Re: UNH Hockey: Where Do We Go From Here....
Darius, I suppose we all have different tolerances for risk. Using the motor vehicle fatality issue, I think that speaks for itself. Yes, even with all the improvements to safety, 100 people die every day in the US behind the wheel. We're now confronting the safety issue of "self-driving" cars, which supposedly will result in other changes. Maybe the idea of letting your car drive itself appeals to you? It doesn't appeal to me. The idea that my ability to drive my car myself could be taken away, because some pointy-headed safety advocate in Washington DC deems it in the global best interests of "safety" to only allow self-driving cars tp be sold, that's disturbing. Maybe you disagree? Regardless, it may not be imminent, but it's not difficult to see that issue coming before 2030.
Personally, I'm not into survival mode if that quality of life is going to be some mundane zombie-like existence. There seem to be a lot of folks who are chasing this Utopian nirvana where everything is "safe", and there are no risks to be taken, and we all sing Kumbaya 24/7/365 infinity … until an 8.0 earthquake, or some asteroid from space crashes into our planet and ends it all quickly.
I consider myself lucky, I've lived a fantastic life - fantastic to my standards, maybe unimpressive by others, but who cares - and I hope to live a few/lot more years. I'm an optimist, and I always think good things are out there, yet to come. But if it all ended today, from whatever, I'd have no regrets, other than missing out on more time here with folks I care about. And based on what I see and hear, my optimism about what's to come is more and more tempered, each and every day. Regular panics are not what I'm looking forward to, but based on how this is playing out, I can't help but think this is going to become the "new normal". And that's incredibly sad, to me anyway. JMHO.
Darius, I suppose we all have different tolerances for risk. Using the motor vehicle fatality issue, I think that speaks for itself. Yes, even with all the improvements to safety, 100 people die every day in the US behind the wheel. We're now confronting the safety issue of "self-driving" cars, which supposedly will result in other changes. Maybe the idea of letting your car drive itself appeals to you? It doesn't appeal to me. The idea that my ability to drive my car myself could be taken away, because some pointy-headed safety advocate in Washington DC deems it in the global best interests of "safety" to only allow self-driving cars tp be sold, that's disturbing. Maybe you disagree? Regardless, it may not be imminent, but it's not difficult to see that issue coming before 2030.
Personally, I'm not into survival mode if that quality of life is going to be some mundane zombie-like existence. There seem to be a lot of folks who are chasing this Utopian nirvana where everything is "safe", and there are no risks to be taken, and we all sing Kumbaya 24/7/365 infinity … until an 8.0 earthquake, or some asteroid from space crashes into our planet and ends it all quickly.
I consider myself lucky, I've lived a fantastic life - fantastic to my standards, maybe unimpressive by others, but who cares - and I hope to live a few/lot more years. I'm an optimist, and I always think good things are out there, yet to come. But if it all ended today, from whatever, I'd have no regrets, other than missing out on more time here with folks I care about. And based on what I see and hear, my optimism about what's to come is more and more tempered, each and every day. Regular panics are not what I'm looking forward to, but based on how this is playing out, I can't help but think this is going to become the "new normal". And that's incredibly sad, to me anyway. JMHO.
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