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Journal Journal: What is the maximum population of Coruscant Earth? 9

Assume a "Coruscant Earth"- an Earth where *all* potential space is used, both land and sea, for a combination of food production and living space. Use the Permaculture formula of one acre per person of absorbed sunlight, with 100% conversion to whatever mass/energy combination we need to create food and energy of one person to live.

Earth is about 510,000,000 km^2. There are 247 acres in a square kilometer. This yields (with much better technology than we currently have, of course) a maximum population of 125.97 billion people, each owning one acre.

Of course various contracts would increase efficiency and there'd be the normal range of capitalism creating rich and poor in the long run, but at least there'd be an agreed upon base lifestyle- even if it's only a kayak with a net anchored at sea or a tent on land.

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Journal Journal: A modest proposal 2

As we are beginning to see divisions appear that are destructive to the Constitutional Representative Republic known as the United States of America, with Democrats finding new ways to cheat at democracy and the promotion of mob rule; combined with the massive increase in information technology we've seen over the past 40 years, I propose the following changes to governmental budget processes:

1. Break up the budget into line items

2. Forward those line items to taxing authorities at every level- city, county, state, and federal

3. Allow individual tax payers to fill out an extra-long-form return, with the caveat that by doing so you agree to allocate every penny of your taxes to something that makes a difference in your life or the lives of people you care about.

Doing so would reduce the incentive of the rich to cheat on their taxes (because by paying more taxes, they can regain some small amount of power to fund government programs directly) while enhancing even the common person's ability to influence government (truly voting with dollars for programs that help your family and your friends).

People who choose not to fill out the extra long form, have their taxes applied to the general fund which provides matching grants to those programs that either nobody else will fund (one FTE if your program attracted $0 this year, whose job it will be to promote the program next year; otherwise grants will be some percentage of dollars raised).

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Journal Journal: Is the Biden Mandate legal under USC 42 Title 42 Chapter 6A? 44

This spring, the Supreme Court of the United States, will once again be considering a case on USC 42 Title 42 Chapter 6A Subchapter XIX

Despite many changes to the law over the past century, the Biden Vaccine Mandate will be the first challenge to this law since Jacobson vs Massachusetts (1905), in which a State's Right to force vaccination upon a private individual or a group of individuals was established.

As the major Web 2.0 sites are now censoring discussion on this issue, I'm opening up for discussion- Did Congress intend this to become a power of the federal government?

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Journal Journal: The 1619 Project is racist, as are Dr. Kendi's books 11

We send our children to school to learn from people who have expertise in that
 
No we don't. We send our children to school *because we are required by law to do so and for the free babysitting*.

Experts, as a rule, are awful.

Take Ibram X Kendi, for instance. The Doctor of Anti-racism, or is he? I would argue that everything he has ever proposed as anti-racism, would produce *unequal results* along racial lines, and thus is racist *by his own definition*.

Just as the 1619 project, by the very nature of its generalized racial genetic stereotyping, produces *unequal results* along racial lines, and thus is racist by the very definition of the anti-racists.

Perhaps Thomas Sowell is right instead, and no two cultures were ever meant to be equal to begin with.

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Journal Journal: Installing Kali Linux Under Pureboot/Heads 2

Using a Librem 13v3 with Pureboot, Heads for BIOS, and a Librem Key normally works without a hitch. However, I was wanting to install Kali on the 2nd internal drive and dual-boot. This presented a pain-in-the-ass challenge.

Kali Live works fine on the laptop. However the installer crashes the display. It seems there is a kexec parameter of vga=788 that the laptop chokes on. Updating the grub config on the Kali ISO, then repackaging it is the long, hard way to deal with this. The simple way would be to install direct from the running Live instance. Unfortunately the Kali gods have decided to remove that feature. Idiots.

Here's the fix. From running Live open a shell and "sudo apt install debian-installer-launcher". Then "sudo debian-installer-launcher" and follow the prompts. Works like a charm.

I'm posting this here because it took way too long to search for a working answer, not knowing exactly what to look for.

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Journal Journal: Climate Change Requires Adaptation, not Fear and Destruction 76

I've long said that Climate Change requires Adaptation, not destruction of our economy and our way of life.

I've said that since 2004, when we crossed the Tundra Methane Threshold and the most influential greenhouse gas today became a positive feedback loop, accounting for 95% of all greenhouse gases released now and likely in the near future.

Now Senator Dan Crenshaw shows just how dishonest the Green New Deal is in relation to an adaptation vs cancelation strategy.

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Journal Journal: RICO 17

Just Remember, if an Sicilian Immigrant encouraged rioting every time a criminal was killed by the police, and then sold signs to small businesses to put in their windows to prevent damage, RICO laws would be brought to bear on the protection racket.

Maybe it's time we judged people on the content of their character, rather than the color of their skin.

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Journal Journal: Fiscal Libs, Sexual Libs, Drug Libs, Conservatives 42

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9oyt2xIIwg&t=10s

Just leave us alone.

What motivates liberals and progressives:
1. Addiction to change for fiscal profit
2. Addiction to change for sexual abuse
3. Addiction to change for new drugs

But the natural divide on the other side is CONSERVATIVES- the need to conserve. Change addicts have many things they want to change. But Change Skeptics have nowhere to go in the storm.

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Journal Journal: Forced Perspective 2

Forced perspective is a technique which employs optical illusion to make an object appear farther away, closer, larger or smaller than it actually is. It manipulates human visual perception through the use of scaled objects and the correlation between them and the vantage point of the spectator or camera.

Squid can range in length anywhere from 1 inch up to 80 feet. The Colossal Squid is the largest known variety, and thought to be the inspiration behind legendary monsters such as The Kraken of Greek mythology.

Calimari is the term for he culinary specimens of squid, and typically measure less than 12 inches. Squid lends itself to hot and fast cooking methods such as grilling, broiling, sauteing, and deep-frying. Or, by irritated judges when hack lawyers try and pass off itty-bitty lawsuits as "the Kraken" when they're really just suitable for calimari.

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