Context, presumably

From the article

The company said the client was then moved to A O’Hare Funeral Directors at Leichhardt where doctors and perfusionists, who operate heart-lung bypass machines, worked to pump a liquid, which acts as a type of anti-freeze, through the body to help preserve cells and lower the body’s temperature.

It’s a pretty crude description for an audience not expected to know anything about this, but even so it’s obvious they’re not just shoving a body in liquid nitrogen and calling it a day.

Banducci is set to retire from the Woolworths Group in September 2024. The announcement occurred days after Banducci made national headlines for walking out of an interview with the ABC’s four corners as part of their investigation into price gouging by major supermarkets in Australia.[3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Banducci#Career

I suspect my local bookshop would stock most of those under “society and politics”

I don’t have an answer for you that would help you find more good books, sorry.

I read Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein right after Manufacturing Consent and I think that worked really well. It’s got some overlap in content that helps solidify concepts, but it’s a bit more modern and a much easier read (less dry)

Other recommendations

If you have any interest in economics:

• Debt: the last 5000 years by David Graeber
• the Defecit Myth by Stephanie Kelton

If you have interest in digital freedoms and copyright law:

• Chokepoint Capitalism by Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow
• The Internet Con by Cory Doctorow

Schouldn’t

I didn’t realise dark owls were such a problem for early humanity

Are y’all referring to native plants as weeds? I use it pretty much synonymously with “invasive species”

Then I take it back. I have never been as disappointed as the first time I was offered a “mince” pie

This meme does meat pies dirty (unless “mincemeat pie” is one of those horribly deceptive terms like “mince pie”)