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The only genocide being proposed in this thread is the mass extermination of mosquitoes.

Most people outside of Australia recognize that the Australian shark culls are dumb emotional reactions to a non-problem. Shark culls are an international embarrassment for Austral…

It's easy to ignore the destruction of the environment if all you care about is optimizing for the human race at the expense of all other species.

> "he advocates mass extinction of human beings" Far from it, this is not even remotely a possibility. Mosquitoes are not threatening humanity with extinction in any conceivable wa…

Humanity is important but humanity is not currently being threatened. If humanity were actually being threatened I would support the eradication of any species threatening it.

Waiting for economic factors to suppress the birth rate is the milquetoast approach I described earlier in this thread that is causing incredible environmental destruction. It's no…

Asbestos is rock.

I think a big part of it is a tendency of tech/engineering sorts to have an allergic reaction against any sort of tradition. Old fashioned is worse than uncool, it's dumb and outs …

There are plenty of communities in America that have professional fire departments. Particularly cities where there is actually a tax base to support it. You'll find volunteer fire…

A truck being small is not incompatible with a truck being a beautiful shade of red polished to a shine. Just look at Japanese firetrucks. They have some very small trucks that loo…

Many sharks, plus bycatch, for no rational reason at all. Australian politicians vilify the animals and demand even more be killed. It's wholly irrational, as is your characterizat…

Those mosquitoes aren't invasive anywhere. Eradicating them means killing them wherever they're native as well, which is definitely what many people in this discussion are proposin…

In early 2001 the Taliban banned the growth of poppies and opium export plummeted to near zero. > The first American narcotics experts to go to Afghanistan under Taliban rule have …

As I've stated throughout this threat, it isn't just about mosquitoes. Honestly I would not mourn mosquitoes if every last species was exterminated. What concerns me is the social …

Half of human deaths isn't very significant considering that despite that the human population is still exploding at an unsustainable rate that will cause incredible environmental …

As far as I can tell, the eradication of hundreds of species of mosquitoes is being suggested by many.

> "Its important to differentiate b/w the plans of a politician and the plans of research scientists who have done actual work in this area." Not really, because the general public…

The fact that you cite past animal exterminations to justify additional animal exterminations proves my point. The more species are eradicated the more normal it becomes and the mo…

I never said this was new. What concerns me is it being done in the modern era. And not just in the modern era, but backed up by scientists too, which lends it additional credibili…

> "but it's hardly an "emotional outburst" to want to prevent swimmers from being eaten" Considering... > "Since 2000 there have been 15 fatal shark attacks along the West Australi…

> "but you don't get to separate the two in the case of an OS or distribution." Actually I do get to do that. It's an important distinction because if the software isn't at fault, …

> "Yet in many cases, scientists acknowledge that the ecological scar left by a missing mosquito would heal quickly as the niche was filled by other organisms." More concerning tha…

That's a problem with Arch users, not with Arch. It's unfortunately common that fanboys undermine the reputation of reasonable software.

There is an expectation that projects dogfood their own software, but I really can't think of a rational reason for a production server not affiliated with the Arch project to be r…

I'm pretty sure he knows. Hence "My superpower: Taking things literally." Incidentally I'm pretty sure water snake oil is not actually a cure-all anymore than rattlesnake oil is.