Problem with dementia is the slow progression. When you can decide to end it you likely can think rationally enough that you should not and when you are at the point of it actually being bad enough you likely are not fit to decide that. Also just like a kid it can be fun to watch shows or eat tasty food or listen to or even sing songs. So if you are in a position to have a good enough environment for it it might be fine. So if your wealthy enough it might not be to bad. When you go physically down though it gets much worse as someone with physical issues can still have intellectual pursuits to enjoy. In the end the us at least does not allow any kind of death with dignity. Best you get is DNR orders and hospice which will allow you to die by not intervening. If your unconscious this can include withholding liquid till you die of thirst. No giving you to much barbituates though. That would be killing you and that would be a no no. But if you can't drink you can be allowed to die after a few days as your organs shutdown.
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why is it offloaded to the teachers? Why aren't phones treated like guns in the school?
I don't but I would not shadow someone for a day unless they were paying me. Im not sure I could go 7 hours without a break and would likely demand one somewhere around 5 or 6.
This has been a wonderful development for me. As a non smartphone person the deals being in the apps has been part of whats gotten me to stop using fast food. The main reason is the price but the online deals would have had me back if I could just stop in and order them. Its mom and pop shops for me until they get roped into the app ecosphere.
I have a few degrees and have been in the full time work world for 30 years and I have been unemployed for the same. I don't think that will make you feel better. Anyway I get similar responses but also ones like we want someone who is really good with X. Most positions ask for a laundry list of things so its rare I can apply to one where I have experience in 100% of the ask. I won't apply to things if I don't have at least half and usually have more than 75% and most often have 90%.
Security would go a long way. Not national security but life security. For example I own a bunch of tools and I sorta wish I did not. If I was guaranteed access to something like a tool library that had everything I might need to buy from home depot of such I would not carry any. Heck it could be home depot where when you buy the paint you get the rollers and brushes and equipment to clean it up with your purchase and you return it when your done. Heck could return the leftover paint. Also internet replaces a lot of things. My wife and I are committed to not buying physical things so we using streaming services and buy digital copies of stuff. We get books in pdf now and use games and such to get away from toys and such.
I agree and it concerns me how much geoengineering bro talk there is and responding to descent with luddites and your concerns are overdone its all good.
I am not a climate scientist and have not been to conferences but im a reasonably intelligent human who has five decades of experience on this planet and I can see we are already fucked in that things have changed in how the planet works. I see the storms (not just the news making ones but how unoften light rain has become around me and how often general storms have become), I see the flooding, I see the change in the seasons, etc. To me its now when are we fucked because again we already see that we are. To me its how roughly we want the fucking to be ultimately and can we bring it back down to a more tender and loving level.
No reasonable scientist is going to call for geoengineering unless they could be sure they are not making it worse. We are certainly in a point of no return in that we will not get back to 0 but until we are actually falling apart we won't know for sure if we can't survive at +3 or +5.
Many many would not get the new shiny. In my lifetime my vehicles have had few appreciable improvements. Mostly around safety like air bags and view cameras. I could care less about the radio and if I did its easy enough to upgrade that part.
I don't think I can. I try and make the least impact I can for my own moral reasons. Essentially I want to know I did as much as I could when I leave this existence. I accept that there are forces beyond me that I can only influence indirectly and that despite my efforts can and have gone in a massively opposite direction of reducing climate change.
Wonder if this will effect visas.