Some percentage, including me, would have built a second or third

You mean it’s not 50 trillion consoles? Enough for everyone on the planet to have 6,000? Damn.

I was excited to use a magnetic car mount with wireless charging, then discovered that every bump in the road jiggles the contacts and produces error messages on my phone

You could take genes out of the picture and the story would hold. Just assume people raised by impulsive parents distracted by 8 other kids are more likely to repeat the cycle. Contrary to supporting eugenics, that idea is inclusive and powers progressive welfare reform.

Reddit is gamed like that. Even before LLMs there were highly active users that caught bans for using multiple accounts to boost all their posts.

Facebook didn’t catch on in a similar way, because people didn’t have personal feeds yet. The way startups are funded now seems to follow your model though. Decisions on high about what people should see/want.

More housing ≠ more people. We aren’t going back to a 3+ child average unless a lot of other things change

Szechuan peppercorns. They do not contain capsaicin, but produce a vanilloid drug that opens potassium leak channels in your mouth, preferentially in the fine touch afferents. When you eat szechuan spice these neurons misfire and tell your brain that you are sensing a rapid, fluttery (50Hz) vibration.

Also called Chinese prickly ash, these trees are not related to chili peppers or black pepper, but are instead very small citrus fruit. Fears over them introducing citrus blight led to a ban on imports to the US that was only overturned in 2005. Since then, people like me have been discovering how good they are in pasta sauce.

On a plane, the head mount goes backwards on the head of the passenger seated in front of you. Great for relieving wrist strain