Look after your back and neck. Floss. Drink more water. Find out if you have family inheritable disease risk and adjust accordingly.

But also, take advantage of some of your best years, and the freedom which comes with not being tied down.

Recently I’ve started to think that these and other similar battles are lost.

I don’t think we will find out.

I saw the immediate aftermath. Someone jumped off the 8th floor in an interior atrium after setting off the building fire alarm. I happened to look that way while evacuating and it took a moment to process what I was seeing.

Ah! Well, apologies.

Nokia sealed their fate when they spent $8bn on NavTeq. Switching to Android would have made the purchase valueless, and the people responsible for the acquisition were still in charge.

Uh, it’s been coined for decades now.

Interest rates rose above 0% for the first time in a decade and suddenly profit became more important than growth.

Edit: actually I’m wrong and it’s more complicated than that, but in essence the era of free money came to an end. Interest rates were increasing before 2020 in very gradual increments, but then went to zero, also accompanied by a lot of money being injected into the system.

https://www.macrotrends.net/2015/fed-funds-rate-historical-chart

So the sudden change at the end of the chart is what caused the regime change driving the trend of growth-driven companies trying to generate a profit - many not having a clue how to do it because they’ve never done it before.

Iain Banks’ book The Business features an organisation where people vote for their leaders. It was quite credible, I thought.

Happened to me in 1997 but I didn’t mind

“How Can Mirrors Be Real If Our Eyes Aren’t Real?”

Integer overflow from 4 billion

Having no tracked data probably more suspicious so maybe the key is to have a boring profile using Google and also do stuff elsewhere.

Eat my shorts

The only theft going on is the ongoing theft from the public domain, due to corruption of copyright law by special interests enabled by law for hire. Your analogy is irrelevant as the marginal cost of operating a park for an extra visitor is not zero.

I will gladly take a position of moral superiority, because copyright has evolved from a very limited monopoly, intended to encourage creativity while balancing public access, into a licence for corporations to seek rent.

So, call it stealing if you like, I will sleep well tonight regardless.

But stealing is not owning so QED

Bankruptcy court?

If your business model needs undercover advocates to fake grassroots legitimacy you may have a problem.

If buying is not owning, copying is not stealing. Simple as that.