I’m just stubborn, left during the blackout and didn’t want to go back.

If it’d cost less than say 2x what it’d save, I’d say it’s beneficial. Making it obvious that corruption isn’t going to work has value, but no need to do really extensive audits just to get the last 0.1% of mistakes/fraud.

Is there a rule against wishing for more wishes? If not, an unlimited benevolent genie lamp would be the go to.

They help different things. Bees will help the local flowers and plants, solar panels will cut carbon emissions. But boosting plants doesn’t cut carbon emissions since the carbon isn’t sequestered, it’ll go back to the atmosphere once the plant decomposes.

So if you like the look of flowers or want honey, go with bees. If you want to lower carbon emissions, go solar.

As for Allen life coming under it’s own power from Mars, I’d put that extremely close to zero. More likely would be something from Europa or outside the solar system, but that’s still pretty unlikely.

I’d put the chances of Mars sample return going off in the next couple decades at about 70%.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_sample-return_mission https://science.nasa.gov/mission/mars-sample-return

Have you seen Europe? And how about freedom of expression?

Human rights?