That seems high, because I think the literacy rate today is lower. I guess it depends on how you define literacy, though.

Four in five U.S. adults (79 percent) have English literacy skills sufficient to complete tasks that require comparing and contrasting information, paraphrasing, or making low-level inferences—literacy skills at level 2 or above in PIAAC (OECD 2013). In contrast, one in five U.S. adults (21 percent) has difficulty completing these tasks (figure 1)

https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2019/2019179/index.asp

It’s another manifestation of separate rules for the rich and everyone else.

The video games in my house were downstairs, and one time I did a “Can I go downstairs?” instead of “Can I play video games?” when I knew they didn’t want me playing more games. Thought it was a clever loophole. Only worked the one time, but got jokingly referenced for the next ten years.

As the other person said, it really depends on what people mean by “strict”.

My parents were “strict” in that they enforced a bed time. Now I have better than average sleeping habits. So that worked out.

But I’ve also read about “strict” parents that, like, take doors off their kids rooms, or read the kids private messages, or other nightmares

Well, yeah.

Maybe if you own the business and keep a big chunk of the profits. But for the standard “you get a salary” job? Yeah you’re being robbed. That’s capitalism.

"A worker pulls into the parking lot at work, and the boss pulls in right after in a new sports car. The worker says, ‘wow what a car! How did you get it?’

The boss says, ‘Tell you what. You work hard this quarter, hit all your numbers, put in some overtime, and I can buy a new one next quarter.’"

This one is appealing in that they refund the fee even if it’s from some other bank. So you can go to the ATM at the corner shop that charges $3 to withdraw, and get that refunded at the end of the quarter. Most banks don’t have fees at their own ATM, but this is no fees anywhere. For rich people.

I think i meant smart phone. Apparently cell phone adoption was in the 60%+ range in 2005

https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/fact-sheet/mobile/

Oh yeah I forgot about that. One of the banks here refunds ATM fees if you have a minimum balance of $2500 (and waives the monthly fee if you have $25,000). Like, my guys, the people who don’t have money need that fee waived a lot more. But the bank just wants to make money and that means appealing to rich people.

Sometimes I get mad about how we in practice have basic income for the rich. If you have a few million dollars, you can park it in zero or low risk investments (eg: high yield savings, bonds) and get free money. Then you can just fuck off and pursue your dreams. No risk. Lots of reward.

But if you’re poor? Well you better take any job for any salary or you’re just a parasite blah blah blah. All pain, some risk, little reward.

All other things aside, 20 years is a long fucking time. 20 years ago we barely had cell phones. The iPhone was 2007 I think.

Reminded me of classic tacocat song “hey girl” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lXt5n9Ni5p0

My monthly food bill is typically around $120.

• A lot of beans or other canned vegetables: $30
• Bread: $5
• Peanut butter, $8
• bananas: $10
• rice: $10
• Other fruit that’s on sale: $10
• Some fresh vegetables (usually onions, broccoli, peppers): $10
• Flour: $10 (may last more than a month)
• yeast: $5
• Seasonings: $5 (also lasts more than a month)
• Cheese: $5
• Tomato sauce: $5
• Pasta: $5

I got laid off a while ago so I’m trying to make my dollars go farther. When I had a well paying job, I’d also buy more stuff, but nothing too crazy. I miss hummus the most, I think. I never buy soda.

The other day I was with someone and we decided to order food like old times, and it was like $40 for two of us. I was like, fuck, that’s a third of my whole month’s budget right there. But I don’t want to live like a monk all the time.

At one of my past jobs I wanted to institute a “put a dollar in the jar” rule every time someone made a useless bug report.

“The site is down” -> dollar in the jar.

“I’m trying to access the site via the public internet in firefox 136.0.3, and I’m getting a 500 on [request], and then the whole page is blank. Here’s a screenshot.” -> good

Sometimes people don’t know. Sometimes they don’t care. But if there’s no consequences, people aren’t going to change. And if they’re not going to change, at least we can do a team lunch every week with the jar full of money.

This probably won’t help with the first point but you can hit Ctrl+d I think, or click the star, and it’ll just bookmark it with a default name (page title) and location, I think. I’ve definitely bookmarked things by accident somehow.

I don’t believe I have ADHD so I can’t really relate to it. My original post wasn’t meant to be like a condemnation - weird isn’t always bad. Just different.

It’s mildly interesting that you wouldn’t get anything done, but I feel like if I had to work like you I wouldn’t get anything done. Trying to deal with all those tabs would be a big distraction to me. Funny how different folks can be.

Usually the browser history, or I remember enough to find it again.

Admittedly, a couple times I haven’t been able to find a particular meme or whatever, but it’s never been important stuff.

Other people’s computer usage is weird to me.

I just bookmark stuff if I think I’ll need it later, and I usually don’t even do that. Otherwise, every browser window is closed at the end of the session.

You have to jump when you’re doing it, too. if you touch the ground before it finishes, it won’t work and you’ll just get shocked.

If you clear some post-game optional challenges, there’s a special move you can unlock that does it easier, but that’s only useful if you want to do NG+

Hours on the centipede man, you say? Once you get into the deflect rhythm, they’re very satisfying. Fill their posture right up and then finish them. But without the timing, you’re going to take a lot of chip damage or get posture broken yourself :(

Sekiro is one of my favorites. I like that it’s not really about leveling, and it pretty much gets right into it. I could pick it up today and blast through a new game.

Do you know how to do the lightning reversal? There are a handful of bosses that it really counters.

Classic RPG. My half orc “beat with an ugly stick” master of time magick and backstab lives on fondly in my memory.

Also my extremely pretty elf, also a master of time magick.

Oh I remember this post. I remember being surprised to see The Courtneys on the list. They’re a fun band. Did a nice live show when I saw them, once.