What you say is true though my point is that to many bean counters, research should only be done on something that addresses the current bottom line. It’s this type of view that conservatives take to heart and it’s why they tend to try to stifle higher education and research institutions.

Conservatives just have no idea how research is done and think they can tell people what to research. The absurdity is that no scientific be can tell someone to research something that hasn’t been discovered yet!

Totally agree about WhatsApp as I no longer use it due FB shenanigans. A lot of people do though which is interesting as it so easy to move.

Using things like Signal and WhatsApp may reduce your footprint further.

I’ve used wifi calling from hotel rooms overseas as well as locations where mobile coverage is poor and it works fine. I suspect (not know) that the voice network provider knows pretty much where your location is though.

Iran’s religious leadership learned the lessons from the Cold War that using proxies to achieve their strategic objectives was the way to go. They are probably the reason that there is continuing strife and a major driver to why Israel has continued to be increasingly extreme. Effectively they have been winning the game as Israel is now ruled hardline religious nuts.

Another name for leaf blowers is air brooms and air brooms are useful for big jobs. They now come as battery powered which is better on two fronts as they are quieter but more importantly they are not using 2 stroke motors. Apparently the 2 stroke is the most polluting of internal combustion engines whose design hasn’t really improved since they were first invented.

It’s more about metabolic health rather than weight loss or gain. Mitochondria are the powerhouse of cellular biology and not having enough or poorly functioning mitochondria leads to all sorts of problems like inflammation and metabolic disorders like diabetes. A well functioning mitochondria should give more energy and better performance as well as better health.

From what I’ve read it is claimed to regenerate mitochondria, be quite quick to do so you save time but other forms of exercise achieve different results like burning fat, cardio etc.

There are a number of articles and these are a couple.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2123825-best-anti-ageing-exercise-is-high-intensity-interval-training/?utm_campaign=RSS|NSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=currents

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg99999441-500-the-power-of-hiit/?utm_campaign=RSS|NSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=currents

Try High Intensity Interval Training. Really intensive short workouts of a few minutes seem to regenerate mitochondria.

So now there is only one old guy running and who has been found to be a rapist, a fraud and an adulterer.

It’s pretty obvious that if you are a blinkered radical, then everything is about you and your cult.

What a surprise. I don’t think that you have to grow up with him to know that!

Well it looks like he owes Putin, big time, so it’s payback time.

Thanks. It was not obvious. I wonder how well the distinction is appreciated by the target young audience? I know that the young seem to simplify their use of language.

I thought Russians referred to motherland not the fatherland. Is this a Putin shift?

Isn’t Trump supposed to be a billionaire? Surely a billionaire can pay his own bills! Maybe he isn’t the billionaire he claims to be.

How sad. A supposed billionaire force to mortgage for a piddly $450m. I suppose it will teach him that honesty is the best policy🤭

Grounds to have her replaced? Most people know that top secret means security clearance.

No doubt his mate Putin will find a obligarch to loan him the cash.