thesmokingman

Assuming you read the article, which part wasn’t clear?

Kinda strange that the SCMP won’t say which analysts say this. Granted, broken clock and all that. Or this.

Let me pull that quote for you.

The number of people living with dementia is still increasing due to our ageing population, but this study adds to the good news that more recent generations have a decreased risk compared to past generations

Now let me help you understand percentages. See, when you have more people alive, the number goes up. What does the quote say? The number is going up because the population is ageing. Notice it doesn’t say frequency. That’s when the percentage increases. Percentage is the ratio of the number to the whole. See, in your conspiracy, you forgot to bring something that talks about percentage. In the article we’re talking about, “frequency” and “percent” are never mentioned.

Had you actually read the article, you might have pulled this quote

it should not be assumed that the trend would continue, given some of the biggest health changes to reduce dementia risk may already have been made

Which, unsurprisingly, doesn’t match your conspiracy theory. More importantly, you might have pulled this one, which can directly be linked to your conspiracy.

evidence suggested nearly half of dementia cases could be prevented or delayed by addressing 14 key risk factors – from smoking to air quality – although he noted not all were within individuals’ control

But you don’t really have supporting facts, which is really annoying. There are great points to be made about meat and mental health. Maybe come with those next time! Good sources, too, covering meta studies perhaps?

Fascinating how the numbers decreased a hundred years before your range, isn’t it! Maybe you should take the time to read the article and offer real criticism instead of conspiracy theory.

See‽ Easy explanation. I get it, absolutely reasonable issues, and one of several areas Linux just isn’t great with. “Too many issues to explain here” doesn’t click with me.

This rings a little hollow to me. Most of the people I know that understand Linux can quickly summarize why they might not use it as their daily driver (eg staying on macOS for graphics/video or staying on Windows for desktop Word/Excel). If you can’t summarize that quickly, it really makes me wonder if you really understand it. I’m not trying to No True Scotsman my way around it; I really don’t understand.

You’re looking for something like Nightshade. The chuds into accelerating the rapid destruction of all energy resources are aware and capable of defending so it’s not as solid. I don’t know if image datasets are scraped or manually compiled so YMMV; I do know the more poison you throw out the better.

You haven’t linked actual jobs and programs. Your snide Google search was a GitHub repo, not school programs or job postings that show your anecdotal dream is a reality. Your foundational assumption is that everyone wants to grow exactly like you did (ie not the easy path) which is completely wrong.

You do not appear to actually understand the audience you’re holier than. This the same conversation that’s been happening in the Linux world for more than two decades. Good luck changing the world.

How does someone starting design tomorrow get schooling and career experience (both of which almost universally require Adobe products) without using Adobe products? Where are these programs and jobs accessible to the entire market? Where the easy path that most will take?

I’m somewhat flabbergasted. How does someone starting design tomorrow get schooling and career experience (both of which almost universally require Adobe products) without using Adobe products? Where are these programs and jobs accessible to the entire market? Where the easy path that most will take (do you know how many active users Facebook, Reddit, and X the Everything App still have?)?

I agree with everything you’ve said. What I think you’re missing is that some people don’t want to be the best in class. Some people don’t take their work home with them and because employers are not required to give time to grow skills some people will just work the line. If your assumption about labor requires labor to spend their whole life working to be better at getting exploited, you have a lot to learn about the majority of labor.

This doesn’t answer the question at all. Don’t get me wrong; I have zero interest in supporting Adobe and I tell anyone they’re toxic. What I’m frustrated with is blaming users of their software. To use your real world examples, that’s like blaming millennials for the myth of plastic recycling. You can attack them writ large for something they have no control over or you can go for the source.

A very similar argument can be made about cloud software. The cloud engineering pipeline is geared toward forcing you into Azure, GCP, or AWS. Attacking the DevOps engineer just trying to make a living for the AI abuse supported by Azure is the wrong idea.

Your response is a much better way to change the picture. Education and connection, not blame.