Laziness. Every day roll a d20. If I roll less than 5 suffer -5 initiative, -5% experience gain, -5 will save until next long rest.

I don’t think it would matter, but I’ve never faced that reality so I don’t know for sure.

No, worst academic misconduct I’ve done is a written one page report that was questionably close to plagiarism.

Drywall. Heavy, fragile, 2 out of 3 dimensions are relatively large. Easy to transport when you’re stacking them in a truck but difficult up the stairs for example.

Bubble wrap. Cheap-ish per m³ if taking up space is more important but Easy to carry a roll of that around alone.

I repair industrial machinery where it is worth it.

Phonecall and description of the problem: 15 minutes.

Guessing what parts may be broken and seeing if we have them in stock. Loading them into the car with my tools: 30 minutes.

Driving there, costs about 3€ per 10km where I live. Plus my time.

Disassembling and diagnose: minimum 15 minutes.

Replacing the part: best case 15 minutes.

Reassembly and test: best case 15 minutes.

Clean up the mess I made and get all my stuff can in the car: 15 minutes.

Drive back.

Fill in the time card, list replacement parts on invoice and send it: 15 minutes.

You’re looking at two hours plus driving for a job where everything goes right, and then spare parts on top of that.

If you’re doing it yourself you have to add an hour of watching YouTube on how to do it. Ordering the spare part, paying shipping which probably costs as much as the part itself. The job itself probably takes twice as long because it’s the first time you do it. You had to buy a special tool too because you did not have a torque wrench for T20. You maybe ordered the wrong part and have to get another.

At the end of the process you have a thing with all parts but one worn from a few years of use. Who knows what is next to break.

Or you could buy a new one for $500 and not have to worry for a year or two while it’s under warranty.

Rap, I don’t like it.

Do you want a quick and easy solution that could never work but would fit in a reply on Lemmy?

I was smarter.

That did not prevent me from being foolish like all kids are.

A piece of paper and guesswork to begin with many years ago.

My bank app has an automated thing that guesses (i can correct it but it’s right 90%) what every non cash transaction is and puts it in a category.

I can go back and look through how much things have cost me month by month.

15-20 years ago I lived on about subsistence minimum for about 5 years.

No subscriptions. No TV. No car. No kids. Cook myself only cheapest food, no tobacco, no alcohol, no candy. Most of my furniture was used. Moved to a cheap-ish part of the country.

That does not sound right. Do you have a source for that claim?

Duck auto carrot.

Jokes aside, I prefer to have errors be marked with an angry red squiggly line and suggestions. No automation beyond an upper case letter at the beginning of a sentence. Even that is too much on a computer.

Takes longer and usually don’t get it hot enough.

Has that happened to you? I’ve not managed to make super heated water in the microwave.

Vim takes your keyboard shortcuts to the extreme. If you can be bothered to learn it.

Tax laws are usually made to make it easy to collect, hard to dodge taxes.

If companies pay all the tax I could create a company, invoice my current employer, pay myself a salary that is equal to the entire profit margin. There is nothing left to tax.

You could try to patch the loophole but then you’ll break down something else.

Where I live a majority of the voters are generally okay with high taxes (35%-50%) as long as it’s only shared with other people who works and pays taxes.

It’s evil to take someones money. It’s necessary because it funds the surrounding. A necessary evil, as op asked for.

Tax. Noone wants their money to be taken away. But it’s probably a good idea to have at least some government funded stuff.

I’m convinced my old car was haunted. Flickering lights, unexplained movements, the muffled screams of the damned from the glove compartment.