... which, to be clear, is a good thing. Working around the compiler is dangerous and a code smell, so it shouldn't be something that is easy to do. It usually indicates that either the compiler's capabilities aren't sufficient to meet your needs (in which case, a better solution would be either a better compiler, or to re-evaluate the wisdom of your approach), or that you are doing something the wrong way and should find a way to do it that works with the compiler, rather than around it, so that you get the benefits of the compiler's co-operation.

You are doing better inthe UK (as of 22024) then the US. Here it is still legal to feed antibiotics to animals.

But you can still buy antibacterial soap in both the UK and the US

That's a different problem, and I can't speak to it. But chickens could not be raised as they are without LOTS of antibiotics. (I happen to think the way they are raised is an abomination, but it's cheap.)

Immediately after covid, the main reason for the inflation was the covid checks. During covid their tax revenue went down but their spending doubled. How? The was the government printing money.

When you print money, you create massive inflation. It took a while for the economy to react, but it definitely did.

What happened next is called inelastic supply and demand curves. What that means is that prices take a shock to change. For a long time we had cheap food in part because no one would pay extra. Then covid hit and we were willing to pay MORE.

Now that prices went up, no one is willing to sell for less. They know we are willing to pay X amount and they are going to charge us X amount.

Worse, they think we will pay more and are doing everything they can to test it. The food industry has learned we can pay more for food and doing their best to get as much as they can.

"Vets and wholesalers who supply farmers should be shut right down."

Yes, but... if you do this expect the price of meat to go way up, especially chicken and eggs. Perhaps it's a price we need to pay, but expect that it would need to be paid.

It should be illegal to get the majority of them without a prescription.

The most important practice we need to stop is giving it to livestock as a way to increase growth. If the animal has not been examined by a veterinary and given a prescription, it should be illegal to feed it an antibiotic. Currently it is possible to buy tons of food with antibiotics installed.

Also, this means those hand soaps with antibiotics, we need to outlaw them. Alcohol gels do a BETTER job of killing the bacteria and the antibiotics just breed resistance.

There are three separate issues that cause this problem.

1) Distribution costs. Power is used up in sending it long distances. In addition, the infrastructure to distribute power is both expensive and limited. We need to build more power lines as well as power plants. Takes time.

2) Most types of power plants have severe limitations. Some cause pollution, some incur fear of radiation, some are intermittent, some are dependent on physical features and a good water supply. It is NOT a market distortion to deal with these issues, it is the free market reacting to various different concerns besides power.

In general, the best solution is to design industrial centers that contain both a power plant and a bunch of businesses in areas chosen for the benefit to that type of power plant. You could build a data center in a high solar area with a built in power bank that lasts the night.

And trucks should be forced to us an entirely different set of roads.

Your idea is an entirely different kind of stupid. Most electrical grids are a hugely expensive piece of infrastructure.

We do not want a singular AI that is unified and acts as one.
The AI War is what we want to prevent this.

Ideally we want hundreds of them, each with different purposes, from different builders - companies and countries.

If one of them wants to say convert all metal into paperclips, another will say slow your roll, I need the aluminum to make as many sapphires as possible. A third will say I need the copper for my pipes!

Or maybe it will be more sophisticated disagreements, but it does not matter.

End result, the AI's differing objectives will prevent them from taking control of Earth. The plucky humans will say they learned their lesson, but let's be honest - there is going to be a sequel to this movie.

You are thinking of wiring a whole house for outlets, lights, heat, appliances, etc.

This is more like you buy a set of solar panels and a battery that comes with say 6 outlets. The kind of thing you use for Glamping.

Then you get 6 extension cords and glue them to your walls. Do not staple, GLUE.

Back in the day, we used to run "tarpit" SMTP servers which looked like an open mail relay but ACK'd incoming packets only just barely fast enough to keep the remote client from timing out and giving up. The theory was that tying up spammer resources was a net good for the internet, as a sender busy trying to stuff messages through a tarpit was tied up waiting on your acknowledgement, reducing their impact on others.

Similarly, perhaps the right answer here is to limit the number of concurrent connections from any one network range, and use tarpit tactics to rate-limit the speed at which your server generate contents to feed the bot -- just keep ramping down until they drop off, then remember the last good rate to use for subsequent requests.

It would perhaps be interesting to randomly generate content and hyperlinks to ever deeper random URLs -- are these new crawlers more interested in some URLs or extensions than others? If you pull fresh keywords from the full URL the crawler requested, will it delve ever deeper into that "topic"? If their Accept-Encoding header supports gzip or deflate, what happens when you feed them a zip-bomb?

You have to get cable installed because it does not come with the house.

In Africa, you have to get an electrical line installed because it does not come with the house (except in the Urban areas - where it is just like America.)

For 50 years, many African leaders keep promissing that the Utility company will build an electrical grid that goes to the rural areas and but they have repeatedly failed.

Now, you can just get Solar power installed and screw the utility.

Nah, it's not politically noble, it's self protection. It's avoiding the change of political strife meaning they can't sell the cars they make.

Given what's been happening, it's probably a wise decision. I expect the stress between the US and China to get worse. I hope it stays at "economic warfare".

I think the justification is that gambling should be discouraged....not that I think that this works, or that they are at all consistent.