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And current levels of production are the very stressors that are eroding the planet’s carrying capacity. When you have so much land taken up for agriculture, which poisons with herbicides and kills anything that gets into the fields and pollutes the waters with fertilizers and eradicates any biodiversity with monocultures, where is the room for a healthy ecosystem?

Again - CONUS has less than 2% “untouched ecosystems”. This is largely to mostly thanks to agriculture. It should be 80% or more.

This. Truly sustainable practices require a considerably lower profit margin per acre, thereby forcing the parasitical middlemen to give farmers more without utterly hosing the consumer for all that they are worth.

And some overproduction is required to handle lean years. While you cannot keep fruit fresh for years, you can convert it into almost-analogous forms like flash-frozen in the field, within minutes of being picked, such that it can bridge the gap in lean years.

So there always will be some overproduction and some waste in the system, but not to the point where it needs to be intentionally made inedible so it cannot be given away, in order to create artificial scarcity to sustain market prices.

Except… the “eco-fascists” are also not wrong.

The healthy carrying capacity of a pre-modern civ Earth has been estimated at 2 Billion humans at a totally vegan diet. Bring a Western diet into the picture, and that drops to somewhere between 1B and 500M people.

I mean, yes, you can put every arable square meter of soil under agriculture and feed many more billions than exist. But this would utterly destroy the ecosystem within a few short years, causing a subsequent collapse of humanity to zero. A healthy ecological balance has 80+% wild areas - defined as anything more than 10km from any human access - and by comparison less than 2% of CONUS meets this definition.

And having overshot the planet’s carrying capacity by more than 4×, we have also caused a corresponding decline in that carrying capacity via ecosystem degradation, pollution, soil erosion and innumerable other stressors. If humanity is to see a significant collapse that includes tech collapse (fertilizer production, etc.), we will be exceedingly lucky to come out the far side with more than a few tens of millions of people planet-wide.

And for reference, before European colonization North America was likely to have had as many as 300M natives before disease emptied the continent.

If you were using any other form of RAID across multiple drives, you would be absolutely correct.

Simple mirroring? From what I have seen, that’s better done as HW RAID. There is no need to introduce software latency into a mirror RAID, and no benefit from file systems in a mirror.

And finally: how often are you going to be moving any boot drive from one system to another? I have been working with computers since 1982 and in the IT industry since 1997, and I have done this - for myself - a grand total of once. In every other case, I have wanted to use a newer or better drive in the new system, or wanted to re-do the install because reasons.

Do we know that?

Ran across a paper years ago that did confirm this, but laid out various reasons why, including:

1. Many courses that employ debate/reports and the weight of proof, especially the humanities, requiring the student to even moderately master bullshit detection and critical thinking in order to pass those classes.
2. Higher education being much more of a “melting pot”, putting the student into direct, personal contact of people coming from a wide variety of other backgrounds that they would have normally never interacted with, forcing them to directly confront personal biases and assumptions.
3. STEM courses, in particular, being wholly dismissive of opinions and feelings in favour of facts and evidence, thereby setting up a way of interacting with, and evaluating reality, that tends to favour facts and evidence over feelings and emotions.

As the saying goes, your kid didn’t become a “dirty leftist/commie” because they were indoctrinated by their professors. They became one as a reaction to being exposed to the wider world and all of its variety.

To be liberal requires empathy. A deep understanding of others and their situations and the knowledge that your own personal needs dont always automatically outweigh others.

Not strictly necessarily. For me, it comes down to logic, reason, and evidence.

I’m neurodivergent. This means that among some mild cognitive superpowers, I also have some significant weaknesses, such as an inability to understand or even recognize the inner workings of others. Essentially, the first half of your second sentence, above. That simply isn’t in my wheelhouse, no matter how hard I try. It’s analogous to asking a blind person to pick out the colour red.

But I reach the same place - the second half of the second sentence - by using logic and reason and evidence - and in many cases, science - to come to an understanding of what is correct and good and right and how the needs of others simply don’t restrict my own personal needs in any way, and so carry equally as much importance and have all the same ability to be fulfilled without conflict. And because some of these people are disadvantaged or oppressed, it is my duty as a fucking human being to have their back whenever I have a decent opportunity to do so.

This is because reality itself has a strong left-leaning bias, and intelligence makes you encounter that a lot more as you interact with reality.

Sure, there are highly intelligent right-wingers, but intelligence only gives you the cognitive tools to discover reality, it doesn’t force you to use them. Just because a person is intelligent doesn’t mean they can’t slide off into wharrderp fantasy land.

If you cut onions with a knife, sure. I use a Japanese mandolin called Benriner that is so sharp that I can get through several yellow onions before I start having issues.

1. I am not recognizing the drive. However, I would strongly recommend against QLC due to performance and reliability issues. You would be much better served by TLC or better yet MLC drives.
2. The motherboard can take two drives. It also supports on-board hardware RAID. I would strongly suggest getting two identical drives, and putting them into a hardware RAID-1 array for redundancy (remember: redundancy is not backup). This will also alleviate some of the aforementioned QLC issues, allowing you to run QLC drives more safely.

If you ever have difficulty recording the perfect fart, pureé up a kilogram of the freshest garlic you can find, and get me a travel ticket to wherever the sound booth is. Trust me, I could get you hundreds of the most exquisite farts from even a fraction of that garlic.

Sure, some will be short and wet and of the kind where you’re going to want to ask if I need to wipe afterwards. But most will be long and sonorous and reverberate across the entire room; the kind of farts where you wonder if I’ve got a full bassoon crammed up my kiester.

Not in the least.

1. History speaks volumes about the successes of violent revolution in the face of a violent state. It has almost zero examples of successful peaceful revolution against a violent state. Peaceful change only occurs against those who have a conscience, who have empathy. The current American administration fails utterly at conscience and empathy.
2. The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi. Any member of ICE has willingly abrogated their right to be treated humanely. You don’t coddle a dog with rabies, you euthanize them. These people completely lack the mental faculties to exist cooperatively in polite society, and should be isolated in the same way we isolate serial killers and mass murderers.

At this point, there isn’t much left to use aside from political violence.

And if you look through the history of effective political change away from fascism and totalitarianism, it’s pretty much 0% peaceful protest and 100% violent revolution.

Let’s start with removing members of ICE from the gene pool. I advocate castration as a long-term option of eliminating any genetic influence of fascism on future generations (low IQ, genetic propensity for authoritarianism, genetic propensity for sociopathy, etc.), but others may be in favour of methods that can more permanently prevent these fascists from terrorizing existing citizens.