I think I saw this earlier on Lemmy, but without the red text spelling it out. I think I prefer that ever-so-slightly more subtle version.

Calm down, this isn't the banks screwing the little guy. This number includes tax and possibly insurance

"PITI" (principal, interest, taxes and insurance) is the standard quoted cost. It's just an estimate. You can often pick your own insurance which will change the cost, and if you're buying in cash, insurance may not even be required. (It will almost certainly be required if you have a loan, since the bank wants its assets protected.)

I don't get all the Apple hate from the Linux community. Out of the box you have a fully usable *NIX machine

they even switched the default shell to zsh! No advertising in the Start menu, and ssh (client and server) included by default. Install homebrew and boom

tmux, htop, nload, lolcats.....most of your favorite tools can be installed easy as on any linux distro.

I use Debian for personal use, and I much prefer it...but basically only because I prefer i3 to the Mac GUI.

I'm not going to worry about voting on election night. Because I will have voted days/weeks earlier through my state's effective vote by mail system.

I get that it's a meme, but what's the problem? I'm vegetarian/flirt with veganism; it's purely for moral/ethical/environmental reasons.

Indian food is delicious. An Impossible burger on a pretzel bun dripping with grilled onions, avocado, vegan aioli and mustard with a side of steak fries? That's also delicious, in my opinion.

Meat is delicious, and that's not at all incompatible with my reasoning for being vegetarian.

sedan

I think it should be station wagon (or "estate" in Tolkien's English perhaps).

Remember: elections have consequences.

Also remember that

as much as disaffected and/or malicious actors (or Simpsons and South Park, for that matter) will claim otherwise

the two major political parties in the US are not the same.

Credit scores are often required for things that don't necessarily incur debit

it can be a requirement for renting, and for credit cards (which, if paid off monthly, don't accumulate debt).

The credit system is far from perfect, but this is a step in the right direction it seems; I view it as a statement on "healthcare as a right," rather than as "good credit scores as a right."

Lot of comments about RTGs, but I don't think that's what OP is asking. RTGs convert heat to electricity, same as a conventional power plants

they just do it in a solid state way instead of steam. In RTGs it doesn't matter where the heat comes from; they are not really analogous to solar cells, as the title asks.

In fact, there are consumer products that use the same technology

you can buy a little electric fan that sits on top of a wood stove and, once up to temp, will start spinning. The electricity is generated by the thermal gradient using heat from the stove, essentially the same as an RTG.

As others have mentioned, a few possibilities (I'm in the US, not sure how specific this is):

• Payment isn't always monthly, it is often every two weeks. So sometimes you get two paychecks in a month, sometimes you get three.
• Compensation isn't just salary, even if you're salaried. Bonuses, stock grants, etc. might be done yearly/every 6 mo./every quarter.
• Expenses aren't always monthly. If you own a place, you probably pay property tax which isn't due every month AFAIK. If you budget for vacations, holiday travel, etc., these are costs that vary wildly month to month, but have some stability on a yearly basis.
• ETA: taxes are based on annual income, too.

I know it's just a meme, but an OBDII dongle

even a cheap $10 Bluetooth one

is super useful. You can read and reset the codes, and watch stats in real-time if so inclined.