Thanks for the rec, I'll give Mojeek a try for a while. So far the results seem better than Brave (which I didn't seriously consider using regularly anyway) but I miss the bang options (!w, !yt, etc.) that DDG has.
Plastic recycling, definitely. Aluminum/aluminum recycling is very effective. Approximately 75% of aluminum that has ever been mined and processed is still in use, and it can be re-used and recycled a functionally infinite number of times. But you're totally right about greenwashing in plastics. Even the easiest plastics to "recycle" (like PET or PETE) can only be reprocessed once or twice before the polymers break down too much for re-use.
This is the true humiliation of getting older. In my 20s I climbed mountains and had plenty of scrapes and mishaps, but I just shook them off and my body just healed up quickly. Now I can tweak my back with a sneeze or be sore for days just by raking leaves. Life comes at you fast.
Good on you, I've read elsewhere that the better shape you can be in prior to years of decline, the better you handle the natural aging process. I don't need to do anymore marathons, they're too hard on my knees, but running/biking and body-weight exercises are part of my attempt to stave off the inevitable.
Researchers assessed 135,000 different molecules (RNA, proteins and metabolites) and microbes (the bacteria, viruses and fungi living in the guts and on the skin of the participants).
Also, see the previous article in Naturelinked in the article. That study looked at fewer proteins, but had over 4,000 participants.
While we're over-hauling doping punishments, we have to confront the deeply broken doping testing system and widespread contaminations of many foods and medications. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and its country-level entities (UKADA, USADA, etc.) don't like to talk about how laughably bad their systems are, and how often the pop false positives. It wasn't as well known until cyclist Lizzy Banks challenged a false positive last year and spent €40,000 in legal fees and testing fees to get a "no fault or negligence" ruling. And that wouldn't have been possible at all if Banks didn't have a medical background (she went pro just before finishing a medical degree) and was able to read the faulty reports herself and challenge the claims of UKADA. Thanks to her, we now know that WAY more common foods and over-the-counter medications have contaminations with banned substances, which produces positive results with trace-amounts of banned substances.
Yup, I picked it up for $7 to play with friends last year. It's worth double that, but not $45. I still play with them sometimes but it isn't my favorite.
Somewhat unrelated, this game has one of the worst menu systems I have ever seen. It's astounding how unintuitive it is.
Don't @ me too hard, but I think @luciferofastora has some good points on sound and anti-cheat. They don't affect me, mostly because I don't like PVP games that need anti-cheat, but they represent a huge chunk of the market and I do wish they worked better on Linux. I'm fully on Linux for my daily driver and generally have good experiences, I'm not even considering going back to Windows, I just wish things worked better for everyone.
Thanks for the rec, I'll give Mojeek a try for a while. So far the results seem better than Brave (which I didn't seriously consider using regularly anyway) but I miss the bang options (!w, !yt, etc.) that DDG has.