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It feels like this quote from "Ready Player One" (2018 film)

"Once we can roll back some of Halliday's ad restrictions, we estimate we can sell up to 80% of an individual's visual field before inducing seizures"

Industrial civilization will continue to follow along the "Business as Usual" trajectory of the 1972 Limits to Growth publication [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth#Compariso...

As a corollary, if a person you're responsible for "goes dark" socially (due to dementia, unable to go out anymore, moved to nursing home etc), do let their friendly social circle know (friends, neighbors) that the person would still be happy about visitors.

I've seen this with a relative with dementia - many people just weren't aware that she had no contact with them anymore due to this.

Indeed. A few years ago I ran across a comparison of old photographs of rural villages (early 20th century) in central Europe vs their present day appearance, taken from similar points of view.

Two things were immediately apparent from the old photographs - less forest - tons of fruit trees

Fitting is also this anecdote I heard when visiting a historical mill. They had a huge linden tree in their yard, and they told us that in the olden days this was a symbol of prosperity, because the original owner showed off that they could afford to plant a useless, non-fruit-bearing - a status symbol.

Coming full circle - the best thing would be if we could plant tons of trees that also produce food - something like the baobabs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adansonia_digitata . E.g. pigs were fed oak's acorns in fall.

Exactly - there's probably a fluent transition between symbols and painting and writing and then alphabetic writing.

Territorial animals that we are, I'd add "here starts the territory of the Saber-Toothed Tiger Clan" signs to path markings as likely candidates for earliest symbolic communication.

Nice to see that the earliest examples of writing are still somewhat recognizable (as opposed to modern alphabets) - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_writing - a hand, a foot, a goat or sheep.

Fun thing is, with modern technology we have regressed (advanced?) to a massive use of pictograms - a modern smartphone wielding human, in addition to the alphabet, knows at least a few hundreds or even thousands of pictograms ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

There's still enough people out there who don't know better, manually (or auto-renew) purchasing new a certificate every year from their hosting provider like it's 2013.

If you're doing ASP.NET Core webdev, it's seamless. Runs in Linux docker containers. Developers in my team have either Windows (Visual Studio) or Linux or Mac (Rider) machines.

Rider definitely can hold a candle to Visual Studio. In my dev bubble there's about a 50/50 split for C# devs (mostly .NET Core) using VS vs Rider

It depends on the type of your contracts - there's also longer-term contracts out there (at lower hourly rates).

You can do any mix of those (if you can find them) - ideally, you've got long-term contracts that cover you basic income needs, and do short-term contracts or product development on top of that.

Regarding the feast or famine cycles - you need a very healthy cash cushion.

And speaking of health, that's a risk in itself. Long-term health issues that prevent you from working as much as you need to will drain your cushion.