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Comment Re:Prepare for tuitions and subsidies to skyrocket (Score 1) 255

Tangential issue: the number of _fake_ people enrolled in colleges is at an all-time high. Professors are saying 30% of their enrollees are no-shows, and their classes are under-attended from day-one. The fake enrollees are nation-state actors scamming the system and disappearing with whatever financial aid they can gets their hands on.

Comment AI take over (Score 1) 61

Are you benefiting? I don't trust the information in the AI-produced videos now dominating my youtube feed. Product reviews are less trust worthy. Social media posts from AI are agenda-pushing and insincere, and swamping out the users. It takes prodigious energy to run this crapification of the internet.

Comment Re:Post truth age (Score 1) 60

If investigative journalism is individuals posting photos of a shot down airliner and everyone (everyone who wants to) can see the holes in the fuselage within 24 hours, then investigative journalism is alive and well. If it's a paid professional doing interviews with experts and putting it on the 6 o clock news or website a month later, that still happens, but not on as many things. My youtube feed is full of investigative journalism, I just saw one on the browser extension "honey" stealing commissions and cheating users out of the best online coupons.

Comment Re:Characters (Score 1) 178

I saw a youtube video showing the most iconic scenes in A New Hope are actually copies of scenes in older movies. I can't find the link (perhaps someone else can), but I did find this article which sums it up.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffaroutmagazine.co.uk%2F1...
Take a look at the side-by-side between star wars trench run and Dam Busters. Now imagine a 15 minute youtube video giving the same treatment to most other scenes you remember from A New Hope. By the time I was done, I realized that the movie critics that panned A New Hope were older, and had seen the prior movies.

Comment One bird species evolving to fly over himalayas (Score 1) 32

The Himalayas get a little taller each year, as India collides with Asia. There's a bird species that have been flying over since the beginning. They have evolved into super high-altitude flyers. The height is now at the point where they must rest before the highest peaks and wait for favorable winds.

Comment Re:Did the dams make any non-migratory populations (Score 1) 104

I have read that the reason the dams, even with fish ladders, decimate the salmon population is the offspring (salmon minnows) have to face a migration downriver through a totally changed environment that shift the balance to their predators. Before, they were camoflaged by the turbulent shallow waters, but now there is deep still water before each dam, where the predator fish have no trouble finding and eating the salmon minnows.

Comment air has 100V per meter above the ground (Score 4, Interesting) 21

It's recently been established that the ballooning of spiders does not require a breeze, it can be driven by static electricity, and the air carries a voltage of around 100 volts for every meter above the ground. That's not a typo. 100 volts per meter.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2Fsc...

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