Around ten years ago, Ubuntu, my first time using Linux. Press Ctrl+Alt+Fsomething, drop to bash, run vlc videofile (Mylene Farmer Ennamoramento clip) - and the damn thing works! It plays video with ASCII graphics out of the box!

Stayed with Linux ever since, I just love that this is something I can actually learn and tinker with

You picked quite an easy example :)

• to live well, will it be better/easier to have climate stable or to be forced to adapt to unknown future?
• so let’s go do something about it

Nothing will work until people get a few basic things straight. Two simple thoughts humanity still avoids:

• I want to live well
• It is my responsibility to make my life well

Until each and everyone understands that and starts acting accordingly, no amount of -isms or whatnot is going to make anything better. Now, some can argue like “but today’s world is much better than slavery”, to which there is a simple answer:

• slavery has not died yet. Oh, the language was removed from legislature of some countries? Go tell people who are enslaved (literally, like documents taken away, chains on hands etc) how good that is
• more generally, exploitation is still a thing. Who cares what language it is spoken about?

So… yeah, Lenin and the gang did exactly zero things better, tons of people continued to suffer and die and there was no end to it long after Lenin died

Time to turn inside. Whatever around you gets fucked, essentially no one can order you “be miserable”. If this one thing gets fixed a hundred percent your way, the rest is just a question of what you can do and how much of that you are willing to do

But does it seem a very long road to become fully in control of own interiority.

I did not come up with this on my own, just picked if up from someone else, but can’t argue with it

I’ve got flash news then: unless I want 70 years old people to work production lines, my job (a developer) can be done by a seventy years old person. Or a job of an artist. Or <insert bunch of professions here>. Physical strength does naturally deteriorate, and that is the only thing that actually is does.

Now, to the more important: producing goods? Really? Since when has it become the only thing you look at? And since when producing goods is something only people-under-random-age-limit can do?

Awesome plan, I like it!

Yeah, can’t deny that. That’s a shame, they did and still do have some wonderful people, but the you’re-not-japanese-so-fuck-you-one-way-or-another mindset is a disgrace. If even I know that granting Japanese citizenship to someone who is not Japanese by blood is something extra-extra-extraordinary, it means things are - ok, I am tired of swearing - very bad

While I do not share the sentiment of “let them finally die”, I am very curious what will win: wanting to survive as a country and society or that bullshit worldview they are known for by anyone who learns anything more about Japan than just cool tech-anime-sake combo

I do hope they will change and survive. Ikkyu Sojun has earned a very special place in my heart (the one, who was a monk, son of emperor, who got a particular letter from his mother that is now famous among anyone who learns anything about Buddhism in Japan)

Warning: swear language ahead

Da fuck “productive” is, for fuck’s sake. Anyone thought of not running human intelligence into fucking ground over a period of… what? Roughly 60 - 20 = 40 years?

Or what, humans can’t think after retirement age because <insert some bullshit>?

You absolutely can have any percentage of <insert random age group>, provided human wellbeing is being taken care of, constantly and in all aspects

Simple: death will come, it is a guarantee you get by being born. So, unless your life is hell (diseases can do that easily, including mental ones) and it clearly won’t end (or anyway not before you become broken beyond repair), why not see some life before it ends

Logical and human friendly answer: mutable objects are not a problem, poorly designed code is

Personal rant: why even bother with objects, just use strings, ints, floats, arrays and hashmaps (sarcascm. I have spent hours uncovering logic of large chunks of code with no declaration of what function expects and produces what)

And also, seeing endless create-object-from-data-of-other-object several times has made me want to punch the author of that code in the face. Even bare arrays and hashmaps were less insane than that clusterfuck