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Money saving pro-tips to people from warm climates that move to a cold climate

Source: I lived with a southerner and a girl from LA in a northern city in the US and they wasted a lot of money.

Tip #1: Drop your heat at night, or any time you’re not home. Most people up north don’t keep the heat at the same temp 24/7. That shit's expensive. When I’m home, I keep my heat anywhere between 65-68F, but during the workday, or at night, that shit goes down to 60F. A lot of thermostats are programmable so you can have it set automatically to turn down while you're at work/at night.

Tip #2: If you’re leaving your home for over 24 hours, lower the heat as much as possible. I set mine to 55F. Apartments and even houses heat up pretty quickly, so there’s no reason to waste money if no one’s around, and you won’t die if you have to wear your coat indoors for a few minutes. Note: you can’t turn your heat off completely or your pipes will freeze.

Tip #3: If you’re home but you’re only going to be occupying one room for several hours, consider leaving the heat low and just buying yourself a space heater.

Tip #4: When buying a space heater, get one that has an internal timer or thermostat. They cost slightly more, but the bonus to these is that they don’t just continue putting heat into the air until you intervene. They will turn themselves on/off in intervals, which helps to keep your room at a more consistent temperature. Just don’t forget to make sure the heater is switched off if you’re leaving your home!

Tip #5: Get better socks. A lot of the cold you feel is actually just ur terrible, flimsy ankle socks not protecting you from the cold floor. If I’m lounging around at home, I wear those heavy duty fuzzy socks that have a whole internal double lining. I’m a raynaud’s bitch so I know what I’m talking about.

Tip #6: Fleece-lined leggings. Steal your bf’s fleece pants. Why do they make men’s casual sweats so much thicker than girl’s casual sweats? Literal bullshit.

Tip #7: Idk who lied to you and told you that a bed can only have one comforter, but that’s dumb. I sleep with two. It’s much warmer.

Tip #8: If you're in an old apartment/house, winterize your windows. You can buy winterizing seals and insulation anywhere online and it's very cheap.

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Honkai: Star rail | The best way to start your morning

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i have nothing smart to say about bg3 yet but have this

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Somebody sees this peaceful man (Oda) watering his balcony plants and taking in babies and is like "aww what a stable guy! I wanna marry him!" but Oda's like "um. I don't think you do. I take a lot of effort." and they're confused as heck because?? he's the easiest person in the world to get along with.

Cut to Dazai fighting half of the world's bad guys with his bare hands to keep him alive that day

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final victor — fleeting glimmer

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'cause where would i be then when the end comes?

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My new webtoon ’Daughter of a Thousand Faces’ is out on Tapas now! If you’re into stories about disappointing princesses, her secret evil Demon teacher, and how bad of an idea this found family duo is…this is for you!

Shen Yuhua is a disappointment to the Grand Chaoyang Palace Sect, with no powers or great beauty, she brings nothing to the table for her immortal father. That all changes one day when she accidentally meets Chu Tian, the famed Demon of a Thousand Faces, her father’s arch nemesis… and accidentally frees him from his prison.

[Link to read]

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a post-doc was doing a guest seminar at my institute and at the beginning of his presentation he was explaining why he chose birds for his evolutionary analysis - so he said "well first of all, because birds are the best and most interesting animals and it's fun to study them" and a few professors in the room gave him a very serious nod

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do you want him dead or not man

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zhou zishu watches helian yi and jing beiyuan and wu xi, and thinks boy i hope that if someone has a crush on me they just tell me directly, instead of spending forever dancing around the topic and like committing unspeakable crimes about it like these chuckleheads. and as he thinks this the finger of a monkey’s paw curls

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Just thinking about the difference in their defeat pose.....the size difference....

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imbibitor lunae & the divine foresight in the 2.2 trailer — “then wake to weep”

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Protective🍁🦁🍁

Three seconds of 2.2 Trailer jingheng has and I can’t think of anything else😂 In the livestream they said that Boothill is looking for the Astral Express for help and my thoughts are that jing yuan is already there by that time, which makes things embarrassing 😳

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AVENTURINEEEE

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i had no idea what else to expect from penacony other than 'aventurine hot' but

the psychological horror monsters lurking under the dream hotel sure was a surprise

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So, there's a dirty little secret in indie publishing a lot of people won't tell you, and if you aren't aware of it, self-publishing feels even scarier than it actually is.

There's a subset of self-published indie authors who write a ludicrous number of books a year, we're talking double digit releases of full novels, and these folks make a lot of money telling you how you can do the same thing. A lot of them feature in breathless puff pieces about how "competitive" self-publishing is as an industry now.

A lot of these authors aren't being completely honest with you, though. They'll give you secrets for time management and plotting and outlining and marketing and what have you. But the way they're able to write, edit, and publish 10+ books a year, by and large, is that they're hiring ghostwriters.

They're using upwork or fiverr to find people to outline, draft, edit, and market their books. Most of them, presumably, do write some of their own stuff! But many "prolific" indie writers are absolutely using ghostwriters to speed up their process, get higher Amazon best-seller ratings, and, bluntly, make more money faster.

When you see some godawful puff piece floating around about how some indie writer is thinking about having to start using AI to "stay competitive in self-publishing", the part the journalist isn't telling you is that the 'indie writer' in question is planning to use AI instead of paying some guy on Upwork to do the drafting.

If you are writing your books the old fashioned way and are trying to build a readerbase who cares about your work, you don't need to use AI to 'stay competitive', because you're not competing with these people. You're playing an entirely different game.

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hello character who is desperate to be a good person; i want to play a game. in front of you is the one person you will never be able to save. you have the rest of your life to make peace with this. there are no defined repercussions if you fail, but we both know you're going to attempt to win regardless. your time starts now