collias

Can you expound on this? First I'm hearing of it, and I can't find anything about former CIA helping to organize.

Taxing the rich is not going to solve any of this. It may help some, but it's nothing like the panacea certain people pretend it is.

If we took all the assets from all the billionaires in the US, that total is something like $6-7 trillion if we pretend there's no asset price decrease in the selling of said assets.

Sounds like a lot, but we're nearly $40 trillion in debt. Taxing the rich heavily won't solve a spending problem.

The federal government specifically, and the admin class in general was a lot smaller during our parents' era.

I'm totally on board with a gaming-focused distro from Valve. I'll switch the second they get proper Nvidia GPU support. So far, no luck with that.

But water doesn't make me as happy.

Logic Pro does this. Even GarageBand (free if you have an Apple device) has pretty decent AI drummers.

I find this to be profoundly depressing.

I've just recently re-discovered the joy of writing my own songs, and playing them with (actual) instruments. It's something I get immense pleasure from, and for once, I'm actually getting some earned traction. In another life, I may have been a musician, and it's something I fantasize about regularly.

With all these AI-generated music tools, the world is about to be flooded with a ton of low-effort, low-quality music. It's going to to absolutely drown out anyone trying to make music honestly, and kill budding musicians in their crib.

I suppose this is the same existential crisis that other professions/skills are also going through now. The feeling of a loss of purpose, or a loss of a fantasy in learning a new skill and switching careers, is pretty devastating.

Why not both?

Stunningly beautiful write up, Lars. You have an amazing gift.

God bless you and your family.

To be fair, I'm not sure choosing electric over gasoline cars at that time would have much effect on our current climate situation, assuming equal timelines for renewable tech.

All those cars would have needed electricity from somewhere, and at the time, gasoline and coal were pretty cheap ways to generate it.

The more worrying thing here is the "circulate" part. Meaning that the lipid packages containing the mRNA sequences are traveling throughout the body, instead of staying at the injection site.

How are they getting these cars? They only offer Teslas, and ordering a (new) Tesla right now puts you at least 6 months out from delivery.