PostiveNoise

I've been re watching this show in the last week or two, and it's kind of hard for me to enjoy, because to me EVERYONE seems fairly horrible. I guess the audience is supposed to try to feel some compassion for the characters, but it mostly seems like a guilty pleasure viewing experience, and I'm supposed to be entertained by how messed up everyone is.

The production quality is just amazing though. Like the OP mentions, stuff just looks great...it's a nicely stylized take on what the early 60's were kind of like.

Well, that's neat looking and cool and weird.

I'm getting strong Yellow Submarine movie vibes (which is good).

When they pass you in the hall at work, it's like you are invisible to them. Never any eye contact or acknowledgement that you exist, except for them not actually walking right into you.

I had a coworker who did this to me (and a fair amount of other people at work). She was young and pretty and had this approach to any guys a fair amount older than her. I wasn't trying to date her or even interact with her in any personal way...she just seemed to preemptively turn on her 'you are invisible' field to the many people she was not interested in. It was a bit odd, but effective.

It's more about the potential for population growth without needing to leave the solar system or develop FTL space drives or anything super fancy.

These days, people tend to have less children once there is good education and health care. But if things get better and no one needs to have a job, maybe people will return to having more children per person, so it's hard to say how many people there would actually be in the 2300...lots of change will be happening in the meantime.

Indeed. A push for CONSTANT growth is not all that workable in the next few decades possibly. But once humankind starts transitioning to an existence beyond planet earth, even if it's just o'neill cylinder space habitats in orbit around the planet, lots of growth opportunities will open up. Heck, just this solar system could eventually fit hundreds of billions of humans in a century or two, and combine that with massive improvements in technology, it's easy to see hugely improved growth.

Since you have 5 speakers, one of them should be the center speaker, which is focused on dialog. Some Denon receivers have a 'dialog level adjust' or 'center level adjust' setting that you can turn on and then turn up the dialog level. If you don't have that setting the solution is to try to turn up the center speaker (or turn down all the other speakers) some way, such as using a mixer or some such (may require some research for specifics).

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I switched to a mini pc about 1.5 years ago, and it's been working out fine. I'll probably get another one when it's time to move on. One thing I like about my new setup is it's more modular. I have 2 external SSD drives and a USB hub, both of which I can continue using when I swap out the 'main' pc. I have a fancy audio interface hub as well, so I'm not concerned about any lack of enough audio ports on the mini pc.

In general, employers hope to find employees who have basically already done the job they trying to fill, and find someone who is easy and enjoyable to work with. It seems like you are quite likely already there in terms of experience. So, as long as you are a nice, functional person, you could likely do more of this work for however long you want, including most of your life. Caretakers are a job that is going up in demand, not down, world-wide.

Lot's of bonus points if you keep learning useful skills, depending on your interests. Getting better at cooking, doing home repairs, hiring and coordinating contractors who can do stuff you can't do, people skills, etc.

Based on your interest in being an ethical person, it seems like this situation could work out very well. It's totally possible to get the place set up so that you rent out a nice, very livable space for a tenant that is less expensive and/or nicer than other options they might have, and you will likely be a considerate landlord, which would make you and your tenants happy and comfortable with the situation.

Being a landlord is not inherently evil, nor is it inherently a complicated and frustrating existence. In fact, the world could probably use a lot more nice, considerate landlords. You could be one of them!