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Cake day: November 26th, 2024

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  • You’re right about how many states have minimum wage either explicitly set to 7.25 or lower, or tracking the federal minimum wage (including Georgia, with a state minimum wage of 5.50). I assumed there were fewer of those states, because the number of workers that are being paid the minimum wage (or lower) is 1.1% and dropping.

    I guess the question I was trying to allude to is: with fewer and fewer people being paid the minimum wage, and with such enormous disparity between cost of living within a state let alone between states, does it really matter that the federal minimum wage is below the poverty line? There are places in the US where you can live decently on 7.25/hr, and there are places where you would feel squeezed even at 40/hr. National metrics like this one are interesting but not really representative









  • Linux user since 1998, checking in.

    Uplink, Neverwinter Nights, and a few other games had native clients circa 2002-3. Wolfenstein and CS worked via opengl and wine. World of Warcraft, doom 1 & 2, StarCraft 1 (I never played 2)

    Sometimes it was a pain getting games to work, for sure. And it’s 1000% better than it used to be! But there were lots of games available even back then, if you knew where to look.