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There are indications that part of it is genetic factors regarding rebelliousness were eradicated by the history of rice paddy farming.

Not according to NOAA or USGS. And the per volume intensity on the ground is negligible. The Carrington Event and 1989 Ontario blackout weren't caused by direct interference like an EMP, they were caused by the induction of telluric currents that compromised the circuit of the long-distance...

The Carrington Event wasn't an EMP, it was a geomagnetic storm. The reason for the damage is the flux over long distances without proper ground, which fucks up power management (and telegraphs) but down at the personal electronics scale is basically nothing.

The Carrington Event recurring is maily a problem for large-scale electrical work like power grids because it has to do with the flux difference over distance. Your phone, car, desktop PC, etcetera will almost certainly not be damaged, but there's fuck-all stockpile of gridscale parts and it...

The bureaucracy expands, to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.

Technically true as meaningfully-scarce resources are commonplace. Thoroughly undefinable due to the nature of prospecting and production establishment. Definitely a problem in some areas, but mostly about water-hungry "trendy" crops. There's an area in Europe with rather sizable gorges...

The worst part is that there is a very real form of exactly this, as many regions do engage in ridiculous overproduction of food that's resulting in declining soil quality and erosion. To say nothing of the consequences of the runoff. But no, all environmental issues have to be about "Climate...

IIRC it turned out to only be like a 2% increase by-quarter but ended up suddenly overreported so people were connecting dots that probably aren't there. Or was that just train derailments?

So in other words, it's purely an argument from dogma rather than being able to defend it logically.

No, we can, we just don't have any remotely common use-case for moving parts. Pacemakers need this to work properly, after all, and it's also seen in bolting bones back together and restorative joint replacements. Occasionally dental work, when replacing the entire tooth. It's all static plating...

Actually the design work is very cheap and easy. The problem is that it needs manufactured to rather extreme tolerances and have no exposed surface off the whitelist of "Shit The Immune System Will Ignore", or else... The immune system will respond. Leading to horrific inflammation.