A bit tangential: it’s narratives like this which can create sudden crashes on the stock market.

Speculation at some point meets reality. This is when market crashes.

So, your proof is that some dire predictions in the past, about other things, by other people, were sometimes true?

I am not even predicting something.

The global oil & gas supply has been disrupted and cannot recover overnight as actual infrastructure is gone.

Someone will need to reduce consumption.

These are just facts and physics of supply & demand.

We can always debate on who will get hit more or what resources will be affected more.

far be it for me to question your prophetic capacities. i wonder, do you have any historical examples or logic-based arguments that our doom of nigh?

Oil (diesel), gas and fertilizer is the backbone of the worlds agriculture. With shortages of all 3 the food production goes down dramatically. Even if the war ends today it will take years to bring back production to previous levels. In my opinion the effects will start showing up in food prices in the next few weeks once food producing countries realize the food shortages could happen they will start restricting exports.

why are chefs baking bread? there's buildings to construct.

Not sure why you are getting downvoted. The scariest one is the fertilizer situation which means less productive harvests, which means hunger.

Because it's whataboutism which is basically propaganda. It doesn't add anything to the discussion, and if we put too much emphasis on other unrelated (but still important) issues, the site wouldn't exist at all.

Example: Why are you posting here when you could be solving world hunger? Don't you care about starving children?

It makes absolutely no sense to have a windowless app. Why would anyone run photoshop without a window?

There are apps that they need to run in the background, sure. They have a spot in the menubar.

Oh no I forgot, you can only have 5 of them. Not 6. Why? Because FU. Go buy a third party app (bartender) that records your entire screen to do basic app management that the OS should do.

I hate MacOS.

Men who weigh 100kg are also banned from participating in the 63kg weightlifting category. So what? There are physical traits that offer advantages in sports. We bucketize so that we see more interesting competitions (aka a 120kg weightlifter would completely dominate all of the smaller folks, every single time, so what's the point of competing ).

Sure. Meanwhile, men in the 63kg powerlifting class have a higher record total than even superheavyweight women: https://worldpowerlifting.com/records/womens-world-records/ https://worldpowerlifting.com/records/mens-world-records/

I don’t see where we disagree. It is exactly why we have different buckets for men and women. Otherwise why would ever a woman try to compete in weightlifting?

It came across that you proposed to solve the problem with just weight classes, which is clearly not sufficient. Sorry if I misunderstood.

We need some sort of end to end verification. Aka from the sender camera to the receiver display / speakers.

Maybe Apple will be able to pull it off? Aka if you FaceTime me I know that you are a person

I don’t think someone completely untrained can do 10’ / mile.

"most men who exercise regularly and don't carry a ton of extra bodyweight, even with zero running" - what's that supposed to mean? How do they exercise then when they are not running?

I don't think many people who don't exercise running can do 1.5 miles in 9:40.

> what's that supposed to mean? How do they exercise then when they are not running?

Any other sport? Cycling, swimming, rowing, ball sports, team sports, weightlifting, ...

> I don't think many people who don't exercise running can do 1.5 miles in 9:40.

It's 1.5 miles at 9:40 mile pace; 14.5 minutes total. Much easier than 6:30 pace (what you're imagining).

It's 1.5 miles in 14:25, I think most people can handle that. There are plenty of ways to exercise that aren't plain running. Biking, skating, swimming, Tai chi...

Thousands and thousands of miles of high voltage cables transformers and super expensive chargers sounds easy to you?

A gas station just needs a tank and a pump. You can put it anywhere and can operate with a small generator if 110V electricity is not available. Even as a country you don’t need infra. Just some trucks to import from the closest refinery/ port

Yes, if you're rolling it out for a single charger in the middle of nowhere.

My understanding is that much of the grid already exists if there is a town or even just a rest stop present, it likely has grid power. I will grant that this doesn't speak to the suitability of said existing infrastructure for running one or a number of a high voltage / high speed chargers.

> Just some trucks to import from the closest refinery/ port

Driving thousands and thousands of miles.

Vehicles will be visiting the gas station anyway ? Aka the road-like infrastructure will need to be there.

I do not try to claim that trucking fuel over long distances is efficient. Just stating that gas stations themselves need no additional infrastructure.

I mean, if you consider "building the whole gas station" to be the infrastructure, then sure, but building a gas station requires significantly more complex infrastructure than installing an EV charger or two.

You need to install several specialized sealed tanks underground, and the pumps that will get the gas & diesel (and sometimes kerosene) in them up to the cars.

You then need to be able to make secure, safe deliveries of highly flammable liquids to the site regularly, forever.

Once an EV charger has been installed, it'll need occasional maintenance, and if some yahoos vandalize it it might need repair or replacement, but otherwise it's pretty much good to go, potentially for decades.

Most of those cables are already in place and powered up for the existing power grid.

They better start dancing and distill their news into 10” video chunks. This is how we consume news today.

Maybe split screen viewing where 1/2 is an ai cat pineapple hybrid with large anime eyes, and the other half is an AI instagram baddie that is tugging on her thong while telling me about Iran?

the thong baddie is a no go because your audience has people of different genders as well as kids in a country with majority of extreme religious people

replace it with realtime betting by the viewers (on news or on some game video)

and cat hybrid can be telling the news.

I really do hope this is sarcasm!

My recommendation is try not to pay attention.

Once you hear the difference in sound quality / see difference in image quality you cannot undo it.

I have become very picky with display resolution and text clarity, and it has not served me well. I miss the days I was happy with a 1080p monitor.

Well, nobody should be happy with 16:9 aspect ratio, but as you get older you may find that your happiness with a lower pixel pitch returns... ;-)

In 2011 I had a 28" 1080p monitor I thought was amazing. Like ground breaking enjoyment using it for my sales job inside the CRM.

Now if you ask me that monitor is causing eye damage and I rather not use the computer that day vs use it.

Lottery is obscenely, absurdly profitable employment. Particularly for the ones who win it.

The person I was replying to is asserting that the winners of the metaphorical lottery are not in profitable employment, so you aren't making the point you think you're making.