A lot of them seem to be enamored of a techbro philosopher called Curtis Yarvin who, wait for it, promotes tech feudalism!

What distinction are you making between a "self-coup"/autogolpe and coup?

I'm hard pressed to call it anything other than a coup regardless of whether it's internally or externally driven.

And the sad thing is, there are many places in the US where there is no car dependency. They're behind a paywall of stupidly expensive housing though as they're invariably incredibly popular places to live. :-(

Literally talked about this on our Ocean Science Podcast - podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...

So, while the approach taken at the time seemed reasonable, once we were out of the water and able to think about it clearly (i.e. without the pressure to continue the dive), it became clear that it wasn't the best idea and I really should have aborted the dive.

While we were very close to the surface and we likely would have gotten to safety without issue, other factors may have changed the dive profile and safety margin (e.g. there was kelp in the water, which could have tangled either of us up and slowed our ascent).

3. Yes. If we'd had out of gas emergency, the feathering of the long hose cylinder would have created significant extra task loading for an already stressed diver.

I'll go first:
Yes. I had a 1st stage regulator partial failure on a sidemount dive.
1. Mine, I was the dive leader
2. We were in 3 metres of water, 20 metres off a sandy beach. It seemed reasonable that we would easily be able to get to the shore if anything further went wrong.