Kevin Drum and I are on the same (high-resolution) page about how much pixel density matters if you don’t want your eyes to bleed out of your face.

I’m a bug on pixel density. As far as I’m concerned, the first real tablet in the world was the iPad 3, with its Retina display. I won’t use anything with much less resolution than that.

Right on. I’ve waited my whole fucking life for screens like that, and am still waiting for 4K monitors to be cheap enough for me to want to buy one on the desktop. I figure I’ll have one in about a year and a half since another large project stands in the middle.

I’ve noticed that I read the same material on my iPad about 50% faster than I do on other screens because the fonts due to the pixel density are so vastly, incredibly superior.

I am always amazed when people look at eye-shatteringly bad fonts on low-res screens and cannot tell the difference between that and the gorgeous iPad screen. There’s just no way I can see that much better than other people (due to the limitations of physics), so I can’t explain it at all.

The most damaging and widespread fiction in the US that both the Left, Right and Middle believe and implicitly subscribe to is that the government’s fiscal affairs in any way resemble that of a household or have any relation at all to bank accounts, loans or saving as experienced by the average person.

Anyone’s checking account or piggy bank under the bed is about as related to the monetary affairs of a sovereign fiat-currency-issuing governmental body as a roller skate is to an interstellar space probe.

I was going to say that it is vastly more complicated, but that isn’t even the case. It’s that the two are utterly unrelated.

I was reacting to the many utterly dumb and vapid comments that are found here, though those comments only hint at what set me off.

Why does this matter? Because in just one example if the government prints up a bunch of money and simply gives it to a bunch of people in a depressed area – everyone is better off. Including the people of course who will oppose the other group getting something for “free” as the receiving group will then be able to spend their money buying products and services from the group in opposition. (This is known as “welfare,” by the way, at least in the US.)

Yes, yes, inflation. Inflation does occur in a supply-constrained world. Does that look like the world we are in to you?

For instance, if the US government simply sent every single person in Mississippi $10,000 right now (the poorest state in the union), the entire country would be better off immediately.

Where did that money come from? It didn’t come from anywhere. Why won’t it spark inflation? Because the economy is and has been for a long time nearly deflationary due to depressed demand.

But one example of many possible.

What sort of dumbass at Mozilla thought it was a good idea to remove the favicon from the address bar? I know, it’s been gone a long time (since Firefox 14), but what a huge design fail.

I only noticed it because I changed my Mozilla variant to get away from idiotic Mozilla decisions and the extension I had to make that part of browser behave rationally had not yet been re-installed.

It seems like the entire user interface is now being designed by people who have neither seen nor used a browser or computer in their lives.