Not at all the statement of a moron: in colloquial usage yeah, salt is sodium chloride, but in in a chemistry setting it is not just sodium chloride. In this case it probably has potassium chloride --- a sodium-free salt.
California has optional mail ballots for everyone. Can't imagine voting without it --- I can fill out my ballot at my leisure, researching measures when I have time. No need to remember anything or make a cheat sheet for election day. And no standing in line.
No data loss, but won't work without changing your kernel. The other way around is much worse though --- you can use an RPi5 to make a BTRFS drive which essentially only works on RPi5s.
I think (?) it's generally true that the root user should never mess with users' files.
Imagine your home directory is shared across many systems on a network (my alma mater did this). It would be really bad if a sysadmin for alpha.university.edu removed a program, and suddenly your personal settings were removed from beta.university.edu --- even though that computer still has the program.
This is one of the "UNIX on the desktop" issues --- a lot is designed for a sysadmin/multiuser situation, and it has some gotchas when using it as a desktop machine (I'm used to/really appreciate the directory structure and settings management at this point, but it may take some getting used to).
So yeah, they may well raise prices, but the cost of Apple's entry-level hardware has decreased in absolute terms over the years, and has decreased substantially if inflation is taken into account. Not to say the margins aren't higher (no idea about that), but it's interesting.
But the goal isn't just to convince people that you're better than the other candidate --- it's to convince sympathetic people to get out and vote for you, and if not that, then at least not vote for the other.
I think people are largely decided on who they are not voting for, but who they are voting for is a bit different.
I'm usually against large institutions colluding together to kill off other institutions...
...but if the major research universities and labs all agreed to stop publishing in backwards for-profit journals, well I wouldn't exactly cry about it.
Not at all the statement of a moron: in colloquial usage yeah, salt is sodium chloride, but in in a chemistry setting it is not just sodium chloride. In this case it probably has potassium chloride --- a sodium-free salt.