It does seem odd... While I think there should be exceptions for satire, I support the idea of not allowing deep fakes for political ads. Lets hear the candidates in their own images and voices.

... where will you find experienced workers seven years from now? Seems like someone's making a really big bet on AI improving a whole lot soon. And when the next AI winter comes, a lot of people will be paying a lot more for the workforce they need.

From the NOAA technical report Global and Regional Sea Level Rise Scenarios for the United States.

Relative sea level along the contiguous U.S. (CONUS) coastline is expected to rise on average
as much over the next 30 years (0.25–0.30 m over 2020–2050) as it has over the last 100 years
(1920–2020).

You will have to forgive me for not getting worked up over 10 cm in 30 years. Yes, bad storms sometimes happen. Even if the storm you mention was the largest recorded, it still fits nicely into a chart that shows no significant change in storm activity since we started recording such information.

Only if you completely ignore the fact the the very first CRT video game created for entertainment was on an old tube style oscilloscope. In 1958 the game of Tennis for Two was created. Not exactly pong, but definitely in the same genre. However, I will give you Spacewar if you are only looking at commercially available video games.

Personally, I have to say Pinball was probably more influential as "programmable" entertainment. They predate modern video games by a couple of hundred years.

Meanwhile, according to NOAA, the average sea level rise for the last 100 years, has only been 2mm per year without a change in rate. Not exactly alarming data.

https://www.climate.gov/news-f...

High schools didn't start having computer rooms until sometime in the later half of the 1980s.

Now get off my lawn...

So then why is Three Mile Island being started back up?

Hint: There is profit to be made.

What you describe isn't Capitalism... It's Cronyism. Subtle difference.

So, do I listen to the scientist who are trying to keep their work on gain of function a secret? The ones whose jobs are on the line. Or should I listen to the scientist, like the former head of the CDC, who stated that the most likely cause was a lab leak. You know, the one who was in charge of the CDC back when gain of function was still legal, and isn't worried about his job anymore.

Personally I don't really care whether it was lab leak or wet market. What I am most concerned about was the absolute panic that shut down the economy around the world. If the governments had come out and said: These are the symptoms, these are the people who are most affected, these are our suggestions for remaining healthy. Then ask everyone to to do their best not to spread the virus. That would have been fine. Instead they forced businesses to close down ruining livelihoods. Caused an entire generation of school children to effectively loose a full grade level. And added Trillions to the national debt, all in the name of helping people whose lives they chose to ruin.

Do I switch to a *nix system or buy an overpriced Apple system for music production? REAPER, my DAW of choice, is available on all three systems (or was, I haven't checked since the M-series switchover on the Mac). I've worked with all three systems at various times since the 1970's. However many of my plugins and musical instruments are only supported on Windows or Mac. All I know is that both non-open source systems have screwed their users over in the past and are likely to do so in the future. There's not an easy solution here...

Or the Grey Goo...

The part of this that really scares me, is how did all of the fortune 500 companies get away from test environments before implementation of operational systems? It's like everybody shifted away all at the same time.

The systems training we used to get has now been replaced with the new DEI required training.