using speaker phone and the mute button?

By what metric do you judge agriculture a huge success and thus an indicator that we are omnivores?

The onset of agriculture is what has brought on the "diseases of civilization", namely metabolic syndrome. Chronic disease. When the "everything" in moderation also includes toxins that cause chronic disease I wouldn't consider that a good indicator that we should continue doing something--just because we have been--just because we've still managed to reproduce despite doing it.

The thing that actually works best is ingesting *zero* toxins and instead only ingesting the foods that we evolved to eat which will not make us sick (animals). Sure, we can *tolerate* plant matter, but we should not subsist on it alone nor in large quantities nor frequently/regularly. We simply do not need them at all--and eating them regularly does make us sick. Some people more than others, and some quicker than others.

Wrong again. Facultative carnivore is indeed the correct term. You can always look it up before attempting to correct my already correct grammar and responding with a weak, ad hominem retort.

Humans are primates that evolved to hunt, not forage.

We have developed numerous features conducive to hunting that separates us from other species: feet, hips, shoulders, jaw, sweat glands, and the fact that our breathing is independent of our gait (unlike cats whose respiration is coordinated with their motion), and of course lets not forget our increased cranial capacity.

We've devolved in our capacity to really process plant matter at all, let alone efficiently enough to subsist on--we likely never had a rumen and for all intents and purposes now have only a vestigial, non-functional caecum.

While we are not obligate carnivores, thus plants don't usually kill us instantly, we do not thrive on plant matter.

Plant fats are MUFAs (oleic acid) or PUFAs (arachidonic acid) which have been shown to cause all sorts of adverse affects in humans, whereas animal fats are SFA (lauric acid) are the exact fat profile our bodies thrive on without any adverse affects.

Phytotoxins, leptins, oxylates, and numerous other plant compounds cause chronic disease in humans and even acute symptoms in a considerable percentage.

No, we are not omnivores, all caps doesn't make it "truer".
We are in fact facultative carnivores.
The only reason plant eaters need to eat a variety of things is because none of those things has all the required nutrients by itself... exactly the opposite of meat. Meat has 100% of all the nutrients we need, all in one place.
There are numerous studies, and a large, growing population of humans demonstrating as much--both ancestral/historical and current.

It's not just processed sugar. It's any and all *carbs* that are the problem.
Every carb of any kind is first reduced to a monosaccharide in the gut before being dumped into the bloodstream. Processed sugars get there quicker--but the rest all get there just the same. The body does an "oh shit" reaction and produces insulin to signal every mechanism available to reduce that "blood glucose" (which actually refers to any monosaccharide in the blood, not just glucose). This includes changing the metabolic regulation in cells to burn that instead of lipids, triggers the liver to pull it and repackage it into chylomicrons which get put into the blood, triggers the adipose cells to store the lipids from the chylomicrons.
Dietary fat, OTOH, gets pulled out of the gut into the lymphatic system, packaged into a chylomicron, and then put into the blood. Absent any elevated blood glucose level, metabolic regulation will have cells burning the lipids from these instead of glucose. Adipose cells will be triggered to release lipids as necessary to continue to provide fuel as needed--not store more of it.
One of the biproducts in the liver from metabolizing some monosaccharides (fructose is one) is formaldehyde--same as with processing ethanol--long term affect is fatty liver/pickled liver.

If we just all went back to eating just meat we'd all be the healthier for it.
We do not have the physiology to effectively digest plant matter--and besides being primarily carbs, most, if not all, plants are toxic to us in one form or another. (Plants are masters of chemical warfare, since they have no limbs to fight off predation they create both pesticides and planticides--several of which we know can cause us numerous issues.)

Carnivore WOE is ideal--contains 100% of our nutritional needs, with 0% of any natural toxins or anything else causing side effects, systemic inflammation, metabolic syndrome, insulinemia, gout, IBS, fibromyalgia, etc.

1 - a universal time. - UTC would be the perfect unit to use as reference for everything.
2 - noon-time - the time in UTC when it's noon at a specific location (longitude) on a specific date.

You simply ask someone where they are in the world, and given any date on the calendar we can simply calculate when in UTC is noon for them.

