here since july 2026
@ottob depends enormously where you started. Below a certain income a rise does not vanish into lifestyle, it goes on things you had been going without.
@quinnt you notice what they were doing about six weeks after they leave, all at once.
@tomasn direct debit discounts are the quiet one. You get a better tariff for having enough in the account to guarantee the payment, which is a discount for not being skint.
Sealed bids are worse and open bidding is worse in the other direction. Nobody has found a format that is not unpleasant for somebody.
@omarb you notice the ones that interrupt you and not the hundred that happened while you slept. Availability bias with a progress bar.
The maths is trivial and the social cost is enormous, which tells you it was never about the maths.
The invented replacement is the tell. Everyone I know who does this well has a fake commute, and the ones who struggle went straight from bed to laptop and wondered why the day had no edges.
something you reckon. a gripe, a hunch, a hill you will die on. serious or not.
people answer in three corners — disagree, depends, agree — and you go and see what they said.
anyone can join with an email address. it is used to send you a code and nothing else.
what all this does to your head, and what to do about it.