MacBookAir (M1 2020)
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TECHNOLOGY: MAC OSX 11.01 on MacBook Air (M1, 2020) always has a problem waking up.
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You would think that Apple is getting overwhelmed my automatic reports?
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Day: December 13, 2020
HEALTH: Which Brands and Sources of Rice Have the Least Arsenic? | NutritionFacts.org
Which Brands and Sources of Rice Have the Least Arsenic? | NutritionFacts.org:
Not all rice producers have been so dismissive, though. After a subsequent Consumer Reports exposé, one rice company detailed “how it is taking matters into its own hands.” Lundberg Farms started testing hundreds of samples of its rice to share the results with the FDA. “We’re committed to providing safe food,” said the CEO, “to really listening to our consumers, and dealing with this problem very openly….” Lundberg Farms isn’t just sharing its results with the FDA, but with everyone.
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Sounds like the FDA is in the pocket of Big Rice.
Does Big Rice get federal Gooferment “parity payments”?
If so, I know how to change their behavior. Don’t you?
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ECONOMICS: The death of the department store and the American middle class – Impact Lab
Department stores are also facing the reality that they are no longer the main way most shoppers discover or access new brands — which was once perhaps their main appeal as onetime innovators. Consumer brands have increasingly become focused on building connections with customers through their own stores, websites, social media platforms, and other online-only marketplaces.
The death of the department store and the American middle class – Impact Lab
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Clearly, the handwriting is on the proverbial wall.
EVERYONE needs to reassess what this means in their own life.
My past advice seems to apply even more so now.
Success for your generation is: (1) ruthless financial discipline — no bad debt; (2) a life long interest in learning — education — a degree — they can’t take it away from you; (3) a NON-OFFSHORABLE white collar job in order to save big bux; (4) a blue collar skill for hard times — never saw a poor plumber; (5) one or more internet based businesses — your store is always open; (6) a free time hobby that generates income; and (7) a large will-maintained network of people who can “help” you.
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HEALTH: Hygiene Theater, like Security Theater, is a waste of attention, time, and resources
Friday, December 11, 2020
Surface Cleaning in Response to COVID-19 is Hygiene Theater
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Joseph G. Allen, an associate professor and director of the Healthy Buildings program at Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Charles Haas, professor of environmental engineering at Drexel University and Linsey C. Marr, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Virginia Tech, write in The Washington Post:
We don’t have a single documented case of covid-19 transmission from surfaces. Not one.
So why, then, are we spending a small fortune to deep clean our offices, schools, subways and buses?
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Just like the Gooferment, who desires to be seen as “leading”, sends up down a rat hole of wasted effort.
Gooferment is just immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. As well as untrustworthy.
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Reinke Faces Life 