This tech we all use is advancing exponentially.

And we must be ready to embrace the dizzying changes in the next few years so that we can improve our lives and have better governments.

Your very welcome!!

Sounds like a long term issue that will not resolve itself. The only relevant advice anyone can give here is tips about job searching or sympathy.

You have my sympathy

I agree with that other comment which argues to set it as the users expect. I think the 1 based is logical here

Noo…!

Who else to call out the atrocities of car culture than the underdogs who are most affected by it?

I have been both riding bicycles and driving huge trucks, not at the same time. And when driving was far less likely to be critical; I would think “this is bad”, and left it there. Five minutes later forgotten.

But when I rode bicycles these very things impacted me much more; I would stew in anger. Then , in that mindset I could more easily reflect on the absolute travesty: not just where I was but roads and metal things slicing up the landscape over continents.

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Yes, although I still worked on my own projects.

I have drifted from professional to other for many years.

Now that I have coded for two generations now, I often think I should have chosen some main occupation that was not a sit down job.

But it is what it is, and I will probably program more than anything else for the rest of my working life

Been coding for decades: burned out several times. I always return later after other jobs

I think the most job satisfaction I ever had was demolishing a house, another good thing for me was delivering pizzas.

I have noticed in the anglosphere that a significant percentage of mainstream reporters and journalists are what used to be called “independently wealthy”.

I guess it’s always been that way, but I think it’s more so now

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They sign other papers in addition to receiving salary.

Usually with very low salary one expects other compensation, besides money: but performing arts and other categories allow legal creativity.

If More questions I may be wrong, such as exact details. But have seen this in real life ( although not me) . Should consult legal expert in Texas state law

She was always well off and very connected.

Not many authors can force that kind of book deal, giving that sort of percentage, on their very first book. That took serious pull.

Additionally, some people, including me, suspect her books co-authored. And there are excellent reasons why the other authors are not publicly known. But that is only a theory

Salary in Texas avoids all that, I can hire you for a salary of 1$ a year and demand you work 60 hours. But you can quit any time

Legal in Texas: put them on salary and have them sign a few papers.

People know instinctively when they are dating up, down or have impossible dreams.

The reasons for that is as varied as there are people, but we all have primate brains and are hard wired to select partners using criteria that can be and are amazingly flexible

Many already know Zinn, but posting it for some for whom this is new

https://archive.org/details/pdfy-otanUZGGGcnDgfr7/page/n1/mode/1up

This is nothing to worry about

Maths were a lot harder before Arabic numbers

That does not have to be a contradiction