Was it ever easy?

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Nah. The worst idea is identifying another ethnicity as making better tasting meat and saying that it isn’t an issue to eat people outside your kin or kith.

Then you subjugate the population as breeding stock to create food for your society because the superior humanity shouldn’t concern itself with the treatment of lesser peoples. After all, if they didn’t deserve to be eaten, then why do they taste so good?

My worst experience in Word has been adapting a state based Word document to municipal use. The state knows what it is doing and uses styles as a great way to organize the document to provide direction.

Then the fucking county had a 60 year old secretary create a wrapper for that document and it fucking breaks everything.

That’s a pretty good list you got there.

That sucks. I feel for you.

Inside, nothing noticeable.

Outside, also nothing noticeable.

Things I can see coming ahead:

Parts of the world are left to let nature take it back as insurance companies continue to pull back from certain markets. For instance, I expect Florida to depopulate and a lot of the settlements to remain to become hardened against hurricanes and sinkholes.

Automation comes after a lot of skilled white collar and blue collar workers. The one industry that grows is elderly care, which has a limit on relevance as people stop having money when they get old.

Schools with human teachers become rare as states start pushing remote education options to handle budget shortfalls.

Most major metro areas have massive AI supported surveillance systems to reduce crime. It works, but it is also used to stifle political dissent. The use of the systems are not tied to political ideology of the government but to the wealthy wanting to live in a monitored place.

AI for cars & trucks becomes common. Cities still build for mass transit as the infrastructure to support automated taxis chokes the roads.

No matter the politics of the current government, most governments in the future are well controlled vaguely nationalist and designed to protect capital from the population.

I’ve got a log table in the back of one of my reference manuals. The results go up to 6 digits. You aren’t going to get appreciable material savings after 2 digits.

And in some cases like structural steel, the built up members were far more optimized 100 years ago compared to today because the labor required to build the optimized structure was that much cheaper.

Why was that a mistake?

Picked a wrong week to quit smoking?

I wanted to design bridges. I design bridges.

Depends on if this is work or not.

If it is work and I’m pressed for time, I usually start to interrupt them and give a summary based on what I know and ask them to fill in any gaps.

It can be disorienting for some staff because I can tell that they practiced trying to lay out everything perfectly so that I can understand them and that they have problems trying to parse everything out to create the delta between what they know and what I know.

Tracking devices like Apple Tag.

It has its uses, but it can also be used to track people without them being aware.

Yeah. I wouldn’t expect people who want algorithm-fed video to switch to a text based platform like Lemmy.

Yep

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I taught a friend how to drive and he was in his mid 20’s when I taught him.

Flying back from Vegas and the flight I was on got cancelled. They drew out the process to cancel it so that it didn’t get cancelled until another flight already took off. They gave hotel vouchers, but so late that it wasn’t worth it getting a hotel for 5 hours. They played loud music in the airport to keep people from sleeping.

Also had a flight going back home after Christmas that was so delayed I ended up driving back.

A decent first step is trying to figure out what the picture looks like.

What kind of job do you want? What kind of family do you want? What kind of place do you want to live? What hobbies or activities do you want to do? The picture will be blurry and that is ok.

From that, you can start to plan out what you need to do to make that picture. Do you need a certain education? Do you need to live in a certain part of the world? Do your goals match your drive? Are your goals reasonable?

And it is fine if your picture changes over time. It does for everyone. However, having a picture gives you something to plan against.