I’m happy enough to spend time and energy and get into new games. The difference is my standards are WAY higher than when I was younger. I’ve played so many games that it’s hard to impress.

Thank you! There was a lot of vitriol coming from that instance.

Weekly polite request: can we please get a setting to “hide downvoted posts”? :-)

Whoopie is not going to be happy

Fully-raytraced Pac-Man

Yeah, I feel like “a country with strong social safety nets” would be a better way of putting it

Socialism has a TON of historical baggage

One problem is the stereotypically ideal socialist countries – the Scandinavian ones – have very tough immigration rules

They also have unique circumstances around racial / cultural homogeneity and sovereign wealth / resources that help with cohesiveness and generous benefits – and those can’t be easily replicated

Exactly

So often, the big players who have the power to grow and support standards in a major way are shitty corporations, and the altruistic, ethical organizations are tiny and broke and feeble

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People in my area (Portland, OR) often say “Fred Meyer’s” with an unnecessary possessive.

The grocery store is called Fred Meyer.

Can we get an option to hide disliked posts, please?

Start a YouTube channel explaining household technologies in depth

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I’m between games at the moment, so I’m revisiting old favorites: Factorio and Hitman

I’ve got something like 170 hours in the modern Hitman trilogy over the years and still enjoy coming back to it sometimes. The only thing that comes close to it in the stealth genre is the Dishonored games.

Likewise Factorio: over 300 hours and the core loop is still so satisfying – can’t wait for the DLC, though

I was playing Baldur’s Gate 3 but I’m burnt out on it at the moment. Combat is relentless in that game…

Not mine, but I used to have a coworker from Romania who’d say, “Of course, white horse!”

The housing market isn’t going to crash. We’re at the highest mortgage rates in 23 years and it’s STILL a sellers’ market. The fact is, inventory being incredibly low + home buying being desirable for many == no reason for a crash. Even the Great Recession only resulted in a temporary price dip.

I know a lot of millennials and zoomers would LIKE for there to be a crash because they think it would let them afford a home. This is a false belief, though: if there were a major crash, it would likely be accompanied by a recession in the labor market too, so there goes your ability to pay for the house.

Also, it’s not black and white. If house prices and interest rates cooled off, it would let me (a homeowner) refinance my mortgage.

Morever, there are benefits to home ownership outside of equity / profiting off a sale:

• Tax benefits (I can deduct my mortgage interest and property taxes; can’t do that with a rental)
• Do what I want with my house – customize, upgrade, etc.
• No landlord to tell me what I can or can’t do, or kick me out
• For complicated reasons, there aren’t many detached house rentals in my area, so owning a house means no loud, obnoxious apartment living – this is the BIG one for me

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/housing-market-crash-experts-191734802.html---

helps to boost posts from less active communities to the top

Nice!! This and the instance-blocking are welcome changes.

Capitalism ruins everything.

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monthly active users I would guess

I just want an option to “hide downvoted posts” like reddit had… I’m tired of seeing the instance-stickied announcements hang around forever in my feed