This article and the website assumes the reader knows what T2 is. I didn't and I'm still not sure I do.

Please don't put words in my mouth.

You should not set policy according to Masanobu Fukuoka's techniques, as they do not and have not scaled. Reproducing his results has been very inconsistent. It turns out the land you grow on matters a lot with these techniques and other permaculture techniques.

The other issue with traditional farming and permaculture is that we already broke things. We have invasive species everywhere and certain crops are incredibly labor intensive without pesticides or GMOs. This is do to the difference in the connectedness of the 20th and 21st century world versus previous centuries.

An amusing claim. Not true of course. All of those factor into a modern business operation with different weights, none of them zero.

Again, inconsistent results. An inability to reproduce the results throughout the world indicate an immature of the process. There's something missing in the technique. Until that is achieved we can't set policy. If we were to see wide spread usage where it was working most of the time, then sure, let's kill off industrialized farming because this is way simpler and cheaper to do and does less harm.

Difficult to say how famine works in an era where most of the industrial world's population lives in cities that must have food shipped in every day of the year. So I'd hesitate to predict the future based on past results alone.

The environment might be better off if you switched to wearing polyester given the level of environmental contamination that a pesticide-intensive crop like cotton causes.

Modern industrial agriculture feeds the world. You're not going to be able to sustain the likely peak population on traditional farming alone. Of course there is always room to improve and reduce the harm and increase the health. Which is why we also cannot allow profits alone to decide everything in the industry.
We're aware of the problems of monocrops, but that practice is slowly on the decline. And there is more consumer awareness of the ethics in the practice of concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) and other animal welfare issues, and the practice is regulated or outlawed in some countries. GMOs are on the rise, and will likely dominate the industry in the future. GMOs can be a good thing if done carefully, in a regulated, and open manner. And it can be a human caused natural disaster if done without proper safety controls and protocols.

By weight the air pollution is NOx. Tire particles are more of a surface and water pollution problem. Also tire particles aren't nearly as chemically reactive as ozone or nitrogen oxide family. A sunny day in LA will show you just how smog actually works.

I recommend that humanity go on an ad strike. If you see an ad for a product, never buy that product again.

The methodical search to move human knowledge forward is not exciting.

I picked up a 22TB external hard drive (Seagate Expansion) for $300. I got it to solve a specific problem, how to get data from my file server on the West coast to a new file server on the East coast. Ideally before I get broadband service at the destination.

If they can't figure out how turn more employees into more revenue, then someone else is going to end up hiring those people. Actually it's worse than simply being unable to figure it out, they don't understand that they are even supposed to be turning labor into money.

1999 I mean.

I realize it's the TV series tie-in (I haven't watched it, play the original games a lot), but I thought it might bring some levity to take the idea of needing a literal fallout shelter in the current political chaos.

As for the wealthy. Everything is going according to plan. If the housing market collapses then the people who still own property will be renting it to others. We already have some tech companies building company housing that is bundled with your employment contract. The kind of dystopia that you find in cyberpunk novels is apparently being treated as a business strategy.

Kings managed to be surrounded by servants that didn't immediately slit throat the first time they went to sleep. So it is possible to maintain feudalism throughout generations without the peasants revolting. It's usually the other lords that scheme to kill you. While that's how it worked in the past, people's psychology haven't changed much and it should still hold.

For example, we already know you can hire losers and give them authority and weapons and they will be extremely loyal. We see this in private security that is more than a simple contract service to walk around your business's parking lot. And of course we see this loyalty from the handful of people who could manage to pass ICE's fairly low entry qualifications. For some felons and drug addicts, it's been the only way they could legally hold a firearm again.

Why should anyone play their gatekeeper games? Just move on, they're basically irrelevant anyway

Trump has been President for a year. What the fuck have you been doing?

9x9 and 13x13 are fun, I don't have the attention span for full Go.

there's always Gomoku, which I guess you can play using a Go set, but I've only ever played it on paper like dots and boxes.

European Mahjong is growing with the younger generation too.