Great movie, despite the ridiculousness

Thanks. I was about to post that I haven’t yet decided whether to donate to my instance or the developers. I might just go with your opinion

Edit: although after reading, I’m not entirely sure. Part of supporting freedom to discuss is also supporting freedom to discuss things you disagree with or even things that are genuinely hateful. I do tend to end up more on the free speech side than the cancel side. The posted thread from archive at least the complainant moved on: we need to be able to vote with our feet like that

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They had to pick “near a train stop”? Yes, I’d expect prices to rise. I don’t know about rest of the US but here demand for that would increase faster than supply, plus the new buildings would be high end with all the amenities.

This actually has been happening in my town. All the new big apartment/condo blocks around the train station are high end: one advertised by the number of professional baseball players who moved in. It’s great that we’re getting higher density housing in the town center and the train, but it’s also a gentrification. Prices go up. Restaurants get higher end, etc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_seeding

Yeah, I tend to most notice reports of overfishing. Food from land sources is almost entirely farmed but we still get a lot of seafood from wild sources plus don’t have aquaculture anywhere near as advanced as agriculture: there’s not much we can do. Loss of a marine food source is a big deal, and we keep doing that with more species. One solution is fewer people

A lot of the higher estimates assume we can overcome limitations like this with better management of resources, but that is against human nature and our current incentives. It’s not going to happen, even if lives depend on it

2 months is not all that long to find a new job but yeah.

I’ve had both shorter and longer in the past. However this time I

• own a house
• have a car payment
• my first kid in college
• second soon
• excessive car insurance to cover two teen drivers
• child support to my ex

I would have a real hard time handling that with any disruption of my income. Not quite paycheck to paycheck, but there’s a lot of expenses I haven’t had for most of my life and the cap on unemployment benefits means I wouldn’t come close. Most of these will be gone in less than six years so I just need to not be laid off for that time

Looks like the stats are all over the place but iPhones are about 50% of US market ± 10%. Neither you nor I are representative

This really illustrates the original problem. One point of view can look at overall statistics and say things are going great while the other point t of view can focus on job instability affecting real people.

I completely disagree. As long as there are valid choices, an option to choose a walled garden has benefits. It’s only a problem when that’s your only realistic choice. In this case, as long as Android is common enough to be a valid choice and there are multiple Android manufacturers, then you really don’t see any of these problems.

If you don’t think there’s any innovation in phones, either

• phones are maturing. They are very powerful and do a lot: revolutionary change is much less likely now
• news fatigue. There are significant improvements in every model; I bet your self from ten years ago would be amazed. Also it’s silly to expect revolutionary change every year. Look less often

Or why battery life gets so bad after two or so years that most people are forced to buy a new one.

• iPhones seem to have better battery life. Come on over to the dark side
• I gave my two year old iPhone to my teen and battery health was still high eighties percent
• it’s really not that expensive to replace a battery. I mean, it might be in the latest models, but I historically pay Apple to do it after 2-3 years (so I can give it to my kid with full battery health) and it really doesn’t seem any more expensive after inflation than it’s been for decades. And there are cheaper places that can do it. While it’s a little frustrating that it’s difficult to do yourself, it’s just not put that bad

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1175322/video-game-employment/

There are a bunch of states where minimum wage is now over $15/hour. My area has a shortage of workers for low pay jobs so pretty much everywhere is starting closer to $20. That’s still not a lot but certainly a huge increase

I also think it’s not as good an income as you expect. While every place has a range of incomes, in general, you’ll get six figure incomes in high cost of living areas. Sure it’s a higher income, sure it’s probably better but after accounting for how much extra everything costs, it’s not that much better

Where I live, plenty of people are making six figures, but the cheapest single family home will be well over $500k and even older run down houses are approaching $1M. Combine that with higher interest and my point is that $100k income may sound like a lot to many of you, that income level is common here but you can’t buy a house on it. Given how expensive cars are, you probably aren’t driving a new car. You’re probably not buying the latest electronics. You’re probably not going out to eat very often. You’re not hiring a house keeper or yard guy. And if you do any of these, you no longer have disposable income. It may be well over median income but you’re not getting any of the trappings of “well off”

why are we so horny to say JOE BIDEN GOOD or JOE BIDEN BAD?

I mainly object to one: people with that position seem to be ignoring data, trends, news from last week. But how do you discuss that people need to pay attention to the world instead of sticking to their beliefs, without appearing to be the other zealot?

Luckily for my life expectancy, double stuff Oreos are still sky high, even with shrinkflation

Maybe, but I think of disruption sort of like mutation. We all like to think it creates superhuman but most same actually negative , and reality is we get more improvements with continuous increments

True. Exemplify the YoLo lifestyle and go out in a big celebration when you’re at the top of your game

One of the reasons setting up a base on the moon is critical. Microgravity is not conducive to long term health, so what is? Do we need planetary levels of gravity? Are we ok with moon levels or higher? We don’t even know how many solar system bodies even can conceivably support longer term living

Yes, that’s why we need to get into space asap. Scaling out space infrastructure to affordable support any appreciable population will take a lot longer than people think, even once we do figure out how to live off-world. We have well over a century of work to make any difference, so let’s get started already

Yet another issue that I’d too long-term for anyone to understand or focus on. If we address it now, changes can be small and simple. However history shows we’ll wait until it’s a crisis, then panic.