Which is why it gets ridiculous. You can build an oven with a few conveniently shaped rocks. You can build an over with raw river clay, then use that oven to make better bricks, then use those bricks to make a better oven, which you can use to make even better bricks.

So, all it takes to turn somebody into a greedy capitalist exploiter is...the ability to stack rocks into a box with an opening.

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If it does, it will just be replaced by other mosquitos in turn when it disappears. Other mosquitos that don't give humans terrible diseases.

Nonsense. Some of our earliest examples of recorded writing are taxes being collected in the form of grain, sheep, and other goods.

You buy some flour for a dollar. You use that flour to bake bread. You sell that bread for two dollars.

Why the price increase? Because you've improved the capital.

Without money, you can't really have a society bigger than 'small village.' Money is 'a placeholder for value.' It lets the breadmaker acquire a breadmaking tool from the blacksmith who needs no bread, and lets the blacksmith then acquire cloth from a weaver who needs no iron.

Rural ISPs often wire up farms as a core part of their business. I remember when Cambium released a firmware that allowed for the Canopy series of fixed wireless broadband gear that allowed for a CPE to slowly physically move, doing all of the re-ranging and what not to allow it to be, to a very small extent, mobile. Why? So that an SM could be mounted to a tractor.

It's also where you learn that corn silk really fucks up with 5 ghz RF.

y on devices equipped with just 16GB of VRAM,

Ah yes, 'just' 16GB of VRAM. Ah, the days of my youth, when I thought upgrading my ATI Mach 64 from 2mb to 4mb of VRAM was unjustifiable, and the guys at the computer store looked at me funny for wanting a whopping 32mb of RAM for my Pentium 66 rig.

Fucking dihydrogen monoxide. Terrifying stuff. Did you know that it can cause terrible burns and skin damage in liquid, solid *and* gaseous form?

I mean, First Nations people aren't native to The Americas, either, they wandered over a land bridge about 15,000 years ago.

Aedes aegypti is an invasive species to North America, only been here for a few hundred years, so I doubt that the food chain has grown radically dependent on them.

The greater metropolitan area of Mexico City uses around 7.5 billion kg (liters) of water per day.
(25,000,000 people using 300 liters)
Lithium is about 100 parts per billion in sea water.
So if you desalinated enough water to supply Mexico city, and sorted off all of lithium, that would be 750 kg per day, or 270 tonnes per year.
Annual global lithium production is about 290,000 tonnes per year.

Desalinate water for all of Mexico city, add an extra 0.1% to lithium production.

Color me unimpressed.

Yes, but only for the young'uns who didn't live through big tech layoffs in the 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000s, or 2010s.

Echos of the 'multimedia franchise' days when part of the plot was in the video game, part was in the comic books, part was in the companion app that was delisted two years later.....

Believe your eyes. Go download a game on your PS5, then disable it's internet for 31 days and see what happens.