Am I, or someone I love, the 46 year old, or the 25 year old?

The only time I would care is if the answer to the first question is “yes” or if one of the parties isn’t acting consensually… Otherwise, its not any of my business, as they’re both consenting adults.

If more people worried about themselves, and less about what others are doing, the world would be better off.

Mind ya business, people.

Or, we could go the other way, and stop those subsidies, too, and quit spending our kids’ future on today’s problems.

Heyyyyoooo

In China, your populations are mainly confined to a few large, major cities. With farms and farming communities nearby those same cities.

I live in an unincorporated area about 30 miles outside of the nearest city, which has a population of about 250k people: Mobile, AL

It’s about 150 miles in the other direction to a fairly large city, named New Orleans, LA.

Thing is, there’s not any real “country side” between those cities. It’s all houses and neighborhoods. All of it. It’s not quite heavy enough population density to be a city, but still higher than farmland.

That said there is a passenger train service that runs from New Orleans to Mobile, with two trains, one leaves New Orleans and the other Leaves Mobile at pretty much the same time. 2 engines, 4 cars on the Mobile-based train, and 2 engines 3 cars on the New Orleans based train.

Thing is, they each have multiple stops along the way, too.

It’s a 4 hour ride in the train from end to end, and another 4 hour ride back. Each train ends up where they started at the end of the day.

So to use that train, I must drive 30miles into town, find parking, leave my car there for 8 to 10 hours, and spend maybe an hour or two in New Orleans,

Or, I could just drive for 2 hours, and spend however long I want to, in New Orleans, and not have a set schedule.

There’s absolutely not enough demand for more than the two trains in either direction for that to make any sort of sense, either.

I mean that’s how governments always solve problems.

Only because they’ve let themselves be so.

The entire idea of “class” is just another way to divide the people.

As a former truck driver, I wonder if any of those who were laid off due to AI, happen to be the same tech bros who were all loudly cheering the same sort of “computers will be doing your job soon, and I can’t wait!” for the trucking industry…

Just a shower thought.

That’s the direction that many manufacturers are trying to push PCs as well.

China is just sitting back, quietly developing their own domestic ddr4 and ddr5 sources.

But don’t worry folks. The us federal government is gonna save us all like they always do…

What I find interesting is that the authoritarian right complains about the authoritarian left using “big government” to bully their favorite businesses and organizations, and loving the police, while the authoritarian left complains about the authoritarian right using the police to do the same, while loving bigger and bigger government…

It’s like neither side realize that the police are PART OF THAT GOVERNMENT!

That type of thinking is no different than the christians who believe that unless everyone else believes as they do then they ALL go to hell.

That ype of “enforced community” bullshit is exactly that. Bullshit.

People spend way too much of their time worrying about everyone else. Yes, helping when you can is a good thing.

You, however, are the one professing all the doom here. If not everyone believes the right things then we are all doomed.

Except who decides what those right things are, and what will happen when you teach society to think in that way, and then some demagogue takes control, and decides to subtly start changing what those right thoughts are?

Why, you get what we’re going through right now, don’t you…

So no, group think is never a good idea even if the thoughts are the “right” ones.

Then let them. What does it matter to you? People are allowed to be complete morons if they wish.

You can’t use logic to talk someone out of a position they didn’t use logic to decide on in the first place.

Those kinds of people should get nothing but scorn from the rest of us. No conversation, no attempting to change their minds.

Just pure, unadulterated scorn and derision. Nothing else. Fucking morons aren’t useful for anything other than diluting the gene pool anyway.