How do they factor in entire planting efforts failing, or do they just assume all tree plantings are always successful?

You can't lose what you've abandoned. Remembering which folder you put your aimless, pointless, lunchtime vlog in is not a memory retention skill.

If they had chosen a less swear-heavy description it would be in wider use. And the discontent of users does not mean that Meta or other sites are what is wrong, only that there are people willing to lash out as whatever's unprotected. It should be said though that lack of quality and lack of proper design is a real problem.

Work doesn't pay enough. Apartment rent is much too high. Medical aid is less affordable than death. Men are expected to pay for everything in a relationship. Life is unsatisfying, and offers nothing in the way of fulfillment or joy. We have to be a pillar of strength, the smartest man in the room, and the ability to purchase a home at a 1950s level. Education is self-destructing. The employment market has already self destructed. If there is change that has to be made, it is on the world that the corrupt have made- not on the shoulders of the male gender. Men aren't falling behind, we're told to wait in the back. It's a "the 1% take 99%" problem again. The success of a few does not scale up to mean the rest of the world is also doing that well. And men are the ones who are expected to pull a wonderful life out of an empty pocket. Men have always been treated as disposable by the ruling class, but every so often, things become bad enough to be noticed on such a scale.

So they took a Bill meant to cause pain, misery, poverty, and death for billions of people, and tacked on a rider that would allow good things to happen? AI is capable of creating medical components, increasing quality control in everything from car components to chicken disembowelling, to creating matter not found in nature. AI is very much something that is good for America and the human race, IF the people using it know how to do so. And like any tool, are willing to use it for good results instead of causing bad results. The United States Republican Party is not mentally able to create good results for the greater USA. This is a piece of candy put on a cyanide sandwich.

While that's meant as a joke, hunting a stray dog is considered "living off the land". Remember the organizational hit that the Environmental Protection agency just had? That means that dogs, birds, rabbits, deer, or whatever else you care to name that's living just as desperately in the woods are all going to get a little more chemically unclean. The same for grown-yourself produce. The pollution is already bad. We can't go back. We can't live where we are now because the rent is too high. There's no way forward since Elon's not going to put anything on the moon or Mars. The only planning that seems to be going on in the upper levels of government anymore is "If the peasants can't afford food, then they can't afford guiltiness either."

This is alright, and even anti-gmo's should agree. It's just cutting off the bad part.

If you want to deorbit the Space Station, go land it on Mars. It will offer tools, refined materials, and places to shelter in. Otherwise, it's just extreme vandalism of the current pinnacle achievement of the human race. Destroying it does not make anything Elon do the current pinnacle. Elon's buzzwords show that he has a lack of follow-up on both the matter of replacing the SS, as well as going to Mars. Big lies need big bait to gather the big money that Elon wants to scam the nation out of. If he COULD go to Mars, there would the clear technological structure to enable him or his chosen team to do so. Don't destroy the SS, turn it into a space dock and build something. If there's no SS, then Elon wouldn't have to have tangible results since there would be nothing useful up there.

As with every "great advancement" of the hard drive, the same questions apply every time. They can keep stacking the internal components as much as they want, but the real question is the durability and long-term storage accuracy of the device. Will the data on it last 50 years on a shelf? Will there be any component failure in the future? Capacitor rot, storage disk bit loss, etc. Are solid state drives more susceptible to this than hard disk drives? Everybody turns to China to get it's things made, but China's in a bad place right now. There's no guarantee that a device produced there will match up to the specifications submitted. And the suit-and-ties aren't likely to listen to the technical people who designed something when "under budget" (and under specification) lies are waved at their MBA-fed egos. For every piece of trash shipped out, there was someone who was expecting something different. And fake storage-amount hard drives have gotten better at being fake. Like fake flash drives and fake USB storage drives.

For an article on Slashdot it sure low-key villanizes common sense. Why get a new device that barely better then the one you have, and have paid off? Why use a new device that's poorly programmed, poorly made, and has fewer ways to repair? And "smart" appliances are even worse. Why would anyone need a tv screen for a refrigerator door? There might be some uses for bluetooth programming a microwave, but getting a droid to remove the food and serve it to you still hasn't gotten to an affordable market level. It must get worse when medical equipment is involved. The corporations have painted themselves into a corner because of the laws they created over that one! The only zombies are the corporations trying to not look like the malevolent undead.

A fractional improvement is still an improvement, but how is this supposed to lead to the creation of "magnetically levitating vehicles"? How are "sheets" of a material supposed to work as powerlines in a city electrical grid? "Sheets of various material is like a line of pie, or strudel. There has got to be a fragility threshold to test, and stay back from. It sounds like more overpromising. It would be stable in a circuit-board setting, though, so it could be interesting to see what happens to electronic company's material requirements then. Superconductor might be more fragile than the refined ore-sourced metals. Fragile to heat and cold, as well as motion. If gold is no longer the top of the list for electronic component construction, what will happen to it's value?

What will we do the next time this happens? When Windows 10 and 11 is declared to be "legacy" or other kind terms for "I want to sell you a new one, so I made the old one obsolete." This enforced lack of program ability is unnecessary and wholly constructed to push newer, less stable, larger and buggy OS's which in turn require newer computers to be bought. Y'know, just in case you _aren't_ buying a whole new computer setup every 12 months like a good corporate slave. Who said these guys could take things away from us? It's not like the old OS's require anything new, since they're staying in place. It's the newer versions that add unnecessary features, spyware to cause problems, and new ways to crash. This should be stopped in it's tracks.

We should put more effort into mapping the Kuiper belt, then. We might need to know where the good sized rocks are someday. Pluto was already a planet. Yes, it's small, but it's the only thing out there. Well, aside from Charon the orbiting 'moon' of Pluto. Delisting Pluto was a publicity stunt that got out of hand. We should be trying to educate Flat Earthers, not letting them play with the Big Map. If anything is found (probably Pluto again) Americans will just name it some derivation of Boaty McBoatface.

Star Wars has bad movies- yes, and we can't take them too seriously. Luke was whiny from the start- Yes, and he grew up fast. We should always grade mercifully. Which shocks and confuses some people when they finally stack a ton of mistakes up all at once and run into it thinking that they can never make a mistake. And the biggest mistake of Star Wars was the Rey movies, not forgetting it's competition of Jar Jar, sand memes, the Jedi Twins, and The Holiday Special. Bad movies are bad, but "worse than that" is not impossible.

This can only be bad news. I'd like it to be good news, but Kathleen Kennedy is involved. That's a bad track record. I wonder what array of underpreforming video games, toys that no-one will want, and Disney spacewasters will be created to promote and eventually beg for attention for these movies? There's always hope. There's space to bring back Han, have Luke written like Luke, and bring in the much better stories from the (1990-2015) novel series.