Laura’s one of my favourite movies of all time! It’s so beautifully written and acted, with an amazing score by David Raksin! I recommend it to anyone who loves classic movies!

Damn! I guess the word got out and collectors have taken over!

If you don’t need to play DS/3DS games, the Chinese systems are very popular. These devices are much cheaper than used Nintendo kit. Some of them are much more powerful, with better screens and battery life. There’s a whole scene dedicated to developing custom OSes with really nice emulator frontends for them!

I recommend TechDweeb on YouTube if you want to learn more about the scene. If I had to start over again today I’d get a Knulli-based device. I may still get one at some point.

Last Nintendo console I’ll ever buy is a used New Nintendo 3DS XL which I’ve modded with Homebrew and all that and loaded with emulators with tons of ROMs. It’s a fantastic piracy machine that runs NES, SNES, SMS, GEN/SMD, N64, PSX, GB, GBC, GBA, DS, DSi, and 3DS games!

On the one hand, yes, this is the minimum. On the other hand, they’re making their supply chain more complicated by carrying 2 different versions with different parts etc.

So in that sense they’re going out of their way to be assholes.

Sure, on almost anything non political. Politics here is a pretty rough situation though. Seems like everyone is a teenage radical.

Nice! This would also be a great candidate post for c/dull_mens_club! I’ve never thought of building a shed before!

Inflation is a decrease in the value of money itself. If there’s a lot more money around today than there was yesterday, then money is less scarce than it was before. Scarcity is a major contributor to value by the theory of marginal utility:

Suppose you have no first aid kit. Gaining a first aid kit gives you a tremendous amount of value! Now suppose you get a second first aid kit. Still valuable, but not as much as the first.

Now you suppose you have a thousand first aid kits. What are you going to do with all of them? You can’t possibly use them all yourself! So you might as well give them away or try to sell them.

First aid kits have declining marginal utility. Having way more than one gives you very little value relative to the value you gained from the first one. On the other hand, those first aid kits will have much more value for other people who don’t have one yet. Thus it’s better to distribute first aid kits than to hoard them.

Most things work this way. One of the main exceptions is money itself. The more money you have, the more you can do with it! Of course, at large enough levels of wealth, what you can do for yourself personally (buy food, clothes, shelter, entertainment) shows the same diminishing marginal utility: being able to afford a steak dinner every day is one thing, but nobody is going to eat 10,000 steak dinners every day!

On the other hand, the other use of money is to hold power over others, and there’s no limit to that, unfortunately. The biggest problem is the existence of people who actually want that!

Close, but also include the accusation coming from the ones on the left!

What robs us of joy is caring about other people’s expectations for us. We are free when we stop worrying about what people think.

The peanut butter acts as a barrier to keep the bread from getting soggy. It’s a beautiful thing!

He’s delighted that the jobs apocalypse is underway when he predicted it wouldn’t happen. Okay, so?

This guy is such a tool. Can’t stand him!

Generally the wear on tires is proportional to the wear on roads, since both are effectively grinding against each other with grit as the grinding medium in between. It would be harder to find a more accurate way to measure an individual vehicle’s contribution to road wear, given that weight is such a large factor.

If you used mass surveillance to record exactly how many miles everyone drove and record exactly which vehicle model they were driving for each mile (to know the vehicle weight), you’d still miss out on the cargo factor. For transport trucks that’s the biggest factor, since an empty trailer weighs far less than a full one (and different types of goods have radically different densities).

Of course we already know how much transport trucks weigh and how many miles they drive, since transport trucks are required to go through weigh stations and drivers have to keep detailed logs of how many miles they drive (and hours they drive consecutively). The issue then comes down to consumers and other business vehicles (pickup trucks etc).

Try going to the bathroom before you’re at the point where your bladder feels like it’s going to explode!

After Trump is gone they may admit it.

Dunno why people don’t realize that Trump never admits he’s wrong about anything. He’s an extreme narcissist who throws tantrums like an overgrown toddler. His ego is inflated to such an extreme degree that any hint of any kind of fault on his part drives him into rage spirals from the cognitive dissonance.

The issue here is that the screenshot cuts off grandma’s comment. Bet she had some great advice about farting during sex!

See, that’s where I’m super skeptical. The right system shouldn’t be so fragile that it’s easily undermined by outsiders. The right system should be like a cockroach: so resistant that it’s impossible to get rid of once it’s taken hold.

We’re talking about human beings here, not angels. No workable system should assume angelic levels of cooperation from its participants.

I buy dark roasts from a local coffee roaster in my city. They don’t have any fruit or floral notes, but they taste like dark chocolate, not burnt rubber. They’re good dark roasts. Starbucks is still crap. It only tastes good in a giant cup of milk and sugar and caramel sauce.

No one does that though, because Starbucks coffee is terrible. It’s over-roasted charcoal crap. If you order a black coffee, do yourself a favour and get a nice, light-roasted pour over from an independent cafe serving locally roasted, single-origin coffee. Good coffee should smell like a mix of dried fruit, floral perfume, and toasted nuts, not burnt rubber.

No, of course not. But that’s not a very charitable take, is it? Obviously the sinking ship situation goes away with the life jackets and the setting for buying the Pokémon cards is more typical, like a convention or a hobby store.

Yes exactly. Replace the life jackets with Pokémon cards and the moral dilemma goes away. Cruise ships are required to carry enough life jackets and to give them to the passengers for free in an emergency. If someone is selling life jackets on a sinking ship then society’s rules have broken down, and it wouldn’t be surprising for people to get violent as they struggle to survive.