I’ve seen the same thing in some people over 60. The ones that don’t do this are the ones that continue to embrace new ideas, read, travel to experience other cultures, and learn/speak additional languages.
I don’t know if there is a magic formula to avoid the fate you’re describing. I’m doing what I’m seeing those that don’t fall into that trap do.
…and even those are likely pre-ElonSeigHeil purchases.
I’m not seeing a correlation only argument here. Where would there be correlation without causation with what I’ve posted?
The “give away” requires a request. I think Florida would simply like to look at everything private without having to ask.
Texas decided that it wasn’t going to be subject to that, so it refused to connect its power grid to those of other state
Your information was correct for a long time but is now out-of-date. Texas is connecting to the national grids.
“ERCOT Power Grid Set To Connect To U.S. Grid: What The $360M Project Means For Texas And The Southeast” source
I always thought the bigger miss of the common phrase is this: If “With great power comes great responsibility” then the converse must also be true “With NO POWER comes NO responsibility”. The level of responsibility must scale in direct proportion to the amount of power you have. If your boss is blaming you for something you have little to no control over, then it isn’t your responsibility, and you deserve no blame.
Your manager saying “You need to find someone to cover your shift” would then be bullshit. Unless you have the power to hire additional staff, allow for allowed time off for regular life events, or increase the pay of staff to make others more readily want to take the shift, I don’t see enough power for it to be your responsibility.
New Mexico grid scale solar projects about to rapidly increase, I guess.
I have no problem with the work these scientists are doing establishing the basic research and proving the principal works. Basic research is the foundation that leads to future large scale projects. However, at this time we are a long LONG way from any large scale practical application of this. The amount of power generated is very VERY small, and that assumes everything goes perfectly.
In a real rain storm dirt could easily block the tubes cutting off the effect and stopping power generation, as an example. This doesn’t mean the underlying principal is flawed, but more work will have to be done to make a practical application out of this, now proven, principal.
If you play chess, just make sure neither player’s pawn can reach the other end of the board. No one wants to clean up the board afterward.
“Hiddenday”
It would be a day locked away from everyone’s consciousness until the day’s arrival. You’d be expecting your normal 7 day week, and go to bed Sunday night. Then the day after Sunday you’d wake will full knowledge of Hiddenday and everything you’ve ever done on prior Hiddendays. You’d already have a plan and knowledge if you were choosing to go to work to earn extra money, if you’d be staying home resting just a bit more, or going out to spend time with friends or family. You’d go to sleep on Hiddenday night knowing you’d forget the specific details of what you did that day ( but that you’d have that knowledge back next Hiddenday in 7 days). You’d wake up Monday morning remembering yesterday was Sunday, but you’d have any knowledge you accumulated the hidden day prior. If you worked and are paid hourly, you’d see an extra 8 hours of pay on your payslip, and no one would ever question why there were more hours. You’d carry the same rested feeling you had going to sleep on Hiddenday night but not know exactly why. Your family would tell you how much they loved spending time with you this week, and you’d feel the same, but you couldn’t put your finger on exactly which day that happened.
We’d all go to work on Monday thinking how wonderful it would be if there was a 8th day.
Asimov, Clarke, Niven obviously.
For more modern authors:
Is this a conservative value? a good economy? do leftists not value a good economy?
The term “the economy” here is too broad. Under Biden, by most statistical measures, the economy at a national level was doing pretty well with back to back 20%+ increases in the stock market in the last 2 years. But that wasn’t what these voters were referring to. They were referring to their personal finances, their family’s economy. Even the bits about not liking immigrants was their misdiagnosis that immigrants were negatively affecting their family economy. They think that immigrant being present meant that their family’s economy was reduced. They think that any taxes levied on them unfairly reduce their family’s economy. They were being squeezed from all directions, lower pay & job insecurity, sky high housing costs (“the rent is too damn high!”), out of control undischargable student loan burdens, bottomless health insurance and health care costs, spiraling home insurance costs from floods/wildfires/hurricanes, and finally the price of eggs.
These voters thought that this was a broken economy, but that is a misdiagnosis. This is an issue of income inequality. Too much of the wealth of the prosperous nation is confined to a tiny fraction at the top. And this mass of voters ended up voting to make this problem worse.
And “Don’t Panic”.
Older movies, but these themes are central to both The Net and Enemy of the State.
Ignoring the one instance of branched time that I know of (the Kelvin timeline), assuming that the prime universe has a single dynamic timeline
What about the “mirror mirror” universe where the Federation never came to be and instead the Terran Empire arose?
There’s also time travel in the mirror universe where the USS Defiant (NCC-1764) as seen in ST:Dis (not the Defiant from DS9) was sent to the mirror universe, then also back in time to be found by Jonathan Archer of the prime universe ST:ENT when he was in the mirror universe.
That said, the fingernail thing isn’t a myth.
Oh I don’t think flip/foldables are impervious to a strong enough press from a fingernail, I’m just of the opinion that phones get beat and broken all the time. That a flip/foldable is susceptible to a different kind of damage isn’t a dealbreaker for me.
My apologies. The downvote was on my post in under 15 seconds after I posted it. I had assumed the only one that would see it would be the person alerted to it. I guess Lemmy is growing up there are downvoters waiting to pounce instantly! We’re graduating to the big leagues now!
Most of those are based upon non-English language references.
Or to put it another way, if you’re upset by these names, you should be equally upset with names like Starbucks, LA Fitness, or Del Taco.
Did you downvote me because I pointed out the latest research doesn’t agree with your position?
I agree with this.
If you’re using that line of thought, then I’ll also agree with you that there would be strong correlation with “no power equals no responsibility”, but I’m not sure how that fact is helpful or moves us forward in a line of thinking. When someone cites the argument of “correlation vs causation” usually means “we can’t tell if its actually causation. Its possible its just correlation”. Yet here we agree it is unambiguously causation. Your first sentence in this post encapsulate this perfectly.
“I understood it as power causes responsibility”. cause = causation
This is why I was confused with your citation of the “correlation vs causation” argument.