Also a distance runner (half and full marathons) in my 40s. I would absolutely say that dropping meat and dairy from my diet (a few months ago) has been beneficial to my running performance. Anecdotal, of course, but I know that you and I are not the only ones.
Also, yes, all of those things you cited, and others. In particular the existence of The Esselstyn Heart Disease Program [1], founded by Dr Esselstyn of Forks Over Knives fame, at the world's top heart hospital, is noteworthy.
As a parent, sure, seems about right. That said, these days I think it's more about having them around when you are old, rather then when you are young. Perhaps they seem like a burden now, but I sure will appreciate two doting daughters when I'm an old curmudgeon.
I'd argue it's not necessarily about the devices, it's about paying to rent electronic copies of books. I'm not poor, but I find that to be a prohibitively expensive way to do any appreciable amount of reading. Especially when there is a building down the street that can get me just about any book for free.
I have used Hubitat to control lighting, shades, and locks in my home since 2018. There is no reliance on outside services or an internet connection. If the company ceases to exist my device will continue to work at least as good as it currently works today. However, there are many third party drivers written so it is conceivable development could even continue.
You CAN interface with other outside services if that's your jam, but at that point relying on Hubitat continuing to exist is no different than relying on those other services to exist.
I have to look up all of those things, which means I didn't gain anything in class/assignments/reading, and no amount of Googling is going to help me if the person reading my answer is an informed person, whether my test is proctored or not.
We use the Vocera hands free devices where I work. At first glance of this title I thought "oh, they do AI dictation stuff, too? I guess that makes sense." And then I noticed the spelling and had the same thought as you. So, ditto.
Like I tell my wife, we are working to pay off our house (and hopefully another soon) for our kids, not for us. Sure I could rent and maybe there are benefits to that in a short term view, but in a generational view there are huge benefits to my children if I am able to give each of them a house (to live in or sell and buy another, I don't care) and then they are able to make things better for their kids, etc.
Add up all the money you have spent on rent and mortgage payments and pretend it just never happened. It's life changing to have that.
Not sure about WA, but over here in OH we have a covid extension - if your registration expires between March 2020 and April 2021 you have until July 2021 to renew. So I've been driving a vehicle with an expired temp tag from November.
I love Airtable but not the monthly invoice that comes with it. Signed up for your email newsletter so please do remind me when you get further along. Things like csv export and all of the pending field types are a necessity before I could even consider switching even my most basic bases.
I don't know where you live, but that is not the experience of the 32 people I have furloughed (across a handful of states), except for my one guy in MA. He is the only one I know of who is getting the $600 kicker, and the only one who is getting a meaningful percentage of his base salary. Most of my people are in GA where they max out at some $365/wk and no extra $600.
So probably at some point - even if some benefit is supposed to be coming, with no particular timeframe - you want to pay your rent or get hungry, and Instacart doesn't look so bad.
Also, yes, all of those things you cited, and others. In particular the existence of The Esselstyn Heart Disease Program [1], founded by Dr Esselstyn of Forks Over Knives fame, at the world's top heart hospital, is noteworthy.
[1] https://my.clevelandclinic.org/departments/wellness/integrat...