It’s cute, how they’re saying it won’t be a strain on the city water system or the industrial supply. They’re not denying that it’ll strain the overall water supply, draining aquifers or lakes or whatever, just that it won’t affect these specific water supplies.
it’s to build a graph of the people that you interact with so further intelligence collection could be planned.
It’s the Finding Paul Revere analysis, and it can get scary.
Especially with things like cyberattacks (institution losing access to your accounts), scamming (you lose access to your accounts), power failures (everyone loses access to their accounts), etc.
I mean, I literally have a small stash of money in the closet (some 20’s and a bunch of smaller notes), so that if a semi-major disaster hits, I can still buy any supplies I can find that I need - gas, water, food, a couple nights in a hotel, whatever. Plastic is a great backup system, but it relies on me having my card, my card having enough money free, the merchant having power to run the card, the merchant’s communications working, the system they link into having power and communications, etc. With cash, it’s just “here, take this” and it’s all good.
Sharks have existed long enough that their species (and our Sun) has circled around the entire Milky Way Galaxy - twice.
They’re on display in the bottom drawer of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying “Beware of the Leopard”.
Ergot poisoning (aka, St Anthony’s fire) has been a recurrent issue since people started eating rye and similar grains. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a similar issue with other grains.
That said, they didn’t say what type of breads were affected, nor did they say whether the poisoning was natural, carelessness, or intentional :(