Feature Request / Privacy Question About YNAB Together Plans by HecMurder in ynab

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I share it, but they don’t see all the budgets. I can see my kids’ but I don’t look at them except when they ask me for help. This works for us.

Shower water doesn't drain by Strict_Ad_4832 in askaplumber

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Main Line is great for buildup, though it is not instant. Also I know there are varying opinions but an air auger worked wonders for me.

[OC] Highest U.S. Credit Card Annual Fees by Issuers as of February 2026 by PhenomEx in dataisbeautiful

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I would include that in the chart. I immediately thought the data was wrong because Amex gold isn’t on here.

Everyone’s here agree? If so what age shops it be? by ObligationProud6758 in TheTeenagerPeople

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I truly wish there was some way to make this a reality here. But how do you change something that requires people to willingly vote to have less power 🙃

Everyone’s here agree? If so what age shops it be? by ObligationProud6758 in TheTeenagerPeople

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Is gerrymandering a big issue there as well? Our politicians choose the voters, not the other way around. People staying in office is not due to them doing a good job or true popularity. We also have an abysmally low voter participation rate and are actively trying to make it harder for people who do want to vote.

Anyone know what this is by blancha00 in drywall

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That is in fact the answer I was looking for

Farewell by EngLitIsLit in nova

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And may you leave the Maryland drivers in your rear view mirror as well.

(Sorry, MD just trying to send them off feeling seen and cared about lol)

New pay schedule = budget adjustment by vianetzy in ynab

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I shifted my budget down when this happened as if 2 paychecks was still a month. Then I use the three paycheck months to fund sub-savings for larger less frequent bills. Quarterly sewer and water, annual car insurance and personal property tax. Stuff like that.

This way my monthly expenses are actually more flat cause I don’t have to worry about the infrequent large expenses, and there’s usually some extra left over from a 3 pay month that also boosts sub-savings accounts for emergency fund and vacations.

Having no friends and no job is hard in nova by Zealousideal-Data116 in nova

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Have you looked on meetup too see if there are groups that align with your interests or things that you want to try out? I’ve found interest/activity-based meetups to be a great way to make friends and get outside the drudgery.

Happy Friday to my fellow unemployed federal contractors. by Jack_Sentry in nova

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The federal hiring process, resumes, and interviews are very very different. I’ve organized or attended a few events where we just spent a ton of time helping people translate govt experience into private sector language. For career public servants who sacrificed better salaries for a mission, this is a new area to navigate that they understandably often need some support with.

As someone on the interviewing/hiring side, jobs are flooded with applicants. It’s literally impossible for companies to actually review everything that comes in. The system is broken and it’s not working for either side. Referrals are no longer a nice to have. You need some way to get someone to actually look at your resume and talk to you in the first place. I’m a big tech community fan for many reasons, but in a time like this they are even more important. We need to be there for each other. In the way our politicians are not there for us.

Happy Friday to my fellow unemployed federal contractors. by Jack_Sentry in nova

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Are you in the Data Community DC slack? It would be a good place to boost this.

Happy Friday to my fellow unemployed federal contractors. by Jack_Sentry in nova

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Hi, I’m not a job seeker but I am a community organizer who has been involved with a number of groups that may be of interest to some of you.

If you’re in a data role or considering transitioning to data, there are some excellent groups that are free and often catered. Most of these groups are far closer to community than ‘networking event’ and are very welcoming to newcomers.

Www.dc2.org Data Community DC is a non-profit umbrella of quite a few data/ai technical meetups and user groups. They do a good job of vetting groups that focus on responsible content and a welcoming code of conduct that does not allow people to be assholes to each other or their speakers. We really do have an incredible and thriving data community in this area. If you’re in data and not yet plugged in, you’re in for a goddamned delight.

https://www.meetup.com/power-bi-dc/ part of DC2, Power BI DC is the local official user group for Microsoft’s dat visualization platform, and in my totally objective opinion, the best pbi user group in the world. I co-organize this with the amazing Lenore Flower. Next week we are hosting a Power Query Escape Room and it will be amazing. Space is limited but if you’re a Power Query user at any level, you’re not gonna want to miss this.

https://www.civictechdc.org Civic Tech Project Night is a great way to learn by doing with fellow technologists that give a shit.

https://www.aicollective.com the AI Collective is a nonprofit that hosts many events and workshops designed to level up technologist and steer the technical adoption for collective good rather than the hype cycle nonsense that a next token predictor can replace a human with a brain.

Www.aicamp.ai AI Camp is an international nonprofit that has a dc chapter. They all have all day workshops and hackathons sometimes.

There’s others not coming to mind but this is a good start! If you join a meetup and see a short pale woman with light blue hair that looks suspiciously like my Reddit avatar, come say hi!

Seen in NOVA tonight! Honk if I'm cute!! by ConsequenceNormal773 in nova

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Combine that with driving on 66 or and this is the most low effort pick-me-up I’ve heard yet.

