If the numbers make sense, do it.

I don’t know why anybody would keep working if they have the option not to.

It’s been years since I’ve used Windows at home, but I still have a Firefox installer exe hanging around on my server on the offchance I ever need to use it again. Thanks for showing me it’s no longer necessary.

I went and it’s the biggest regret of my life.

It took me 4 years to find a job after leaving because half of my prospective employers thought I was overqualified, and the other half said that completing university was no guarantee that I’d handle “real work”. My first (and current) job is only tangentially related to my field and doesn’t require a degree. Or any training, to be honest.

7 years before I bought my house, it sold for exactly half of what I paid for it. If I swallowed my pride and got a shitty minimum wage job straight out of high school, I wouldn’t have a student loan (where I live it’s interest free, but there’s a minimum weekly payment which is based on your wage), I would have been able to buy a house so much earlier, for so much less money, and I would have been paying off my mortgage for so much longer.

In hindsight, my perspective is this: The actual cost of going to university isn’t your student loans (which are still substantial, don’t get me wrong) - it’s time. Your degree has to make you so much more money than most people realise, because at a minimum you’re starting your working life 3 years later than you normally would - that’s 3 years you could have been working and saving, and 3 years of extra inflation to deal with.

Is “must make the dumbest fucking decision possible at all times” in the Mozilla CEO job description or something?

I have no CEO experience, but I’ll make stupid fucking decisions for a fifth of the salary you’re paying the current guy.

…are The Smiths too obvious a choice?

Okay, but at least where I live, prices that increased due to covid haven’t come back down. Supply is now high enough to satisfy demand, but prices aren’t dropping. Of course, why would they? It turns out that customers have self-selected that they really don’t want to starve or be homeless. Even if it wipes out most of their income.

Okay, why wouldn’t UBI effectively get wiped out by inflation over 65 years, as has apparently happened to the prosperity in the '60s, then?

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I think Wipeout was probably the progenitor of this - the entire pitch of the game was basically “Futuristic racer set to techno bangers”, and a lot of other games followed suit with their soundtracks.

Check out Sean Seanson’s PSX Club Mixes for some absolute bops and a nostalgia hit.

FFVII’s Cosmo Canyon

Best song in the game. I will die on this hill.

I wouldn’t say it’s a strong opinion, but I’ve never seen a convincing argument that “inflation” (read “greedy bastards”) wouldn’t immediately wipe out the extra income - which would be very bad if the UBI were to replace other forms of welfare.

I tried paying for something off Facebook Marketplace over the internet rather than in-person. Of course I was scammed. Fortunately it was only for about $35.

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Except the Bible is less a diagnosis and more a treatment plan. And people definitely have been killed by bad treatment plans before.

Stephanie Sterling (and not for the reason you probably think).

I understand that the gaming industry is shit, and therefore reporting on it is always going to skew negative, but it really felt to me like the negativity started permeating their content as a whole - to the point that I got the feeling that they didn’t really enjoy video games at all anymore.

I also started to get the feeling that they resent their audience for responding positively to such negative content, too - doing things like complaining that the worst-of lists get more views than the best-of lists. You don’t have to make them if you don’t want to.

Also, it’s cool that they found a passion, but I really don’t care about wrestling.

You have to be really careful trying to buy physical copies nowadays, too, since bootlegs are absolutely everywhere. Especially on Ebay.

Aria of Sorrow

If ring-0 access is the only way you can stop cheaters, your game must be poorly programmed.

RIP Burger Becky

Wikipedia has a few examples of the different ways you could say those amounts out loud here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/£sd#Writing_conventions_and_pronunciations