Characterizing military spending as waste and abuse is valid only when applied to the aggressor. Protecting oneself from being killed is not waste and abuse.

Can you power a human on lithium batteries?

Selective outrage is not a good personality trait. Presidents 42 and 46 were disgusting.

The scriptures of all the Abrahamic religions have substantial elements of death cult ideology. They vary in how much attention these passages get in modern times, mostly it's ignored except by some malevolent leaders.

Because the "holy" books are more or less static, there's always the risk that the death cult aspects will be brought to the fore again. Our best bet for survival is rational education.

Pax Britannica 1815-1914. Almost 100 years of relative peace.

I've read claims that large networks of alliances were what made the First World War (1914) more than a fight between two nations. It's possible to argue the point in either direction.

I have often wondered if, on space vehicles like this, they could install several packets of radioactive material separated by a moderate distance. As time passes and the radioactivity falls, compensate by moving the packets closer together to get some chain reaction going.

I've known people who behaved in an evil manner because they thought it was fun. None of those people misbehaved because they were mistreated, they misbehaved because they just weren't caught and punished. Lacking punishment, they continued misbehaving, even bragging about it and encouraging others to follow their lead.

Most human behavior depends on feedback.

There are about 33 million businesses in the United States. I can't find numbers, but it seems reasonable that at least half of those are incorporated. Thus you are claiming that there are about 17 million "very wealthy people" in the U.S., or 5% of the population. A net worth of $1,000,000 is about the 95th percentile. That was wealthy 50 years ago, but now it's just comfortably well off. You can't buy a national politician and keep him bought for 1 million. Those corporation owners aren't all "very wealthy people."

Most of the biggest corporations are widely held, that is, any given corporation has many owners. They aren't necessarily very wealthy, although the CEO most likely is.

It's a very bad thing that some very wealthy people can subvert the justice system. In part, it's because those in the justice system are cowardly or corrupt; and the corrupt people who break the law can bribe or threaten those in the system. That doesn't mean that corporations are to blame.

Apples keep very well when refrigerated. 6 months is easy and some will be good even after a year.

30 or 40 years ago Durk Pearson & Sandy Shaw suggested fructose as superior to sucrose because fructose is sweeter, therefor less could be used. Apparently food manufacturers switched to fructose without reducing the amount of sugar.

To me the hoops that smoothbrains will jump through to avoid IPv6 and stay on legacy IPv4, especially when hosting, is pathetic. NAT, port forwarding, tunnels, blah blah blah blah.

I have something like ~1.2 trillion times the number of routable addresses that the entire IPv4 space has. Not all are reachable, of course, just the services that need incoming access and they're each on their own isolated DMZ.

Forgot to add: if you enable IPv6, be sure to use the browser extension IPvFoo. It shows a small 4 or 6 in your URI bar to let you know what protocol you're connecting to. Once enabled, you'll see just how much stuff out there actually is IPv6.

Started the move about 18 months ago when I decided to get off my lazy ass. My ISP gives out a /56 prefix, so that lets me run 256 /64 subnets/VLANs in the house, currently there are ~10 in use. Everything get a GUA through SLAAC and I use RAs (Router Advertisements) to give ULAs to everything. Any external facing services get their own VLAN and /64 for the system(s) as needed. Firewall blocks all incoming as they usually do by default and I punch a hole for the external-facing systems. They can't reach back into the network, they only answer the phone. All the systems update DNS dynamically if the prefix or full address ever change.

I have an SSH bastion set up. In all this time there has not been a single SSH attempt from the internet. On IPv4 it was constant background noice.
For those legacy IPv4-only systems on the internet, I set up NAT64. I have an IoT VLAN and IoT 2.4 GHz wireless network that are only IPv4 because a lot of IoT network stacks are junk.

I'm still farting around with it, but man oh man, there's no way I'd go back to IPv4. It was one of the best moves I've done in ages.

I already have collars for my solar-powered cows.