Think 1840 to 1920. We went from comms being at the speed of a sailing ship or a steam train to the speed of light over wires and then the speed of light over radio - aka wireless. We went from primitive steam trains to a continent-wide rail network, private automobiles, steam ships, and aircraft. Kerosene was once THE reason to drill an oil well and gasoline was toxic dangerous waste, that changed to electric light and gasoline being in demand for cars, tractors, and airplanes. By the late 1800s e-commerce was already reshaping the economy, anyone near a railroad could send a telegram to Sears and have just about anything show up on a freight train soon enough. We are in another area of rapid shifting from one thing to the next, and like all previous rapid changers there will be losers, and this time there might be a lot more than last time.

Anyone who is a fan of James Lee Burke realizes the last few books are either an AI or some human assistant that acts like one is shuffling around previous works with a bit of find and replace. James Lee Patterson probably has not even read half of his books, let alone had a hand in writing them.

My son could do this, he looks up stuff on AI so much I can watch him write something and KNOW AI had nothing to do with it and it still reads like fresh off of ChatGTP.

I had a Camry Hybrid loaner and loved it. It drove quite well and got 50 MPG going to work except the day I tried to use as much gas as possible and it still got 41. I thought I would hate it because I usually loathe CVTs, but with the electric motor filling in to get the car moving it was actually fun to drive.

I had a new loaner car that kept telling me to pull over because it couldn't read the worn lane markings right and thought I was running off the road. At least I could ignore it, I guess soon enough it will just quit, lock the doors, and call the cops.

They are just in time for Americans to suddenly realize gas is expensive.

I remember that! It was something like if you were poor, you got a big bag of free money every month and were in big trouble if you did not spend it before next month.

First week: You all are using the brake pads up! What is wrong with you! The planes have reverse, use it! Second week: Why are we filing out dings in the props every day? Are you idiots using reverse and blowing up crap in front of the plane? Third week: go to 1st week

I used to buy it for seasickness and while it did help some of my crew when needed, even the patches from the pharmacy could have undesired side effects at their carefully calibrated dose. NFW would I be eating Jimson Weed to solve motion sickness.

That was a great book! I was going to mention it but could not remember the title.

This is misleading. I am not surprised that infra-sound can bother people in various ways. What they did not do was survey various buildings for infra-sounds. I saw no coherent explanation of why old buildings would have more of it. It also leaves off that plenty of ghost stories occurred in pre-industrial and pre-plumbing eras. What they needed to do was use 4 buildings, 2 new and 2 old, with one of each having infra-sound. There may be some psychology where feeling unsettled in a 10 year old building means one thing and in a 100 year old building something else, but this study did not go there or even survey any buildings at all for infra-sound.

Wasn't this very article on SD a few weeks ago? * using a Mint computer right now and it works as well as ever.

133K is upper middle class?? Wow, I have been a lot richer than I ever thought. Maybe in some flyover town that is big money, on either coast that is "at least I am not on food stamps" money. That is a school teacher married to a cop money. In places where a cheap house is $450K, that is not Upper anything.

This is key: My dog would eat roast beef until they were stuffed full no question, but they don't have easy access to it. Humans evolved in an environment where sweets were very rare and also contained important vitamins, so on the lucky occasion they found fruit they would really want to eat it. We are not designed for 24/7/365 supplies of sugar and fat. That said, back in the day we ate a horrible diet, sugar drinks, twinkies, McDs, etc, and were all skinny as a rail. I think pre-internet kids got about 1000 times more exercise than modern kids do.

Junkies are usually skin and bones after awhile, so maybe quitting fentanyl is the wrong thing to be quitting?