I think that was the point of the original commenter.
The jury had no faith in the judicial system to carry out a fair punishment for this crime so they decided to find him not guilty despite believing he broke the law (which is illegal to do as a juror).
It's possible if you configure your /home/ to use a separate partition. But you would have to do that in advance. Even in that case you'd have to reinstall it but the nice thing about it is you won't have to reconfigure anything. It will be able to get all your previous settings from your home dir.
You could backup your home dir before reinstalling then copy it over after for the same effect.
The problem with falling house prices is for the people who recently purchased. Imagine buying a home for $500k and 1 year later you still owe $475k on it and it's only worth $450k.
Eventually people say fuck it, and declare bankruptcy to get over an upside down mortgage.
If enough people do that then the banks fail. If enough banks fail then there's cascading effects across the economy which can lead to mass layoffs, failing businesses, and other crises.
If collapse is what you want then yeah let then fall. But there's a lot more pain in collapse than you realize.
There's truth to both sides, sir. It's true that there's no 100% safe investment and it's also true that investing in gold can shield you from losses in companies and inflation.
The shit apple doesn't fall far from the shit tree, Randy.