Speak for yourself. When I was younger, I could barely lift $100 worth of groceries. Now, it's easy.

... tracking implant in my Covid vaccine already.
Thanks anyway.

During my power company career a few decades ago, this was a real thing. But that was due to the use of power-hungry HID lamps. Today, it's mainly LED lamps, which consume much less power. Small grow operations consumption data drops down into the noise level of typical home use.

Large grows can be found by walking drug dogs through your neighborhood. Or drones equiped with chemical sensors.

I wasn't aware that cannabis use (drugs in particular) were a serious problem in the Asian comunity. Particularly due to the exploitation of the Chinese by the British opium trade in the 19th century, most of the people of Asian descent that I associate with steer clear of the "white man's drugs".

Not completely correct. We had all the U-235 we needed for a bomb plus plutonium production by that date. We did seize and ship back the German supplies captured. But that was in part to keep them out of other parties (Soviet) hands.

Quantum AI math.

... environmentally friendly data centers? Move them to Shivering Moose, Alberta. Easier time cooling them.

... was interdicted and the subject hardware was switched with alternate parts.

I wish them well. And I hope they really clean up in the RPG marketplace.

Although the definitions are hazy, the ingredients in question are those that would NOT be found in home cooking or restaurant cooking of freshly prepared foods. Mostly ingredients added to enhance taste and/or increase shelf stability of stored foods.

That said: One solution to the shelf life of food is ... (get ready for left wing screeching) ... irradiation. Use that and you can greatly diminish or even eliminate the addition of preservatives.

And for those of you who pooh-pooh preservation in favor of "organic" food, untreated organic food can sicken or kill you if stuff starts to grow in it before you cook it. Bacteria loves organic food just as much as you do.

... this could come in handy for school kids on their cell phones.

On mystery meat lunch days.

In many cases we ARE paying a lot for a good education, but we're also not getting the desired outcome in many cases. I took my kids out of public school (in one of the richest school districts in the country) for similar reasons to the OP above. They spent much of their time in class being bored and actively sandbagged by their teachers. On top of that was all the contrived "woke" indoctrination nonsense. They were already getting good grades, but now they are learning significantly faster and actually enjoy the process more.

Best thing we ever did.

The labels don't give a fuck. They have never been on the side of the artists. This is just another way they'll use to game the system to keep most of the profits in the system to themselves.

... they've never seen a man cave.

... a parochial school.

Kid in my neighborhood was failing pretty miserably, particularly in math. So his parents sent him to the local Christian school. That year, his grades improved markedly.

When his parents asked him what it was about the school that helped the most, he said, "When I walked into the classroom and I saw that guy nailed to the plus-sign, I knew they took their math seriously."