> coal is not the alternative in 2025.

Except in uncle Donald’s kingdom with “America’s Beautiful Clean Coal Industry” (yes, seriously):

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/rein...

Patents and copyright are fundamentally different things.

Errr my bad, you're right.

IP*

Or it’s because LLMs don’t make spelling mistakes.

The iPhone had a slew of fart apps back in the day, but it clearly didn’t have a lid to trigger the farts. Still, everything old is new again.

> realizing that there was no future "grown up" version of me

Should you get older (which is probable), you’ll be amazed at how wrong that is. Development doesn’t stop at 30, it just gets a little slower.

That's very exciting to hear! I'd be delighted to be wrong about that.

Edit: Although, just to clarify, I didn't really mean that I think I won't change as I get older. Moreso that if growing a mustache or getting involved in international diplomacy was going to be in my future, I'd likely have some indication of that by now.

Wrong. I never ran more than 5 times a year until I was 30 and now I have run ultra marathons. It is my spiritual calling and I didn’t know about it until 34. Now I am 44 and probably in the best shape of my life.

I hated manual labor as a kid/young adult, associated it with chores and whatnot, now in my 40s I build homes as a hobby/side gig. I like to be as hands on as possible with it and do about 70% of the work myself on every house. I work a knowledge worker job during the day and need something physical to feel like I’ve accomplished any real which helps my overall fulfillment. Most people think it’s strange, but I do most of the house work between 10pm-3pm. After my job and family duties are complete for the day, I’m somewhat nocturnal and it’s not as hot at night (Texas). I’m usually fine with just the 6 or so hours of sleep but it’s kind of like I have a whole second life at night lol

Its quite amazing, that you have the energy levels for it.

Admittedly, it's because my day job isn't very stressful/taxing at all. I'm in an executive leadership position, so I mostly just have a few meetings a day and make sure my teams are all moving things along/help block and tackle within the organization. There's certain times of they year I know I will be fully consumed by the day job and I just plan the house stuff around it. For example, I've poured a slab foundation before a busy season at work and just didn't come back to the slab for about 6 weeks to start the framing, I'm in no huge hurry.

Apparently there are enough investors who take this as a sign of “grit”. They may well be the primary audience for these performative stunts.

> there’s no evil army here locking people up.

Not what you meant, but that evil army is called ICE.

Which assuming the recent funding bill that funds its expansion it will be the 4th largest military in the world, effectively.

ICE is gateway to something far more sinister in my opinion, and that will be persistent fascism enforced by a quasi military entity

I can’t tell whether you’re joking. Seems like a distinct possibility now.

2052? I hope the last 2 digits aren't swapped...

keep that energy when you and your family are starving in the dark with no running water.

Given the activities this ISP is notorious for, I take it as sarcasm.