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I go to a gigantic butcher's shop once or twice a month, portion out the purchases and then freeze them.
I get a veg delivery once a week from a local farm who also locally sources what they don't grow.
To actually track checkouts/purchases correctly so that you don't advertise to those people requires a completely different setup.
I'm neither popular enough on Twitter or Facebook to be receiving notifications on a regular basis.
I have no need to get slack notifications unless I'm directly @'d and that's rare.
I don't belong to any WhatsApp group, because that's bloody annoying.
So, no. No need to switch off. I can carry on about my day, phone at my side and it only bings at me if it's actually important.
Even in countries like the UK where there is a tax treaty in place, it can be difficult because the UK offers a wide variety of tax wrappers to encourage people to save money. But those tax wrappers can count as PFICs for US taxes and you won't be getting the paperwork you need to do a QEF, so you have to Mark To Market
I farked up on an ISA because I never knew about any of this and ended up owing over $1000 in back taxes. If I had known enough to declare the PFIC correctly from the date I started it, I wouldn't have owed any where near that amount of tax on it :(
Not the cheapest though, but I think they may actually be cheaper than my work place pension! I need to sit down and work it out.
I started with a £20 deposit, and just set up a monthly transfer.
When I called to change my address for an old work Fidelity IRA years back, the panic in the advisors voice, as he informed me I'd no longer be able to contribute to the fund, was kinda funny. Considering I'd never personally contributed to the account in the first place.
I currently use 5w LED grow lights for garden vegetable hydroponics. They are very cost effective. At about 12p/kwh, make it easy and say lights on for 10 hours a day, that would be 1 kwh every 20 days per light, so 12p per 20 days per light.
From what I understand from people who need to also provide heat to their crops, what they save in electricity cost with LEDs, they end up spending in heating costs. So in some cases it can be a bit of a wash
Most people I know use it with an 'unlimited' subscription and feel the money they save, by knowing exactly what they will be spending and by not having impulse buys, plus the time saved makes it worth it.
Reading The Evermen Saga by James Maxwell.
No self help or technical books for me, just pure fantasy.
Thankfully that's what it's always been to me. The ringing is the meaning of silence and the notes are not at odds with each other.
When I realised that other people didn't hear the ringing when it was silent, I was a fair bit shocked.
They jump on you for that kind of light 'check yourself' comment, well then I guess it would be now much clearer to you what to do next.
(ignore the vast portions of the episodes where they wild goose chase improbable scenario after improbable scenario though. Bloody infuriating)
Along with just about everything else you've said, that's also not your problem.
People who are not part of the discriminated group do see what's going on. However they are often powerless themselves to do anything other than leave. A toxic environment affects almost everyone exposed to it.
I'm female, I've been the first and the only woman on teams. I don't give a crap about it. I do my job and expect my colleagues to do the same.
Any place with crap culture is crap culture for almost everyone, no matter gender-identity or race.
I look for places where the employees are passionate and care about what they're doing. Somewhere where code reviews are neither combative nor do they roll over and let things through. Basically somewhere I'll be working to be better for both me and for my colleagues.
Maybe that's something you could ask about. How are code reviews handled, how are implementation disagreements handled. Ask for stories about the last time something fell over. How do they handle call outs, all those stressful situations that people often like to brag about. How someone brags can tell you if you want to work with them or not.
The time I spend not being sedentary is also the time I don't spend in front of screens.
Then again, I work for a sane employer and from reading the comments here, most people don't.
A history of breaking immigration rules won't help your eventual visa application.
You'll need to like, or be open to, 50s-60s style sci-fi, however.
Not to the extent of the above, but for instance, last year I received someone's job offer in Colorado. I did respond to the sender to let them know of the mistake of course.
Places that exploit employees like that are not healthy places to work for anyone of any age.