Wow, I’m surprised at how much it skews eastwards in the US.

Assuming it’s involuntary either way, cows.

There’s no shortage of alternatives, though.

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Since this is Lemmy and we’re all ubernerds, maybe add compound interest to the problem or something.

I wonder how much gun running usually makes per AK.

Last I heard, the West was still on course to be on the moon first (again).

On the moon there’s specifically small but valuable amounts of adsorbed Helium 3, which is far rarer yet on Earth. It’s not going to displace the normal Helium in use.

Thanks. Interesting that it’s the texture that’s suspect here - it’s thought our jaws are too small to fit wisdom teeth for the exact same soft-food reason.

What for? There’s no reason to try and force anyone to do anything.

Well, I was just pointing out there ways to do it, if the need arises. I’m not actually convinced, like OP was, that they’d try to continue collecting rent the same way.

Plus, how do they collect the people every day? Unless you surprise them every morning somehow, I think most people would just say no, even upon pain of death (potentially suicide) after the first few torture sessions,

I doubt we’d go back to stretching on the rack or something; besides peoples ethical objections it would be impractical as pointed out, especially when you can’t build new racks. But, inevitably someone will get in a dispute with someone else, and will want it solved by force. Cops already rough up or taser people on the spot, and making it the punishment itself would be an easy deviation.

The traditional Inuit diet is pretty much pure whale blubber. A bit of fish and marine mammal meat on the side. Essentially no plants, because they just don’t grow well on permafrost.

There’s another tribe I can’t remember the name of that mostly just eats a certain high-calorie nut. By “can’t handle”, I meant without getting really fat eating that way. (The blue zones themselves are all over the place)

Because of how entirely permanent this is, it pays to look far - like millions of years. That’s what it took to accumulate.

We know how it came to exist naturally it’s really just the matter of someone being crazy enough to try and replicate those underground conditions and spend the money on the project.

How that works is just normal radioactive decay. The conditions aren’t actually important.

It’s probable we’ll be able to make a bit with fusion, but the amounts will be small. IIRC we also collect some from decaying radioactive things in manmade settings, but again, it’s hard to beat an chunk entire planet underneath a salt dome. Next options are harvesting it from space (but it’s really spread out) or a gas giant (but there’s stupid amounts of gravity).

I like how wet mops came up twice.

Y’know, I’m not a surgeon and probably missing something, but I feel like there must be a way to open a leg with very little risk of nicking the femoral artery.

I did the one about jumping upwards under a shelf recently-ish, so instead I’ll share the time I tried to stand on an exercise ball to reach something. Of course, I didn’t make it, and did a faceplant into some hard cube bins.

I mean, which foods even count as ultraprocessed isn’t well defined. It’s not an ingredient, it’s not a technique. OP was trying to find a problem for their solution, you’re right, but lack of exercise is just as big of a suspect if not bigger.

They’re engineered to be very appealing for sure, but do you have a link for the not filling us up bit? That one’s new to me.

Is it? There’s primitive cultures that eat every kind of weird diet you can imagine, and they’re all thin and fit. It’s still kind of a mystery why exactly we can’t handle eating even a fraction like the historical Inuit, and just the processing itself shouldn’t change much.

In healthy democracies reform happens anyway, though because there’s grassroot demand and politicians willing to capitalise on it one way or the other. It’s just that that’s not one.

Don’t worry (/s), I think you’re down to one now.

When you pop a balloon, the helium floats to space and is lost into the solar wind forever. Unlike every other element we could run out, and nobody cares. (Helium is important for a lot of serious things, too)

There’s more pressing issues, of course, but if you want one that’s very unknown compared to it’s long-term significance, there you go.

Tor Browser is designed to look like every other running Tor Browser on a somewhat-similar screen, if you use it.

OP mentioned physical pain. If you choose to ignore the paper-thin coating of instructions like “don’t follow the guards out of the prison’s front door”, that’s the main way they make you follow rules now. Tasers, batons and stress positions being most frequent specific methods.

In the West we’re so deep in the ideology and the rules we forget there’s force everywhere, but there is.

It’s a pretty giant, sudden shift we’re talking about here, and with that comes opportunity. I’m guessing we’d opt to start from scratch in a lot of ways.

In the long run people could potentially accumulate large amounts of (weird, new kinds of) property again. I have a feeling it won’t work the same without generational turnover to hide the unnaturalness of the process, though.

And if the middleman uses numbers to keep track, you now have currency again, and they’re a banker.