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Inflation is the measure of how much buying power your money is worth. Wage stagnation is wages not keeping up with inflation. They are not the same thing.

Wage stagnation isn't a result of inflation because inflation happens first. So yeah when working out the equivalent price of a product inflation needs to be taken into account but so does how much money everybody has.

If $1 in 2005 is worth $15 today, but I still only get $6 an hour then it isn't correct to say that a product that cost $15 today is effectively the same as a product costing $1 in 2005 because it's not taken into the fact that I don't get more money.

Also even for people who want they can just get a gaming handheld and then gain access to a bunch of games which rarely cost $80 even when they're brand new. Buying a Switch 2 just isn't a financially sensible decision for anyone regardless of how much money you have in your bank account

Yeah that's the problem there's nothing really compelling for it. Plus they've done their classic Nintendo thing of take a great product and then just add a bunch of gimmicks and claim innovation e.g the mouse mode thing nobody cares about. Also them being tight about the controllers and not putting decent hall effect even though they know they have a problem. It just proves that they don't actually care about their customer base.

The best bit is the fact that they even had time to make the sign means he goes to McDonald's a lot. He managed to cheat on his wife with a woman who reckons that constantly going to McDonald's is a good night out. What.

I vote we just see how good air force ones defences are.

Either that or we just get Boeing to fit one of their famous doors

It's not that I'm boycotting FIFA as much as I'm just not going to the US because I'm not a self-destructive idiot with a death wish.

If you want them to really like you you've got to list the steps you've already attempted and screenshot any error messages you get.

Don't just say you got an error message, actually tell us what it was.

The number of times I get to tickets which claim up and down that there is some major fault, only for the error message to turn out to be that they didn't enter the correct password cannot be counted.

Gee could it possibly be because there's absolutely nothing compelling about the product? Everything about it is just crap.

It's overpriced for what it is, pretty much all of its features are gimmicks and do not demonstrably improve on the original, everyone knows their games are overpriced and never reduce in price, and if you breathe on it in the wrong way Nintendo will sue you for 1100 quadrillion dollars. What's not to love?

Yeah I never understood why anyone would create an account. It's not like you need one to watch the videos.

It's not that developers are switching to AI tools it's that stack overflow is awful and has been for a long time. The AI tools are simply providing a better alternative, which really demonstrates how awful stack overflow is because the AI tools are not that good.

The only way Trump will relinquish power is when he dies either of natural causes or otherwise. He's trying to manufacture a conflict now so that he can use it as justification for suspending elections. It's exactly how Putin got into power. He was elected, probably legally, and then just refused to leave when his term was up.

The only difference between Trump and Putin is that Trump hasn't gotten to the end of his term yet, so still has a vague wiff of legitimacy.

Why can't people just tell Trump that they've done these things, and then just have like a shadow government that actually works. Why are people actually taking orders from this psychopath?

He's actually starting to threaten World War 3 again, and quite a lot of Americans seem to be going "oh well obviously I don't agree with it but what can we do". Nothing, that's what you do, you simply do not do what he tells you to do. Ignore him.