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[Discussion] What games are you playing on your deck? - August 2023 by cecirdr in c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

[-] cecirdr@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

BG3...soon. :)

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It’s bots all the way down at kindle unlimited (www.vice.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by cecirdr@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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My title might be a bit hyperbolic, but stuff like this worries me. I love to read and I love reading on a kindle. This has been going on for a while, but it has now reached absurd levels.

Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout “will pass” by cecirdr in c/technology@beehaw.org

[-] cecirdr@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

I intend to stay here on beehaw. It will take me a while to get over the habituated behaviors I had with reddit, but the quality of the posts over here is high. I don't feel like voices are getting drowned out over here. So reddit won't miss me. Over time, I won't miss reddit. All good things must end.

Now time to enjoy watching how new communities and the software driving Lemmy develop.

Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout “will pass” by cecirdr in c/technology@beehaw.org

[-] cecirdr@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

That's my thought too. Even before this, I felt like I was reading automated posts and chat bot responses on reddit. It seems like a zombie forum where most of the "people" weren't really real, it was just recycled content, laugh tracks, and being force fed content posted by reddit itself (versus users) scraped from other places.

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How many steam deck folks are here and what are you playing? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by cecirdr@beehaw.org to c/gaming@beehaw.org

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Right now, I’m playing the early access version of Baldurs Gate 3. I’m getting ready to put it down (frustrated: BG3 has the potential to be good, but without controller support, I’m getting really frustrated with the UI. ) and switch to Yakuza Like a Dragon.

What are you playing now and what are you looking forward to playing next?

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My little old dude. (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by cecirdr@beehaw.org to c/aww@lemmy.ml

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I took my buddy camping. He’s 17 years old or so. I got him from the shelter, so I don’t really know. He spent most of the trip just sleeping. 😄

How long do you think until the financial markets collapse? by cecirdr in c/collapse@lemmy.ml

[-] cecirdr@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I remember years ago when Enron and Worldcom collapsed. People who were retired/nearly retired lost a lifetime of investments. They found themselves on the cusp of their elder years and thrust into poverty overnight.

If (when) the stock market fails everyone is going to be in that same boat because all other avenues of saving money other than shoving it in a mattress or burying it in your yard is ultimately tied up in the market. I have to contribute to a 401k and pension plan to get employer contributions. So instead of a safe CD or savings account...my extra money is "playing" the market. I don't like this and predict it's going to get really ugly for lots of folks when finance buckles. I'm 10 years out from retirement and on edge just thinking about this. Then again, I know I won't be alone.

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How long do you think until the financial markets collapse? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by cecirdr@beehaw.org to c/collapse@lemmy.ml

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One of the steps in a societal collapse is a loss of faith in financial tools. The stock market has seemed like a casino for a long time to me, yet it is still cranking out money for the upper crust. It is the primary driver for business decisions that produce short term gain, but reduce long-term viability for the companies and for the environment.

Currently, there are no other real vehicles for the average US citizen to invest in for their retirements. In my parents' generation, there were more. Heck, they had a lot of money in CDs and even those earned a decent rate of interest. Yet everything now is such a low return, or boom/bust like housing, so little guys like me are pushed into getting retirement accounts that are stocks. I'm not keen on that.

What's even worse is that many jobs will employer match if you put into one of the stock market based retirement funds. But if you want to just put your money into a savings account, you miss out on the employer matching. So there's strong incentive to keep putting your money into the stock market.

So I keep trying to read the tea leaves to figure out when the casino is going to collapse. ...or even if it will. I think there are some folks that just assume that it will keep making money for the wealthy and the rest of humanity will just get left behind.