Counterpoint - international theme weeks are a brilliant idea that were terribly executed, and cutting them rather than learning how to do it right is the lazy coward’s route.

The authors of that “new Swiss study” you cite (Buergin et al., 2023) disagree with you:

Got both at the same time last year. Pharmacist said typically they don’t like to do that in case you have a reaction but if you have had enough flu and covid shots that you aren’t worried about that then it’s not a big deal.

Federal research funding actually requires that publications from any work it supports be made freely available now (with temporary exceptions for embargo periods), but it didn’t for a long time. Sci-Hub helped make this issue more visible and helped motivate that turnaround.

Any research that is in any way supported by US tax payer dollars should be available for free even if that support is not direct to the research. Your school gets funding? Free! Your pharmaceutical company sells to the US? Free. You took a PPP loan during Covid? Free. 

And three reasons to avoid it:

I went through the exercise of booking all parts of this package individually and it came to the exact same price for the days I selected. This isn’t really a deal as much as it’s theoretically more convenient if you don’t want to book everything separately. If you have any issues though you’ll have to go through a…

When I think of “space cadets” I think of the Trump Family.

Winning $900 million might increase your odds of bedding Miss Aniston. Or at least get you invited to the same gala event (then it is up to your own charm from there.)

I’ll just live under the assumption that lemon juice, red wine vinegar, and the hot sauce used are definitely killing the bacteria and continue to enjoy my snot in a half shell.

“1 in 292.2 million”

Considering the time and money spent on (marginally) extending the life of a cheap sponge/scrubber, I think I’ll just snag another from the package of six that I purchased for a few bucks.

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

I’ll be honest. I’d love to do a shake-based diet, but it doesn’t matter if it provides the technical nutrition - it won’t deal with the appetite. So I just need to get me some Ozempic and I’ll be golden. 

Fuck, Facebook is the same way. I have to hide Reels because it’s nonstop “hot girls” and the video tab is useless because it’s all barely veiled porn.

All anyone wants is a reverse chronological timeline of posts from people they follow and none of these Twitter replacements want to deliver that.

I avoid everything he touches like the fucking plague. Hilariously, do you know how actively bad you gotta be to run to fuckin Mark Zuckerberg?

Any app that won’t launch in the EU over ‘regulatory concerns’ is actively bad for you.

I’m pretty sure the author of this post has zero idea what the actual car market is like right now (or anything else having to do with personal finance really) because this is one of the best times to buy new over used if you can get a new car without getting screwed by the dealer. It makes no sense to buy used to…