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That was number of online users, not total population. And 50% of internet companies are Chinese, only 6% are American. I'm sure you'll twist that fact to suit you too :)

You're third, after China and India. Now tell me how those don't count ;)

Perhaps look into the DC-X program, fully 20 years before SpaceX Falcon: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-X

Eh, the printed TV guide was a thing, and around here just about every newspaper had daily and/or weekly listings of what was on the different channels. Most cable subscriptions came with their own monthly TV guide as well.

Fond memories of going through the TV listings with family, circling the things each one wanted to see on the single TV in the house 🙂

The Milky Way isn't stationary 😉

The Sun isn't stationary 😉

What a funny way to spell "shine on you crazy diamond" 😉

That's the way. I've been programming for nigh on four decades, and it's almost a daily occurrence with junior devs going to stack overflow or chatGPT to solve an issue instead of just searching the code where nine times out of ten the problem (or a very similar one) is already solved.

"Atheism is a religion in the same way that not collecting stamps is a hobby"

Laying off a lot of people does wonders for the end of year report...

Plenty of philosophers over the centuries have thought long and hard about the free will problem, and not all of them have come out on the side of it existing. David Hume, for instance, had to resort to religion to solve his issues with it (God made us have free will), and several contemporary philosophers have come down firmly on the "deterministic but complex enough to look non-deterministic" side of the fence. in essence, that free will is an illusion, but a good enough one that we still feel like we have it.

They tried it in France after the revolution IIRC. Didn't work all that well :)