No. If the tree plantation does not survive to maturity, there is no carbon that has been "neutralized". Trees take time to grow and if the site is bulldozed and repurposed while the trees are still saplings, then nothing has been achieved.

It wasn't an assumption. Carbon neutral programs that rely on tree plantations (and aren't just greenwashing scams) require guarantees that the trees will grow to maturity and wont be burnt down or bulldozed later on. If there are no or inadequate guarantees, then this might be just a greenwashing scam and Apple needs to get their shit together.

I have here the prompt that was used:
"Create a comedic roast of Satya Nadella, Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates in the style of a Microsoft employee who knows that pissing off any of them in the slightest would swiftly end their career."

Hey Alexa, why is it that you only seem to buy products from Amazon house brands?

I do. Congress is already famously bad at getting anything useful done. Giving them more workload to ensure public safety is not going to end well.

Hey, if you're going to whatabout foreign government disinformation with the border crisis,
Then Opportunist should be allowed to whatabout the border crisis with the Covid pandemic. Right?

Is that how it works really? We are only allowed to focus on one problem at once? We can't possibly deal with more than one issue at a time?
So let's just endlessly debate which one kills the most people and is theoretically the most important, rather than doing anything about any of it at all.

Not at all. These things are not the same.
Transgendered people (the few in your example), receiving gender affirming healthcare has no detrimental effect on the health, safety and lives of the rest of us. So why would we (the many), have a problem with them having the freedom to be able to see to their own medical and emotional needs?

So he's cancelling Space Force entirely then?

So I guess you'd rather die in a steel cage splattered all over the ground?

It's cute that you think driving is safer than flying.

That was the special edition, where they (/he) added a bunch of crap to the story that turned the whole thing into nonsense. Unlike most James Cameron films, where the special editions are improvements (more of a good film is better), I think the shorter, theatrical edition of The Abyss is superior.

In the theatrical edition, as far as you can tell, the NTI's knew as much about humanity as we knew about them, and they were meeting us for the first time, completely unaware that their technology was causing such havoc with ours.

The special edition adds a bunch of stuff that shows they knew about us all along and were even monitoring our TV. That turns them into enormous dicks that willfully crash a nuclear sub, knowing full well what the consequences for the crew would be, and of course threaten all human life on Earth in retaliation for the actions of one mentally compromised individual. It casts them into a completely new light and I am glad I saw the theatrical edition first.

Rant over. :)

Then you clearly forgot to add cost as one of your most important needs.

I can't wait for the next breathless Fox News report about how Microsoft is about to go broke.

I do!
I like last.fm. I quite enjoy tracking my own listening habits and getting recommendations for new music that I might like.
Unnecessary fun fact: Since 2007 I have scrobbled 372,702 songs.

You still should, though.
Most companies count the tills at the beginning and end of each shift. If it comes up short, that's the responsibility of the cashier. You might think you've gotten lucky and got some free money from a big faceless corporation, but in fact, that money is coming out of the pocket of the often young, poorly trained and overworked staff-member standing in front of you.

Second vote for Project Hail Mary. If you loved The Martian and even enjoyed Artemis this is an easy recommend.

"Ok, today we are conducting a training exercise in a simulated environment-"
"Is that a HoloLens? Ew! I don't want to use that."
"I order you to do the training."
"Sir."