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It also somewhat gives the runner the impression they are getting their money’s worth. Registration fees are getting really high.

But yeah, it mostly gives proof / bragging rights that you finished it.


Only for the poors. That’s why.


Care to expand?


https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/china/chinas-xi-rolls-out-red...

Note the change in the price of gold.


I presume they meant the China-Russia-North Korea summit/lovefest.

Personally, I think it should be treated like a corporate press release: PR, maybe even a declaration of intent, but nothing (yet) of substance.


Yes.


A server will never love you back.


Neither will the majority of hobbies for self-enrichment.

It isn’t unreasonable to want some alone time.


Neither will a lizard. People still have them.


Well I'm ugly so… at least it doesn't actively hate me either.


Yeah, also neither it wants to move out because you pushed start button too many times or stay sullen over weekend because dinner plan on Friday got canceled.


Stop with this infantilising crap. People can have both rewarding relationships and pastimes. Just because someone likes configuring software does not suggest they neglect their relationships or have delusions that need correction about the value of things in their life.


Unless you run your AI waifu on it.


It's purpose in life is to serve not to love.


God does not exist.


There’s a small vocal group that thinks like that, yes.

But that’s not the reality nor majority of people who want that.


I agree. From what i’ve seen, people use debit/credit cards / their phone, so the rounding doesn’t even occur.


That might be true for middle & upper class, in a developed country.

Not everyone though is that fortunate.


~90% of payments in China use a phone: https://daxueconsulting.com/payment-methods-in-china/

~50% in India: https://www.pymnts.com/mobile-wallets/2023/cash-not-king-in-...

~60% in Brazil: https://www.pymnts.com/mobile/2025/payment-glitches-stall-br...

Similar trends in Africa, though exact numbers were harder to find: https://www.finextra.com/blogposting/27913/africa-the-unlike...


Thanks for confirming that less than 100% = “not everyone”.


I’d argue that computer science is on a gradient between social science and physics.


I'd argue that anything that has science at the end isn't :)


So computer science isn’t either then.


that's the joke :D


Materials science rolls its eyes every time it hears that hoary joke.


Still is true.


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