MrMusAddict

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  • Speaking of “paying 10% for the privilege”, one of the things irked me was my dad’s insistence that tithes had to be monetary. Per him, volunteer work didn’t count.

    I was roped into running the computer, or doing the sound, for all 5 services Saturday + Sunday, plus practice before hand. 16 hour commitment twice a month.

    My day job was only 20 hours/wk back then, so in terms of time, my volunteer work was ~30% of all my work. Yet my dad still insisted I payed 10% of the taxed cash I received…

    That was one of many “cuts” in my “death by 1000” for being religious.


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    Two things:

    1. see if your power provider offers an “equal pay” plan, where your payments are normalized over 12 months. This provides consistency.

    2. Budget Budget Budget! Keep track of your monthly income and expenses, and plug this equal pay into it.


    Often times your power company will let you do equal pay before having 12 months of usage history.

    The one thing is that if you use more than you’re paying for, you have to pay the overage at the end of the 12-month cycle, AND your payments increase. So, don’t get used to leaving all the lights on!

    On the flip side, if you use less, you’ll either get a refund or accumulate credits which will lower your next year’s payments.











  • That’s a bad faith argument. The ToS also says to not engage in illegal activity. The admonishment of Nazi’s and Pedophiles is an admonishment of illegal evil.

    Your inclusion of Republicans is a bit of an extreme juxtaposition. Feel free to admonish the individual evil views of Republicans, but to discriminate against Republicans purely for their association is rightly against ToS.


  • T-Mobile users; be aware that T-Mobile has prepared for this and are trying to automatically transition grandfathered accounts with unlimited everything into their new plans.

    I’m not 100% sure if the coverage of the new plans are technically worse, but they’re definitely more expensive. And I wouldn’t be surprised if the new plans had contact language to do a rug pull in the future.

    You need to opt out of the transition.


  • In my opinion this is actually better than the CoC. The only thing “missing” is the definition of which qualities you shouldn’t discriminate against. But that’s now generalized into “groups of people”.

    I still can’t discriminate against people based on any qualification. Hell, I technically can’t discriminate against “pineapple on pizza eaters”.