Men have been steadily dropping out of the workforce since the 1960's. It's a gradual descent, but still constantly downward. Right now we have a male non-labor participation rate that's extraordinarily high for a non-depression economy. A lot of men have simply decided they're not going to work if someone else... family, government, whoever... can support them. So a male applying for a job that hasn't worked in years throws up all kinds of work-ethic red flags to HR departments. No one wants to be the workplace where that guy struggles to become productive again.

OMG foreign feel, teh horror!

86 is considered mecha (not by me, though, to be honest) and it is pretty popular.

Still, adding gasoline should not be a big deal. Jet B fuel is used for flights to northern countries and it is 60 to 70% gasoline. Works well enough, just not as safe to handle.

For some definitions of "edible", of course.

WHY do YOU PEOPLE tend to WRITE like THIS? I generally see this style of writing in media that caters to uneducated numbnuts, e.g. far right rags like the British daily express.

Sure about that? Jet engines hypothetically can use anything that burns as fuel, from vegetable oil to coal dust. They generally use kerosene because it is cheap and relatively safe to handle.

I guess the plan is to use current senior programmers until AI is good enough to replace them too.

Maybe the real question is why bother having children, to bring them into the world where they are really unwanted by the entire society?

Eventually your stud CPU will be 'old'. It may lack a feature. You will move on.

You bought Threadripper because it had something you wanted, and was supported by what you wanted to do. Enjoy it while you can. My current mail laptop is about 4 years old and does all I need as fast as I need it. I'm 3 revs behind, soon to be 4, but no need to replace it. My field laptop is 5 years old and on its third battery. Both do the job.

Your Threadripper CPU is no more than 7 years old. Your rig should have had TPM 2, that's 10 years old. Making a 10 year old hardware requirement mandatory for Windows 11 forced us to figure out why it was not industry wide...

I've been using Windows 11 for so long, and in fast ring/beta/preview/insider channels, it's not the 'next' anything. It's more than 3 years old. With over a billion users it's not unexpected that you will get horrible reports of flaws. 0.1% of users is a million...

I pay no heed to anything about high contrast mode, or dual-boot problems, or my *&() doesn't work. My problems have been minimal and resolved as quickly as any version.

I'm guessing not many of you used Windows when it wasn't described with a version number. Not many of you fully appreciate the complexity of maintaining Windows before even minimal virtualization of device drivers was a thing, and a new mouse would cost you an afternoon cleaning up .dll errors.

Win11 isn;t the next anything. It's not even the future. It is the Windows if you don't have a dependency on 10. Or 8. Or 7, blah blah blah. You wanna complain? Complain about PHP.

Well the the AUD:USD still sucks. 0.65
Hasn’t really budged much in a couple of years.

Most of these stock market profits are the falling dollar value. US stocks had meh returns this year when denominated in EUR.

Truly insignificant fines and consequences. Add a zero minimum to the financial penalties.

What WF management did was encourage, promote, and reward theft. And the employees seemed to, actually did, abandon even minimal ethics and knowingly cheat their customers. For money. Theft. Should have been jail time. And true crippling financial penalties for all involved. I doubt we can be certain the victims were even made whole, but pretending they were is part of the process.

There is a term for it - shit Midas.