That said, Bugs In Cyberspace is well respected within the invert space - I'd be shocked if they were engaged in any kind of illegal insect trafficking. Roach Crossing is another solid place to buy from as well.

The Google Pixel 9 has a 4700 mAh battery at 3.9 volts. The total energy is around 18.3 watt hours.

A high capacity rechargeable AA battery is 2500 mAh at 1.2 volts, or around 3 watt hours. If you wired 3 AA batteries in series, and then 2 of those series in parallel (for a total of 6 batteries), that would give you 3.6v at 5000 mAh. 3.6 volts falls within a normal discharge curve for a lithium ion battery, so you probably wouldn't need a boost converter.

Looking at how new it is, and how quickly things are changing, it seems likely that I could adopt it into my workflow in a month or two if it turns out that that's necessary.

On the other hand, I've spent the last 2 decades building skills as a developer. I'm far more worried that becoming a glorified code reviewer will atrophy those skills than I am about falling behind. Maybe it will turn out that those skills are now obsolete, but that feels unlikely to me.

The younger people at my job have atrocious spelling.

My ability to do mental math is much worse than it was when I was regularly doing math without a calculator.

People who have exclusively learned digital art do not have the muscle memory built up to seamlessly transition to analog art.

Almost everyone I know has awful handwriting.

So the question then is "What is the actual skill that AI tools are replacing?" And if the answer is "thinking," then that should be terrifying.

[1]: https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-sp50...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of_a_needle#Gate

https://www.cdc.gov/dipylidium/about/index.html

The biggest difference that I've noticed with "woke" is that it seems to have made its way outside of online culture and into the real world, so it's possible that it will have more staying power.

That comes out to around 4.1% of the total wealth. However, the number from Wikipedia is from 2022, so this figure isn't going to be entirely accurate.

That would maybe cover the cost of the pex itself, OR the cost of fittings and tools, but probably not both.

The point that I was trying to get across is that across the people I personally know around my age, I can find examples that run the gamut of financial risk - everything from "leave it in a savings account" to "YOLO on options." Because of this, I don't think it's particularly useful to draw conclusions about what the general population is doing based on anecdata alone.

#3 - A friend who recently (within the last year) drained his savings to $0 paying for a trip to Europe. All of the money came from day trading stocks on Robinhood.

#4 - A friend who bought a house just over a year ago. The house cost a few hundred thousand, and he decided to put a >50% down payment on it, which he did by liquidating some (not anywhere close to all) of the money he has in index funds.

Those are probably the two most extreme examples, and I could provide more examples that are anywhere in between. I'm going to wait for a study that does some statistical analysis over the population before I draw any conclusions.