You Get Killed, Walk It Off

Chimps are much admired for their tool use and for their problem-solving relationship with things as they find them...the orang is, let us say, not so replete with enterprise. Give an orangutan the hexagonal peg and the several shapes of hole, and then hide behind the two-way mirror and watch how he engages with the problem.

And watch and watch and watch--because he does not engage with the problem. He uses the peg to scratch his back, has a look-see at his right wrist, makes a half-hearted and soon abandoned attempt to use his fur as a macramé project, stares dreamily out the window if there is one and at nothing in particular if not, and the sun begins to set. (The sun will also set if you are observing a chimp, but the chimp is more amusing, so you are less likely to mark the moment in your notes. An orang observer has plenty of time to be a student of the vanities of sunset.)

You watch, and the orang dreams...when casually and as if thinking of something else, the orang slips the hexagonal peg into the hexagonal hole. And continues staring off dreamily."

Pasta (type of your choice, I'm working my way through a backlog)

Pasta sauce (I'm using tomato sauce)

Butter

Microwavable frozen vegetables

Cook the pasta, mix in the sauce and butter, also heat up some veggies if you feel like it. You'll get almost all your macro food groups (in order: carbs, simple sugars, fats and fiber; missing protein) and all you have to do is cook the pasta.

Other simple, cheap staples are great but they need a lot more work. This is simple, fast and filling.

Term limits are a bad solution for gerontocracy, because a politician’s age is not always correlated with the time they’ve spent in office. Under term limits, a 35 year old can be ejected from Congress if they were really young when first elected, and an 80 year old could enter Congress by winning their first term.

A simple age limit (i.e. you cannot run for office after a certain age) is the most direct response to the problem you are describing, and I would be more in favor of that than term limits. However, even age limits are imperfect because different people age differently. No matter where you set the limit, there’s going to be some senile old people who are still young enough to run, and there’s going to be some lucid old people who are disqualified despite being capable of doing the job. This is a problem you’ll encounter for any type of policy restricting who can run for office: there’s going to be some unintended effects on the marginal cases.

OpenAI scraped the entire web. All of which had been a labor of love from humans. Wikipedia is the backbone of a lot of LLMs, and that was volunteer human labor. They stole it and now they're selling it back to us.