Vegan_Joe

Apparently it’s already easy to find Jesus. Just ask any Evangelical.

I had to stop listening entirely as well. That show definitely had and effect on my mental well-being.

Proton

It definitely seems to go against the spirit of how the company is being promoted.

They sell themselves as being user-oriented. There’s a million things these companies could do to make money off of your data, and this one claims to sacrifice all of that for the good of the user.

Now it turns out they are using shady anti-user marketing practices, which is almost to be expected for a for-profit company in this day and age. It does not align with a model that claims to have the user’s best interest at heart though, which is how they promote themselves.

I believe that was the year that many started to question. Jeffrey Bezos went from around 3 billion dollars net worth to nearly 9 billion in '07.

The e-readers, to my recollection, were still seen as novel, with The Nook and Barnes & Noble seeming like the obvious powerhouse.

I seem to recall Bill Gates being seen as the evil billionaire that siphoned everyone’s ire, while the other fledgling tech bros largely flew under the radar.

I’ve wanted to play souls-like, but still haven’t jumped into the genre. Definitely throwing my name in the ring for this one.

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That further reinforces the complexity of intervention strategies, rather than just spraying glyphosate on everything…

If the conifer trees are so prone to fire damage that they require millions of acres of glyphosate to help them recover, maybe it’s time to let more fire-hardy species replenish instead.

The area has historically been populated by fire-hardy species in the past. Why not return it to a more natural cycle, especially now that it’s being exacerbated by increasingly erratic weather systems?

*Edit: I just checked, and…Oh no… the conifers are the fire-hardy species. They’ve been in California surviving fire cycles for 50 million years.

This reads more like a traditional “monkey’s paw” scenario though

Critics say US President Donald Trump’s ideologically driven decision to withdraw the US from the WHO, his administration’s dismantling of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), and reduced funding for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s global public health efforts have adversely affected the response to the current Ebola epidemic, compared with 2014 and 2019 outbreaks.>

There is currently no confirmed CDC director, Food and Drug Administration commissioner, or surgeon general.

Glad to hear all that increased government expenditure is being used to stay as on top of things as I would expect out of this administration.

2009’s “Black Dynamite” (I had to look it up)