I feel like it’s worth pointing out, whenever this comes up and there are immediately detractors, that there are already other jobs with mandatory retirement ages. For instance the air traffic controllers who aren’t being paid right now are required to retire at 56 with some exceptions, and many have the option to retire earlier.

I mean… looking at people like Neil deGrasse Tyson, you don’t need to be super rich for people to give your intelligence too much credit.

Oof, I am also a UI/UX and middleware person. I am going on 13 months of unemployment. The job market is nonexistent right now. I’ve started looking at a career change, even though I still have 60K in student loans.

This is a problem that trickled out of some other vocations. The general consensus in my line of work for the better part of 15 years has been if you want a raise find a new job. It’s been really weird that places don’t want to keep institutional knowledge or are apparently willing to pay more for fresh faces.

Yeah, the lunar lander was only just able to land on the Moon and then ascend back to the command module. To this day we still don’t have the technology to land something on Mars and then have that same thing ascend from Mars. We only recently mastered controlled descent after the ascent on Earth, now imagine trying to do it the other way around without refueling.

Any current human Mars mission would require sending the ascent vehicle to Mars autonomously with some sort of autonomous construction capability, or something like Starship being capable of doing on Mars what it is supposed to be capable of doing on the Moon soon. Which isn’t very likely, considering Mars is quite literally 100% bigger than the Moon.

When they sent the most recent Rover, they gave it the capability to collect and leave behind samples in sealed containers. The idea being that they would make a mission that would go get them later. It’s been over 10 years since the Mars 2020 mission was given the green light and the sample return mission has recently been all but canceled due to lack of feasibility and funding.

Quite a bit of the world is locked into similar IP law due to various trading partnerships with western nations. A notable recent example is the, now defunct, Trans-Pacific Partnership.

It felt so weird when Tim Walz was lauded as a “gift to progressives” when he was running on a platform of “kids deserve food”.

I wish edibles had any effect on me. Both my SO and I get nothing off homemade or store bought.

We once made some peanut butter cookies from a High Times recipe that we thought we made wrong, my mother tried one and was out of it for the rest of the day.

I think you are forgetting the other reason Valve cornered the market;

“One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It’s a service issue… The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates.”

Gabe Newell, CEO Valve - Speaking at the Washington Technology Industry Association’s (WTIA) Tech NW Conference.