Worst book…

Bartleby, the Scrivener.

Written by Herman Melville, famously known as the author of “Moby Dick”.

Which is of course second worst book.

I tried listening to this one on an audiobook. 2 hours into it and I never detected a plot.

He was truly a terrible character. I got fed up with the asshat and never finished it.

I left out the hosting part for just that reason. The company has to activately do something to gain the liability. Right now the big social media companies are deliberately prioritizing harmful information to maximize engagement and generate money.

As for enforcement hosters have had to develop protocols for removal of illegal content since the very beginning. Its still out there and can be found, but laws and mostly due diligence from hosters, makes it more difficult to find. Its the reason Lemmy is not full of illegal pics etc. The hosters are actively removing it and banning accounts that publish it.

Those protocols could be modified to include obvious misinformation bots etc. Think about the number of studies that have shown that just a few accounts are the source of the majority of harmful misinformation on social media.

Of course any reporting system needs to be protected from abuse. The DMCA takedown abusers are a great example of why this is needed.

Its a very simple fix with a few law changes.

1. The act of promoting or curating user submitted data makes the company strictly liable for any damages done by the content.

2. The deliberate spreading of harmful false information makes the hosting company liable for damages.

This would bankrupt Facebook, Twitter, etc within 6 months.

Copper bottom- copper does have a much higher heat transferance rate than stainless. Around 20x for pure copper. However this is reduced by alloys and the combination of steel layers. The advantage of copper bottom is on a shitty stovetop, the faster heat distribution compensates for a poor heating source. In a commercial kitchen with good heating source, copper bottoms lower durability loses out. The lining is prone to bubbling, separating, and warping under rapid heat changes.

Personally I use my cast iron skillets completely against the “rules”. I made spaghetti sauces in them for dinner last night. I usually end up stripping the seasoning every few months but I don’t care. It takes 20 minutes to do 2 layers of a stovetop seasoning. I have used the same set for over 30 years now.

First off generally these diseases are limited by environmental conditions and available vectors. So starting with clean seed/stock can permanently eliminate the need to worry about many of the diseases. A good example of this is SQMV. It’s spread mostly by the spotted cucumber beetles. These are only found in some states of the U.S. and Mexico.

As for how to deal with the disease depends completely on the pathogen. You can clean up many diseases by proper sanitation and crop rotation techniques. Historically leaving a field fallow was a method to reduce disease pressure.

Others are not so easy to get rid of. For example, Fusarium species can persist in the soil for up to 30 years. Once you get it, you are not getting rid of it. It’s such a large issue that commercial growers in highly infected regions have gone to grafting resistant rootstock of a different species.

Aka how to spread diseases to your home garden.

There is extensive processes to minimize the spread of diseases from seed stock. Unless you know what you are doing it’s a great way to turn your home garden ground zero for the local plague.

For example -

Tomato- seed needs to extracted with acid or a peroxide to kill bacterial canker.

Pepper - TMV virus is ubiquitous in commercially grown peppers. The seed needs to be treated with TSP (Trisodium phosphate).

Watermelon, cantaloupe, honeydews and others. Seed needs to be treated with peroxide to eliminate bacterial fruit blotch.

For the cantaloupe and honeydew up to 80% of the fruit grown in some regions are infected with SQMV. The seeds of these fruit should not be saved.

For pumpkins/squash the seeds are almost always infected with ZYMV. Seed plants need to be grown in protected culture to prevent this.

Potatoes - since potatoes are a tuber every single major disease is transmitted from one generation to the next. This includes virus, fungi and bacterial infections. If you want scab and blights and viruses riddled plants this is an great way to do it