If you pay your credit card on time and never have to deal with interest or late fees, your credit card company will start offering you cards with much higher limits, sometimes as much as 10x your current limit. You gotta remember that even if that's fine for a lot of people, those offers are specifically designed to be traps, not rewards. Credit card companies do not like "deadbeats", people who pay off their card in full and on time, because they make the vast majority of their money off of interest and fees. They want to increase your limit so that you get careless and spend more than you can actually afford.
It is extremely easy to fall into credit card debt, especially if you get comfortable. Getting a higher limit can help improve your credit score but going into debt because of that limit will tank it anyway, so just be careful.
Hello to everyone who saw this post and decided that to pay their credit card bill. Happy Pay Your Credit Card Bill Day.
there are a lot of very obvious jokes you could make about young Elliot Page guest starring on an episode of Trailer Park Boys but honestly looking at the timeline (this was well before he came out as trans) + plot of the episode (Elliot plays the trailer park supervisor's daughter who starts the episode in a comically frilly dress before becoming more and more crass/"masculine" after hanging out with The Gang) there is a nonzero chance this was one of the inciting incidents that made Elliot realize he was trans. like. the episode has him going from this
to this
this is what all those forcemasc blogs are posting about but real
When people get a little too gung-ho about-
wait. cancel post. gung-ho cannot be English. where did that phrase come from? China?
ok, yes. gōnghé, which is…an abbreviation for “industrial cooperative”? Like it was just a term for a worker-run organization? A specific U.S. marine stationed in China interpreted it as a motivational slogan about teamwork, and as a commander he got his whole battalion using it, and other U.S. marines found those guys so exhausting that it migrated into English slang with the meaning “overly enthusiastic”.
That’s…wild. What was I talking about?
I would actually go as far as to say that MOST abuse is unintentional. I think most people will go through their lives without ever experiencing intentional abuse. People are abusive because they're selfish, because they're stressed, because they care more about what society thinks they should do than the impacts of their actions on their children and partners, because they think what they're doing is correct, because they've made it make sense in their own heads, because they think they can fix their victims, they think they can fix their relationships, they think they can stop you from leaving, they think they can make you a better partner to them, they think that means you need to do what they want. We've sort of constructed mental illness in a way that doing this shit to other people counts as a form of mental illness because it is anti social behavior in the literal sense— it is behavior that causes social harm.
I don't say any of this to excuse it. I think everyone needs to be more aware of this because if you think abuse has to be intentional you will never realize you are capable of abusive behavior. You will never realize you are being shitty to the people you love, because YOU know what you mean, YOU know you don't mean any harm. But you're doing harm. You need to pay attention to the impact you have on other people, and you need to do it all the time, Especially when you feel least capable of doing so. Sorry! You live in a society. Get your head out of your ass.
I humbly offer this contribution.
"only a poor artisan blames his tools" is such bullshit, in almost every imaginable line of work the quality of the tools you have access to plays a massive role in the quality of the end product, sometimes in excess of the role played by individual skill! For example, some people have to code in javascript
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lets lay down with mama
lets lay down with mama
lets lay down with mama
I'm starting to feel like some of you guys don't actually have that good a grasp of what a data center is or what it does
"We need to get rid of data centers" says the tumblr user who has a career doing gig work via cloud apps
Well, I know pretty well what a data center is, and you are wrong.
You don't need data centers to serve Tumblr. Or your gps maps. And for sure not to use a gig jobs app.
You need a server, indeed. That server is basically a computer that needs to be somewhere with a good internet connection. If the site or app has a lot of usage, you may need several of them, rarely more than the lower two figures. That's it.
"the internet we know" doesn't rely on data centers. Data centers, as we know nowadays, basically were invented by Amazon, who started selling them "as a service" maybe 15 years ago. Before that, companies used to, well, have their own servers. Often in their own office buildings. Sometimes in MUCH smaller facilities dedicated to host servers.
But the modern concept of data server? That is needed mostly for data mining and selling processing power as a service, so shitty startups can try to invent the next torment Nexus without needing to hire people who actually know how to work with physical servers nor spending big money on hardware.
But most of the apps and websites you use everyday? Any shitty laptop could very well be used as their server and support a couple of hundred concurrent users without breaking a sweat.
Honestly, they are just needed for the worst parts of the internet.
Well, I know pretty
well what a data center
is, and you are wrong.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
you can make your own server by the way it is not that hard my dudes
i need to train in a temple for 50 years bye
nvm they wanted to teach me discipline & patience instead of Hundred-Man Slaying Fist Technique so i dont care anymore
when youre inadvertently 1% too nice to a straight guy you can usually pinpoint the exact moment where he decides you must be acting that way because you want to fuck down on him crazy style and it is at this point that one would be well advised to have a cyanide capsule under a false tooth or an equivalent fast acting response
Please don't lump us with those weirdos. Most of us are too insecure to ever believe a girl would like us.
i would like to formally apologize to the majority shy and sensitive straight dudes who felt othered by this post... what i said was thoughtless and i can admit that. going forward i promise to center the perspective of heterosexual men with low self esteem in all of my writings and teachings. just donated $20 to the khaki pants community fund