If a community has found a good place, it grows. Growth brings changes, some that work well in the environment and some that don't, and since there's no way of knowing ahead of time which are which, they all get tried. New parts show up and if they help, they stay. If not, they don't.
Sometimes, the conditions aren't right, so seeds are spread with the hope that some of them will have the right combination of genetic variance and different enough environmental variables to have a more favorable lifespan. This doesn't require the death of the community, nor the destruction of the soil, because sometimes the conditions *are* right.
Parts of a community grow and leave, come and go, fruit and rot. "Let code die" is a necessary half of this process, but nothing can die that doesn't live. The process of death is the process of growth, of life. To let code die, you must let code live. You must delete, so you must create.
"Let code die" has been the blade which malicious actors use when trying to cut down a space that was intentionally made to be safe, but it was also the pot in which the new space could easily be replanted by anyone. Critically, the space was in the same place.
Let code die, but when?
When its time comes.
When is that?
Listen, and it'll tell you.
There is no central decision making part of a plant, each unit does what it's programmed to do based on nearby conditions. That programming is an ongoing experiment, a jam session with its environment and neighbors. A dance of fluids, chemicals, minerals, heat. No single unit knows what to do, so it dances.
But it can't dance without the ground.
When the ground is always moving, it loses its footing. It can't stay where the conditions for growth are right for it. Communing can't occur in a vacuum, it needs a place. The more that place moves, the harder it is to commune.
Let code die, but don't kill it.
on the other hand...
kill code!!!! kill code if that code is harmful. i was just in nudel today and some harmful stuff was being said via usernames (which i couldnt delete) so i killed nudel, and i'll kill it as many times as i need.
i also killed some weeds in my garden today by pulling them out by the roots. i only did it today. i didn't do it last week because the weeds had flowers and the bees liked them.
did i do the right thing? was i right to kill nudel today? was i right to kill the weeds today? time will tell.
what i know for sure is that both will come back, no matter what i do.
lol Tregs talking to CD8+ T cells
haha real! we need both