I usually ask the client how much they think it would cost to paint that wall. Then I ask how much it would cost to move the window a meter to the side too. It shouldn’t be much as you already working on the wall anyway.

Where I went, they also completely recreated the living space around it for the different era. The wallpaper, the furniture, even a soldering iron for the electronics enthousiast, it all matched perfectly. That was a nostalgia trip.

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See if this triggers your nostalgia: A, B and C from here

That would mean:

1. Rotating habitats, up to entire cities rotating, to generating additional gravity

2. Pressurized buildings, so you´ll be living inside your entire life.

3. Living underground.

But if you like living in an underground city, you can build one on Earth too. It would be a good proof of concept before doing the same on another planet.

Americans have been made too individualist for collective action I guess

Those were gimmicks from that boom time, when wages were generally high and sooner folks switched jobs within weeks. Perks mattered in that period. Then wages dropped but the mindset that these perks mattered remained.

For now. Cars keep getting wider year over year until they hit legal limits.

So there is now Taco Don. Karoline Leavitt, formerly BS Barbie is now called Taco Belle, and the tariffs are henceforth knows as Taco Tax. People are having fun with this.

And the places that do code with generative AI all have quality issues. Their management blames it on the remaining developers not checking and rewriting the AI code enough.

They tell the masses it’s 1950 but what they actually want us 1850, the period of the robber barons.

By now it’s a sloperating system full of slopvertisement and slopware

For me it’s usually the Bitcoin guy from the “If Google was a guy” sketches

Because the majority of the population always tries to copy the rich. Eating lavish meals with lots of meat was the norm in high society so now it’s what everybody wants for dinner. A large manicured lawn was a show of wealth and thus everybody now wants their patch of well maintained grass, even in a desert. Flying and vacations on the other side of the planet was for the jet set so now everybody gets in economy class for holiday. Trickle down is also for habits, life style and consumption. They are the example to follow and should behave like it. It’s the old concept of noblesse oblige.

A worm addled health secretary saying nobody should take medical advise from him

Trump is the lightning rod for anger, hate and blame. And there are many sources fanning the flames of anger and hate, some legitimate, some on purpose, some for profit.

Or at least their campaign donors want it.

Rich folks of course. They like to meddle with and control the lives of the social classes beneath them. It makes them feel powerful. Same reason it’s back to the office.

That’s what you get when physics matters.

But the XPeng X3 might interest you. It’s also a bit like as transformer. It’s not for sale tho, but they have a remote controlled prototype.

Classic supply side Jesus

And sometimes you get so used to there being brightly colored ads, corporate propaganda motivational messages and various warning signs everywhere, that you develop a blindness for everything too flashy and ignore it until you encounter a roadblock that doesn’t yield.