or could eat something less likely to give you bowel cancer

This is the first I've heard of a lot of beef produced on semi-arid land incapable of supporting anything else, any source on that?

There are large areas of British Columbia not at all suitable for farming due to lack of water, or mountains, but you still see cattle ranchers. On top of that, most of Alberta is classified as semi-arid because the Rockies block the vast majority of the rain. Alberta is easily the largest supplier of beef in the country. Crown land in both provinces gets opened up from spring until fall to allow for cattle grazing. It's fairly widespread in some parts of the world.

This is a pretty basic fact about agriculture but you'll find people are selective about sharing facts when they have a narrative in mind. There are VASTLY different environmental impacts which depend on HOW you raise an animal, not just if. (and places where arguments about water usage per animal are pointless because water is very plentiful)

It is also a pretty fundamental driver of much of human history and caused a lot of conflicts when you'd have migrant/nomad peoples who either followed wild herds or managed their own herds and peoples who stayed put, owned land, and planted crops -- both of these strategies often driven heavily by geography not by choice. These people would meet at the margins and there'd be war.

There are a million sources but here: https://clear.ucdavis.edu/explainers/cattle-and-land-use-dif...

There are plenty of places around the world where you have maybe a hundred acres per animal or more. Whereas the best farmland can support one animal on the order of an acre of land.

An additional suggestion, go to youtube or wherever and look up Mongolian herding where people are still nomads and conventional farming is done very little because it's not particularly possible.

It's not just cattle, you live yourself on some pretty marginal land and need to eat? Raise you some goats. They eat anything, not a lot, you don't have to feed them, you can eat them, milk them, and use their hair for making cloth.

particularly as VPS providers typically auto assign a random character root password, suggests the weak one was specifically changed

Sadly you are atypical and the vast majority are freeloaders, who even without ads or tracking will try and find another way not to pay.

Freeloaders like all the ad-supported platforms that rely on free "content" created by the users?

There is no substance to this statement.

> Sadly you are atypical and the vast majority are freeloaders

Citation needed.

> who even without ads or tracking will try and find another way not to pay

Why is this relevant? People try to get free stuff all over the place and I don't find it makes my life difficult.

>> Sadly you are atypical and the vast majority are freeloaders

> Citation needed.

I think we need to agree upon a definition of freeloader before citing sources to support the claim. I've found that many people who use the word have a much more transactional view of the world than I do.

As opposed to morally upright people like yourself, who look for ways to pay for things that might be obtained freely?

Amusingly there's a macbook next to it in the pic, is this headless?

It has a HDMI port and its USB-C ports also support display out. But I believe most who buy it intend to use it headless. The machine runs Ubuntu 24.04 and has a slightly customised Gnome (green accents and an nvidia logo in GDM) as its desktop.

It's not running jq locally that's causing that

Yes, no-one knew what I was doing on my Vic-20, you should try it

There's probably a lot of survivor bias going on there

Undoubtedly. With 2.5T in value between tsla and sx that’s a lot of value for survivors.

What % of that is owned by employees that aren't named Elon Musk?

Being able to sudo edit inside emacs via tramp is something I've only recently discovered and I've being using emacs for years...

Were you in full time employment whilst doing all this?

Yes. Lonely people have a lot of time. It is rarely an issue. Motivation is.

OP complains about dreadful 60 hours and not about being too busy. I can relate.

My problem is something like this. I'm shy at meeting people, yet working out with someone can distract me from this free time. When I have free time I drink. The cycle is unique... I don't know how to explain it but "dreadful free time" ... that's the best i have heard yet.