Yeah.

There’s waaay worse things you can catch.

Yeah well, it wasn’t intended to be all positive.

I migrated all my stuff (small business) to mxroute because I couldn’t justify the cost for fasmtail.

It’s the server that matters, not the domain.

If you do this it’s good to use something like mxroute as an SMTP server so deliverability is their problem.

Can I ask what client you prefer?

I dislike thunderbird and roundcube.

I was with fastmail for more than a decade.

They’re the best platform.

Their spam protection is so-so. Not as good as Gmail but better than some others.

Their pricing is egregiously expensive.

Their tech support is painfully slow for anything above chatGPT level.

My explanation is better:

There’s three doors, of which one is the winner.

First, pick a door to exclude. You have a 66% chance of correctly excluding a non-winning door.

Next, Monty excludes a non- winning door with certainty.

Finally, open the remaining door and take the prize!

This is a common argument in our house.

It’s not so much about profiting from the situation but maximising your options.

You don’t want to cash in your 401k and buy gold, but if you have some investments then buying physical gold with 5% or 10% is not a terrible idea.

In a holocaust type situation an ounce of gold in the right palm at the right time could buy passage for an entire family.

We may not have the gold standard anymore but I can assure you that gold remains a stable store of wealth.

It’s also not going to be easier to buy.

Banks are much more reluctant to loan, jobs are harder to keep.

But when gen z gets old they won’t be self interested like every other generation since forever /s.

I agree that things are bleak. I also try to focus on practical, local things on which I can have a positive impact.

I’d like to think that some things will get better, and others will be less bleak.

Climate change is occurring quicker than we had hoped, but we are making progress towards mitigating the worst effects, even of that progress is slower than we had hoped.

Not trying to be an ass but American cars havent been great since forever.

Yeah ok.

In my 20’s I over-enjoyed a great many things.

Now in my 40’s I don’t drink booze, do drugs, smoke cigarettes, and also try to avoid sugar and caffeine. I also have kids now so I sold my motorbikes because that seemed irresponsible.

So yeah, I do purchase poncy imported italian sparkling mineral water because… it’s a nice indulgence.

Oh man. In-game currency and gacha stuff can get fucked.

I’m not a big gamer but I like having something on my phone to pass the time.

Happy to pay to install or for expansions or to remove advertising or whatever but paying for finite in-game stuff is just shit.

I use ungoogled-chromium in tandem with LibreWolf, the former for sites broken by the latter.

I use LibreWolf which implements pretty tough fingerprint mitigation… but I end up disabling a lot of it because it breaks a lot of sites.

It’s nice to be nice.

I’m with mxroute.

Cheap but serviceable.

I was with them for 10 years.

They are great, it’s true.

The pricing just got egregious though.

Sure “some”, but not many.

For most people I think that other attributes become more desirable than physical beauty. The biological imperative to reproduce with the most physically attractive person you can find diminishes significantly.