And what reason is that?

If you need to call one bash script from another bash script, you're not supposed to include it like a Python library. Instead, there is a "unix way" of doing things: just directly call one program from the other program.

I like to think that whatever happens here is insignificant in the big picture, and that's why bad things happen and divine intervention doesn't routinely occur.

I can't explain why its insignificant, of course. It's like a hydrocarbon combusting in your car engine, and the rest of the little molecules wondering what kind of a monster could do that to them. We humans aren't even aware that it could be a problem.

Our observations are driving the comparison, no? People are trying to make sense of existence but only have their personal experiences and knowledge to use as evidence.

You don't need to ridicule. Can you explain why such a policy doesn't work? I must have skipped that day at school.

There was no intent to ridicule. The answer is that the policy is (1) unsustainable, not unlike a Ponzi scheme, and also (2) even prior to its inevitable collapse, such a policy distorts investment choices and thus makes society as a whole increasingly poorer. Note that there are similar policies that can be more sensible. For example, you can tax wealth and use the proceeds to gradually pay off some of the national debt. (Note that even these policies are typically only resorted to during emergencies, such as war.)

Its not like a Ponzi scheme, though. Nobody is getting rich from such a policy.

I bet a butter knife could have cut the tension during the drive home.

How does this make any money for the bot operators? Wouldn't it be easy to see who is advertising vaccination timeslots on Craigslist?

You could hire a bot service to snag a vaccine appointment sooner, while others have to wait.

My fan is quite advanced. It has "night" and "natural breeze" modes, for example, and it was the cheapest one at Costco last year.

This would be ideal, in my opinion.

How odd to demand anything of a free content producer, no?

There was a free concert in a park of my city recently. I wouldn’t mind hearing it, but traffic and parking was too much of a pain in the ass so I stayed away.

How odd that I would let things that irritate me get in the way of hearing a free concert.

I'm not sure I understand you correctly, but I think it would be a more apt comparison to complain about the songs performed at the free concert rather than all the externalities of it. If that's your complaint, then I stand by my observation: how odd...

I think we both know the sanctions are not for the benefit of the planet. Also, real people suffer because of the sanctions, and you really shouldn't get to call the shots on who that is.