> Generators, battery-operated tools, hand-operated tools, heaters

The equivalent for a dev is laptop, another AI, mobile hotspot and work at a cafe/library.

Microsoft being down is like having a contingency for a tornado.

> Microsoft being down is like having a contingency for a tornado.

I'm probably misreading your point, so, apologies, but I'd still just like to say:

Microsoft is a profit-driven, human-run corporation that mostly offers business infrastructure services. I think contingency planning for Microsoft service failures is almost entirely unlike contingency planning for adverse weather events?

> having a contingency for a tornado.

Sounds like a normal thing to do if you live in Kansas. And perhaps we are all about to start living in the software equivalent of Kansas?

> people don't "sanitize" the text in their head before outputting it

I find the opposite when dictating to a phone - it feels like speaking requires an enormous amount of effort compared to typing.

Quite possibly because I spend all day typing and am a touch typer.

Except some of us consider ourselves to be quite evolved, not religious, AND absent of depression. Maybe depression (or the lack thereof) has nothing to do with religion at all.

If you're trying to establish if X is a cure for Y, then looking at people who don't have Y will not tell you much.

Just because you call something a religion doesn't mean it is. There is no such thing as "religion of science"

For some people, it is. There is a segment of non-religious people who do treat the current scientific consensus as gospel and moralize adherence with typical religious in-group/out-group dynamics, despite not really understanding or engaging with any of the actual material. I disagree that relying on scientific consensus is inherently religious, though.

Or travel with a diary containing a post-it note labelled "p4sswd"