Wow, you can sue people the state has no jurisdiction over and collect a bounty the state has no authority to collect? Sign me up!

No, it’s not. Consoles (and technology in general) historically trend cheaper over time. Demand lowers, manufacturing cost lowers, newer tech releases, costs adjust to accommodate.

It’s very abnormal that the current gen of consoles has not only not gotten cheaper yet, but has actually raisen in price. Like, very very abnormal.

Shrinkflation is a real thing, but historically it has nothing to do with consoles.

Source: https://www.neogaf.com/threads/how-low-will-the-price-of-ps4-go.1520289/

Source: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/06/are-the-ps4-and-xbox-one-really-that-expensive-historically/

Smart phones were a mistake

Health insurance never cared about your address, and you want to upload your tax returns to watch Netflix? Technically, lots of legal things, like taxes and voting, care about where you spend most of your time when determining your primary residence. So if you don’t live with your parents, yet are still filing with their address, that’s a problem.

This definitely reads like you’re saying teens are ignoring planetary extinction and just letting it happen, but I think you intended the opposite lmao

Yeah, if Bernie were a real bro he’d show some bite by gnawing on RFK Jr. until the worm tells him to resign. Take some damn initiative for once!

Abbott won against Beto 54.76% to 43.86%. With 4,437,099 votes for Abbott, that is about 19.6% of the voting-age population in 2022. Abbott is not wildly popular and a large portion of the state hates his guts. Texas is wildly disenfranchised.

Cops don’t train like the military, they just dress like it.

CLI and Quadlet? /s but seriously, that’s what I use lol

The top thing I hate about it is that it releases toxic gas into the room, and I don’t (like most people around here) have a vent hood that vents outside. You can clearly smell when the stove, or especially the oven, is running. Better setups probably have less of an issue with this, but even commercial stoves need to be properly vented, and proper residential ventilation is just a rarity in the US.

There has been proper research that shows that pollution from gas stoves contribute to thousands of deaths annually, and that they release toxic gasses even while turned off. Gas furnaces are specifically designed to vent 100% of their air outside. That’s the general guidance with anything gas-powered, except for stoves and ovens for some reason, which vent exactly 0% of their air outside.

The next biggest thing is that it’s just plain slower and less energy efficient than induction (or even electric). Energy efficiency isn’t a huge problem, since gas is just waaayyy cheaper than electricity, but I love the fast heat up times of induction, which are partly due to the great energy efficiency.

Air quality is a huge factor, but I also just like cooking on induction better anyway so there aren’t really any downsides for me besides maybe a minimally higher electric bill.

I bought a $50 nuwave induction cooktop 3+ years ago and have since used it as my main stove, and even taken it camping. It’s still going strong and hasn’t shown any signs of wear and tear, other than a sticker peeling off a little. One of the best purchases I’ve ever made, I hate my gas stove.

Vouchers are fraud by design

And the apps that do have lifetime licenses went from $5 to like $80

Lmao, yeah, batteries have improved quite substantially for all phones in the last 14 years. Unless you want removable batteries, then everything is worse now.

Blocking basically all ads on your phone is trivially easy.

1. Find “Private DNS” (or something similar) in your settings
2. Set it to dns.adguard-dns.com

And that’s really it. There are other ad-blocking dns providers out there, and they all use slightly different block lists. I like adguard because their blocklist is less aggressive than others I’ve tried, and I’d rather an ad or two get through than for something legitimate to stop working.

You can also set it up as your dns provider in your router to block ads on your entire network. People tend to like to self-host adguard or pihole for that, but as long as you don’t care about a dashboard or manual dns entries, using a free dns is as easy as it gets and is very effective. I self-host as a hobby and I still just use adguard’s public dns.

State may lose its $69 Trillion “investment” if it shuts down its orphan-crushing machine

Quite the headline you’ve got there.

The taxpayers are on the hook for this dumbass bullshit anyway, may as well skip the crimes against humanity.

Arrest records are public. Even if you’re innocent or the charges are dropped or whatever, they still smear your reputation by putting your mugshot up. It can be a good thing too, since it cuts down on the number of people arrested quietly with no disclosed reason.

Abolishing workers rights to keep your slaves working makes sense in a greedy fucked up way, but I’ve never understood the anti-vax stuff. Like, it costs the oligarchs virtually nothing and keeps their workers working and consumers consuming. How exactly does this flavor of vile evilness benefit anyone?

Unless you pay extra for Android pre-check. Get the right credit card and you can get it for free, plus lounge access!

Gemini is sooo much worse than Google Assistant. I don’t trust an LLM to do little calculations or conversions for me, bring back the calculator!