Meh. I'm over 50 and my knees are fine.
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Actually supporting open source looks a lot like a subscription service. I donate monthly to a handful of projects that I use regularly.
Also, for one brief, shining moment we had no deficit under Clinton. I'm not a fan of his, but that was a thing.
Good episode for sure. Well... most 99% Invisible episodes are good!
I think that another - and I think more important - answer is that the capital class finally regained control. They chaffed for decades under the limits imposed after they destroyed the worldwide economy in the early 20th century, and spent the second half of the 20th century and the start of the 21st systematically removing constraints.
When IBM senior management was asked by a staff member for data supporting their RTO policy one of the managers literally said, "I've managed teams before. I don't need data."
It's almost like Israel needs Lebensraum....
There's always a chance to get swallowed by a wormhole and get retrofitted by a machine civilization.
Since Mars is one of the bodies in the solar system that might support life, I think that it's morally wrong to send humans there. That will contaminate Mars.
We have plenty of work to do colonizing the moon and asteroids. Let's wait a few hundred years until we have done really, really thorough investigation of Mars before potentially wiping out tue alien life that might be there.
Because Elon rage quit the "let's destroy the government and funnel more cash to me" game.
Like firing black people, women, and LGBT+ folks from the military, it's one more step to ensuring that when Republicans order political violence there will be nobody who refuses.
You might have to send a stern letter then!