nyan

I guess I'm just in awe of the universe's ability to create bigger and better idiots.

Good grief, why is everyone so interested in these ostriches?

The poor will have scavenged the abandoned buildings in built-up areas, yes. Still-occupied buildings and those in smaller towns with no easy access to a scrapyard are more likely to be intact. So it's more likely to be a case of "these are no longer to code, they are not grandfathered, you have a two-year grace period to switch them out" (staggered geographically or by building classification to avoid a run on plastic pipes) plus "road trip!"

We might also end up mining older dumps for stuff discarded when copper was cheaper.

How much old copper piping is still out there that could be replaced by other materials to recover the copper? I'm sure there are other common obsolete applications. The nice thing about metals is that we already have a pretty robust recycling chain in place for them. That plus the remaining supply plus aluminium plus other replacements plus careful design to minimize the use of copper where it's absolutely necessary might be enough to carry us through.

The original Red was enough of a greedy asshole that his behaviour is too much in character to warrant further examination, maybe? Or Green Keeper suspects, but also knows that he needs ironclad proof in order to accuse another Dragon Keeper, and doesn't have it yet? Or he's saving it until after they've dealt with the other boss monsters? Or some other hidden reason, possibly having to do with why the Keepers' fancy ultra weapons appear to be organic?

Part of the reason D was fingered so quickly was that he really isn't that good an actor and doesn't take precautions when he thinks he's alone or with people who already know. The boss monster may be better at faking humanity.

Or I could just be completely off-base. Wouldn't be the first time.

It would actually explain a lot if the Red Keeper turns out to be one of the boss monsters. Hiding in plain sight, so to speak. Someone wearing the red uniform was in the scene towards the end of the episode with the reluctant Blue Keeper, if I recall correctly, and I don't think it was Clown Makeup Guy. So either the Red Keeper survived the stabbing, or he's being impersonated.

The Yellow Keeper comes across as an Evil Mad Scientist archetype who quite possibly isn't on anybody's side.

A good purr would be more helpful than a lot of advice I get from other sources.

They did state it was easy, not safe. Unsafe is always easier. (Until it isn't—I'd get back "-bash: sudo: command not found" if I just followed those directions without understanding.)

One problem with these is that using them breaks things like file open/save dialogs for modern apps which use some (DBus-based?) way of invoking those and expect a modern desktop environment to provide one.

Possibly the XDG portal nonsense. I've never had it break anything entirely, but I'm also used to no two file dialogs looking the same.

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Thing is, punishing children for stuff their grandparents and great-grandparents did ~50 years ago isn't a good look either.

We have to be the grown-ups in the room, alas. That means no exporting of oversized birds that are probably infected with avian flu, even if we would be sending them to the US.