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• Buckaroo Banzai

Microsoft is in it for the money. I think they’d rather get $30 a year every year than get $30 one time from a PC manufacturer who bundled Windows.

They’re still supporting regular Win 10 but will start charging $30 a year for patches.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/whats-new/extended-security-updates

There are 2x as many Blacks in prison in the US as Uyghurs in China. But we don’t call it genocide just like we call our rich Billionaires instead of oligarchs. At least for now we can make fun of Trump without being arrested. But I don’t know how much longer that will last.

Tell it to the American Blacks in prison. Glass houses. We’re all bad.

America has a greater percentage of Americans locked up than China has Uyghurs locked up and we don’t have a Thorium reactor either.

Ha! I have mechanical keyboards subbed and split keyboards subbed. Didn’t know of ergomechkeyboards. Thanks!

Yeah, you can swap more on a framework laptop than the mini PC he’s using.

However glasses, a mini PC, keyboard and battery is smaller than a laptop. Using whatever keyboard you want instead of what came with the laptop for forever is also nice.

It’s not only a picture. It’s a picture with a description. It’s the starting point. You don’t start a painting by going from blank canvas to finished product. You start with a sketch.

The 6 kids on average for South Korea in the 1950’s was from the Kurzgesagt video originally posted.

2 parents caring for 6 kids and 4 grandparents equals 10 dependents.

2 parents caring for 4 grandparents and 1 kid equals 5 dependents.

I do both. I have a mother in law in a retirement center. I have 2 kids.

How many kids do you have?

Until then they require less resources than a child. They don’t need $15k a year in public resources for schooling.

Don’t even try to tell me that an elderly person’s regular living expenses — food, housing, utilities, etc. — averages out to less than $15,900/year.

That $15k/year is just for school. You think a child doesn’t also need food/housing/utilities?

Korea used to have 2 workers and 10 dependents. Now its 2 workers and 7 dependents. There are literally more workers per dependent. There’s no bubble that will pop.

Seniors had care when there were less resources because families had 6 kids to raise. I showed that because children take up more resources than elderly that they not only wouldn’t rot, but would have more care because the resources that went to children would go to them.

We literally don’t have the workers to care for the elderly AND run society.

Yet we can have the resources to raise kids that cost even more? That makes no sense.

Until a senior citizen needs to have nursing home care, they are independent. In-home care is far cheaper. They don’t need the costs of 6 hours a day of schooling which cost $15k per child in taxes to pay for the teachers and infrastructure. (That $15k/year isn’t part of the $350k cost quoted earlier because it’s covered by taxes.)

https://educationdata.org/public-education-spending-statistics

You aren’t making 3 meals a day for them because they do it themselves. You aren’t paying for day care- until it’s nursing home or in home care time. In many cases the elderly are providing the day care for children.

Cost to raise 1 child is $350k including college.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-much-does-it-cost-to-raise-a-child-240000/

https://educationdata.org/average-cost-of-college

Average nursing home cost is $120k/yr and people live on average 2 years in a nursing home.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2945440/

2 parents working

6 kids = $2.1m 4 grandparents = $960k

Now imagine if ip laws were removed. Any company could take open source work and sell it as their own while ignoring any GPL that requires the source code to be distributed.

Mass production started long before cars. The industrial revolution began in the 17th century. Interchangeable parts was invented by Eli Whitney. He showed a flint lock that could be assembled by anyone, instead of a skilled metal worker that needed to customize each part so they fit together perfectly.

https://study.com/learn/lesson/eli-whitney-interchangeable-parts-overview-history-importance.html#%3A~%3Atext=While+historians+do+not+credit%2Cparts+replaced+by+unskilled+workers.

Outside of art, machine made parts are far more perfect than hand crafted.