You know most agricultural work in the US DOESN'T require importation of menial workers, right?

According to grok by value, only 15-25% of farm production requires menial labor, eg migrant workers.
Robotics are likely to significantly reduce that.

My point was that it's just a silly take to say "look at all this land that could have been used for something else" (presumably employing more people) when in fact most of the large swathes of agri land in this country barely employ anyone.

It's like complaining about data centers "using up" 17bn gallons of water when golf courses take something north of 500bn gallons and not saying a word about that.

...is the legal framework that I can hand my logins and all digital accounts to my heirs and assigns upon my death.

I'm going to provide them all the passwords etc regardless but I'd very much like the legal framework to recognize this.

Honestly my biggest challenge is keeping track of all the logins and remembering to update "that document" when I make changes. It's another reason I refuse to (only) use biometric unlocks on devices. There are plenty of use cases I can imagine where I might need someone to unlock something and I'm not present.

How many people does it take to run a data center after taking up all this property and all this land that could have been used for something else?

You mean like farming, where hundreds or thousands of acres are only "worked" by a handful of people or less? I think there are scores of reasons not to cover the world in data centers better than "but they take up space".

... When there are no consequences for bad behavior, it's often the best strategy.

Today, if you're wealthy enough or of the right group of people, you can largely ignore the law as well. And the behaviors are just as opportunistic and amoral.

It's been the basis for elite athletes practice routines for years.
Visualization is sometimes mocked by the ignorant, but even the simple act of visualizing EXACTLY what is happening, what you're doing, what moves you're making, how you're moving...all form & reinforce neural pathways, making both the action and the particular precise details easier to replicate.

I wouldn't call this multitasking, precisely, more like a training-based delegation of muscle functions and basic responses 'lower' in the cerebral/intellectual chain. A different part of you is "thinking" (using that word in a very, very broad extent) through the lowest-level protocols of your body's actions, instead of constantly throwing it to your lower brain functions.

... Only incompetent criminals get caught.

"We haven't seen a surge of attacks" doesn't equate logically to "There haven't been any attacks"

So prove it?

You're pulling an assertion out of your ass and simply insisting "it must be" because that's what your dogma requires.

You asked for a SPECIFIC example, now you refuse to accept it. That's irrational.

The same way I felt before you said it.
Barack Obama got $400k/yr as president, $250k/yr after that. Total income about $8m in 2026.
He's now worth $70m.

They live in 4 homes, primarily;
Oahu $8,4m
Wash DC $8.1m
Martha's Vineyard $11.8m
Chicago $2m
~$30m in homes.

That's pretty good for his income.

This is why I otoh assert that legal conclusions are oversimplistically binary - guilty or not guilty - which obfuscates reality in ways that both protect the guilty and harm the less-guilty.

Guilty red-handed - if a guy in a batman costume is LITERALLY ARRESTED IN THE COURSE OF SHOOTING UP A THEATER - that is guilt beyond the shadow of a doubt. The trial should be about 15 minutes, the end execution. No 20 year odyssey of scores of trials, appeals, pleas for mercy, whatever, costing the taxpayers $millions.

Anything short of that, I agree, that death penalty is far too irreversible for the many potential accidental- and potentially deliberate points of failure in any complex system.

I think your point is relevant, absolutely, but sometimes a cigar IS a cigar. Chaotic data *can* manifest patterns - eg a "random number generator" might hand you 5 results of 1-1-1-1-1. That may be the result of a *perfectly* random system.

OTOH, as humans we instinctively try to understand/recognize patterns to make predictive leaps. Chaotic data MAY ALSO have very subtle patterns that only appear when you start to do more and more statistical analyses.

The point is we can only take such data as a suggestion for TESTING and investigation.
fMRIs show brain activity in dead salmon. TESTING shows that's noise.
This suggests a periodicity to cataclysms. Only TESTING will help us conclude if this is noise or information.

ASU?
Almost a certainty that the female (and probably some of the male) students already have it.

Because your insistence itself is bullshit.
"Die Staatsanwaltschaft Heilbronn hat WELT mehrere Verfahren wegen beleidigender Bezeichnungen gegen Kanzler Friedrich Merz (CDU) bestÃtigt. So erlieÃY das Amtsgericht Ã-hringen am 19. MÃrz 2026 wegen der Bezeichnung âzLügenfritzâoe einen Strafbefehl. Der Betroffene wurde nach Angaben der BehÃrde zu 30 TagessÃtzen verurteilt. "
or in google translate:
The Heilbronn public prosecutor's office has confirmed to WELT that there are several proceedings regarding the use of insulting terms directed at Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU). For instance, on March 19, 2026, the Ã-hringen District Court issued a penal order over the use of the epithet "Lügenfritz" (Lying Fritz). According to the authorities, the individual concerned was sentenced to a fine equivalent to 30 daily rates.

You don't believe the Heilbronn public prosecutor's office? What the hell counts as "authority" to you? They even give a specific example.

Except there are many examples from many sources.

One editor was given a 7 month sentence for showing an edited picture of a politician saying "I hate freedom of opinion".

Other more general examples:

https://brusselssignal.eu/2026...

https://www.welt.de/politik/de...

"If people were being prosecuted for insults in Germany, every school kid would have a criminal record..."
You seem to have utterly missed the point that these prosecutions are entirely political speech against the government or ministers specifically.

One wonders why an Asian pedophile would have such persistently anti american posts.
Maybe this is a different rsilvergun?

https://www.instagram.com/rsil...

I know it's important to panic, but let's #followthescience, surely?
https://x.com/BjornLomborg/sta...
https://gwis.jrc.ec.europa.eu/...

Halfway through 2026, every continent burn levels are below average. Africa, the Americas and Europe are at record lows.

Keep this in mind as the press (and slashdot) keep insisting how terrible everything is.

Record.
Lows.