Eric Hirst

-Retired research climatologist who now runs a climate and weather risk assessment consulting business
-Has co-authored 2 books and written 2 other books
-Doesn't say or imply it's all a hoax
-Gets a huge amount of media attention relative to her actual credibility amongst her former peers

Sadly, some people do. He's tapped into the bro-o-sphere zeitgeist that (admirably) highlights the problem of chronic disease caused by processed foods and lack of exercise. Unfortunately neither he nor T**** are doing anything productive about it, and they've destroyed the institutions who could.

Read it and find out. Spoiler alert: it contains quite a bit on the interconnections between democratic institutions and authoritarian ones.

Thank you. Make sure the volunteers can be trusted -- I'm not sure how best to do so, but definitely reach out to others who've done similar things.

My parents relied on this phone support a few months ago when they needed to change their direct deposit. I might have been able to help them navigate the online system then but a lot of seniors don't have a trustworthy tech savvy person they can call. Good new business model for scammers.

But what about golf weather?

I'm just guessing but I suspect that the cost of personalizing a vaccine to match a specific cancer growth will come down over time. Remember how it just took a few days to create the first mRNA Covid vaccines once the genetic sequence of the virus became available.

I think you're right. Consolidation of power is everything for him.

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He's a dictator now, sorry. His power comes from the same places any dictator's power comes from.

Save copies of your last performance reports because you won't have access to them when they fire you and tell you it was over "performance".

Gorgeous. I hope BlueSky will start allowing more than 4 images per post in time for next Kneesvember.

It feels like Private Equity just took over the federal government. It was a great country while it lasted I suppose.