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Behold the man who is a bean.
We have best wiki in the world, because of gulag.
The only button you need here is the little X in the upper right corner.
*rationally angry

You're a bit too late for trying to complain about that one.

The latter has been the dominant American pronunciation of the word for so long that it now appears as the primary pronunciation guide in American dictionaries.

Definition of NICHE

Definition of 'niche' by Merriam-Webster

Well, I pay for a VPN.

I've never felt I'm not living for today. We also travel abroad every other year or so, and that's probably the biggest 'entertainment' expense in our lives. If we need a car to visit someone or somewhere outside the range of public transit or biking, we just rent one for the weekend (probably happens about once a year). We don't have to hesitate before choosing to do that because we know we're living well within our means the rest of the time.

The thing is, once you're in the habit of doing this stuff, it doesn't feel like an imposition. It's just the way your life works. It was actually a bit of a struggle to remember all of those points when I was writing up that list yesterday, because it's all just natural to me now. There are probably a few more things we do along these lines that haven't occurred to me.

And there are a huge number of non-financial benefits on offer here, too: walking and biking at times you'd otherwise be driving is excellent for your health; planning meals allows you to choose healthier options, cut down on red meat consumption, etc; meal planning, buying second-hand goods, and not driving reduces dependency on online mega-retailers, international sweatshop labor, and environmentally harmful practices; making use of the library system indirectly supports its continued existence for folks who have no other options; and on and on.

  • not having a car (always living/renting in walking or biking distance of my work)
  • moving in with my partner straight out of college so we could split expenses
  • putting the lion's share of my medium-term and long-term savings into low-expense-ratio, passively managed index funds starting in my early 20s
  • buying almost exclusively second-hand clothes, furniture, and cookery
  • getting all books and movies from the library
  • only buying games when they are bundled or otherwise on steep discount years after release
  • pirating any other media in which I'm interested if its distributors make it even remotely difficult for me to buy it instead
  • planning all dinners in advance every week before grocery shopping (leads to almost never eating at restaurants or ordering takeout, and almost no food waste because grocery list is based on actual meals)
Wild! I've got about 40 TB, and have never come across someone with more... let alone four times more.
Hamster > Guinea Pig > Capybara
The word you're looking for there is 'isometric.'