Daily Tech News 12 July 2022

• Not strictly tech news and the blog has covered this but Sri Lanka just collapsed due to insufficient poop and it was all predicted back in March. (Foreign Policy)
  
  Bubble-dwelling cretins decided to ban the artificial fertilisers essential to feeding the world (which is where Sri Lanka is located) and also to the country's economy, dependent as it is on agricultural exports, insisting that "organic" farming methods would survive, when everybody knows that this is quite literally impossible because there's not enough poop to go around.
  
  Because that's what organic farming runs on. Everyone knew there wasn't enough poop and said so, but Sri Lanka's government insisted it would create that poop.

  From the moment the plan was announced, agronomists in Sri Lanka and around the world warned that agricultural yields would fall substantially. The government claimed it would increase the production of manure and other organic fertilizers in place of imported synthetic fertilizers. But there was no conceivable way the nation could produce enough fertilizer domestically to make up for the shortfall.

  They're just getting warmed up:

  While the proximate cause of Sri Lanka's humanitarian crisis was a bungled attempt to manage its economic fallout from the global pandemic, at the bottom of the political problem was a math problem and at the bottom of the math problem was an ideological problem—or, more accurately, a global ideological movement that is innumerate and unscientific by design, promoting fuzzy and poorly specified claims about the possibilities of alternative food production methods and systems to obfuscate the relatively simple biophysical relationships that govern what goes in; what comes out; and the economic, social, and political outcomes that any agricultural system can produce, whether on a regional, national, or global scale.

  "Organic" produce is food for the privileged (and indoctrinated) few. It is completely untenable as a substitute for modern scientific farming and everyone knew that.
  
  But well-funded Western advocacy groups kept pushing for it - keep pushing for it - regardless, as we see right now in the Netherlands.

• A photographer catalogued everything she owned. (PetaPixel)
  
  12,795 items. Now a book.

  The total value of all the objects in Iweins' house is estimated to be €123,169, and 37 percent of her Playmobil figures are bald.

  Playmobil pattern baldness is no laughing matter.
  
  
  
• You will always have more problems than engineers. (Better Programming)
  
  Because, as the article points out, the default state of the world is chaos. Any semblance of order comes from one of two sources: Never-ending hard work, and crystal formation.
  
  
  
• A prebuilt gaming PC with a fast CPU and GPU, plenty of RAM and SSD, an attractive case, effective and quiet cooling, and immaculate cable management. (Hot Hardware)
  
  What's the catch?
  
  It costs $4799.

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