Really interesting Special Report in The Economist last week, on aging and longevity [economist.com]. I rather like the idea of describing myself as "pretired".

Different tax implications?

Ouch!

I've no interest in tech moguls providing the UBI. Let them pay taxes, and let government supply the UBI.

Had some similar weirdness here; Time Machine suddenly announced it had to make a whole new base backup, and then Arq did likewise. Machine has been running hotter than hot since 1 July.

@kdfrawg I don't doubt it. The problem is, they've barely begun unwinding themselves from more than a century of bad policy formulated by forest experts who had absolutely no experience of fire ecologies.

Between Two Fires: A Fire History of Contemporary America [barnesandnoble.com] is probably the most readable account, if you're interested.

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@kdfrawg Small, frequent fires will do that for you, for free, with minimal collateral damage.

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Hasn't burned since 1955? There's your problem, right there. I hope not too many people get hurt.

@kdfrawg That looks good too.

@kdfrawg Thanks for doing the needful.

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