You can’t make people like you, but you have a right to demand respect.

I worked a job where I shared a space with another worker. They worked the shift ahead of me. Because I was brand new they thought it would be fun to leave the area a mess. I took all the garbage and put it in their company mailbox. I told them that if they left their personal stuff out I’d be nice and return it to them.

They eventually got the idea.

Ever heard the phrase “Life on life’s terms”?

Unless you’re willing and able to create your own company and control who you employ, you’re goign to be dealing with people.

If someone tells you to do their job, tell them ‘no.’

If the supervisor tells you to do it, tell the supervisor that you can’t handle more responsibilities because you’re at your limit.

You have to stand up for yourself.

https://www.eyaslondon.com/guides-articles/how-children-learn-colours#:~:text=During the first few months of life%2C babies,are easier for their developing eyes to see.

I see no advantage to students using AI and many problems.

Unless and until I see an advantage to a new tech, I hold my reserve. Obviously, a typewriter will give you better copy than a quill pen, and a word processor beats both.

But all three of those require the writer to come up with their own ideas.

And at the time it was true.

If all the knowledge you have in your society can be memorized and recited, writing it down means it can be changed.

On the other hand, if you have a society where you know of that there are over 500,000 types of beetles, it might be a better idea to come up with a way to record that information without memorization.

Just because an idea is new/old doesn’t mean it’s good/bad.

Things have to be judged on their own merits.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/06/wait-what-new-research-says-internet-use-is-killing-your-memory/#:~:text=That’s the main takeaway from new research by,technologyso ubiquitous that opting out is nearly unimaginable.

Such men are dangerous!

I know that I learn better when I write things down on paper.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-learning-secret-don-t-take-notes-with-a-laptop/

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/06/wait-what-new-research-says-internet-use-is-killing-your-memory/#:~:text=That’s the main takeaway from new research by,technologyso ubiquitous that opting out is nearly unimaginable.

It’s too bad you didn’t get to post that on Juneteenth.

By that logic, we shouldn’t have to teach kids to walk, because they’ll be able to strap on an exoskeleton or sit in a floating chair. Heck, we will be able to make Dune style suits and never have to teach them to control their poopage.

There’s no growth without struggle.

The Reagan tax cuts were manna from heaven for the top 10%. That, plus his deregulation, meant that people who would never actually produce anything could become wealthy. Why have a system that rewards investment and innovation?

If he doesn’t want it, someone else there will.

You know that nuclear power plant up the road? They just had a big accident, we don’t know exactly what’s going on, and at least one person is already dead from radiation. But it’s fine, and you shouldn’t worry or leave the area.

“No evacuation.” Have you ever actually talked to people?

You know that nuclear power plant up the road? They just had a big accident, we don’t know exactly what’s going on, and at least one person is already dead from radiation. But it’s fine, and you shouldn’t worry or leave the area.

So we agree, airships and nukes are both outmoded, old tech.

also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disaster_casualties

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster

So, essentially, nuclear power is like airships, except with worse disasters?

Micheal Cohen did the same thing and he did 18 months out of a three year sentence.