I hate dreams like that. Usually school related, and I’m many decades past any of that trauma, yet it takes a few seconds after waking to get over the anxiety.

The world’s first panorama. Da Vinci was just setting up a scene like in That 70’s Show, but people didn’t get it so he redid the bottom as a full table.

I actually expected some sort of complaint about socialists taking over the country and trying to spread wealth around. His reasoning was far more bizarre. His snowflakes message is right on point though, total projection of his own weak reaction to the objections. I’d still think he’s odd, but would have a sliver of respect if he admitted that he made a mistake in doing the post. And involving his children… what a role model he is. :/

In addition to what’s been mentioned, he has certain protections as long as he’s President.

I still sit on much older stuff because of that reason. Tried years ago to use local sources like Craigslist, but no one is looking for older, they want new. Short of finding an older system for repurposing, there’s no market for it.

Underemployment has always been an ignored statistic. The media and government report a single number as some sort of status of the economy, when it’s so much more complex than one data point.

I think there’s some that go through that dwindling urge to keep going. But there are also the ones that you describe, the “oh, new shiny thing”.

Both amazing, and it sucks that so many people in history bring about incredible ideas and creations and end up getting nothing for it in the end. At least Phillips got his name stuck to it, I suppose. My wife still insists on asking for the star screwdriver, and I correct her every time. “It’s Phillips!” You know what they say, you never truly die until people stop remembering you. Live on.

Also, while I understand its history being a simple to make design, the slot can die as far as I care. I HATE it, and whenever I find it in older places doing repairs I swear up and down. The worse is the slot that is a very shallow cut. Like, how am I supposed to put any torque on this without it slipping???

Everyone always mentions Zombie, and it’s a great song, but Linger was my first Cranberries song and has always been my favorite. Maybe because it’s more mellow and melancholy. RIP Dolores, one of the greats.

It’s easy to blame the immediate source, the voters. Let’s not stop there but dig into the system that was developed decades ago to create such a voting pool. That was the core mission of the Southern Strategy. It’s like blaming a misbehaving kid alone, and ignoring their terrible parents who home schooled and spoon-fed them everything they know. GIGO

The President we needed.

Yeah, I mean math and even science aren’t always intuitive, so we have to have rules and theories to go by that demonstrate repeatability. Subatomic physics doesn’t even really work like our models say, it’s just that the models give the best results in predicting what we’ll find.

Another example is randomness. Not all random numbers are the same, it depends on how you derive them as to what you’ll get. I guess in some way that’s related to what numbers will pop up for an irrational number. It’s said with enough monkeys randomly typing on typewriters eventually you’ll get a Shakespeare work. It already happened a number of times… since we’re in sense monkeys and got a number of Shakespeare works. Didn’t even need typewriters.

I don’t think that’s a given. It’s just like there are different sizes of infinite, and more numbers between 0 and 1 than there are real numbers, or something.

I meant it as the phrase. The word itself for me has a very broad meaning contextually and is overused. I hope that gives a better impression of my value system.

Animal food use should be pulled back a lot. But let’s also concentrate on how much of agriculture area is used for non-food.

I’m sure you understand that’s a phrase, not an implication that artists are all heroes. But it does apply. The person you see do something great and heroic may also have certain things about them that would ruin your image you have in our mind created from the good actions. We’re all people with potentials and flaws.

Which should have been the internet, but that’s gone downhill even before the addition of AI material.

Can’t take anything seriously from a meme-originated account.

As a Gen-X I’ve annoyed the Millennials around me at work by fully embracing “67” any time I pick up on it, just like I’ve done all the others mentioned in the XKCD. I’ve never stopped a few of them, like “42”, “1337”, and “58008”. But those were from MY generation and fellow geek community, so there’s that.

And I don’t think the typical American is aware enough politically to be alarmed. Or in some cases able to do much without sacrificing what they have left. Which I guess is the point, do it now or let them take it from you later. We do like to procrastinate.