TBH i was mostly offline for Jan/Feb and it was a good thing. Still don't have any apps installed on my phone anymore.

Its been a while since I saw a Big O reference

While lockdowns would have prevented and slowed transmission rates until vaccines were available, covid still has animal transmission vectors so it was never going to disappear.

The lockdowns did manage to kill a flu strain that only had human carriers though, so that at least was nice.

I feel like you could make this happen if you wanted.

Well shit, that might make me go to a Catholic mass

Congrats on the new Pope!

Zero regrets

I should start packing random fun things in with my boxes though...

I am sorry for your loss, your orders loss, and your churches loss. It felt like he was one of the good ones, and I hope they can find a good successor.

Wagyu isn't a protected trade term in the US either, so it is even more meaningless.

The vast majority of athletic programs actually aren't solvent, so that's part of where the money is going but the actual answer is admins get paid a lot and it's not hard to convince people with a PhD that it's noble to get paid like a monk and undignified to work anywhere but a university