admiralteal

Starting with only autopaid non-flexible spending is a good bet, and there are credit cars that will de facto get you an ~3% discount on those categories just for using them.

Remember, all cash rewards / points systems exist to make you spend more money, though. Like the cards, they’re designed to increase your spending. So it’s the same advice – only think hard about it for fixed costs.

I did the same thing twice.

Two different employers that really deserve to be absolutely thrashed but as soon as I got to the point where it was asking me my true identity I realized there was no hope it wouldn’t come back to bite me in the long run.

I understand why in their business model they want to be able to verify employment. I’d even say it’s reasonable. But the Privacy implications of it are just too tremendous and they I’ve never been practically or systemically trustworthy.

And knowing this about them means they aren’t a reliable place to be warned off of a bad employer either. The primary purpose of their site is completely undermined by this bad policy.

The moderate/centrist position between “kill the gays” and “don’t permit the killing of gays” is “kill some of the gays.”

That’s all there is to it. If you are a moderate on this issue, you’re a violent bigot.

Every non-NATO state on the border will be targeted and incorporated either directly or by being turned into a loyal authoritarian state a la Belarus.

And if the US leaves NATO, that undermines confidence in NATO. The alliance will fall. At that point, either the EU will have to step in and supplant it – in which case the US will no longer be even be PART of the mightiest diplomatic alliance in the world, much less influential in it – or else there’s no reason to think Russian aggression will stop endlessly escalating until all-out war between nuclear powers is on the table.