Or someone on lots of psychiatric meds and hormones.

Indeed, but this may be the year, unfortunately, because they can be convenient.

Yes, the rise of the administrative state AND the absolute inability for either party to do their jobs has brought us to disaster. It makes me crazy, all the time.

Oh, you mean the left.

I started my career in the mid 1980s. One of the women in my group - a brilliant software engineer and mathemetician - attended a QA conference and came back saying 'we discuss graphing number of new bugs for thousand lines of new and changed non commentary source code but according to analysis this doesn't even scratch the surface, and we don't even really do bugs per ncncsl well.' That was 1986, and software quality has only declined since then. Hopefully any new nuclear power stations will not include software, but it probably will.

We don't have a king, except in the minds of the TDS afflicted.

Go figure, Ofgem doesn't operate in Northern Ireland. Never mind!

Fascinating! I'd never heard that one either :) Thanks !!

Is Northern Ireland not getting data centers? Or is Ofgem ignoring part of the United Kingdom?

It would be interesting to see a real analysis of it. I question pretty much all data, anymore. As I said, I am seeing some relief at the grocery store - but I'm thinking it's more in the middle of the country where I live rather than at either coast, as we're a bit less insane than either coast.

Ah, thank you. Didn't see it.

No, it is not. perquisite /prkwzt/ nounformal a thing regarded as a special right or privilege enjoyed as a result of one's position. plural noun: perquisites "the wife of a president has all the perquisites of stardom" A prerequisite is nothing like a perquisite.

The tech downturn of the early 2000s did this. I don't think entry level jobs ever really came back; a friend of mine who started where I work as an intern , just out of school, had a heck of a time actually getting a full time job. This was in the last couple of years. This is just another aspect of it.

Are you referring to Cyril Kornbluth's novella, _The Marching Morons_? It's available on guttenburg.org IIRC ... and worth a read. Re: AI, the short novella by Fred Pohl called _The Midas Plague_ you can find on archive.org.

Nobody who doesn't live in farm country - I'm not a farmer but live in a ranching and farm town and have a bunch of friends who are franchers - understands this. Farmers and ranchers buy their inputs retail and sell their output wholesale. Folks whine at the grocery store that flour is $10 per bag - but the price of wheat is the same as it was in the 1970s.