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Cake day: December 29th, 2023

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  • as someone else pointed out a specific example that comes up regularly (this is apparently already how it works): 1 particular brand of peanut butter was available, but their lite version wasn’t… with a cart full of groceries, figuring out exactly what gets paid for with what or what needs to be put back isn’t a fast process… this takes not only the persons time, but the cashiers time and everyone behind them in the queue

    these are things we call negative externalities: costs forced to other places in the system without being accounted for in price

    there are many, many, MANY more costs associated with any government program and intervention but this specific example would cost the country as a whole far more than the occasional unhealthy snack


  • personally, my reasoning for saying it trounces it is the integration of all the tools: no switching to after effects etc

    but beyond that, ppro colour correction is just soooooo far behind

    granted i haven’t really used it much, so i might not have “got” its workflow - it took a while for resolves to click - but it just seems so disjointed and clunky to do anything beyond cutting together a basic video


  • insurance is always a gamble, and the house always wins

    don’t insure anything you can afford to lose, and save up money you’d put into insurance in a HISA

    that said, things you can’t afford to lose probably include your house, someone else’s lamborghini, your health

    buuuuuuut US health care is set up for bargaining: hospitals overcharge, pharmacies overcharge, drug companies overcharge because they all know insurance companies aren’t gonna pay what they actually charge because they have bargaining power… which, if you don’t have insurance, leaves you holding the fucking ball with no bargaining power

    … all of this is said as an aussie, with universal healthcare and only a passing (but real life) experience of the US healthcare system (and in general a system that will protect me from fucking up so hard i can’t even imagine being completely destitute), so grain of salt n all that






  • Davinci Resolve has to be one of the most jam packed free software packages available… seriously, it absolutely trounces Premiere at evvvverything

    the model of free for everything except if features you’d want for producing a professional movie, and financed by hardware sales - that you don’t need unless you’re a professional - is absolutely incredible for home users