bridgeenjoyer
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- Comment on How much money should one person realistically make or have? 16 hours ago:
Thats good! I wish I could be more minimalist but im not. Im a maximalist for sure lol.
Most things about living in town just require spending money all the time (not that im not spending it other places but still)
Like fancy eateries or bars etc, just drains money away so fast and you dont actually “get” anything out of it. (Except experience, which my memory is so bad ill forget it anyway)
Good point on the high salary area however one could argue there’s actually more opportunity here where I could buy land to rent out, or buy a house to flip etc. Big money makers. But I am too lazy to want to do that right now haha. And while trips are fun and i like to do them sometimes, having my own big garage is more fun and more useful to me. Plus I love driving (more sport type driving events, but I go for cruises on open roads a lot too). I feel like a trapped animal in cities, not for me.
- Comment on TV Choice 19 hours ago:
Gotcha! I did get a few of those! Mostly s video, for the ps2 and n64/snes at least for now. Id like it on the genesis but nbd for now.
I actually ended up going with the retrotink 2x pro for now as a medium ground, and I will see how it is on my current tv. If it still sucks, then I know its the tv. The “retro scaler” chinesium on ebay were tempting, but i figured i should do it right and retrotink seems like they have their shit together.
Thanks again for being so helpful!
- Comment on How do you feel about the removal of tokens from arcades ? 21 hours ago:
Thats awesome! Id love to go there
- Submitted 1 day ago to retrogaming@lemmy.world | 49 comments
- Comment on How much money should one person realistically make or have? 1 day ago:
I agree.
People are SO against doing that though, almost vehemently so. 1000 people will go to scamazon to buy some junk before 1 person goes 2 blocks to get it from a local store. People are so lazy they dont want to get up to put in a dvd (yes im old, but this is something I heard a friend actually say not long ago)
Not to mention everything made local costs 4x more by default.
There’s really not much sense of community anymore in America.
- Comment on How much money should one person realistically make or have? 1 day ago:
I agree.
But its still dangerous to give government that power. however, if you can actually elect the politicians, its fine. But we all know its rigged bullshit and votes dont actually matter anymore, if they ever did.
- Comment on How much money should one person realistically make or have? 1 day ago:
In America midwest, 100k is plenty to own a couple acres and a few cars and buy most things you want and travel.
On the coasts, about $250k yr to live like this, maybe 350k.
- Comment on How much money should one person realistically make or have? 1 day ago:
While I agree, then you are giving the government massive power to decide how much you shouldn’t make.
And what happens with all the “tax” money? Straight into politician pockets.
- Comment on How much money should one person realistically make or have? 1 day ago:
I totally agree. And id like to ask, what sort of system benefits this?
Regulation is what government does and kills small business while large corps either pay em off to get by or they submit to regulation and lose a few billion but doesn’t affect em.
Socialism is viewed here as government ownership of everything, no more individualism, and Americans fear government above all else (ironically blindly trusting corporations with all their money and data).
- Comment on Trump, 79, Rants Incoherently About Robots and AI 1 day ago:
I literally see no other future. Its not possible.
Really sad for kids born today.
- Comment on Being afraid of vaccines is literally childish behavior. 1 day ago:
Never had a flu vaccine. Theyre pointless to me.
I dont believe the 1 in 50 death rate of covid. There’s no way that is true or we would all be dead.
Also the covid vaccine isnt 1 and done. People go in to get boosters multiple times a year. And they still get covid.
I had to get the jab myself, made me feel awful, still feeling heart arrhythmia from it, still got covid anyways.
Now if I was old or sickly, sure id say get it. But I rarely get sick ever.
- Comment on Rear LCD Projection? 1 day ago:
3 color bulbs then? I wonder. The picture doesn’t have that washed out quality i usually recall seeing on projection sets.
- Comment on AI Electric Bills 1 day ago:
Mine is going up 10% next year, got a letter from them. Data center coming soon even though not 1 person in town wants it.
FUCK THESE CORPORATIONS
- Comment on Being afraid of vaccines is literally childish behavior. 1 day ago:
Let’s be honest, its the covid vax being rushed to market and the politics of it that made this happen. Before that it was an issue with total idiots, but now I have “normal” family members not vaxing their children for things eradicated 50 years ago.
I can totally see the skepticism on the covid vax. You really cant trust anything. Lets not pretend the covid vax didnt have issues (and we plebs dont really know for sure how many bad side effects there are/were yet. No matter what you think). And in my opinion government should not control your body. However these people not getting children vaccinated for measles are just absolute idiots.
And now people who think everything is black and white can downvote me to hell!
- Comment on Rear LCD Projection? 1 day ago:
I thought that too, but it seemed like people were calling them LCD projection instead of CRT projection. I haven’t read up on that yet
- Submitted 1 day ago to retrogaming@lemmy.world | 7 comments
- Comment on Finally got a Gensis (Megadrive) after years of wanting one! 3 days ago:
Ill look into those! I got a bunch, but none on your list so ill have to look i to that. Alladin on nes is amazing too!
Yeah the phaser ill probably sell. I do mainly only game on crt, I cant stand modern displays myself.
- Comment on What’s up with Myrrh being more prevalent? 5 days ago:
Wordle bro
- Comment on The notion that "old is bad and new is good" is a seriously damaging part of western capitalism brainwashing 6 days ago:
Ohh yep. I spent too much time thinking how to spell queue that i didnt realize its the wrong word, lol!
- Comment on Anyone else have computers by Digiview? 6 days ago:
Sorry I didnt respond!
Yeah, actually was sold to us by a traveling salesman in the country. I just find it funny ive never ever seen another one
- Comment on Anyone else have computers by Digiview? 6 days ago:
Haha! Yes a very generic name for the time
- Comment on YSK: if you dont have Kagi, the next best thing is to search DDG with date range set before 2012 (ish) 6 days ago:
Yeah if you need up to date os info, this wont help haha
- Submitted 6 days ago to youshouldknow@lemmy.world | 32 comments
- Comment on A Merry Wednesday 6 days ago:
My favorite Christmas Carol version
- Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices 1 week ago:
There’s more than that ?
- Comment on Capitalism only asissts innovation for the first few years of existence. After that its a grift. 1 week ago:
I think i was more trying to say that it goes in waves. But it’s always the first people who benefit (ie, type of governance is declared, you buy a few acres of land for 300 dollars, 40 years later that land is worth millions because you were there when the act of buying and selling it started. You’re born 30 years later, fuck you, 1 acre of land is now $400,000.
Of course if you started a business when it was still possible to do so (maybe building a specialty tool with 3 employees) and could buy houses and land off your little business, youd think capitalism is great. That’s not possible in later stages (regulations, and China can do everything cheaper, large corporations will stop you instantly if you challenge them)
- Comment on Capitalism only asissts innovation for the first few years of existence. After that its a grift. 1 week ago:
This is interesting , thanks for the insight !
- Comment on Capitalism only asissts innovation for the first few years of existence. After that its a grift. 1 week ago:
You’re right
- Comment on Capitalism only asissts innovation for the first few years of existence. After that its a grift. 1 week ago:
We really should be transitioning to a socialist UBI system, because soon there’s not going to be enough jobs out there, and we have enough tech that people only need to work 15 hours a week to keep stuff running. 45 hours a week is ridiculous and unsustainable.
It’ll never happen though.
- Comment on Capitalism only asissts innovation for the first few years of existence. After that its a grift. 1 week ago:
Most of those “innovations” are just for war, like robots and drones. They arent made to make the poors life better.