I know observant Jews can’t get biologic heart valves from pigs, so I would assume the same applies to Muslims.

First of all, this was in Australia and Canada. Two different countries, for two different reasons.
Second of all, neither protest was "peaceful", and neither article made that claim.

If studies in mice and rats were all translatable to humans, we'd all live for 100 years in perfect health. I retired from the biopharma industry a while ago, but I've seen too many studies where some huge "breakthrough" was made in a mouse model that never panned out.

Data is not propaganda. Accidents per mile for autonomous vehicles are about one fifth of that for human driven vehicles.

So, There are over 7,000 emergency vehicle crashes every year that DON'T involve AVs. Why not decrease the fleet of human driven cars by 50% ? From what I can find, the current AVs are still safer than human piloted cars. It's much like when Tesla first started up, every little fender bender with a Tesla was all over the news, even when 100 crappy POS cars where also in accidents that day.

Well, the phrase that comes to mind is: "how do you tell me you don't know anything about medicine without saying you don't know anything about medicine ?" Seriously, I would estimate that 95% of human pharmaceuticals are non-addictive. Most would take a huge overdose to kill you. For all the problems that the pharmaceutical industry has, and it has many, this is not one. No one "designs" pharmaceuticals to be addictive (perhaps excepting Purdue), or poisonous. Some are, most aren't. And, yes, I DO know what I'm talking about, I worked in pharmaceutical research my whole adult life until I retired. The drugs they are talking about here are proteins. They are attempting to crystalize the drugs as a more pure enantiomeric form.

Ya, "golf excuses" like policing practices seminars and federal funding congressional meetings. And I have a few chops as well. Like Sys Admin for FileNet servers for a 10,000 employee company and happening to live in Oakland. The problem isn't managers who need remote access, the problem is admins who don't maintain strict control of access to their systems. Granted, even with strict user access, shit can happen, the trick is to try and limit the shit and have a practiced recovery plan.

Sorry, but in your fantasy, a city of half a million people has to have its IT infrastructure bolted down down so tight that when the city managers are at national meetings they can't have access to their work ? Have you ever worked in a real business or a real government ? I doubt any city of any size could function without remote access.

I bought an Apple IIe on credit from Macy's for $1000 in 1979 (I think). I had just graduated from High School and had my first "real" job.

You certainly can sue a company if you can show that NOT being christian is an impediment to advancement or hiring.

The problem with this, and any desalination technique, is what to do with the waste ? For sea water, 3.5% of it is salts and other dissolved solids. The average water use is about 100 gallons per person per day. That's about 28 pounds of salt per day. Now scale that up to a small coastal town of say 1,000 people. Where do you put 14 tons of salt every day ? And that's just a small town, if you want to scale to a real city, you would be building mountains of salt.

The $30k cost is from the remaining IT people telling the desperate C-suite people that they need $30k worth of new hardware to restore the data ASAP.

Do you have even the slightest idea how long the nucleotide sequence is for a virus ? The COVID-19 reference sequence is just short of 30,000 bases long (https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/MRA.00169-20) Also, the fact that you compare a corona virus sequence to an influenza virus sequence shows you don't have a firm grasp of viral biology.

"jimbrooking", I should shave mentioned that this should not be construed as an attack on you.... You seem to be aware that TV and the internet both offer the same annoyances in ads and content.

I hear this kind of thing all the time. "Look at me, I'm too cool to watch TV. I'm so smart, blather, blather, etc...." If watching TV is making you stupid, you're watching stupid crap on TV. Try watching informing shows. There are plenty. It's not the TV that's the problem, it's your choice of content. It's no different than the internet. You can watch 23 1/2 hours of porn all day, or you can read science journals and NPR.