Author name: maddie

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finance

How I Choose What Credit Cards to Use

This is a post about optimizing credit card points and cash back. This is not a “churning” post; while I care about sign-up bonuses, I don’t try to optimize signing up for new cards specifically for the bonus. Instead, I focus on which cards maximize return on spending, usually expressed in cents per dollar or […]

trans

cis/trans is a false binary

To start out, cis/trans is literally a binary – cisgender means not transgender, and transgender means not cisgender. I mean this in a step removed: whether somebody is (or will be) trans or cis is not set at birth or at any other time in somebody’s life. Instead, it is an interaction of somebody’s inner

tech

American Exceptionalism is the same as Not Invented Here

American Exceptionalism is the same as Not Invented Here Syndrome. It’s a pretty straightforward thought. In the United States of America, we have several problems that other countries seem to have solved in the obvious way; they solve gun violence with gun control laws; they solve unaffordable healthcare with government funded or run healthcare; they

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