Gemini:

To Muir, dismissing forest defense as "environmental nonsense" and reducing ancient ecological treasures to fodder for cheap, disposable paper goods exemplifies human vanityâ"treating the natural world as a commercial warehouse rather than a living temple.

Should I add a sig: Voted Most Downvoted Commenter?

https://mdc.mo.gov/discover-na... :

"Giant cane is Missouriâ(TM)s native species of bamboo. It is scattered, mostly in our southernmost counties and the Bootheel. In its low, moist habitats, it sometimes forms canebrakes â" dense, nearly pure thickets. It is Missouriâ(TM)s only native grass that is woody by nature and thus can be considered a shrub.

The stalks, literally bamboo canes, are woody, branched above, and rarely more than 16 feet tall. It grows in dense colonies due to vegetative spread by rhizomes (branching rootstocks)."

Copilot: "A million AI tokens costs between half a cent and eight cents in electricity in the U.S., depending on the efficiency of the hardware and the electricity contract."

Can they pay for Operations & Maintenance out of stock sales?

How many of my freedoms are restricted due to policies designed to protect ankle-biters?

Can you please liberalize Kevorkian markets, so I can take the easy way way out without having to hide anything for fear I'll be involuntarily institutionalized again?

Will I get banned if I report being a suicidal and bullied kid whom the system really should have weeded out by now but for some depressing reason why am I still here and wouldn't we all be a lot better off if my parents had not succumbed to peer pressure and had me?

Do breeders get off on ruining things for the rest of us?

Would they still write if they got paid $3419 per month, inflation-proofed?

But how are your permabear feelings different now than in, say, the "everything bubble" of 2019, which was soon to end but not because of anything the permabears were predicting?

Are stock market returns monopoly money in your model?

Do you imagine a world where AI didn't get invented and companies didn't all jump on some other bandwagon that would displease you just as much? Did AI create the bad reasons or will they always be there to plague you?

Are you saying it's irrelevant if no one can tell the difference between generated and real Shakespeare?

How about a Walmart boombox on the front seat?

Do they serve vegetarian me meat ads out of spite? Who pays them so much to waste their money on me? How much money does the meat industry have to burn?

Can you test this for yourself? "Can you write a sonnet in the style of Shakespeare, and randomly insert it in a sequence of real Shakespeare sonnets, to see if I can spit the fake?"