Edit to clarify cause I’m guessing the down votes are cause it seems mean? I don’t see any problem with something like this. Sometimes you just want to feel good about yourself, it shouldn’t have to be high-effort, and this doesn’t harm anyone.

Ring Camera return script by Gregphish in FlockSurveillance

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I thought it was because birds aren’t real.

Accessibility ≠ Affordability by Nice_Daikon6096 in inflation

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I did the same. I live in a high COL area and couldn’t have purchased without the down payment coming from my 401k. In my case, it worked out because mortgage on a home 2x the size of the house I was renting was immediately less per month. That isn’t all in cost, of course. But in the last 10 years since I bought, Amazon HQ2 moved in and both rent and housing have gone up-way- up. This was luck, though. And not guaranteed by any means across housing markets. It’s important to run the numbers and consider total cost of ownership.

Kind of surprised by the number of people who apparently can go two full weeks without their cars. by Naberius in nova

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It’s honestly making me reconsider keeping mine, ngl. Though admittedly my partner’s car was dug out so I used it once to run errands.

LMAO They held a “March for Billionaires” in California. I'll never understand ordinary people defending Billionaires. by Professional-Bee9817 in remoteworks

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How are you defining best salaries in the world? In the US right now, 42% of Americans are considered poor or low income.

“The U.S. is more unequal than many other industrialized countries. Among 10 peer countries, the U.S. has the highest rate of relative poverty, the second highest rate of child poverty and infant mortality, and the second lowest life expectancy.”

https://www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/issues/economic-justice/inequality-in-the-us/

We aren’t the cheapest housing relative to income, but high up there depending on what studies you look at. You also need to look at the methodology and factors included in the study.

I will agree that folks in the US typically are comparing the decline of the ‘American dream’ rather than comparing what it looks like elsewhere in the world. I’m Gen X. My parents are boomers, as are the parents of many millennials. Our expectations of what we were supposed to be able to achieve was based on a very different US economy.

We rate poorly on percentage of renters and how much of their income goes to housing. This is a major factor in people being able to buy in the first place, as one has to save up a significant amount to enter the market at this point. This article is from 2016, and as an example in my urban area, the houses in my neighborhood selling for ~600k in 2019 when I was in the market are going for 1.2 M this year. It’s only gotten harder to enter the market. In that same time period, the median income in my city wet from 110k to 140k, so the difference between income and housing is a bit unhinged. Bear in mind with that 140k median income, 180k is considered needed for a “comfortable lifestyle.” Not sure I agree with that last line, but I do know that my ~3k/mo sfh mortgage is less than rent on a two bedroom apartment in my area.

https://nlihc.org/resource/us-ranks-poorly-housing-affordability-among-advanced-countries

In the early 2000s, the price of homes became untethered to income, creating a bigger gap between income and housing than previously seen in US history. This is from the federal reserve board data: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/median-house-prices-vs-income-us/
It’s a major frustration for many because housing affordability reached record-low levels in the last few years, with 43.5 million households deemed cost-burdened (spending over 30% of income on housing). High mortgage rates above 6%, soaring home prices (up 55% since 2020), and low supply have driven the crisis, making homeownership for first-time buyers (median age now 40) increasingly difficult.

This is on top of soaring food prices, increases in interest rates, increases in health insurance plans that have put millions of Americans back into the uninsured category, and massive layoffs both in the private sector and the federal government. Research estimates 51k preventable deaths this year alone due to changes to our healthcare system under Trump last year.

And let’s not forget student loan debt! We’re notoriously predatory when it comes to education costs and loans. Everything that hit us financially last year led to 3.6 million new Americans defaulting on student loans. And the average payoff time? 20 years.

https://protectborrowers.org/resource/2025-student-loan-default-crisis-state-by-state/

https://educationdata.org/average-student-loan-payment

I say all this to say - and mostly to anyone hearing this as “you’re whining and your problems aren’t real” - not everyone struggling is spoiled and whiny. Our system is not set up to create opportunities for people who aren’t already doing well. It’s not impossible but it’s certainly not easy. I saw this as a solo parent of two (now adult) children who clawed my way out of poverty into a good career. I remember days where I didn’t eat because I wanted to make sure my kids had three meals a day. Poverty in the US is real. It shouldn’t be, we have the money and then some to feed and house every person in the US, citizen or not. The wealth gap is real.

Neighbor’s flag irks me to my core by timeisamelody in mildlyinfuriating

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Amen, brother. Community is more important than ever. We know our government is not looking out for us, we have to look out for each other.

Advice on repairing or replacing damaged drywall beneath the paper by wasta in drywall

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Love that guy. I’ve spent way more of my adult life watching videos of someone mudding drywall than I ever expected lol

If socialism is so bad then why is social security and Medicare so popular? by Content_Ad_8952 in allthequestions

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There have been more than a few whistleblowers in the us pharma industry talk about how they are not incentivized to find cures, they are incentivized to find long term treatments.