After one season of bee keeping I concluded the same thing. Its horrifying how poorly bees are treated in this industry to control parasites (forced exposure to acidic gas) I sold my hives and will probably never buy honey again, much in the same way I avoid factory farmed meat.

Your job will disappear even faster with your head that deep in the sand. At least learning the new tools you can carve out a new role/career for yourself.

Meh, I haven't worked in software in years, so I'm fine.

Famous last words?

but Social media companies suppress human curation in favor of their algorithmic recommendations; while human curation doesn't scale as a business model, it still competes for attention—and is thus marginalized.

you're right. Now delete that app!

Vegas is fun, but not fun enough to justify having to worry about this stuff. My days of visiting the USA are over.

Good thing you werent about to fall off the route! The older i grow the more I've come to realize that its not uncommon for people to lack awareness about risk and consequences. These days it takes me many outings with a climber partner to truly trust them. This is why it always blows my mind when i see people going out on multi pitch climbs with people they've never climbed with before.

highly agree. after using a cone anything else seems haphazard and cruel.

that was enjoyable, but someone anxiety inducing :) reminded me of ProZD's take on TCGs: https://youtu.be/EBIsZlV1jHk

that's the thing about resetting to default settings... sometimes your custom preferences were useful and they'll some time to reconfigure

Not only ugly, but unstable and sketchy. I wouldn't go near that wall.