OroPla

> If you barely have enough food to feed your family, as a significant number of Chinese people were in the 60s and 70s, you cannot afford any of these.

This has also been true where I am from (formerly East Germany), yet we still had arts, creativity, freedom to pursue passion, compassion and self-esteem. We might have had only barely enough food to feed a family, but that didn't mean that we acted like animals.

I lost most of the interest I had in chess as a child when I found out that the way to get better at chess boils down to rote memorization of positions. That's not fun.

It used to be that people had between six and twelve children, so all children grew up among babies learning this crucial knowledge from their parents and younger siblings. They'd end up having children within a few years of moving out, too, so there was no forgetting about it, either.

If you start streaming at 20 and plan to live to 80, that's a total cost of $2,880 assuming the price never increases. The price will increase and you don't even get ownership.

I have a pretty large music collection that I am happy with and I haven't paid that much for it.

If you are in the military one of the most important things you need to be able to do is perform what someone higher ranked tells you to. Do not think about it, just do it. Doesn't matter whether you are at the bottom or a major. You are not there to question a command, you are there to execute it.

You can think about how to best execute the command and that's it. Without that you don't have a military.

I never went to streaming in the first place. It never seemed like a good deal for anything.

Look at foot soldiers. One of the basics of their training is to stop thinking. I don't think that LLMs are doing our thinking for us, though. Not anymore than a calculator did before, at least.

How will people learn to ride horses, when everyone drives a car? They generally won't, because that is now obsolete.

> Teachers continue to be necessary to help students achieve an appropriate level of humility to be able to learn.

I never saw a teacher that managed to do that. Not to any of my classmates, nor to me.

If the country is thoroughly taken over by crime, an authoritarian surveillance state does have its perks. I heard there are no-go zones in London that tourists are warned about, so maybe that is the case over there.

Citizens had been cheering when the government over in El Salvador was rounding up all the gang members and just locked them up without due process.

If you are part of the EU and move to countries that are also part or at least have strong ties your experience on the border can still differ a whole lot.

I've been traveling during high alert corona times where you had to carry extra corona related paperwork or at least that was the official message, but at the border no one even asked for your passport. There were a lot more people at the border but a lot less interest in getting close.

Then at more normal times border agents wanted to know nearly everything about what was in the car. Sometimes you have to drive through a scanner and sometimes they just wish you a happy day or not even talk to you.

It's mostly chance, but no one ever wanted my phone, so far.

You told me your expenses are $2400 a week. I told you that it is easy to get this number down since it's unlikely that you have to pay $2400 a week in life extending medications.

The one people hating the gypsies the most are the Roma. They're not the same thing.

If you burn through $2400 in a week, there are lots of opportunities to make changes in your life to make do with less. I'm currently living off $240 a week and that includes going to a fancy restaurant, so I could cut that number down even more if I had to.

Even back when I had to make do with $400 a month I was saving. Live out of a van to save on rent if you have to. There's always a way to live below your means and save.

Of course there are exceptions, but I don't expect those to apply to anyone commenting here.

Plenty if not all people put more value into handmade things, but they can't afford to have everything handmade. An IKEA coffee table is $15. Handmade one from a woodworker is $400 - $1000.

Apparently there are around 60M horses currently, while there's no world wide data for 1910.

Horse ownership isn't what it used to be, but the horse population seems fine.

You'd be surprised how easy it is to start a war, engineer water shortages and famines.

I don't get it. Didn't you live way below your means so you can save up money for retirement? I've got enough money saved to get away with being jobless for about a decade.

I end up being drawn into and wasting time on a flash video site [1] at least once a year and there's always at least a bunch of animations not working properly. But it has gotten better over the years.

[1] https://z0r.de/7194

Not a thing on Linux as far as I know, unfortunately.

What do you use to run them locally? FLASH doesn't exist anymore and all the emulators do not properly work. I've got an archive of FLASH games myself, but I cannot play them anymore.

No, but I'm using a PS4 controller with my Linux PC. Really comfy controller, I just had to replace the original charging port since it stopped working with usb-c and also I had to replace the rubber pads inside.

Very cheaply made given the price, but it's one of the few controllers with a touch pad that works on Linux. The touch pad is nice to get the mouse cursor out of the way.

If this lets you install Linux that would be neat.

Unfortunately holding the PS5 controller gives me crippling pain in my wrists and it also doesn't have any games I care about, but if it could become a Linux media PC, you've got my attention. Especially once its price drops due to the next gen coming out.

Gypsies are not Roma. Gypsy is the word for a lifestyle. Like vagabond or Amish.

The reasons forums are better:

- threads are linear

You post something to a five year old discussion, everyone in the forum notices.

- no voting

Doesn't matter whether your opinion is controversial or not, it is presented as just as valid as all other opinions and thus is worth engaging with, fostering debate.

- smaller communities

It is actually possible to read every post made to the forum and know every member.

- niche interest as the main driver of everything

Everyone is aligned on at least something and politics don't pervade everything.

- moderation can still kill everything

If you got a mod willing to remove posts or ban users for differences of opinion (sexist, racist, homophobe, transphobe, islamophobe, etc. etc) then everything dies either way.

It's not so much the time wasted in discussions, but the time wasted in having to create new accounts, since your old one got banned from the platform. Though, since the last presidency change in the USA it feels like reddit has gotten less ban-happy.

Before I added a bunch of subreddits to my blacklist that will never show up again in a search engine I had to make a new reddit account every four to six months.

Gypsies aren't a race, what they do is a lifestyle. Kinda like classical pirates and brigand bands. But while the latter examples have disappeared for the most part in Europe, gypsies are still a plague upon law and order.

It's kind of a reimagining of Paprika (2006), just dumbed down and with lots of action.

Physical media can be had for very cheap on the second-hand market, so it also makes sense if you do not watch all that much.

The further your timeline goes into the future the more sense owning your media makes. You might not want to rewatch this movie in the next ten years, but what about the next thirty? Fifty years? Inflation will only make subscriptions more and more expensive. Thirty years ago a yearly salary of $40k was the same as a yearly salary of $100k now. It's funny how so many people think they earn more than their parents did, when in reality they earn way less. And that won't get better in the future. Maybe you won't even have enough money in your retirement to afford a subscription.