And I would move 560 more… 🎵

To a new town about 4 hours away. I was 8, we moved because my dad got a new job!

I stopped reading at “the Internet got going in 1995”. FFS, even the web dates back to 1991!

Depends on how you look at it. Technically, it’ll never happen. The megacorps still need employees to do some tasks. They’ll still have some pocket money.

OTOH, you could say that it’s already happened. The plebs are broke, the middle class is basically gone, and the tax structure can’t support everything that the government wants to do. Eventually, borrowing runs out, and we get a crisis that makes the current economic troubles look mild.

I don’t relish this path.

I went to public school my entire childhood, and I’m awkward as fuck. Add that to your anecdote list

There might be something to it, but I’d need to see receipts.

Mostly, though, I’m suspicious of the motives and abilities (lack thereof) among the people who really go for homeschooling.

Eto wi’de noon e ɗemngal laawɗungal leydi Burkinaa.

But since the rest of the thread is in English, I hope you’ll forgive me for thinking of this in the context of predominantly English-speaking countries.

Bad examples, I think. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. It’s cooperative and online, but it’s still just an encyclopedia. It’s not even a suitable source for a high school paper, much less anything more substantial.

Others have already noted the edit history. I think your concern about people making bogus changes is overblown. Malicious edits tend to get reversed pretty quickly (but again, double check for anything more important than a Lemmy comment).

Third time’s the Charmin*

I was led to believe this was a shit post community

I thought they were fantasy for the longest time! I remember reading a later Pern book (can’t recall the title anymore, sadly) where there was a computer system that got uncovered after like 600 years - surprise! SF!

Gah, sword of truth. I read that, ok, so there’s a hero’s journey thing going on, I can dig it - suddenly BDSM fanfic!

Nope, Goodkind ain’t for me. It was SO jarring!

Still, you also recommended Bujold. My fav! I’ll have to check out Valdemar.

Maybe not, but if they’d actually work on it instead of stringing us along, maybe there wouldn’t be hordes of loudmouths.

Also…keep in mind, they chose the author’s life. I find it pretty tone deaf for a famous person complaining about what fame brings when that’s the path they pursued.

Dragons? Anne McCaffrey’s Pern series is worthwhile!

I’m not familiar with Jacqueline Harpman, but Left Hand of Darkness is quite fun. Not at all what I expected going in.

I’ll add Lois McMaster Bujold and her Curse of Chalion to the list. Great book.

Oof, that’s rough. Guess I didn’t miss out when we stopped using it back in the day. Although…at that shop, we switched to Jira. What a mess.

At the time, I really appreciated the simplicity of Trello. Nothing else I’ve used has come close. Working as a programmer, I really just want a simple system.

Oh, good to know! I def don’t use it every day, but I did use it for something yesterday. I’ve been using it since before Windows had zip handling integrated with Explorer; I still like having the extra options it gives me.

Oh, dear. Trello enshittified? :( I thought it was really cool when we used it for a project at work back in … oh, maybe 2016? Way too long ago.

This sent me down a little rabbit hole, lol.

January '93 - NCSA Mosaic released.

April '94 - Mosaic corp founded.

October '94 - Netscape browser released.

November '94 - Mosaic corp renamed Netscape corp

June '97 - Netscape Communicator released.

September '02 - Phoenix released

May '03 - Phoenix renamed to Firebird

February '04 - Firebird renamed to Firefox

I couldn’t find any indication that there was any code in common between NCSA Mosaic, Netscape, and/or Phoenix.

7zip, notepad++, ScreenShotAssistant, git

Eh, I’ll still count it. Even if it’s not a formal “mortgage” from a bank, it’s still a loan to buy a house.

People with rich parents own homes…

Wait, I own a home, and my parents aren’t rich…

Well…I didn’t think so when I was growing up, and my parents divorced when I was in high school, so that colored my perceptions a bit…

OTOH…my dad went on a 10-month “world cruise” two years ago, and my mom is wealthy enough to snowbird. Still, my childhood was “a normal-seeming house in Small Town USA, going to public school”. Hardly gold-plated.

Because their parents gave them the down payment

I bought my first house at age 28, no direct help from my parents (in before “but check your privileged upbringing!”). I won’t whine about how I don’t have enough money, though. I budget and save pretty aggressively.

coastal USA

Yeah, that’s fair. I’m firmly in MCOL flyover country. Completely different world for housing than the bay area or NYC.