In a way, Sickle Cell is caused by a disease. Malaria makes this disease advantageous as children who have it are more likely to survive to adulthood and pass on the disease to offspring, despite the other deleterious impacts.

Or as useful.

More than 4 years since the first Ice Age

Cool story grandpa. Or maybe you’re just underpaid? Try adjusting for inflation. $50k doesn’t cut it for starting salaries anymore, and a chocolate bar now costs more than a quarter.

Linux phone, when? Please…

In this instance, what is “authentication data” and what could someone do with it?

Pull on the new flesh like borrowed gloves and burn your fingers once again.

All of this has happened before.

Waiting for all the COVID cancers, wildfire smoke cancers, etc. in 60 years

Right, so I should do some moderate excess then?

The article doesn’t say it is vegan. And despite their “no plants, no animals, no oils” claim, the added “natural flavour and colour” needs to come from somewhere. Generally these are derived from plants, animals or oils.

Overall an interesting breakthrough, but the contradictions make me ask some questions.

Maybe they add some of those under “natural flavors”?

Aren’t credit scores relative anyway? Your score is based on where you are in relation to everyone else with a score on whatever distribution the scores fall in. Correct me if I’m wrong!

Isn’t this just a tax? Probably a badly designed one, and I’m sure it breaks the Constitution, but otherwise what’s the big deal?

Ah, but those Americans are mostly Democrats so they aren’t really Americans and are gonna lose their citizenship and be deported soon anyway. /S

Almost everywhere these days sadly. If there are exceptions, I’m not aware of them. Tax codes are globally under fire because companies see them as an impediment to profitability, and not the foundation for how society functions and thus allows business to function.

the annual interest, of €60bn, could soon become its biggest budget outlay.

public financial support for the corporate sector currently coats €100bn

Not only not a centrist, he can’t even do math.

No no no, you can’t tax corporations silly. That would punish them for creating jobs and wealth, they will leave the country and take back their jobs and then where would we be? Better continually lower corp taxes and Unleash the Magic™️ that will somehow cause budgets to balance themselves and jobs to spring up in abundance.