112 karma · joined January 18, 2026
The US is completely fucked if another pandemic hits within the next ~20 years. Or at least until a large percentage of the anti-vaxers created in the covid pandemic age out of the population. Having a decent response when half the country is going to be on team virus is not possible.
> Have we put measures in place to ensure that accurate information about the disease, including appropriate disease-specific hygiene measures, are rapidly disseminated.
This is irrelevant if half the country has the through process of "goverment says it therefore it is fake news bill gates microchip conspiracy".
People already just blindly believe whatever is put in front of them by the algorithm gods. Even the "@Grok is this real" spam on every X post is an improvement.
I would rather the geniuses of earth work on anti-aging or cancer research than wish fulfillment of a 50 year old man child.
The skill of the very top programmers will continue to increase with the advent of new tools.
You have built yourself a safe little cocoon, protected from the messy imperfect reality of the world, where sometimes you have to make compromises and you don't always get what you want.
I doubt the california legislature knows what a Linux even is.
I'm not sure why you think they are doomed.
We might as well chose to praise those of us who were gifted with abilities that we aspire to.