OpenStars

Thank you for the feedback.

But this graph goes back to 1950? So like, did that data point exclude it, and then the 2100 one... who knows? It seems to bring up far more questions than answers.

Not sure if this is correct or not, but https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/HKG/hong-kong/population says that the population is only 7 million, despite being so dense but also overall the geographic area is small, and used to be like 2 million in 1950. Which is only 0.007 billion - not really significant.

Taiwan is more so, at 23 million, https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/taiwan-population/.

But the two of them together are only 0.03 billion - and as you mentioned, why include another sovereign nation into China's figures? It demeans Taiwan, appeases a country that may use violence to take it over... well anyway my original point that I need to stick with that if the goal is to avoid politics and convey information most accurately, then this disclaimer still seems to single out China, to the exclusion of every other nation in the world that might make a claim on other areas as well. And despite how the HK situation that was mutually agreed upon for a time and is more significant, the Taiwan situation is what seemed to bring "politics" into this, whereas I mentioned possibilities that would have made it more truly apolitical, and removed the focus from specifically China to highlight how most imperialistic nations have such territories associated with them.

I never said I couldn't back it up. I only said that if you wanted to know the answer, you could look. But ofc do whatever you please.

Or I suppose you could try to goad me yet again into doing your homework for you, and see if that works? (Surely this time, if you keep trying the same action, surely this time things will work out differently than the other time(s)?😜)

Or you could just think about how likely it is that in the entire history of computing, what are the chances that it was true at least once? Not that it matters, bc I've agreed with you so many times that hardware!=software and that for Macs they are tied together, and Macs are expensive, that I think we've both already forgotten already whatever it was we were talking about. Take the "win" already?

OMG I could barely get this message out I was rotfl so hard...

I've said it twice already but perhaps the third time is the charm: sex is not bad. End of TED talk. (It's not really complicated at all.)

Other things that are "not bad" include eating food, breathing air, drinking water, making friends, repairing radiation damage, and all other necessary aspects of life. If we stopped any one of those, the human race would cease to exist.

Though "porn" is not necessary, nor healthy. "Isolation" is similar. "Depressing music" - now that's just sad, b/c I love depressing music, but whatever. Anyway, sex belongs in the above list, of necessary-and-fun activities, not with this list of unhealthy things.

Lust on the other hand... or gluttony... or irresponsibly hanging out with friends to the exclusion of other things you should be doing - ALL of those activities in panel 2 can be corrupted, if you do them improperly, e.g. to excess. Though is porn ever healthy? (I mean one can make an argument... but I sense you are not willing to receive such:-P). So sex should not be in panel 3, along with the activities that are said to be ALWAYS unhealthy, but rather in panel 2, with the things that SOMETIMES can be, but only if you do them "wrong".

Really, in the USA we do these kinds of activities as toddlers, as in "which one of these things is not like the other", and I did not think that this task would be too hard for someone to grasp...

if this “level of discourse” is what one can expect from you

It is indeed. You asked, I tried to answer, but I can't understand whatever is going on inside there. Maybe we're both just cranky:-P. Also, I'm lazy, so I don't want to block you, especially now that you asked me to:-P. You will see me all across the Fediverse, spouting my "logic" and "facts" - gaaah, the insanity! :-D

I see that part of this was explained in another comment already, or I would still have been very confused:-).

Right, well... also distrust your own understanding of everything that you read too!:-P Examine from every angle, if that helps, and then let Occam's Razor be your guide.

From my POV, I presumed it was common knowledge that the USA has never had a billion people, even in the past (even before it was the USA). Nor has any nation on earth, excepting China, and India is much worse, at one point projected to be on track to reach 2 billion by... well now I forget, but anyway, those two are well-known to be isolated having BY FAR the largest number of people than have ever existed on planet Earth before now (that we know of, or have even the remotest shred of evidence for or is even thought to have the tiniest likelihood of having been).

Which is kind-of a big deal when combined with issues of e.g. climate change. China may not have handled it perfectly, but at least they tried SOMETHING, with their various child restriction policies, whereas India's stance that is of a more religious nature, very often prohibits any form of birth control (it's more complex than that b/c there is no singular religion or even vague category of one there, yet many of them share that stipulation, including Catholicism and much of Hindu, and portions though by no means all of Buddhism, and some of the more conservative sects of Muslim & Mormon, etc.).

I was only illustrating how Mac hardware is not identically the same as Mac software. They are tied together, yet distinct entities.

Your lack of recollection neither proves nor disproves anything at all. If you doubt me, look it up? (since surely if I did so for you, you would distrust that as well? 🤪)

I did not downvote you btw.

... what? Is this a bit somehow - to place words into my mouth, then make a judgement as if they were true? Or did you forget the OP, or perhaps not understand it? See, all the things in the second panel are lifted up as being "good" (making friends, health, etc.), but then sex does not appear until the third panel, grouped together with "bad" things, e.g. isolation and drugs.

I was neither the one who placed sex into the third panel, nor did I agree with the person I was responding to that sex is "bad", nor did I state that anything at all was unpossible. Rather, I was stating that if sex were bad, the human race would end (ergo it must actually be "good", and thus it is rather some people's attitudes about it that do not match the natural world, and should be changed).

Feel free to block me btw, if you cannot handle this level of discourse.

Fuck that guy.

Which one?

Yeah!

For... oh FOOD, yeah, FOOD, okay I get you. (Are you sure it isn't "souls of the innocent"? Okay then, just checking!:-P)

I mean... a Mac machine will run non-Mac OSX software. Pretty much everything can run linux, with a little effort put into it:-) (unless somehow these M chips have prevented that? even if so, surely it's only a matter of time before someone cracks that barrier)

But yeah, it's definitely a choice. e.g., Apple does not even sell cheap Macs, whereas machines intended to run Windows can be bought all up and down the scale - though I recall at various points in time, comparing equivalently-equipped machines, Apple ones were pound-for-pound actually cheaper than their Windows equivalents. This is ofc b/c of the monopolistic practices: when you rigidly control the hardware, you are able to order in bulk, and when you order in bulk, you are able to get large discounts from the supplier!

Though surely nobody was arguing to purchase a Mac, not knowing who or what Apple is or is about? Installing Arch Linux is also known to be somewhat ah... "tricky", so if we are comparing things like ease-of-use, the question gets back to OP's "which distro?" And it's all a matter of choice - what you want to get out of it, and which constraints you want to live underneath.

But anyway, we were talking about "Mac OSX", which yeah, very much is limited to specific sets of hardware, and cannot be installed willy-nilly on any old machine, this is very much a true statement, to be paid very much attention to by anyone wanting to learn more, or use that in their purchasing / installation decisions:-). I was just saying that while Apple (& iOS) may be evil these days, Mac OSX itself kinda is great, caveat: if you can live with its restrictions, and moreover, those are MUCH less than Microsoft's set of restrictions these days (whereas Linux has its own set of difficulties).