I’m going to take a risk and say you write faster than you type

Even my 80 year old mother in law can type faster than she writes. Come on.

Why are you being so wordy!

“Aaappom. BU and now you need TK to understand WTH someone is TA.”

But the weirdness isn’t that Harris lost by not saying she would stop the genocide. It is that Trump win by promising genocide.

I only meant to point out that one weirdness.

But “the economy is bad” was another.

“Don’t vote for Biden because the economy is bad now. Let Trump win because the economy was worse than when Trump was last president.”

I agree except the reason they are making $150k is because they aren’t living someplace cheaper. Move to cheap rural and there’s no job. Companies are forcing back to office even when it makes no sense.

Biden refusing to take action regarding Gaza, the election was forfeited in 2023.

Which is bizarre because Trump promised the extermination of all Palestinians.

“Don’t vote for Biden because he won’t stop genocide. Let Trump win because he promised to help genocide.”

Where did he get them???

It was only car enthusiasts, and more specifically motorheads, that has those skills. Did more older folks know how to work on their cars then today’s youths? Likely

Yes and you are a techie surrounded by techies. You didn’t see the millions your own age who used computers in the 80’s and 90’s without ever understanding them. I ran a mid sized ISP in the mid and late 90’s which meant training and supporting the help desk staff to handle the phone calls. I’m very aware of how stupid the average Millenial was about technology. I hired many smart kids. But they were rare. My company had a relationship with a private school where we’d get some high school students to work at my ISP and it counted as their “computer class”. There were maybe two kids per class of 100 students each year that knew how a computer worked rather than just how to click the buttons on their Mac or Windows.

There were more computer techies in the 90’s. There were more motorheads in the 50’s. Computers are more complicated now such that even an average techy can’t modify an iPad just like an average person can’t fix a car today because of its encapsulation of complications.

Your much older brother is an anomaly. There are exactly 0 people that I know that are 50+ years old that would know anything about fixing a TV.

Wrong generation. I’m 50+ (Gen X) and have no idea about how to fix a TV at the component level. Because I grew up with TV’s everywhere like kids today grow up with iphones everywhere.

TV repair was a thing. Radio shack and even Woolworths (Walmart of the 1950’s) had a tube tester so that people could walk in with the tube from their TV and test it without paying for professional repair.

Average people knew more about repairing TV’s than today!

Again, it’s not “everyone”. It’s the techies of each generation. It’s the same subset of the population that has the interest and skills to understand things. The only thing that changes is the popular technology that the techies focus on.

The studies are on all forms of Computer Technology, not car transmission or TV repair.

The people that built the home computer and the Internet were all Boomers! Woz is a boomer. Vint Cerf is a boomer.

My brain had to bridge the gap between two different worlds.

As did past generations with new technologies. No car- cars everywhere. That generation could rebuild a transmission whereas it’s a mystery box you have a specialist fix for you.

No TV, TV everywhere, tubes in tvs, then transistors. My much older brother in law can identify and fix any TV at the component level. Like identifying a bad capacitor and not only replacing it but understanding the circuit to know that a larger ufarad capacitor will not only work in that part of the circuit, but prevent a future problem.

I suspect that like me, your TV repair knowledge ends at matching cables on the back to ports and replacing batteries.

I really like that he included social costs but he used Present Value calculations to get that high private cost number- which is lowkey bullshit. Because it assumes you will use every Euro saved to invest money in the stock market and make consistent good returns on your money.

So it’s not that the private cost is that high it’s that if you saved money and the stock market is consistently good you’d have more money at the end of 50 years. The reason that’s bullshit is that same present value calculation makes solar or almost any purchase look bad.

He should have focused on the social costs. That’s real.

Mozart was a sex crazed party boy. He liked fancy clothes and dancing.

yhe power or water bill pointed at your name and residence

Many people live in cities without owning their house. So they never see those bills. Renters are usually two levels away from the actual owner. Then there are all the people who live and work in cities but aren’t official renters.

That quickly becomes a tragedy of the commons. The city residents pay for it but how do you verify “citizenship”?

Oh sure, it was crazy. But the sentiment behind it was good. It’s like how Howard Dean got dunked on for his scream.

It’s weird how MS’s putting developers first became a joke. Back in the 80’s, companies like HP and IBM had open warehouses with coders at desks lined up like factory workers. MS was the first big company to give a private office to every programmer.