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Counter point: the (super) yacht industry employs a huge number of skilled workers who take immense pride in their craft (pun intended).

this is principally why banking exists at all, farmers needed to borrow against a harvest that hadn't yet been planted.

I'd suggest some controls or limits to it, but the lenders assume the risk ( except for all the times the public has had to bail them out) and they're grown up corporations who can decide for themselves.

I should add, that the money they borrow does get taxed when it is spent on the indulgences you make reference to.

Writer doesn't appear to know the difference between income and wealth.

Every year there are fewer povvos in the world, and we're just getting started.

Tax on wealth - or in reality tax on unrealised gains is absurd, it's a tax on a cat in a box.

Printable does not mean it will be printed, if a page is printable one can assume the creator hasn't fucked with the scroll wheel for example, or forced you to sit through unnecessary animations.

I think you can generate html from latex, I use latex for my CV and render it as a pdf for circulation.

I had a quick browse and found some mispronunciations on there.

my kids have a personal music/story player (Yoto portable for those curious, it can be loaded with your own recordings if the cost of the licenced cards is too much).

The big one (5) has a camera, we also play guessing games (like the classic "animal, vegetable, or mineral" but usually specific to their interests such as animal, instrument, etc).

They both like books and will sit with them for upto an hour uninterrupted despite the younger one's inability to read.

After that, a switch, or a heavily curated selection of videos might be available.

I think screens are fine in moderation, almost all parents do it, but it's far from the only option.

look, look! A millenial father observing bird species in an effort to stave off cognitive decline, rarely seen away from his burrow and demanding offspring, we can see from its markings that this one was once a hipster, note the foliage pattern about it's left radiocarpal.

I think for a Bonneville record the wheels have to be in contact with the ground.

have you ever sat in one?

I would say the quality might be high for an american car but here in europe it's absolute dogshit tier.

if I could have macos on an ipad pro I'd stop using my macbook forever, it would be the perfect device, until then it's just a big phone, and since I replaced my iphone with a watch I don't need either pad or phone.

I suppose the very reason why we haven't seen ads yet is that they're trying to figure out how to prevent exactly this.

most people's exposure to philosophical concepts is through narrative abstraction, you may be an exception but if you want to interact with laypeople this is inevitably going to be your experience.