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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @jimmysong 16 Sep \ parent \ on: Priority lanes at amusement parks, yes or no? AskSN
I did wear my hat. Definitely makes it cooler on hot summer days and helps my family keep track of me in crowds.
I suppose there's some lesson about a willingness to suffer or something, but there are lots of ways to teach that outside an amusement park context.
Funny, my experience at the same park in Osaka this past summer is what changed my mind.
- From a pure economic perspective, you'll get roughly double the number of rides by buying fastpass, so depending on how much of a priority you put into the ride experience, it's not a hard calculation to see if it's worth it.
- For me, not buying one is penny wise and pound foolish. The point of going to these places is to have a good time. Waiting in line sucks (especially outdoors in hot weather) and detracts from your experience, so reducing that has significant utility, beyond the time savings.
- Ultimately, this is a case of skimpflation, where they degrade the main experience because they can't easily raise the prices of the general ticket too much without taking a big PR hit. If you're on a Bitcoin standard, the tickets are getting cheaper in BTC terms, even with the additional cost of a priority pass. You don't need to be a cheapskate or have your experience debased.
If you can stomach it, pemmican. It's got an insane shelf life (reports of it being good after 50 years buried in the ground).
You can get 2 lbs of it for $47.12: https://grasslandbeef.com/products/salt-free-pemmican-pail
At least according to explorer logs, 3/4 lb is enough for a man for 1 day, so that's about 2.75 day's worth.
Fun fact: the short stories that the series is based on is by my good friend Ken Liu (he wrote the foreword for Programming Bitcoin). There are also various Bitcoin references on the show, which I'm sure he had a hand in.