Then maybe he'll luck out and notice some of the moral differences evinced by programs of that era. Hope springs eternal.

Marvelous!

That one has always stuck in my head. I even whisper "Dinnnsdaaale" sometimes while looking for things.

In what State do you live? And municipality, if you're comfortable sharing that. Or just say if it's Red, Blue or a swing State. I bet I know which.

And as for your implication that everyone but the Right realizes this, you are essentially agreeing with the GOP position on government and rejecting the Left's. Too big, too complicated, too hard to work with, too dangerous as it stumbles around blindly while insisting it's helping.

And I welcome you with open arms.

What stopped in the late 80's? Ebonics came in the '90's, social promotion came back in the late 90's, and now seems to be per-State or per-district. The idea that girls were being ignored was a 90's thing. "Whole word" or "whole language" teaching started in the 80's and built momentum through the 90's and up to the 2010's before teachers began to accept that it didn't work. The self-esteem focus began in the 70's and stopped... ... never, even as parts of it were discarded. Explicitly racist education is even newer - It wasn't that long ago that the chancellor of the NYC school system (nation's largest) announced that math, objectivity, and the written word were tools of white supremacy that had to be expunged.

And the increases to the education budget have gone to enacting the above, despite making outcomes worse. I want to take that money back and put it to sane use. If they spent it on hiring more teachers, that would be one thing. Instead, they spent it on training teachers to be ever worse at their jobs. More money isn't the solution. They did a better job when they had less money, so take it back and tell them to go back to what worked. Pens, paper, books, reading, writing, and arithmetic.

Oh, now that's a damn good point. And it makes the statement, "but you shouldn't use them since we can't guarantee it'll work properly", sound less sketchy. I saw that and immediately thought people would call it BS.

I don't see how I'm taking anything or loving it. I think my apathy is fairly clear. I think it's pretty normal for a company to offer its products for sale, though it's hardly a favor.

But if you won't accept anything less than perfection, then you'll accept nothing at all. Including anything anyone else has to say, so... It's been lovely meeting you, but I suspect we will be unable to find any common ground upon which to base a discussion. I wish you well in your future endeavors.

Well, what I see says the Venusian year is 1.92 Venusian days, not 0.something. I'm looking here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

" As a result, a Venusian day is 116.75 Earth days long, about half a Venusian solar year, which is 224.7 Earth days long."

I am reasonably, but not entirely, confident that Wikipedia is reliable in this. It's not always correct.

Well, I might be in a better position to say what it actually is.

And when the f-k do I demonstrate competence?

You think that was it? That was the one condition upon which everything else hinged? Well, JFK was the one who pushed to lower it, and Johnson was the one who signed it into law. Back in 1964. So, by your logic, America was most prosperous between what, 1943 and 1964? A time frame that includes WWII, the Korean War, The birth of the Cold War, the Suez Crisis, the Cuban Missile Crisis, declining GDP, multiple recessions, multiple Arab-Israeli wars, women leaving the workforce as the men came back from war, and the rise of the One True King, Elvis Presley. Oh, and the Civil Rights movement.

A "mixed bag", I think you could call it. Certainly not a period when tax rates were the sole or even necessarily the most impactful economic condition. I'm not sure you could say that we were more prosperous then than now. More than in the mid-to-late 70's maybe. Ford-Carter was a bad time economically.

Where is the 248 coming from? Wikipedia says a Venusian year is about 225 Earth days, or 1.96 Venusian days. Which are about 117 Earth days long. I haven't seen a way to make 248 from any of the numbers I see. But I'm not very good at Countdown.

It's almost like spending your time looking for things to be sad about prevents you from finding things to be happy about!

I don't know how flippant or sincere you're being, but maybe doom-scrolling and platforms built around it are bad things that we should avoid?

Yup, that too. But that silliness, in my mind, pales in comparison to the banal evil of assuming the government should always be trying to keep temporary authority.

And? Don't do sensitive work on consumer hardware. Simple rule.

Regardless, not a concern.

Had I cause for such concerns on my personal hardware, I would have bought something else.