So instead of age-binary are you age-hexadecimal?

"The problem is nobody wants to pay for that make work"

When I was young we called those 'manufacturing jobs'. And they did pay for them...

Get it?

A little nuclear power wouldn't hurt, either...

In Canada? All this time I thought it was called "Hockey Night In Canada". Huh.

You must be new here.

And that curve is bell-shaped, not pyramid shaped.

Just science. Synthetic fuels - created with the Fischer-Tropsch process - have been around for a century. Aircraft can use it without any difficulties, SAF actually has better quality and burns cleaner than the usual aviation grade kerosene. The only reason SAF is not widely used is its cost and limited production.

Loughborough University.
https://news.slashdot.org/stor...

Your realisation was wrong - she was smarter than maybe a quarter of the population. The majority is about as smart as she is. So, with that in mind, are you still convinced that you are smarter?

Air travel can switch to synthetic fuel. Gas turbines don't much care about what they burn as long as it burns.

Or better. It all depends on how self aware and introspective the mentally ill people are.

'The religious people have a name for it, 4 to 14."

And the religious people have a name for the age group 16-26. Deconstructionists. They deconstruct what they were taught and believed in, until it is no more, and they no longer believe it, in whole or part.

We have minds and free will. We generally decide what to believe, and how to exercise that. You seem to be saying Microsoft software is actually fine, perhaps also translated as 'good enough'. I agree. If it were not, either previous competitors would have won the market, or all other software would be equally inadequate.

I 'learned' networking via Novell NetWare, which was more than good enough. Until Windows NTAS, which finally was stable enough to compete. Add in some underhanded (IMHO) and probably unethical Microsoft tricks, and that was that. Likewise WordPerfect was terrific, but Microsoft Word was finally good enough to win the market. Oh, and the matter of printer drivers, which Microsoft solved and took away the one WP advantage they were clinging to.

The market rarely makes bit mistakes like letting Microsoft persist despite incompetence. Microsoft is not so incompetent. Perfect, no, but their supposed greatest competitor, Apple had some interesting missteps. No one much remembers those, because Apple fanbois are so in the tank they cannot see any light other than Apple. Which is no big deal, Apple is more than good enough if you like it. It's your choice.

Microsoft doesn't have to crush all the competition, just the important stuff.

At great risk, let me point out something...

If you divorce over money, you or your spouse married poorly. It's unfortunate, and often without specific fault.

If, however, you persevere through financial troubles, even failure, you married well. Marriage traditionally was expected to be unbreakable. We know many were in marriages of pain and struggle, and divorce became not merely socially acceptable, but a ready solution to real or imagined distress. To blame your divorce on anything other than you or your spouse's willingness to dissolve is, well, escaping blame where it lies. But we are all flawed, and I hope that you, if you wish, find a relationship that endures.

This is a function of a free market. Some are free to do/buy/work less. Those who think they want more, they either work, find advantage, or do with less.

We are created equal. What we do with that is somewhat opportunity, somewhat chance, and somewhat internal motivation. What people deserve is the opportunity, and freedom from denial of that.

In Australia
1000km to the in-laws, which we often do in one drive of around 12 hours. Destination house has street parking only.
Much of the UK has only street parking.
Most apartment complexes don’t have the ability to charge EVs, or have body Corp insurance issues forbidding it.