It is commonplace to block a VPN address block if you are experiencing tenacious malicious traffic. Its a consequence of sharing address space with bad actors, not something a service would likely be pursuing without cause.

And those "manics" are excluded as well, while just showing up, trying to make friends. The solutionism exhibited in discussions like this flies in the face of reality. They devolve into self-help for the masses. Human relationships are complex, and there is no easy path to true friendship.

> The solutionism exhibited in discussions like this flies in the face of reality.

The solution I identify in my comments does not fly in the face of reality, because it is how I went from being crushingly lonely and weird in my early 30s to having the kind of friends who (just today) said "are you really doing Christmas by yourself? Fly out to <another country> and come to us, you'd be very welcome", and they absolutely mean it.

I'm still someone who lives solo and the covid lockdowns were a difficult, lonely time. But I have friends because I found myself introduced to an event on the fringes of a much bigger social scene, and I decided to turn up more and take an active part in it.

You find a thing that is bigger than yourself, whatever it is, you show interest, and you keep turning up. It's not solutionism: it's how friendship starts, for most people. You offer or accept help. You share a task that needs doing. You share an activity that is fun. You expand your personal circle to a dog, and they expand your circle to the owners of other dogs. Whatever.

Of course humans are all different, but essentially all the adults at a grown up social group, community project, activism event, regular club, dog park, have something in common: they are adults who want friendship. That may well be the only thing they have in common apart from their interest in some shared endeavour.

Generalizing all humans experiencing difficulty socializing as adults as lazy is an oversimplification at best.

Their comment is on a specific kind of person ("those that treat life as 'working and slacking'"), not all people.

I don't think that's exactly what they were saying. I read it more like "people who divide life into work-that-you-should-pour-your-energy-into and recovery-where-you-try-not-to-spend-energy", and that maybe we should pour less of our energy into work and use that energy for socialising (which can result in an overall net energy gain).

You have more generous eyes than my best, but saying things like, get off your butt, stop binging, and its that easy, is pretty analogous to common discourse where the blame is placed on motivation alone.

There are obviously some adults who have severe limitations on their ability to socialise and nobody is implying they are lazy.

But a wider social scene I have been part of has people with evident learning difficulties, people with obvious neurodivergence, people with physical disabilities.

If you show up and show interest in sharing a common goal with a large enough circle of people, then those people will find you a way to participate at your own speed.

If you have a way to show up for social activities, or assistance to show up, you could show up, you have a desire to show up, and you don't show up... some of that really is laziness at worst and avoidance at best.

The US population will continue to get worse at exhibiting attentional control, and will continue to spread and hold novel delusional beliefs at increasing rates.

This would be an interesting thread if you asked users to support their predictions with evidence or substance.

> 3) Trade jobs will start to become what code jobs were in the 00's -- very well paid.

What signals are there for this?

That transcript for a podcast or whatever states there is demand, not a signal that there is a trend toward significantly higher wages or that employment is growing.

There are very different business constraints for hiring software developers vs all skilled tradespeople.

> not a signal that there is a trend toward significantly higher wages

It wouldn't be a prediction if it was already true

Unless you are a soothsayer, predictions require some priors.

I strongly encourage new junior hires to read MDN, specifications, etc. However, for some, it is like they cannot absorb information if its not in video format.

I'm frustrated at how often a how-to for something that takes three sentences to explain is a video. At the same time, it's amazing for things like simple home and car maintenance.

> now

They always have?

Much less.

Yes. Previously the court had to prove that something an agency did went against the mandate congress gave it, to strike it down. Now it can just strike it down for no reason. This is useful in times when republicans control the courts and democrats control the executive.