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    When watching over-the-air television, I mute the TV and look away when ads come on.
    You can show me all the ads in the world but you sure as fuck can’t force me to engage.

    Tap for spoiler

    God help those fuckers when I finally fall down the TV Tuner + Jellyfin + TVHeadend rabbithole. I’m gonna “Live Pause” that shit or I’m gonna straight up DVR everything I wanna watch and skip the ads.
    And my parents watch much more OTA TV than me so you bet your ass I’m setting up every TV in their house with a cheap trustable Android TV stick and teaching them how to Pause, Rewind and Fast Forward. Fuck ads foreverrrrrr.

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    Run every reasonable possible method of ad-blocking. From whole-house PiHole with uBlock, Privacy Badger, anti-tracking, VPN, and more. F/OSS software when possible.

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      Firefox has an addon called AdNauseam that’s based on uBlock Origin but clicks on ads in addition to blocking them.

      Chrome had it, but google removed it because they can.

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    “A trans person peed here” stickers in gas station bathrooms/other public bathrooms.

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        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.

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    More to the woman. My girl once complained about me leaving the seat up.

    For years, I always put the seat AND the lid down.

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    I thank gpt every time because apparently that costs them money.

    I click on sponsored links via a browser extension because it confuses profilers and costs them money.

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    I have never paid rent or utilities or electricity.

    Currently live off grid on land I own using solar power. We have all electric appliances. Generator uses propane but only use it 1-2 times a year so it’s rare to refill the tank.

    The dump is only a few dollar when we take our trash (under $10) every few months.

    Self host on a NAS, have home assistant that helps a ton with power monitoring and control.

    My goal in a few years is to provide almost all my needs from my own land. Food, water, shelter, power, etc.

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        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.

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    I joined a union and organized the election of a workers council at my workplace.
    Union dues are 1% of my salary.

    In the past 5 years, we managed to enforce:

    • the right to work from home
    • 20% pay for the time spent on call after hours, plus 1 day paid vacation for each week you’re on call (so I now have 42 days + unlimited sick days)
    • a company car for on call duty, which you’re allowed to use privately, too
    • work phones for every employee (instead of having to install the company MDM on your private phone)
    • convertible desks for everyone
    • and a substantial pay raise
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        Sorry for the misunderstanding.
        It began with a little thing, simply writing an e-mail to the union, and kind of grew from there.

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          All good man, I just wanted to point out how impressive what you did was. You didn’t just stick it to the man, you went Vlad the Impaler on his ass.