How far do you want to dial back? :)

La Pavoni makes a manual pressure espresso machine with similar levers. The bars give it away :)

Some works pass the test of time — my daughter (<12 yo) has been listening to AC/DC for years (courtesy School of rock) :)

...In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics’. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia."

Excerpt from the same 1946 essay, Politics and the English language, "When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink...

iv. Never use the passive where you can use the active.

v. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

vi. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

Belting the hits :) I agree with the core of your argument, we need to incentivize cleaner production technologies, rather than hoping for walking back in time.

Coda, reads the coffee reigns correctly since 1868. :)

If AI substitutes some kinds of labor a complement for some leisure goods (a large and diverse set)? I had some nvidia, bought more, seems tied in the production function.

Life’s little pleasures, life’s greatest pleasures

We saw The Who perform in San Fransisco a decade ago, with my now 10-year old daughter kicking (and rocking?) in-utero. She loves the Pete Townsend windmill move on “Won’t Get Fooled Again,” no wonder!