It’s not so much that the political consultants don’t understand that. It’s more that they can’t do anything about it: That would mean changing our economic structure to help out the workers, rather than their rich friends.

TIL Tudyk plaed Joker and Clayface. Now I guess I have to watch it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwZi58u1FjI - The Dragon Speech

All the higher mammals learn by playing, by doing, by interacting. And indeed, the higher the mammal, the more of its life it spends in play to prepare itself for adulthood. So you can see, this active role of the mind is fundamental to the way we think. It’s wired into our brains.

It’s a really great speech, and a lot of it is about the failures of our educational system.

At a previous job, I had to build laptops that would multi-boot DOS, Win95, Win98, and XP, all on one laptop. Our field-tech’s software had to have those specific versions of windows for the machines that they serviced, because of how the software interacted with USB and embeded floppy drives.

If you want to scare yourself: