Paid for by who?

Stuff like this needs donors and grants to be gathered. Funding for stuff like this doesnt just fall from trees.

The push from management to use Copilot and other tools has been a pointless farce. They've become so focused on adopting the new tools and even track our usage metrics. They they forgot that we have actual products and releases to address, and that we have cross functional bugs that aren't receiving the attention they need from management.

I feel like I could replace some of what project managers do with ChatGPT. Just get it some prompts to work out nag emails and track what outstanding bugs and features are at risk as the branch cut off approaches.

Nearly everything is supported on those modern macs.
I still have Ubuntu 4.10 (warty) installed on my PowerMac G3 B&W (1999). A 20 year old Linux distro running on a 25+ year old Mac, that's vintage.

I kinda hate all the Samsung account nagging on their phones.

It is going to evaporate, slowly....

The system needs to support his kids so they can hopefully grow up to become productive adults instead of deadbeats. We'll eventually get a return on that investment when kids grow up safe and happy and educated.

Of course, if we punish children for being born to poor parents and they grow up with no future. Then we're not going to gain anything from them, they'll probably not improve their lot in life, and may even be anti-social, addicts, or criminals.

We reap what we sow.

Spending less time outdoors and not smoking tends to keep your skin more youthful looking.

I could see how women wouldn't find misogynist incels and man-boy gamers with no future very attractive mates.
The manosphere has emasculated more young men than all the microplastic, hormones, and single-mothers ever could.

As for low-T in first world countries, you have to look no further than obesity. We know inactivity and body fat can send testosterone crashing. There's a very straight forward fix that doesn't involve buying any online snake oil: Shift your ass and fix your diet.

Pre-industrial lifestyle isn't as like as a post-Holocene epoch. A few mass extinctions will make neither industrial or pre-industrial lifestyles possible.

Seem fair to push retirement ages up, because everyone lives to the same age right?

I can't really imagine keeping 2x more trash cans in my kitchen and dealing with having to work around and walk around them....it's full as it is.

But hey, it's a free country...you do you.

I don't see any compelling reason to change a lifetime of behavior for no perceived value, and add inconvenience to my daily life.

To each his own...sounds like a major PITA to me.

Where I am...each house has 1 or more general garbage cans...but plastic things, uniform size and shape....and on trash days (2 a week) you wheel the "bin" out to the road side....the truck comes along and a big mechanical arm picks up each can and dumps it in...

There's no garbage men there to even look at what you're throwing out.

On a different day of the week, I do see folks putting out their small recycle bins, the ones that want to participate.

To save money, they've set up this system so that we don't have 2-3 guys hanging on the back of each garbage truck grabbing each can and dumping it...there's pretty much just 1 person driving the truck and the truck grabs, dumps and returns each can....

Again, I don't have anything against recycling....but participation is and should be optional...where I live.

My American high school doubled down and upgraded to Turbo Pascal 5.5 in the 90's. These days about half of US high schools offer some kind of computer science or IT class. It might be JavaScript and HTML/CSS, or it might be Java, a handful of high schools are doing Python. (there isn't much standardization in education in the US)

The brain dead thing is legislatures try to push computer science as a mandatory course in our schools. We keep running into this in California. And Silicon Valley keeps telling them that it's not necessary. Kids who are interested will take the opportunity, and ones who are not will take something else that interests them.

I'd rather live in a world where there is a mix of people from different backgrounds. Maybe some took programming. Some took creative writing. Some took visual arts (mostly painting and sculpture). And so on. In the US you can find schools that offer electives in computer animation, fashion construction (sewing - but with a flair), drama, choir, botany, etc. I took electronics and Pascal, plus some after school sports like tennis.

Mushrooms are one of the safer things on pizza. The pepperoni will kill you faster than almost anything. Too bad mushroom pizzas smell kind of gross, like wet cardboard.

(disclaimer: I only order from Dominos)

You say that like it's a bad thing. It seems like a good problem to have.

Also, you wouldn't have to raise the eligibility age to the same proportion as the potential increase in lifespan. Because heart attack, stroke, car accidents, and cancer will still get people before they can fully collect their benefits. But let's say hypothetically, people live to 120. And we move the eligibility age to what? 95 or maybe 105? That'd be a better deal than we have now where people collect at 65 and die at 75 to 85.

Technically a European mushroom. In this case, the Australian cook is to blame.

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