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That said, I think the most important part of exercising is the mental boost it provides. It's like a healthy drug. There are no negative side effects, and it's highly praised by society.
There has to be some incredible correlation between having the time and money to play tennis “a few times per week” and being significantly wealthier than the average person. And being wealthy is clearly the healthiest thing you can do.
These are built-in fonts available so the simplest devices/OS like DOS can directly print per-character (ASCII) rather than per-pixel or per-dot. You send it the signal to print an upper case letter for instance, it responds and prints the upper case letter about like a daisy-wheel printer would have done. No dots involved in the communication between the PC and the printer, other than the trigger that makes it print the right letter on the paper.
Printing per-dot was graphics mode, the PC has to send every single dot to the printer but that's what you need for real pictures.
After a while fonts appeared which you loaded in the PC, which would then send every one of their dots to the printer in graphics mode, so there was a lot fancier text output available. But it was fiddly and didn't always work right, and by that time there were newer printers having lots of those typewriter-style fonts built in. Those who couldn't get the fonts installed into their PC correctly, for the old MX and FX printers to print all fancy like the few real geeks were doing, just got a new printer instead and their office correspondence went from these bare-bones Epson fonts to pseudo-letter-quality just plugging in the new printer.
Windows 3.1 made it a little easier to get the auxiliary DOS fonts going, but people mostly had gotten newer printers by then.
By the time Windows 95 came out very few of these old printers were still being used, but there were plenty of True-Type fonts built into Windows by then, plus the built-in drivers for such old printers were very mature.
So it was never really very common knowledge, but you could just plug MX-80 series in to Windows 9x and pick any of the same fonts as you would for a laser printer, and it went bi-directional laying down overlapping dots like Adobe bricks, near-letter-quality enough to where they could hardly tell the difference once you faxed the page to somebody.
There's no actual funding happening here! It's all just "links" between random orgs and people. Anyone can draw such multi-hop links between any two groups of people. It's schizo but you can do it and "prove" anything in this way.
But it gets worse! The level of funding climate change lobbying groups get is astronomically larger and more evil than anything their opponents do. Climate extremists literally corrupt entire news organizations, filling them with paid lobbyists who pretend to be journalists:
https://apnews.com/article/science-business-arts-and-enterta...
Just imagine the extent to which the left would lose their shit if the AP, Reuters or the NYT hired entire newsrooms that do nothing but systematically promote right wing ideas without revealing that fact, funded entirely by wealthy right wingers. They'd claim it was the end of democracy. But when the left do it, that's alright then.
Step one to improving public debate about climate: ban news companies from taking money from "philanthropists" (lobbyists). Writing funded not by their subscribers needs to be correctly described as advertising.
Step two: oil companies don't actually fund attacks on climate activists, but they should! Climate activism is institutionally dishonest. Their claims are constantly being disproven, and their predictions keep not coming true. There's nothing wrong with oil company employees sticking up for their own by fairly attacking their opponents arguments. Debate like that is how civilizations work out what's true. The current environment where left wing extremists shut down debate is unhealthy and leads to terrible decision making, just like it did during COVID.