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I'm not sure what side you're on versus me, but that's fine too.

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Unfortunately, the issues are so complex and multifaceted to identify a single position is impossible.

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Joe Biden sure did. Then again, he was probably just thinking of himself (or his wife was just thinking about herself). Either way, would have been better for him to retire. I'm in my 50s and I know I'm not as quick as I once was. The things that come with being older (experience) can certainly more than make up for that, but at some point on the aging curve you really start to suffer...and if you do that you're taking us down with you.

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You conveniently didn’t quote me in full, I specifically addressed your attempt at a point.

”Allowing that their performance is not diminished by anything physical or cognitive, to force them at an arbitrary age to stop working is a slippery slope and foolish.”

As to taking someone “taking us down with you”, that’s a fault of management not an old person’s fault. The blame needs to be placed where it belongs.

You’ll have your opinion and I have mine. We won’t convert either of us to the other’s side.

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Old people need to retire and get out of our way.

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Always someone else’s fault?

If there’s a logjam above you, grow some nuts and go somewhere else or do something else to push up through or around it. Make yourself more valuable and visible to the next layer up.

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People working at 65 or above are holding up the progress of younger people.

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Ditto, present your current boss work on his level to assist him. Think up at the next level. Change roles or place of employment if you need to. You are not guaranteed any position anywhere on the planet. You have to work to earn it.

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If you work in a role past 65, you are doing damage to the company and the younger more versatile talent

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This statement is simply silly. Both contentions. Too silly to even comment on.

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Retire and go enjoy life.

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Some folks of all ages enjoy the structure and identity and psychological rewards of work. Allowing that their performance is not diminished by anything physical or cognitive, to force them at an arbitrary age to stop working is a slippery slope and foolish. (Not to mention illegal).

After dissecting your statement, you present with the maturity level of an adolescent; that’s probably why you see and despise that a 66 year-old is ahead of you on the organizational chart as lead fry cook.

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Frick socialism and communism.

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I’m here to point out that socialism* is merely the sheep in wolf’s clothing device to get a society to communism, which is a form of authoritarian dictatorship government by a less distasteful name.

*There are well-meaning folks who erroneously think that socialism can work amongst humans on a grand scale. Too many of the humans who inhabit the USA of 2026 are incapable of impulse control, following the rules of society or simple sharing with or courtesy towards others to allow it to work here. These types of folks are (unfortunately) making more offspring than the people who hypothetically COULD make socialism possible here. The socialist movement has folks in it who have good motives, but there are also folks in it that have nefarious intentions. The bad guys will win out.

That’s the first time this subject has ever come up here.

Give me a couple of years still in my current role at work to consider it and I’ll get back to you.

Thanks for bringing it to our attention.

Hip, Hip, Ouray!

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818 Body Count, what a coincidence.

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This means for every one of her type, there have to be another 204 women who have only slept with less than 3 other men than their husbands to keep the global average number of partners under 4.

Got it.

And I would be #819 with precautions in place.

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My wife likes to plan everything out but to me vacations are supposed to be fun and there’s nothing fun about only getting 4 hours of sleep

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She chose to be married to you; I’d rather sleep too than to have be around her.

You will note that I specifically did not request pics.

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frick the haters

Blaze your own trail with that 110 hp beast.

(Or you could opt for a ‘74/‘75 model with the 1.8L that had 76 hp)

Aren’t you in tech dawg, like for almost 20 years?

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Some things might be better, some things might be worse, some things might be the same.

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And some might be different.