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Every day, the future looks a little bit darker. But the past… even the grimy parts of it… keep on getting brighter.

I’m wondering why I even need a smartphone at this point. I’m tempted to go back to a flip phone.

People can be blind and deaf from birth and still live fulfilling lives. They need more support, for sure, and not getting that support can be devastating. But I think if you give a disabled person a choice between adequate help or euthanasia, most would pick help.

Warner Herzog made a really interesting documentary about deaf-blind people back in the '70s, called Land of Silence and Darkness. Some of it is heartbreaking, for sure, but most of it is pretty uplifting.

There’s no chance of that happening without some kind of election interference. New Yorkers hate Cuomo. He resigned in disgrace because he’s a sexual predator and because he spent COVID killing everyone’s grandparents and lying about it. By the time he resigned in disgrace, he was a full mask-off villain.

He’s a nepo-baby politician that got to play King of New York for a very short time because of his daddy’s connections. Born on third base and thinks he hit a triple. He’s only doing this at all because, even though he resigned in disgrace, he thinks he’s owed a shot at the White House, and mayor of New York is a first step back into the field.

I genuinely believe Alan Chartok would have a better shot at being mayor at this point.

Hollow Knight was just so much well-curated content for the price. I got it on sale for $7.50, and after I played through it, I had to go buy it again at the full $15 because I felt like I’d ripped Team Cherry off.

Small indie film? Dear Zachary is a documentary produced on a shoestring budget, and it is an absolutely devastating piece of art. Just thinking about the film puts a lump in my throat.

Yep, same situation for me. “Ambidextrous” roughly means “two right hands,” so I like to joke that I’m ambisinistral - I’ve got two left hands.

Punch Drunk Love is a masterpiece. Simultaneously one of the funniest and most heartbreaking films I’ve ever seen in my life.

Kodak has been circling the drain for decades. I’m shocked they’ve lasted this long.

What do we think about Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture for this? There is a plot, there is a story, but you as the player have no active role in it. You don’t even see it play out in real time. You’re just there, after, looking at the holes left behind. Nothing changes from the start of the game until the end.

I absolutely loved it, but typing that out, I suddenly realize why most people thought it was really boring.

Many states have closed primary elections prior to the general election. So three or four candidates from the same party are campaigning against each other for the right to be the candidate in the general election, and the only people that can vote in this preliminary election are registered party members.

That 55% figure has been true of New York for decades. The ubiquity of public transit has historically offset the costs: since people aren’t making car payments, the portion of their income that would go to that gets spread across other spending.

I would be more interested to see figures in more car-oriented areas for a better apples-to-apples.

Most companies have been taking it on the chin for now: eating the cost of the tariffs and taking a reduced profit to maintain prices and help foster consumer confidence while they wait and see how all the tariff negotiations actually play out.

With regards to the original question, inflation is measured across all consumer purchasing. So prices on goods (groceries, cars, computing hardware, etc) can increase significantly, but if the price on services (Netflix, restaurants, laundromats, etc) stays relatively flat, inflation ends up looking better than it feels.