He never claimed to be an absolutist.

Here he is making that exact claim in 2022 before deleting it once it became inconvenient

As a fellow old.reddit user, you probably also remember when buying/being gifted reddit gold was a big deal. One stupid little gesture, very few actual perks (beyond an "exclusive" subreddit no one used), but the money went straight to reddit and it was so popular it was a staple of reddit's early culture. Being gilded was a massive honor.

Now it's just one of a handful of paid reaction trophies you can give, and it's not worth paying attention to at all. Reddit was so money hungry it cannibalized the process through which people gave money to reddit for basically free

Jerboa is crashing for me on start, which isn't a great sign. I just want Boost already!

That's why I got Nebula. It's not everyone I watch on YouTube, but it's a lot of the best people, and they get a much, much larger amount of revenue from me specifically than they do from even YouTube Premium at a better price since you're not also paying for YouTube Music on top of it. I was a devoted Google Play Music All Access listener, but true to form Google forgot about it and then replaced it with a worse service that costs more money. Spotify and Nebula as separate subs is as close as I'm going to get to the old school GPMAA/YouTube Red bundle and I don't have to give a penny to Google for it

Someone gilded one or two of my comments (shitposts), and I felt so grateful to them and so proud of myself that someone thought it was worth spending money to reward a dumb joke I'd made. That stuff makes an impression. But I couldn't tell you the last time I saw a gilded post because it literally doesn't mean anything now

Thank you, I didn't make it but I don't remember where I saved it from rip

Looks like this will be my last comment on .17.4. Thank you all so much for working on this!! This is exciting!!!!

Be not afwaid uwu

I reread it and I swear they added more random ingredients between readings

I used to use Boost all the time, and browsed the site when I was on my computer. Now that I can't access it from my phone (the first party app isn't happening lmao) I don't feel much like using it on desktop either. Tumblr, of all things, has absorbed much of my traffic, and I've paid to remove ads on it because I've used it so much over the last ten years that I know it'll be worth it, plus I'm hoping that if enough people pay for it they won't go down the monetization rabbit hole as much as other sites have recently.

Lemmy is okay, but the hot/active post sorting is far worse than Reddit was (I'm still seeing days- old posts even when set to All) and the user base just isn't large enough yet to have a consistent feed of stuff I find interesting. Both of those can easily change over the coming days/weeks of course.

All social media platforms' viability come down to userbase and how fun they are to hang out on, and reddit has absolutely damaged both. It's unclear to me what impact that will have for it long-term, but its time as the problematic but scrappy underdog in the space is over.

The West Wing deserves better than this tbh

They've also significantly muddied the waters on what economics actually means and does. The stock market is not the economy, and being better at predicting what it does than someone else has absolutely no bearing on your ability to speak to broader economic concepts like unemployment, inflation, wage disparity, etc.

It doesn't help that in the business schools I've seen, if they require economics courses at all, only require very basic microeconomics lessons-- conceptual models of very basic principles that, when overgeneralized, can be disastrously wrong. As an example, most introductory economics classes cover supply and demand curves. These are basic and reassuring graphs that I have seen used to argue against minimum wages, under the idea that an artificially high hourly price for labor would reduce the amount of jobs available so much that it would offset gains that employees would make with the higher wage. This clashes with the empirical data we have showing that areas with high minimum wages routinely outperform those with lower minimum wages in job growth. Economics, as a study, is about developing the models and the mindset needed to think critically about the economy. There simply isn't the buy-in needed to teach that for most students who aren't explicitly there to learn about economics, so we get a million bad supply-and-demand takes every time something comes up. At the same time, there's a cultural understanding that successful businesspeople are inherently good at understanding economics, when at best they are specialists in an extremely narrow subset of the market that they work in.

Fallout: New Vegas

And even long rests are basically free, so unless you are in one of the rare time sensitive moments use them a lot.

Wait, is this true? I've been avoiding even short rests since the game tells you so explicitly that time sensitive things can get messed up by too many long rests, and the early plot is super clear that having a tadpole usually means death/mind-flayer-dom within a week. So I've been SUFFERING through every single fight since I need to conserve short rests. Can I actually long rest without dooming myself?

I'll give them all a look. Thank you!

Oh damn, I didn't realize it was on Android OR free. thanks!

I think the special feature about the Das keyboard is probably the media controls, so finding a replacement/similar build should be easy :)

Ah, that's just it: mine doesn't have those! Back when I got this, just having mechanical keyswitches was the special feature. I've watched in absolute awe as the scene has exploded, but I'm very much behind on what the state of the art is. The biggest tech-y enhancement this one has over the switches is a two-port USB hub that I plug my mouse, and occasionally a thumb drive or other USB controller into.

I'll look into those switch recommendations but honestly the pre-built boards are going to end up being where I go. Given how long I've used the Das, do you know if there's a standout for solid build quality in the sub-200 range? That's where the Das would be anyway