I don't report anything that I earn in cash to the IRS
Calm down there young man, they catch the majority of people from their internet posts
When watching over-the-air television, I mute the TV and look away when ads come on.
You can show me all the ads in the world but you sure as fuck can't force me to engage.
Tap for spoiler
God help those fuckers when I finally fall down the TV Tuner + Jellyfin + TVHeadend rabbithole. I'm gonna "Live Pause" that shit or I'm gonna straight up DVR everything I wanna watch and skip the ads.
And my parents watch much more OTA TV than me so you bet your ass I'm setting up every TV in their house with a cheap trustable Android TV stick and teaching them how to Pause, Rewind and Fast Forward. Fuck ads foreverrrrrr.
Start saving for a small pc and some large hard drives. It's worth it. Or pay for a VPN and use stremio and just stream torrents.
You can also buy access to other people's Plex servers, watch anything
Fuck advertisements. I've got pihole setup as my local DNS, ublock origin on all computers. Being bombarded every minute of every day to buy shit is getting real old really fast.
Perceiving advertisements is unethical. Good job!
This a more “a man” than “the man” but I had a boss I hated who was really into horoscopes.
So I learned all about them so I could memorize every one else’s sign and continue to forget his.
Good luck writing me up for that Rob. Oh wait you couldn’t anyway because I outlasted you!
He also insisted I write “inspirational quotes” on the weekly sales paper for my team to feal inspired . nietzsche it is.
By not participating in work's non-work activities.
There was this one time during a sprint retrospective that our PM said we were gonna do an ice breaker. This was a year and a half into my employment, and nobody else on the team had been there for less than 2 years.
I fucked off for a good 20 minutes on my phone while they were talking about each other's spirit animals.
Linux and piracy.
“A trans person peed here” stickers in gas station bathrooms/other public bathrooms.
Steal as much creamer from work as I can carry
I also only poop at work. Saves me paper, water, and time at home.
"Boss gets a dollar, I get a dime, 's why I poop on company time."
I joined a union and organized the election of a workers council at my workplace.
Union dues are 1% of my salary.
In the past 5 years, we managed to enforce:
- the right to work from home
- 20% pay for the time spent on call after hours, plus 1 day paid vacation for each week you're on call (so I now have 42 days + unlimited sick days)
- a company car for on call duty, which you're allowed to use privately, too
- work phones for every employee (instead of having to install the company MDM on your private phone)
- convertible desks for everyone
- and a substantial pay raise
This post was about little things, no need to show your gigantic balls here.
Sorry for the misunderstanding.
It began with a little thing, simply writing an e-mail to the union, and kind of grew from there.
All good man, I just wanted to point out how impressive what you did was. You didn't just stick it to the man, you went Vlad the Impaler on his ass.
Run every reasonable possible method of ad-blocking. From whole-house PiHole with uBlock, Privacy Badger, anti-tracking, VPN, and more. F/OSS software when possible.
When I pump gas, I don't end on an even dollar amount or anything. I just...stop.
I'm not following, how is this sticking it to the man?
So - you don't wait until the nozzle clicks or anything? Just arbitrarily stop pumping?
Don’t know if it counts as sticking it to the man, but I adblock everything. Seriously, Ive got adblockers on my adblockers. Ive been adblocking for so long I don’t know what to buy anymore.
I’m sitting here in my empty house surrounded by my bags of money I don’t know what to spend on. Send help.
I poo at work
boss makes a dollar, i make a dime; that's why i shit... on company time 👍
Me too. Sometimes I hold it in through the weekend.
Get yourself food poisoning for maximum bang for the buck.
I don't remember the last time I saw an advert.
Like, genuinely, I get politely confused when people talk about them. What do you MEAN you're not adblocking everything? What do you MEAN you still use a service if you can't adblock it? WHAT DO YOU MEAN you paid for YouTube?
I have never paid rent or utilities or electricity.
Currently live off grid on land I own using solar power. We have all electric appliances. Generator uses propane but only use it 1-2 times a year so it’s rare to refill the tank.
The dump is only a few dollar when we take our trash (under $10) every few months.
Self host on a NAS, have home assistant that helps a ton with power monitoring and control.
My goal in a few years is to provide almost all my needs from my own land. Food, water, shelter, power, etc.
Take my time in the toilet and at the gym (there is a gym at my office).
i refuse to apply for jobs
More to the woman. My girl once complained about me leaving the seat up.
For years, I always put the seat AND the lid down.
All of us leave the seat and lid down. The whole seat up/down argument is pretty ridiculous.
I work about 1 hour of every day.
I try to steal from the supermarket every time I go.
Be careful at places like Target and Walmart with their cameras. Target is no joke and supposedly lets you get away with it right up until you cross the limit for arrest/a serious charge.
I buy single purpose devices that are fully offline, durable, user serviceable, and useful... and then I go for a long time without buying anything but food. It's almost like setting a new personal record: how many days in a row I can go without buying a single thing?
Push Nestle and Goya products way back in the shelf / turn them around / grab non- Nestle/Goya equivalents and put them in front of the Nestle/Goya shit.
Goal is to make their products less visible to other customers.
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