In 2030 we might be able to ride between Bakersfield and Merced!

The entire system should have only cost around $28B if executed efficiently. But grift, politics, and contracting inefficiencies basically killed the project. Until the US reforms our civil engineering practices, we will continue to pay more and get less.

Right now, this corridor would struggle to attract 1800 passengers in each direction per day [using pre-pandemic numbers], representing about 2 full Eurostar class trains per day -- and that's assuming that the air routes between SEA-PDX-YVR are discontinued. That's not really enough demand for something that would cost $10B at China HSR prices, or something well over $100B at the probable US HSR pricing.

Would make a lot more sense to add dedicated bus lanes along the entire I-5 corridor to serve this market.

The question is not whether global warming exists (If it didn't earth would average 33C colder). The real question is: What is the magnitude of human emitted Greenhouse gasses retaliative to natural greenhouse gas emitters (volcanos, meteorites, etc.)?

Colonizing Venus is crazy. Mars has almost everything we need already frozen in its atmosphere to create a successful colony today, even without terraforming. It is also easier to create global warming than it is to reverse it.

I'd say with a PE (like BartPE) and some tools it's possible to remove malware that are hiding themselves with rootkit techniques. Booting from read only media is the classic way of preventing execution of hostile code, but sadly it's often overlooked nowadays. It can be very time consuming though to locate and remove malware though, especially when you don't know it's there. It's not something an average user would likely succeed in doing, so I guess you're mostly right when you say it's impossible to remove without fdisk/format.