That’s what I thought it referred to also, but the specific phrase has nothing to do with virginity. It isn’t Jesus’s conception it’s talking about. It’s that Mary was conceived without original sin.

The immaculate part was that she was without sin.

Just learned that recently, but I grew up protestant, so that wasn’t a thing for us.

Yes

That type of diffuse, guerilla warfare is how modern civil wars generally go.

The first several episodes of It Could Happen Here are revealing on this.

The efficiency comes at scale, not diffuse small farms.

GMOs yes.

Modern farming is less labor-intensive, not sure on your point there.

Ag land use down 21.7% 1950-2002 Source. Downward trend continues through 2024 Source.

We had half the population in the US in 1960, and a bit more than a third of today’s number globally.

There is a gig service for that. Hampr or Poplin

Well it got Mary to Bethlehem.

Audeze nuts in your mouth

I thought one of the more effective tactics ransomware uses is that it lurks for long periods of time decrypting data on the fly, so that all the backups are encrypted as well for that time period.

In the article it’s pretty clear they mean US numbers to call from.