This country has been specifically designed to make sure that the average person can’t retire.

Not only that, but it’s designed to take everything they have before they die as well.

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AI moderating AI.

Like seriously, I still engage in some niche subs from time to time, but literally everything feels like bots talking to bots.

I would just like to say, I personally saw a video of her giving a handjob to a guy and vaping in a theater and subsequently being thrown out. The day after it happened, before the video was made public, she said it was all lies and a smear campaign. Then the video was released. So as difficult as it may be for us to believe, it’s entirely possible she may be lying about this also.

My last one was PS4 and I regret buying it now. I had like 40 games for PS3 and I thought I would probably repeat with PS4 but and at the end of the day, I only was interested enough to get 9 games. I’m just way too into doing things on the PC now and there’s just not enough exciting exclusive content to justify consoles for me.

Same, circa 2012-2014 somewhere. As soon as Netflix stopped focusing on making sure they gave you access to more and more titles and started making their own TV shows instead, I knew exactly what was up. I cancelled, ripped all my DVDs, built a Plex server and started collecting media using alternative sources. 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

That was the last subscription I ever had and I cannot imagine a world in which I would ever have another. It would be like entering an abusive relationship on purpose. I’ve already collected more media than I could hope to watch/listen to/read.

Well, now you can’t say all the older not chronically online fans you know rave about it, because I’m older, not chronically online and I think it sucks.

Edit: I’ve just found out that “not chronically online” means “too incompetent to do shit online” so my apologies for misunderstanding. I thought it just meant, you know, not being online a lot. Like me. I’ve posted to Lemmy about 10 times in the past 5 days. I have literally no other social media accounts on the Internet. I was on Facebook for like a week in 2014 before I noped out. BUT! I can make an account on Lemmy, so my opinions about Star Trek are clearly only informed by being a chronically online mouth-breather.

I really only need Elite Dangerous and I’ll be happy. I’m going from an OG Vive so having no tether and 150g less weight around my face is gonna be just great. But I’m also excited to try new stuff I wouldn’t have dreamed to try in the OG with the tether, like Beat Saber. Being able to do it anywhere, so I can pick the biggest room in the house instead of being limited to the one that has the computer is just like a whole different level.

The oil companies and their billionaire oligarchs are making bank on this. Note that the Feds dropped the EV tax credit in the US and Chinese EVs cannot be sold in the US, and the picture will begin to come into focus. Also note that the best selling EVs in a country with artificially few options to choose from are manufactured by a company owned by… yes, a billionaire oligarch. The US is a Klepto-Oligarchy with a veneer of Democracy.

They’re ambivalent about her death because they are mentally deranged and one less abortion in the world is more important to them than her living.

I find it telling that Trump has not been able, in this second term, to do what he appeared to do so easily in his first term (lower interest rates). I believe in some respects, the United States is under tight control, and it is not by Trump - or any president. Interest rates are set by… Those Who Set Interest Rates. Whether or not that aligns with Trump’s desires, as it turns out, is merely coincidental.

Republicans pass up no opportunity to deride the post office and they defund it/depopulate it every chance they get. I was just at the post office, huge post office in a major metro that’s always been very busy. It now has only one of three buildings open, half the lights off inside it and one clerk at the counter. The line is always out the door. Meanwhile several people in line, quite obviously Republicans (old, white, obnoxious/noisy), are removeding and moaning about how shit the post office is. Republicans are stupid, shitty, worthless people.

I didn’t understand this so I looked it up. The game literally can run on the headset’s mobile chipset, no computer needed. Possible through foveated rendering. Absolutely insane. And there are 131 verified titles at launch.

Had to be all marketing. Those things were ugly AF.

Well, I mean, it’s twice the resolution (2160 vs 1080), half again more on the refresh rates (144 vs 90 Hz), weighs 150g less (409 vs 555 g) and it doesn’t have fresnel lenses - if the whole “completely wireless, lighthouse-free, works standalone or with your computer and can stream” wasn’t enough of an upgrade lol. It is for me, I put myself on the list for a 256.

Aside from the tether, which is just a pain in the ass, I won’t miss the screen door effect and the god rays.

I bought an OG Vive about 5 years ago on Craigslist for $300 and honestly, it’s still usable and a very representative experience of what VR can do, in my opinion. Looks like it can be had for under $200 these days.

Those are the cards manufactured in Australia.

Softbank and Oracle are gonna die

Please I can only get so erect.

Well, sure.

mortgage rates are climbing

This shouldn’t be cited as a bad thing with inflation where it is. Interest rates are the primary lever that the Fed uses to control inflation. When interest is higher, inflation cools down. When you lower them it heats up. Not that it’s that big a help when the price of gas is doubling because of *checks notes* an unending war in the Middle East that nobody asked for.

Constant, nonstop lowering of interest rates ordered by a fucking idiot from 2016-2020 (going to near ZERO) most directly caused the current housing price situation. Guess which idiot I’m talking about. That’s right, the same guy who has been trying to do the same thing for the past two years because when property values go up, so does his bottom line and nothing else in the world fucking matters to the orange dipshit.