(and get Platinum)

It could still run perfectly at 10% of Windows speed at get Platinum in your rating system.

GUI (non) standards still wag the desktop dog after several decades on both Windows and Linux. And the DOM. Why is that? Eye-candy addiction?

When I go to Wendy's, which is the only fast food chain I've been into in a while, they come see me at the register promptly even when there is drive through traffic. And there usually is, because most of their orders seem to go through there.

When I eat hot food out, and it's not in a restaurant, I park someplace promptly and eat it. You can always ask your GPS to find you a park, or even just zoom out a bit and look for green shapes.

But I do agree that it's bananas to spend big money for delivery when food is a short drive away. This is the freedom people are talking about in car ownership, to not drive?

Isn't this subjective? For my part I would rather drive to town and get my food as hot as possible and as fast as possible, and without anyone mooching any of my fries.

It was demonstrated long ago that most all trading markets are chaotic. By definition, you won't see a sign of collapse in sight.

Unlike useful markets, (but similar to 17th century tulips), crypto has no intrinsic value. Therefore, there is no bottom to a potential crash.

Are they smart enough to know to pull those gains out before the tulip market crashes?

I'll know that AI has achieved a major milestone when one of them eventually says:

"Crypto is a strange game. The only winning move is not to play."

That's my opinion too.

Unfortunately, after a certain amount of actual progress we are now regressing again.

Yeah, we have a long history of not practicing what we preach.

Remember when the USA took pride in being a melting pot?

The ARM Macs are really impressive and even more impressive when you see how well Windows games can run in CrossOver. Unfortunately they are impacted by the same kernel level anti-cheats as Linux is, so for many multiplayer games they are a no-go.

Population is dropping in "mature" nations. Maybe India will have to go Soylent.

> The thing with the geoengineering you suggest is that it needs to go on forever.

Not the worse thing. I expect technology will eventually give us better options anyhow, such as orbiting sun-shades.

> A hiccup in global trade would make global temperatures skyrocket.

Actually pollution cooled off during the pandemic. All those ships and planes are a big source of pollution. It's not a reversal, but slows things down. If you mean like WW3, we'd have far bigger concerns than climate.

> Blame his successor.

But see-saw leadership styles is expected. That's why the war was a bad idea. We could pressure them to abandon slavery via boycotts and tariffs, giving trade breaks to states that abandon it, perhaps incrementally.