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Erase their effects on the planet. And rebuild the ecosystem with species that are healthy for the planet.

Coal ain't coming back. The Carboniferous isn't going to happen again because the mycological consciousness knows how to deal with lignin already.

Replacing the oil I know less about, but it would take millions of years to replace what we've burnt/processed if it was produced at historical rates.

I've always been in an "at will" state (Arkansas) and my more recent firing was without cause and without notice. But, since it wasn't for cause, I was/am eligible for unemployment insurance.

I'm not claiming, because I can't actually accept any job offer, due to the constraints of familial duties, and Arkansas requires you accept an offer when you on UI. (I think there are conditions where you can reject, but I've not read the statues, just the guidelines published by the relevant Arkansas government department, which aren't that explicit.)

Self-hosted GitLab is what GNOME and Debian chose to do.

I still use the main GitLab for most things.

https://repo.or.cz/ provides just git hosting.

It's also relatively easy to just self-host Git, though permissions can be wonky, at least last time I tried.

I can't recommend Darcs. Luckily I don't see MS (or any other corp) being able to take over core Git development. I really should try Pijul again, but least time I played with it, the history/branch visualization (which you can do without, but I really like to have) was actually still worse than Darcs.

Again, check local laws, but in general you can be fired for cause (meaning no unemployment insurance eligibility) for violating company policy. So "legally" might be wrong but "had to clock out (if you want to keep working here)" might be accurate.

It's more than just FOSS users. It's "The Internet" in general. At least two of the modding scenes I've been in have had multiple developers (and artists and translators) just quit due to their users aggressively complaining about the stuff they give away for free.

Of course, it doesn't get that much better when people have to pay for things -- ask customer service representatives how much toxicity they see from unsatisfied customers.

Oh. Time for a fork. -ND variants are not Free Software / Open Source.

While I understand and respect his feeling, in my limited experience, people that don't like when distributions package their software are often deranged.

Still, if you are using OS packages, your first stop should be OS fora / bug trackers, not upstream. Whoever is producing the distro/OS packages should engage with upstream if and when that's necessary. Upstream, especially small upstreams, really shouldn't be expected to deal with the craziness of Nix, Arch, Debian, and SteamOS all at the same time.

Users are, IME, mostly annoying. Sometimes (not often) I'm glad none of my software has any. At least at work I can point at the Teams / Slack / Jira conversation to prove they specifically asked for something completely different last week and I implemented that.

"finite" stands up to that scrutiny, but it also doesn't mean a lot. The volume of space within 1m of any photon ever emitted from the Sun is finite, but it's not small on many scales.

If you have an additional 3% of the population come in as new immigrants, no one would even notice resources were spread more thin, just like they don't notice a 3% inflation most years. I don't think most countries are experiencing that level of immigration, including extra-legal immigration.

The hierarchy is natural and good and all ills are due to someone violating the hierarchy.

Therefore, laws are only useful when they support the hierarchy.

Any efforts to make society less hierarchical and more equitable are either (a) lies in an attempt to climb the hierarchy (b) doomed to failure and disastrous to the participants because it's against the (natural and good) hierarchy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agzNANfNlTs&list=PLJA_jUddXvY7v0VkYRbANnTnzkA_HMFtQ&index=11

EDIT: The above is meant as a satire of the conservative thought process, and does not reflect my beliefs (most of the time).

I think this is the core problem, but you could allow freedom of movement without completely eliminating real estate.

On land you don't own, you could be restricted to "leave only footprints, take only memories" and we could still mostly eliminate administrative borders.

Good fences make good neighbors

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/150774/robert-frost-mending-wall :

Because the neighbor gets the last word, it’s possible to read “Good fences make good neighbors” as the poem’s straightforward message. A more complex reading, alert to Frost’s ironic style, would side firmly with the speaker. In this view, the speaker nurses a healthy suspicion of barriers that serve no clear purpose; he is open to communication and new ideas, wary of anything that arbitrarily divides people

Dr., this is Captialism; that level of empathy is toxic.