Indeed! This is why I always call to explore live images or a VM before making the jump. It won’t be indicative of the system’s performance (a regular install should run smooth as butter), but it will indicate what you might be lacking, what problems you may face, etc.

Took me a week to say “welp, never coming back”

Oh, we do

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

As a (micro)biologist, I totally support that notion. Biology is, indeed, chemistry, which is in turn physics, which is in turn mathematics.

The problem is, good freaking luck simulating biological processes on a physical level. We do biology and not physics, because it’s a reasonable shortcut we have to make to work on what’s important without waiting another millenia for a decent enough physical simulation.

Currently considering buying one to stay in touch with a local community in a jurisdiction with heavy Internet censorship, where only state-run messaging platforms run reliably

It very much could be. But we need more data to prove it one way or another.

Absolutely. It highlights a curious direction of study, but doesn’t in itself prove anything. It might also be dangerous.

A socialist society can be ecologically devastating. But, unlike capitalist one, it doesn’t have to be.

Capitalism pursues infinite growth in a finite world. As long as unsustainable practices deliver you more (which is extremely often the case) - they will be pursued, and if you block them all, it will cripple the economy as it will lower the expectation of profit. Capitalism breeds practices like planned obsolescence, aggressive marketing and tracking to fuel overconsumption, it promotes a lavish lifestyle - all to ensure the monetary flow necessary to keep such economy afloat.

Socialist society is more adaptive in this regard. You can ramp up production and overconsumption, Earth be damned, or you can slow down and invest in long-term, sustainable solutions, even at the expense of short-term returns. The latter, however, means getting less competitive internationally, which is exactly the sacrifice the socialist countries of the past, including USSR, were not willing to make.