YaBoyMax

Yeah, it's not grammatically correct AFAIK but it's a fairly common mistake to see.

As other commentors have pointed out, it's vital that justice is applied as uniformly as possible in the interest of maintaining a fair and truly just system. Defense attorneys are an important check on the state and ensure (at least in theory) that it has met its burden in proving guilt before a person can be convicted, however heinous their alleged crimes may be. Without this adversarial dynamic prosecutors would be free to paint whatever narrative they please, whether rooted in reality or not, and any semblance of actual justice would go completely out the window.

This is a silly thing to say. Normal payment processing uses more energy, but that's only because there are many, many more payments going through it. It's orders of magnitude more energy-efficient than crypto.

You would need to spin the first gear 1 trillion times per second from now until the last proton in the universe decays, then do that about 10^68^ more times. 10^68^ is roughly equal to 52!, the number of unique ways a deck of cards can be shuffled. There's a somewhat famous description of how large this number is (paraphrased for brevity):

Start a timer that will count down the number of seconds from 52! to 0. Every billion years, take a step along the equator. Every time you go around the world, remove one drop of water from the Pacific Ocean. Every time you empty the ocean, take one sheet of paper and place it flat on the ground. Every time the stack of paper reaches from the Earth to the Sun, take a step up Mount Everest. Once you've reached the summit 80 times, the timer will have reached 0.

Plant-based oils and crude oil from the ground are completely different substances. The former is mainly composed of fatty acids, whereas the latter is mostly a mix of different hydrocarbons.

I'd suggest reading up on John Locke's "continuity of consciousness" theory of self. It's essentially what you're describing here: he holds that the "self" over time is a construct of the continuity of one's consciousness through memory. This has some interesting implications: for instance, if someone becomes blackout drunk and has no recollection of the experience, can it be said that that experience belongs to the same person after the fact? Also, as another commenter pointed out this has significant implications in the case of memory loss, especially for someone suffering from dementia.

So based on this and your post the other day about red meat, I really really really advise you to seek counseling or a psychiatrist. Obviously no one can diagnose you via social media, but this post is borderline incomprehensible and your recent posts and comments are strongly indictive of some kind of manic episode. I really think you would benefit from help right now and I really urge you to seek it.

The age of majority is a pretty arbitrary line that we draw; I don't see how this would be fundamentally different. We already "encroach" on interpersonal relationships by not allowing adults to date minors (which again is defined completely arbitrarily).

Unrelated, but what on earth is going on with the thorns in your comments?

AFAIK none of those formats include any mechanism for error correction. You'd likely need to use a separate program like zfec to generate the extra parity data. Bzip2 and Zstandard are somewhat resistant to errors since they encode in blocks, but in the event of bit rot the entire affected block may still be unrecoverable.

Alternatively, if you're especially concerned with robustness then it may be more advisable to simply maintain multiple copies across different drives or even to create an off-site backup. Parity bits are helpful but they won't do you much good if your hard drive crashes or your house catches fire.

Interpreting a PR which changes "he" to "they" as pushing political ideology is not an apolitical stance. I don't know a ton about him and I'm not convinced this makes him a "fascist" by association, but the fact that he seems to be ideologically aligned with the ones in power on America is troubling at the very least.

As other commenters have said this is basically only a thing at Walmart. Sometimes in very small shops someone will say hello as you enter, but that's a much more informal thing and as I said only really happens with tiny mom-and-pop stores where there might only be one or two people working.