Pons_Aelius @ Pons_Aelius @kbin.social

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men's life expectancy is only 77 now

That figure is average life expectancy. IE 50% of US man are expected to reach 77.

A bit of history on why 65 was originally set as the retirement age.

The first country to set retirement at 65 was the Weimar Republic in Germany (1918-1933).

The reason 65 was chosen was that at that time only 5% (1 in 20) of the German population made it to 65. Retirement and the pension was a case of "You have worked hard all you life and will die soon, this is to let your final years be a bit easy"

Over the last century, in the west at least, over average lifespan has increased markedly and the quality of life for people of advanced age has also increased.

Many government now face the issue that they cannot afford to keep paying retirement benefits for two reasons:

1: Many many more people are reaching retirement age and they are living for decades more, rather than a few years.

2: With the decline in birthrates the ratio of working people to those in retirement has changed from about 10 to 1 to about 5 to 1 and is expected to get worse in the decades to come.

This does not answer your question but gives you an idea of the issues and hard decisions societies will have to face in the coming decades.

Weigh self.

Go the toilet and take a dump.

Reweigh...Whooohoo!!! Weight loss!!

Also in this thread: Semantic satiation.

Sweet!

That's what she said...

Yes, except from personal experience an email that should be a critical hit causing death can be thwarted by the simple process of not opening it and claiming it got lost in the spam folder

The vision of the Mantis Shrimp.

From wikkipedia:

Compared with the three types of photoreceptor cell that humans possess in their eyes, the eyes of a mantis shrimp have between 12 and 16 types of photoreceptor cells. Furthermore, some of these shrimp can tune the sensitivity of their long-wavelength colour vision to adapt to their environment.

Not sure what it would make the world around me look like but I would love to find out.

If a business cannot function while paying a decent wage it should not exist.

Businesses with unrealistic business plans fail everyday, it is a basic function of capitalism.

It is not a society's responsibility to prop up business ventures that waste capital by continuing to pursue uneconomically viable enterprises.

You spin me right round baby.

This is a case of a term that was until recently specific but is now becoming a more general term.

While planets orbiting other stars has been talked about for centuries, it is only in the past few decades that we have been able to confirm their existence.

So, up until then Solar system was a term that described our solar system as it was the only one known to exist.

Yep, that is what posting a link to a news story indicates...

Do I look like I know what a jpeg is?

I just want a picture of a god dan hot dog.

For another take on Kinetic impactors try The moon is a Harsh Mistress or as they call them. Tossing rocks down the gravity well.

Wisdom is knowing not to put them in a fruit salad.

A Greek salad is not a fruit salad, it is a...Greek salad.

Intelligence is knowing Tomatoes are fruits.

Wisdom is knowing not to put them in a fruit salad.

assuming it’s even him paying for it.

I seriously doubt he has spent dollar one on this.

The digestive system actually has a high number of neurons.

Think Twice: How the Gut's "Second Brain" Influences Mood and Well-Being

It has the second highest concentration in the body, after the skull. Since the human bite force is not strong enough to penetrate the human skull the zombies are actually targeting the next best area to eat brains.

I doubt their goal was to make money.

as AR glasses become a mainstream reality like it or not.

Just like the segway was going to change the way we build cities?

Or how cryptocurrencies will replace national fiat money?

Or how google glasses have already become a mainstream reality?

Or how everyone will watch TV in 3D all the time?

Or how everyone will play games in VR?

Just because a technology is possible it does not mean it will become ubiquitous.

I assume what op is looking for is a long term non-selfhosted backup of their videos.

From the comments here I think just uploading (encrypted if they feel that is necessary) to a free cloud storage account would also be an option. May be upload to several for redundancy.