On the other hand:

If this can be ramped up rapidly, it will be just as good as electric vehicles. Electricity in Europe is still about 30% fossil fuel generated.

No, that age verification doesn't destroy privacy. It was already destroyed.

The challenge is that frequent social media use is strongly associated with lower self-esteem, depressive symptoms, anxiety, and other mental health challenges in children. It's not quite analogous to playing a trick on someone.

You've misunderstood or not read the article, if you think that they're recommending stopping fossil fuels and unsustainable agricultural practices tonight and seeing how long we last. They're calling for a transformation of power generation and agricultural techniques.

“This is an urgent call to transform our human systems now before collapse becomes inevitable,” said Prof Edgar Gutiérrez-Espeleta, another co-chair and the former environment minister in Costa Rica.

“The science is good. The solutions are known. What is required is the courage to act at the scale and speed that history demands,” he said, adding that the window for action was “rapidly narrowing”.

- TFA.

My understanding is that the law was written by people cognisant of the reality that there would be many people who could get around it. The point is that a lot of people wouldn't, and that in turn means that if parents want to not have their kids on social media, they can do that without isolating them from their entire peer group.

Meta knows everything about you, and you don't have to prove your age. They know when you were born. They sold your private information to Cambridge Analytica to swing elections, and foment coups.

Are you guessing, or has there been a study showing that educating kids reduces their capacity to be manipulated by social media disinformation and bullying?

Musk alread did that.

I get that passenger cars doing negligible damage to a road compared to a heavy vehicle. "Lorries", as they're quaintly called in the UK.

But a three times the cost isn't negligible. Even though a 44 tonne lorry will be causing more than 12,000 times the per-mile cost that the heavier of those passenger cars is.

I bought one that they dumped in Australia recently.

They certainly make sure that their international trade is in surplus, by pegging the yuan at a low value to foreign currencies, and that makes foreign goods expensive in China, and China's exporters very competitive.

Electrifying global commuter transport is one of the better impacts.

The problem with wind and solar is that they're too woke.

[F]or the same volume of output we can afford to have fewer people.

Don't train it on data that encourages suicidal ideation, self harm or violence. There's a lot of data in a LLM, but it's not a black box. And if it is, it shouldn't be talking to the public, much less kids.

With this one tool of talking, many psychological problems can be resolved. Or created.

The difference is an MMO chatroom is a service provided by a company, and a psychological safe space should be a selling point. SMS is communication between one person, one other person, their mobile network providers, and the NSA.

There's lots of reasons people type suicide into google. I did it while formulating this response.

A LLM has way more information than that. Being the confidant of someone with suicidal ideation gives you a lot of data, and you could easily tell as the mind state of the person moves from ideation to having a plan, to being about to carry out that plan. As that progresses, encouraging suicide is not the correct response, internet connection or not.

They are also, increasingly, able to give informative and correct responses. Encouraging suicidal ideation is a more serious flaw than hallucinating case law or chess moves, but it's the same type of flaw: It's a incorrect response.

If your product is killing people, you are responsible. Just like every other product.

There are a set of adequate responses to someone confiding with a bot, or a person, that they're suicidal, that probably should be part of the model.

These things have a lot of training. They don't have to bounce.

Then their life would be in the hands of those people in the chat. In most cases, I'd imagine they'd get the response "KYS, Fag" more often than not. Perhaps there is a case for a psychology expert LLM moderating or attending those spaces too.

Agree. It should only apply to LLMs, and there should be a number of acceptable responses, with alerting the authorities only occurring when the when they're not just discussing ideation, but their plan of doing it.

Great Barrier Reef more volatile with sharp declines in coral cover, 06 August 2025

No, it's not cyclic. It's a symptom of the coral doing badly. It's caused by corals being under stress, and expelling the algae that live in the corals tissue. Currently that stress is usually heat stress from global warming. Rising ocean temperatures caused by climate change is the primary cause of coral bleaching..

Yes. Coral can recover from a single bleaching event. However you are mistaken to conclude that therefore it's cyclic. Bleached coral has expelled its algae that it is symbiotic with. If it extended or repeated periods without the algae does kill coral.

The largest coral reef is the great barrier reef, which started forming a lot less than millions of years ago. Probably less than 10,000.

Not really.

"Recovery from a bleaching event takes 10-15 years, and A temperature increase of just one degree Celsius for only four weeks can trigger bleaching.

It isn't. The Great Barrier has been monitored for bleaching since the early 80s and the first mass bleaching event was 1998. It was perfectly healthy without periodic bleaching.

I get about 55,000 papers when I put the search terms "Coral Bleaching Causes" into google scholar.

So there has been more investigation than an amateur could be expected to read through in less that 30 years. But the TLDR is in: Mostly higher temperatures, but there other causes: UV radiation and disease are also causes of some bleaching events.

When I got the mRNA covid vaccine, and subsequent boosters, they controlled the cells that absorbed the encoded nanoparticles to mostly muscle cells in my left shoulder, by injecting them into the muscle of my left shoulder.

ISG15 deficiency often presents with uncontrolled cell death ... better known as necrosis. The therapy seems to be very self-limiting.

But can you point me to a source discussing uncontrolled cell death as a consequence of using mRNA as a delivery platform? My google-fu is failing me.

I suspect this one would be too detrimental.

Even if someone with ISG15 deficiency would survive the necrosis long enough to hit puberty in a pre-modern medicine environment, then if the severe ulcerations in the neck and armpits don't restrict their reproductive chances, those in the groin probably would..

(Image from This paper.)