Did they take them away to sell more Sirius XM subscriptions?

Why not use data from more users to improve the product and drive up stock price which is where their real revenue comes from?

"suck me into a pointless debate"

Is there anything not pointless?

Am I the only one who remembers what slashdotting a site used to mean?

What if no one could legally stop you from killing yourself?

Am I still banned from posting here? Is it because suicide must be treated as taboo and all mention of it suppressed because otherwise everyone would do it?

Wasn't this Bill Gates's tactic? Want a computer, only if you buy Windows too?

If Greenspan hadn't killed dot-com with high interest rates would we be where we are today, five years ago?

The claim assumes that "traditional farming" means low-yield subsistence,
but that assumption is historically and empirically false.

Masanobu Fukuoka demonstrated over decades that natural farming could
produce staple crops at yields comparable to neighboring industrial farms,
while using no tillage, no chemical fertilizer, no pesticides, and far less
energy input.

In "The One-Straw Revolution", Fukuoka reports that a family could be fed
from roughly 1/3 of an acre using rice, barley, vegetables, and fruit,
with yields per acre similar to conventional Japanese farms of the time.
The key difference was not lower output, but radically lower inputs.

Modern industrial agriculture maximizes yield per unit of labor and capital,
not yield per unit of land or per unit of energy. It looks productive because
it externalizes soil loss, fossil fuel use, fertilizer runoff, and ecosystem
damage.

If the constraint is land area alone, agroecological and natural farming
methods have repeatedly shown yields per acre comparable to industrial
systems, especially when diversified cropping is counted correctly.
What they do not support is monoculture optimized for global commodity
markets.

So the real question is not whether "traditional farming" can sustain peak
population, but whether current industrial farming can do so without
depleting soils, water, and energy reserves faster than they can be renewed.

Historically, famine correlates far more with land enclosure, coercive labor
systems, and distribution failures than with absolute biological yield limits.

-- ChatGPT

Would it be cheaper to drop starlink receivers with instructions how to aim it manually than to use violence?

Why should we care about your moods?

Are moderators the real reason why social media is toxic? Anyone remember back before there were mods (on bulletin boards, not irc wich started the banning culture) and the internet was much more fun?

Is it fair that I only get two posts a day here now, while tools like gweihir get to post their smelly opinions as much as they want?

Can you look at the 2022 energy flow diagram for Virginia at llnl.gov? Do you see that nuclear alone supplied more electricity than demanded? How is it possible for natural gas plants to produce 100% rejected energy, unless they're way overproducing electricity and sending most of it to ground?

When retail rates go up, are you misidentifying a scarcity, as opposed to simple greed pressing the scarcity button ingrained by economics but belied in reality?

Can I bid you all a fond adieu until I get to post two more times after 24 hours have passed?

Have you considered that you might still be getting trolled by him after his death?

Should I have wasted one of my two allotted posts today on this?

Why couldn't anal retentive mods just laugh at his page-widening trolls, as I did? Were they really any more annoying than ads have become?

Is it all about money? Is this my last post today, because advertisers don't want to see me questioning the double-standard fabric of society that pays them to be annoying, while punishing me?

What about me, restricted to 2 posts in a 24-hour period? Do you realize how depressing it is to see things you strongly disagree with online, but be banned from expressing yourself? Why is it that nature makes me feel more welcome than humans?

What if nature has more knowledge to teach me than humans - without birds greeting me, deer stopping to look at me curiously, and sunsets keeping me company, why shouldn't I get so depressed about not being able to petition for redress of grievances that I Klerck myself?