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  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.networktomemes@lemmy.worldNo good billionaires
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    16 hours ago

    No one needs more than 5 million dollars. That’s enough for a comfortable life without laboring every again.

    If they make a shit load of money doing concerts, that money needs to keep moving. Tax it so it can go into schools and infrastructure and such. They don’t need a mega yacht. People are starving and suffering from problems money would solve.








    • it’s free
    • runs on a wider range of hardware
    • is more customizable
    • can run much windows software with wine or proton
    • has a large ecosystem of native software
      • much of it free and open source

    The advantage of Mac is it’s more widely used and thus more widely supported (for things that are supported at all). You can just buy an apple computer from a trusted source and it’ll work. Linux doesn’t quite have that yet. If more people move to Linux , you’ll find better drivers and stuff.





  • Mostly stuff I bought from Bandcamp. It’s drm free, but for convenience I usually let it stream from the app.

    I also have a bunch of mp3s from older purchases I listen to sometimes, but I don’t have a media server set up so that’s mostly limited to my desktop.

    Sometimes I’ll pull up a specific track on YouTube, but that’s mostly for “do you remember this song?” stuff. Adblock and the “resume playback from lock screen” make it bearable.



  • Well, sunk cost fallacy is extremely common.

    But also people don’t have perfect knowledge. And people change, and change at different rates.

    Imagine a couple that meets when they’re both pretty immature in their 20s. They have fun and fall in love. Then they buy a home together, and the woman slowly realizes she’s matured into an adult role while the husband is still basically the 20 year old bro. Would you casually suggest burning the whole thing down? Finding a new relationship in your mid 30s, especially if you want kids, when there’s no guarantee the new person will be any better, is daunting.

    What if they’re not financially independent?

    It’s easy to sit back and tell people how to behave in the abstract, but real situations aren’t always so obvious.


  • One of the clues they found was from a survivor from the antagonist’s party who had gone in ahead of them. He said the boss-man had kept asking them lots of questions about their youth, where they’d grown up, their hobbies. Just a lot of personal questions. The survivor didn’t know why, since boss-man had never taken an interest in them before.

    spoiler for my old dnd game

    The trick is to walk without looking for anything in particular. If you just walk without a conscious goal, you’ll eventually find the room with the macguffin. The antagonist’s strategy was to keep them talking about stuff so they’re distracted, and not thinking about what they’re looking for.


  • The thing i don’t get is why do women put up with it?

    Many reasons.

    Some people are taught gender essentialism from a young age. Women are like this, men are like that, and there’s no way to change it. It’s just nature (or God) that women clean and take care of the house, and men go out and hunt.

    Many boys are socialized from a young age not to cook or clean. Many girls are taught that that’s what they do. Have you seen this in your life? A family gathering, where the boys run off to play and the women and girls stick around to clean up? Children learn from what they see and what they’re taught.

    It’s only recently that women had any shot at financial independence. Women weren’t guaranteed the right to open a bank account until 1974, in the US. Sexual discrimination is a problem with finding a career to pay one’s own way. From that, one can infer that some women “put up with” shitty men, because the alternative is destitution.

    Some women may believe that changing it is just too much work- it’s not an immutable nor innate property of men that they don’t cook or clean or know anything about the children, but changing that would be an overwhelming amount of work. If the man’s not interested in changing anything, it’s even more daunting, and may damage the relationship.

    Also some men get violent if they feel threatened, insulted, or hungry.

    These are just some things I’ve read or women have talked to me about. I’m a dude doing the best I can. Talk to the women in your life (but don’t make them teach you a whole seminar for free, heh.)