spauldo

Instead of Satanic rituals, it's improvisation and arithmetic.

You're listening to loud asshats and assuming they're the majority. They're not.

One day Wayland will reach a tipping point where it will replace X. Until then, most users will just stick with whatever their distro installs. Most people don't care one way or another.

As for me, I'm probably gonna to stick with X until I have no choice because I actually use the network features that Wayland isn't replacing. That doesn't mean I hate Wayland - I've never used it - it just means it's not the best software for me at this time. Most people never do anything with X that Wayland can't do and won't notice when it becomes the default.

Naw, we just buy ones where the lattice is diagonal.

In other words, we install X Windows.

People do tend to become more (small c) conservative as they grow older for a multitude of reasons. It makes sense - you've spent years accomplishing various goals and establishing a place for yourself. You've got more to lose, so you resist change.

But what I'm talking about is the loss of novelty. You stop caring about every new fad, every new piece of tech, every new movement. Life loses the magical quality it holds for the young. You focus more on the things you think are important, while the rest becomes background noise.

You don't really notice at first. Then one day you look up and everything is different. Young people are talking about stuff you've never heard of and doing things that seem silly and inconsequential. New ways of doing things become common, and you feel stupid because you haven't learned them. Instead of being more knowledgeable over time, you find yourself having to relearn new ways of doing things you mastered years ago.

Some people try their hardest to keep up, even though it's harder every year. Some people shrug and accept it, content to let the young find their own way. Some complain endlessly and try to fight against change, insisting that the way of life they've led is the only proper way to live.

This happens to almost everyone. There are a few who manage to hold on to that spark of curiosity and wonder into old age, but they're few and far between. You probably aren't one of them. I know I'm not.

So what kind of person will you become?

Sometimes I tell myself, "this is not my beautiful stapler!"

Ah, that's more what I expect. Of course, most of his readership will look at that top book and try to remember if Karl was the one with the horn that didn't talk.

Ben is losing his touch if he thinks his target audience knows what a "Maoist" is.

Hah! Old age will have surprises for you.

I don't see the implications of immortality or lack of work ethic in the small amount of the article you can see without a Forbes subscription. But regardless, remember Forbes' target readership: business executives, investors, and people in the finance industry. Those people aren't considered bastions of morality by the populace at large anyway.

Also remember that Forbes readers are more likely to work from home than the general public. They aren't going to try to villify their reader base.

Forbes is all about business. Deodorant sales were down during lockdown and are recovering now that people are returning to work. That's noteworthy if you own stock in Proctor & Gamble, for instance, and makes for an interesting bit of information even if you don't. It makes me wonder about other industries affected by the return to work.

But if you really want to read it that way, go ahead. Just don't be surprised if you have to repeatedly explain the extremely tenuous connection between this article and western oppression.

My generation will have tech illiteracy problems worse than the boomers. Yours will be even worse than mine. It's because most people reach a point where they stop trying to keep up with everything and fall behind.

You'll start to see it after you pass 40 or so. Then when you're in your 60s it'll be your generation's turn to be mocked as the bumbling idiots who ruined the world.

So have fun with that.

I understand what you're saying, and I disagree.

People have always judged each other on their appearance. It's built into humans. It takes conscious effort to overlook someone whose dress or appearance deviates too far from the norm.

Do companies in the west take advantage of that? Yes, of course. They'd be stupid not to. But that doesn't explain why every member of the CCP congress wears an identical suit and has neatly trimmed hair. I'll bet they're even wearing deodorant. The Supreme Soviet of the USSR was a bit more diverse in that they wore blue, brown, or beige suits in addition to the standard black. And I'll eat my hat if Russian girls weren't prettying themselves up to impress the boys and making comment on the girls who didn't measure up, just like they do in every country on Earth.

You're trying to take an article about people not wearing deodorant when they work from home and turn it into some kind of racist western plot. It's a bit of a stretch.

If you believe that was a western invention, I've got a surplus tower or two at St. Basil's to sell you. Making up illnesses and selling the cures goes back into prehistory.