There's throwing away working code, and there is hording old bits even though nobody is even testing them before making changes. Don't be a hoarder. And feel free to hand any important 486 code to any other GPL kernel project. Or switch to NetBSD for your 486 needs.

Paper? How quaint, these days new money is just a record in a datacenter, no physical limits on how much you can make. Hence the "AI" boom and its other side, the 40 trillion debt and the need for wars of plunder.

What is even better than being able to brag to your friends is to be able to complain to your friends and family. So this is the gift that keeps on giving.

Being an outlaw didn't work both ways - it's the law withdrawing its protection from you, not its wrath.

not what I was referring too. The South West has multi-century wet/dry cycles and we've recently discovered the last 100-200 years has been the peak wet period. It's only getting drier for a long long time.

To be fair, when Clinton and Yeltsin were running things, we thought the Cold War was finally over. We could focus on a new decade of globalization (a more palatable name for imperialism).

We had 20-30 to readdress the errors of the past adminstations but recall two things:
1. The media did not bring it up to the American people again
2. The legislature and political parties in the US did not make an issue of it.

Perhaps we pulled the wool over our own eyes. But it is useless to blame on leader or another for doing something we could have undone or improved over these decades.

Someone has to be on board to get shit done. It is how America has worked long before we were even our own country.

Until we can 3d print metal, glass, and silicon in situ. Then you just print it instead of assembling it, and possible within reach of an ambitious middle schooler when the printer technology is off-the-shelf. (So maybe when I'm 80)

Yeah, and that's exactly the part where my skepticism kicked in. It takes about 10 hours across two weeks for a human to train a dog about an underground fence. I'm not sure I realized that cattle were so much smarter than dogs that you could just put on the collar and AI will do the rest.

Indeed. But the target of this propaganda lie is not people that can actually think. It is the MAGA cultists, that will claim everything is great while they are starving, dying from preventable disease and being homeless.

A dumb MAGA like you would not even be convinced by rock-solid evidence. You lack the two working braincells required.

You probably overlooked that this is for 3 (!) people. Dumb and dumber.

This is $133k for 3 people.

$133k doesn't buy nearly as much as it used to. And it depends on where you live.

"upper class" never meant a relative income percentage. It has always meant a lifestyle. "Upper middle class " means you can afford a three or four bedroom house in a safe location with good schools, that you can absorb a series of financial shocks like dead appliances and car accidents without trouble, that your whole family has decent health insurance, that you can choose to go on vacation every year to a foreign country and still save for retirement. And so on. Wealth capture to the very rich has made us all poorer.