I use Manjaro, btw

Mid twenties here, same situation. My bank closed my accounts lol

This mindset isn’t really conducive to meeting your needs.

Marx and Engels predicted that economies would become dominated by rentiers

This is true, it’s the need for consistency that drives up costs.

Photography is harder than most people think. You need to get to the places where you are doing your job, there is tons of communication involved, then there is editing and proper archival stuff you need to do, accounting is also completely different from that of an uber driver’s, and it’s not just the camera that costs more than 5K (looking at you BRIESE and any basic lens set – telephoto, normal, wide angle, zoom, low light will quickly exceed the 15K mark if you care about professional standards). It’s really a whole thing.

I never bought into quantum immortality. Isn’t it obvious to everyone that this is just circular reasoning?

Not sure if it qualifies for being a “good” use of Vaseline, but you can make emergency candles with it.