Well if you allowed one more year, I really feel that stopping the Columbine shooting would have an exponential improvement on the quality of the timeline.

Yeah, you could probably make a linux distro that uses nuget for packaging… Hadn’t really thought about it but it should be doable.

Maybe spend some time investigating how to make nuget packages and then move onto deb or rpm. That way you’ll have a better idea of the problems that you’ll face in making your own. Personally whenever I feel the need for some kind of package manager, nuget is flexible enough that I can repurpose it to almost anything.

Corporations can be people, but their lifetimes have to be tied to the average lifespan of the citizens. So every 80 years or so it has to die and pass it’s holdings onto a child corp. Also a reversed lottery where a statistically equivalent amount of corporations get statistically equivalent diseases to the American population. Your state has a statistically higher level of cancer due to industrial waste, the local corporations have a statistically higher chance of just ceasing to exist. The accountants and lawyers would effectively work around it, but at least it might make a corp think twice before introducing the all new deep fried stick of butter sandwich with fentanyl.

I love folklore.org. A long time ago when I was a lowly junior engineer, I read that story about Burrelll Smith and the mustache. So I grew a beard and got a promotion and raise the next week. Had a beard ever since.

Depressed drunken noodles… Sigh.

So Terry Davis was right… I guess. Who’s going to put an AI into TempleOS to honor him?

Yeah, that’s part of it. But there is something more fundamental, it’s not just rising up the ranks but also time spent in management. It feels like someone can get promoted to middle management and be good at the job initially, but then as the job is more about telling others what to do and filtering data up the corporate structure there’s a certain amount of brain rot that sets in.

I had just attributed it to age, but this could also be a factor. I’m not sure it’s enough to warrant studies, but it’s interesting to me that just the act of managing work done by others could contribute to mental decline.

Does this also explain what happens with middle and upper management? As people have moved up the ranks during the course of their careers, I swear they get dumber.

Joseph Smith enters the chat…

Mormons believe that the Native Americans are tribes of Isreal. Swap Mike Johnson for Mike Lee, problem solved. I hate that he’s my Senator.

Well it used to be that rich people preferred to have porcelain white skin, because the poor had to be outside to work. Then the poor started working indoors, so now the rich prefer to be tanned.

Art tastes will change similarly. Art with obvious imperfections will be considered better. Actual paintings with large obvious, textured brush strokes. Books and poems printed on rough hand made paper. Maybe even hand lettered. Things that were obviously done by a skilled craftsman, but would be difficult to do with machines and Ai.

Think the neovictorians from Neal Stephensons The Diamond Age.

That was well thought out. Thanks for sharing

Well I’m not crazy about how some cultures make a habit of staying up until 2am blasting Ranchero music on the weekends. I just want to sleep, is that too much to ask?

But that’s not grounds for dehumanizing them and shipping them off to alligator camps.

Thanks

What about scams you’re born into, but stayed in waaaay to long? If so Mormonism and the Republican party.

What’s wrong with unraid?

Idk I kind of liked Uru. Love me some Peter Gabriel.

Did you read the books? They’re not bad.

Myst, I wanted to write books that linked to worlds. Figured the closest thing was programming.

Civilization 1, patients, economics, frustration.

Doom, was just a shit ton of fun and got me into networking so we could play against each other.

Yeah, I lucked out and got my dad’s “who the fuck are you to tell me who I am?” genes. So I rebelled by succeeding. And then scored another huge lucky win by bumping into my wife at a party and then working on her for 3 years to finally admit that she loved me. Those kids are going to have amazing lives and it’s 99 percent their mom being fantastic.