When I spent a few years teaching in the local school, one thing I taught was a class on Design and 3D printing. The VERY first thing I always had to teach was "how to use a mouse" before I could even begin to start teaching CAD modeling.

I swear, smart phones and touch screens are a curse and pox on humanity.

You were destined to die the day you were born. It's all just a matter of when and where.

But if you were born and raised in an urbane urban city, yep, the odds are probably pretty high you are going to be among the first to die.

But I do salute you wit Sir/Madam!

I think 60 is the point when you realize you are actually starting to get old. You begin to realize that you really can't do the things you used to do. And the things you still do - you do slower and for not as long. Your hair is grey or starts falling out quite noticeably. Your body actually hurts just getting up in the morning. You go to bed earlier. Maybe you fall down because your balance wasn't as good anymore. Possibly a friend or peer dies from a heat attack. A Grandchild or two happens. AARP, (American Association of Retired People), starts sending you letters.

You are now truly and officially old.

Pro Tip for GenXer's: There is a point in life when you need to pick a Doctor that you like enough to die on. That will be the doctor that will take you through the last years of your life. And treat all those little miserable ailments like high blood pressure or urinary issues. Long term medical care, while it's often something that might not kill you outright, It will demand a lot of monitoring and medication to treat.

Better than the mid 1900's.

You're looking at it wrong. Fall from a one story high balcony, you will most likely live to be a cripple - forever confined to a wheel chair or in a life time of non-ending pain and perhaps even a coma.

You fall from a 10 story balcony it's over - you are assuredly dead. No being far, far less than you were. No possible lifetime of pain, no coma and lack of awareness. Just gone in a few seconds.

There is nothing like the immediate risk of death to give a person a sense of calm and peace.

I live in the woods and my nearest neighbor is a mile away. The US Post Office won't deliver mail to my house due to where I live. And I forage, hunt, and fish. I know the land around me and I know how to get the most out of it. But not to be a prepper, I just like being in the forest and enjoying the bounty that is there, (as long as Amazon is a thing). COVID was a problem even here. Though there was an increased risk from all the city dwellers coming here to "hide out" and expecting to have all the services and fun of the big city. But even 1 truck bring in more groceries to the little store we have could be enough to cause major problems for the elderly in an already old population. We did lose people and the greater community is noticeably smaller now because of it.

I would be willing to bet that in a true apocalypse scenario, 90% of all those preppers would die due their ignorance and running into someone bigger and better just killing them. And the remaining 10% would wish they had died.

JD, and a host of manufacturers have been doing this for decades. Growing up on a farm, we had some JD equipment - a baler and combine in particular - that if a simple bearing wore out it was an odd size or configuration that the only place you could get said bearing was directly from JD. You were locked into their parts AND prices.

Hell, I can remember paying $200 to a CASE dealer for a straw walker boxing for a combine I owned. The part was nothing more than a good sized piece of hard maple. $200US 30 years ago for two pieces of wood with a hole bored through it. I still recall the partsman bringing it the counter and placing it down, apologizing to me, then telling me the price and ducking down behind the counter. Software just makes it easier.

Like most new technology, we seem to need to kill enough people before we either get it right or we abandon the tech. See: Medical advancements and aviation for two examples.

The issue with self driving cars isn't maybe so much about "see danger and react" as it is aggregating limited data and analyzing the risk of unforeseen problems. AI has no way to do that in it's current state. Perhaps someday it might be able to or perhaps never.

But one thing is for sure - we are going to kill some people before we learn the answers.

Lemmee has the potential to be what it currently is - a smaller self segregating group of similar minded people. And there are two things working against Lemmee - The problems I have first mentioned and the fact that EVERYTHING has it's allotted time in the sun. And just like humans themselves our constructs eventually get sick die. At some point time, people will change enough that Lemmee is no longer relevant and it will pass away.

How soon that might be? I don't know. But I do know know as life passes time speeds up as then end nears.

First, thank you for your concern. You are a good person and a credit to yourself.

I suppose mental therapy might be a path I could follow. But it's more a concern of getting COVID yet again and I'm old and in the high risk age group. And despite being vaccinated and getting boosters as needed, there is frankly no guarantee I won't get it again. It's not that I shun contact and interaction with others, I certainly don't. But minimizing contact with crowds is medically a good thing for me. And messing around in a town/city a lot is asking for trouble. I'm close enough to the end of life that I don't need the extra help in getting there - it's coming soon enough as is.

I did do therapy with a Speech Therapist, it's where I got the breathing device. They are oddly well qualified for issues like mine. But, evidently COVID can create a short circuit in the brain that physical therapy can help some but really can't fix according to my Pulminologist and the Speech therapist. And as far as just getting plain exercise goes, I live in a very rural part of a very large forest. And between daily chores, I spend copious amounts of time in that forest foraging until the snow flies and at this time of the year hunting. In fact, if it stops misting and the fog lifts this afternoon, I will be out with a dog doing some grouse hunting chasing after supper. I don't quit because of limitations. Quitting brings on death much faster. And I've seen that enough during my many years as a medic.

I hate the changes that COVID has forced upon me. But I acknowledge it's existence and I'm fighting it as hard as I can.

Level 12 Deathworld.

I have no idea what movement these watches have nor do I care - I ain't buying one. But you can easily buy all the cheap, less than $20, Swiss made movements you want all day every day.

Just because it say Made in Switzerland doesn't mean it's the expensive best or even the equal to a well made Chinese movement.

If you are using Bamboo slicer, you are pretty much using Prusa slicer since it's directly taken from that with minor changes. I've noticed I've been slowly migrating away from Prusa slicer, a fork of Marlin, to Orca slicer - which is a fork of Bamboo. The reason is Prusa slicer is now concentrating on updating for the new Mk4 and XL printers with a nod to the Mini. I'm still quite content my Mk3s+ and don't need all those new updates for printers I don't own.

Yeah as with any new gotta have technology, there comes a point where a great weeding out of less than efficient providers happens. And it's been happening to many 3D companies for a while now.

Short answer is No. It suffers from many of the same issues of echo chamber, bias, and bullying. Just on a somewhat smaller scale due to fewer users. And never forget - Winter is coming. There will be a time in the future the bots will notice lemmee and come for it also.

But I suspect this is all a human thing. We are a contentious bunch at best and down right hateful at worst. We build communities only to poison and kill them in the end.

Corporations do this regularly. Using funds from one branch of their business to prop up others. That's neither new or illegal in the EU.

Honestly, perhaps more people ask about how to clean and prep a squab vs rescuing a dirty pigeon. There are a LOT of hungry people and a LOT of pigeons.

Bought in a grocery store - see squab - they are usually clean and prepped for cooking. So while the de-boning instructions were not good, the AI wasn't technically wrong.

But while a human can make the same mistake and many here just assume the question was about how to wash a rescued pigeon - maybe that's not the original intent - what human can do that AI cannot is to ask for clarification to the original question and intent of the question. We do this kind of thing every day.

At the very best, AI can only supply multiple different answers if a poorly worded question is asked or it misunderstands something in the original question, (they seem to be very bad at even that or simply can't do it at all). And we would need to be able to choose the correct answer from several provided.

According to my Pulmonolgist - Nope. Her observations of all her patients over the years is that if you don't get over it in about a year, you don't get better. And she has been seeing more COVID patients than her "normal" patients for several years now. Long term care is going to be a real problem for society going forward.