So glad that I’m not the only one who went there.

Apparently something to do with how stairwells are placed.

New Zealand seems to be just fine too.

Wow you’re lucky! One of the few countries that treat people well.

Agreed. Few geniuses, it’s mostly driven people with slightly above average intelligence and a good bit of opportunity.

I work in service design and delivery. It’s my job to understand how devices actually function and interact. Can confirm that dev types can learn the stuff if they want to but most have not. Knowing how to set up your fancy computer with all the IDEs in the world is great but not the same as doing that for 5,000 people at once.

Don’t underestimate what having the necessary intuitions do engage with mathematics does for you. A significant portion of the population is incapable of that, mostly because we have a very poor way of teaching it as a subject.

I think that non-tech people think that tech just goes. Like you pull it out of a box and turn it on and it just works. They have no idea how much jenk is in everything and how much jenk was eradicated before a user came went anywhere near.

You should feel sorry for the Gen Xers. Think of how hard it is to deal with Boomers now. Now imagine being a teenager and having your thirty- to forty-something Boomer parents completely crush you over their political beliefs.

Well that became apparent when people started calling Biden a Boomer over student loans or whatever at the time. He’s older than Boomers.

This is me. I have younger siblings who are fully Millenial and one becomes actually offended if you say it. He hates millenials and was basically born a boomer. I have learned that age is biological but becoming old is psychological.

The youngest are roughly 45 or so and the oldest close to 60.

What about Gen X? Seriously, there’s an entire generation in the middle there.

The problem was never the drugs. The problem was always the black market. Hateful politicians prefer that your brother overdoses over fixing the system.

Yeah, that’s totally exactly what I was saying, thanks for being charitable in your interpretations.

People who do what I suggest are very interested and driven, and will pursue a career in these fields.

The people who really succeed are the ones so obsessed with tech that they wrote their first app at the age of 10 and were in the high school robotics club.

Honestly? The people who say “learn to code” as the solution to getting a better job. Only some people can do this.

Also the idea that tech “just works”. Have had freshly-minted CS/info types suddenly realize why the phrase “back away slowly” exists.

Both require a license and that license is revocable in both cases. It’s pretty much impossible to enforce the legal use of physical media, so they don’t. Rather, they go after those making copies.

If you ever want to REALLY own your media, make sure it is physical.