Oh, but it does. It helps soooo much. Something about the pinpoint pressure in just the right spot just hits so good… But you can’t just keep biting it forever, and generally the itch comes back again soon after.

I’ve tried them all and in the last year or so, none of worked anymore. They fixed the glitch.

I feel like people always miss the point of a Nintendo console. While it’d be cool to have HDR and OLED and such, it’s not really a big deal. It doesn’t really impact my ability to have fun with Mario Kart or Party. It doesn’t change my enjoyment of animal crossing, etc.

I’ve got a PS5 hooked to a 4k HDR 120hz screen, and enjoy the performance and graphical fidelity regularly, and there are some games I’m still picking a switch up to play. Heck, I still play on a Wii fairly frequently. The controllers, game types/styles, game quality, accessibility, replayability, etc.

It should never be just “we want to have a child so we will”. That’s self centered, short sighted and irresponsible.

Anyone looking to have children should think through at the minimum:

• do we have the money to raise a child?
• who will be able to raise and care for them
• will the child have the ability to grow and succeed in the environment we’re bringing them into?
• will the above to be to the standard we would want for the child?

To bring a child into a bad environment, with no time or money to spend on the child, is to bring the child into this world setup for failure and would only put a drain on the system, the resources, the climate, the relatives, etc.

People are choosing (in Japan and elsewhere around the world) to not have children because of the less than favorable conditions outlined above, and many others.

On one hand, I absolutely abhor governmental blanket data collection and the storage of this data. Both from a personal privacy, independence and freedom point of view, and from a “you know they’ll just leak the data and then everyone will have it” standpoint.

On the flip side:

In March, President Trump signed an executive order calling for the federal government to share data across agencies

Any sane company or government would have already done this… not sharing data between agencies/silos is leads to inaccuracies, duplication of data and work (wasted time/money), additional complexity in data storage and gathering, plus it provides multiple attack surfaces for data breaches.

Also, I read that as “if one agency needs something they can ask the other one for it” which has likely been happening for centuries at this point and this is just another “Trump said we need to do what’s already happening so he can look smart and like he’s doing something besides golfing and accepting foreign bribes”.

I feel like it depends on the beach. Haven’t been to French one’s, but I’d bet there were some touristy ones that get slammed with people. Those make sense for this. Now, some of the quieter more locals only kinda beaches that people are able to spread out more, that’s probably fine to keep… but that’s going to be a hard distinction to make clear rules on.

My wife’s parents recently passed. It took months to slog through their stuff and my wife was over it only weeks in. She dumped so much but constantly fights with herself for both taking more than she wanted/needed to and yet less that what she feels she should have. We’ve told our daughter multiple times “our stuff May mean a lot to us, it doesn’t have to mean anything at all to you. If you don’t want it, never feel bad dumping/selling/letting it go.” Out of all the stuff we all collect in life just by living, barely anything has any sentimental value.

On one hand I’ve got a huge collection of photos and albums I’ve taken and collected. I’m trying to clear some out as I go… but I’m not looking forward to that process when my parents go. My dad’s an avid photographer and I know he has a few hundred thousand photos, most of which are near duplicates and he rarely cleans them up.

He doesn’t actually know what the team ”racist” means, he just knows energizes his base to hear things called that. Whatever shocks his voters into action and belief is good publicity for him and his cronies.

To be fair, the traditional web models were falling apart prior to AI as well. We’ve gone so far past “ad driven” that Everything has to be full of ads and clickbait to drive revenue just to run the infrastructure, let alone pay for the pages creation and upkeep. Journalists and developers, services and goods are all using adword soup to try to get anything close to a useful revenue stream and it’ll just keep getting worse until we figure out a better business model. We’re going to increasingly see paywalls to try to make up for that, but a large part of people on the internet won’t want to spend money on quality sources when they use to be able to get it for free. It’s been a race to the bottom for a while and it’s at a point that isn’t sustainable long term. AI just accelerates that to the next level.

We don’t even get the laugh track!

It’s okay, we’ll just get rid of the regulations on everything else so this one fits the norm.

I still don’t get the game price hate. There’s plenty of other things to hate on Nintendo for, but do an inflation check on $60 between 2010 and now and it’s $88. It’s way past time for prices to go up and they’re still much cheaper than they used to be in the 80’s and 90’s.

Do I like that it finally followed the market and increased? No. But PS5 and XBox games have been expensive new for quite a while. Indie games are able to fill in the market space below and that’s where my money goes anyway. This will just continue that trend.

Not to mention the used market will continue thanks to physical copies that are slowly being dropped from other platforms.

That would be awesome, and I regularly do so on vacations, but let’s be real here: I like having a job so I can have a house and food and pay for goods and services when necessary. Being constantly connected is a basic requirement and responsibility for employment, so I’m going to choose the connection with the least impact on my daily life.

Ironically, owning a smart watch is what helps me keep focused. I can put my phone down and not be tempted to look at things on it. The watch will alert me if I get a call and only certain notifications go to it while my phone stays parked somewhere else in the house.

Honestly, I’ve been tempted to get an LTE one and stop owning a smart phone… the only thing holding me back is my job requiring one.

Last time I was directed to sign up for a “patient portal” like this, there was separate terms of service for the portal and for allowing them to use my hippa protected data for ads. I did not consent and had an ad free experience. Recommend reading the TOS and rejecting what you don’t agree to. Gotta send them a warning somehow.

On one hand, having been forced to use Skype, I’m happy to see it gone. On the other hand, they somehow made it worse and called it Teams.

Thus far, they’d basically be right. Any fines are simply chocked up to “cost of doing business” expenses and since no one wants to either make solid laws against this stuff OR hold them accountable for current ones, they’ll just keep at it.

It’s going to take years if not decades to setup the full supply chain off that deal, he’ll likely be dead by then and China will be laughing the whole time.

Probably a good thing, the US sucked at it anyway. Ukraine was going to be forced to concede so much… Art of the Deal strikes again.

“Art of the Deal”… <eye-roll>