Sportsball (all flavors) are fast moving high churn cut throat businesses. Unions abound among them. Their owners still end up being billionaires.

Movies bla bla bla cut throat, yet SAG and Directors and gaffers and grips and key and etc often are guilded or unionized. Right now, I hear a lot about how the system has shifted until careers are challenging... but they'd be worse without their unions and the unions are their only hope in renormalizing to a living-wage thing.

Your point is invalid.

Aaaand striking seems quite doable regardless of union members being remote. Both stop-work and gathering in protest shift in nature but are eminently doable.

If only there were enough people to be able to do (work toward) **both** of these goalsâ¦

lol, if you think a language for manipulating matrices is 1-2-3â(TM)s âoesecret sauceâ, thereâ(TM)s not much hope.

Counterpoint: look at how computers ended up being ubiquitous. And cars. And TVs. And flatware. And glass dishware. And aluminum materials. And microwaves. And home refrigeration. And internet.

Let's look at your example, 3d printers? They're down to a couple hundred bucks for the basics. The electronics of these printers continue to plunge in cost. And let's face it, neither resin nor filament printing really solves home manufacturing. The barrier to 3DPrint ubiquity for these seems function, not cost.

I think UBI will help in general:

It'll mitigate unemployment, let folks work on useful but nonprofit things, and (seldom mentioned) will create a cycle: Competition for those UBI sheckels will motivate innovation.

Will Rogers said it a century ago: let the money spend some brief bit of time in a poor man's pocket; it'll end up back in the wealthy's hands swiftly enough.

Talk about burying the lede. Paragraph 2 is interminable and begs the question of why, but 3 answers it succinctly: Fusion fuel / waste risks are better.

More like âif Trump says the sky is hot pink, weâ(TM)re still gonâ(TM) say heâ(TM)s full of shitâ(TM). Truth, science, the constitution⦠easy counterpoint to whatever mad daft crap pours out of this regime.

#mood

I read this story, and immediately thought: âoeif only we had this invention to use that unobtainium thing which will need these other limitations overcome.â

If I stipulate Iâ(TM)m a n00b about history can you tell me which us war was a century ago, solo, and against a colonial power?

Clippy: it seems youâ(TM)re discovering Nihilism. Can I help?

Get a book on processing disabilities, esp dyslexia. For many, study wonâ(TM)t fix it; the brain is literally using wrong sections to process language. Itâ(TM)s like saying âread a book, run a 4 minute mile.â(TM)

In the stats, Windows is UP by 4-5%. Linux is up by 1%. OSX is down by around 6. So per the data this is not a shift from Windows...it's a shift from OSX to others and Microsoft is benefitting most (fortunately or unfortunately depending on your perspective).

Life must suck to be so emotionally-invested in the failure of solar like this.

Things that have gotten better in those 30 years: Solar panels went from 12/24/48 V DC out to having integral inverters so they just burp out AC. The coatings got better. The percent efficiency got better. Impact resistance improved.

But yeah, it's all going to fall apart now (/sarcasm).

Do a taxonomic search on Lewisii, aka shit Lewis and Clark documented.

Then do Alexander Von Humboldt, Darwin, David Attenborough. That gets you to several hundred whose taxonomic names, rather than descriptive, are honorary. It is kind of weird.

For examples, Darwin had:
Darwinilus, a rove beetle
Darwinius, an extinct primate
Darwinopterus, a genus of pterosaur
Darwinula, a genus of seed shrimp
Darwinivelia, a water treader genus
Darwinysius, a seed bug
Darwinomya, a genus of flies
Darwinella, a sponge genus
Darwinsaurus, a dinosaur
Darwinhydrus, a diving beetle
darwini (multiple species)
darwinii (multiple species)
Minervarya charlesdarwini, a frog