While I'm not a fan of his, he probably knows way more than a self-assured schmuck like you about doing business. From Wikipedia:
After several years working as a senior attorney for Elsag Bailey Process Automation, he joined ABB Group in 1999, eventually rising to group vice president and senior counsel. In 2008, he joined Amec PLC as a strategic development director, and was designated a "young global leader" by the World Economic Forum

I feel like I'm reading Bourdieu all over again. Impossible to read to such an extent that you're starting to wonder whether you're stupid or not.

Actually, "Mother nature" doesn't care about anything at all, because "Mother nature" is not a thing.

IMHO, distilled water just tastes bad. Might just be force of habit, I don't know. I still use it as part of my espresso water though :)

From the department of redundancy department.

I think the issue here is that these are typically 2-stroke engines. They are incredibly polluting and crazy noisy. A 4 stroke engine, say on a tractor mower, is both less polluting and less noisy. But yeah, 1 acre doesn't need such a beast.

The First Person In the UK To Have Air Pollution Listed As a Cause of Death

This is not a sentence. Come on editors!

A colleague's wife was in that area when it started and got involved in a multiple-car pileup-up. There's some people that are wounded. Just read in the news that it's indeed confirmed by law enforcement that it was a hoax. Well, I hope the a--hole(s) (is there a better word? Rhetorical question...) who pulled it off get prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

When someone uses the term Patriot, it tends to conjure up an image of someone who is so fanatical in their support that they ignore all logic and reality in pursuit of ensuring that their country is the one that wins "the war".

There, fixed that for you.