And my dear, there always has been. What is your plan to ensure that no person in any country is starving?

I agree. The postmodern deconstructionism was to the point where it was denying biology. A few of my more left wing female relatives cannot define what a woman or even male or female is, and they are firmly convinced that men playing women's sports is a natural thing, because men and women are physically identical.

They still believe that it is important to transition as early as possible, with drugs and surgery, and that we must cherish children's right to change their sex, even though DNA testing defines male and female, and does so post surgery.

And before the apologists claim otherwise, in GB they were pumping drugs into children as young as 9, and in the US they were performing great amputation surgery and drug intervention on children.

So. unless they want more trumpian rule, yeah, time to drop the insanity.

Because where does this end? I can declare that I am a wooly caterpillar and that must be accepted.

I hope so. Whatever we are experiencing at present is not competence, and the right wing party are embarrassing cowards. They are just as bad as the woke. Woke are objectively nuts, the far right are an insult to adulthood, fearful and almost beneath contempt.

Linkedin (like Facebook) has evolved to one of those sites that it feels like the digital equivalent of shopping a wet-market in Wuhan.

If you aren't a coward, don't post as coward. You chose to define yourself as that, I merely agree with you, since when is agreeing with a person's self definition an ad hominem attack?

Post as coward, be a coward. Pretty simple stuff

My pronouns are majesty and eminence. You may refer to my as "Your Majesty".

And how DARE anyone tell me those are not pronouns! I can define my pronouns as I wish, and others must accept and cherish that.

This. a million times this. Even way back in the day. As teens, my buds and I had zero trouble getting alcohol, cigarettes, had no trouble getting pR0n, some of us had little trouble getting devil's lettuce.

All while we supposedly were not able to so such things. But we figured out how. I even figured out how to make wine.

Some of us got pregnant, some of us figured out not to get pregnant. Some of us figured out how to commit crimes. Sadly, some of us deleted ourselves.

All without ChatGPT. At that time, things like the Beatles Helter Skelter. or Black Sabbath was causing teens to do bad things, along with Dancing and youth subcultures, comic books movies like horror films and television.

This isn't an argument against protecting the teens, but it is saying that whatever we do, they'll figure out how to get around it.

On the one hand, ai is indeed getting better at writing banal fluff pieces that fill the Internet.

On the other, human writing is growing so awful in both subject and quality (this morning's bbc contains an article where one of their interns sprightly explains she's been able to train her self to wake without an alarm clock, golly!) that little of value is being supplanted.

Hell, I expect an ai editor of slashdot would post fewer dupes and likely be better at summarizing the point rather than cnp'ing whole 1000-word articles for the front page.

Dropped dow to coward level to disagree with me. Even though you have to log in as you. You are the true definition of coward. Ewwwwwwwww!

Probably after all the jobs are gone, humanity won't mind when you starve to death.

Lunar science is performed by nations other than the US. The EU, Italy, Japan, China, Canada, Russia, India, Other countries get involved. Different countries have different avenues of science.

You frame it as some sort of nationalism. I do not. If I need answers on matters Lunar - which doesn't happen often - I look up the individual or groups who has addressed the matter I am interested in, from a related paper.

I am not a "you guys". And your trying to frame it as nationalism butthurt is rather humorous, and says a lot more about you than me.

You could have disagreed, But you put the pinnacle of your intellect on display for the world to see.

Honeychild, give mommy and daddy their computer back, because 5th grader playground insults are so 5th grade.

Really? You think I said that Apple supplies drivers flor every piece of hardware? Argue at least honestly.

Apple writes drivers for equipment that is used on their computers. Is your need to disagree that strong? I know you hate me, but I look at the situation that I don't mind pissing you off, comrade.

Well, aside from an actual "free market" not existing, you are spot on.

I've built up some wealth, gradually, and yes - it requires investments.

Pretty much this. I have one of those "specialist jobs" but even that money is used for investments once beyond the basics. It helps. But you have to work at it. I couldn't invest seriously until I hit my late 40's.

Now for people upset about other people having more money than they do, the question isn't about greed, the question for them is about what is keeping them from accumulating wealth. Is it Elon Musk? Bill Gates?

I surely do not have as much money as either, but they surely are not the reason I don't have as much as them, or even more than I have now. That other's money is keeping people from having their own measure of wealth is a cop-out.

If a person wants wealth, they could do a lot better than heaping hate and derision on those who have a bit of money. and if they don't care to have a bit, why waste the energy?

My best guess is that as time progresses, and code writing becomes better, that you serve as a transition person. Likely by the time you retire, checking the code will be less of an issue.

Livable income is money. And I suspect you are one who says - "From each, according to their ability, to each according to their needs. I understand that for economists, a world where every human works 3 gig-economy jobs may appear 3 times as good as one where humans need just one job to make enough money for a living, but most people do not fancy a future where all the (previously well paid) jobs are done by some robot.

Did you know in America, we're all starving in the streets, because no one has any money, and that we're all dying because no one has health insurance, and the rest of us are going to kill ourselves because we see how everyone else in the world has a much better life?

Okay - I just wrote something that is just as stupid as your claim that American economists support people with 3 gig economy jobs as a good thing.

That's an interesting claim - how many Americans have 3 gig economy jobs? Why is a reliable living wage.

You need to support your anti American claims with some statistics, otherwise you're just spouting propaganda.

The social experiment of instilling self esteem at extreme levels without corresponding achievement.

The being told they could find meaningful careers, that if they found their passion, nothing could stop them, that they were the most important person in the universe, and that they'd be top level earners in just a few years, and have a career trajectory that would have them running the world while still in their 20's

I've seen it many times. A fresh graduate coming into a job, absolutely knowing they were superior to those olde fartes who were superannuated, and didn't know much.

Then after discovering that they were not superior to people who had experience, they did an intense crash and burn. Many moved back in with mommy and daddy, and lived off of them.

And the mental crisis appears to be down to the college freshman level now, likely lower.

Because the fact is, few people have jobs that change the world, and few people are billionaires ever, and work can be a grind, and life can be tough at times, and that self esteem needs accomplishments, without accomplishments it resembles narcissism.

And a big one is passion. Few people have passion, and if they did, they would not want it. Passion is a white hot pillar of flame that can take over your life, hardly resonating with people who view work/life balance as the goal in life. They need to redefine this as having a mile interest in something, not passion.

Trying to protect our children from all adversity, supervising their every activity, and telling them they are the most important being on the planet is having the opposite effect. Intellectually weak adults with minds of a child.