Exactly. One of my grandfathers was vegetarian. I am a committed carnivore. :-) On 4th of July he cooked up lentil burgers. They tasted fine. My favorite vegi-burger today is a black bean burger. Its delicious.

Why the hell do we have to have the fakery? I've raised cows myself in a semi-rural environment, their beef tasted so much better than store bought. But when friends want to go a local vegetarian restaurant, no problem. They have those delicious black been burgers I mentioned above.

Vegi-burgers can taste great. Get your recipes right and you don't need the fakery.

Wait until you raise a cow yourself. It doesn't require a lot of grassland, although that would be best. Even in a semi-rural setting, with high quality commercial feed, it is so much better than factory farm produced beef.

If you can't do it yourself, sponsor a 4H kid.

There is no random process for livestock. It's selective breeding. Part of that selection involves taste.

Open source development occurs under two scenarios.
(1) Voluntary contributions of time.
(2) Users paying developers to implement the user's needs and wants. Users take various forms, the developer's employer, the developer's client, etc.

Corporations seem to be the largest group of users, so today we have the corporate-driven evolution of Linux. One way or another, they fund the majority of the development. And that's how open source works. You want a change, make it yourself or pay someone else.

Its been a long time since Linux was hobbyist driven.

Individuals too. I've been using VMWare on Mac for over 15 years. Windows VMs, Linux VMs, even macOS VMs with over versions of macOS. One machine to develop for and test all three platforms.

However I recently switched to Parallels. A Windows VM, a Linux VM, and a macOS VM with the older version of the OS.
As a special bonus, since the new Mac is ARM, I get to run ARM Windows and ARM Linux. Both run really well.

I'm happy with the switch to Parallels. My currently licensed VMWare can sit on the old Intel Mac with the old Intel VMs should I needed them.

Yesterday's. :-)

Wait, they did not test the gold plated cables from the local electronics superstore? Must be a rigged test. :-)

I'm surprised the radiation from the banana isn't affecting the sound quality. :-)

They didn't say a "competent" developer, they said "their best" developer. They could have some Dilbert-esque metric of "best", the developer who completes their task the fastest, who completes more tasks per time period, etc. Ignore the fact their code generates more followup tasks than anyone else due to omissions, bugs, incompleteness, etc. People will game the system. I have literally seen a coworker introduce a bug and not fix it. With a straight face he explained to me the bug (that they just created) is not on the task list, and that it is OK because QA will find it and create a new task to have it fixed in a future scrum. His manager considered him a role model, the rest of us worked hard to keep a straight face as the manager said this.

This tech is useful for appeal to emotions or appeal to authority fallacies, and marketing. Got a cause, got a product, that could use a bump ... pay Meta to have the appropriate "person" like it, comments on it, etc.

It's potentially fraud. Advertisers are expecting actual live users, not bots.

That base is not where they want to put the new stuff. New surveillance systems are planned for more remote regions far to the north.

Doesn't matter, the US bases would probably in uninhabited regions of Iceland anyways. He'll just get it cheaper after AMOC collapse.

The USA, Russia, China, India, and Japan have photos of Apollo landing sites. Some of the photos show footprints.

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It's not "Ponzi", its "Greater Fool".

Ponzi is where revenue from recent investors is used to pay interest/dividends to earlier investors. To manufacture the false perception of a good investment.

Greater Fool is assuming one is buying at a lower price and will be able to sell later at a higher price.

Crypto coins do not pay interest or dividends, the "profit" is based on selling higher. Its a Greater Fool scheme.