Ah, yes, the old argument of “you live longer, so the billionaires get to own more of your time”.

No. How about if I get to live longer, I get to enjoy my tiny little bit of time longer? It isn’t scarcity by nature - it’s scarcity by design.

It is if you check out a book like “How Fascism Works”.

Guardian Heroes was an outstanding RPG beat 'em up on Sega Saturn. It had

• a two player co-op storyline with branching choices to get alternate endings

• unlockable characters for a 6-player arena mode

• incredibly unique characters to unlock, spellcasting with ➡️⬅️⬆️⬇️ input

• and a kick ass soundtrack.

Nothing has really scratched the same itch since (yes, I’m aware there’s a sequel, but it’s terrible).

Try out fudepens too. Fountain pens, but with a brush end. Sometimes they’re refillable (my preference), sometimes they’re not. They make them with actual bristle brush tips, but also foam tips like calligraphy markers.

I’ve come to really enjoy them.

How many times does this gotta happen before we start calling them missiles instead of rockets?

I’m not dismissing its use. It is a useful tool, but it cannot replace experts at this point, or maybe ever (and I’m gathering you agree on this).

If it ever does get to that point, we need to also remedy the massive social consequences of revoking those same experts’ ability to have sufficient income to have a reasonable living.

I was being a little silly for effect.

Normally, I work from one side to the other in pairs like below:

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I face the heavier side toward the door so that I will have the majority of the weight in my hand as I pick it up.

So we’re going to depend on AI, which can’t reliably remember how many fingers humans have, to take over medical science roles. Neat!

Because Wyoming not?

Deleting your data for you. Their copy is theirs.

I don’t see why we should judge our associations by viscosity.

Teams is the worst offender. It constantly wants me to call any number. Social? Phone? Whatever. I don’t want to call anyone, and I sure as hell don’t want to do it via Teams.

I’m pretty sure it’s just called a bird’s beak paring knife.

Reading further about it, it’s intended for tasks while holding the object you are cutting, rather than using a cutting board. Like peeling an apple in your hand.

The Hammer of Pope-o-cles.

Americans hate metric so much that they’d rather use metric!

If it pulled a Challenger, baby would have been a firework.

We as a society need to start defining our damn acronyms. Stop assuming everyone knows what every acronym is, because they do not.

Maybe golf is where Trump picked up his hatred of windmills.

This is a helpful way to break down Nationalism vs Patriotism. Nationalism being a delusional belief that we are the best, and Patriotism being a love for your country and fellow citizen and striving to be the best.

If the owner of the company wasn’t trying to heil a cab on the national stage, people wouldn’t be doubting these EVs nearly as much.

Not that they’re particularly high quality anyway.