8) They Will Try To Get You To Mate In Extremely Weird Ways
Sold.
JackBeKrazee
JackBeKrazee
Now playing
So you ‘ve been abducted and placed in an alien zoo, put on display for other aliens to gawk at. The good news is…
Yes. This.
I came here to post this. It made me so happy when I saw it as the top reply.
The Honor Harrington series by David Weber
Google “Honor Harrington”
Yes. A thousand times yes.
This young woman
I’m Gen-X with a Millennial kid, but you’re right that many Millennials have Boomers as parents. Will fix.
What do mean mean Gen-X parents? My parents are Boomers. My wife’s parents... they might be Gen-X as her mom is only 20 years older, a gap so small that one of her teachers though she was her sister... when my wife was in High School.
I’m usually quite skeptical about surveys, too. But the General Social Survey is a huge instrument. It’s not a quick 5 questions on a streetcorner: it’s run out of the University of Chicago’s National Opinion Research Center, it takes 90 minutes to administer, and it has surveyed tens of thousands of people. It’s a…
Lol.
American attitudes about sex continue to change, from one generation to the next. A new study from San Diego State…
“The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.” — Warren Bennis
Yes, now that I’ve crossed the unfounded pessimism of Terminator with the unfounded optimism of Star Trek, a beverage of some kind is a nice idea.
Yeah, I think that our current concept of employment is not going to be able to survive the 21st century. I think, if we’re going to have a non-dystopian society, we’ll have to have a universal basic income paid for by the increase in automated productivity. There will still be work that can’t be done, or not done as…
Just a reminder that, instead of a Jetson’s like future where the regular employee gets a living wage to work a few hours a week pushing a button before returning to his stay-at-home partner... instead, the regular employee can panhandle on the street while a robot does their job and the CEO buys a larger yacht.
As I have been saying for years now, we need to be looking past the issue of job-creation (or job-retention or whatever) and start planning the path to a post-employment, post-scarcity future. The number of jobs that cannot be automated is falling every year, and we’re looking at a economic disaster of massive…
"By the way, what does this factory produce?"