I tried to use M365 with a seemingly simple task - take a Word doc with a form and populate it with some example data. It took several minutes to think, and then fifteen or so more to complete.

That’ll teach him to use Gen Z slang in front of his elders!

Collar stiffeners for a dress shirt. “Sir, they’re pointy and they’re metal”.

Fair enough. I’ll live with my downvotes, but it is a pet peeve. In the spirit of making a more tangible contribution, albeit still an off-topic one, I’ll leave this slightly satirical Mc Sweeney’s article here, which addresses this scourge: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/two-sentence-headlines-are-everywhere-heres-why-you-should-be-concerned

Judging by the downvotes, I think my comment might have been misinterpreted. I was addressing the writer of the Fortune article in absentia, not criticizing the poster of the article on Lemmy.

By way of clarification, my expression of agreement was with OP’s general sentiment (the global poly crisis), not with the WEF quote, which I was just adding context for.

It’s a pity that your Pulitzer Prize level writing didn’t enable you to craft something more literate than a two sentence clickbait title for your article.

For context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You'll_own_nothing_and_be_happy

I share your concerns.

I figured this was some funny attempt at anonymization, even though everyone has their backs turned to the camera.

Oh, this was the case at my school too! The lab became a nerd lounge during lunch and recess.

I remember this extremely well, because I am indeed old enough to remember these things!

School computer lab memories:

School #1: c. 1989-1991 - Apple IIGSes with ImageWriter printers and a shared 5.25" disk box that the instructor could use to load software onto multiple machines.

The school also had a bunch of Commodore 64s that had recently been replaced by the IIGS machines. There were also a few Apple IIc machines (thought they were neat at the time, and still do!)

My sixth grade teacher was an amateur coder and taught me a bit of Pascal.

School #2:

c.1991-1993 - Apple IIe machines. Had a first experience using a Mac SE and a Mac Classic, which I thought was amazing.

School #3:

c. 1994-1997

Mac Classics in a line in the library, A lab filled with Macintosh LC3s, and another lab with PCs running earlyish versions of Windows and DOS, networked with Netware IPX. I was old enough at this point to be a student network admin.

The school also had some lingering Mac SE/30s, and a store room filled with TRS-80s, which I unsuccessfully tried to get my computer teacher to give me. However, the librarian gave me an original IBM 8086 and a monitor, so I took it home and learnt assembly.

Love the overhead projector in the corner of the lab shown. They were ubiquitous!

Oh, I agree with you, and concur with the spirit of the infographic. I just like accurate calculations!

That’s realistic, but the infographic doesn’t include tax and insurance. Working backwards, it has:

• Home price: $600,000
• Down payment (20%): $120,000
• Loan amount: $480,000
• Interest rate: 3.0% fixed
• Term: 30 years (360 months)

The monthly principal-and-interest payment is exactly as the post said, $2024 / month.

Has insurance gone up? Absolutely? Have property taxes generally rise? They have. But this is an honest like-for-like comparison.

My math says that the monthly principal+interest on that house is more like $4,300 a month, assuming:

• Purchase price: $850,000
• Down payment (20%): $170,000
• Loan amount: $680,000
• Interest rate: 6.5% fixed
• Term: 30 years (360 months)

Not insignificant, but not wildly off like the infographic.

Point taken, but where are you in the world with an 8.5% mortgage? Rates in the US for 30 year mortgages are around 6.5% right now (source: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MORTGAGE30US)

Inarticulate.

The Economist has a similar standard: https://www.economist.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/style_guide_12.pdf (see the ‘pronounceable abbreviations’ section, for instance)

That’s the Guardian’s house style for acronyms: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/51924/proper-capitalization-of-commonly-used-acronyms-and-initialisms

Calling the individuals involved in administering an execution “medical personnel” is macabre.

I feel okay, personally (other than being horrified by the polycrisis taking place in the world), but share your sense that we’re in the middle of a tectonic shift. Multiple friends, usually talkative, usually stable, have gone silent, and I know several people who seem to be having low level mental health crises.