Counterpont: I have been and endeavor to be again a farmer

Having worked in technology for a quarter century I do not have the rosy view of it that you do.

I’ve played enough Factorio to know how long it takes to get production back on track when an important oil field is taken offline.

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Okay, let’s assume it’s 10-1. How many other people, in a perfectly efficient system, would it take to provide a decent quality of life for that caretaker and the 10 elderly people? Growing and transporting food, building and maintaining infrastructure, researching and providing medical care, producing electricity and clean water. Nothing extra.

And how many people to support these people.

Probably more than we’d have available to work.

There’s a reason China started taxing condoms.

I don’t think most jobs need doing. I don’t want any jobs at all period.

But if you have four old people who need four workers to care for them and there’s only one worker to go around no amount of firing social media managers and insurance adjusters is gonna fix it.

This isn’t an economic problem, it’s a demographic one. Which is why it’s a problem across the world and not just in capitalist nations. (And is in fact worst in China due to the effects of the one child policy.)

And Geena Davis was always cast as a sort of girl next door and to be the badass she was really showed her range.

Even without capitalism the math doesn’t math.

If there’s only one working person for every four old people, and those four old people each need one or two caretakers a piece then there’s not enough workers to go around.

And that doesn’t count every other job in society that needs done to support the caretakers, like growing food and fixing toilets.

Long Kiss Goodnight is a criminally overlooked movie

Kitchenaid Whiskey Jones is an awesome name

Do you want ATC to tell planes to do a barrel roll?

Best way to handle a replicator is a semi-auto shotgun

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Reminds me a lot of SimAnt

We can’t launch anything very big, and things that are constantly spinning are hard to engineer for 100% reliability especially if you have to assemble them in orbit.

And since we can’t launch anything very big anyway, it would make sense to maximize interior space. Leaving two sides of the craft basically unusable as a floor and ceiling reduces available surfaces in a space by 1/3.

Not to mention the coriolis effect wreaking havoc on your inner ear.

And also spend a lot of time just chillin

Which is why every one of them supported making sex work legal so they have those protections.

curl ifconfig.me

Not sure about Linux, but on a Mac you can put it on your clipboard with

curl ifconfig.me | pbcopy