The Fed says inflation is cooling. Why doesn't it feel that way?
Tracking inflation with photographs of fast-food menus.
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The Fed says inflation is cooling. Why doesn't it feel that way?
Tracking inflation with photographs of fast-food menus.

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a billionaire can never be held accountable, therefore a billionaire must never make a management decision
I knew parmigian reggiano was expensive, but I didn't think it was more expensive than a Cadillac Escalade.
Nintendo real prices
Today the Nintendo Switch 2 was announced, and a friend groaned it was unacceptably expensive. In the spirit of the Playstation real prices I did before, here's the real prices of Nintendo consoles, in hours of minimum-wage labour.
N64 (1996) $200 @ $4.25/h 48h
Gameboy Advance (2001) $100 @ $5.15/h 20h
Gamecube (2001) $199 @ $5.15/h 39h
Gameboy Advance SP (2003) $100 @ $5.15/h 20h
Gameboy Micro (2005) $100 @ $5.15/h 20h
DS (2004) $150 @ $5.15/h 30h
DS Lite (2006) $130 @ $5.15/h 26h
Wii (2006) $250 @ $5.15/h 49h
DSi (2008) $170 @ $6.55/h 26h
DSi XL (2009) $190 @ $7.25/h 27h
Wii-U (2012) $299 @ $7.25/h 42h
Wii-U Deluxe (2012) $350 @ $7.25/h 46h
Wii Mini (2013) $99 @ $7.25/h 14h
Switch (2017) $299 @ $7.25/h 42h
Switch Lite (2019) $199 @ $7.25/h 28h
Switch OLED (2021) $350 @ $7.25/h 49h
Switch 2 (2025) $450 @ $7.25/h 63h
Switch 2 is far ahead in first place, with Switch OLED and Wii sharing second-place.
who wants a list of some of my best videos about video game economic crisis events theyre kind of my favorite subject of all time
habbo hotel is an anarcho-capitalist gambling and a scam-based economy run by children part 1
part 2 of the habbo hotel analysis centering on types of common financial crime orchestrated on habbo
gaia online’s gold-generating hyperinflation crisis
ffxiv’s housing crisis
the hypixel skyblock exotics 1 trillion coin bubble pop
the ‘cash-based’ mmo where the f2p players literally sell sweat harvested off monsters for pennies
a history of neopets controversies centering largely on the “unconverted” neopet bubble market
“the falador massacre”, an infamous runescape event in which a player was able to pvp kill in non-pvp areas, resulting in thousands of player items and gold being looted from corpses with no possibility of rollback

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whenever i see talk about third spaces people pretty much always mean bars, or other places of consumption. Nobody really talks about something like a public bathhouse that would be a massive boon for local homeless people, or making local laundromats a free public service. These can, and I think absolutely should be valuable and very utilitarian third spaces for community building.
Been thinking a lot lately how 'consume' is the default verb in our collective adventure game.
"adjusted for inflation" horsefeathers
There's been a kerfuffle about the high price of the latest Playstation game console. Geoff Keighley came to Sony's defence on Twitter to write: Here are inflation adjusted prices for mainline Playstation consoles since launch:
PS1: $611 (1995)
PS2: $546 (2000)
PS3: $778 (2006)
PS4: $538 (2013)
PS4 Pro: $522 (2016)
PS5: $606 (2020)
PS5 Pro: $699 (2024)
I already wrote about how dollar prices from different eras are a poor measuring stick, with my "burgers per annum" reports. Twitter user PatStaresAt is of a similar mind: United States federal minimum wage by year and console based on how many hours you'd have to work to buy it as the relative price of something. Inflation only matters is wages increased too. [The PS5 price] is only slightly better than the PS3, the most wildly overpriced device Sony ever made.
PS1: 4.24/h at 299 = 70h
PS2: 5.15/h at 299 = 58h
PS3: 5.15/h at 599 = 116h
PS4: 7.25/h at 399 = 55h
PS4 Pro: 7.25/h at 399 = 55h
PS5: 7.25/h at 499 = 68h
PS5 Pro: 7.25/h at 699 = 96h
PS5 Pro + Disc Drive: 7.25/h at 779 = 107h
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Antimemes whose existence can be openly stated, rather than inferred from context,
VGMRips
Today I learned there's a MAME for video-game music. They're like tracker .mod or .s3m files, but they emulate old arcade and console soundchips. The website runs the player in WASM in your browser so you aren't listening to compressed .mp3 you're hearing the real deal when you hit play. https://vgmrips.net/packs/ Some "albums" I'm listening to today: Mr. Gimmick; Bad Dudes vs Dragonninja; YU-NO.
This problem is nothing new, but this specific example with these numbers puts it into a fucking brutal perspective.
To put these numbers a different way: A Taco Bell burrito that used to cost ~7 minutes and 20 seconds of minimum wage work now costs ~30 minutes and 30 seconds of minimum wage work.
You used to be able to work at Taco Bell anywhere in the country and make enough money in one hour to buy at least 8 burritos (maybe 9 if you're a manager or something) and feed, like, 3-4 people a decently-filling meal. But now, the same amount of work at the same job will get you one meal for one person. And this change has happened over a mere 15 years.
Remember this whenever you see rich people demonize younger generations for our financial situations, when they call us irresponsible for not investing a ton of money in savings accounts.

