An interesting footnote is that installing the web browser package on AIX caused a telemetry dial-home to Big Blue. I found this because it was keeping our ISDN BRI leased line up constantly and costing us money. Blocking that address solved it.

If you want money, ask for advice. If you want advice, ask for money.

Attack and shrink healthcare for the poor and all the good it does with selective attacks on the edges. The motives are transparent.

Has it come to this, that feeding people what is essentially toxic poisons, is considered healthcare?

How long has it been since you've had a Jimmy Dean sausage, and what actual food do you think you could replace it with for the same price?

There are many stupid choices: violent religious extremism, picking altercations with strangers, snakeoil wellness products, driving a giant diesel SUV without a seatbelt, trying to control others online, and listening to The Eagles. Eating meat is just a middling unsustainable practice amongst many. Organized civilization has about another 20-30 years before a cacophony of unsustainable practices brings it all crashing down because there is minimal appetite in enough centers of power for either awareness or reform. The Roman republic/empire is history that is repeating itself slowly.

It's morally indefensible to create incurable bacteria or another pandemic, destroy antibiotics' effectiveness, and destabilize the climate balance of the only planet we have through the supply-causing action of buying and eating a fucking Big Mac.

Also, I suggest anyone who eats meat and has a functional sense of smell to take a trip to Greeley, CO.

Animal welfare, while laudable and under-appreciated, isn't the biggest problem with meat ag. It's fucking killing us slowly and may kill us quickly.

That's historically the least-persuasive argument for vegetarianism. The far greater threats are anthropogenic climate change, antibiotic resistance, accelerated pandemic evolution, land/water/air pollution, higher food prices, and less total available food. The cognitive dissonance is very strong because people get violently defensive with their somatic lifestyle choices and will believe and do almost anything to extend them indefinitely. The only way out is leadership to tax, reform, and regulate excessively-subsidized meat agriculture that isn't good for public health.

I'll agree through biased rationalization. It's 1:33 am now and have more tasks to finish rather than procrastinating on HN. Later folks.

It's no surprise Microsoft and Boeing get special treatment and never face scrutiny for their foul-ups that get people killed and harm America's security because PR and profits come first.

I had a titanium ring cut off my middle finger that swelled from high blood pressure and weight gain. It took a long time with a ring cutter at a jeweler's in Chico, CA, but it worked.