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I agree with literally everyone here that this is not normal aging and stimulants are not the solution.

How many 31 year olds do you know that had to start taking adderall to stay awake after sleeping 10 hours?

That's not true.

It can feel that way when you think as shares as numbers on a computer but they represent a share in the ownership of a country and presumably that ownership is actually worth something.

If no one wants to invest because of the vibe, then you can buy the shares for a bargain.

Maybe it's a bit like buying a house where someone was murdered. If you don't care about the vibe then the reduced demand means you can get a bargain.

You can argue the shares are grossly overvalued, and that may be true, but my point is that shares have an intrinsic value and if demand reduces it increases the appeal to other investors.

Nah.

The more people divest the more appealing these investments are.

I reject the premise that you can determine someone's mood from their behavior.

Additionally, for someone who is actually depressed, having a device monitor you and prompt you with a tailored workout sounds like torture.

If your system is secure, updating it can only make it insecure.

This "logic" overlooks a number of issues.

Firstly, no system is "secure", only more so or less so given a specific threat model.

Secondly, a system can become less secure without any changes, as exploits are discovered.

I remember when starlink first became available here and had better speed than you could get with terrestrial services. 5 minutes research showed network bandwidth would be a problem once they had significant adoption. Lo and behold...

Dad here.

I generally struggle with this type of event so it's great to go explore with the kids and have an excuse for not mingling.

It doesn't really matter that the room is boring or liminal or whatever. Exploring is grade-A entertainment for toddlers. There's guaranteed to be a dropped paperclip or pen cap or some other treasure in here somewhere.

I don't think the job cuts and re-allocations are managers deciding that teams can be replaced by AI. It's the company re-allocating resources to try to develop AI, because acquiring VC and the staff for that is challenging so they redirect it from other parts of their business.

I think that, to the surprise of no one who actually works for a living, they have encountered the ceiling of generative AI abilities (although it's not implemented in a public facing app yet), and they know it's never going to be more than an incremental boost to productivity.

I think theyre still popular on Usenet.

IDK all the history but rar has built in ability to create recovery data / parity volumes.

Parity data is like additional data that can help reconstruct any degradation.

That said, usually a standalone parity generator is used which can work with other types of archives, but rar is what everyone uses so why change.

Compression algos are ineffective on encoded / compressed media anyway.

It used to be important on Usenet, and maybe still is, because if a drive starts to fail somewhere and contains errors those errors can be reproduced across the network. Not sure if thats still a thing or why but certainly 10 years ago it was.

The summary to this rambling comment is: some communities still like rar because its what they've always used and there's no benefit to adopting 7z.

Thats kinda of how the free license works though. Yes loads of people use it without paying but theyre free advertising.

You're right about some things but theres a few misconceptions here.

Farming is not back breaking work. Unless you grow a crop of potatoes or strawberries and try to harvest them yourself.

Here with a not-very-big farm you could grow hay to sell as fodder. Thats a few days on a tractor to seed then a few days on a tractor to cut and wrap.

You could also just lease the land to another farmer for them to run their livestock.

On a farm any larger than a few house blocks you e got a huge asset that kind of cant avoid producing value in some way.

The other aspect of retirement is that the objective usually is to avoid spending money rather than making money. You're right that growing a few of your own herbs is not going to save much money.

If youve got room and time then growing most of your own food doesn't really require "homesteading". Get a cow butchered, give half to the neighbour, that and eggs and chickens can be your protein for 6 months, then the neighbour gives you half their cow and so on.

The keys are time, area, and rural contacts. Yes you wont have the latest gadgets - you'd have e to pay for those from your pension - but the lifestyle is very survivable.