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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • I wouldn’t count on it, my wife has been trying to the best of her abilities and at the limit of our financial reach…it’s been 10 years so far, 20k on insta and recently picked up YouTube which was now getting close to getting paid pennies…but not anymore it seems.

    You either have to get lucky or have the funds and means to keep pushing yourself into the system until you trip over success.

    My wife had a single sponsor which paid her €20 per month but being sponsored by them led to her followers expecting her to behave like customer support 24/7.

    She now has this co-op with a printer resin company where she gets a percentage of each sale…she made zero in the past 10 months of pushing the product.

    At least she’s happy for being able to share her interest and hobby with a fuckload of other people.


  • My local supermarket has a lot of fresh cake in stock, usually half of the display is 40% off because of the expiration date is “today” or some goof held the box at a silly angle causing a visually ruined cake.

    I’ll happily snack away on the poor whip cream squashed sugary treat. Especially when it’s super cheap.



  • This is a beautiful piece of art, I like how not having a truck didn’t make you useless.

    I’m not American we’re not big on trucks here, unless you’re an independent contractor they do have trucks even though they don’t really fit our country haha.

    But if someone needs help to move something and you can’t supply the car, you’re instantly considered useless and never involved in anything from that moment on. Doesn’t even matter if you can move the whole couch by yourself.

    You’re excluded. It’s a peaceful life, but it gets lonely at times.




  • We have one area in my city, which is now already pretty old, that took a very modern approach but now outdated to what they are currently doing.

    Before it seemed like the answer of the future, but now it seems like a way to get people to agree with something worse and less sensible.

    I’ll explain the situation: they built these really awesome modern decent sized appartment buildings on a big area that were placed seemingly in a random layout (visually appealing unlike the old timey squared everything, the layout that is). These were really cool buildings that had that modern feel to it with lovely colours and some visually interesting shapes.

    All parking was moved underground so not a car is in sight, it’s damn near in the city center so everything is a short walk away but you still had the ability to own a car. It has 3 entrances for cars to get to the parking that is underneath the building you’re living in, so still close to home.

    Ever since they haven’t built anything like this, heck they built casual old fashioned style apartments that are tiny and crazy expensive, combined with row homes that used to be affordable but now cost over half a million even tho the surface area is still considered small especially compared to American standards.

    They recently started teasing “modern buildings” but those are nowhere near these absolutely gorgeous perfect solution to society without taking too much away from the people.

    These new ones have no parking space, at all. They cost an arm and a leg to rent and to make matters worse you share the laundry room with 60 people and every 5 studios share a kitchen and toilet. Yeah that’s right…studio appartements, a single fucking room for your whole ass life to be squeezed into. You need 2 adult minimum wages for the right to get these single person living spaces which you share with God knows who.

    I absolutely hate it.


  • Use your thumb to “point” (touch) a section of your index finger, middle finger, ring finger, pinky…now move up a section of the finger.

    Tada you learned it.

    The other hand goes 1 when you maxed out your finger sections, then 2 when you do it again where one equals 12 and 2 equals 24 etc.

    There’s really nothing to it, no research needed…just attempt to mimic what the comment describes and you’re there.



  • I think them having all this info about you, is a way to get advertisers to pay them more for the targeted ads.

    It’s not to help you or the advertisers, but themselves.

    And I assume not a single advertiser has gone up to them with a well grounded: “bruh, dafuq are you doing showing fridge ads to the guy that just bought a fridge from us… that’s not what we are paying you for.”




  • It depends per case, my friend kept studying while I dropped out (due to private circumstances).

    My friend ended up at the same employer for the same pay only years later, he wasn’t a good fit for his field.

    A few years later I jumped ship to try and develop myself into a better paid job, I am now an actual crane operator with a beefy wage. My friend is still there making the same low wage.

    But he got lucky on a different matter, due to him living at home until 33 he did manage to buy a house with massive savings. I haven’t yet.

    This is life, there aren’t any given certainties. Only people who claim their experience will be the same for you.








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    The average european has a good life, but the average person doesn’t exist outside of statistics.

    I used to work 84h weeks as a European, overtime is taxed at a higher rate so the take home is lower than a regular working hour. But if you really want something out of life (like buying a house) you have to sacrifice everything if you’re just a normal worker.

    Hell i sacrificed it all only to lose it to economic troubles and later again due to covid.

    I’m not doing that again even though all my employers try to get me to work overtime, some even fired me for refusing to work overtime past the contractual 3h per week.

    I somehow ended up making a decent wage at my current job, but i dislike the job so badly it’s not even funny anymore.