Wonder if Venezuelans have figured out yet that their opposition leader sold their country and its oil to Trump in exchange for the Peace prize ceremony?

Code that has lasted, with some maintenance, for 50+ years vs code that doesn’t work from day 1? What advances we have made!

It’s a bit scary that anything children were once expected to learn has now become “the calculator”. When calculators first came out the cry was ‘why do we need to learn to do math any more when this device can do it for us?’ Computers continued that trend. Smart phones even more so. It is a part of history that is hard to understand, how did a former, reasonably advanced civilization lose its advanced skills? We might be watching in real time how it happens. Except this time it is us, not an ancient civ.

Known fact that Americans, Rep or Dem, are conservatives by other Western countries standards.

hmm almost like organic compounds break down into other compounds over time or with certain processes?

Unfortunately I don’t think this is a “conservative or republican” problem. Almost all Americans are too “me first individualists” until something affects them personally. In Canada it is Conservatives and Albertans who are more likely to be individualistic.