Yes, that's pretty much the point I was making. It was another major factor in Las Vegas being almost completely undeveloped in 1947 as per the photo. Same with the current major cities in Arizona, etc.
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Air conditioning becoming more widely available was probably another major factor.
I hear you. I meant that more as in even more off the rails, like completely ejected off the rails.
I have mixed feelings about it. I think it's perhaps 50/50 on whether things really go crazy within 5-10 years. It's definitely more than 0% chance, especially considering that people have already been dying due to climate change for quite a while now (extreme weather events, drought, and related conflicts).
I'm not sure exactly what you mean regarding health and lifespan, but I think looking forward from 2025, things are quickly going to go off the rails. We've already been seeing severe problems resulting from climate change for years now, and I think that it's going to rapidly get worse within the next 5-10 years. I'm not talking about sea level rise (except in very vulnerable places that are already partially underwater, like Florida), but about intensifying weather disasters, droughts, and shocks to the global food supply. As a result of this, I think we will see more and more unrest as well as authoritarianism used to deal with that unrest. How quickly all this is going to decimate the population is anyone's guess.
(slaps forehead) Of course! People without AI glasses will miss out on all those free knuckle sandwiches that people with AI glasses will be offered everywhere they go!
Let's be honest now... Zuckerberg is building a globally-distributed, industrial-scale, disaster-proof spank bank for himself.
It's mind-boggling. American Evangelical Christians could hardly be farther from the actual teachings of Jesus Christ. They're more like anti-Christians.
Edit: and thank you for making the connection that the Chick-Fil-A organization was founded and run by self-avowed "Christians" who are rabidly anti-LGBTQ.
- Normalize
- Sin/fulness? Spite/fulness? Stupidity?
Where Google's team put innovative effort into ChromeOS was in making it robust enough to be sold to the masses in the hundreds of millions of units, with no tech support. It's immutable, with image-based updates. It has two root partitions, one of which updates the other, so there's always a known good one to fall back to if an update should fail.
Vanilla OS also uses a two root partition system, called ABRoot, for its atomicity. The author should look into that, as it seems to be exactly what they're looking for.
This is a more fault-tolerant design than SUSE's MicroOS-based systems, which use the rather fragile Btrfs. It's also much simpler than the Fedora Atomic immutable systems, including offshoots such as Universal Blue, which use the Git-like — for which, read "fearsomely complex" — OSTree. For added entertainment, Fedora also defaults to Btrfs, with compression enabled. If you don't believe us about the problems of damaged Btrfs volumes, refer to the Btrfs documentation. We recommend taking the orange-highlighted Warning section very seriously indeed.
Stupid fearmongering about BTRFS (and OSTree, I presume). I selected an OpenSUSE distro precisely because it uses BTRFS and Snapper for automatic and transparent snapshots by default, which simplifies undoing most things that can break a system.
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I think this info may be outdated. I've been seeing a lot of people recommending Qobuz. It looks like they may be paying the most per stream now, and they also allow you to buy tracks and supposedly have the best sound quality streams(?).