After my first job, no one has ever asked about my degree. They ask me about my work.

We have a society where everyone wants to be right; we need a society where everyone wants to be correct.

and plenty that don't.

I think you will find that's a non issue. Since is solvable.

I"m in a union, and I am a white collar employees. COMputer programmer and data analysis. Our organization also has a union for business analyst.
There have been teacher unions for decades.

A union is jsut a group of people with a contract around working right, policy, and wages. Can be any group.

There is no "liberal indoctrination", it jsut appears that way because conservative consider anything counter to their myopic view liberal.

In order to have a meritocracy, all people must have the same start. SOme oney, same education opportunities.
Of course, there is no real definition to meritocracy either.

Remember, the term 'meritocracy' was created as a pejoratively.

IT also relies on whos merit? Bezos is a billionaire, but it was from him, it was his workers. Should the people who created his site, the engineers the built it for him have the real merit?

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

Some people hear a word and then jsut assume it's good without actually reading up, and that needs to stop.

" Fewer people die of heat than die of cold. "
More people will die from the heat. See: dew Point.

"Longer growing season."
lol, excessive heat is bad for crops. And some areas of the earth are already losing farming capacity, not higher yields. major commodity crops like corn, rice, and oats are starting to experience reduced yields due to heat stress and changes in water availability.

" Bring on the CO2."
We produce more CO2 then the plants can handle. BTW, too much CO2 is bad for plants. Just like to much O2 is bad for people.

"We can handle the heat. We will be fine."
Why can't you people grasp the simple fact that as we keep producing more greenhouse gasses, the heat will keep going up? WHy are you so ignorant you think civilization can stand that level of heat growth?

You don't understand what accuracy mean from a science standpoint. But keep smugly posting ignorant post, since that seems the only way you can pretend you have any meaning and matter.

MSN is fine, and they are reporting what is happening, not an authority on the technology nor to they preport to be.

You literally have no idea how journalism works or what news is.

Corporations are doing it to power AI.
Nuclear is alway used to attack green energy.

I love that you have such faith in corporations dealing with nuclear waste, in spite of decades of improper stores and illegal waste dumping.
What CEO would cut corners that can lead to catastrophe a decade from now for a bonus today, amirite?

Carbon taxes have history of working, actually.

I'll take your trolling and troll back as follows:

When someone says early 2000s they mean the 00s. I have never seen your version, though you may be technically correct (the best kind of correct), I don't believe you are contextually correct. If we take your interpretation, put into context of the original sentence it was used in, it makes no sense. In context, it's clear the author was referring to decade that was from 2000 to 2009.

But that's okay, you sold 350 BTC for $35, the universe has punished you enough. :P

Umm... bitcoin didn't exist in the early 2000's. I believe it came into existence around 2008/2009.

I actually mined Bitcoin, I think I had something like 1.2 BTC back in 2011, then I lost the wallet. It was worth next to nothing at the time. Now it's enough to buy a nice car.

But the better analogy would have been to talk about BlockBuster not buying Netflix back in the day...

Ward was ALWAYS inventing new tools, and new ways to do things. He was a Hacker's Hacker.

One night, I was visiting, and downstairs was "The Ward Board", his personal BBS. He had the console running on an old 9" Sony Monitor, he was watching someone logged in, and decided to throw a toggle switch to take the BBS offline. He said "Oh.... he's a Twit".... and I asked what a Twit was... and he told me it's not a nice person. Decades later, along comes Twitter... ;-)

Ward entered the "shortest usable program" contest back in the days of CP/M... here's his COMPLETE entry

    # 1731751
    Author: Ward Christensen
    Length: 2 bytes
    Memory clear.
    0000 063 INX SP
    0001 307 RST 0

Source: http://vtda.org/docs/computing..., page 6

Ward was a good friend to all who knew him, he'll be missed.