Those of us not in the US can just pull up a chair and watch it burn down. I'm buying popcorn. They're opting out of health and education, which underpin the future of everything. The future is not theirs - they are steadfastly committed to near irrelevance in a couple of decades. I spent the last decade feeling concern for the citizens of the US, but I'm out of empathy.

"This isn't who we are!" Sorry, that rings hollow now. It is, in fact, who you are.

Because human biology is an incredibly complex system, you can never prove anything definitively. You can only have degrees of uncertainty. So they presented their case, and explained their conclusions. I don't know how you can ask for anything different.

And "correlation is not causation", while being true, is highly misleading. The two are not completely disconnected. Circumstantial evidence is still evidence, no matter what popular opinion might wish.

They gave specifics. You want the opposite. The list of ultra processed foods is larger than the list of "regular" foods.

That's the difference between a store of wealth and a speculation. Long after nVidia - or Bitcoin - have faded into history, gold will still be valued as wealth.

Trivialize it all you like. But that's just shortsighted pedantry. Gold has been considered valuable for longer than people have been writing it down. There's almost nothing with the unbroken track record of gold in being a store of wealth, and it'll still be wealth after we've all turned to dust.

And why would aesthetic uses not be intrinsic value? Sure, if it were a case of unproven demand or a fad... but that isn't the case.

I don't really see what cursive would provide that printing would not. They aren't that different from a fine skills perspective.

Sure, cursive is prettier. But the best argument for cursive is speed. It's just faster. And if you have to write a lot of text, the difference becomes significant. But nobody has to write in high volumes any more.

Well, here's my anecdote. I have been typing continuously since the 80s, making a living coding, writing business and management docs, creating software manuals and training materials... my whole adult life had a keyboard in front of it. But I never learned to type "properly". To this day it's a hodge podge process of controlled, high speed chaos.

Several of my aunts were in administration. They all knew how to type properly, and they were slightly faster on the keyboard than I.

They all got repetitive motion conditions in their hands and wrists later in life. I've never had so much as a hint of it.

Draw the line however you like, but I believe the unstructured chaos and higher error rate I accepted are the reason for the difference.

Would never work. No crawler runs in mindless, unrestricted fashion. They use a set of guardrails regarding what they will or will not follow. And even the simplest of crawlers are smart enough to not re-enter a destination more than once.

So... complicate the whole scheme by adding graduated licensing by vehicle classification? Yeah... that'll fly. Imagine the bureaucratic nightmare if every time somebody wanted to move to a more capable car they had to certify on it.

Your SCCA license doesn't mean your solution is better than anybody else's.In fact, it might be working against you.

The single best use case is people waiting for their drug dealers, and stoned people shouldnt drive. Everybody else privides alternative payment methods.

Wow. Committed to close to the start of the previous administration. I wonder how it'll get spun differently.

"on Apple there are a large number of applications which only have phone layouts"

If you are saying that the iPad will begrudgingly run old iPhone-only apps, that's true. But describing it as a limiting factor is not reasonable. Of the dozens of iPad apps I use - and I do use quite a lot - not one is running in iPhone compatibility. No matter what your need is, there are iPad-native apps to meet it. Usually it's the same binary - a universal app.

Besides, it's like complaining that your Ubuntu desktop is lacking because it'll run a bunch of old terminal apps that don't make use of the gui. It's silly.

So what? That goes for every movement. If you think there are universal definitions for social adjustments you're mistaken. Try to define a hippie. You will not get consensus on the text, but, like "woke", you probably know it when you see it.

When I hear "woke" I mentally swap in "new-fangled". And it works pretty much every time. I think the word is scarier for some folks when it describes change more than it does a wider scope of acceptance of others.

I've had... let's see... six iPhones. 3GS, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13. I reliably skip a major revision. And I would skip more than one, except that my mother gets my last gen. So when her phone needs battery service after being 4 generations back, I shop for a new one. But this time, rather than get a new one, I paid Apple a hundred bucks each to refresh the batteries in my 13 and her 11.

The 13 is a damned good phone, and there is not a single thing I would upgrade. No compelling reason exists. Thinner? Who cares? I carried the brick in the 90s. I've toted around flip phones, blackberries, pagers... this 13 is pretty much perfect.

I'll give it up when I drive over it, or LTE becomes a thing of the past.

Side note: Apple tech cracked my screen separating the shell. For my $100 I got a screen refresh too. :)