Communicating more effectively with the world requires you to meet the world where it's at.

The SAVE plan is a huge improvement for addressing student debt long term and they are still perusing other means for loan forgiveness.

I agree with your sentiment, but I'll say I'm in my 30s and in grade school they definitely taught us mean/median/mode as being ways to measure the average. That said, I do also use average to mean mean as that's what something like Excel calls it and that's what most people think of when measuring average unless you specify otherwise. So that's all to say, yeah it's a bit messed up.

When someone calls it an idiot tax they mean the actual $2 tickets themselves, not the winnings.

at least at the next debt ceiling increase at the end of 2024

Yeah, so basically long enough that nobody is going to remember this and she is going to George Costanza her way back into the office.

We're the ones doing the scamming

I’m going to be dense as I have no knowledge in this area, but can you just put it back in the ocean? I assume with sea levels rising the ocean is getting less salty so it wouldn’t be harmful as long as we spread it out/did it slowly?

I hate this so much, a preview for a preview.

Call their bluff, they won’t leave.

Is their comment editing going on or did you reply to the wrong comment or is my app glitched? The comment you replied to seems to say:

That’s good to hear that even though the vaccine is targeting the last big Omicron variant (XBB.1.5) aka Kraken, that its still effective towards the new Eris variant as its similar enough.

Which obviously doesn’t make sense for your comment (which I assume was meant to be a reply to an anti-vaxxer or something)

Yeah that was the same for me, the second one in quick succession hit me, but the following ones that were months (year?) apart didn’t really affect me thankfully. Just an incredibly sore arm for a couple days, but that’s standard for me and shots.

Dang, I hope things get better for people there, it was on my short list of places I’d like to travel to.

Yeah I’d say N64 did a more faithful to the original art style but was in 3D (not that this is a good game either): https://youtu.be/lwBwQ6Q6qKE

So you don’t want them to make a Pro console because FOMO?

The base PS4 still worked great even well into the PS5 generation with games like Ragnarok. Neither the PS4 Pro or PS5 made that a poor experience. Devs don’t even want to leave base PS4 players behind almost 3 years into this gen, base PS5 owners will be fine and remain the vast majority of users. If you don’t want to upgrade, just don’t.

And it’s not like you have to buy new/additional hardware to play some games like in the past as all games would support the PS5. Unlike the Genesis which had Sega CD and 32X. GameBoy had GameBoy Color only games. N64 had expansion pak required games. DS had the DSiWare and 3DS had New 3DS only/enhanced games. The 360 started to require the HDD late in life for some games.

I mean 60fps gaming at not sub 1080p resolutions on a Pro would be nice (see latest Final Fantasy for example) and just being able to get performance mode frame rates with quality mode graphics in games would be cool.

I think there is value in both a slim and Pro model.

No car is made forever, even a next generation isn’t going to use the same parts and this has regularly happened with cars when they make new generations, it’s not a new problem.

GTA V never got a Pro patch, Rockstar doesn’t seem to care to update their games past milking online players.

Yeah it’s definitely a poorly written title for anyone not following this super closely.

The way I read it, they are saying the gameplay can’t be any different, it’ll just look better on a mid-gen refresh. Which yeah, isn’t wrong, but so what? Gameplay hasn’t evolved a ton since the PS3/360 era, we’ve got massive CPU and storage improvements this gen and it’s not like that’s brought a huge host of gameplay improvements outside of load times. For the most part all we are doing is improving graphics at this point. I don’t know that there are a ton of impossible gameplay ideas that publishers have but are just waiting for powerful enough hardware to be able to build it.

Those are a bit different since you didn’t have to support the base console so-to-say.