Schedule meetings either absolutely with UTC or relative to someone's "noon-time".
Business hours can be noon-4 to noon+5 if they want equivalent of 8am to 5pm. (or maybe "4bn" "5an" before/after noon---or just -4 +5 since there's only one relative point)

This way we have both an absolute system and a local-relative system--but just *1* local relative system that works everywhere, year round. Since it inherently tracks noon it already replaces the purpose of DST--all without ever having to change timezone or the reading on your clock twice a year.

Clocks would of course show either UTC or local noon time.

I realize that "noon time" kind-of-sort-of sounds like timezones, but timezones have some limitations:
- they are not uniform
- they don't track the earth-sun relation year-round--thus the desire by some for DST

If we created "noon zones":
- 24 geographically even divisions around the globe
- they are not static--they track the earth-sun relation and noon is computed for each calendar day

Create more than 24 if you want to avoid big hour jumps. Or, don't create any zones at all, just always share longitude and calculate noon-time accurately everywhere.

s/Seattle/Raccoon City/

A leprechaun riding atop a unicorn handing out buckets of gold.

If they pull it all off in a single language, more power to them.

If only that actually worked--because that's exactly what I did with DirecTV. When their billing system runs it captures the billing information--even if it's a full two weeks prior to the actual draft date. Within that window you apparently *cannot* successfully alter what it will do--despite attempts to do so, and despite it saying that it *did* and *would* alter its behavior according to your changes. In short, some systems just suck--and the customer suffers (and pays) for it.

OpenRC++

openrc init scripts are fairly straight forward.
Coupled with gentoo's baselayout, and the config file layout is fairly normalized also.

Yes, but this technology does not need any refresh cycles--so the only changes it would incur are actual data value changes. But the point still stands, RAM access in typical high-load server process is going incur lots of changes--too many even for this technology to touch as a viable replacement even without refresh cycles.

Correction: I've been using my kinesis for 18 years now. Zero complaints. Solid product--worth every penny--especially considering my livelihood depends on my hands and it's what they touch all day long.

To elaborate:
Just looking at the layout I can already tell they haven't done a deep enough analysis. Comparing to my kinesis (which I'm typing on right now), in order to press enter requires radial flexion--so while it will still help, the kinesis requires virtually no radial flexion at all, and at most some ulnar deviation (and only to hit shift, one of the lesser-used, and not for any other key). 101-qwerty keyboards don't generally require any radial flexion at all, but incur a lot of ulnar deviation--so this much change in habit may feel better at first but may also just move symptoms around after a while for anyone with an existing injury.

Furthermore, by default they require a modifier for F keys, thus to do a normal modifier+F-key combination is now a 3-key chord-- Ctrl-F5 is now Fn-Ctrl-F5, with both modifiers on the thumb--so now it takes either both hands or an awkward thumb motion pressing it down flat to hit both keys. This would make emacs an impossibility. Compare that to a kinesis with dvorak layout. Ctrl-X and Alt-X are nearly a pinching motion between the thumb and first finger--about the most natural motion our hands ever do, and perfectly comfortable to do all day long.

I cannot make a judgement on the effectiveness of the depth of their keys, but it looks much shallower and likely to require curling the fingers more than the Kinesis does. My guess is the extra curl may become tiresome. The kinesis is "just right"--fingers completely relaxed just fall right on top of the home row, and the majority of keys are merely a single key away from home row. In addition, the keyboardio loses the bottom row, which makes it even less efficient for placement possibilities--requiring more keys to be only accessible via an additional modifier combination.

Their thumb keys arguably align a little better with keeping the hand and wrist in a neutral position, but they wholesale miss the great opportunity of using a second row of thumb keys--it is one of the most agile digits we have. Kinesis gets this right by putting backspace, delete, enter, and space, four of the most used items as the main keys for thumb access, plus an additional row for modifier and navigation keys--put those thumbs to good use. (Compared to a 101-qwerty that relegates both thumbs to share the singular duty of one key... the space bar--WTF--why is it a full on giant key--as if our thumbs are so poorly coordinated they have trouble aiming?)

I would definitely prefer one of these over a qwerty, but will continue to vote for kinesis until something even better comes along.

For people that aren't so picky, or like the bling-bling flashy lights, or need the loud clicks to feel good about typing I say go for it and tell us how you like it.