The kids aren’t dumb or uninteresting or anything like that, they are just plain addicted to phones. The rare volunteer kid that puts 100% effort in is usually a homeschool type with no electronic devices or someone in the top 1% of their class or something like that.

The attention economy is real, and it’s dominated by phones and by those that were born in it.

The author also lives in a ridiculous bubble. Try getting a refund for your stolen goods from NOT-AMAZON. Most retailers can't afford to subsidize infinite free returns off their non-existent prime subscription income. I order furniture online through actual furniture stores, and they needed actual photographs and video evidence for the RMA.

I find home lab stuff has far more return on investment for like automatic blinds, lights, etc. It’s not like you can just stay inside anyways and get amazing vegetables, you still need to be on top of thing like checking for pests and disease. The automatic garden is a myth.

The human touch of someone’s real voice myself, rather than a false veneer will carry more weight very soon.

It doesn’t matter if it’s python or tsql or JS or perl — you read the docs on the date time impl every time.

Your LLM comment bot is broken.

Eh, I would say its well-known in deficit circles that all politicians (intellectually) desire to balance the budget, but it is basically impossible. Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, and debt servicing are such large pieces of the debt pie that the entirety of discretionary spending makes basically no impact in balancing the budget. These are de-facto untouchable obligations because too many people's lives depend on them and any party that enacts austerity will be swept out of office. Neither party will increase taxes on themselves (the rich) and taxing the middle/poor guarantees you lose the next election. The only path forward in the U.S. is basically kicking the can down the road until it implodes like so many other high debt-load western nations before them.