> I did hear an interesting quote from someone techy that said "If you punch a whole in a plasterboard wall, it is now cheaper to buy a TV to cover the hole than get someone to repair the plasterboard."

Quicker, also.

> Cattle outweighs the total livestock on this planet by a 10 to 1 factor.

It seems odd not to include cattle in total livestock.

The point is to emphasize that there's more cows on this planet using more resources than all of the other animals combined (excluding fish and water mammals).

You could add all the squirrels, elephants, lions, cats, birds, all of those, and you're not even at a fraction of mass of the cows we grow.

Yeah that seems phrased wrong, but here's xkcd visual: https://xkcd.com/1338/

Seems like it would take a lot of chickens to maintain a lion, and that would possibly require a large amount of effort for little gain compared to larger game. Lions can definitely catch chickens if there are some around and they care to.

I meant in a zoo. Of course it's not realistic for a lion in the wild to live exclusively off poultry.

The person I responded to seemed to seems to believe lions eating only poultry would develop nutritional deficiencies of some kind. Maybe that's true but I'm interested to learn if there are sources. Not just gut feel "they don't eat them in the wild so they can't do it".

> This kinda reminds me of student loans, why not get as many people as possible into 6 figure debt?

Didn't we already try that with housing?

> But sure they maintain houses. Although just the bare minimum, they will never fix it nicely - just enough to rent it out.

Depends a lot on the landlord. Many will fix it up nicely because they can charge a higher rent. Much of my work is repairing rental properties and I've seen all types of landlords. I try not to work for the cheap ones if I can help it because I don't want my name associated with the crap they want me to do.

This seems odd to me. It's a feature I've grown quite fond of over the decades, and this is the first time I've heard about people not liking it. Maybe I've been in a bubble.

> Almost every single user I've shown GNOME to was surprised or bothered by this being the default instead of the usual scrolling you'd see in Windows.

Middle click scrolls in Window?

Works fine for me on Wayland.

Thanks for confirming, I look forward to one day getting Wayland to run properly for me, but that's a whole different story. I'm just glad that middle click paste works and that it's not really an 'X11-ism'.

Not yet

Some municipalities have leaf pickup service if you pile up the leaves on the side of the street.

Mine requires them to be in paper bags or in buckets