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Technology is getting out of control

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So here's the thing: we don't know that, really. If we find a spear that has one side sharpened and it's dated 40,000 bc, then we find another spear and both sides are sharpened dated 30,000 bc, it may appear that way... But we literally have a vague guess at best. If 1 million years from now an archeologist finds a kitchen knife and concludes that in the 2000's we were still figuring out double sided knives, then they would be hilariously wrong.

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We're being short-sighted

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Network engineer here, it's just as bad here. Currently trying to figure out what to do with 'gaining' a negative leap second. In 2025, we may lose one for the first time in digital history.

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Air Force Has Troops Remove Names, Unit Patches from Uniforms During Deportation Flights

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Going without identifying markings isn't anything new. OSI & special forces operate like that all the time already. Every single military member is going to have a CAC card and generally you'd be integrated with some unit. Outsiders stick out because no one seems to interact with them or know them. Military members are trained to identify and call out people that don't belong. In the air force the saying used is "every airman is a sensor". Basically, civilians, even if wearing the uniform correctly (hard to do) stick out because their mannerisms are all wrong. The way you put away/put on your cover (hat) looks weird if you haven't done it thousands of times.

Active military members are accounted for. You can't just "pop off to the Mexican border real quick".

I just don't really see the scenario that you're trying to insinuate.

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Absolutely. I'm a ddi engineer. NTP plays a huge part in my work. Systems, including ntp, are designed to handle leap seconds. Negative leap seconds are uncharted territory. I could go off on a long rant about it, but I doubt people care that much. It's really dry stuff.

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So much for "progress"

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So doesn't that mean it's a housing bubble issue? It seems like the focus on 1971 is designed to mislead people to think it's not a (very) recent phenomenon. This just seems like another "grr boomers" post which is just more division that serves to redirect anger from the ultra wealth.

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So much for "progress"

I bought a 3br 2ba 1.7k sqr house in the suburbs in 2017 for 135k and a hybrid car with 10k miles on it for 20k a few years ago. I'm really confused at these numbers. Are people just living outside their means and hoping collectors won't come knocking? I was making 55k at the time and I had no real financial troubles.

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Banning masks means banning (a subset) of disabled people from public places without great risk to their health

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Exactly. I find it strange that someone who's immune system is compromised to the point where a 'common cold' can kill them has been just hanging out in public and it's only a problem now. Masks weren't invented in 2020. Op is likely farming Internet points.

I've had a compromised immune system before. Going out in public and trusting a mask to protect me would be like wearing safety goggles when you jump into a wood chipper.

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