needs v wants and I live a simpler life.
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Steaks
Concerts.
In the 90s youd go to the record store that had a ticket kiosk. Tickets were 10 to 20 dollars, youd get a printed ticket.
Now it just sucks. Venues add fees, ticketmaster fees double the price, printing fees, sometimes you cant even get the digital ticket until the day of and hope nithing goes wrong.
It all just sucks now.
I go down to my local dive bar and watch some local guys play rock and blues....for tips.
Cost me $40 per ticket to see Pulp in melbs in 1998.
$99 in 2011
$150 in 2026
All general admission
Subscriptions 🏴☠️
I have one subscription that covers everything!
...it's a vpn. 🤫
McDonalds. It used to at least be cheap. Now it's both expensive and still tastes bad.
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Hard drives. I have a movie hobby and that takes a lot of storage and well, storage now is 3-5 times more expensive than not two years ago and I can't afford it anymore.
But on the flip side, people can now finally nudify my daughter, so that is totally worth it!
Fuck everything about AI.
I am waiting patiently for the AI bubble to pop so that all of a sudden there's an excess supply of ram, gpu's, drives, etc.
Hate to break it to you, but that's not at all how that will work out.
Yeah I started on the path of "never buy storage used" to "f it we'll do it live with smartctl" because even decade old used server drives are triple in price.
It's so bad I'm genuinely looking at storage pool solutions like stratis which lets you mix and match drive sizes without reducing the total size.
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Any streaming service.
It's not even about the money specifically, if that's what it actually cost or if it was going to a good place. It's the greed of constantly trying to find that line on how hard they can squeeze and at what price point people will keep taking it.
Streaming used to be cheap and a good deal. I remember when YouTube TV launched it was only $35/month and now it's nearly $100
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Kids wanted 5 guys, wife + 2 kids.
2 hot dogs, 1 burger and 3 orders of fries and drinks, (i skipped a fucking burger because I saw the price) $70
Never even considered going back.
Though Mytical kitchen just did a price check per ingredients and while they're expensive AF, they're not screwing you as bad as mcdonalds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zOmh9F4xcs
edit: fixed a typo, but i'm going to leave the monstrosity of a line one for everyone's enjoyment
Kids wanted 5 guys, wife + 2 kids.
You know that comma, with no additional verbs, makes it sound like your kids wanted to start their own families, with loads of guys a wife, and two kids of their own.
I have a small garden for a hobby and mental health. I spent $30 on 2 bags of fucking DIRT yesterday. What am I doing? Dirt was $30!?!? I guess I can't even afford dirt anymore. 😭
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I've not stopped but heavily worked to cut fast food out of my daily meal plan. The cost of most burgers out there I can buy buns, ingredients, and meat to cook myself to how I like it. It'll be juicier, thicker, and tastier as well.
Burgers?
For the cost of a mcValuer meal with a shake I can literally get a thick, Prime ribeye to cook at home, and steaks are crazy expensive right now. They jumped up more in price than anything at the grocery.
I can easily made a dozen patties for that price if I'm making burgers at home. They'll be twice as thick, and topped with real cheese too.
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The Chinese buffet. 8.95 for lunch 12.95 dinner. Now 20 bucks at minimum.
Korean karaoke. 20 bucks an hour now 50 an hour or whatever they make up at the time.
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It's been more than 10 years it feels like since you could just buy a raspberry pi for a little side project.
Now you better have a good use for it, since it's a good chunk of money.
I feel like raspberry pis have completely lost the plot. Now they're just expensive mini PCs rather than low powered devices for hobby projects. By the time you get a case, a hat for NVME, and the sensors you want, it's be cheaper to buy an actual mini-PC with even more power.
From a hobby perspective, the ESPs are where it's at
Way too many things to go in to here. Starting with foods lets start with beef steak. I can buy a weeks worth of food for the price of a few decent steaks.
DNC excuses.
I only get wings from one bar on a deal night where they're 50c each
I haven't really bought new computer parts in forever, I just trade/sell what I have.
Soda, even from wholesellers it's too much money
Lots of video games. I wait a few years usually.
Honestly I live a simple life in general, what upsets me is housing because nobody can escape that
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Canned beans. I love some bean medley but at $3 a can.... guess I can't even have beans.
Dry beans life
I am 50/50 on dry beans not rehydrating. Half the time I can have beans tomorrow.
You soak them overnight then boil them on blast for like 30 minutes? If they're still not coming to then it's likely your dry beans are too old.
Yeah, and these are half the beans I get from the store. I think the dry bean logistics has failed here.
Talk to your store. I think they're selling you bum beans. I've never had that happen to me. I've had some slightly hardly but still totally edible.
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