No. A picture of me and my father from when we were kids should dispell any such suspicions.

I usually say "If your job was fun they would charge admission instead of paying you. "

Predictions are hard, especially about the future.

You don’t say exactly what you want to predict so it’s hard to say exactly what you need to learn. The link returns an error to me.

If you want to predict the next economic crash you’ll have to study a lot of economics. If you want to predict the next pandemic you’ll have to study medicine etc. Years of study no matter what.

Once you know a lot about a topic you have to put a ton of effort into study current events and still be wrong a lot of the time.

Phrasing conspiracy theories as a questions does not make them a questions, stupid or not.

Troll grade: C-.

When you don’t intend to kill rubber bullets are still very dangerous.

If you have to kill (armed and attacking) they are not dangerous enough.

Then you have the issue of less than lethal weapons having a much lower threshold for when they are used and then accidentally killing or maiming someone.

You’re not supposed to be insecure about it.

You can be honest , you can joke about it. I’d probably just tell them it’s so boringly average, I measure every day and compare to the wikipedia article on penis size.

The only reason I put pants on is because it’s be arrested otherwise.

That being said, comfortable has priority over good looking and I don’t think I’ve ever had a compliment on how I dress since grandma saw me in a suit when I graduated 20 something years ago.

Because when you make the console you get to charge anyone who wants to publish a game for it anything you like. Microsoft made money on every pc sold with windows, but not every game sold for PC.

Same reason EA, UBIsoft and every other big publisher tried to launch their own Steam competitor. To ideally make money from someone else selling their game on their shop, but worst case just to be able to make negotiate a better deal from Valve.

Living somewhere where the healthcare is not free but heavily subsidised people do not go to the doctor for minor issues because when I tried to call and book an appointment I got an answering machine telling me that they don’t have time to answer the phone today, try again tomorrow. And of course the online booking did not work.

So that they don’t run, hide or destroy evidence.

In case of a country at war you need a lot more than a boycott.

Because it takes quite a lot of effort to eat a huge amount of sugar in the form on fruits and berries. They also have some vitamins, fibers and other stuff in them too.

There are plenty of small companies that don’t grow. Think mom and pop shops and self employed tradesmen.

I’ve you get a bit bigger and you’ve already got the hassle of employing lots of people in multiple places you can’t really balance it to be neutral, you will grow or shrink and it’s a lot more pleasant to grow than shrink.

Their spending is someone else’s income that is then taxed that is then spent that is then taxed.

Responsibly used some government debt is good. It helps growing the wealth of it’s people both now and in the future.

Irresponsibly used it’s a headache for the next generation.

Pretty much the same as any other bubble. Everyone knows its a bubble but putting a million into a 1% chance to make a billion makes sense for anyone who can afford it.

AI will probably be useful for something. Noone knows exactly what so there is a huge amount of risk taking.

I’m not old enough to remember the sentiment during the dotcom bubble but it seemed more optimistic.

You would not want to use AI anywhere it matters. Only in places where it does not matter if you get it right the first, second or even the third time, like customer support.

I mostly listen to music when I’m driving and 4G connection is spotty as soon as you’re outside of town, so I’m still copying the files around. If spotify pisses me off I’ll probably make a media player that syncs mp3s over a vpn. If there is not one already.

I used to move around a huge library of mp3s. I just can’t be bothered anymore and spotify does a reasonable job for a reasonable price.

If only could easily access most movies and TV with one subscription. But anyway this was about music.

Price has gone up 30% in 10 years or whatever since I started. But then so has every fucking thing else.

You battery operated trilobite would not recognise an offensive sentence if I typed it at you!

A mediocre engineer makes more than a mediocre artist.

If you are good at any STEM and any creative profession you should pick STEM.