HugeNerd

Yes, please describe how that solar panel came into being. Try it without the fossil fuel foundation of every single item we use. Everything from the rubber tires of the delivery trucks to the food the workers eat.

You are blind to what's around you. If you think we're going to support 8 billion people living a Western lifestyle without fossil fuels, I'm afraid it's not me who isn't bright.

How do you support our present industrial civilization with windmills and watermills? We already had these, why did we give them up?

You're completely oblivious.

"better, more advanced ways of generating power."

But we don't. We don't "generate" power. We harvest energy. And once our little geological energy reserve is drawn down, how do you plan on keeping our present arrangements going?

You haven't explained how you plan to make fertilizers, concrete, plastics, with electricity? And you don't simply "light oil on fire"... Where did the iron come from to make engines? Coal, oh yeah.

You also think we'll just spin copper wire and rare earth magnets from sunshine...

Please go back to AI vibe coding.

Then why did it take until 1859 for human population to start trending up and reach 8 billion?

I'll help you: oil. The ancient Romans had geothermal, wind, tide, solar, and hydro as well.

They had the exact same energy we do now. The difference is we have power, they didn't.

I'll help you again. You can't fertilize crops with electricity, or make plastic.

"Lane"? Do you have any idea how many green spaces and trees are being destroyed to build WEF "densified" condos everywhere?

How would I know? Are they trying to quit smoking?

That's what geocached samizdat is for, silly boy! Or pirate radio, or pirate OTA TV (HD or NTSC for extra cred).

Prayer doesn't work. At best it's stress relief: beats smoking. At worst it fosters a mindless life outlook.

Our present civilizational arrangement that depends on cheap energy and a world-wide endless supply chain is on its last legs. Hospitals depend on both reliable energy and supplies.

If civilization collapses, we can hope the basic knowledge we've accumulated over the last 150-200 years or so will endure. Things like blood circulation, blood pressure, germ theory, blood types, basic first aid, etc. But I doubt it. Most of us are functional morons. We use things that we don't have a clue how any of it got here or how it works.

And if we think about them at all, we assume humans have always had them. See the 1970s series Connections, just episode 1 for what I mean.

If we simply degrade and lose the entitlements we gained during the cheap energy fossil fuel orgy, we'll revert to historical patterns of top 1% getting all the best services and care, such as human doctors and organ transplants, and the rest of us will get AI "doctors" that prescribe symptomatic relief from the company that owns them. See the novel Bladerunner by Nourse for a general sketch. Also from the '70s, another period of political turmoil and a manufactured energy crisis. The difference is that now, the energy crisis isn't manufactured. It's foundational.

I could also be wrong, the LSD is hitting pretty hard this morning.

Anyone else planning on dining out in an Iranian restaurant tonight?

Given the backdoors in modern CPUs and routers, that's not something you want in writing on the interweebs. Say, do you know what approaching re-education drones sound like?

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pfffffff ha ha ha and he deletes his post! Guess he heard an airplane and thought it was the Raytheon GBU-12 Camp Camp refugee tent buster bomb being sent his way!

I know. But it's a religious thing, so any random dude with a mental illness, other than religion itself, can take Holy Action (tm).

Ask Salman Rushdie about that.

Surely there is a typo in the headline, only Russia, land of the washing machine CPUs, puts people in jail for words.

Well that's just a screen shot of the directory listing of the GEOS disk from the 64's default "OS", the BASIC interpreter. That 3 block file also contains information that only GEOS sees, the actual executable 6502 code is likely in the 500 bytes, if that. The user manual for the mouse actually contains an assembler listing of the driver. It ain't big.

The 64, of course, was never designed with a mouse in mind, so Commodore engineers used the analog paddle inputs to encode the mouse XY motion. So the "driver" really just reads the A/D converters for the paddles and fudges some kind of motion information out of it.

It works quite well. The 64 only has a 320x200 display, so it's not like you need a gaming 1000DPI 1ms mouse.