jiveturkey42

Does your culture not talk about your ancestors choices and successes, and extrapolate that your current choices affect your great-great-[etc]-grandchildren?

Sexual selection and reproduction has always been a competition, both in nature and in humans. Choosing not to play is an option, but your genes won't continue

Have any anthropologists studied the Darwinian logic of choosing marginal comfort increases over reproducing?

You could proxy a measurement of "amount of globalization" by disruptions in global shipping of food, energy, manufactured goods, etc. Covid caused disruptions, Houthi attacks in the Suez Canal disrupted shipping, Panama Canal is facing issues with water due to drought.. US continues to withdraw from Naval security commitments from the Bretton Woods era

Physical goods are much more complicated to move around the globe than code

There needs to be a term for when a replier thinks they're doing clever one-upsmanship, but everyone else sees it as unpleasant misanthropy

> makes a banter

> gets a pedantic reply

were you also trained on reddit?

AI is about to become really sarcastic, pedantic, and absurdly moralistic

So much wasted energy from the source of generation to the EV motor.. Diesel engines are optimized for towing

Same reason I stopped buying Apple products - they shoved U2 into my iTunes library

There's a major resurgence in US manufacturing jobs now and for the foreseeable future. These are mostly in rural or small town areas, with low COL. Pay is anywhere from $18 - $40 an hour for high school graduates. Lots of investment is pouring into previously impoverished areas.

If you are not a professional in a large city, life is pretty comfy right now.

I thought the point was to generate enough electricity to sustain civilization