Heard an infuriating story across enemy lines (NPR) last week about post-mortem human composting as a green alternative to burial, now legal in Washington, Oregon, and Colorado. Here is the site of an Oregon operation: Who We Are - Recompose
Can’t help but make an unfortunate connection to DARPA’s “vegetarian” EATR robots (guess it’s old news by now but is news to me):
EATR: Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot | SBIR.gov and Robots Eat Bio Material for Fuel EATR DARPA - YouTube
Here’s betting on the efficacy of my slingshot collection against the machines, should it come to that.