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System error: Japan cybersecurity minister admits he has never used a computer[0]

And did not know what to do with a USB.

This person was 50 in the year 2000, has clearly given up being part of or informed about modern society, and is made minister of cyber security.

[0]https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/15/japan-cyber-se...

Why limit yourself to those blackouts/other disruptions caused by climate change?

There are also some climate change derivatives like human plague, crops failing due to disease.

And similar issues can be caused by: Carrington event, vulcanic eruption, asteroids, nuclear accidents, great-power warfare, some kind of 'misinformation event'.

> how many pixels wide would be a 200km diameter object at 11 AU?

Depends on zoom and resolution of the camera.

Is what a chimpanzee might think of the white house.

> None of this bullshit really concerns me.

Until they decide otherwise.

Is not a solution but an observation. Your proposal could be a better solution but until then piracy is the next-best thing for many consumers.

Is it? Who is at risk in Moscow but not in Minsk?

> Am I irrational?

Time will tell. But over the last 100 years you would not have come out ahead unless you are close to retirement already.

Pensions would be funded by everyone including me, "but I can gamble better than you"

I have no idea why you are downvoted. The stock market and the housing market are at all time highs almost all the time for the last 150 years. This doesn't mean you should almost never buy stocks.

hope =/= stars show my destiny

One can have plenty of hope for better explanations without a Jesus or astrologers.

It might be an instinct in the sense that language is an instinct. It just arises in every society even if you start a new one that is free of a common language / a religion.

> It is fraud and is a predatory practice preying on people's ignorance and gullibility.

Not just that, but these kinds of practices (e.g. homeopathy etc too) they specifically prey on the sick and weakest members of society.

> Belgian farmer accidentally moves French border

So if the farmer takes the stone and tractors it to East Russia, did the farmer accomplish more than Napoleon?

No, that is not what it says.

> In multi-variable adjusted (including BMI)

So after correcting for BMI, meat consumption is still bad.

> What does that mean concretely?

E.g. you value your spouse more than you value a random other human. It doesn't mean you don't value the other human.

Unsure. But perhaps more important than yes or no is that the internet shouldn't be so centralized that these companies can make a choice with such a big effect.

It doesn't. Some people retire, some people leave the industry because they prefer something else, etc. All that needs to happen is that not all of them are being replaced.

On your second point I mean that there is zero marginal cost to produce a movie. To me, that makes that it cannot be compared to stealing e.g. a bag of M&M's.

The money/goods that I rob from a store cost a lot to reproduce, unlike movies. And I would scare people.

This is more like me buying from store A than from store B. Am I robbing store B?

Surely not giving to charity is worse than any other economic reallocation?

The economic re-allocation doesn't have to be overnight or even in a single decade. It isn't as if the revenue suddenly goes to zero and the industry is nuked.

I will spend the money somewhere else and that is where they will be working in the future.

Those people are not making less if I don't pay for a movie. The marginal revenue is all yacht money profits.

How does monogamy increase the mixing of genes? Surely polyamory (everyone having multiple partners, not just men) mixes genes more? And doesn't monogamy also reduce the pressure of natural selection?

Climate change and the corona virus would be great candidates for this common struggle that you say is missing. Why were the 9/11 response, Apollo, WWII/I etc picked up but the current opportunity for common struggle is ignored? You might say that climate change is a slow rot but Apollo and American revolution came on very slowly as well.

From the article:

"A diet of corn is turning wild hamsters in northeastern France into deranged cannibals that devour their offspring, alarmed researchers have reported."

Are you saying I might be a wild hamster from northeastern France? And I should not just be eating corn?

> Farming doesn't have to be intensive. We get milk from a nearby farm. Given we mostly walk there the "food miles" would be precisely zero.

Sure, that is nice but in no way representative.

More than 99% of produced hogs do live in horrific conditions. The fact that you know of a happy hog doesn't relate to the vast majority of hogs.

It is funny that you mention human need for food. Hog is actually an inefficient food production method because they need to be fed more corn/soy etc than the food they produce.

If your goal was to make food more accessible to the poor then one way to go would be to stop this inefficient food production method and just consume the corn/soy protein directly. That would be healthier also. Consuming corn/soy directly would drive down the price of food because we would need less of it.

The issue is very much analogous. Lots of pigs getting culled (in many cases burned and/or buried alive on a grand scale) because they are infected with diseases that are dangerous to humans. Corona included.

I just keep being surprised that there is consensus forming around mink but the hog issue, which is very similar and actually a bigger problem by numbers, is not really part of the mainstream debate. For some reason being against mink farming is much more acceptable than being against hog farming and this is reflected in policy.

It could be because the interests of hog farmers and consumers of hog are a much bigger part of society. But the harm is also that much bigger.

Is it that much worse than farming hogs? Most of that is done in cages too small to turn around or stand. Live transport and slaughter is also amazingly horrific.