Everything you know is wrong.

We'll surely avoid scurvy if we all eat an orange.

Almonds also require a hell of lot of water. A commodity that is in notably short supply in Southern California.

Produces everything it needs; it must trade. That's why Trump's tariffs are a disaster. Autarky doesn't work and every country that has tried it has ruined its economy. This is Economics 101, people.

Great, you can fit five people in your car. Most people can. Almost nobody does. It's estimated that 90% of commuter car trips are just the driver. So, yes, each bike you see is taking a whole car off the road.

You supported your assertion that Denmark practices "ruthless population control" with a graph of Copenhagen's population, with no evidence as to what might be responsible for those changes. That is not data.

Having something with an intrinsic use as a currency is a bad thing because then fluctuations caused by the demand and supply for the uses to which the currency can be put to will cause economic instability.

This time for sure!

They have to use all those semicolons in Java code, not to mention C and other languages. It'd make sense that they'd start running out.

Good lord, they've reinvented "find"! Only not as powerful.

Bah, sci-fi come lately. Obviously we need Scotty.

"Or what happens when you promote a Fossil Fuel Captain?"

A Fossill Fuel Admiral?

It's not the cost of the replacement software. It's the cost of proving that replacement hardware will not introduce bugs that cause a failure.

"Grandparent: The floppies are used to boot the system. They don't run the trains."

The emulation could introduce a bug into the boot process that affects the software running the trains. It can happen. This sort of thing *has* happened, more times than I can count.

..of an alcoholic insisting he doesn't have a drinking problem?