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You described exactly how eBay works.

Right now, you need a guaranteed paycheck, not a speculative project.

A side hustle might replace your income one day, but it won’t move fast enough to solve a six-month rent deficit. Focus 100% of your energy on securing a job first; once your housing is stable, you can use your off-hours to build that $10k idea.


In general yes, but there are no regular jobs now. Only gaslit interviews, if you can even get a response.

Are you talking about tech jobs, or -any- job?

If you are six months behind on rent, you just go find a job cleaning shit and fatbergs out of sewers if that's what is available IMO.


Tech jobs gaslight. You would be surprised, was recently ghosted on a local job, $700 a month in CA to sweep a large apt complex. Restaurants don’t respond either.

The fewer skills required the more people you need to compete with.


It's worth considering: Run the PiVPN script on a Ubuntu/Debian based VM. Set it to use a non-standard random port. That will be your only port exposed to the internet.

Add the generated Wireguard key to any device (laptops, phones, etc) and access your home LAN as if it was local from anywhere in the world for free.

Works well, super easy to setup, secure, and fast.


Clicking through to read a blog article used to be fun, now it's an ad-ridden nightmare.


>"artificial thought"

How about Artificial Intelligence?


"intelligence" encompassing "thinking" then becomes the hangup.

I still say it needs a new name. If we want to be generous, we could state "the limit as time approaches infinity of thunking, is thinking." (I don't believe we will ever achieve astronomically-superior AGI, and certainly don't believe it will ever have a will of its own that someone else didn't give it- which just makes it a tool.)


You haven't realized that they have been taking their payment from your refund all these years? They are a business not a charity.


They truly do simple 1040s for free, even though they are indeed not a charity.


I mean I've paid like $18 to efile my state taxes but they haven't taken any of my refund and I get it direct deposited from the IRS.

What tax complexities exist for low income people that would cause $200 fees?


Sell some stuff on Etsy and get payouts on social media. As soon as you start adding in business expenses, it inflates pretty quickly.

I've often taken on a side project or two a year for software dev/consulting and it usually winds up being $200-350 to have my taxes done. If I only have W2 income, I'll do the electronic version of TurboTax though. I also do 0 deductions and have extra out of each check taken out just in case, I don't set aside or do quarterly payments and usually get a decent return back.


Ghost or Wordpress as your CMS and a Photography focused "theme".


Appetitus Cannabinicus.


It sounds like she has been claiming that the recipe that is literally printed on the side of the box has actually been "her" recipe for all these years.


>That's a pretty high bar

Really? That reads as the lowest possible bar. The legislature just needs to pass a law that allows for the snooping and it is then in 100% compliance with that section. Not even to mention "necessary in a democratic society", I can't imagine wording more broad than that.


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