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The over-60 line is an interesting one regarding long-term unemployment during the pandemic. Most people who came of age in the late 1970's were in no sense digital natives - the TI family of calculators were probably the fanciest device university students of that era owned. But by the end of the 1980's, a substantial fraction of US teenagers had been exposed to personal computers at home. I wonder if that transition back then has echoes in the workforce changes today...

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The biggest mistake left-wingers make is underestimating how psychotically evil right-winger leaders are.

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