match x {
        is table {
            print(indent_this + "{")
            for pair in pairs(x) {
                write(indent + "   " + to_string(pair.key) + ": ") 
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As a gardener, I would for sure suffer if all I could do is grow plants in a closet.

Gardens are a truly valuable treasure. Grow wherever you possibly can, but please don't ever take away the sunshine.

Unless you've got some specific better examples?

Or is it that the impact of Weeping Figs lactose content is minimal when compared to the benefits of the plant, overall - perhaps the lactose is why it is able to filter air so well, anyway?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8603279/

If Operating Systems had a way for parents to adequately monitor/administer the machines of their children, this would not be such a huge, massive hole, in which to pour (yet more) human rights abuses.

Parents have the right to have an eye on their children. This is not repressive, it is not authoritarian, it is a right and a responsibility.

The fact that I can't - easily, and with little fuss - quickly see what my kids are viewing on their screens, is the issue.

Sure, children have the right to privacy - but it is their parents who should provide it to them. Not just the state, but the parents. And certainly, the state should not be eliminating the rest of society's privacy in the rush to prevent parents from having oversight of - and responsibility for - the online activities of their children.

The fact is, Operating System Vendors would rather turn their platforms into ad-vending machines, than actually improve the means by which the computers are operated by their users.

It would be a simple thing to establish parent/child relationship security between not just two computers, but two human beings who love and trust each other.

Kids will always be inquisitive. They will always try to exceed the limits imposed upon them by their parents. But this should not be a reason for more draconian control over consenting adults, or indeed individual adults. It should be a motivating factor to build better computing platforms, which can be reliably configured to prevent porn from having the detrimental impact many controllers of society have decided is occurring.

Another undeniable fact, is that parents - and parenting - get a bad rap. However, if a parent and child love and trust each other, having the ability to quickly observe the kids computing environment in productive ways, should be being provided, technologically.

When really, we should be building tools which strengthen parent/child relationships, we are instead eradicating the need for parents.

Unpopular opinion, I know: but Thats The Point.

This is the crux of all computerization and will never be eradicated.

Do you have any plans to support similar functionality?

I imagine this rube-goldberg'esque strandebeest-like contraption sitting out there harvesting wind and waves, slowly turning every bottle it gorges on into a finely woven matte of materials .. maybe even reproducing itself, who knows ..

EDIT: I asked Grok to design a self-replicating ocean weaver, and I have to say .. it seems like a viable idea to me. Perhaps we will see this kind of plastic harvesting in the near future .. at the very least, were I to be stranded on a plastic-laden island, I'm pretty sure I could work out a way to build a raft with sails ..

If I were shipwrecked on a tropical island, I'd make it my daily task to work out how to build something like this, into which I can feed plastic bottles, and get a brand new material that could be used for more construction.

Sure, knitting scarves is neat. But knitting a weather-proof shelter? Hell yeah!

Still, bauxite is pretty weird business.

Yes, white children were stolen and officially trafficked by their governments, as official policy. From around the Commonwealth, in fact.

And some of us are still suffering.

>Sounds like you're not qualified to talk on it.

What part of "(Disclaimer: White Stolen Generation Australian.)" didn't you understand?

No, it was not an unfortunate typo. You have merely not bothered to take anything more than a superficial glance at the details.

Please, before you rush to be right about something you know nothing about, try a simple google search, at least - especially for such a subject where some of us were victimized by our own governments.

The link given goes directly to the section on the White Stolen Generation:

https://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/politics/...

(Look at the URL...)

The "white stolen generations"

Did you know that in Australia there is another stolen generation, one which shares the pain and consequences? It's called the "white stolen generation" to distinguish it from the Aboriginal stolen generation.

In the five decades up to 1982, the newborn babies of young, single women were forcibly removed from them for adoption, a practice sometimes called 'baby farming'. Mothers were drugged, tethered to beds, not allowed to see their babies, told they were dead. [54] Many of these adoptions occurred after the mothers were sent away by their families due to the stigma associated with being pregnant and unmarried.

More than 250,000 white mothers lost their babies to forcible removal at birth by these past illegal adoption practices. Groups such as Adoption Loss Adult Support and Apology Alliance offer help and support.

Between 2010 and 2012 apologies were offered by Western Australia, South Australia, ACT, New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania. Prime Minister Julia Gillard offered a national apology to those affected by forced adoptions in 2013.

Source: A guide to Australia's Stolen Generations - Creative Spirits, retrieved from https://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/politics/...

Then there is this:

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/white-mothers-of-sto...

.. and of course you could read what Wikipedia has to say about it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_adoption_in_Australia

In fact, an "apology" was given by the Australian government, but as we can see, it was not enough.

General public awareness of the subject, as you have demonstrated, is terrible. And, yet again, Australia gets away with it as a result.

The White Stolen Generation is a real thing. If you don't know about it, you're not qualified to dismiss it:

https://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/politics/...

(EDIT: please look at the URL, which includes the anchor directly to the section on the "White Stolen Generation" - for some reason when following the URL through HN, the jump to the anchor for that section is not followed, giving the impression that there is no "White Stolen Generation" section on the given website, when .. indeed .. there is.)

Those who don't want to confront this painful aspect of Australia's terrible history tend to want to muddy the waters, but those of us who actually suffered under the forced human trafficking regime that was official Australian government policy see things a lot more clearly...

I think the kinetic testing is done all over the middle east. The mind-control stuff is pretty successfully deployed down under, though.