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Power begets power, whoda thunk it?

And as put in Red Mars:

Money is power, power makes law, and law makes government.

I hate phlegmy coughs. Not for the coughing, not even for the chest pain after you've been coughing for so long, but for the foul taste of the gunk that always manages to dislodge with enough strength to get up to your tongue.

OK, can someone translate that for me? I've no idea what that means.

Well, it is. It's just that you need huge areas of managed artificial forest to fuel a single plant. Even with fast growing trees it takes a couple decades for them to get large enough, and the plant's in constant need of fuel so you need it managed in such a way that trees are always being cut down.

I wonder if bamboo would be a better alternative, actually? Grows fast and it can be burned.

Infuriated, might be the way of putting it.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-63089348

"We only use leftover sawdust for wood pellets!" "You've cut down old growth forests" "OK, we held the license but we gave them to logging companies" "You still hold the license" "OK, but we only cut down old, dead trees" "Most of those trees were alive" "OK, but it was sent off for wood production and we only used unusable wood" "Actually it went straight to your plants. All of it." "OK, but it wasn't considered old growth forest because it was next to a road" "That's not part of the definition, and some of it was 6 miles from the nearest road." "Look, we're the good guys, leave us alone!"

Jesus Christ, I'm used to corporations lying, but I'm not used to them repeatedly lying, getting caught out, then assuming we're all stupid enough to believe the next lie. And the next one. And the next.

Poltergeists, clearly.

With the stuff disappearing, you're not accidentally quick stacking to nearby chests are you?

I don't mean Zenith, just Don't Dig Up.

Zenith sounds like a shitshow. Fun shitshow if you're a masochist like me, but a shitshow nonetheless.