I moved my family successfully to Signal a few years ago, and so far I’ve only very rarely encountered issues with video calls

Joke aside, there is a legitimate point to be made, because plant - herbivore interactions can be modeled similarly to predator - prey interactions. That also works to s certain degree for parasite - host interactions.

Shouldn’t be impossible. There are addons for Zotero (reference manager) to check CrossRef for citation count and one of the post-publishing review platforms for comments on the paper.

Being unable to die even if your health declines and you cannot afford healthcare sounds like proper torture to me. Sounds almost a bit like Prometheus.