It’s the same in many fields. Trainees learn by doing the easy, repetitive work that can now be automated.

Yeah, but we’ve had countless examples of loss-making tech companies with sky-high valuations. Amazon didn’t make a profit for something like 20 years. Investors of course want returns, but they can differ on the timeframe they’re willing to wait for them.

Are you being obtuse? English is the most commonly spoken language in the world and US culture is extremely popular worldwide.

Evangelicals are an almost entirely US phenomenon. In the rest of the world, Protestant countries like Germany and the UK are more liberal than Catholic countries like Ireland and Italy. For example, Italy “legalised” abortion in 1978 but the vast majority of gynaecologists refuse to perform them on religious grounds. Ireland didn’t legalise until… 2019!

They didn’t assume most people are US-based. They assumed the DMV would be the most widely recognised and understood example to use.

Proof they aren’t American-trained…

I think people in the future will look back on how we raise livestock today as barbaric.

You Oughta Know isn’t even from the 21st century.

Uh, I was replying to someone who said it’s essential to separate lids from their bottles. It’s not psychopaths who are doing this — it’s people who think it’s the right thing to do.

Separation requirements vary. In the UK, plastic bottle caps are generally tethered to the bottle now to prevent people from separating them.

It seems like Vision Pro allows selective focusing.

Aviation types still hang out on Pprune.org.