curiousaur
@curiousaur@reddthat.com
- Comment on ‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app 1 week ago:
I think that’s the point of all this. It’s currently way too cheap for the consumers. Adjusted for inflation from the 80s, an album would cost over $30 today. Each album. To get infinite music for $10 a month, yeah the artists are getting screwed.
- Comment on We interrupt your happiness to bring you this special message from our sponsors 1 week ago:
It’s the one right after the disorder that is allowing yourself to be advertised to. Chumpism I think it’s called.
- Comment on Electron apps are causing system-wide lag on MacOs Tahoe 3 weeks ago:
Why would you post this three days after the fix went out?
- Comment on What even is money at this point 4 weeks ago:
Amazon is far more efficient. The store has to move the thing there, put it on a shelf. Keep the lights on. Keep the store clean and staffed.
Amazon uses algorithms to distribute a few of those items to some mega wearhouse near you. It gets picked up by someone also picking up a dozen other things. And the cost of delivery is not the whole distance, your cost is just the last delivery location to yours, and those routes are plotted algorithmically to be as effecient as possible.
You driving to the store burning that much gas and wearing your tires the whole round trip, just for the one thing makes it further inefficient.
Stores literally only make sense if you want to try the thing out, for fresh local food, or for a bulk trip like Costco, where its more of a wearhouse than a store, and you pack you car so full you’re basically acting as the Amazon delivery driver. That’s why stores like CVS and Walgreens are closing all over, it simply makes no economic sense anymore.
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 4 weeks ago:
Same with all of Europe and Asia. “You can only eat food from the original neolithic people”. See how stupid you sound.
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 4 weeks ago:
I’m not sure that’s the rules, in that case you can get anything from America.
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 4 weeks ago:
There’s also some Morocco, Spain and Portugal in there.
I mostly agree, on American Southern and Mexican alone.
D is tempting though, I love all Asian food. The variety from Middle Eastern, Indian, Vietnamese, Thai, Chinese, Japanese and Korean. I might have just convinced myself to go D while I was writing this actually…
- Comment on Ben & Jerry's co-founder quits, says independence 'gone' 5 weeks ago:
But the money! I want to have my cake! And eat it too!
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 1 month ago:
You realize nobody is making you play the game?
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 1 month ago:
If it’s not challenging, why are you complaining?
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 1 month ago:
Because if you can’t make it through the denizens, you can’t make it through the boss. It’s a filter.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 1 month ago:
Why? If you can’t get through that, you aren’t going to beat the boss.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 1 month ago:
Hot take here, but I don’t mind them. Exactly because they take focus. They tell me when it’s time for a break. If I’m not up for the runback, then I’m not up for aother attempt at the boss.
- Comment on PSP games that are enjoyable without the nostalgia-factor 1 month ago:
Crush! Fucking crush! What a game!
- Comment on Been there 1 month ago:
If the business is going belly up, chances are all the employees knew months before it was “announced”.
- Comment on Make it make sense 1 month ago:
Exactly, it’s entirely because the people in front of you are going slow.
- Comment on 4011 1 month ago:
The food only exists because it’s profitable. It will only continue to exist as long as it remains profitable.
- Comment on Has a woman ever orgasmed by subwoofer? 1 month ago:
Absolutely, yes. I dated a girl for years that would orgasm when the wind blew. Not quite, but you get the point
When she was bored she could squeeze her thighs together and make herself cum. She couldn’t ride a bike, her eyes would would roll back and she’d almost crash. She would spontaneously orgasm simply from arousal, which was fun because she’s orgasm repeatedly while giving blowjobs. She would absolutely orgasm from the vibrations of a large woofer.
- Comment on Shook 1 month ago:
I still love that David Bowie has to come out as straight.
- Comment on do what you love 2 months ago:
Philosophy major Senior Software engineer.
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 2 months ago:
There were recent CS grads in my coding boot camp 8 years ago.
- Comment on The regrets of life 2 months ago:
I’m really glad I watched little miss sunshine while in highschool. I took this to heart and am so glad I did.
- Comment on Even households earning $150,000 a year are struggling with credit card and car payments 2 months ago:
I imagine a lot of people making that much did exactly what I did. Over-leverage but temporarily. House poor basically.
When COVID hit I was renting in the bay area with my girlfriend. During lockdown I proposed, and after deciding we want a family, decided to take our bay area salaries elsewhere to buy a house.
We traded our 3k rent for a 2k mortgage with 1k insurance and taxes. Even.
But, leaving the bay we needed cars. My one little two seater wasn’t going to do it, we’re starting a family. So we got two larger cars, right when the market was inflated. Financed both of them.
The new big property we got has a little barn, let’s renovate that into an ADU for guests and to generate rent. Didn’t have the cash on hand so took out another loan about the same as a car to fix that up.
Now we’re strapped, basically living month to month. But those secondary loans were all 5 year loans, so in 2 more years they’re paid off, freeing up about $3k per month.
I basically don’t think any of these articles about people making that kind of salary are taking into account how weird a time covid was. Lots of people made big changes while interes rates were low, purposely over-leveraging themselves. It also gave everyone this yolo attitude as well, like fuck it all, treat yourself.
I’d be more interested to revisit this in 2027 when any 5 or 6 year car loans and secondary loans taken out during the record low rates are all paid off.
- Comment on Even households earning $150,000 a year are struggling with credit card and car payments 2 months ago:
Same spot here. Took my permanent remote SE job to a depressed but beautiful coastal California town. A lot of folks seem to dislike me for some reason.
- Comment on Eurythmics straight-up kills that guy 2 months ago:
Better than accidentally serving the diabetic regular instead of diet.
- Comment on New Executive Order:AI must agree on the Administration views on Sex,Race, cant mention what they deem to be Critical Race Theory,Unconscious Bias,Intersectionality,Systemic Racism or "Transgenderism 2 months ago:
They already fear. What we’re seeing happen is the reaction to that fear.
- Comment on It's a ritual, to start the releases of games 2 months ago:
Mobius 1, engage.
- Comment on Misogyny is thriving in our schools. Why aren’t we doing more? 3 months ago:
Once the kid is like 10, the outside world has like 90% of the influence on them. If anything the teachers are at fault. Cell phones should not be allowed in schools, and harassment of any kind should be immediately punished.
- Comment on What is wrong with being "Black Pilled"? 3 months ago:
We don’t use that word anymore.
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 3 months ago:
I have 2. I absolutely love it. I prefer it for playing 3rd person games like the witcher and monster hunter too. I like the granular control and momentum for panning around the world.
I bought the second one for $5 when valve was doing the discontinuation liquidation sale. Someone commented that the Vive wands use the same track pads and other parts, so it’s a no brainer to buy one to have the parts on hand. At this point the Vive wands are extra parts for keeping my steam controllers going.