“Oh look at mister moneybags over here with his 500 updoots…”

I don’t want to be that guy, regardless of my username!

Gold is probably going to be the easiest intermediary for you to travel with, it’s a pretty good hedge against inflation - but it has been on a bit of a tear lately; so there’s always a risk of pullback.

Alternatively, you can exchange part of your current savings into your target country’s currency? (There will be caps on how much you can travel with, so research that first).

Might be worth seeing if you can buy/invest in Gov’t bonds in your target country, or open up a bank account and deposit the funds into a high-yield savings account or term-deposit.

Lastly, there is always crypto - but that’s probably even more volatile than what the US would be over the next few months.

Unrelated, but what’s the source show for this meme?

2005 (1985 Parody): https://youtu.be/zaAYUZqZvlA

G O U R A N G A !

It looks like a cross between double-typed characters from an old-school typewriter, and an optical illusion where the seemingly straight lines of the exclamation cast squiggly shadows.

Either way, IMO it’s quite busy and visually unappealing. Gove me a good ol’ !? any day of the week.

Plus, depending on context !? and ?! could mean two entirely different things; to me, the former is a sign of incredulity “What the fuck!?” - while the latter is a yelled question “Can you hear me?!”

I’d sincerely like to think so; between Mario Bros., Hook and Who Framed Roger Rabbit - Bob Hoskins is a foundational part of my childhood…

Loss in the n^th dimension.

The American brain should be perfectly adapted to this sort of scenario! Just think it like one of those suburban cookie-cutter HOA developments, but vertical!

As for counting with multiple numbers, y’all love to do that already! feet & inches, pounds & ounces etc.

I have in-laws living in China, and honestly - it’s a lot easier to navigate those sorts of high rises than you might think.

Most residential buildings I’ve visited have lots of dedicated lifts, so only 2 apartments per floor share one lift. So you would only need to provide something like: Tower 37, Floor 19, Apartment 2.

The Chinese love their delivery apps, too - their drivers (technically scooter riders) are very used to this.

Now the city of Chongqing is a whole seperate matter, that place is an M. C. Escher drawing in real life!

The PS4 is not yet retro, it’s just been re-categorised from ‘current gen’ to ‘last gen’, as the PS5 has taken its place as the ‘current gen’.

When the PS6 eventually launches some time around ~2030, it would still be ‘next gen’ for a while until it reaches mass-market adoption. At that (largely arbitrary) point, the PS6 would become ‘current gen’, the PS5 would become ‘last gen’ and the PS4 would go on to be considered ‘retro’.

Just for reference - by that point in time, the PS4 would likewise also be ~18 years old.

When ‘next-gen’ becomes ‘current gen’ (as we see the PS5 now), then the previous ‘last gen’ (ie. PS3) becomes retro.

Reminder to anyone who disagrees with the above, the PS3 was released 18+ years ago. You’re just old, like me - embrace it.

Soap Box
Ballot Box
Ammo Box < we have arrived at this point

R*TX 4090

The left Shift is A, and Caps Lock is Z.

To get those keys to function as Shift/Caps you would need to hold down the Fn key (bottom right).

I’m all for minimalist keyboards, but this shit is a bit too ridiculous.

VPN to a country with a lower cost, and sign up there. It used to be Turkey and India, where you could get a Family Plan for like $2/mo - but they’ve cracked down a bit on it.

We use YT for so much in our ‘household’ that it made sense to pool together and get Premium, and honestly it feels good having ~5 people who consume a tonne of content ad-free for nearly no cost while still supporting our preferred content creators.

Going by that argument though, then EVERYTHING is an indirect act of God.

Bullet wound? Clearly it was God’s will, for ordering the universe in such a way that an individual was armed at that point in time to cause you harm.

Cancer? God willed the carcinoma onto your skin.

Maybe it’s just Argumentum ad absurdum, but insurance companies are basically arguing against their own existence.

I specified one generation of hardware backwards compatibility; beyond that software emulation would be more than sufficient.

The PS5 is backwards compatible with all but ~6 PS4 titles. Sure that’s entirely because of the shared x86-64 architecture, but it makes the PS4 stand out like a sore thumb for its lack of direct generational backwards compatibility.

By the end of the PS3’s lifecycle the Cell processor has been die-shrunk multiple times, reducing power consumption, heat output and PCB space required. It could then share the rest of the PS4s existing IO chips and circuitry.

There was literally no reason for backwards compatibility to be removed beyond corporate greed. Blindly accepting it, and actually trying to justify that as a good thing is one of the key reasons this hobby has gone down the toilet.

Hard to improve on perfection, but they had to keep their UI designers employed I suppose?