That is why nervous system damage usually means life long problems. Brains and all their wiring are so arcane and complicated, even our bodies don’t know how to grow more than one of them, and we often don’t get it right the first time either unfortunately.
Unfortunately, bookmeat has a point… There is a monopoly brewing on food supply chains and it is only getting worse as the largest restaurant supply company is trying to buy the number 3 (I think) company. Basically, even local hole-in-the-wall type places are being squeezed by one of the 3 options to have food supplied. We need anti-trust and consumer protection laws to start being enforced in this country ASAP.
That is an extremely foreign concept to my indoctrinated american brain… My grandmother pre-paid for her entire funeral, casket and burial plot included, back in the early 1980s and didn’t pass until 2005. It cost her like $3000 in 1980s money and we were told at the time the same arrangements would have cost about $25000 in 2005. Another family member died that same year and was cremated and that cost about $4000 just for the basic plain box mentioned above. I’m sure today it is at least double that… (guessing based on how much more EVERYTHING else costs vs 20 years ago).
Unfortunately, $5k doesn’t buy you a sweet funeral. You’re lucky to be cremated and remains in a plain plastic coated cardboard box for $5k.
$5k might cover the costs of moving a country with proper healthcare though.
Adblockers came up in conversation with a (non-techie) friend the other day and they said they don’t have one because they are afraid they’d “get the wrong one” or end up with a virus trying to download “something like that” because they’ve had trouble with those shady download websites that have a ton of fake download buttons… Like, they look at adblocker as if it is the most scandalous form of piracy or something.
Software that infiltrates devices, replicates, and spreads across a network is a computer virus (specifically a worm) and should be treated as such. I’m pretty sure creating and distributing a destructive computer virus is a crime that can carry proper jail time.