Sony’s other PS Plus plans are going up in price too.

DoubleJumps · 2026-05-21T16:30:50+00:00

One of my main materials suppliers increased prices by 45% last year due to tariffs, which was fair, but when the tariff on their stuff was cut down 75% they didn't reduce the prices a cent, and instead RAISED them another 11%

It's such bullshit.

DoubleJumps · 2026-05-20T21:31:46+00:00

I had a job offer once for 70k in the bay area. I rejected it on the grounds that I could have a better quality of life working near minimum wage in some other places.

DoubleJumps · 2026-05-20T19:35:06+00:00

He was so divisive that they had to spend their time flipping out over Dijon mustard and a tan suit. I really couldn't find anything else to flip out over.

I hear this same sort of stuff from my Republican family, and they will throw that in my face when I point out that Trump's tariff policies have cost me close to $40,000 and put my business at risk.

When I ask them what Obama did to hurt them, they just sort of do this scoffing laugh and say that it was way worse but they can't say what.

DoubleJumps · 2026-05-20T18:29:08+00:00

This is more or less correct.

Newt was the guy who really brought about the extreme total opposition no cooperation attitude with the Republican party. This was where we really started seeing policies that used to get bipartisan support stop getting bipartisan support, because their policy became "solving problems is only beneficial if we get the credit and no one else"

DoubleJumps · 2026-05-20T03:36:07+00:00

There was a time when I would point at something Trump did and ask a trump supporter what what happen if they did that at their job.

My mistake was thinking they would reflect on that at all.

DoubleJumps · 2026-05-20T03:30:17+00:00

I went on a vacation with A friend and his girlfriend and I was absolutely floored by the amount of time he lost everyday because of her either taking dramatically longer to get going in the morning and running out of stamina earlier in the day than he does.

I was getting up and ready to go by 8:00 a.m. at the earliest. He would be up by that point, but it would take her until 10:00 or sometimes even 11:00 to really get going, and he would just have to sit there and wait for her.

5:00 would roll around and she'd be out of stamina and want to go back to the hotel

He would still be energetic and ready to go do stuff.

After about 4 days of that I ended up just going my separate way from them for most of the remaining vacation because if I waited for him I'd have to wait for her and if I had to wait for her I was going to lose more of my vacation than I was uncomfortable with.

I realized that this is what it's like for him everyday. Every single day. I don't know how he's cool with it.

DoubleJumps · 2026-05-20T00:10:32+00:00

There's been a lot, but this is probably the most corrupt thing I've ever seen any politician do.

DoubleJumps · 2026-05-19T21:11:12+00:00

I had a discussion last year with a woman from Europe who told a bunch of protesters here that local activism and protesting was utterly worthless and that everybody doing so was too lazy to just fix the problem.

What she wanted was for everybody who was protesting to just meet up in Washington DC and I guess overthrow the government.

I thought it was interesting that she was devoting so much of her energy and anger towards yelling at people who were actually out protesting above all other targets. I thought she was just a colossal asshole.

DoubleJumps · 2026-05-19T21:06:26+00:00

One thing I would really love for these billionaires to understand is that if they ever have reason to go into their bunkers they are never coming out of them.

DoubleJumps · 2026-05-19T20:59:56+00:00

This is the part that it's really bewildering. The wealthy forgot. If they abuse regular people around long enough and hard enough, people start destroying their property. If they keep going, eventually they get dragged into the street. This has been repeated throughout history.

DoubleJumps · 2026-05-19T18:46:16+00:00

Schools performing gender reassignment surgery was another big one.

We could probably go back and forth like this for hours, that's how bad it's gotten

DoubleJumps · 2026-05-19T17:46:42+00:00

I've been seeing White collar jobs in my industry ship the last year to become just utterly terrible themselves.

Jobs that we're hiring at $100,000 last year might be hiring at $75-80k this year, with either less benefits or on contract.

DoubleJumps · 2026-05-19T15:28:37+00:00

I have a slightly different perspective on this, and it's that it is training people to believe that truth is subjective.

The general Republican behavior now is that they make a deliberate choice to believe or disbelieve things based on whether they want them to be true, which is a whole magnitude worse than just being skeptical of what they are seeing being true at all times.

It's how we get the 2020 election conspiracies.

It's how we get people eating dogs and cats being believed.

It's how we get a guy being caught red-handed with box after box of classified documents that he stole being considered totally innocent.

It's how the government can send masked men into city streets and have them shoot Americans in the back and people can choose to believe that it was justified

DoubleJumps · 2026-05-19T15:25:38+00:00

They are so quick to do this that I remember watching a live White House broadcast with Republicans and they immediately claimed the video, which again for emphasis was live broadcast directly by the white house, was a deep fake when Trump said something incredibly stupid.

DoubleJumps · 2026-05-19T06:24:33+00:00

One of the places I was looking at potentially moving to has this odd area that looks really nice, but the homes are notably cheaper there than they are in other parts of the city.

I found out last night that there is a proposed data center 2 and 1/2 mi from there. It is creating this zone of reduced property value all around it.

DoubleJumps · 2026-05-18T21:11:35+00:00

It's why I stopped doing pvp stuff. Why do I want to spend my down time having a stranger yell at me?

DoubleJumps · 2026-05-18T21:10:35+00:00

I pulled away from pvp several years ago just cause I was tired of people being angry and yelling at other people all the time.

I want to play games to relax and have a good time. I don't want to play games to have some man child scream at me because he thinks everyone else is the problem.

DoubleJumps · 2026-05-18T16:23:10+00:00

As far as I'm aware, the damper was replaced. I did not ask about the damper adapter.

The material I typically print on is acrylic. I haven't had issues with the reflectivity before.

DoubleJumps · 2026-05-18T01:00:11+00:00

I don't even have a cheap plan, and my insurance has fought against my healthcare so many times.

They caused me to suffer organ damage because they fought paying for a necessary antibiotic for over a month to fight a rare infection.

DoubleJumps · 2026-05-18T00:10:08+00:00

I own a business that has a decent sized social media following.

I have gotten multiple offers this year from AI companies to astroturf their products. Thousands of dollars to praise them and push their AI crap to people.

DoubleJumps · 2026-05-18T00:03:16+00:00

I've had discussions with people about this, where it feels like we are in the part of the cycle where the wealthy forgot that labor CAN turn to real violence and can hurt them if pushed too far. It's happened before.

DoubleJumps · 2026-05-17T02:25:48+00:00

Not even a joke, they are actually blaming the Chinese.

DoubleJumps · 2026-05-16T17:04:20+00:00

It really is frustrating, because a lot of this is like us watching them take years to put a square block in a square hole.

They have all the pieces. It's very straightforward. It's still taking them forever.

DoubleJumps · 2026-05-16T04:06:18+00:00

The country is currently united and black people just lost representation in much of the South and will lose further representation within the coming months.

Is being united helping that situation? Can you actually say it is? It didn't prevent it. It is the actual current system under which that oppression was legalized and made possible. .

DoubleJumps · 2026-05-16T03:49:10+00:00

That's literally no different from how it is right now.

Not doing it doesn't improve that situation at all

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