Stop blaming washing machines for water scarcity and start blaming your decision to buy, say, pistachios grown in a friggin' desert. A one pound bag of pistachios requires ~1200 gallons of water and contains the calories to feed a family of 4 for a single day. A modern front-loader washer uses about 10 gallons and said family probably runs it about once per day. That's a 120-to-1 ratio. Other desert crops are even worse - beef raised on alfalfa (a major crop in the desert southwest) is orders of magnitude worse. And the wastewater from the washing machine gets reclaimed for other purposes after treatment, while the irrigation water is completely lost to evaporation.

I'll repeat: your washing machine is a tiny blip on the radar. It's your choice to buy food grown in the desert southwest that is your actual water consumption. And it's a perverse historic water-rights system that leads to growing all those crops in the desert using unsustainable amounts of water. Without these historic granted water rights, if water were just an open market relative to how much were actually sustainably available, it would be basically limitless to households, and agriculture would shift to areas where water is more sustainably available.

I would venture to say that a squad would be 9 "soldiers" - 4 x 1 dog + 1 handler / section lead. 4 sections plus 1 squad leader and there you are. 2 squads = 10 men and 8 dogs.

3 MREs per day per human, plus 2 per day (suitably modified to support canine nutrition) per dog, minus any 'foraging', should feed them well enough. War dogs often carry packs so they can help carry supplies - though I'd like to see some form of quick release so the dog can shed its pack quickly in need.

To be clear, and despite the bad reporting, this "$80 billion loss" is a paper loss. For example, $72B of it is convertible notes. They became a liability because the valuation of the company skyrocketed. They have nothing to do with the company's operations.

If you stopped irrigating crops in the US desert southwest, there would be no water issues at all, either for households or for industry.

I'll repeat, it is agriculture that consumes meaningful amounts of water, not homes and businesses. Farms by water by the acre foot - an acre of land flooded to a depth of one foot. Water is not abundant on the scale of "farms buying it by the acre foot", but it absolutely is on the scale of "what you need for your house".

Because it is a tool aimed at distro builders. It does the things they want. That doesn't mean it's good design, and it doesn't follow the Unix way.

Lennart Poettering kissed distro builder's asses until they included his tool. Once he got it in, he did whatever he wanted.

Literally every monolith ever is a collection of smaller parts.

Your example proves you don't understand monoliths. For example, it is perfectly possible to use Google Maps without using Google search, even though they are both part of the same monolith. "using" and "not using" aren't what determine a monolith. What determines a monolith is improper separation of concerns, and that is a design mistake made by systemd.

Systemd is a monolith.