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You can format bullet points better by having a space between the bullet and the text.

Actually, that is how you trigger markup to create a proper bullet list.

With no spaces, you have to explicitly put a blank line between every “bullet point” item to keep them from paragraphing into one large block. With the spaces, proper formatting will take over and no blank line is needed to keep each individual bullet point item on it’s own line.

plants grown from seed don't bear the same fruit

Temperate-zone seed fruit like apples and pears rarely look, taste, and feel like their genetic parents.

Temperate-zone stone fruit, on the other hand - think peaches, apricots, cherries, etc. - are quite different. You plant one of those seeds, and it will bear fruit that is (usually) indistinguishable from the parent tree that the seed came from.

Now, Apple and pear trees are grafted for both cloning of the fruiting section as well as good rootstock. But most stone fruit grafting has cloning only as a secondary consideration - they are grafted mostly to be joined onto well-proven, high-quality rootstock that can produce lots of sap and confer resistance to certain diseases.

Source: am orchardist.

I have used the same web browser, in terms of ideology, codebase, and heritage, for nearly a third of a century, now.

NCSA Mosaic -> Netscape -> Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox.

I now hew more to alternates such as LibreWolf and Floorp, but I still run Firefox EME-Free as my default.

I think the rest of NATO should eagerly take him up on his offer… sans the resignation. Because Ukraine needs Zelenskyy at this point.

That alone would enrage Putin and his KGB puppet currently sitting in the Oval Office.

And then the rest of NATO can go completely weapons-free at Russia and Belarus.

Finally, someone has crunched the numbers.

Now,

• go for all massacres under 6 people
• extend to Canada
• extend to America

This should be crowd-sourced for added financial support.

When the cost of disobeying a direct order during “wartime” is prison or even execution, most soldiers will obey.

Especially since most of the American military is deeply conservative and ChristoFascist in the first place.

And so his purge of bipartisan and democratic leaders of the military allows him to ensconce lackeys that won’t question or refuse orders to invade other countries, like Canada.

People keep on saying that America won’t invade other countries, like Panama or Canada. THIS IS WHY THEY WILL BE ABLE TO DO SO.

The only copyright I would ever support is for a content creator to “own” a piece such that they can claim the exclusive rights to say “I created this”, and for them to directly profit off of that work so long as they were adequately servicing demand for that work.

So if a novelist kept their materials in print - or, at least, had a contract with a publishing house that would ensure that anyone could purchase a copy at any time - that novelist wouldn’t have their work return to the public domain until they died, or until a decade after initial publication, whichever happened last.

But any work could be “challenged” by having a separate individual or org put forth a request for a limited production run, in order to demonstrate any shortfall in supply. If that run doesn’t demonstrate shortfall (with the current producer keeping production unchanged), they would have to hand over all profits to the current rights holder. But if there is a shortfall, they can become an authorized second producer, capable of keeping a slice of the profits. And if no demand is being satisfied at all, the work can be returned to the public domain for anyone to satisfy market demand without restriction.

And note: any and all copyright could only be held by an individual, or by a group of individuals who were all directly involved with the creation of the work. Companies would be wholly ineligible for owning any copyright. And copyrights could not be pre-transferred by any workplace agreement… only post-creation agreements could be made on a per-creation basis, and would need to be ratified by an anticapitalist, bipartisan clearing institution. Creators could lease said creations to their employers, but would have extra protections against revenge actions by their employer.

http://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/againstfinal.htm

For registration of dot-ca domains in particular, I have always used CanSpace.ca. They seem to have the lowest prices of any Canadian registrar.

If I didn’t care about providence, I would likely suggest NameSilo or Porkbun, but I prefer to keep my dot-ca domains at a strictly Canadian registrar.

And while I self-host, they also seem to have decent entry-level prices if you’re not overly worried about putting all your eggs into one basket (despite this being a Not Good thing).

If you want to remain resilient against issues with any one provider, split up name registration, DNS, and hosting from each other. That way, if one kills the services you are using, switching to another provider will be much easier. If you plan to set up an eMail server, also consider splitting that up into a separate hosting provider or service provider.

If you plan to set up everything yourself, avoid the $$$ hosting panels like WHM/cPanel. Yes, that particular one is very good, but its price has spiked by a ridiculous amount in the last few years, and IMO it isn’t worth it anymore. There are other control panels that are much lower cost or even no cost that get you almost as far (ease of use + power).

I know. It’s an exceedingly horrible path, but the alternatives are turning out to be immeasurably worse, and we are rapidly running out of non-catastrophic options.

I am in the northern hemisphere, in a city that is virtually 100% guaranteed to be nuked if such a conflict arises. It’s not an option I want to reach for unless all the other ones are even worse. But “much worse” is likely to occur, sooner rather than later.

Ironically, only unrestrained nuclear war could possibly save us now.

1. It would move untold gigatonnes of dust into the atmosphere, cutting down on solar radiation in the short term
2. it would destroy high-tech fossil fuel consumption and most human-caused CO2 production in the short to medium term
3. said dust would slowly fall out of the atmosphere over the next decade, most into the oceans, releasing phytoplankton from their limiting environmental factors (mainly a lack of iron)
4. even with reduced sunlight, phytoplankton populations would explode, sucking significant CO2 out of the atmosphere
5. an extended nuclear winter would produce thin ice sheets across most of the northern hemisphere, dramatically increasing the planet’s albedo once the atmosphere clears up, reflecting most incoming radiation back out and (hopefully) maintaining lower temperatures
6. lower temperatures planet-wide would produce a much wetter climate, with much more snowfall and more precipitation in arid areas, encouraging increased carbon sequestration by plants.
7. human populations would crash massively in the first year or three, but - especially in the southern hemisphere - would remain present in relative technological sophistication. We could conceivably stabilize in the very low billion level or high hundreds of millions, with the technological knowledge to rebuild a high-tech civilization without the extensive use of fossil fuels.

We're probably not heading into over 4.8 though. Probable outcomes are between 2.5 and 3.5 (both of which are horrific.)

Unfortunately, that kind of thinking is badly out of date, and no longer in line with the evidence.

Spoiler alert: it’s much, much worse than that.