chapotraphouse

saw that i got a call from a friend on discord whom i was supposed to play elden ring nightreign with today while i was on the go and wrote to him that i'd be there in fifteen minutes, only to see when i got home that he is already playing with two other friends, one of whom clearly said he couldn't play today and the other one i don't know. this friend knows that i feel lonely and that i dont have anything to do today. fuck my life

where do i find other better friends also i might have a slight very boring case of borderline personality disorder and want to die

I live in a town with more hair salons than people but when I need a haircut at 4:30 pm everything is either closed or appointment only wtf

Every time I blink Gareth Reynolds has a new podcast

I'll listen to all of them though tbh

Having a bad mental health day, and then a broccolihead almost slams at me full speed on an e-scooter and yells at me.

Lemon-lime flavor is a child's soda

it is july 3 and stalin saved the world from fascism

thinking about explaining my psychological problems to chatgpt like the loser i am i actually go to actual real life human being to human being therapy but it doesnt help

i bit my hand again until it bled, i dont want to live this life anymore, yesterday i felt good and had fun and hope why do i feel like this again do i have bipolar disorder, why do i have to live in these soulless hopeless godawful times, i could deal with all the other shit, i cannot deal with the soulless soulsucking void that is modern capitalism, im never going to live in a community, ill never have a friendgroup, a house to live in, a girlfriend or love, once my parents are dead ill have no one to rely on and my parents are poor and i should be ashamed to rely on themm

Where is the difference between clever reincorporation and "only having written 3 tracks" and on which side of that line do we do find Toby Fox

I can't really explain why but I fucking hate the Simpsons. I hate the golden era, I hate the trash era, I hate the modern era. I hate hate hate this show so much just looking at that particular shade of yellow puts me on edge.

The best reason I can come up with is that it's ugly and I don't like looking at it, but even that doesn't really explain it because most American cartoons are ugly as sin but I only feel this way about the Simpsons.

coffee is so good. goated bean juice

Maybe there's a Star Wars book that explains this that I haven't read, but in my head it works like this:

In Episode 1 Qui Gon says that he has "twenty thousand Republic daltarits (?)", which Watto calls "Republic Credits" and dismisses, saying he needs "something more real." This clearly communicates to me that the Republic officially uses a digital currency that merchants on planets like Tatooine don't trust. It being a digital currency also tracks with the fact that we know Qui Gon isn't carrying more than can fit in his robe pockets/tool belt, so it's probably some kind of credit chip that gets loaded with operational funds and given to Jedi who are on assignment, secured by some cryptographic measure that can only be decrypted at an officially sanctioned Republic bank.

now I'm imagining a Jedi Master having to fill out an expenditure form when they get back from a mission, lmao.

But what about the physical currency in Andor and The Mandolorian? Well, the distrust for Republican digital currency in the Outer Rim might be more materialistic than it initially seems. Hyperspace Travel is known in-universe to be somewhat unreliable, with ships needing to calculate their travel vectors right before launch and hyperspace lanes needing to be trailblazed in highly dangerous scouting missions. Those barriers form the physical limits of the Star Wars universe and make a centralized galactic banking system impossible to establish.

So how does a galaxy-spanning economy do business when banks on different planets can't reliably synchronize their books? Specie. At the end of A New Hope, we see Han Solo loading metal boxes onto a cart to take to his ship, boxes which the conversation implies to be his payment for helping to rescue Princess Leia. Someone like Han Solo, who travels from planet to planet and mostly in the Outer Rim, probably doesn't trust Republic/Imperial digital credits any more than Watto does, and both he and the Rebellion also have a preference for transactions that don't get logged in any digital ledger, so a payment in specie was the obvious way to go.

We see multiple kinds of hard currency in The Mandolorian's first episode, there's bricks of precious metal and squishy blocks of alien gelatin, and then there are Imperial credits. Imperial credits "still spend", but Mando clearly doesn't trust them, implying that their value has plummeted. What could account for this? Perhaps the Empire was trying to unite the specie-based outer rim economy with the digital core worlds economy by issuing its own physical currency that was directly tied to the digital currency's value.

Presumably, Imperial credits derived a certain amount of their value by fiat, likely because the Empire accepted them as payment for taxes, but with the Empire's collapse the value of Imperial credits dropped to their floor, the value of the metal that they were made from. We also know that the Empire minted multiple kinds of metal into currency, since Mando is paid for one of his jobs with imperial credits made from beskar which are clearly much more valuable than the normal ones, so some people left holding the Imperial Credits bag got shafted harder than others, further contributing to their reputation for volatility and unreliability.

Of course there's also the vault of physical currency in Andor Season 1, which is the payroll for every Imperial soldier and official in the sector. Since this planet's in the outer rim it fits with the model I've constructed, because Imperial workers stationed outside of the core worlds would prefer to be paid in a currency that they can spend on the local economy, and it's the height of the Empire so the credits have their full fiat value and not just their metal value. Another major plot in Andor is Mon Mothma's difficulty moving her money without attracting Imperial attention, a subplot which also fits in perfectly with my model of transactions in the core worlds being mostly done via digital ledgers.

All of this eventually leads to the New Republic which... we don't see. The only economy we see clearly depicted in the Sequel trilogy is on Jakku where salvagers like Rey are paid in "portions" by their boss. There's what looks like a marketplace near where Rey gets paid, so it's possible that the "portions" have a cash or commodity value and can be traded. It's also possible that the marketplace is owned by the same people reselling the salvage and it's essentially a company store. It definitely gives "third world workers doing shipbreaking for pennies" vibes, whatever the details are.

I like biting my nails more than I want to stop

I'm an ignoramus and I'd heard Argentina's inflation rate was high but I got around to looking at it and like wtf how do you even have a functioning monetary system at all like this this is so fucked

In fair Bologna where we tell our tale

Most people are concerned about the price of eggs.
I am concerned about the price of oats.
We are not the same.

I don't believe you are legally allowed to call it a Po' Boy if you're charging $18 for it.