yepitwas

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by yepitwas 1y ago
Basically anything but hold cash, at least until interest rates are forcibly pushed to the moon to try to break out of stagflation. Assuming you can avoid selling whatever you've bought until the other side. [EDIT] If you think we&#x27
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I expect they're correctly hesitant to cut rates at the same time as the president pursues inflationary policies, since that'd be courting stagflation, which was so bad last time it happened that it was one of the main factors tha
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by yepitwas 1y ago
A lot of current conservative grousing about the deficit is priming the electorate for destroying social security. That's why they always highlight it as the main cause of the deficit, even though it has a totally separate income str
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About half the population doesn't even understand how marginal income tax rates work. I bet the fraction that doesn't know that "lowering inflation" still means "prices are going up, not down" is quite a bit la
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by yepitwas 1y ago
My experience has been that a large majority of books that get hyped on social media and make the rounds as a hot book-club sort of read… are terrible. Whatever process causes a book to reach that point appears to have no connection to how
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by yepitwas 1y ago
The ordinary game is pretty damn good, but all the tracks exist in one "world" and your character + kart are racing around it on autopilot in the background of the main menu. You can press a button to dismiss the menu and take ove
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by yepitwas 1y ago
Yeah I've played more Mario Kart than Smash Bros. and am only a very-casual player of either (... but this surely describes the overwhelming majority of people buying and playing these games?) so I wouldn't claim with some kind of
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by yepitwas 1y ago
IMO the newest Mario Kart (Switch 2) is the first one that’s probably better than Double Dash. That’s three consoles in a row where I think the GameCube game’s better than the newer offerings (and that’s not even a nostalgia game for me—tha
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by yepitwas 1y ago
> It's a bummer that so much of computing has moved from content creation devices to content consumption devices. I continue to find this assessment of phones and tablets impossible to relate to. The very-portable device with multip
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More than just some: an iPhone is my preferred device for playing games for Nintento portables. Literally gameboy games.
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I can believe different things about totally different situations without conflict. I probably consider the Internet far less valuable than you do—it’d never occur to me to compare it to knives, which are enormously useful.
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They are by common use of the term, however. Just not in US military jargon.
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Do you think I am somehow bound to answer yes to this question? If so, why do you think that?
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> there are lot of bad people on internet too, does that make internet is a mistake ??? Yes. People write and say “the Internet was a mistake” all the time, and some are joking, but a lot of us aren’t.