Companies would rather hire young people because inexperienced people are cheap. Hence also the huge numbers of H-1B and TFW visas - despite the hype, people knew damned well that the only reason Microsoft built their facility in Vancouver was so they could hire temporary foreign workers once they had exhausted their H-1B quota in Seattle. Cheap, do as they're told, work 70 hours a week.

When my current employers show me the door (or I walk) I know I'll be unemployable in tech at 62. So be it; I've had a good run and have a huge backlog of other things I want to do.

...laura

The entire point of colleges is to fuel inequality by providing students with education, thus separating the population into those with and without education. On the other hand it also fuels another type of inequality, where those who do not attend colleges also do not accrue college debt.

There will always be inequality, the very fact that colleges cannot comprehend this and allow themselves to fall into this 'remove inequality' trap shows how useless these schools are.

All these sites have been shadow-banned by the usual search engines. I'd love to see one so I know what to watch for.

...laura

Sure, there could be a few freak enzymes and sulfur eating, tungsten swinging bacteria there https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.go....

but it would be too hot for my liking.

What technology did you have in mind?

We have far better control systems and radios and things, but making rockets that don't blow themselves to kingdom come if you look at them the wrong way is as hard in 2024 as it was in 1977. Or for that matter, 1969.

...laura

no, this is late stage socialism. Socialism is what created the larger than life government structures, who control the money supply and create inflation, control business practices via laws, regulations, agencies, etc. All of this causes productive jobs to leave the country and then the country has nothing it can offer to the foreign entities, who manufacture everything in exchange for their wares, so the money is printed by the government and handed out. It is printed and handed out as pensions, medicare, and all other forms of welfare, eventually this money loses enough value that everyone has to raise prices. Everyone raises prices, people complain, so companies find ways to nickel and dime you for all the little extras, like checking in baggage. People find ways around checking in baggage by carrying half a dozen bags with them, airlines try to fight against it, etc., this is late stage socialism.

Capitalism is just private ownership and operation of property, socialism is what destroys the economies and causes this nonsense.

Are pro Palestinian protests fueled by the right or by the left in the USA? I just traveled through 5 countries in the last 15 days, in half of the cities I ran into such protests, with most of the protesters being white, non Arab and non Muslim looking women, led by a few Islamists that look and behave as you would expect.
I went through Zurich, Interlaken (great paragliding), Lauterbrunnen, Bern, Basel, Strasbourg, Luxemburg, Brussels, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Amsterdam, then again Antwerp, Lille and then Paris.

The protesters are yelling pro terrorist slogans, but of-course they are also fully brainwashed to yell out all sorts of propaganda, such as this idiotic notion of 'apartheid' and of-course the dead children (not giving a fuck about the fact that dead children is what Israel experienced first and then retaliated, as they should, against the military targets, who have weapons provided by Iran and money provided by the UN, Red Cross, EU and USA and others).

I don't think those white women and those Islamist share anything close to what you would call 'right wing ideology', in their heads they are marching against 'USA Imperialism', which is what they left wing in the USA are also screaming about.

Seeing same sort of protests and events in the USA, Canada as well as in EU and elsewhere, it's not a surprise that the West now cannot even deal with a bunch of terrorists with Iranian supplied weapons, sinking ships and causing massive ecological catastrophe in the Red Sea. Are these people right wing? Left wing? Whatever wing? I think we have a problem with the uninformed, stupid people ready to march to whatever tune, even the most outrageous tune out there.

I can see anything I want, from simple objects (and I can modify them any way I like, including slicing them in time and overlaying them to see every frame) to any real or imaginary image, visual effect and any sort of animation. I can play back a movie sequence in my head, change camera positions, position myself anywhere within the frame, rotate it, change color schemes, extract parts of images, whatever. Wish there was a way just to connect myself to a screen, so I could play this for others to see, unfortunately that's very unlikely to happen in our lifetimes.

So apparently government knows best when an airline is allowed to try and merge with another one to attempt thwart an impending implosion. Spirit will likely go bankrupt, much good that will do for the airline ticket prices and jobs, etc. For whatever reason so many are certain that everything that businesses do must be regulated, because apparently the governments and politicians and judges know better what a business is, how it works, when it is likely to succeed or fail, governments are wonderful at such a thing, which is why government always picks winners, like Solyndra for example...

Freedom is protection from government abuse, not ability to force companies to deal with your union.

Capitalism is private ownership and private operation of property. As long as there is such a thing, people will find a way to use it and operate it in creative ways to optimize their business.

But it is legal to scan people's faces for border control and at the airports because it is different when it is the government doing it? It is also legal to use face scanners to unlock phones... By the way, it is curious that to unlock some iPhone with a face scanner it is really unnecessary to get the phone owner permission if the government has the phone, all they have to do is shove your phone into your face (or the other way around if you like that). With a password at least they had to work a little.

I'll remember that the next time I'm tired and emotional.

> The more competent military leaders, like Lee... FYI, the podcast ["Behind the Bastards"](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/behind-the-bastards/id1373812661) is currently doing a 4 part deep dive on "Robert E. Lee: A Lifetime of Failure." I'm only up to the middle of part 3 with him starting the war as commander of Viginian forces (the Confederacy is still being formed) but the general vibe so far is "he is definitely not the genius the Lost Cause makes him out to be, but he's smart enough to pull back Jackson from invading Maryland and provoking the Union because they have no army yet." Worth a listen.

Regarding the apocalyptic mindset, I'd like to propose that if anyone ever makes a public claim of such they are required to read the [Wikipedia list of predicted apocalyptic events](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_events?wprov=sfla1) and write a 5 page essay about why they're right but all the hundreds of other folks were wrong. I'm sure it wouldn't change a single mind, but it'd generate some hilarious content. Aside: If you have a few minutes, check out the list. It actually comforts me that this is an intrinsic facet of human stupidity and not something new.