Lion ponderings

 https://finance.yahoo.com/personal-finance/investing/article/as-the-average-retirement-age-continues-to-rise-will-passive-income-be-the-solution-162047139.html Cutting through another load of AI filler, Boston College & Grok say the retirement age is rising yet all the gootube commenters say the retirement age is falling.  Always bad news from organized media.  Always good news from the internet demographic.  Suspect the internet is still manely the geeks, technology professionals, high earners with the means to be online most hours.  So the stonk market melted up when the government shut down & crashed when the government reopened.  Only the government can make the stonk market crash. It wasn't government pension funds but government borrowing. --------------------------------------------------    https://growmane.blogspot.com/2025/02/s-bear-market-being-what-it-is-apple.html Then lions realized the natural spoken language interfaces ...

 Dreamscape was a fascination to young lion because the ultimate super power was always being able to enter someone else's dream.  It never happened, but young lion continued to imagine it for a long time.   Here Dennis Quaid is preparing to enter the hottie's dream. Contrary to memory, there was no nudity, but it was provocative like most movies in the day.  Helas, she ended up hitting it off with Steven Spielberg.  As bad as this movie was, lions can only imagine Kate Kapshaw enjoyed making it more than Indiana Jones. It was a dark movie, but most dreams are dark. All the witty Dennis Quaid lines immediately came back.  Like Voyagers, surprised how much lions remembered from just one viewing.   Lions always vagely remembered the father scene but not exactly that he was eating.  That seems to be a common theme in dreams.  A lot of what makes it work are the common themes we all dream about. There's a gradual descent into darkness as we disco...

 https://www.businessinsider.com/cable-tv-household-50-percent-decline-brian-wieser-2025-11  Lions have now witnessed the rise of cable TV in the 80's & the fall in the 2020's.  They didn't have cable TV until 1989.  Then they downgraded to local channels in 2006, citing rising costs.  It was canceled some time in 2010, after Comca$t began encrypting the local channels & charging for a digital output.   They offered explanations of the fully encrypted network being more efficient & digital TV using more power than analog.  The internet ate it up, but lions knew digital TV looked so good for the price, it was eating up all their set top box revenue.  Average internet commenter consumers didn't know about the cheap options enabled by digital TV. The golden age was 1999-2005.  It took some time for younger lion to realize the digital HD channels were on cable.  If content continued to abound, a younger lion might have inves...