Interesting, and appears well researched. I’m not sure if any of this shows “collapse” rather than just evolution or uncontrolled drift/change.

The examples of the implementation details in the US education system seem to be more a complaint of money driving decisions, but this isn’t seen anywhere near as starkly in other countries. Free or low cost education is quite available in Europe and elsewhere, for example.

Automating away housekeeping work is an interesting point. As is schools as daycare. Both are freeing up (mostly women) to add to the workforce, so it becomes increasingly clear that schooling and childcare should be cheap and available if this is the model that’s desirable. That is, equality in the workplace.

You think other countries don’t have protests?

A lot of their constituency want the properties they own to go up in value. Or at least not down, which risks negative equity.

It’s not unheard of for lighthouses to be picked up and moved either.

I cannot think of a scenario that this is legitimately solving a problem that couldn’t be solved about 1000x cheaper and with less environmental damage.

STAR. For every question try to give a situation, task, action and result which came from you personally. E.g. situation, someone was manually copying data from an online portal every month. As a task, you’re asked to write some code which scrapes an API, and you defined the task via docs and planned tests. Then as an action you worked on it for a few days, and the result was the company didn’t need to manually spend a few days per month doing it, freeing up people to do more exciting things.

It shows you understand the problem and know how to go about solving it in a professional way.

It’s going to take quite a while for your solar panel to produce the amount of energy it took to launch that mirror up there. This is like tearing down a rainforest to make room for a wind turbine.

One man controlling access to a sizable percentage of the world’s internet access doesn’t solve much.

It does change the way people think about history though

Were you literally talking to the land then? That’s pretty weird.

Citation needed

Another one? Is it common for people to find it annoying when you suggest religion is somehow a solution for things?

I wish they’d pay the taxes in the country the drinks were bought. Even if the US manages to scrape back some, that’s only one country seeing the taxes owed.

Also a good way to make sure it doesn’t have any more birthdays

Wasn’t this a Futurama joke?

I think it would be quite difficult to persuade me I can solve problems by burning down a Citizens Advice centre.

Jsonb in postgres is fine, I’ve been using it for years. Much better than letting mongodb anywhere near the stack.

My parents could keep that going for a good long time by filtering it through a few layers of kitchen paper, it got rid of a lot of the burnt stuff, came out quite clear each time.

In the shape of a kitten

I’m less interested in the total number of species, and more interested in my likelihood of holding one