I think we're in for some rocky times over the next few years, but I think the world will be better off with the USA knocked down a few pegs. They are too large and their general population is too easily swayed by nonsense.
The question is, will the population learn anything by being starved out or will they continue to blame anything but their own hubris?
Trump probably owed the money, Putin got a bunch of dirt on Trump via honeypots or documented illegal activity. I suspect now all Putin is saying is "you're touchable. Play right or the daughter ends up in a rape camp in Siberia."
A MacBook lasting longer is irrelevant when a PC can be upgraded for half the cost over the same period.
I'm using the same PC I had in 1998. Sort of.
I've been upgrading things as needed. Around 2000 I put it in a 4 unit rack mount server case - which will pretty much hold anything I need. The motherboard and CPU have been upgraded 5-6 times. New power supply here and there. Old drives are moved to storage drives and I install faster newer drives for OS from time to time.
I have no idea how much I've saved just upgrading things as needed or if something fails.
I have a smallpox scar on the back of my arm and I didn't even know it was there.
We got the shots in school and I have faint memories of the Jet Injector. Most scars of people my age are on the side of the arm up near the shoulder. I didn't have one so for years I assumed I didn't get the vaccine or my memory of it was wrong.
Then one day in the shower my girlfriend pointed it out. It's around the backside of the arm and hard to see in a mirror - but it's there.
I feel kind of special having it as it isn't that common these days.
I'm the same age. I never knew anyone who had measles EXCEPT older people who told stories of it. I never knew anyone who had it whilst I knew them.
On the flip side, we attended chickenpox parties to get infected. Of course this was before the vaccination and knowing more about Shingles. All the folklore knew was one you get chickenpox, you never get it again and it's better to have it as a child than adult.
I think we're in for some rocky times over the next few years, but I think the world will be better off with the USA knocked down a few pegs. They are too large and their general population is too easily swayed by nonsense.
The question is, will the population learn anything by being starved out or will they continue to blame anything but their own hubris?