Since I'm 57 and have paid some attention to how I've changed over the years, perhaps I can add a little insight? Quite frankly, you get tired. I've been on the scene since the home computer revolution took off and I've seen so many things come and go. It's not that we can't learn new forms of communication, etc., but rather that after awhile you start asking yourself why bother when the "next big thing" is going to be another forgotten memory in 5-10 years. It's not you who are being criticized for wasting items, it's all the people like you over the years who have collectively wasted so much. Our brains remember all those things and they add up, causing us to fixate on the wrong info (although this last bit isn't really something that comes with age).

Last night I re-watched The Fifth Element. Afterwards I was thinking about when it first came out in 1997. My god, that's 28 years ago. I remember things from the 90's. I remember things from the 80's and from the 70's. I remember that after 9/11 the 00's were boring as fuck. But when you put all of that together, and start thinking about how much you've experience... holy hell that's quite a lot to face squarely. And if I tell you something inappropriate about a co-worker... what? HR will pull me away from the monotony and have a talk with me? Experience tells us what we can get away with, and sometimes it's fun just to see what people's reactions are.

So yeah, I've observed these things, but I refuse to be pulled down into misery and monotony. Keep yourself busy doing things that you enjoy. Never be afraid to go down the rabbit hole and learn crazy new things. I'm working on assembling a couple swords from parts, looking into bluing some steel pieces I made. And just this week I learned about "rust bluing" which is a crazy concept but is easy to do at home. I learned something new and fun, and I refuse to ever stop learning. I may not care about Instagram or Facebook, but I installed Signal on my phone and I love being able to create my own 3D models and printing them out.

The future is always amazing. Age doesn't make us care less about it, it just makes us more choosy in what parts are worth investing in. If you don't want to become a listless old geezer, then don't... all you need to do is keep enjoying the wonders of the world.

Any chance there's a place we could all start submitting bug reports about the incorrectly named body of water? Once the change goes into effect we should post that everywhere and see if we can swamp Google.

Unfortunately Trump's stated plan is to boot out everyone who won't kiss his ass, shut down "non-essential" services like the education department or national weather service, put someone in control of healthcare who believes all vaccinations need to be immediately banned, and pass national laws against women's reproductive health care despite his claims of letting each State handle their own business. And yes, on his own he could only do so much, but the Republican party also gained more seats in both houses of representatives which means it will be easier to steamroll through anything he wants. So yeah, we have many many good reasons to be worried.

That's rich coming from the guy whose entire platform is one big political bias against free speech. Seems like Musk's whole outlook is "I'm going to move people to a colder planet where nothing grows and we can't even breathe, so why should I worry about trashing this one?"

Also, when is his daddy going to teach him how to shave?

I still don't know why anyone USES linkedin. It was a shit company built by hacking Windows and sending out emails in other people's names to try to build their user base. The fact that Microsoft actually bought the company that hacked their operating system just shows how little moral value is present in any of this.

So Sony wants to punish ISPs for continuing to "allow" illegal things to happen? Hmm remind me again which company it is that has had so many data breaches that users have come to just expect it? Sounds to me like if they are allowed to pursue attacking internet providers then they themselves should start seeing lawsuits for continuing damages until such time as Sony is able to successfully recover all stolen personal data and other parties can no longer use it for profit.

Funny how the police act like they're the ones being threatened, when they are usually the ones who walk right up to people that are standing a distance away and start getting aggressive. Their behavior suggests that even MORE people need to be recording because obviously the safety of innocent civilians is at stake.

Voters were also far more likely to view Trump ... as someone who would “stand up and fight for people like you"

I'm just astounded by poll results like this. I mean, Trump already had four years and what exactly did he do for you? Oh that's right, absolutely nothing because he was too busy making changes that benefited his personal businesses or stripping federal regulations for personal rights and things like our national parks. I just don't understand why these people believe Trump is going to help them now when he only made everything worse in his first term?

Absolutely nothing happened, we barely even got a rise in the Kp index.

And what's with all these fearmongering articles lately always claiming that a "massive" burst is gong to disrupt radios and GPS? Has anyone even seen this happen in recent history? I mean sure, if you get a burst strong enough to be seeing aurora as far south as Texas in the US then you might be getting into the region of affecting communications, but they keep pushing these warnings for solar bursts that aren't even strong enough to trigger aurora over the continental US.

I bought my mechanical keyboard in 1997. It has the original large round plug on it and through the years I've had to buy adapters to go to a ps/2 port and now to usb, but the keyboard itself still works pretty well. Definitely time for a good cleaning though, I've been having a lot of stuck or missed keys lately. Since I write code this keyboard has seen a LOT of daily use over the years.

Pretty much every signature soda drink. Pepsi, Coke, Mountain Dew... none of the knock-offs taste right and some are just nasty. Oddly, root beer seems to be the one flavor everyone can do well, maybe because it's a more common flavor with no patents on the general idea? I dunno but I don't think I've ever had a 'bad' root beer.

The only policy Republicans have is to directly hurt as many people as possible. The only people who vote for Republican policies are those who want to harm others in an attempt to make themselves feel better about their own shitty lives.