WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them]

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Cake day: December 31st, 2023

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  • The US government provides weapons for the genocide.

    One of the main campuses in the protests is opening a campus in Israel, which students are opposing until Israel ends genocide and apartheid.

    Many of the campuses donate money to or have partnerships with candidates and organizations that are also complicit in the genocide.

    Of course Israel isn’t going to stop genocide because a bunch of college students in the US don’t like it. But that doesn’t mean students have to sit idly as their tuition dollars go to fund genocide.


  • When I was making that kind of money, I still saved way more than 5%. Granted, after inflation, it is like $11.50 now. Still, 10% would have been pretty easy. 20% would be possible if I didn’t blow money on things like spend $3K on a bike for hobby use. Also, that’s assuming you don’t have unexpected expenses. I lived somewhere where having a car wasn’t necessary, so that made a huge different in budgeting. And when I needed surgery, I was lucky with insurance. Otherwise, that could have easily have eaten up the savings I had.

    So 15% is definitely possible… with lots of luck and good circumstances.













  • How many feet of extension cord will a home owners association let be seen drug out on the front lawn? PVC pipe and a small shovel are cheap. Easily fixed in an afternoon. Not exactly fun and assumes the person is physically able to do that.

    What if there are no exterior outlets? Most homes do, at least where I’m at. If they’re in the back, that might not be practical still. Depending on the situation, adding a outlet could be less than $100. Which, if you can afford an electric car and gasoline, should be pretty affordable. But adding a dedicated circuit would certainly add more expense.

    You going to leave a window open with an extension cord fed through it? Maybe fine if you live somewhere without neighbors… probably a good way to get robbed otherwise.

    People put entire AC’s in their windows. There’s ways to ways to lock windows that are partially open 100% of the time.

    What is the exterior outlets were shittily installed and are aren’t rated for whatever your particular flavor of electric vehicle you purchased?

    If its just the outlets, fix it. A GCFI is like $20? So just replace them if they aren’t already GCFI. Bigger issue is amps in the circuit. Unless it happens to be on a 20amp+ circuit, there’s not really room for other things to run at the same time I think and it would probably be better off on its own. Also, if you have a lot of people there and have two vehicles you want to charge overnight, each would need its own circuit.

    Live in an apartment complex? Then its not your home to be building a charging station at. A lot of apartments in the last couple years around here have been adding charging stations (including the one I’m at).

    Of course situations vary. So, its not always practical or cheap. But you don’t need a fancy level 2 charging station to charge a plug-in hybrid.