Obelus seems to be the organizational name under which Asterisk is registered—both the asterisk and the obelus are punctuation symbols so I highly doubt that Obelus exists separately from Asterisk.
Charging readers is probably an attempt to be financially independent of EV, which is a worthy goal for all EA organizations and especially media organizations that may have good cause to criticize EV at some point.
The eggs and milk quip is just a quip about their new prices; I don’t understand what’s offensive about it.
The California issue is weird to me too.
[Conflict note: writing an article for Asterisk now]
The eggs and milk quip might be offensive on animal welfare reasons. Eggs at least are one of the worst commonly consumed animal products according to various ameliatarian Fermi estimates.
Obelus seems to be the organizational name under which Asterisk is registered—both the asterisk and the obelus are punctuation symbols so I highly doubt that Obelus exists separately from Asterisk.
Charging readers is probably an attempt to be financially independent of EV, which is a worthy goal for all EA organizations and especially media organizations that may have good cause to criticize EV at some point.
The eggs and milk quip is just a quip about their new prices; I don’t understand what’s offensive about it.
The California issue is weird to me too.
[Conflict note: writing an article for Asterisk now]
The eggs and milk quip might be offensive on animal welfare reasons. Eggs at least are one of the worst commonly consumed animal products according to various ameliatarian Fermi estimates.
I see, fair enough.