely love yellow, orange, red, and every sort of hot pepper. Only green peppers are forbidden, for all the same reasons as onions. They’re just unripened bitter peppers. Who’s eating unripe apples or oranges? So why peppers? Let them ripen, and they’ll be delicious.
Plenty of leaders have been killed by their own. Ask Sadat and Indira Gandhi.
Besides, none of those countries’ citizens grew up being fed a steady diet of Freedom Propaganda. Most of those countries have always been repressive, so they don’t know any better. From the time we can talk, we are fed a steady diet of American Founding Mythology, with HEAVY emphasis on Freedom and Liberty. Even the story of one of our most enduring indelible stains, Slavery, is ALL about the right to Freedom.
Other countries need other countries to save them, because they generally don’t value freedom enough to take it for themselves. But Liberty is baked into the American DNA, and we will not let it go. I suspect a lot of MAGA followers are going to get a new attitude when the MAGA Nazis flip the switch, and just being a MAGA supporter won’t save you. All they ever required was your vote, and if they no longer have elections, then your one and only value to them just disappeared.
Even onion soups?
Of course. Why would you think something featuring so much onion that they literally name the dish after it would be acceptable?
Alcohol, tobacco
