Indeed, that was an apt and true reply which was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked the man what he meant by keeping hostile possession of the sea,

The government demands to know everything about us, and that we know nothing about them. No data on who used the congressional sexual abuse slush fund, no Epstein Island prosecutions, no votes on war abroad

And then there's the Everglades themselves, where humans decided nature needed to be "fixed," and also purely by coincidence, "reclaim" land for the sugar cane industry in agriculture.

Non-native lionfish in Florida are an absolute menace on the reefs, and have no predators other than humans. It's a real problem with many species around the world. They do real damage to the native ecosystem.

It's easier to get people to support eradicating an invasive species if it's an ugly bird or nuisance insect, less so when it's an elegant bird.

Youtube, DuckDuckGo for my main search engine, and occasionally still the cesspool of Facebook.

A patent is a public release of an invention alongside a claim of authorship, not a method of keeping a secret. And we now have the MIT license, Creative Commons, the GNU GPL, and other methods of releasing

I've seen many claims to free energy over the years. None pan out. If free energy is somehow real, we will never see it implemented until we end the State. I don't believe we will see it even then. I've

Neat, but how many are just spam from a couple of our resident blockchain lunatics?

All you ever needed to do was respect my first request that you not spam your nonsense. Everything which followed was your choice. All you need to do is stop, leave me alone, and be a good person.

It'll still be here if and when they're ready.

I have a decent stake after nearly a decade here. I earn more by curating than from post tewards, but I am not getting rich by any means. Our sales pitch should be content ownership first, and earnings

I know about the San Francisco police drone footage leak, and while nonspecific, I know there is crowd movement tracking at some level.

Energy isn't the only resource in our world, but the less expensive it is, the more everyone prospers. Truly free energy would absolutely astonishing. It wouldn't eliminate economics though. Time is scarce,

Nope. I would seriously consider a 5th generation Mustang, as it is just about the most modern car I would want. Beyond that point is when everything really became thoroughly polluted with pointlessness.

Bears and mountain lions are dangerous, but they are also perceived as obvious dangers. Moose and bison look comparatively innocent, but are if anything more territorial.

There is good and bad with new technology. I chould build a Raspberry Pi into a standalone podcast player, which I believe is decidedly a step up from AM/FM and cassettes. I still use paper maps when possible,

It's my ambiguous description for my "new" car. It is not a truck. It is not an SUV. It is not a sports car. It just looks like a friend- shaped thing on the road and people even tolerate me