"relieves" itself in the woods?

Pretty much.

By mid 22nd century we will have drugs to treat radiation exposure that will reverse aging.

Slashdot.

Pretty much.

Interesting yes, but extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof and all of that. That the disappeared stars that were once not-so-disappeared stars on archival photographic plates weren't defects in emulsions to begin with and so on.

Now if there were a plausible theory giving bounds on the prevalence of the nano black holes in TFA, and if there was some estimate of the rate at which these black hole would eat stars, one could think there is something to these disappearances. But the accounts I have seen are that there is a large number of candidate vanishings for which the preponderance have explanations such as artifacts of imaging leaving a tantalizing small number of unexplained vanishings. Well, you get the idea here.

There was a news item (yeah, yeah and yeah) recently about astronomers being baffled with stars that just disappear from survey images without being noticed as supernova explosions or otherwise leaving a nebular or neutron star pulsar remnant.

Apparently this really is "a thing" among astronomers doing these survey, but the high frequency of the claimed occurrence makes being swallowed by a black hole unlikely.

Until now . . .

The forum participants at growingfruit.org may have answers.

A narrow tunnel of destruction sounds like larvae of the codling moth, a pest of apple and pear that is the proverbial "worm in the apple."

The go-to chemical-free protection for backyard fruit growers is to put plastic zip-lock sandwich bags around the fruit as they form, before the codling moth larvae hatch and start looking for fruit to tunnel into. My go-to low-risk-to-humans chemical is acetamiprid, a so called neonicotinoid that binds to nicotine receptors in insects, and they keel over from a nicotine buzz.

The product sold at garden stores containing this active ingredient called Ortho Flower Fruit and Vegetable Insect Killer Concentrate is no longer sold by Scotts-Ortho because of insecticide Karens nagging them about bee toxicity, but enormous amounts of a much more persistent and toxic-to-bees insecticide called imidacloprid is sprayed on fields of corn. Besides, just about anything you spray for orchard insects is a neurotoxin that affects bees, and if you follow the instructions on the product label, this won't be a problem.

A substitute agent acting on nicotine receptors is spinosad, an organic-qualified agent refined from a kind of bacterium, which breaks down faster and you have to apply more often. The product available at garden centers containing it is Bonide Captain Jack's Dead Bug Brew Concentrate, and you can apply it to your tree with a garden hose attached to a fertilizer sprayer. My BIL has backyard apple trees and reports good luck with it as does the person managing a community garden nearby, who used it to treat pears. The spouse of community garden lady, however, ruefully told me that insects are no longer eating his pears but the squirrels now are. You have to pick pears before they are soft on the tree anyway and let pears ripen in a bowl on your kitchen table.

But if you think primordial black holes are tunnelling into your fruit, this is a serious and even dangerous conditions, and you should consult with an astro-physicist at your state university who has such a person in their ag extension program.

Yes, I would be worried about breaking the law and its consequences, but I would be even more worried about the Cartel as my employer.

There is "this" of a frail elderly family member and then there is the "that" after your family member has passed on.

In the "that" situation, you no longer have power-of-attorney, rather, you should sit down with a clerk of your county Probate Court, show the will and it wouldn't hurt to have the power-of-attorney document, and the clerk will designate you as Personal Representative.

Should even a Personal Representative be logging into accounts of a once-living person? The drill is that you snail-mail a death certificate and show a copy of the Personal Representative designation and get your own login credentials?

Unless your remains are interred in an above-ground vault?

Is this even legal? In the U.S.? In Japan where they are recommending this?

It is complicated enough acting on behalf of a frail-elderly parent. So you have power-of-attorney, and you wave copies of this document at financial institutions and such, but for the longest while there was this fad for seniors to set up trusts, I guess as an estate-tax avoidance procedure that I never fully understood. Trusts have their, is the word "bespoke" way of being "activated" based on language in the trust document, you can't act on behalf of the trustee (your frail-elderly parent, in many cases) through use of the power-of-attorney document, and the procedures for acting on trusts are, how shall I say, complicated.

Once your parent dies, this activates twin-tracks of acting as their Personal Representative (used to be called Executor, but that sounded too spooky) if your are designated as such, usually by the clerk of your Probate Court after producing a copy of the will, with the second track being the Successor Trustee language in the trust document.

There are procedures you follow to wave at financial institutions either a letter from the Probate Court (if the property is in the Estate) or the trust document, both along with official copies of the Death Certificate (be sure to order enough originals because it is illegal to photocopy one). Logging in as with your deceased family members credentials may be expedient, but something tells me you are not supposed to do that, even if only to confirm what assests are in the estate.

Now I suppose accessing a phone or their computer is like being given a key or a combination to your family member's safe.

Just sayin'

What does the new hardware even do that helps security that much?

Will it have that much of an impact, or is the campaign to upgrade just a scam?

There's that Graham Hancock dude who is a recurrent guest with Joe Rogan.

Not only do chimpanzees make and use tools, but one chimp was documented to have blamed his tools on what other chimps perceived to be a badly constructed termite extraction stick.

Thank you for relating both your personal experience as well as your observations of others struggling with the aftermath of a stroke. Happy to hear that you were able to recover. This gives those of us who have not experienced a stroke hope if it happens to us along with motivation to be aware of the symptoms and to not delay getting emergency medical treatment.