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US child poverty has nearly tripled since 2021
  • It's amazing how giving every family some no strings attached cash and making every school give out free food effected the child poverty rate, almost like we could lower it and keep it low but our leadership chooses not to.

  • I could make a great PC for that...
  • It also had the "other OS" feature! It's strange that the PS3 remains the only big console to have that feature, given how difficult its architecture is to work with. The modern consoles are all much closer to just being prebuilt PCs and none of them have it.

  • It's official: consoles cost as much as gaming PCs now
  • You're correct. I think the real obstacle PC gaming has to overcome for the average consumer is the basic knowledge requirement - I built the PC I currently use and game on and yet I find the numbering schemes for processors and graphics cards insanely confusing, have no idea what goes together and what doesn't, what's a good deal and what's overpriced, etc. But while I was willing to put in the research when I built my current computer, I can totally understand someone else who wants something that they can just turn on and it works.

    Prebuilts don't really solve this problem either. The average consumer will see something like the "MSI Glaive-Guisarm 2077 Fortnite Edition" and I have no idea if that's better than or worse than or about the same as a PS5.

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  • There's some real doublethink going on in the heads of some American libs where they can recognize that the post-9/11 jingoism was really bad but also they are capable to going straight back to that emotional place at the drop of a hat.

  • Eddie Bauer logo is ditching cursive because Gen Z doesn't read it.
  • trying to justify it with writing speed or whatever is just some bazinga brained bullshit

    I specifically switched to writing in cursive because I had a job where I had to take a lot of notes and using a keyboard wasn't an option. It let me write faster and it stopped me from getting hand cramps.

  • If only there was a way to get all of those people there and back home without a car.
  • This is a big reason why many US city budgets are fucked. So much prime taxable real estate given over to parking lots that don't generate anywhere nearly as much money for the public, but the market doesn't care about that particular externality.

  • Kirk makes a good point.
  • If you think about it from an evolutionary standpoint it’s perfectly logical.

    This hasn't actually been borne out in science. As a general rule, less complex human societies tended to be more willing to cooperate with outsiders. They shared hunting grounds, traded clan members, came together for more complex endeavors, and so on. It isn't until the advent of agriculture, when people became attached to plots of land and felt the need to defend them from others, that we see these default attitudes start to shift - and racism as we understand it today is a thoroughly modern phenomenon, with no antecedent prior to the 17th century.

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