What a surprise this guy is having trouble with marketing

I respect that

I have not played that one

I think it’s even more in your face about it than Disco tbh

The parallels to 20th century politics make it borderline political satire (ala Animal Farm) in spots. I enjoyed it regardless though, but it wasn’t what I was expecting

Deserves a mention, but gosh was it a bit heavy handed on the politics stuff. Was not expecting that for a fantasy setting.

I wonder what the overlap is between people interested in self hosting computer services and people who are interested enough in fashion to want to catalog their clothing in an app. I’m in bubble A and not bubble B, but it feels like cataloging stuff you put in your fridge so you can make recipes instead of just looking in the fridge.

I didn’t care for the art style of Bloodstained

It sounded like a villain saying that, having villains behave in a disrespectful manner seems okay to me?

That would be weird in a Korean game

I played the first one of the series but bounced off it pretty quickly. Seems there are a lot of these now. Are they visual novels or something?

They probably need to sell over 14 million copies at full price to break even with that bonus. The math is very bad for them. That’s not impossible, but it would make it one of the best selling games of all time (top 50)

Companies often arbitrarily pick. In the US retailers often start the year in like April so they can get all their holiday season earnings in the same fiscal year

I’m not concerned about it personally, but you are putting a lot of trust in them as a 3rd party service provider. It’s up to your specific risk profile if that’s acceptable risk or not.

The alternative would probably be self hosting a vpn yourself with dyndns to handle ip address resolution. I’m biased (I have a professional networking background) but I don’t think it’s that much harder to setup either. But then I’m also a hypocrite and don’t self host anything anymore.

There’s also a valid argument to be made that doing it yourself is riskier because novices make mistakes. I don’t think this is too big of a concern personally - it’s not like you’re rolling your own cryptography.

Just as much as Tailscale is self hosting. Tailscale is probably more concerning from a security point of view.

At some point it’s just mismanagement and blows any potential profit out the window.

But they don’t save it any more, you see. They have about one dollar for every 10 dollars deposited. The rest exists only in the banking system itself, and is not a tangible asset.

Fractional reserve banking has been around for hundreds of years

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional-reserve_banking

This was an interesting point I hadn’t thought of before, so I wanted an alternate perspective since a Twitter meme is a little one sided, think of it what you will:

Property taxes are ancient — they predate modern stock markets by centuries. Land was the dominant form of wealth, and crucially, you can’t hide a house from the assessor. Real estate is immobile, visible, and tied to a specific jurisdiction. Stocks are the opposite: mobile across borders, easy to hold through trusts or shell entities, and private holdings are genuinely hard to value year-over-year.

The other piece is who’s collecting and why. Property taxes are local — they fund schools, fire, roads, the stuff that directly makes your property more valuable. There’s a clean “benefit” logic: the city paves your street, your house is worth more, you pay for it. A share of Apple isn’t enhanced by Seattle paving anything, so there’s no equivalent local nexus.

Stocks also already get taxed, just at different moments rather than annually: capital gains when you sell, dividends when paid, corporate income tax on the underlying company, estate tax at death. The argument against an annual wealth-style tax is partly that the system already takes its cut, just not on a recurring basis.

A few countries (Norway, Switzerland, Spain) do tax financial wealth annually, but most that tried it abandoned it — capital flight and valuation headaches. In the US there’s also a constitutional wrinkle: the federal government can’t easily levy direct taxes on wealth without apportionment among states, which is why Warren/Sanders-style wealth tax proposals have to be carefully structured to survive a court challenge.

“Curse AI for… <checks noted> advancing medical diagnostics!”

I’d skip Active Directory but the rest seems reasonable.

Doing it all through infra as code and using ci/cd tend to be the most “devopsy” things.