the world is falling

One fantastic thing about the Death Note is (I don't recall this explanation in the anime, but it was explicitly explained in the manga) you can't use it to peripherally kill people. Only the person you name and picture dies. Otherwise Light could try to kill targets whose names he doesn't know by finding the names of those close to them and writing in murder-suicides or whatever. So if you kill five billionaires in a yacht fire that otherwise wouldn't have happened, the serving staff etc. will survive their fated lifespan. (The remaining lifespan thing has always been pretty awkward re: causality; we know that using the Death Note to kill people does change the lifespan of others via its influence on the world so one would imagine that it should shorten other lifespans and not being able to shorten them to a near-immediate death seems arbitrary, but let's not poke at that fabric lest we start wearing pot holes into it.)

In the particular case of "A, B and C die in a fiery yacht explosion", if the yacht explosion would kill other people, they'd just die of heart attacks instead. If one of them was piloting the yacht and their death would cause the yacht to kill somebody else, they'll die of a heart attack at the soonest point after the scheduled time of death such that their death won't be the proximate cause of somebody else's death. (Can deaths caused by the Death Note cause collateral damage short of death? Maybe, but I suspect invoking them in the death condition would either result in those conditions being ignored, or the victim dying of a heart attack instead: it's a Death Note, not a Fractured Arm Note.)

(Pulling back from the billionaire example: a surgeon won't die in the middle of surgery if this would kill the patient, but it's permitted that somebody might die sooner as the result of the surgeon no longer being available to operate on them. Curiously, Shinigami will see the indirect victim's lifespan as it would have been had the surgeon not died.)

I feel that the rules on disease are illustrative of the limits of the Death Note:

"X will die of COVID in 10 days" will result in them contracting COVID and dying in 10 days.

"X will die of lung cancer in 10 days" will result in them dying of a heart attack in 10 days, unless they already have a case of lung cancer that could reasonably kill them.

"X will die of lung cancer" (with no time specified) will cause them to get a case of aggressive lung cancer, which will kill them as soon as it realistically can, even if that time is outside of the typical 23 day window the Death Note operates in.

There are also rules indicating that the conditions of death must be physically possible, and reasonably carried out by that human. This prevents deaths like "X explodes into a swarm of kittens" and "X dies while reentering Earth's atmosphere" (unless e.g. X is an astronaut).

While not explicitly stated, I suspect:

If you indicate that somebody is killed by a falling meteor, the Death Note will strive to get them into a position where a meteor of sufficient size was going to fall anyway. It's not going to violate conservation of mass to summon one into existence, nor conservation of energy to shove one towards Earth. If there's no viable meteor candidate reachable under normal circumstances: heart attack.

You might be able to specify another person as an agent of an accidental death, but you can't use the Death Note to force somebody to become a murderer unless they were already inclined to murder the victim: the Death Note will provide opportunity, but not motive or inclination. (This is heavily inferred from a rule stating that "all humans are thought to posses the potential to commit suicide".)

Expanding on the above, the fact that the Death Note can manipulate plausible accidents to happen indicates that it must be capable of influencing the behaviour of people other than the one listed in the Death Note, but I suspect that influence is minimal. Influence over the named victim is greater, but still has limits: nobody will hijack a plane just to make it to their appointed time and place of death.

On the feasibility of an "AI server farm explosion", you'd need a reasonable way for the server farm to explode (gas leak?), a means for the victim to be inside, and a high likelihood that nobody else is present at the time.

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One fantastic thing about the Death Note is (I don't recall this explanation in the anime, but it was explicitly explained in the manga) you can't use it to peripherally kill people. Only the person you name and picture dies. Otherwise Light could try to kill targets whose names he doesn't know by finding the names of those close to them and writing in murder-suicides or whatever. So if you kill five billionaires in a yacht fire that otherwise wouldn't have happened, the serving staff etc. will survive their fated lifespan. (The remaining lifespan thing has always been pretty awkward re: causality; we know that using the Death Note to kill people does change the lifespan of others via its influence on the world so one would imagine that it should shorten other lifespans and not being able to shorten them to a near-immediate death seems arbitrary, but let's not poke at that fabric lest we start wearing pot holes into it.)

And who helped me with that? Not people calling for some nebulous revolution. Not people telling me that the system was useless. Not people preaching at me to grow my own food. It was a church food bank partially funded by the state of Texas that some southern hippies donated a bunch of Whole Foods nonsense to.

And you know what? I’m sick and tired of defeatism. What can we get done right now, huh? Are you gonna accept something a bit better to help people right now or are you waiting for your perfect utopia to come to you?

Reusable takeout containers that you return to the restaurant for example. Very common in some parts of Asia. Unthinkable concept in the states.

Just a few years ago reusable grocery bags seemed like a huge annoyance but now I use them without thought.

Or even like how every fuckass nowhere town in the US used to have access to a railroad and now the idea of using passenger rail for a lot of people is ridiculous because even some major regional hubs don’t have trains.

People used to wear corsets for gods sake and now that’s a super niche thing to do on a daily basis. Even my grandmother wore corsets in the 1950s.