I could see an alternative design approach that beats Apple's focused on simplicity and ergonomics. Even all black and white only.
When I look at something, I don't want to be distracted by the things that might linger underneath, I'd like the system to support my attempt to focus.
I switched on transparency on my GF's (KDE) computer and for the first time she started to understand the concept of multi tasking.
Before she would shut down whatever she was doing before starting up something else.
Central Park is larger than anyone's back yard will ever be. It's possible to go jogging, biking, on gondolas... People in Manhattan don't need back yards because Central Park is right there. And no, it's living in isolated cookie-cutter stroadvilles that makes people unhappy, not living in cities.
However, I do think the climate scientists made a HUGE strategic error yelling that the sky is falling from every rooftop they have access to and now Mr & Mrs J. Doe are bored and numb.
The problem isn't with the science or the scientists, it's the fossil fuel industry doing everything it can to discredit science & distract people.
There have been more than 400,000 live births in California every year since 1979. In contrast, the article says that 300,000 people immigrated in 2024, and even plunged to 40,000 a few years earlier. Well, 400,000 is greater than 300,000 so no, immigration is far from the only thing propping up California's population.
The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination -- but the combination is locked up in the safe. -- Peter DeVries