I think it'll just keep sinking for a long time. The US has been hell for a very long time. It's just gotten worse.
It's illegal to revolt against the state, and it's illegal for individual states to seek independence. And that's for the nation with the strongest armed forces in the world.
I predict a slow, boring descent into a corporatist dystopia.
The most annoying part to me is that it doesn't finish booting until I unlock it with my PIN. You restart it, leave it on a table, and several minutes later, you want to use it, but not only is your fingerprint rejected and you need to use your PIN, but once you do it there's still a loading step. Extra insulting.
I wonder if someone's made a joke like this in a science paper before. Something to the effect of "we don't understand what's happening in our experiment as it seems to break the laws of physics. Perhaps the physics police just isn't around to enforce them."
Well i mean we're talking houses here, not record-breaking high-rise buildings.
As for issues with structural wood... Tbh they're pretty rare. Probably more common than, say, the steel in your walls rusting or something, but still, not to a worrisome degree.
The main one is insects. Water (leading to mould) is also a thing but water infiltrations are terrible news no matter the material so...
I miss the old days when I didn't know that exists