MemeSink

What about these voters makes them unable to sympathize with others when it happens to them?

Sociopathy

Plants come close, using nitrogen to make protein, and CO2 for carbohydrates.

"We do not tolerate threats of and calls for violence in any form against any living creature"

So posts about hunting, eating meat, and pest control are verboten?

Unless he agrees to submit to random ETG and drug urine testing, I wouldn't trust anything an alcoholic up for a highly-paid and powerful job says about sobriety.

I've read The Selfish Gene and also studied Biology, earning a BS in the process. One thing you fail to consider is your genes are diluted with each generation. Your children will have 50% of your genes, your grandchildren 25%, and their children will each have 12.5% of your precious genes. And lest you think your genes are somehow unique and valuable, most likely 100% of them already exist in other people.

You also fail to mention that Dawkins, rightfully concerned about those using his work to justify selfishness, explicitly discusses how, now that we know of these selfish-replicators, we can cultivate pure altruism - going against our biological programming and doing the right thing. That's what people who choose not to have children are doing - they are acting in the best interests of humanity.

I'm curious if the bitcoins are even still readable at this point. My understanding is the charges in the memory cells of a usb stick will gradually dissipate over time, and after more than ten years, much of that information may be lost.

You could periodically plug a standard usb drive to refresh the memory, but will that work with these hardware encrypted drives w/o a password?

I have a seedbox. On private trackers I limit my UL speed to give home seeders as chance to build ratio.

For public torrents where I am the only seeder, I throttle upload so the leech might appreciate the value of having multiple seeders and will seed the torrent so the next user doesn't have to go through the same bad experience. It hardly ever works, though.