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Cake day: January 24th, 2024

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  • I earn almost double and I can’t say I have any hobbies that require spending money anymore, unless upskilling for work counts as a hobby.

    Almost all of my hobbies are centered around spending less money, e.g. building an offline music collection to move off Spotify, homelab stuff to host navidrome & jellyfin to move off having any subscription services.

    I did buy an acoustic guitar I’ve been absolutely in love with lately. Was pretty cheap for a guitar (£200) but that’s something I suppose.

    I was saving for a house but by the time I could afford even the shittiest mortgage I might have to flee the country and as such lose all the gains in my LISA. Might as well live a little I guess.


  • 3 months at the absolute most, likely significantly less, even after cutting out all “luxuries” like paying for internet/phone/electricity/water.

    70% of that would go on rent for my 1-bed flat. And no - I don’t live in a big city. I earn more than most. I spend less than most. I don’t use any subscription services and I pirate everything. I don’t drink, and I never go out to pubs, cinema, (insert paid activity here) because all of that is way too expensive.

    The UK is fucked.

    Literally the only thing that decides how long I can live is whether or not you rent - whatever you do or don’t do as personal responsibility practically does not matter unless you own a house.

    The small variations in rent price are also irrelevant, I used to pay more for less, in the grand scheme of things the variance only amounts to £100-200 per year and usually depends on how much you can tolerate free penicillin on the walls.

    The blame is only on boomers who hoard property, jack up rents and collect benefits from the gov’t off worker taxes. Virtually no one else is to blame apart from capitalism more generally.

    The same boomers will also soon elect the alt-right and things will get a lot worse and everywhere else seems to be on the same general trajectory.

    I used to dream of a utopia like Star Trek. Now 28 days later looks like a utopia.
















  • The world isn’t benefitting from your research, you benefit from the world’s research based off your own research, on and on it goes and we all get smarter and know more and strive towards bettering our condition, curing our ills and minimizing suffering and maximizing happiness for all.

    At least in my opinion it’s why scientific research while a truly neutral morally activity and generally done as an end unto itself - from a broadly humanist standpoint - is worth pursuing, even when the immediate benefits aren’t seen by the shortsighted.