"Falling prices" used to be called "competitive pricing". Funny how things change.

I'd say you shouldn't discount the "showing your age" bit. For me lot of mature shows have kind of devolved into "look at all the adulting happening" themes which, at least to me, are kind of sad in how self-congratulatory and self-affirming they are.

It's like a window into a bunch of writers trying to make peace with getting old, while trying to "say something" about a middle class problems they've immersed themselves in.

Just my two cents.

Thank you so very much for your post, it put me on the track I wanted to be on, namely looking on the effects of eddy currents on spacecraft, which has been a fascinating read.

What I am getting from it though that given a rotating orbiting object, depending on the strength of the magnetic field, you'd find stuff like rotation dampening, resistive torque, and Joule heating in conductive materials, with minor but non-negligible impact.

If you're accusing me of being depressed, then yes, absolutely. Massively and unequivocally.

Those are indeed the raving of someone who's been through some shit and not exactly crushing it, 100, blessed. I thought I spelled it out quite clearly by bitching about the "ikea generation".

I'd say it's maybe Ikea-Millenialism, from the side of the generation that "made it", as far as the generation possibly can. Complains about capitalism, but obsessed about career. Patting itself on the back for how mature it has become, by glorifying being boring. Flashing its faux-moral cred constantly, then turning around and making fun of others. Amazingly depressed, repressed and anxious, but constantly pretending they have it figured out and having fun.

If you can't stand them, imagine being part of the "dumpster diving" side of the generation, that's been too busy making it one more day to bother with all of that. Fuckers think their bougie-shit is the "voice of a generation".

I can't say I was particularly psyched about part 1 either. It was watching the least conceivably evil "evil organisation" play into the Gravity-Falls/Rick-n-Morty aesthetic, but I can turn my mind off when I have to.

But fucking Christ, a lot of it felt like it was screaming "do you like this?" in my face. To the point of fighting against its own themes.

"Do you like this reference? Heh, he said "boomer", funny right? Jugalos, remember them, so stupid? Look, love-virus, you loved that before right? Cool but not wild, down-to-earth couple stuff? "Woman tries to have it all"? Qanon? Reunion plot? Keanu Reaves?

Why wont you love me!?"

Confused mess. It desperately wants to be liked, by demographic it's utterly transparent about pandering to, but just comes off as "hello, fellow kids millennials" a lot.

That's like saying bars cater specifically for alcoholics.

There's always that lad that makes everyone else embarrassed for being in the same venue.