I ( Jeff Relf ) am in Seattle, Early 2021. [ Mail@"Jeff-Relf."Me !555 206.900.9444 ] I was born here, start of 1960. My Photo My Location ■ If inflation is north of 4 %, which seems likely, the 10-year T-Notes’ real rate is -2.6 %, after inflation. Which seems appropriate given the number of people living in tents, unprotected, in a virtual war zone. Look at all the armed guards on Capitol Hill; Hugo Chavez & Chairman Xi would be ashamed to see that. ■ 80 years ago, WW II reduced the population. Now: Imprisoning young, healthy people in their homes, is a "mouse utopia" [*], a.k.a. "The Green New Deal". [ *: Wikipedia.ORG/wiki/Behavioral_sink ] -- Kids don't grow up; they stay with their moms, instead of reproducing. -- In 2018, South Dakota was the only state with a "Total Fertility Rate" ( average births per women's lifespan ) high enough to exceed deaths. PRB.ORG/usdata/indicator/fertility/snapshot/ Likely, it's below replacement level now. Even India is below replacement level now. -- Japan's population is aging & shrinking. China has the same problem. ■ My Theory of Everything, including humans: A refrigerator has programming. An acorn has programming. A car has programming. Everything from a photon to a black hole has programming. "God" (nature) programmed us to consume residual "eXergy" ( energy that can do "work", force * distance ) as the cosmos goes from infinitely hot/dense to infinitely cold/sparse. Religion is everything. "Science" is nothing. Humans are incapable of acquiring/using absolute truths. Everyone is "religious" because axioms are - assumed - based on what one wants to achieve. Einstein & I have faith in things ( e.g. superdeterminism ) that most (99.99 %) everyone else rejects. Randomness is indistinguishable from ignorance. Like Einstein, the principal founder of quantum mechanics, I assume that randomness is, in fact, ignorance. The future is just as fixed as the past; i.e. "God" (nature) is static, forever & always. Life is, at once, everything yet nothing. This assumption, this "faith", benefits Einstein and me because, unlike YouTubers, we prefer EuScience over SciFi, Zen Buddhism over fame-n-fortune. ■ The farther back in time you go, the more massive the black hole. The 12.5 billion year-old J2157-3602 is 34 billion solar masses, 13 thousand Sagittarius A* masses. ■ I was using a 3 button mouse, with laser printers, back in 1982, on Lilith/Modula-2 machines from Zürich ( Logitech is based in Zürich, g600, g635 ). DOS in 1983, Macs in 1984, Windows in 1989. I was programming Reverse Polish Notation (RPN) 1976, FORTH in 1984, PostScript in 1985 -- all PostFix. It's all about the stack, pushing & popping, as one does in assembly; I've programmed in PDP-11, 6502, 8086, 68020. I've done a bit of SQL, professionally, FoxPro, in downtown Seattle, just-off Elliott Bay, contracting for large corporations. The "middle" button on my mouse toggles my dictation microphone On/Off. Another button ( among 39 ) MiddleClicks, to open webpages in a new tab. I designed my (virtual) keyboard; no physical keyboard, no touchscreen. http://Jeff-Relf.Me/MouseKeyboardLayout.PNG My web search options: http://Jeff-Relf.Me/SearchBar.PNG I modify WebPages, on-the-fly, removing crap that I don't want, & I make them look/act how I want. WebPages: Jeff-Relf.Me/userContent.CSS.TXT FireFox v85 skin: Jeff-Relf.Me/userChrome.CSS.TXT Win10 skin: Jeff-Relf.Me/Black.Theme.TXT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMvYaNgWryc I wrote my own ( mixed font, zoomable ) console, for my Microsoft Visual C++ applets: http://Jeff-Relf.Me/Diff.PNG http://Jeff-Relf.Me/X.HTM http://Jeff-Relf.Me/C++CodingRules.HTM Visual Studio 2019 C# macros & extensions: http://Jeff-Relf.Me/Macros.HTM I toggle Windows Defender & Update On/Off; & I upgrade to the latest version of Windows: http://Jeff-Relf.Me/Win10.REG.TXT My playList when reading/writing/programming: http://Jeff-Relf.Me/MyPlayList.HTM ■ My posts to Usenet ( since Feb 2012 ). UTF-8, not US ASCII, has been the standard for decades now. Mozilla Thunderbird is the gold standard for newsreaders; but 99.999 % of people can't configure it properly. Most people can't write the CSS, nor the JavaScript, required to make it super nice. I recommend: News.US.Usenet-News.NET:119 or usNews.BlockNews.NET:119 They won't censor you; they don't even keep the "Path:" line, so you can't be identified. Their archive is decades deep. $5 buys you 11 gigs, enough for several life times. ■