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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • I disagree. In my experience with the younger folk, it’s almost always an issue that driving is way too expensive for what you get.

    You can do almost everything that would’ve necessitated owning a car on the internet now, and the cost of your car payment, insurance and registration, and gas is just way too high for the things that still require it. It’s cheaper to just pay a taxi or find someone to give you a ride for the few times you actually need it.











  • I’m not sure I agree with the concept of this article. Its true that the PS5 will likely have much better performance on Sony titles than a PC that you can get for around the same price. Sony has always treated its consoles as a loss leader and makes up the difference in game sales. This presents a significant advantage to sony in the hardware cost to performance ratio.

    However, with PC we’re not comparing apples to apples. In terms of game selection, the PS5 has a little over 750 titles. Looking at Steam alone, the PC has access to over 101,000 games, which is more than 5 times the amount of games released for every sony console combined; to say nothing of the games not available on steam, or the non-gaming tasks you can do.

    I guess, if your goal is to play Sony titles in 4k at 60 FPS as cheaply as possible, then the PS5 is probably the way to go. But in terms of overall value, the PC is hard to beat.



  • This one is insidious. Pretty much everyone agrees that social media is addictive and repetitive exposure at a young age has a startling negative effect on mental health.

    The downsides of this come mostly from the infrastructure that will be used to control access. If there suddenly exists a collective database that contains age and identity information for every citizen that is accessible online in some capacity to verify ID, that’s a really juicy target for online criminals and a huge blow to online privacy.

    The effects of the recent SSN hack are still to be seen, but that was a release of identification information for up to 2.9 billion people. It’s insane that people aren’t making a bigger deal of that.


  • It’s a known phenomenon.

    As it happens, people don’t often post their failures on social media, so if you’re comparing your life to someone else’s, you’re at an inherent disadvantage because you only ever see results.

    If you hang out with people in person and involved in their lives, then you get to experience the process leading to the results with all the failure baked in. It’s the difference between porn and sex.