twack

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[–] twack 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You can do a pretty decent job with a ziplock and a water bath until you can afford one.

Put the food in the ziplock and submerge it in a tank of water up to the top of the bag while its still open. Then seal the bag while the lower part is held under water. Helpful to have an extra set of hands if you have someone available to seal while you hold the lower part under water.

Obviously not as good, but it does help.

[–] twack 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Also, has no one heard of a freezer?

If you want to get fancy, vacuum pack it. I'll admit, I cannot stand even the slightest freezer burn. It makes me gag immediately. Vacuum packing basically eliminates that.

[–] twack 21 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

*removing yourself from the gene pool

Death is not required.

[–] twack 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

ZFS is fantastic and it can indeed restore files that have been encrypted as long as you have an earlier snapshot.

However, it would not have helped in this scenario. In fact, it might have actually made recovery efforts much more difficult.

It could have helped by automatically sending incremental snapshots to a secondary drive, which you could then have restored the original drive from. However, this would have required the foresight to set that up in the first place. This process also would not have been quick; you would need to copy all of the data back just like any other complete drive restoration.

[–] twack 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I mean yes, please vote people.

However the supreme court is stacked because Bitch McConnell is a piece of shit.

[–] twack 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

50k and paying 15k, because that person is living within their means. They probably share a shitty apartment with roommates and have a crappy car, but they can sustain their lifestyle. Eventually they will retire with investments covering the exact same income that they have now.

100k paying 50k is a hot shot, a flash in the pan. They have a higher quality of life right now, but they will likely crash and burn. They cannot live and invest enough money to sustain their lifestyle, and they won't know what to do when they suddenly have to live on half of what they used to make.

Making more money does not mean you have better finances, it usually just means you own more expensive stuff right now.

Edit: the one exception is the 100k paying 50k and then living like the 50k paying 15k for literally everything else. They are not the norm, but those people will probably be ok. They'll have to move when they retire though, or have like no paid fun ever.

[–] twack 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's extremely difficult to pull off today, but that doesn't mean that it isn't an appropriate figure. The "wants" and "investment" categories have effectively been wiped out for a large number of people, which isn't a healthy and sustainable way to live long term.

This is what the entire "living wage" argument is based on. Regular people aren't making enough money to have a healthy budget. Well, some are just over inflating wants, but that's not the people I'm talking about.

[–] twack 22 points 2 months ago (4 children)

30% is widely considered to be the most you should pay for a living space in order to live a sustainable lifestyle and retire comfortably. It even says in the article that they consider anyone that has to pay more than that to be "cost burdened".

It usually breaks down somewhere around 30% on housing, 20% on necessary bills, 30% on wants / unnecessary bills, and 20% on retirement investments / savings.

The fact that nearly half of renters cannot do that is the problem that they are trying to highlight, but it doesn't offer much of a solution. These people will not be able to retire without public assistance (if they can at all), and will likely run into serious struggles long before then.

[–] twack 18 points 2 months ago

It translates to this meme template.Always has been meme template

[–] twack 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't remember voting on the curriculum last time I was in school.

I can now though, so thank you for telling me about this. It definitely should have been included.

[–] twack 29 points 2 months ago

Uhm... Yes. Like a lot.

[–] twack 5 points 6 months ago

As the other commenter noted, this post is missing it's image. However, I found your people: [email protected]

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