I'm scared of my mother calling me one day telling me "I've lost every picture from all my life and a guy is asking me $10K to recover them".

By that point it will be late to tell her "shouldn't have been storing them in a disk permanently attached to your windows laptop".

But I don't know how to stop her. I won't convince her to use linux. I won't manage to teach her not to execute random crap once per year.

Should I trust hard drives to store data for decades?

... I'm going to assume that's a joke I didn't get.

The alternative is too sad.

You must be amazingly strong!

Americans are not the only customers of American products. As long as America continues selling better, more expensive, products, there's a way out. Europeans and Asians with that money will also opt for the better product.

If the strategy changed to "let's have a cheaper, less protected workforce and compete with China in prices", the end would be a few decades in the future. I don't expect that to happen.

Therefore, news like these must push America towards the future. Towards products beyond what's being done in China. It makes no sense to compete on even ground if one can stay on higher ground.

America shouldn't be trying to compete in prices with China.

The question I'd ask is "where is the best drone, no matter the cost, being built?".

If the answer is "still, not America", that would be the actual problem.

A quick Ebay search reveals this market is already working as expected.

People seem to be losing their controller pads along with any warranty of proof of purchase. It's a coincidence that seems to plague drones.

I wonder if Xiaomi's drones also mysteriously disappear soon after flying over other people's property.

I also wonder for how much will they sell on Ebay without a controller pad.

Because, unlike being under EU jurisdiction, having your own independent country precludes any political influence, attack or invasion from the United States.

Obviously.

I don't usually $32.

But when I do it's Dos Equis.

Therefore, X = $16

I predict Partial Dupes in the near future.

The People, can have their power back at any point in time.

It just requires a larger sacrifice the longer it takes.

Last time, we had to sacrifice our humanity and decapitate other human beings.

Let's hope next time the new start can be achieved in a more civilized manner.

That argument is so thin it's can't even be rebutted.

Are you implying something? Something beyond "fat shaming is bad and people who do bad things are bad"?

What does racism have to do with anything here? Are we abducting fat people now to sell into slavery? We're certainly gonna need a bigger boat for that.

Ok. Once more.

That is not possible. You may not understand why, but it's as if you told me that some people can move objects with their mind alone, or levitate, or cast spells. Not possible. As in "never going to happen". As in "magic". Just impossible. Really. I'm not trying to lie to you. It is truly completely and absolutely impossible. Everything we know about basic chemistry would have to be false for that to happen.

Calories are not an invented unit for you to play with. Calories have a meaning. A human brain alone consumes that many calories per day even in a comma.

For someone to gain weight on such a diet, he would have to be paralyzed, inside an artificial lung, kept at 37C, and have no brain.

I must admit that, after reading your posts, that last condition seems to be possible.

And your estimation of the % of fat people who have thyroid problems is...?

(You can do the effort to multiply your proportion to the number of obese Americans before answering with your estimations on the largest epidemic of "Thyroid problems" in the history of mankind.)

Let me point at all your mistakes. Because I know how to, and because it's fun.

It isn't. But saying one can be fat eating "300-600" kcal per day, is false. And trivial to prove so.

There aren't. Nobody dies of starvation on a 1500kcal diet and overweight. Insisting in that fantasy as fact won't make it true. Insisting that there are documented cases, won't make them real. It is a lie.

Nobody ever told it's easy. There are lots of "Fucking difficult" things people achieve every day.

That's a lie. Often repeated, but still a lie. Measurable reality clearly shows how weight is lost. It's been proven fact for decades.

Everyone agrees but fat people looking for an excuse and snake-oil sellers looking for a way to lie to fat people.

Being a beautiful person bears no relation with factual knowledge. Great advances in rocket science were made by nazi monsters. Rockets still flew quite beautifully.

Establishing a link between science and the beauty of a person's soul is useless. You must learn to separate fact from feelings. You must understand facts are facts. Science doesn't mind how sad it makes you.

The real world doesn't care whether it makes everyone miserable or otherwise.

There are two options:
- Understanding and applying the science, and doing the "Fucking difficult".
- Blaming everyone and everything else.

You seem to have chosen the latter. Unwisely.