Which is not that much of a surprise. Some may be subject to the "sunk-cost fallacy", but a significant part will be seeing these effects. Discussing this with no-degree people is really hard as you need the experience of having one to see what it means and also, because there are a lot of worthless degrees these days. But there are also a lot of valuable degrees. And, of course, you need to do that degree in an area that actually interests and motivates you.

... this is not going to really work. Art project?

What are you talking about? A valuable degree gives you freedoms you do not have without it. OBVIOUSLY, you must be willing to use them to benefit from that. There is really no need to state that. I am well aware that many are not capable of using these freedoms, a degree does not change your personality.

There are factors on both sides that are hard to evaluate. The Great Depression, for example, was not intentionally engineered. (I am sure there are conspiracy theories that say otherwise, but really, the complexity of doing so is beyond the human race still today.) The Luddites were a comparatively small group. Gen. Y/Z/Alpha is not targeted action, but more a long boom cycle coming to its end and too many greedy assholes refusing to adjust and making it worse. A surveillance apparatus is only useful when people are unaware. They are not. Also remember that back then, rulers and the aristocracy was basically with "license from God" and people believed that crap back then. "Armend killbots" for use against civilians are not in reach beyond what we already have (armed remote controlled drones, mines).

But we will see how this turned out. If you are in the US, that also depends on you. Go vote as long as it still means something.

That is a special case and it required massive bloodshed, a relatively small group having it done to them and was basically about freedom, not direct possession. Still an atrocity, but not one relevant for the current discussion.

Thanks for adding that. The number of people stupid and loud enough to write something like that being fully serious is raising.

Indeed. Funny how people with weakly justified views often have to add cheap manipulation tricks.

On the other hand, if your realize the GNU userspace is also on Mac, and the xBSDs, the numbers go up.

A flat percentage is really not the way to go for this. Sadly, it is the limit of what most people "understand".

Yep. I had to do that manually a while ago because some crappy websites simply could not deal. I guess browsers do that by default now.

Tanks have 10 levels. Playing for free is fine and fun until level 5 or so. Above that, you basically have to pay to win. You stop doing damage with the free ammunition. I stopped playing, but many people seem to be unable to and that is where all their money comes from.

He's probably like one of those people who knows that Africa has been fucked over by other nations as long as there have been other nations to fuck them over. Everyone's had a turn abusing Africa.

Your first full paragraph is 100% opinion. Run along now.

I bought a nice pair of gloves this year with ChatGPT, but when they arrived I found that they each had six fingers.

If you read again what I wrote, I was commenting in the need to take crap, not the willingness. It is a difference and a rather big one.

If you are interested learning about actual science you can read the actual paper. It is not paywalled. Look up "speleothem isotopes" to learn about specific climatologic techniques for this study.