human innovativeness ensures there’s always new things that people want to do.

nowhere, it’s a lost cause. if your disk is encrypted, nuke it and restore from a backup. it’s just a nuisance (assuming you made enough backups) and interrupts your daily workflow. therefore it’s bloatware.

bloatware

well said. true, large solar parks are more efficient than garden solar panels. and data centers are more efficient than if i run my own server in my garage. still, they could both be located in the same village that i live in, instead of on the other side of the world.

you’re completely right. there’s tons of problems with the way that we organize information today. another big issue is that a lot of publicly funded scientific research is behind paywalls of journals, and the journals don’t even have a good indexing system where you could easily search for stuff! it’s infuriating.

i think they mostly grow in the coastal regions though?

ideas are viruses, neatly packaged into books and flyers and quotes, they spread from person to person and multiply if they fall on fertile ground.

welp i just noticed the irony of not adding an icon to this post.

the thing is also that like 99% of small businesses that play risk like that fail. since the business is small, the cost of that is low. if the business is big, the cost of failing would be much higher.

uhh i think that if the string is electrically charged, then the most straight-line, untangled state is the one with lowest potential energy, so that’s what the string will develop into, in the long term.

not if the defender fights back.

that and the fact that the world exists regardless continue to astonish me

interestingly, almost all mutations are bad, but the fact that mutations exist is still the reason why life exists at all.

you could say that life developed through a series of what should have been mistakes, statistically speaking.

it depends on how strong the coffee is. if you use 1 grain of instant coffee for 0.5 L of water, then yes, it hydrates you more than it dehydrates you.

Yeah, Niger is desert, basically. There’s a bit of sahel at one end, and of course oases, but it’s not a populous place, because of course it isn’t.

that ok, i understand. but how do you explain that the Democratic Republic of the Congo has 48 pp/km²? that one is surely no desert.

• cameroon 39.7 pp/km²
• Central African Republic 8.6 pp/km²
• Gabon 10 pp/km²

these are all central africa, surely no sahara desert there.

again, germany, 230 pp/km² for comparison.

Isn’t Africa rather thinly populated in general, or do i remember that wrong?

Edit: just checked, Niger has 23 people/km², while germany has 230 pp/km².

suddenly you hear yourself swearing with swear words that you didn’t even know that you knew

If inst, you reframe the shit being done with the thought that while none of them may agree on a final destination, they all agree that a fast drop in population is the “fast and easy” solution, then suddenly it all starts to make a lot more sense.

the data speaks otherwise. people like trump seem hellbent on people shitting out more children for some reason.

true. i saw some people who were 80 and looked like 250. like walking corpses. incredible. probably waaay too many sunburns, etc.