“You are making me think if the rat race is worth it or not, and that makes me very uncomfortable. Now I’m a bit self-aware and annoyed. How dare you challenge my make believe reality. Loser!” /s

Even a massive home isn’t that necessary, IMHO.

My parents live in a massive house and, as they age, it’s more of a nuisance to keep it all clean than anything. The pool and the BBQ areas are barely used, same thing for my brother, but he’s way younger.

If I had like, 3~4 kids, I can see the idea of living in a 2-story house with lots of space, but since it’s just me and my partner, I’d settle around at living in a place with 100-120m² of built area. The garden could be about that size as well. That’s enough and makes it cleanable without having to depend on housecleaners to maintain the house organized. Again, just my take.

I don’t go out of my way to replace light bulbs with all these smartbulbs that have day/night cycles.

That being said, if they go out, I normally pick a smartbulb because the price difference isn’t that much for all it offers in return.

I’ve been working remotely from 3 to 10 PM and the gradual change in color temperature both from the smartbulb and my screen really helps me take it easy as my shift is ending.

I stick to ad-free platforms, either by paying it or using alternative ways, books, single player games, and Spotify without ads.

We are in a shitty point of society and all we can do is brace ourselves and do conscious choices that pull us out of this algorithm riddled internet.

It’s tough though. Lots of times I wake up and the first thing I do is open media to see if there are any tragedies or worldwide events going on, and then when I notice it… oops! There goes 30 minutes away of your life doomscrolling on Reddit/media… I just shut it all down when I notice it and go back to my routine. Trying to make a habit of it, but it is hard

KEXP radio, lemongrass kombucha and BBQ’ed coalho cheese (kind of like cheese curds… but different, it’s a Brazilian thing).

The radio I found out about it today, despite playing a plethora of different styles, I’m quite impressed how the curation is of excellent quality.