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Practice Guide For Computer
Adapted from Ron Miller's Advanced Improve Practice Guide. Found at: https://lgbt.church/
Before starting your daily practice routine, read and seriously consider the following:
A. Daily Affirmations
How fortunate I am that in this life I am the one who has been allowed to create beauty with computer.
It is my responsibility to create peace, beauty, and love with computer.
B. I Will Be Kind To Myself
IT IS ONLY COMPUTER
No matter my level of development in computer, how good or bad I think I am, it is only computer and I am a beautiful person.
I will not compare myself with my colleagues. If they do computer beautifully, I will enjoy it and be thankful and proud that I live in fellowship with them.
There will always be someone with more abilities in computer than my own as there will be those with less.
C. Reasons To Computer
To contribute to the world's spiritual growth.
To contribute to my own self-discovery and spiritual growth.
To pay homage to all the great practitioners of computer, past and present, who have added beauty to the world.
D. Rid Yourself Of The Following Reasons For Being A Practitioner of Computer
To create self-esteem
To be "hip"
To manipulate
To get rich or famous
Expected avg income in a city, updated
(this is a follow-up to https://fesyvei.tumblr.com/post/733195854385741824 ) I forgot to include provincial taxes. And I played it loosey-goosey with the income brackets, assuming a flat tax from the federal tax on $100,000/annum. This time I wrote 100+ lines of python to do all the patient arithmetic. It does make a difference, as the expected gross annual income can be less for a city that costs more in a different province (ie $60k becomes $41k in Quebec and $44k in New Brunswick).
Tumblr won't let me do tables in Markdown, Rich Text Editor, nor the raw HTML editor, so here's a list:
City Prov, avg 1bd rent, gross annual income
Vancouver BC, $2872/month, $147k
Burnaby BC, $2647/month, $133k
Toronto ON, $2607/month, $131k
Oakville ON, $2524/month, $125k
Mississauga ON, $2352/month, $116k
Richmond Hill ON, $2326/month, $115k
Markham ON, $2325/month, $115k
Etobicoke ON, $2292/month, $113k
Brampton ON, $2195/month, $107k
Burlington ON, $2189/month, $107k
Victoria BC, $2109/month, $101k
Kelowna ON, $2099/month, $102k
Guelph ON, $2061/month, $100k
Ottawa ON, $2056/month, $99k
Barrie ON, $1918/month, $92k
Kitchener ON, $1915/month, $92k
Waterloo ON, $1909/month, $92k
London ON, $1878/month, $90k
Halifax NS, $1875/month, $99k
Hamilton ON, $1868/month, $89k
Oshawa ON, $1845/month, $88k
Montreal QC, $1808/month, $102k
Calgary AB, $1733/month, $86k
St.Catherines ON, $1685/month, $80k
Niagara Falls ON, $1680/month, $80k
Laval QC, $1601/month, $89k
Abbotsford BC, $1594/month, $75k
Windsor ON, $1545/month, $73k
Quebec City QC, $1288/month, $70k
Edmonton AB, $1284/month, $63k
Winnipeg MB, $1282/month, $64k
Red Deer AB, $1249/month, $61k
Fort MacMurry AB, $1226/month, $60k
Regina SK, $1191/month, $59k
Saskatoon SK, $1109/month, $55k
Expected avg income in a city
A national Canadian newspaper posed the question "is $100k annual salary enough to live comfortably?" and as per Betteridge's Law Of Headlines and as per the "upsetting readers increases profit" rule, the answer they probably insist is "no." I can't tell because they're paywalled and they stopped making print newspapers a long time ago. I have a hypothesis that the author is a stereotypical Toronto inhabitant that believes there is no Canada outside that megacity, so I wonder: is $100k enough OUTSIDE of Toronto?
I'm going to use two tools here: the rule-of-thumb that a person shouldn't spend more than 1/3rd of their income on housing, and the national rent report from the company that ate most of the nation's apartment want-ads. Also, I want to count take-home income after taxes, so I'm using Canada Revenue's broad-strokes rule for tax brackets, so the rent is paid from net income not gross.
$100k annual income becomes $82,250 after federal taxes. That's $6,854.17 per month. 1/3rd of that, which is what the rule-of-thumb tells us to expect to pay for housing, is $2,284.72. That's enough to get a 1-person apartment in Etobicoke or Guelph, but not Toronto nor Vancouver.
We can invert the ratio of rule-of-thumb rent to annual income, and it ends up being 43.769x -- we can use this to figure out what the rule-of-thumb income is for each of the cities listed in the national rent report.
Vancouver, BC $130,256.66
Burnaby, BC $118,176.41
Toronto, ON $114,412.27
Oakville, ON $109,510.14
Mississauga, ON $103,207.40
Markham, ON $101,719.25
Richmond Hill, ON $100,581.25
Etobicoke, ON $99,662.10
Guelph, ON $97,079.73
Victoria, BC $92,834.13
Ottawa, ON $89,945.38
Hamilton, ON $82,329.56 ("I have Toronto tastes but Hamilton income" is a local joke.)
Halifax, NS $81,935.64
Montréal, QC $78,083.97
Calgary, AB $75,720.44
Windsor, ON $66,922.86 (aka suburb of Detroit)
Edmonton, AB $55,980.60
Winnipeg, MB $53,485.77
Québec City, QC $53,223.15 (seulement si vous parlez français)
Saskatoon, SK $46,832.87
This is only accounting for rent; a nit-picker will point out cost of groceries and heating is different in each city, and a savvy & resilient person could do better than the average for renting an apartment. It's a nifty list, meant to give an idea what you're expected to earn at at a job in each city.
To nit-pick myself, this list will be out-of-synch not long after November 2023; look at the month-to-month (M/M) and year-to-year (Y/Y) changes on that rent report and you can see prices are still moving at a ridiculous pace, sometimes +10% or even +27% change in merely one year.
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