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And a 20 % off coupon that you probably do not care about.
Valid until Sep 23rd
Step 1: Quit your life insurance policy. It is a scam. The only way you can truly insure yourself economically is to save up. Do anything else and you will just end up making some already-well-off salesmen richer.
You are not going to save money, because the mathematical and statistical models the insurance calculations are based on make sure it will be a net-loss for you. When most people are getting something non-essential such as a non-business insurance, it is a emotional choice and not a rational one. Life insurance is one of the biggest scam vehicles of the massive American insurance machine.
“According to results from a Forbes Advisor survey on life insurance, at least three in four American adults have some form of life insurance.”
“Women (22%) are twice as likely as men (11%) to lack life insurance.” Source: Forbes Advisor: Why Are Americans Drafting Wills? Nearly Two-Thirds Say Covid Is A Key Motivator
“Almost 60% of respondents to a Forbes Advisor survey on marijuana and life insurance indicated they’d have reservations about applying for life insurance if they legally used marijuana.” [Implying if they could just get high and feel at piece, they would not need the perceived emotional peace from having a life insurance.] Forbes Advisor: Survey: Nearly 60% Would Lie About Using Marijuana To Get Better Life Insurance Quotes
Step 2: Donate your body to science AKA give an anatomical gift
Whoever takes your body will takeover any disposal costs, making it free for you and your bloodline. You simply need to register your body to a medical school, a university or a private donation program, mostly because use of dead human bodies is somewhat regulated.
Keep your money – the insurance firms already have plenty. Otherwise you are a moron that deserves everything bad that could possibly happen to you to make you less likely to pass on your worthless dumbass-genes.
The S¤¤t List:
Yahoo
Startpage AKA ixquick
Baidu
Kiddle
As a rule of thumb, the smaller search engines cannot afford to mess with the results because that would quickly bankrupt them. Generally, most smaller sites are better than anything on the list above, though be cautious of sites that are mere re-skins of Google and DuckDuckGo, which seems to be quite common. In practice, if the smaller site has the exact same search results as those two, use something else. I have resorted to Bing for quite a while, though Yandex might be even better as it is fast as hell and the results are decent.
1. Pausing and canceling a game download takes effect about 150 seconds later (instead of zero).
2. The Store page is the default landing page when starting the launcher AND you cannot change that. The launcher downloads about five megs of image data (no, it never caches anything, meaning you will have to re-download the same page data if you get back to it again).
3. You can only order one game at a time. Keep in mind there are plenty of games with almost two dozen DLCs. It takes a while to load the order page because the launcher downloads megabytes of data for it for no good reason.
4. Any time you move to another page, the launcher clears and locks up the content page, meaning you cannot do anything anything before it has fully loaded the target page.
5. The launcher minimizes if you start an Epic Games Store game.
6. The launcher refuses to start any games if you have an active download going on. A lot of functionality is hindered or blocked by a download. I guess this is to make sure every single activity is logged and authenticated before new ones can be processed. This is super slow and any bottleneck can quickly slow everything down to a crawl. For example, a slow Internet connection. This will not affect hackers as they largely bypass any hindering actions. Basically Epic does not trust you to play your own games without supervision. This kind of controlling behavior feeds the demand for hassle-free pirate versions. The point of having games is to play them, not to validate things to the platform every 5 seconds.
7. The launcher gets glitched and refuses to start if there is an update for it. It does not tell you this. It simply fails to start. Usually this means you have to give it its sweet-ass time (while wasting yours) to get going again.
8. Has no idea how to display cellular network traffic. Windows 10 often has the same issue and major updates take turns fixing it and re-breaking it. Overall, the downloader is very crappy, something a teen could put together and better during an afternoon.
9. You have no idea how big the game is before you start downloading it. The “game-debate” site is the most reliable source for the hard drive space info. The information available on the launcher is close to zero and even that is 99 % for irrelevant marketing purposes.
10. The launcher uses the same pages as the web portal, though it does not periodically disconnect you and it loads noticeably less and does not bug out like the web version does.
11. You cannot play the games without the launcher getting all DRM on your ass. Even the shortcuts are simply protocol calls for the launcher to request a start-up. You are pretty much gimped up to 11, having to ask for permission EVERY TIME you want to play one of your own games.
12. The “Home” page is not the landing page despite the name (the Store one is). Home is filled with useless tidbit news about promotions and launched games. It is so useless I bet it is going to get removed and / or re-designed at some point. You mostly use the “Library” page that displays your games. You can clumsily search from there, which already makes this one vastly better than the Bethesda one. Not being the bottom of the barrel is not an achievement.
13. There are dysfunctional Settings settings. For example the “Throttle Downloads” option does nothing.
Epic Games Launcher makes feel envy towards the pirate copies of the games I legally own on the platform. They would be a vastly better experience than the ones eternally shackled to the ridiculously badly implemented EG platform. Of other platforms, GOG is probably the most practical and keeps adding the most valuable features, e.g. the recent cross-platform multiplay support. Steam’s last UI update is terrible. It seems hackier and more crowded with over-stuffed layouts than the very early Steam clients. Do not give money to Epic Games.
Whatever they are doing, it is not going towards improving the EGL client one bit. It is still the same clunky POS it was two years ago. I seem to recall it being significantly better few months ago with a much simpler game library listings. I have no positive experience with Epic Games Launcher or even the games played on it.
Easy & free soil creation recipe:
The main advantages:
I bought a couple of heirloom alpine strawberry seeds 40 cents per pack. Well, some American web store is trying to sell them for 4.50 a piece, with only 20 to 25 % of my seed count i.e. 30. For comparison, even my watermelon bag had 15 and watermelon seeds are generally bigger and much more expensive. A single strawberry fruit can yield tons of seeds. American importers have long traditions of steep upmarking their wares and asking decent money for outright worthless stuff. The rule of thumb is that seeds of a fast-cropping plant are virtually worthless because of the high production. It is telling that alpine strawberry’s other name is “monthly strawberry.” Even the heirloom varieties stock up fast, hence the stuffed bag of it with 100 to 200 seeds.
Here is the deal. Think of how the importers get that stuff. They try to get it as cheap as possible, which means they get stuff that is producer-valued close to zero, e.g. for overproduction reasons, which is very likely with seed-heavy tubers and fruits. In short, the importers try to fool you into thinking that their excess-dumped wares are valuable and limited in quantity. It is the same thing as with not revealing the extent of Alaskan gold resources — the retail value would drop like a rock to reflect the overabundance. Also, the USA business culture emphasizes overcharging and stiff fees, which most likely inspired the seed scheme.
Trust yourself. Trust no one, including yourself.
You are going to need a lot of life experience to understand that. A hint: no one is stable, though few gifted ones are able to manage themselves to access a close-enough compromise.
P.S. So if mass-produced seeds are worthless, their purpose is not to make money on their own sales. That is why every seed retailer sells cheap radish and carrot seeds as they help to sell the genuinely rare seeds such as yellow strawberries or spinach strawberries some plant developers have managed to create. The fact is that most seeds are worthless in comparison to other necessary plant farming supplies. E.g. a wheelbarrow, a shovel or a long water hose easily cost tens if not hundreds of times what seeds do. Even after having all the tools, the soil costs are easily ten times the seed costs even with dirt-cheap sod. The seed producers know that the other stuff forces people to commit and to put in lots of cash just to get started and that people will not notice being upmarked 20 bucks with seeds when they just bought sod for 400 bucks. Small fees can hide behind the big ones.
Ransacked Crash Site 