I would say I have a poor to average memory and I can recall one mundane scene from being an infant. I was also creeped out when my 3 or 4 year old brother said he could remember being in the womb.

Things could be different this time. We've pretty much automated our physical labor, what happens when you automate general thinking? Any new job or field will also be able to be done by AI.

I refused to do homework as a child and in high school a lot of times. I did much better in college when I only had to worry about tests and papers once a week.

I always feel a little dirty when I have to go on a discord to find some information.

Watching it is enough for a lot of people. Watching 1080p first person extreme sport videos on youtube is almost too compelling to me. I have to turn it off because it feels addictive.

The trades are underpaid. If you have other options why would you tear your body up so people can get services "at a resonable price"? Think about how people in the trades feel seeing people who work from home make multiples of their pay.

People may say they want kids but their actions say another thing. I always get a chuckle out of seeing right wing people talking confidently about how they could increase birth rates.

Explain- is it funny because right wing people are not increasing the birth rate?

Well a bunch of men proposing that they have a solution to make women have babies is ridiculous on its face. And decreased birth rates are a worldwide phenomenon cutting across all different types of societies, economies, and races. I think it's pretty clear that right wing droid #3491 does not have a solution to decreased birth rates.

Who's right wing droid?

Some sort of lightweight material/string that gets caught up in the blades might work. Use it in flak guns and have it float down to the earth saturating the airspace. You could also use it in a barrage balloon manner.

Nets are also a good idea, there has to be a way to physically deny the drones from airspace.

I don't buy the survivorship bias thing for the most part. My mother has her original dryer, washer, deep freezer, and refrigerator all running at her house. These are all 40+ years old except for the washer which is probably 30ish years old. Also her furnace + water heater are 40 years old. If it was survivorship bias some of these appliances would've died.

Are you saying that none of their original appliances have died?

If not, do you realize that you claiming " If it was survivorship bias some of these appliances would've died." When "these" refers exclusively to those who haven't died is the very definition of survivorship bias?

I think he's saying Mom would have definitely remembered if she had had to replace every darn appliance in her house every 2-5 years, the way we do now, before eventually lucking out to find the one good washer, dryer, dishwasher, etc. made in their respective years.

I think a washer died around 35 years ago and her current washer is 35 years old. It seems improbable that so many 40+ year old appliances survived in one home if reliability rates or ease of repair were not significantly better in the past.

You're completely right. Things also usually had a warranty longer than the nearly-universal 365-day warranty they have now. It's utterly disgusting to me that you can purchase a refrigerator -- an item which weighs like 800 pounds, has a huge amount of metal in it, and which everyone would agree would be insane to be a yearly purchase, and yet if it needs even an average repair 13 months from purchase, it can easily cost more to fix than the replacement cost and thus be totaled.

In my opinion, any device whose manufacture requires an amount of resources approaching "large appliance" levels should be required to have a 10-year parts and labor warranty. I don't care if that makes them cost more. I hope it makes them cost more. It's insane the way it is.

n = 1 is not a great sample size for analyzing long-term trends with multiple factors (purchase price, maintenance/treatment of applicances, environment, etc)

I mean, what did your mother pay at that time?, because there was plenty of appliances from back then that were total crap too.

They're name brand appliances, kenmore and whirlpool while the deep freezer is a revco. They don't look like top of the line models, probably just whatever was mid grade at the time. I thought about telling her to throw them away due to power usage but used a kill-a-watt to determine it wasn't worth it. I think the fridge and freezer each cost around $25/year to run.

my version of ..

  function ..() {
    local temp_dir=$PWD
    cd ..
    for token in "$@"; do
      cd ..
    done
    OLDPWD=$temp_dir
  }

so you can just type .. to go up once or .. [word] to go up twice and so on

That seems potentially unpredictable versus building the string and calling cd once. For example, if you use direnv-type tools there may be side-effects along the route¹. zsh users could have state changing via the chpwd functions too, although that could be mitigated with "cd -q" at least.

Obviously, it might not be an issue for your use, but just noting a potential gotcha if I were to lift it for example.

[ Golf-y zsh, because vacation time and AoC has finished: ..() { cd ../${(pj:/:)${@/*/..}} } ]

¹ even just expensive setup/teardown delays would feel odd*